Your Monday Morning Roundup
Good Monday morning! Big week this week. Here’s our shit-stirring roadmap:
Today at 3 p.m.: New podcast goes up– a 30-minute interview with a really good guest.
Tuesday at 4 p.m.: NFL free agency officially begins. All ‘dem updates herr.
Tuesday or Wednesday-ish: RADIO WARS, the ratings.
And by later in the week I’ll probably argue with some talk show host or his boss who may or may not call me an A-hole on the air.
Let’s hit it!
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The roundup:
Yes. The Eagles will sign Byron Maxwell and Frank Gore, have parted ways with Jeremy Maclin. They re-signed Mark Sanchez. Jayson Braddock, the guy who first reported the Byron Maxwell thing, now reports that the 49ers have placed Colin Kaepernick on the trading block. The 49ers have denied that report.
Villanova pummeled St John’s on Saturday, 105-68, outscoring them 55-22 in the second half– putting a huge exclamation point on the best regular season in school history. Highlights:
And why, yes, we do have a shirt for that:
None of that stopped Dylan Ennis from getting facialized though.
Cliff Lee is out with renewed elbow soreness, bringing his approximate market value back down to… carry the nothingness, divide by Ruben Amaro’s ineptitude… zero, zero market value:
Lee was examined by club physician Michael Ciccotti in Clearwater. A static ultrasound and enhanced MRI were ordered. The MRI photos have been forward to renowned orthopedist Dr. James Andrews.
Amaro described the steps as precautionary and said the tests showed no damage to the UCL.
Q: How daunting would it be to come back from a possible surgery?
Lee: Yeah it’d be 6-8 months out. So basically if I have the surgery this season will be done, possibly my career I guess. I don’t know. We’ll have to see.
My steed… my pretty steed.
The 2015 edition of the Minnesota State High School All Hockey Hair Team. Amazing:
Great take on the Apple Watch. John Gruber makes his predictions.
Jimmy Kempski’s outstanding offseason game plan (pre-Maclin to KC reports):
The Usos talked to Chad Dukes and said that whole post-Royal Rumble thing in the parking lot actually did happen.
Frank Seravalli on the departure of Flyers goaltender coach Jeff Reese.
Great takedown of food critics. Love this. Makes a perfect sidecar to my thoughts on Marc Vetri’s ridiculous piece.
Best of Hooters spring training girls.
Liberty Broadcast
Big week this week. Lots of good Eagles talk coming on BGN Radio, Glen Macnow and Joe Sixpack’s Bar Talk debuts Wednesday night at the Rose Tree Restaurant in Media at 6:30 (come on out!), and good interview on Crossing Streams at 3 today. LibertyBroadcast.co.
