February 23, 2025

FRIDAY CHEESECAKE: SALSA FLAVORED, CLARO QUE SI!

We’re spent. In between watching the Reno:911 movie tonight and working up next week’s bushel of “content” for you, we’ll be busier than a weasel with five asses.

However, we would like to remind what you’re missing by not watching every installment of Univision’s Republica Deportiva. Watch the clip below; why Fox isn’t already doing this for every sport is inexplicable. What’s keeping them from doing it: dignity?

Por favor.



Filed under: Cheesecake, reinhold messner would do it, republica deportiva, si si si!  by Orson Swindle

COMING OR GOING: SOUTH/EASTISH

And now, blogAmerica’s fourth favorite minigame within a larger game show…

Brian has part one up at MGoBlog, where we discovered that the 6995 listed in the logo equals the approximate number of signed letters of intent collected by Oregon State over the past five years. That’s the entire point of the exercise, really: to find out which schools are tossing out the most promises they can’t keep, or via a less cynical line of thinking, taking the most chances on recruits with a high probability of spraining their cerebrums and not qualifying for their scholarship.

Notes:

All numbers come from Rivals.com. Scout’s numbers differ by degrees and are a bit lower, so in an effort to be comprehensive, we went with Rivals’ numbers.

Transfers and JUCOs are not included. Doesn’t show up in Rivals, but the omission has a minimizing effect on total skeeziness/risk-friendliness perception of school, anyway.

The Indonesian Ferryman Award is given to the school that, like a speed-addled Indonesian ferry captain who hasn’t slept for three weeks and is on deadline, will take on too many passengers and then begin pushing the extras overboard when others clamor for seats.

The Mr. Chips Award for Academic Integrity is given to the goody-goody schools offering no more than their allotment adding up to 85, or even more prissily offering fewer than their allotment just to earn extra brownie points with Dean Wormer.

We’ve got the ACC, Big East, and lastly the SEC, ridin’ dirty and doing so shamelessly. (We think there’s reasons for this not including the facile “So Everyone Cheats” argument, but will hold ’till later. Though there’s certainly a bit of that going on, though not where you would suspect. (Cough cough Tennessee cough.)

First, the ACC:

ACC 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Average
North
Carolina		 23 26 25 25 28 23 25.0
Florida
State		 22 20 27 23 31 19 23.7
Virginia 26 22 19 24 23 24 23.0
Clemson 26 17 27 25 20 23 23.0
NC
State		 24 28 18 22 20 24 22.7
Maryland 22 21 22 24 22 25 22.7
Virginia
Tech		 20 23 20 25 22 25 22.5
Miami 24 24 28 17 22 18 22.2
Duke 22 14 24 23 26 21 21.7
Wake 20 23 18 19 15 20 19.2
Georgia
Tech		 15 21 24 19 16 20 19.2
Boston
College		 17 24 20 16 20 18 19.2
Total Average 22.0

To our surprise, the ACC boasted the lowest number of scholarships offered of any of the major conferences, thus earning the All-Conference Mr. Chips Award for Academic Integrity by holding at a six-year average of twenty-two scholarships offered a year.

The Indonesian Ferryman Award for the ACC goes to North Carolina, (more…)



Filed under: Atlantic Coast Conference, Big East Conference, Blog Buddies, Coaches, the BCS, scandals, arrests, and other eccentri, College football, Recruiting, Southeastern Conference, bizarro superman says you're welcome, woo!  by Orson Swindle

FULMER CUP FREE-FOR-ALL: FOOTLOOSE FELONIOUSNESS FLOWS

After a sluggish start, the Fulmer Cup gains steam nationwide. Our West Coast entry comes courtesy of the University of Washington Huskies’ running back Michael Houston, who found the act of driving an automobile so stressful, he was forced to consume some relaxing alcohol prior to travel. He also neglected to ask permission to take the vehicle, which is somehow not stealing at all. (Lawyers! explain, please.)


Scotch: driving’s best friend.

Stick around for the kicker tag at the end of this graf:

Huskies running back Michael Houston has been formally charged with “taking a motor vehicle without permission in the second degree” and driving while intoxicated. He will be arraigned Monday in King County Superior Court where he will likely enter a plea of not guilty. If convicted, he could face up to two months in jail.

Last October, Houston was suspended from the team after being arrested for allegedly stealing a taxi cab after a night at a strip club.

If we had a puppy for every time we’d stolen a cab after a long night at the strip club, we’d be completely puppy-less. We know that strange predilections surface when people get trashed. In fact, we’ve known people who like to steal hats, other people’s pants, and fight with shrubbery when drunk.

Taxi cabs, though, represent a new low in unbrained drunken behavior. First, they’re bright yellow, and impossible to hide. Second, they have ID numbers written all over them. Third, they smell odd under the best of circumstances. And fourth, they usually come with a driver attempting to pay his/her rent using it, a person who will probably be very reluctant to give the cab up without a fight.

Total points: Two for the moment. We reserve the right to upgrade if tales of shennanigans surface.

Ty Willingham has suspended Houston pending the “outcome of the legal process.” He would also like you to know that he just birdied number 5 at Washington National, and that his short game has really tightened up over the winter.


Molder of men! Tamer of tenacious roughs!



Filed under: Blog Buddies, Coaches, the BCS, scandals, arrests, and other eccentri, College football, Fulmer Cup, Pacific 10 Conference, bizarro superman says you're welcome, drankin'  by Orson Swindle

AUBURN’S ALREADY STARTING THEIR 2008 PRACTICE.

Spring practice still miles away, with proverbial Auburn starter leading the way, right, practicing while there’s still frost on the cowflop at the Barn? No. This year’s early starter is Tennessee. How early?

Oh, try yesterday.


Phil couldn’t wait ’til March to rock.



Filed under: College football, Southeastern Conference, alas, phil fulmer is very, stabbing=passion, very fat  by Orson Swindle

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