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Gregg Easterbrook’s excellent football analysis column Tuesday Morning Quarterback has returned to espn.com, and this season’s first, second, and third installations are up. Writing on the (recently resurrected) plastic.com, I’ve called TMQ the only column of its type which possesses literary merit. Easterbrook is funny, well-read and does not shy from doing his research, and his work answers the question of what a scholar would have to say about the least beautiful game.

His return is a little surprising, though, considering the firestorm he kicked up with his ill-considered comments in his now-defunct blog back in 2003. The parent company of espn.com, Disney, booted him when he criticized Disney executives Michael Eisner and Harvey Weinstein in a jeremiad which some perceived as anti-Semitic. After a short hiatus, Easterbrook re-pitched the TMQ tent at nfl.com (archive), and apparently enough time has gone by for his work to be judged again on its own purely footbally merits.

At any rate, I had been waiting for a new TMQ, checking in at nfl.com for the last couple of weeks, when I stumbled upon the column in its new home completely by accident. I figured I’d give Google one more path pointing to Easterbrook’s recent change of address.