Now that football is upon us (yeah), I think it's time to give a prediction for the upcoming season.
The Philadelphia Eagles will go 14-2 and win the Super Bowl by 46 points. Take it to Vegas.
Before the official 2006 kickoff, I thought you might enjoy catching up with John Stallworth, the hall-of-fame Pittsburgh Steelers wide reciever turned military-industrial-complex CEO.
And if you are so ready for some football that you want more, more, more stories from the gridiron: here's a piece on the omnipresent usage of coaching cliches by management "gurus" (Brian Billick and Herman Edwards had plenty to say), and an interview with Steve Sabol, President of NFL Films.




Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was re-elected last November in a tough battle. Controversy seems to find America's first "hip-hop mayor" as much as his ardent supporter, Eminem, but he's not one to back down from a challenge...like say pulling Detroit into the 21st-century.
Penn (the one who talks) explains how he and his partner Teller (the one who doesn't) have been able to keep their union magical for more than 30 years.
A few seasons ago, I grilled a handful of the NFL's finest coaches as to why they just want to be seen as workaday CEOs.