Offers, Blown Calls and Judges

Busy morning here, but let’s go around the sports world quickly.

Lots and lots of stuff to talk about today, starting with a special WHY WE LOVE FOOTBALL offer. For the next two weeks, the folks at Barnes & Noble are offering a special 25% off deal if you preorder the book. All you have to do is enter the special code FOOTBALL25 into the Apply Coupon Code box at checkout*, and, voila, 25% comes off the price.

*We spent many hours brainstorming and coming up with that ultra-original FOOTBALL25 code. My original choices were all rejected, perhaps because they were anti-John Elway codewords.

The book comes out in three weeks! Again, just enter FOOTBALL25 at checkout.

OK, you’ll definitely want to check out “One of a Kind,” the new Greg Maddux documentary over at the MLB Network. I’m not just saying that because I’m in it (I’m “The Writer”). And I’m not just saying that because Greg Maddux is my favorite pitcher.

I’m saying it because the doc has all sorts of fun stuff in it. I mean, what can be better than