Boy, does Johnny Manziel have a deal for you! How about you, sign him, to a practice squad contract…. and he’ll play for NO MONEY DOWN! Huh? Bargain, AMIRITE? While I admire Johnny’s frantic desire to get back into the league, it doesn’t make it any less desperate than his bookend washout RG3. Griffin had […] Read more

Lamar Jackson looks like he’ll be the most interesting, polarizing, and hot-take generating player in this year’s NFL Draft. He’s already generated a kerfuffle over a Bill Polian suggestion that he should transition to wide receiver. Also, Jackson says he’s going to have his mom – yep, his mom! – serve as his “agent” during […] Read more

I’m back and finally rested from our Mervis Diamonds/Team 980 week long adventure to South Africa. It was amazing, as expected, and then some. In today’s CzabeCast, I will tell you why I will never get over NOT being able to say that I was the one who took the above photograph! That belonged to […] Read more

If you believe the details emerging from the Pete Thamel story on Yahoo.com about the upcoming nuke that’s about to hit college basketball, then we all might want to prepare for some really crappy looking tournament brackets in the years to come. Thamel says perhaps 30+ programs will be touched, Hall of Fame coaches may […] Read more

Comeback stories are the best. They are the essence of sports. Who doesn’t like a good comeback? We’re about to find out if Johnny Manziel has what it takes to crawl out from the wreckage of one of the biggest crash-and-burn flameouts in sports history. From college superstar diva and first round pick, to a […] Read more

Shawn White had a magical moment at the Olympics last night, but of course the dirty laundry of his rock band past just had to get dumped out on the floor. In today’s CzabeCast I discuss why things like #metoo is not just a worthy movement, but it’s also valuable programming for networks, and irresistible […] Read more

And one day… the money just stopped flowing. Oh sure, the owners HAVE it. More than they have ever had! But they have just all decided – independently of one another, they claim – that most of the free agents in baseball are no better than the next guy up from AAA. And those guys […] Read more

And I need my $1,000 from Al Galdi, that weasel! Just kidding! As some may remember, I once bet my former afternoon drive co-host “One-Thousand-Dollars” that when Griffin left the Skins, another team would sign him to a deal of at least $10M in guaranteed money. I won, but barely. Griffin did get like $15M […] Read more

And amazingly enough, a young mustachioed Keith Olbermann – yup, the same guy who won’t say “Redskins” now! – was on the scene for CNN to report it all! What good times. On today’s CzabeCast, Andy Pollin and I reminisce about what championship parades looked like in DC way back when, and muse about what […] Read more

CzabeCast January 30, 2018 Super Bowl Stories: The Night(mare) Before Tales of Stanley Wilson, Barrett Robbins, and Eugene Robinson Notorious J-A-Y: Jay Cottrell, WBAL Baltimore Radio Row Of Yesteryore Explaining Kendrick Lamar Explaining Lady Gaga Reinventing Yourself Hating Rap Questions I’d Love To Ask at Media Day Brady’s Daughter Controversy Tiger Fan Shoots His Wad […] Read more