The best TV nobody will be watching (The Record)
Any self-respecting sports fan would be forgiven for parking in front of a television today and refusing to surrender the remote control. Week 2 of the NFL is on all day. Mets-Phillies try to settle the NL playoffs in the early afternoon. And Yankees-Red Sox wage baseball war at night.

Punt, Pass & Kick competition set Sept. 14 (Monroe County Clarion)
The Waterloo High School Athletic Booster Club will present their 11th annual NFL/Pepsi Punt, Pass & Kick competition with registration starting at 5 p.m. Sept. 14 at the Waterloo High School baseball field.

NFL retirees feel the pain (The Record)
Harry Carson is the retired linebacker the NFL wants you to see. He still looks fit enough to go 12 rounds with a young Evander Holyfield, and still sounds sharp enough to take hold of a boardroom full of Fortune 500 suits.

MICHAEL ROSENBERG: Goodell rules the NFL with rod of iron (Detroit Free Press)
When Paul Tagliabue retired as NFL commissioner before last season, some people referred to him as the best American sports commissioner ever — or at least, one of the best.

How The NFL Became America’s Game (NBC 5 Chicago)
Peruse the National Football League’s financial playbook and you will discover a game plan laced with more slick twists and sweet slants than any Super Bowl strategy. “What you have,” said Joe Theismann, a retired Washington Redskins quarterback and former ESPN analyst, “is the perfect business model.” By Bill Briggs.

How the NFL became America s game (MSNBC)
Peruse the National Football League s financial playbook and you will discover a game plan laced with more slick twists and sweet slants than any Super Bowl strategy.

NFL Season Kicks Off with Scandal and Injury (NPR)
As week two of the pro-football season begins, the story is less wins and losses than injuries and fines. The NFL has fined the New England Patriots and their coach, Bill Belichick, for videotaping the signals of their rivals during a game.

Cheating nothing new among NFL coaches (The World)
A decade ago, while waiting for a permanent home, the then-Tennessee Oilers were using a temporary practice field next to a mall. The week before their season opener against Oakland, someone noticed a cherry picker with workers driving around a parking lot, supposedly changing light bulbs.

NFL spy games under new light
Contra Costa Times - Baseball is awash in it, from pitchers who scuff baseballs, to the cottage industry of stealing signs, to the various means and methods of manicuring a field to maximize the strengths of the home team. The 1951 Giants spied on opposing catchers (and

Recording Emerges in Simpson Case
New York Times - Simpson himself along with some other property, Lieutenant Nichols said. I believe there were some Joe Montana cleats, some signed baseballs and some other stuff. Capt. James Dillor of the Las Vegas police said that investigators confiscated

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Recording surfaces in O.J. Simpson case
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Holliday lacks national image
Denver Post - The club hasn’t had a 40-home run hitter since it began storing the baseballs in the humidor. “You will never be able to change anybody’s mind about Coors Field,” Helton said. “You still see announcers say that it’s a ‘Coors Field home run

Suspicious Package Causes Evacuation at Detroit Airport
FOX News - ROMULUS, Mich. Part of a terminal at Detroit Metropolitan Airport was evacuated for more than an hour Thursday Barry Bonds’ Record-Breaking Baseballs Auctioned Could New Photos Be FBI Most Wanted Fugitive Whitey Bulger? Missing Michigan

Juiced out
FOXSports.com - Now sports memorabilia is a corrupt enterprise? That surprises Mark Kriegel more than the man responsible for ruining it. Desperate measures Start over? Notre Dame has to consider it after the desperate offense still hasn’t found the end zone, Dick

The Scene
Akron Beacon Journal - Live and silent auction items include vacations, autographed sports memorabilia, gift certificates and a designer diamond necklace. $250 and up. 330-849-0168 or http://www.americanheart.org . The Humane Society of Greater Akron will host a

Teaching oldsters some new video-game tricks
Seattle Times - After being arrested for armed robbery of sports memorabilia,” reported satirist Andy Borowitz at borowitzreport .com, “former football great O.J. Simpson announced today that he was the author of a new book entitled, ‘If I Robbed Them.’ ” Added Bob

Barber ‘Boots’ Hooker uses his scissors to help local veterans
Star-Banner - The walls are covered with military posters and memorabilia. And he keeps a set of his tools there. Jim McGee, 84, looks forward to Hooker’s bimonthly visits. He moved into the home in February and gets his hair cut every four weeks. The retirement

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The State - O.J. Simpson says he went into a casino hotel room only to retrieve memorabilia that he felt was stolen from him. But police are investigating it as an armed robbery and named the fallen football star as a suspect Friday in yet another surprising

Stories for Friday, September 14
Santa Rosa Press Democrat - Simpson and named him a suspect Friday in a break-in at a casino hotel room involving sports memorabilia. Full Story Around the Empire Thirty miles of Sonoma County beaches and creeks will be purged Saturday of abandoned shopping carts, discarded liquor

Today in Entertainment History
LEX 18 - In 1988, Elton John sold some of his costumes and concert memorabilia at an auction in London for $6.2 million. In 1991, actor Gene Wilder married Karen Webb, a hearing specialist he met on the set of the movie “See No Evil, Hear No Evil.” Also in 1991

The best TV nobody will be watching (The Record)
Any self-respecting sports fan would be forgiven for parking in front of a television today and refusing to surrender the remote control. Week 2 of the NFL is on all day. Mets-Phillies try to settle the NL playoffs in the early afternoon. And Yankees-Red Sox wage baseball war at night.

Bonds Record Balls on Block
ABC News - Sometimes controversy sells and sometimes it doesn’t. The question among sports memorabilia bidders is whether Barry Bonds’ record-breaking home run baseballs will be dragged down under a cloud of steroid allegations. “This is about the record more

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Stealing signs a skill in baseball, not a sin (Denver Post)
A few weeks into spring training, Rockies bench coach Jamie Quirk teaches minor-leaguers how to steal.

Punt, Pass & Kick competition set Sept. 14 (Monroe County Clarion)
The Waterloo High School Athletic Booster Club will present their 11th annual NFL/Pepsi Punt, Pass & Kick competition with registration starting at 5 p.m. Sept. 14 at the Waterloo High School baseball field.

NFL Season Kicks Off with Scandal and Injury (NPR)
As week two of the pro-football season begins, the story is less wins and losses than injuries and fines. The NFL has fined the New England Patriots and their coach, Bill Belichick, for videotaping the signals of their rivals during a game.

MICHAEL ROSENBERG: Goodell rules the NFL with rod of iron (Detroit Free Press)
When Paul Tagliabue retired as NFL commissioner before last season, some people referred to him as the best American sports commissioner ever — or at least, one of the best.

Dr. Z: Patriots bring cheating in the NFL into the modern era (Sports Illustrated)
Sure, people cheat in sports. In baseball they steal signals. In football they bring in a guy for a week, someone who was just cut by the team they’re going to play, pump him for information and let him go on Monday. They’ll even plant spies at each other’s practices.

Stevens: The FedEx Cup is ‘point less’ (Midland Daily News)
The NFL playoffs I understand. The NHL playoffs I understand. Same with the playoffs in baseball and the WNBA. Those I understand. But the FedEx Cup?

Chasers prefer a sound 1st race (Roanoke Times)
A poor finish in the opening event doesn’t ruin a driver’s hopes , but it ups the pressure. LOUDON, N.H. — The NFL’s postseason doesn’t last as long. Neither does the NBA playoffs nor the major league baseball playoffs.

Tribe Notebbok: Is there cheating in baseball? (Star Beacon)
CLEVELAND If you re not cheating, you re not trying.That phrase has been around the game since the first time a pitcher figured out how to make a baseball move oddly by scuffing its surface or the first time a batter glanced back at the catcher s signs.

Wedge: Sign stealing not the same in baseball (The Canton Repository)
CLEVELAND If you re not cheating, you re not trying. That phrase has been around since the first time a pitcher figured out how to make a baseball move oddly by scuffing its surface or the first time a batter glanced back at the catcher s signs.

NFL: Pats’ fallout may lead to defensive audio helmets (Honolulu Advertiser)
PHILADELPHIA NFL teams have been trying to steal each other’s offensive and defensive signals since the days of leather helmets.

NFL Season Kicks Off with Scandal and Injury (NPR)
As week two of the pro-football season begins, the story is less wins and losses than injuries and fines. The NFL has fined the New England Patriots and their coach, Bill Belichick, for videotaping the signals of their rivals during a game.

Cheating, and paranoia about it, not new to NFL (Austin American-Statesman)
Can it work? How it works? And other angles. More than 30 years ago, George Allen would send aides into the woods surrounding the Redskins’ facility to check for spies. “We had a guy called Double-O,” recalled Bubba Tyer, the team trainer.