Jim Harbaugh hates to lose more than he loves to win. He proved it Sunday after the San Francisco 49ers lost to the New York Giants in the NFC championship game. Harbaugh quickly congratulated his counterpart Tom Coughlin then disappeared. When Fox came calling for the traditional post-game press conference, Harbaugh offered a stiff arm.
Mark Cuban moved to Dallas three decades ago and took a gig as a bartender to pay the bills. Today, he owns the defending NBA champion Dallas Mavericks, Forbes Magazine estimates his value at $2.3 billion and he has placed a bid on the Los Angeles Dodgers.
On an Alabama radio frequency hundreds of miles south of the ears of New York fans and media, New York Jet Greg McElroy spoke frankly about the his teammates. He described the teammates as “selfish” and the locker room “corrupt.”
Jerry Jones refuses to call the Dallas Cowboys 2011 season a failure; he prefers disappointing because using the word failure would be a confession of guilt by the owner and general manager and there’s is no way Jones — or Jones’ elephant-like ego — would condone such an admission.
Dave Winfield got his first taste of the New York Mets over lunch. For the Mets front office team of Nelson Doubleday and Frank Cashen this was all new and, in hindsight, the 1980 Major League Baseball Reentry Draft, marked the organizations first major foray into free agency. For Winfield the visit to the Big Apple was business as usual.
