The product has never been worse and the trust/legitimacy factor is badly eroded. If nothing else, would disappear for a while. Around here, the NBA is golden.We're still in the oil and gas business. And as you know, the price of gas is down. We've got these other commitments that we're moving forward with.

It is hard to be a fan these days, at least for me. Yes, like much of the New England citizenry I anticipate with joy Opening Day just a month away. Spring is not spring in these parts until baseball returns and the grass is again so green and the sky is so blue in centerfield.It gave us twopoint conversions and names on the backs of jerseys. It gave us Joe Namath, a finger wagging aloft, jogging through the gloaming toward a dressing room in the Orange Bowl after escorting the Jets to their defining victory over the Colts in Super Bowl III. It gave us Sid Gillman, Hank Stram, Al Davis and so many others..

Bryant missed the previous game with a thigh injury, ye