Terry Bradshaw

Every Sunday the networks that produce NFL pregame shows are kind enough to send reams of quotes from them so I don't have to actually watch. Sometimes there is interesting stuff. For example, this exchange on CBS between Shannon Sharpe......

Rule No. 1 for NFL pregame shows: Talk about the Cowboys whenever possible. Take this Sunday, for example . . .......

Yup, T.O. came up a few times on the network pregame shows Sunday. (T.O. disclaimer: His take is that most of what is said below is based on media "lies.")......

Former Newsday columnist Rob Parker, now of the Detroit News, was asking Lions coach Rod Marinelli about his defensive coordinator and son-in-law, Joe Barry, after Sunday's loss when he threw in this unfortunate question: "On a light note, do you......

Jerry Rice doesn???t customarily share his deepest fears with me, so he must have really meant it when he admitted he was ???scared to death?????? about Tuesday???s DVD release of the flick ???Without a Paddle: Nature???s Calling.?????? That???s DVD as......

You are reading the 4,000th post in WatchDog's 20-month history. Thanks as always for your loyalty, support and contributions. To mark the occasion we link to Tom Hoffarth's post on the top 50 sports broadcasters of all time, as per......

Speaking of major TV networks having to pay the bills just like the rest of us (see post below) . . . Why did Fox not send its team of studio analysts to cozy Glendale, Ariz., after forcing them......

When Ram Coach Mike Martz finds himself without a great quarterback, he simply creates a new one. If it takes genius to make such a thing happen, that's what Martz is. Against the Chicago Bears in the 501st game of the Monday night series, he will show...

The Bears, remember them? It seems like ages ago since that Monday night pasting by the Packers. In reality it was only two weeks ago and the Bears and their fans have had the bye week to either dwell on it or forget about it. This week it's the Lions,...

Strangely, as a first-year AFC coach, Tony Dungy of the Indianapolis Colts is doing the same things that got him feared and then fired in an NFC town, Tampa. At both places, Dungy rose to notoriety as a leader who had one of the NFL's finest and most...

The Bears reached the playoffs last season by winning games that they appeared to have lost, by making that one play or two at precisely the critical moment of those games. This season they are on course to miss the playoffs because they suddenly cannot...

The world is suddenly full of great quarterbacks — or, maybe, these folks are merely very good. Anyhow, they're all over the country. At least two of them are still in school, Aaron Rodgers of Cal and Matt Leinart of USC. And at least two other...