[Husker] USA Today editorial

[Mike Jaixen]

Tom Shatel has a nice rebuttal in today's Omaha paper:
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=38&u_sid=1491768
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Saraceno lowered himself to Bernard Goldberg territory
(anybody else find it ironic that he wrote an "expose"
about OTHER reporters bias???) with this column.  All
Saraceno had to do was glance at Osborne's last book
to find the quote he said he was after.  Which really
wasn't the quote he was after, because then he
wouldn't have had anything for his column.

--- STUART JONES <dopc67 at comcast.net> wrote:

> I was unable to access the article. I was thinking
> the other day how Osborne
> might have felt about the latest tragedy if he had
> not done everything that
> he did to help LP. Football was Osborne's job but I
> believe he truly looked
> upon it as more than just winning. The actions of
> athletes lying about
> steroids or TV evangelists saying dumb things brings
> about understandable
> skepticism, but Oz never or seldom fit any mold the
> press tried to put on
> him. I trust him more than most or all of the press.
> Call me a kool-aid
> drinker on this matter. And yes, I don't think LP
> made that big of a
> difference in 1995. I think his back up went to the
> pro bowl in recent
> years.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: husker-bounces at tssi.com
> [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of
> Killmar, John
> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 12:39 PM
> To: husker at tssi.com
> Subject: [Husker] USA Today editorial 
> 
>  There is an editorial in today's USA Today about
> the latest edition of
> the Phillips saga at:
> 
>
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/saraceno/2005-08-23-saraceno-phillips_x.htm
> 
> The author is Joe Saraceno and at the end of his
> column he writes: "They
> didn't pay Osborne to hold Phillips' hands. They
> paid him to win. And so
> he did. With Phillips, Osborne finally conquered the
> big one - twice.
> Eight years after his last game, the congressman
> still looks like a big
> winner to many constituents. No contest.  And
> society still has Lawrence
> Phillips on its hands."
> 
> I always felt the Phillips did not make that big of
> a contribution to
> the 95 national championship.  
> 
> Even though I do not agree with what Saraceno has to
> say, I suggest that
> Husker fans need to see what is being written in a
> national publication
> about Tom Osborne.
> 
> John Killmar


Mike Jaixen
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