CORRECTIONS, 8/22/2008

by Holly Anderson on Aug 22, 2008 3:18 PM EDT

An item in Monday's Curious Index referred to television presence Pam Ward as a "football analyst". We realize this may have given our readers the impression that Pam Ward provides analysis of football games or speaks cogently (or even coherently) on football-related topics. This impression is patently inaccurate, and we regret the error.

On Wednesday, the caption for the following photo was listed incorrectly.

It is not, as we listed, the "Jungle House" in the Dominican Republic that former coach Bobby Pruett used to entertain Marshall football recruits.

The real "Jungle House" had a helipad and one of those windtunnel phone booths filled with cash used in radio promos, along with many hot tubs filled with naked local women. The house pictured actually belongs to Space Emperor and Michigan punter Zoltan Mesko, who just dares you to try to come within five miles of its impregnable defenses.

On Tuesday we reported that Navy head coach Ken Niumatalolo has accepted an offer to join the Broadway cast of Wicked following the 2008 football season. Coach Niumatalolo explains in a follow-up interview in this week's EDSBS THE MAGAZINE that while he was thrilled to be approached, he feels his voice is better suited to legit pop than belting and wants to preserve his talents to record a solo album. We regret the error.

Tuesday's "Trends and Friends" segment mistakenly identified the motto for this season's Texas Tech Raiders as "We ARRRRRRRRR Texas Tech." They have no official motto for the 2008 campaign. We regret the error.

In Wednesday's interview with Nate Longshore, we reported that the Cal quarterback can frequently be seen on campus engaging in vigorous energy policy debates with his imaginary friend, a unicorn named Fizzywinkles. Mr. Longshore's companion is called Merriman Poole. We regret the error.

On the contrary, whether you favor the cap-and-trade model or a carbon tax, you miss the central impediment, which is to say, either could be ineffectual due to substandard implementation and design.

In Thursday's piece "Tim Tebow: The Contract Rider", our staff made several erroneous inferences. "Fluffernutters and The Sound of Music" refers simply to the fact that Mr. Tebow enjoys relaxing in his dressing room after appearances with a Fluffernutter sandwich and VHS copy of the classic musical. Any other implications are factual inaccuracies on our part. We regret the error.

This concludes the Corrections for this offseason. Real, actual football discussion based on actual football games being played, actually, will be the order of the day by this time next week. Thanks to Pam Ward, without whose unfortunate verbal meanderings ("He's out of this week's game with some criminal trouble...I'm sorry, that's a hamstring") this feature would not have been hatched. And for the last time, Columbia, South Carolina is the maw of Hell. --- Not an error.

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EDSBS: The Magazine? Hell, I might actually pay for that one.

by DevilGrad on Aug 22, 2008 3:23 PM EDT reply actions

“And for the last time, Columbia, South Carolina is the maw of Hell.”

Come on down for some food and beer. We’ll prove to you it’s not actually Hell, but just a reasonable facsimile.

by GamecockTony on Aug 22, 2008 3:23 PM EDT reply actions

Oh, I’ve been. Many times. Scars to prove it.

by Holly on Aug 22, 2008 3:31 PM EDT reply actions

We ARRRRRRR Texas Tech is funny on two levels given UT’s previous campaign.

Keep this column.

by Arrrrrrr U Ready? on Aug 22, 2008 3:39 PM EDT reply actions

Woah, woah, woah. San Diego’s starting outside linebackers on a college football blog? Did you think we wouldn’t notice?!

by carlinthemarlin on Aug 22, 2008 3:49 PM EDT reply actions

Great as always Holly. Thanks for making the off season tolerable. Only five more days of Fulmer Cup.

by Crabapple Buck on Aug 22, 2008 3:51 PM EDT reply actions

I love the parting jab on Columbia. Could not be more true at this time of year when the 143 degree heat is frying the bums at the fairgrounds into greasy spots on the sidewalk just in time for tailgating. Watch your step next Thursday folks!

by grips on Aug 22, 2008 3:55 PM EDT reply actions

Mistaking Pam Ward for an analyst is a far less egregious error than mistaking her for a woman. And much less psychologically scarring.

by The Song of Hiawatha Francisco on Aug 22, 2008 4:00 PM EDT reply actions

Tony-

Columbia is not even near being The Maw of Hell. My work takes me to far worse hellholes. Dante never saw infernos like these.

As noted earlier today – Chadbourn, NC this week and early next week (Mon & Tues) LaFayette, GA. Ugh. I think Dalton has beer, hopefully. And no bedbugs.

A 2 hour deposition in Cola Wednesday afternoon will be like pseudo paradise, plus like dem $125/hr round trip & mileage gigs.

by yoyofutbawl on Aug 22, 2008 4:01 PM EDT reply actions

This concludes the Corrections for this offseason. Real, actual football discussion based on actual football games being played, actually, will be the order of the day by this time next week.

Oh, don’t you threaten ME, scum!

by Doug on Aug 22, 2008 4:02 PM EDT reply actions

@Yoyo – I hope they pay you well. And not in Confederate Dollars.

@Holly – if all you got were scars, I’d say you got off easy.

/got off easy… hehehe

by GamecockTony on Aug 22, 2008 4:13 PM EDT reply actions

New tee-shirt?

“EDSBS — We Regret the Error”

by DevilGrad on Aug 22, 2008 4:15 PM EDT reply actions

Do I get a free commemorative edition featuring the Sun Belt champion Florida Atlantic Owls with my subscription to EDSBS – The Magazine?

Operators standing by.

by Adam West's chauffeur on Aug 22, 2008 4:16 PM EDT reply actions

The free commemorative edition of the FAU Sun Belt Championship was distributed in video form several days ago. No physical copies will be distributed. You get nothing. Good day sir.

by Klak on Aug 22, 2008 4:23 PM EDT reply actions

Tony-

I didn’t realize SC went off the Confederate dollar standard. I’ll have to ask Ken Wheat why they pay me in them ;-)

Is Hitler coming to the USC/NCSU game with his Fire Ant Defense T-shirts to sell?

by yoyofutbawl on Aug 22, 2008 4:26 PM EDT reply actions

Correction: Columbia is a fine place to live, work and get absolutely hammered in.

Knoxville is the maw of hell.

by John Vierdsen on Aug 22, 2008 4:30 PM EDT reply actions

EDSBS: The Magazine.

I am intrigued by your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter. If it comes with a free pullover, I’m in.

by Signal to Noise on Aug 22, 2008 4:35 PM EDT reply actions

Reader Error – While reading your blog in the offseason, we imagined life to be worth living. As the renewed college football season clubs baseball and the olympics to death, we realize the offseason was a vast, blighted wasteland. We regret – deeply – the error.

by OhioDawg on Aug 22, 2008 5:01 PM EDT reply actions

John V @ 16: No, Knoxville is the large intestine of Hell

by oc phil on Aug 22, 2008 5:26 PM EDT reply actions

Not impressed with a free pullover. Now if you give away those football shaped phones—I’m in!

by CKGator on Aug 22, 2008 5:35 PM EDT reply actions

“This concludes the Corrections for this offseason.”

Thank God. Apparently I was the only one who thought is was a tedious waste of space.

by Raider Red on Aug 22, 2008 6:17 PM EDT reply actions

Sumter is the maw of Hell. Columbia is tarred with guilt by association.

by cocknfire on Aug 22, 2008 6:27 PM EDT reply actions

Thank God. Apparently I was the only one who thought is was a tedious waste of space.

No you weren’t, there’s a reason many of the columns were tagged “destroying the internet’s finest college football blog”. Although you’re definitely in the minority, and for good reason.

by Rob on Aug 22, 2008 6:52 PM EDT reply actions

This column makes me laugh out loud more than any other on this site! Come back in January!

by GoBlue06 on Aug 22, 2008 7:41 PM EDT reply actions

just moved up here for law school. the average person here a flaming idiot, but likely will still be nice enough to call you “sugar”. this place blows dogs for quarters

by swampchomp on Aug 22, 2008 7:54 PM EDT reply actions

If she would have used the Cola disclaimer after every edition, it never would have gotten to this point…

At any rate, until Friday morning, I back the Pack. The horrible, wretched, inbred, Pack.

Light them up, Russell Wilson*

- State has no chance unless Brown and Baker pull a McFadden/Jones like performance from last season against South Carolina.

by Coop on Aug 22, 2008 9:55 PM EDT reply actions

Pam Ward.

I believe she’s been correctly relegated to the Indiana game of the week. She sounds like a muppet urgently seeking her sexual identity (or his?).

What a yawner – thanks espin

by rydercup on Aug 23, 2008 12:19 AM EDT reply actions

Jack Osteen does not agree on Scumpter from 4 Swan Lake Dr. You’ll have hell to pay in The Item. Plus, his family kinda hides their association with a country club somewhat across the river fron Aiken. They’ve only been in biz for 110+ years.

We Presbys & Rotarians stand firm.

by yoyofutbawl on Aug 23, 2008 2:57 AM EDT reply actions

my sadness at the end of this feature will only disappear when the first kickoff appears on my screen

bless you Holly for sharing your wit and verve with the great unwashed masses – we are mostly undeserving but definitely appreciative

now, Orson – get that girl a press pass from SN – we need her visiting games on the West coast and reporting on tailgates, linebackers, unicorns and post-game celebrations

by InsaneCoachPosse on Aug 23, 2008 8:29 AM EDT reply actions

As a Sumter native, I approve these messages regarding Swampter and the Osteen mafia. If Columbia is the “Maw of hell”, then Sumter is “The jejunum of Hell”

by woooohooooo on Aug 23, 2008 8:40 AM EDT reply actions

Yo yo, remember it’s pronounced La-FAY-ette and not La-fee-ETTE (as in the French military guy). Vacations (mine) take you to strange places.

by Sundawg on Aug 23, 2008 11:42 AM EDT reply actions

After being in VA for the past week and a half only to return to the blazing hot 6th ring of hell (which I pleasurably call my home in Vegas) – I think that Virginia should change it’s state motto to “Virginia is for Meh.”

It’s the most average state I think I’ve ever seen in my life, and I grew up in Ohio.

by vegas_buckeye on Aug 23, 2008 1:02 PM EDT reply actions

Pam Ward? I thought they found her frozen in a Georgia freezer?… my bad….. EBSDS The Mag? Free phone, towel, team preview, hat, sweatshirt, foam hand…. sign me up…..

Let the real Games begin

by The Holy Grail on Aug 24, 2008 10:40 AM EDT reply actions

As always, Coop shows up for the anti-Carolina comment. RTR, just for you Coop. Just for you.

by Never Leave College on Aug 24, 2008 11:07 AM EDT reply actions

Thanks for these, Holly.

Purty good for a Tenn. gal.

by NRBQ on Aug 24, 2008 12:19 PM EDT reply actions

Thanks for the love, y’all. This has been a fun little offseason diversion for us. But now…..mmmmmGAMESWOOOOOEEEEEEEE!!! runs around in circles, passes out

by Holly on Aug 24, 2008 1:12 PM EDT reply actions