http://hamptonroads.com/node/475310 Sports en-us Copyright 2012 PilotOnline.com / HamptonRoads.com. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:40:43 -0500 Ok, this dustup -- fueled by ESPN's flogging and Rodney Harrison's flaming -- regarding the appropriateness of Rob Gronkowski partying like a fool after New England’s Super Bowl loss: enough already. First, it’s awesome that cell-phone video footage is once again the surveillance tool of choice. Just awesome. Love the appropriateness of that these days. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/02/party-gronk-fine-me Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:17:11 -0500 My preseason Super Bowl pick was the Patriots over the Packers. Green Bay didn’t make the game. New England did. Yet I’m jumping ship from Tom Brady and the Pats, which seems contrary to my belief in the quarterback, his array of weapons and the coach, Bill Belichick. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/02/super-guesstimation-time-giants-win Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:28:13 -0500 A report on ESPN.com/NewYork has Giants running back Brandon Jacobs suggesting that Virginia Beach’s Plaxico Burress would have preferred to return to the Giants this season, and that he could still next season. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/02/burress-might-be-giant-again-yet Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:30:48 -0500 As my story noted today, the United Football League plans to move on without commissioner Michael Huyghue, who has resigned. And that Bill Mayer, the UFL director who funds the locally popular Virginia Destroyers, said the league will play again in the fall with four teams if it must, although it would like to have at least five. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/02/ufls-mayer-you-gotta-believe Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:18:01 -0500 Through a meandering college basketball season, most games and their details run into one another. Not true of Norfolk State’s 87-82 loss to Coppin State that I witnessed Monday night. It was too weird to just casually blend in to any pack. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/01/bizarre-hoops-norfolk-state Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:35:55 -0500 Perhaps, and just maybe, the flow of FCS postseason football "All American" awards is tapped out. Finally. But for about six weeks after Old Dominion ended its season, up until last week, random college football publications and websites took pains to proclaim their very own All American teams, some four rosters deep, which I’m not sure the point of that at all. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/01/all-americans-score Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:56:37 -0500 Missed only on the San Francisco 49ers beating the New Orleans Saints last week in my little NFL postseason blog picks. I like the 49ers, but I wondered aloud how they would ever slow down, let alone stop, Drew Brees. Five turnovers later I had my answer. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/01/party-its-2007 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:13:17 -0500 Schmoozing with admirers Thursday night before the Chesapeake Sports Club’s first jamboree, David Wright, a popular subject of trade speculation in the New York media, repeated his desire to stay with the struggling Mets. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/01/wright-wants-stay-help-mets-reverse-course Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:26:27 -0500 Expect the name of Darren Perry, the Green Bay Packers secondary coach from Chesapeake, to surface frequently over the next few weeks in the Oakland Raiders coaching search. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/01/perry-figures-figure-raiders-speculation Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:31:35 -0500 A report in today's Tampa Bay Times said Marty Schottenheimer had what he called “an enjoyable dialogue”  when he met with Tampa Bay Buccaneers officials Tuesday in Naples, Fla. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/01/schottenheimer-enjoys-talk-tampa-bay Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:31:59 -0500