The focus has returned. Two walk-throughs and a full practice after Sunday's loss to the Giants have Eagles coaches convinced their young team has regained the confidence that led it to dominate at Dallas. The Force is with you. Brantley would like to feel wanted Jeff Brantley is in his 16th professional season, playing for his fourth different National League organization. In all that time, in all those travels, he's come to know hundreds of people.
Baseball is a small world that way.
Last night's 4-2 Flyers victory over the New York Islanders at Sovereign Bank Arena, keyed by a pair of John LeClair rebound goals, gave Flyers coach Craig Ramsay a variety of situations in which to evaluate several new players, including goalies Roman Cechmanek and Maxime Ouellet. Brad Johnson, who averaged less than one interception per game last season, who threw for 4,005 yards and 24 touchdowns, who went to the Pro Bowl, throws four picks in the Redskins' 15-10 loss to the Detroit Lions last week, and all anybody down in D.C. can talk about is whether it's time for Norv Turner to make a quarterback change and bring in, drum roll, please, Jeff George. Rich Hofmann More to be gained from the loss Everyone quickly concluded that the Eagles were neither as good as they were in flattening the Dallas Cowboys in their first game nor as bad as they were when they were exposed by the New York Giants in their second game. We were guests of the Sydney Telegraph, our tabloid cousin Down Under. The other host of what was billed as the Official Media Party was an environmental company that specializes in turning waste dumps into parks.