New Year’s Resolutions In Sports
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By DERON SNYDER
Folks customarily make resolutions once it’s time for new calendars. I’m still determining mine for January and the next 11 months.
Self-examination can be difficult. Coming up with suggestions for others? That’s a lot easier and twice as much fun. So I hereby make the following resolutions for these sports figures in 2012:
• Redskins coach Mike Shanahan: “To limit wild speculation.” Maybe we weren’t supposed to take him literally when he said, referring to Rex Grossman and John Beck, “I put my reputation on these guys that they can play.” That gambit cost Shanahan one of his Super Bowl trophies on the credibility scale.
• Capitals wing Alex Ovechkin: “To perfect a transformation.” The high-scoring days — at least 46 goals in each of his first five seasons — might never return. But the “Great Eight” can still be a superior player if not a prolific scorer. At least he better be, having signed a 13-year, $124 million extension in 2008.
