A Quote You Won’t Find In The Chronicle

Promotion keeps Wallace off the field (Danny O’Neil, Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

[Seahawks coach Mike] Holmgren chose Wallace with a fourth-round pick, and he was drafted as a quarterback and not a multi-purpose player.

“He is not just an athlete as some of the quarterbacks coming out of college have been characterized over the last few years,” Holmgren said. “He really has great skill passing the ball.”

At the NFL scouting combine in 2003, Houston general manager Charley Casserly said

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Danger Train Collision?

KSEV-700 is reporting a Danger Train collision this morning.

The Danger Trains were running when I crossed at Elgin earlier.

This is shaping up to be a World Class Friday!

UPDATE: Laurence Simon has more on the collision. That’s more reporting than any media outlet in town has posted to the web. Why cover this stuff when there is inane babbling about Houston 1836 or Vince Young dominating the news cycle,

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He Should Have Claimed Sudden Acceleration Syndrome

KTRK-13’s Deborah Wrigley checks in on some mayhem in southwest Houston:

A southwest Houston parking lot was the unlikely scene of a multi-car pile-up Thursday morning. The chain reaction accident happened in a lot of the HCA West Houston Medical Center.

Car after car after car was left smashed, torn and dented. Eight were damaged in all. It started with a Toyota Camry. Police say an 84-year-old driver hit the gas instead of the brake.

“I’m thinking he

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Matt Welch, MSM

Blogger extraordinaire Matt Welch, who created the term “warblog” and has penned his share of articles for alt media, is now officially a member of the mainstream.

He’s announced on his blog that he is now an assistant opinion editor for the Los Angeles Times. That’s a good move for the Times, which will be getting a unique combination of talent and experience with Matt. This LA Voice blog post suggests that this move is part of a

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Might as well clear out the Lions’ dead weight

Ford’s recovery starts in reverse (Sarah Webster, Detroit Free Press)

Ford Motor Co. said Monday it plans to cut up to 30,000 jobs and shutter 14 plants in a sweeping restructuring it hopes will turn its North American auto business back into a profitable venture.

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Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Bill Ford said the automaker would idle 14 manufacturing facilities. Ford’s North American work force has 122,000 people, approximately 87,000 hourly workers and 35,000 salaried workers.

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