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Ask the Expert: Jerry Angelo

February 3, 2015 general

Tuesday, 6 a.m. Jerry Angelo is a former personnel director for the Bucs and former general manager of the Bears. Each week, Angelo answers your questions regarding the NFL. Send your questions to GarySheltonsports@gmail.com with “ask the expert” in the subject line. The most interesting question will be selected. As a former general manager, what […]

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What would Lovie have learned from Super Bowl?

February 1, 2015 general

Sunday, 11:05 p.m. You imagine him watching. You imagine him comparing. You remember him looking at various players and thinking “I want one of those.” Yep, it should have been an interesting night of watching the Super Bowl for Lovie Smith. Who needs to get to work. There was so much about the this game […]

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To All Fields: Which ex-player do Bucs miss most?

January 31, 2015 College Sports in Florida

Saturday, 6 a.m. In Tampa… As former employees go, they have landed on their feet. As a trio, they are happy. They are needed. They fit into football’s most glorious puzzles. They are away from Tampa Bay, and for three guys with work to do on Sunday, they seem fairly fulfilled. Certainly life has gone […]

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Lynch deserves his spot in the Hall of Fame

January 30, 2015 Tampa Bay Bucs

Friday, 10:30 a.m. If the position did not confuse them so much, John Lynch would already be in the Hall of Fame. It’s just that he….well, what did he do again? The inability to embrace Lynch, a mainstay with the great Buc defenses of the late 90s and early 2000s, confounds me. Gather all the […]

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Ask the Expert: Jerry Angelo

January 28, 2015 general

Jerry Angelo is a former personnel director for the Bucs and former general manager of the Bears. Each week, Angelo answers your questions regarding the NFL. Send your questions to GarySheltonsports@gmail.com with “ask the expert” in the subject line. The most interesting question will be selected. In the science debate of our time, do you […]

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It’s International Silly Day at the Super Bowl

January 27, 2015 general

Tuesday, 6:00 a.m. Jokers. Clowns. Buffoons. And that’s just the media part of it. At least, it’s what passes for the media on international look-at-me day, the days where the Super Bowl is turned over to insanity. There are media members who are dressed in wedding gowns and ballerina tutus and cheerleader’s Content beyond this […]

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The Bucs can learn a lot from the Seahawks

January 26, 2015 general

Monday, 6 a.m. There was a time they were  in the rear-view mirror. There was a time they woke up in the morning and wanted nothing more than to be the Tampa Bay Bucs. Or most of the other teams in the NFL. How, then, did the Seattle Seahawks turn into a dynasty? And how […]

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Who’s back in the NFC South? Why, it’s Rah

January 25, 2015 general

Sunday, 6 a.m. He’s back in the neighborhood. He’s open for business. He’s rested. He’s ready. He’s Raheem. And are you ready to see him again? Even on the opposing sideline? Raheem Morris, the one-time coach who wasn’t ready, is Content beyond this point is for members only.

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To all Fields: QB coach not a miracle worker

January 24, 2015 College Sports in Florida

Saturday, 6:00 a.m. …In Tampa. Perhaps the hire didn’t make you throw confetti, or at the very least, throw it straight. Perhaps you were looking for a bigger name and a better resume. Perhaps you wanted this addition to come with the promise of touchdowns. It didn’t. That doesn’t mean, however, that Mike Bajakian won’t […]

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We have lost our outrage over sports cheating

January 22, 2015 Tampa Bay Bucs

Thursday, 3:48 p.m. What happens when cheaters prosper? What happens when the rallying cry is “you’ve got to cheat us to beat us” and they do? What happens when we are all Patriots? In sports, the biggest fear is not cheating. The biggest fear is losing. Compared with losing, cheating looks smart, sly, clever. Cheating […]

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