LITTLE ROCK — What Dez says isn’t totally true
Dez Bryant, in what sounds like a clear endorsement of an Oklahoma State education, thinks the Dallas Cowboys are unbeatable.
Bryant made the statement on an episode of Fox Sports Southwest’s Inside the Huddle last week at the House of Blues in Dallas.
Asked about his goals, Bryant explained that he thought the Cowboys couldn’t be defeated.
Never mind that pesky 3-3 record.
“I like to keep my personal goals to myself,” Bryant said. “As far as the team, I like our chances.
I feel like, it may sound crazy, I think we are unbeatable. I think the losses, we lost those games ourselves. I feel like once we get back in that meeting room and regroup, and we learn from our mistakes, the sky’s the limit.”
Questioned about the difference between pros and college, the former college Cowboy saidplaying in the NFL was easier than playing in the Big 12.
“I really think the pros is much easier,” Bryant said, clearly remembering many tough games against Missouri, Texas Tech, Baylor and Kansas State.
“The reason I say that is because in college I didn’t see too much man, too much 1-on-1. I always got double-teamed and a lot of zone coverages. When I see that 1-on-1 in the league, my eyes get big. I start visualizing what I’mgoing to do after the play.” A googly?
American sports idioms are making inroads in Australia.
A story in Wednesday’s edition of The Sydney Morning Herald, reporting on the Higher School Certificate English exam, opened with the statement, “Year 12 students were thrown a curve ball yesterday … ,” prompting guest columnist Ian Mylchreest to wonder in Friday’s edition what, exactly, was going on.
“Could the examiners not have given the students a surprise?” Mylchreest wrote. “Or created some consternation? Or thrown a spanner in the works? Or even bowled those students a googly?”
Cricket terms aside, Mylchreest feels there’s only one option - to embrace the change.
“Trying now to raise up the linguistic drawbridge and keep our version of English pure is futile,” Mylchreest wrote. “... After all, it’s not like footpaths and lifts are suddenly and magically transforming themselves into sidewalks and elevators.
“And rest assured that we’ll maintain an absolute international monopoly on the five-letter word for an outhouse.”
That explains it ...
Connecticut women’s basketball Coach Geno Auriemma is mad about Big East football. More specifically, he’s upset that Notre Dame isn’t playing Big East football, while competing in the league in basketball.
“The only thing you’re sure of is they don’t play [football] in our league and never want to play in our league,” Auriemma said during Big East Media Days in New York. “For a lot of us, it’s a huge problem.
“They’ve been in our league something like [17] years. How long are we going to date before we just decide this ain’t working?
I’m not happy about it. That’s not the opinion of UConn, the Big East Conference, my president, my AD. That’s just Geno Auriemma’s opinion. I’m p* about it.”
In other news, as Hartford (Conn.) Courant columnist Jeff Jacobs pointed out, Notre Dame was picked to win the title this season ahead of UConn in the coaches’ preseason poll, only the second time since 1992-1993 that the Huskies haven’t been picked to finish first.
“That’s right.” Jacobs wrote.
“Secretariat isn’t the chalk this time. The IRS is the underdog.”Quote of the day “Sooner or later, that’s going to catch up to us.
It could have today.”
Arkansas defensive end Jake Bequette on the
team’s slow start against Ole Miss
Sports, Pages 16 on 10/24/2011