The bulls come in shades of mean like Frank the Tank and Slammer, even a Chad Pennington-owned Get Ir Done. They snarl, they throw snot, they buck, and, last week, they did it in New York City as the Ford Tough rodeo series made a stop at Madison Square Garden.
While sons Sean Preston, 23 months, and Jayden James, 11 months, are away (with mom Britney Spears this weekend), it was Kevin Federline's turn to play... into the early hours of the morning.
In virtually every sport, the dreaded "sophomore slump" is an accepted rite of passage. Whether it's basketball or bocce, legend seems to dictate that athletes who have "rookie" removed from their title stumble and fall flat on their faces in their second year of play, done in by a combination of bad luck and poor performance.
Silliest thing I've heard since my last mailbag column is that the NFL's steroid and HGH testing program is in serious trouble because the league doesn't want to pay the testers as they would salaried employees. In other words, it would have to provide benefits, such as medical, retirement and clean straw to sleep on at night. Much cheaper to call them contracted help and pay them by the specimen.
Hey isn't it interesting that all's quiet on the gasoline front. Paid $2.98 in Connecticut this week, and that's cheap. See how long that lasts, Ernesto!
ADMAN REED COLLINS was born in Australia, started his career in Sydney, then took off for agencies in Johannesburg, London, and New York. Now a creative director at Chicago's Leo Burnett, Collins w...
Watching the quadruple-platinum rise of Gretchen Wilson's "Here for the Party" last year was as encouraging a cultural sign as those Dove ads showcasing undie-clad women with non-fashion-model-proportioned curves.
The bulls come in shades of mean like Frank the Tank and Slammer, even a Chad Pennington-owned Get Ir Done. They snarl, they throw snot, they buck, and, last week, they did it in New York City as the Ford Tough rodeo series made a stop at Madison Square Garden.
While sons Sean Preston, 23 months, and Jayden James, 11 months, are away (with mom Britney Spears this weekend), it was Kevin Federline's turn to play... into the early hours of the morning.
In virtually every sport, the dreaded "sophomore slump" is an accepted rite of passage. Whether it's basketball or bocce, legend seems to dictate that athletes who have "rookie" removed from their title stumble and fall flat on their faces in their second year of play, done in by a combination of bad luck and poor performance.
Silliest thing I've heard since my last mailbag column is that the NFL's steroid and HGH testing program is in serious trouble because the league doesn't want to pay the testers as they would salaried employees. In other words, it would have to provide benefits, such as medical, retirement and clean straw to sleep on at night. Much cheaper to call them contracted help and pay them by the specimen.
Hey isn't it interesting that all's quiet on the gasoline front. Paid $2.98 in Connecticut this week, and that's cheap. See how long that lasts, Ernesto!
ADMAN REED COLLINS was born in Australia, started his career in Sydney, then took off for agencies in Johannesburg, London, and New York. Now a creative director at Chicago's Leo Burnett, Collins w...
Watching the quadruple-platinum rise of Gretchen Wilson's "Here for the Party" last year was as encouraging a cultural sign as those Dove ads showcasing undie-clad women with non-fashion-model-proportioned curves.
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