Two years removed from the Heisman trophy but two knees removed from being healthy, Jason White went undrafted and quickly cut by the Kansas City Chiefs after being invited to mini-camp. It didn’t take long for the former Sooner quarterback to get another shot at backing up a man who might have more injury problems than he does by signing a two year deal with the Tennessee Titans that will allow him to compete for the back-up role. Rookie Dolphin’s coach Nick Saban might just be the happiest guy in football over this news.
A great little outline of how to turn sports tickets into cars courtesy of John Walters of CNNSI.com and the University of Connecticut.
Maybe you woke up this morning and wondered: can a penguin get chlamydia? If you were thinking that, we suggest you hasten to an emergency room immediately after reading this. (Hey, it’s Friday. Only Mandel posts, and he’s a bonafide freak. )
College Football Resource always seems to bring the scalpel to the discussion, posting careful, incisive, and spell-checked analysis to the table. (We guess we’re the prison shiv-fast, cheap, and not entirely fair types.) This time it’s in response to JoBu’s now-moldy overview of the season, which featured quotes from other sportswriters’ articles deifying coaches who, it turns out, fell a few steps short of coaching Valhalla despite winning national championships. (Or in Dennis Erickson’s case, a few beers short of a 24-pack. )
Erickson: He likes beer.
The post is very thought-provoking, a rarity around here, so we thought we’d elaborate and build on a few things in a non-shitty, talking out your ass after three cups of java sort of way… (more…)
Just to show that we don’t limit our reporting to football players in trouble with the law, we are happy to let our readers know that former Mississippi assistant football coach Joe Cullen got his trial for public intoxication postponed this week. No new trial date is set yet, but his attorney hopes that the trial date will be after he has a chance to try to move towards resolution of the wrongful termination grievance Cullen has filed against Ole Miss. Looks like Cullen has alot more to worry about than x’s, O’s and Hotty Totties.
There was alot of changes going on in the Mountain West this off-season with TCU joining the conference and the coaching carousel going round leaving many question marks for next season. With Urban Meyer gone, could this be Wyoming’s year? ESPN continues in their conference breakdowns by addressing the Mountain West Conference here.
We know who they are rooting for but who’s your pick?
Oh the joys of xm radio. I am no longer a slave to clear channel’s limited playlists and I actually hear an occassional new band that doesn’t sound like everyother band out there. So, if you love early eighties new wave…. but can’t get enough Bossa Nova (and dig French accents)…. then you are in luck. This morning on my ride to my real job, I listened to a couple of track from a French cover band called Nouvelle Vague (which means “New Wave” in French and “Bossa Nova” in Portuguese), in which they covered the Cure, Joy Division, P.I.L., the Clash and Modern English. Its weird, relaxing and strangely pleasing.
We had a friend in middle school. (Yes, a single friend. Don’t look so astonished.) When we told him about the gassing-a-lighter-up-in-your-hand-and-igniting it trick, he looked pensively at a corner of the room for an instant, and said, “Oh, that ain’t shit.” He then held the end of the lighter in his mouth, pressed down on the gas feed, and lit his soft palate on fire.
That’s basically what Matt Zemek does when pressed for “under-the-radar” Heisman picks. And like the insane mouth-incineration trick in middle school…well, we kind of like it, Matt. (Oh Heismanpundit? We know you’ve got something to say about this…
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