Sports misc.

Hi. First of all, an article about some players on the Colts, Gary Brackett, Tanard Davis, Dan Federkeil, Michael Toudouze, and Darrell Reid, helping to host a Christmas party for elementary school kids: http://www.colts.com/sub.cfm?page=article7&news_id=4399.

Here's an article about David Pollack of the Bengals and his neck. He suffered a possibly career ending broken vertebrae in his neck early this season. More later this week: http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/stories/2006/12/14/1215pollack.html.

Next, a good article about Dallas Baker, a star wide receiver for Florida. Here's a quote from Baker about when Urban Meyer became the coach at Florida before last season:

"We called [Meyer] Bear Bryant," Baker said. "He came around the time 'The Junction Boys' was on TV. I remember saying, 'If I ever see something like that, I'd leave.' Then Coach Meyer showed up and it was like God was saying, 'We'll see about that.' "

Here's the article: http://www.ajc.com/uga/content/sports/stories/2006/12/14/1215baker.html.

Here's an article about former Dodgers pitcher Carl Erskine and how he spent the hours before his 80th birthday last Tuesday night in the hospital, but then at a birthday party at his church on his birthday last Wednesday: http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006612150529.

Lastly, a good article about Jeff Bagwell and his retirement. It talks about how good of a player and more importantly, a teammate he was. Here's the article: http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20061107&content_id=1736804&vkey=news_hou&fext=.jsp&c_id=hou.