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…according to the Sporting News the real problem in Green Bay with the struggling Packers has been the anaemic play of running back Ryan Grant. Seldom has a player regressed to such a staggering degree…two teams confident they have resolved their QB difficulties; the Chicago Bears with Kyle Orton and the Buffalo Bills with Trent Edwards. One team is right, one team is wrong…Tennessee Titan QB Kerry Collins is a recovered alcoholic…we’re all loading up on the Houston Texans, finally figuring the game out, on the road against the Vikings, getting four and a hay…and call me old fashioned, or inflexible, but I cannot take a rookie QB on the road. Give me the Raiders, improving under new coach Tom Cable, getting the field goal from Matt Ryan and the Falcons…bizarre, on Jennifer Morrison’s blog you can link to photos of Fatal Bullet before the Breeders Cup Sprint which clearly show the three year old colt bleeding from the mouth. After the race the bleeding had increased…Marion Jones claimed on Oprah yesterday that she thought she was taking flaxseed oil, not steroids, in a mysterious vial. Later in the show she claimed she did not love herself enough to tell the truth, a direct hit with the Oprah crowd, and also asserted she would have won gold even without the ‘roids…Golfer John Daly was found drunk outside a Hooters Tues night. He was taken to the drunk tank to sleep it off…the lowest rated World Series in TV history will be the quickly forgotten. Lousy baseball, no glamour and buckets of rain…do you remember? Blue Jay MVP after winning the 1992 World Series was Pat Borders…New Jersey Nets players elected Vince Carter as their captain this year. Either he has changed, or the Nets are in for a very long year. Yeah, we’ll suggest the latter…Todd McLellan, new coach of the San Jose Sharks, meets his old Detroit Red Wing mates tonight in a very interesting game from the West Coast. The more I watch Ron Wilson coach in Toronto the more I suspect the Sharks might flourish this year with the key leadership change…cannot believe Argentina has named Diego Maradonna as their next national team coach. The living legend is as infamous as famous, the Hunter S Thompson of the soccer set…at Woodbine…in the first WONDEROUS GLORY makes his third start off the bench while dropping a couple of classifications…SKYLAND should edge Largo Lady in the second. The Danny Vella filly takes a real edge with the plunge, this off a commendable run Oct 19^th at today’s distance…in the third SEASIDE VIEW returns to a suitable group after an ill advised excursion Oct 24^th against pricey. Poetic Fan is a mystery, she’s practically being given away and we’ll approach with caution…Bob Tiller is on fire at the moment and we’ll leap on the bandwagon, backing his KY BLUZ GIRL in the fourth. Elkhart can round out a nice exactor…SEA SPICE was oh so close, giving it up in the final strides Oct 17^th. The gelding drops a notch and should be winging it on the front end. Mr Cash In is an intriguing play, getting his first start after being dusted against a difficult group in Keenland…in the seventh we’ll try DASH IT DREAMER, third lifetime start with an equipment change. The Reade Baker competitor was swallowed up late by some of the best fillies on the ground In the Victoria Queen Stakes Oct 1^st…Scott Fairlie has HEART OF COLD dropping off an even race in the seventh, improvement should be forthcoming…the eighth is scheduled for the lawn. LION RIDGE could be stoked by the reversal to a shorter distance. He has given up lengths in the stretch of his last two marathon excursions…in the final MR HENRY TWO U is fresh and entered at a suitable class and distance…