While we wait for Idiocracy to come out on DVD, here’s your tasty morning links:

–Mike Sanford of UNLV is a very committed coach. Or should be committed.

–Al Groh won’t have anyone telling him who his quarterback is, dammit. He’s the man who gets the ball and throws it to…well, someone on the field. And don’t you dare try to tell him he’s a Mitchum man. He’s been wearing Degree for years now. And one more thing: someone’s got his back.

–Finally: footage of Illini coach [NAME REDACTED] throwing an elbow at one of his players on the sidelines of their loss to Syracuse. He’s getting better and better!

–As much as we love the City Paper in Nashville–they don’t have a country music gossip column on page three of the front page called “Brad About You” like the Tennessean does–this stat can’t be true: Tommy Tuberville’s won 19 of the last 20 games he’s played? Is that right?

–Joell at Rocky Top Talk is having entirely too much fun with Flash these days. His animated BCS race is evidence of that.

–Finally, this quote alone should draw you irresistably to this article: “Zhang Xinyan, from the central province of Henan, drank four jugs of beer at a restaurant near the zoo before visiting Gu Gu the panda on Tuesday, the Beijing Morning Post said.

“He felt a sudden urge to touch the panda with his hand,” and jumped into the enclosure, the newspaper said.”

So they call it “the panda” in China, eh? Nothing good happens for Mr. Zhang after that, but it’s all good fun because he dies at the end. We kid! He lives, but has shamed his ancestors most disgracefully.


Four jugs of beer, and most men start thinking about touching the panda.