Can soccer announcer Andres Cantor make any sport exciting? Don’t get me wrong; everybody is innocent of criminal charges until they are proven guilty. After all, I took loads of crap for defending Ben Roethlisberger against criminal charges, but there was no way I wouldn’t say the guy is a douchebag. After all, Big Ben… Read More Ask The Geico Guy: Is Jay Mariotti A Bitch?
Here it is nearing the end of the 2010 season, and once again, all is amiss in Wrigleyville. Derrek Lee is gone, Carlos Zambrano is a headcase, Alfonso Soriano is a bust, and thanks to Carlos Silva’s heart issues, the Cubs most effective pitcher is arguably some guy named Tom Gorzelanny. Manager Lou Piniella couldn’t… Read More Open Letter to The Chicago Cubs: You Need Ed’s Deal
Bowl Championship Series: BCS Championship: Monday, January 10th; Glendale, Arizona; University of Phoenix Stadium Traditional/Contractual Matchup: #1 vs. #2 – Alabama (SEC #1) vs. Ohio State (Big Ten #1) Payout: $18,000,000 Fiesta Bowl: Saturday, January 1st; Glendale, Arizona; University of Phoenix Stadium Traditional/Contractual Matchup: Big 12 Champion/BCS vs. BCS At-Large – Texas (Big 12 #1)… Read More The Dubsism 2010-2011 College Football Bowl Predictions
Four words: Terry Tate, Office Linebacker. Let’s be honest, the person who is fucking up this country is the jerk-off who takes the last of the coffee without making more, the person who kills productivity by lingering over breaks, and the person who doesn’t put cover sheets on their TPS reports. NTWJCWV84FEF {“retval”:1,”msg”:””,”data”:{“blog_id”:”1533200″}}
How many times have we seen this movie? A young phenom pitcher bursts onto the scene, electrifies the league with his electric stuff, then a fuse blows. Enter Stephen Strasburg, whose sheer voltage somehow managed to make the Washington Nationals relevant if for even the briefest of moments. Don’t get me wrong; the probability that… Read More Stephen Strasburg Is Just The Latest In A Long Line
I think the reasons for this may have been mentioned before. Let’s play a game called “Baseball Frankenstein.” The object is to create the worst player possible by taking some of the worst individual skills of major leaguers. One might start with the foot speed of Bengie Molina. It would be hard to imagine worse fielding… Read More Why Is Anybody Surprised Johnny Damon Was Waived?
That’s right, with the addition of Nebraska beginning in 2011, the Big Ten will have twelve members. Gone are the days of hiding the “ten that is actually 11” thing Escher-like in the conference logo. Gone are the days of my being able to refer to this league as the Big Eleven Ten (I will… Read More Penn State ’10 – The Last Year for the Big Eleven
After announcing that his retirement originally scheduled for the end of this season was moving up to today, it is time to give Lou Piniella the send-off he richly deserves. 18 years as a player, 23 years as a manager, three World Series rings; his 1,835 wins as a manager rank him behind only Tony… Read More Goodbye, Sweet Lou…
If you are a fan of baseball, you have no choice but to be happy that Dodger broadcasting legend Vin Scully is not retiring at the end of the 2010 season. LOS ANGELES (AP)– Vin Scully said Sunday he’ll return to the broadcast booth to call Los Angeles Dodgers games next year for his 62nd… Read More Vin Scully Returning For a 62nd Season
Kids, learn a lesson here…you just can’t go around punching people in the face. If you are a public figure like a football player, people will dig up every little thing you’ve ever done. I’m not going to blame The Oregonian’s John Canzaro for doing his job; that’s what reporters do. Instead, you can take… Read More Here Comes The Rumor Mill…
The other day, a flap came about between former NFL head coach Tony Dungy and current New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan because Ryan “swears too much.” Today, ESPN’s Colin Cowherd asserted what he thinks the core of the issue is. Cowherd’s belief is that swearing when used “sparingly” has an impact; that volume… Read More Your Colin Cowherd Moment of the Day – Rex Ryan vs. Tony Dungy: A Study In Leadership Styles
If you remember LeGarrette Blount, you remember the punch; the moment that gave Blount his 15 minutes of fame and made him a 2009 Dubsy award winner. It seems Blount just goes with what he knows. The undrafted, free-agent rookie running back capped off a feisty night practice for the Tennessee Titans with yet another… Read More The Anger Management Classes Must Not Have Stuck
Some dates are forever burned into your memory. July 4th, 1776. December 7th, 1941. September 11th, 2001. In Minnesota, you can add August 18th, 2009 – the day King Brett I ascended to The Throne of the Court of the Purple. This is also the anniversary date of this very blog; it came to be as an outlet… Read More One Year Later, Brett Favre Is Still A Douche; Viking Fans Still Blind
I will be honest, I’ve waffled more than IHOP when it comes to the subject of a playoff in Division I College Football. To be even more honest, the anti-BCS argument always tends to push me the other way, because the anti-BCS argument is almost always so flawed that I can’t help but see it… Read More The BCS Isn’t Perfect, But It’s What We’ve Got…For Now
With his tousled blond locks and his piercing blue eyes that matched the blue in the throwback Colts baseball cap he was wearing, Curtis Painter cut quite a GQ-type figure. The problem came when he traded the cap for the helmet. Now, you may ask why would anybody give a damn about the second-string quarterback… Read More You Can Take the Quarterback Out Of Purdue, But You Can’t Take the Purdue Out Of The Quarterback
Since we are a month past the end of the World Cup, Americans and their notoriously short attention spans have likely forgotten the insanity that was the vuvuzela. Since I want to test that short American span, I want you to remember who was stopping the insanity close to twenty years ago. If you are… Read More Finally, Somebody Has Stopped The Insanity
Was Abe Lincoln honest? Not including what happened this past week, there have been seven prior negotiating sessions between the NFL owners and the Players’ Association. Including what happened this week, they’ve made no progress toward a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA). While the reasons for this may be numerous, a single vision of a… Read More Ask The Geico Guy: Will There Be an NFL Lockout in 2011?
Most people when they hear of Minnesota think brutally cold winters, snow drifts, polar bears, iceberg, the freshness of a York Peppermint patty or anything else that turns your nipples into pencil erasers and chatters your teeth right out of your head. But having lived there, I can tell you that summers can be the… Read More Whenever You Need To See Stupidity, Look No Further Than Minnesota
Well, to be honest, it’s actually yesterday’s moment, but the fact that I didn’t get a chance to write it until today shouldn’t diminish it’s importance. To start this, I have to tell you a few things about myself. Although I am of a different ethnic background from Colin Cowherd, we are very similar in… Read More Your Colin Cowherd Moment of the Day: I Will Take Hot Pocket Eaters Over Vapor Brains Any Day
As much as we don’t want to say it, we may have seen the last of Larry Wayne “Chipper” Jones. The Atlanta Braves said on Thursday the 38-year-old third baseman tore his anterior cruciate ligament, and that the injury requires surgery. Repairing a torn ACL usually requires a recovery period of six months, which in… Read More Is Chipper Jones a Hall Of Famer?
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