The Zulewski report

By Tom Zulewski

December 22, 2009
 
 



No end in sight for Warriors worries: The Warriors have not made the playoffs in two going on three seasons and previously to that they didn't make the playoffs for 13 seasons. Here they are again the 2007 season was just a blip on the NBA radar Screen and now the team is back into the same old habits with the same old mismanagement and the same old baloney.

The Warriors are involved in bad trades and bad player development acquisitions and bad team chemistry that a high schooler can do better on and you know it's bad when kids from grades schools are writing the team telling them they're team can beat theirs. It's just wild to know that the Warriors have fallen into the proverbial abyss.

Time for Nellie to step down: I would have to say yes on this one. His success us limited and he didn't have much success in Dallas. It took Avery Johnson to take Dallas to the finals in 2006 but now Warriors Head Coach Don Nelson hasn't done squat and hasn't won a pile of games but when it comes down to crunch time things have been falling apart.

There are some games he can make all those excuses but he and Bobby Bowdin are almost one in the same animal and the fact that they know how to win and get the most out of people is a good thing but when Nellie has to deal with multimillion dollar contracts and cry babies with temper tantrums and if the front office can't do anything with the players you have to do something about the players.

NFL Player brain donations: Collisions are a fact of life in the NFL wrote former Raider and now NFL retiree benefit advocate Dave Perry. Some guys get hurt so bad in the NFL they actually cry knowing they have to get back out there again and this has been a decade after decade tradition with the players it's never ending.

Mike Webster is a recent case that pops into my head who died at 52 and there is no benefits covering these players under the current collective bargaining agreement. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has to quit paying lip service about taking care of players after they leave the game.

Those who know the game deserve more than what the league is giving them. Players now are played now upon potential as to oppose to actually working and having results. So they got to think it's time to deal with everybody who has played the game. All of the alumni have to have some kind of care.

Were also going to hear more and more cases like MIke Webster or like Pear. You just pray that after they play the game they can have a life and not have to worry about 10-15 unpaid bills or hobbling around on crutches or being stuck in a wheel chair or someone has his brains scrambled because he got hit on the head over the years and it's about time the NFL did something.

Tiger Woods doctor investigation: Dr. Anthony Galea he meant well but the way he went about things is really underhanded. Just know that there is the potential to do damage to bodies like this. The after effects are one thing but we won't go into that but just knowing that he has the integrity but he doesn't have the integrity to be above board.

There are rules about patient confidentiality that’s understood but when it involves advantage I'm sorry but Tiger Woods has been head and shoulders above everybody else all these years and it makes you wonder why?

Everybody else in the PGA has been running scared all the time and you had to wonder why? Now we kind of have a sense to why. I don't know if Galea will be arrested for anything he did with Tiger but at least it should be strongly looked into.

Tom Zuelwski files the report each week for Sportstalk Radio

 

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