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Niners Nation (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
And at long last we arrive at the final installment of our Remembering the Genius series here on NinersNation. If you're just finding out about this segment now, Remembering the Genius is a temporary segment that we usually run on Wednesdays, but are getting up on Thursday this week largely due to my own carelessness. Arne Christensen, who posts here as arnec, interviewed David Harris about Bill...
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Buc 'Em (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
..as in breaking up the goose egg on the scoreboard....because trust me, the 1986 Bucs were far worse than our 2009 variety. Oh sure we had Steve Young dropping back to pass, but he wasnt THE Steve Young yet, Bill Walsh did that to him (and Jerry Rice to name a few). So for Vince Heflin, this would probably be a gift he will never forget. Probably no higher than a 4th string receiver,...
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Away With Words (Free subscription) | yesterday
... style guide. Normal people write Macy's, not Macy*s, E-Trade, not E*TRADE, and Guess, not Guess'* Bill Walsh, a copy chief at the Washington Post who blogs at The Slot , devotes a chapter to this subject in his invaluable book The Elephants of Style . He writes: I find a certain satisfaction ... in observing that the Web's conventions permit no decorative punctuation in addresses--it's...
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Turf Show Times (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
... With the advent of the forward pass, the value of the quarterback skyrocketed, especially once Bill Walsh introduced his genius to his opponents. The real risk, as evidenced by Lawrence Taylor , was that right-handed quarterbacks were very susceptible to injuries, especially career-truncating ones, if a talented pass rusher could escape the left tackle and attack a quarterback from...
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The FanHouse - Carolina Panthers (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
by Ryan Wilson Filed under: College Sports You see innovations like the West Coast Offense or the zone blitz, and you're immediately amazed at the genius. That's what separate guys like Bill Walsh and Dick LeBeau from, say, Mike Tice and Eric Mangini . And then there are plays that define a philosophy. For the Joe Gibbs Redskins it was the counter trey. For the Bill Belichick...
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MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Howard: In case you didn’t hear the head-banging coming from certain precincts of New England, Ohio and South Bend, Ind., the past few days, it was a lost weekend for the Bill Belichick coaching tree. Even worse gloom seems just ahead. Football is a copycat sport and Belichick clones could be out of vogue any minute.
