I believe it was my good friend Frank Litsky of The New York Times who once remarked, back in the Eighties at a Giants-Bengals game that Cincinnati looked like a city designed during an architects' competition. And sitting in the pressbox for the first time at Paul Brown Stadium, I can second that observation.

The stadium itself has futuristic awnings perched over its green seats (perhaps suggest… More

Some people have a knack of making the word "interesting" sound, well, interesting. So it is with Nick Mangold, the Jets center who used one of his favorite adjectives to describe the Sunday run-ins he's sure to have with the Bengals' new middle linebacker, a guy named Anthony Schlegel.

"Yeah, I've gone up against him multiple times," Mangold said as a highlight reel of Ohio State summer practice… More

Marques Tuiasosopo is the third QB in for the Jets and his first pass is crisp, down the field, on the money — and dropped by WR Chris Davis on the deep in-cut. Another Ben Grahm punt.

The Jets defense, with Anthony Schlegel playing inside with Blake Costanzo in the base and on at LB in the dime, slows the Philly offense at the Jets' 45. Sav Rocca, the former Australian Rules football player wh… More

I was struck over the weekend by the empathy that Jets center Nick Mangold had for Notre Dame QB Brady Quinn as he continued to slide down the first round, with ESPN very happy to show his growing discomfort.

"It's horrible watching it," Nick said Saturday during the Draft Day Party at Dave & Buster's in New York City. "I was talking with Brady yesterday about what might happen. Now, to see it in… More