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Shutdown Corner - Chris Cooley - NFL - Yahoo! Sports
Rookies in the NFL make too much money. As a player I should be excited for anyone making a big contract. Good for them, right? For the top 20 draft picks it sounds great to sign a larger contract than guys that have played in the league for 10 years -- larger contracts than players that have been in the Pro Bowl at the same position. What's more is they don't have to lace up a cleat in the ...
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Cooley’s Shorts Will Melt Your Face Off
Mr. Irrelevant — ... And, wouldn’t you know it, the guy’s got talent. Follow the link for artwork depicting himself, teammate Todd Yoder and, ahem, a bikini-clad woman with an eyepatch and a pegleg. But my favorite of all has to be Cooley’s heavy metal shorts, starring every band that I imagine provides the soundtrack to his life. Not quite as cool as the short shorts, but totally awesome nonetheless. Reminder: Cooley’s next Shutdown Corner post goes up tomorrow a.m.

Hot Clicks: Our Hottest Olympic Hopefuls
SI.com - Extra Mustard — ... and blog on Yahoo! Sports are gonna be a must-reads. And if you didn't believe us, just check out the photo Cooley posted of his awesome shorts. (We found this over at ...

In other news
The Official Blog of Chris Cooley — ... . Please check out The Cooley Zone over on Shutdown Corner. I am having a blast writing those posts so I hope you enjoy reading them. We also got some new replithentic jerseys for sale in our store. ...

Steady Burn Asks Chris Cooley...
Steady Burn — Chris Cooley's blog and contributions to Yahoo! Sports blog Shutdown Corner are all the rage lately, and I'm sure many folks saw his interview on The Blog Show that was posted this morning. Great interview by the way, check it out over at the DC Sports Bog or Mister Irrelevant...or anywhere else this nugget gets embedded. Personally, I enjoyed it the most when he recommended Matt Leinart keep it on down low in reference to Matt's partying ways Keep It On the Down Low. Coined by Ronald Isley and R. KELL back in the early 90's I ...

Jim Rome Reads Cooley’s Blog Verbatim
Mr. Irrelevant — ... Captain Chaos has now made three posts for us over at Shutdown Corner. All three have been righteous, and the past two made it on ESPN airwaves. ...

Clinton Portis channels Marie Osmond
Hogs Haven — ... SkinsCast and ES guys have always been very kind to me and if I'd known sooner that Murf -- who is both a very talented writer and a guy with access to the team, both positives in a blogger -- had entered the blogging ranks, I would've gotten his site up on the blogroll before today. It will be up in moments. The post linked above also has a great interview with Chris Cooley, time unknown but necessarily after he started blogging, that has Cooley on topics ranging from his posts at Shutdown Corner to new tight end Davis. On the latter he says that Davis has a high football IQ ...

KSK Guest Post: Chris Cooley Takes You To F–k Town
Kissing Suzy Kolber — ... We at KSK pride ourselves on avoiding Stu Scottian levels of jocksniffery. But when Redskins all-pro H-back and part-time blogger Chris Cooley asked to write a guest post, AND used the phrase “bag of dicks” in said guest post, we weren’t about to turn his frizzy-haired ass down. So here now, in his own words, is the actual Chris Cooley, telling you why training camp is both shitty and useless. ...

Mr. Irrelevant’s Top 10 DC Sports Figures
Mr. Irrelevant — ... and it’s crazy how much things have changed. I mean, look at him now: up to No. 3. The work we did on Shutdown Corner is, for my money, the best athlete blogging ever. He also caught a career-high 83 passes for a career-high 849 yards and ...

Playoff Interviews: Brent Celek
The Official Blog of Chris Cooley — ... Tomorrow morning check the audio feed of my phone call to Terrell Suggs on Shutdown Corner.  "It's hot." And stay with us for many more playoff interviews. ...

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