The Cooley Zone: My draft day story has a happy ending

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Cooley on Y! Sports, Boom Tho on ESPN
Published 4/23/2008 by Jamie Mottram at Mr. Irrelevant
Big day for athlete bloggers over at Yahoo! Sports as Chris Cooley is now posting on Shutdown Corner, and Ball Don’t Lie baller/blogger Rod Benson was featured on ESPN’s E:60 program. Click through to read Captain Chaos’ first effort (it’s a good one, especially the anecdote about Parcells), and watch this video for a healthy dose of Boom Tho.* * And yes, Bill, Yahoo! Sports is No. 1 over ESPN. At least most months. So go ahead and “Boom Tho in ...

Chris Cooley: Mormons don't golf on Sundays
Published 4/23/2008 by Skin Patrol at Hogs Haven: Front Page Posts
... Nearly everything Chris Cooley says is interesting and a recent post at Shtudown Corner by my favorite player proved no different. I listen when he discusses the relatively uninteresting story of a ...

Chris Cooley Now Blogging For Yahoo!
Published 4/23/2008 by Awful Announcing- at Awful Announcing
... been on hold for a couple minutes." I took the phone and Joe Gibbs says, "I hope you want to be a Redskin, we had to trade up for you." Joe Gibbs! A Hall of Fame coach wanted to trade up for me. This has to be one of the weaker classes in the history of the draft, but reading stories like this gets me hyped to spend a Saturday drinking beers and projecting who's going where. I'll be here all day on Day One hitting the highs and lows, so I hope you can join me. The Cooley Zone: My draft day story has a happy ending (Yahoo Sports: Shutdown Corner)

Blog-A-Rhythm: Jason Taylor Keeps On Dancing
Published 4/23/2008 by jason at SPORTSbyBROOKS
... . • Redskins TE Chris Cooley reminisces to SHUTDOWN CORNER about how his own draft day went . • DEADSPIN cuts to the chase, as Terrell Owens has been ...

Today's Top Five: Soulja Boy Reps LeBron
Published 4/23/2008 by Dan Steinberg at D.C. Sports Bog
... for blogging? (Empty the Bench) 4) Chris Cooley is now taking over the world, moving some of his Internet insights to Yahoo!. In today's debut he tells of his pre-draft meeting with Bill Parcells, who said something like this: ""I'll be honest, the reason you're here is because we like you as a special teams player. I don't think you'll ever be a starter in the league. We're thinking about taking you around the sixth round." (Shutdown Corner) 5) Downloadable ...

Bill Parcells Might Want That One Back
Published 4/24/2008 by Larry Brown at Larry Brown Sports
... . In his first entry, he tells the story of the day he got drafted. Prior to being drafted in the 3rd round to the Redskins, Cooley says he flashed back to a visit with the Cowboys and Bill Parcells: ...

Hot Clicks: Danica enjoying the spotlight
Published 4/24/2008 at SI.com - Extra Mustard
... ) -- Chris Cooley, who is now blogging for Yahoo! Sports, writes about his draft day experience in 2004, when he was taken with the 81st pick. ...

Chris and Christy, Lookin’ Good
Published 4/24/2008 by Unsilent Majority at Kissing Suzy Kolber
... In other news that you’ve probably heard by now, Captain Chaos has taken his newfound blog skills over to Shutdown Corner at Yahoo(!) Sports Blogs. Cooley joins Rod Benson in Yahoo!’s stable of fucking hilarious athlete-bloggers. ...

CHRIS COOLEY IS DOING WELL FOR HIMSELF
Published 4/24/2008 at With Leather
Here's Chris Cooley with his fiancee, ex-Redskin cheerleader Christy, at a Super Bowl XXII reunion party (via KSK).  And for the record, yes, you CAN wear a wrinkled pink button-down if you're an All-Pro tight end engaging in regular sex with an NFL cheerleader.  I believe Burt Reynolds said as much on a Miller Lite commercial once. Chris, whose awesome personal blog quickly blew up into a weekly guest spot at Yahoo's Shutdown Corner, is one of the few pro athletes I feel I can really identify with.  Keep in ...