Headlines for March, 2009

*Update* on Coach Cal is Gone to Kentucky; Duke Proves its Collective Smarts; Thoughts on Blake and Taylor Griffin

Update #2: From what I was told this late Monday evening, the 6-year $40 mil numbers, turned out to be Cal’s initial asking price…. and the 8-year $35 mil number ESPN is reporting is low because it does not include incentives. On Sportscenter Monday night, ESPN college hoops analyst Jay Bilas said of Calipari, “I think he’ll knock the bottom out [read more...]

The Real Deal with Jerry Jones, Romo, and T.O. (the Dallas Cowboys According to Deion Sanders)

Recently - March 25 - Deion Sanders appeared on Michael Irvin’s radio show. While ESPN, spearheaded by the reporting of Ed Werder and Matt Mosley, busied itself and the two men busied themselves with ensuring that Terrell Owens would be perceived by the general public as a malcontent, Sanders, at the time had a different perspective on Owens. Sanders, through [read more...]

Regional Finals, Day 1: It’s a Big East Feast (plus, Anthony Grant Heads to ‘Bama)

I’ll make this one quick because it’s the weekend and most peeps want to chill out rather than read a 3,000-word soliloquy on today’s match-ups…. First, congrats to former Virginia Commonwealth University head coach Anthony Grant for moving up to the SEC to be the head man at Alabama. The 42-year old Grant, was a valued assistant to Florida head [read more...]

March Madness: The Sweet 16, Day 2 - The ‘Ville Has just Enough; Boeheim’s Boys vs. the Griffin Factor; KU vs. MSU the Enigmatic Match-up; Heels Walk on

In March 2006 UAB defeated Memphis. Sixty-one games later, the Tigers have yet to lose a Conference USA game. But what is most important about that loss just over three years ago is that it was a Mike Anderson-coached UAB team that defeated.The day before Anderson’s Missouri Tigers played Memphis, he showed them a video of the game. One day [read more...]

NFL Notes: Roger Goodell, Owners Just Want the Cash; Michael Vick and “Remorse”; Ryan Moats and Familial DWB

Roger Goodell just earned himself the FU Award for the month of March, 2009. In one fell swoop Goodell has managed to tell the world that he and the owners he represents care only about money and that no matter what you do, you are a nigger for life.Goodell recently announced that he wanted to shorten the number of preseason [read more...]

March Madnes Notes: The UConn Scandal; Tonight’s Sweet 16 Match-ups and Predictions

I’m so tired of my effed up back - ripped muscles taking an 80-pound box containing a smoker from our car (when I turned, foot stuck, no movement in hips or legs… ouch) - I can barely restrain my ire over my physical state. However, I’m also even more upset that I can’t find a position in which it doesn’t [read more...]

Meet Lenny Dykstra: Racist, Sexist, and Still Thinking He’s a Jock; Doc-Kennedy

( I am working feverishly trying to get my brackets together, so I do not, at present, have time to expound on what I’m about to report. Also Friday morning I’ll be taping on Dave Zirin’s Edge of Sports Radio Show on Sirius Satellite (usually I guest at the beginning of each month to talk about the previous month’s most [read more...]

Notes: Bye-Bye Seattle P-I

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is publishing its final newspaper - the kind you and I can touch. After multiple layoffs the paper is headed to the Internet for good. I am sorry to see the P-I - newspapers, in general - to go. I know, I know all you Internet only people and knee-jerk environmentalists ‘will say, oh the trees! The Horror!’ [read more...]

Surprise Candidate Picked by Players to Lead NFLPA

David Cornwell was critical of the process of choosing Gene Upshaw's successor. Eschewing candidates with much more experience, the NFL Player’s Union unanimously voted attorney DeMaurice Smith in as their executive director: With other candidates flaunting a wealth of NFL experience and strong union ties, the players unanimously decided to go in a new direction, choosing an unheralded outsider who they believe [read more...]

March Madness 2009: The Theme for the Big Dance Is A Wide-Open Field

Villanova is up 10 on Louisville at halftime in the Big East Tournament. According to former Dukie and now ESPN analyst Jason Williams Rick Pitino must challenged his players at halftime to come out in the first five minutes of the second half and establish their dominance on the court.The Cardinal won by 14. This is bullshit. It is also a [read more...]

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