Perhaps Ernie Sims has been hanging out too much with Wayne Brady because he was arrested today and charged with two misdemeanors relating to a domestic incident. Check out this tidbit from the reports.
Sims was “shirtless, drenched in sweat and very animated when I made contact with him,” Tallahassee Police officer Danny Jeter wrote in the report
Paints a nice picture, doesn’t it. Sims has been charged with domestic battery and resisting arrest without violence. Given that this is only a misdemeanor and Sims did not exactly shoot the president, we’ll be pleasantly surprised if he’s not suiting up for the Miami game.
Georgia’s solid recruiting class signed last February was already a bit on the small side with 19 recruits signing on for the Mark Richt experience. This has quickly dwindled this off-season as two more Bulldog signees,Corey Moon and Jamar Bryant, have failed to qualify academically. This means that 5 of the 19 signees will not be suiting up next fall. Richt, a free advice from the experts at EDSBS, if you are recruiting academically questionable kids it is smart to over-sign a class.
What else can explain the lure of new Pitt coach Dave Wannstedt. SI.com chronicals Wanny’s early recruiting success which has led to 12 verbal commitments already, including many of the top players in Pennsylvania. Ah, it seems like only a decade ago Joe Pa dominated the home turf. Maybe he needs a mustache.
Dave Wannstedt uses his mustache to steal recruits away from Penn State.
Yes, you were promised awards. Yes, it’s late. But the roundup and awards for Blogpoll 2: The Quickening had a troubled passage from our caffeine-addled brain to the keyboard. First we had a hellaciously busy weekend, what with all the people tromping through our neighborhood in teeny running shorts and our prepping for the job we began this week. Second, we lost the entirety of a 3,000 word post to a lightning strike on Sunday, which caused us such distress we drove straight to North Carolina to drink Lithuanian beer with our brother-in-law, blow up mailboxes, and play a few hours of the ridiculously entertaining new Lego Star Wars game.
(Yes, it’s some dork-ass shit, but nothing is funnier than watching a lego Darth Vader chop the head off of a young Lego Padwan, leaving only the black mounting peg sticking from the shoulders of the figure. We nearly dropped our sparkler on the carpet watching that.)
Without further delay, the Blogpoll 2 awards:
1. The Silky Johnson Haters Award goes to…the rising stock of the upset pick of UCLA over Oklahoma. Getting beat 55-19 by USC means you’re probably not as good as advertised, but hell, it doesn’t mean you’re going to lose to Karl Dorrell, people. Bob Stoops hasn’t forgotten where the hash marks are over night, and Adrian Peterson will still be in the backfield. While the Sooners are in for a challenging season, we doubt it will be the unqualified disaster some are painting it to be. And remember these words, Pac-10ers: Karl Dorrell. Two reasons we don’t see the “mess” that is the UCLA offense beating the Sooners. Nevertheless, the upset pick to click for most of our pollsters seemed to be this or something involving the University of Tennessee: Chris Lawrence goes furthest out on that limb with a Vandy over UT pick, which we mention simply to point out that very educated people like Chris can still make crackpot suggestions just as well as the rest of us.
No love for the Sooners in the Blogpoll.
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Brian of MGoBlog talks playoff systems. Later he will put his hand in a vise, give it a few good cranks, hit it with a claw hammer, and do something else painful and pointless. We at EDSBS would like to be the first to run the other direction: we propose the creation of a Nihilo-Bowl system, where teams that finish the regular season undefeated play teams ranked 20-25 as a reward for their performance. The blowouts, meaningless games, and teams with 5-6 records getting destroyed in undeserved post-season invitationals means…well, it means very little would actually change, doesn’t it?
The Clausen family–as in Rick and Casey, the Tennessee quarterbacks–spawns again, this time in the form of Jimmy Clausen, a junior qb out of Westlake Village, California who received a unique compliment from none other than the USC Trojans: a scholarship offer before his senior season. Judging from the picture on Boi’s site, Jimmy takes more after his rooster-esque brother Casey than doughboy Rick–which means we’re hoping he choses to rock the combo mini-mullet spike Casey sported during his tenure at Tennessee, one of the most risible hairstyles in college football since Steve Taneyhill’s “convicted batterer” tresses at South Carolina. Clausen the younger is also being courted by Tennessee and South Carolina, thus completing the Clausen family’s transformation into the poor man’s Manning family.
We couldn’t find a picture of Steve Taneyhill’s mighty mullet, but trust us, it looked something like this.
‘Bama fan and fellow Darrell Hackney groupie Todd of 1000 Movies in 1 Year reminds us why Purple Rain still rules after all these years:
499) Purple Rain. Holy crap. I was almost prepared to declare this my new favorite movie within the first ten minutes, and then Jerome threw that bitch in the dumpster and I was SOLD baby! BEST. MOVIE. EVER.
He’s a little behind, with 500 movies to go. Stop by and offer him encouragement.
What time is it? Time to ride some coattails, Morris.
Paul Westerdawg has not one, but two mondo bizarro entries: the first, a post ripping Chan Gailey to the tune of “It’s Not Easy Being Green,” and second, a mash-up of “Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World” and Larry Munson’s call of last year’s LSU/UGA game. Throw Howard Dean’s “I Have a Scream” speech in there every twenty seconds or so, and we guarantee air time for your creation on sports talk radio, Paul.
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