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Paul Daugherty
Paul Daugherty has been an Enquirer sports columnist since 1994 and has been chronicling Cincinnati sports since 1988. He has covered almost every major sporting event in America, as well as five Summer Olympics. Along the way, he has been named one of the country's top-5 sports columnists four times, and Ohio columnist of the year on seven different occasions. Last year, he was voted 2nd-best sports columnist in the country, by the Associated Press Sports Editors.

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Monday, November 13, 2006

three-dot lounge welcomes M.Lewis

I've been out for a week, at the Adams County homestead, thinking profound thoughts. A few:

The best a pro coach/manager can do in the age of big money is set a tone and a level of expectations. Marvin Lewis did well at that for 3 years. He has missed badly this year. The great coaches don't allow the team-splitting shenanigans the Bengals have offered this season, in between Sundays. We don't hear it in New England, Denver, Indy or Pittsburgh...

It's time to take the Ravens and Bears seriously. The former finally have an offensive leader (McNair), the latter are as resourceful as any club in the league...

Saw Flags of Our Fathers, the Eastwood movie about the "heroes'' of Iwo Jima. Liked most about it, except the obviously sound-staged scenes on Iwo. Unlike Saving Private Ryan, the war shots looked phony and plagiarized...

Speaking of the Ravens, anyone read the SI piece on Ray Lewis? Anyone else find it amazingly egotistical? Lewis has decided a higher power put him on the planet to show us how to be better people. I thought that's what Dan Aykroyd did in The Blues Brothers...

Did you see Jeff Ruby's letter to the editor Saturday? Priceless. The restaurateur went off on downtown development. He said we'll see a Hofbrauhaus in Jerusalem before we see development at The Banks. Ruby needs to run for something...

Seattle-ites just voted to end public funding for pro sports facilities. They decided their city's booming economy and vibrant arts didnt require the "prestige'' of having the SuperSonics in town. The name of the group that lobbied that way: Citizens for More Important Things. A tip of the Keystone Light to them, from those of us here at the Three-Dot...

In between timeouts of Giants-Bears, watched Cool Hand Luke on AMC Sunday night, for about the 12th time. An all-timer. What we have here is a failure to communicate...

Live big, Strother Martin.


5 Comments:

at 10:56 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Sometimes nothin' is a pretty cool hand."

What a classic movie. One of my all time faves.

 
at 3:54 AM Blogger OrangeD00d said...

The Giants just aren't the Giants without Spider Lockhart roaming the defensive backfield.

One of the all-time great football names.

 
at 2:14 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

I read the SI piece on Ray Lewis. I put him in the same class as OJ. Then again, he is worse than OJ -- he has no business preaching in a church of any kind.

 
at 6:32 AM Blogger Ron said...

Can someone post the editorial by Ruby? I missed it Saturday and can't find it in The Enquirer archives.

 
at 12:10 PM Blogger Jim McAllister said...

Strother Martin (1920-1980) was one the greatest character actors around. Paul Newman used him in several movies. His line from "Cool Hand Luke" (1967) has become a classic. Also, "I don't care if it rains or freezes, long as I have my plastic Jesus, sitting on the dashboard of my car." Great movie, great stars, great stuff.

 
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