The Roundup: Cooler Owner? Point, Steelers.
Cheerleaders, Food, NBA, NFL, Television, Youth Sports January 28th. 2009, 8:00am
Blake Lively, just because … author John Updike passes away … naked rugby players in a Powerade ad … bet Goodell is thrilled to see this story on dead NFL players and concussions … disastrous economy = dangers in NYC? … you may have a cell phone that Canada is recalling for health fears … how brutal is the first line of this story? … what a sketchy slippery slope: some mortgages can be modified … regardless of how bad your life is, why kill your kids? … when a Lion attacks, after the jump …
Remember when Ben Roethlisberger was a wide receiver? (The Record)
According to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, cheerleading is a contact sport. (Bootlegger Sports)
This Dan Rooney guy sounds like a pretty damn cool owner. (NY Times)
Simeon Rice: Jon Gruden is a scumbag. (Midwest Sports Fans)
Looks like the Cowboys rookie TE is going to face a stiff fine from the team after his rap effort. (Star-Telegram)
Vote for the cheapest of the cheapshots from last year’s college football season. (Wiz of Odds)
A decade after the Little League World Series, this kid’s in jail on kidnapping chargers. (Slowbreaker)
We’re already resigned to the fact that this’ll probably be the last season of FNL. Sigh. (E!)
Probation plus foolishly walking onto the court in the middle of the game = problems. (Pro Jo)
Better food, Arizona or Pittsburgh? (Endless Simmer)
Detente between AJ Smith and LT. Whew. (Union-Trib)
It’s looking less and less like Raymond Felton will be traded by the deadline, but Sean May might. (Observer)
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January 28th, 2009 at 8:17 am
Nothing to spoilerish there right ?
January 28th, 2009 at 8:19 am
sorry about the obsession with animal attacks.
anyone here gone on a safari in africa?
January 28th, 2009 at 8:31 am
FNL just isn’t a network show. If it were on HBO or Showtime, I imagine it’d be getting nominated for mulitple Emmys and pull in a weekly audience of 2.5 million or so, which would make it a pay-tv hit. Network TV audiences just aren’t interested in watching character-driven drama. They need their fucking Two and Half Men, CSI and American Idol, just like they need that triple bacon cheeseburger from Wendy’s.
Sorry for generalizing. I’ve just seen too many shows like Arrested Development, Freaks and Geeks and Friday Night Lights swept aside in favor of tripe like Yes, Dear over the years that it’s a bit of a sore spot.
January 28th, 2009 at 8:35 am
is it just me or did those things come out of nowhere? Saw those pics online yesterday and I literally did a double take.
January 28th, 2009 at 8:36 am
those “things” are real and spectacular.
cassel interview went eh … he’s just not an chatty guy.
January 28th, 2009 at 8:38 am
oh no doubt they are real, i just never noticed they were that big
January 28th, 2009 at 8:39 am
Going to be tough to top the one Polamalu had on that punt returner a few years back. Those Jessica Simpson pics are disappointing. I’m all for women having curves and hate the stick-figure culture that has permeated the entertainment industry, but if you’re going to put on a few pounds it might be wise to choose a more body-conscious outfit. I think Calista Flockhart would look hefty in that sucker.
January 28th, 2009 at 8:39 am
It’s days like this I wish I was a teacher.
TBL…you didnt carry your NY loving, NE hating bias into that interview with Cassel did you?
January 28th, 2009 at 8:41 am
mom jeans will do that
January 28th, 2009 at 8:43 am
Mom jeans and TWO belts? Jessica has been Romo-ed.
January 28th, 2009 at 8:45 am
awesome lion video. those guys are fucking idiots
I went to one of those drive thru safaris
January 28th, 2009 at 8:45 am
PS. Maybe she’s pregnant
January 28th, 2009 at 8:46 am
It seriously looks like Jessica put on a fat suit for giggles. Those pics are unreal awful…
January 28th, 2009 at 8:49 am
oh that would be spectacular because she would be do during football season.
January 28th, 2009 at 8:50 am
sorry about the obsession with animal attacks.
I dig it. I wish that lion would have taken out about two of those guys before he met his end. I’m a hunter, but I don’t understand trophy hunting just for a head on the wall.
I’m calling it, Simpson will be the new face of Weight Watchers or something like that. Her fatness was planned. Papa Joe is an evil genius. Keep milking her for all she’s worth. The young sister has no ability to sell anything.
January 28th, 2009 at 8:50 am
*due
January 28th, 2009 at 8:51 am
“They used to call me that in college, ‘perfectly adequate.’”
“Really? They used to call me ‘anal girl.’”
Guy spits up drink.
“I was very neat…and ordered.”
January 28th, 2009 at 8:57 am
irish, what happened on the safari? any near attacks? were the drivers packing heat?
as for j simp … disappointing, indeed. i assume it is the outfit more than anything, though.
January 28th, 2009 at 8:59 am
Lively’s has implants and also has had a rhinoplasty. Not that I mind.
January 28th, 2009 at 9:00 am
Her boobies are top notch.
January 28th, 2009 at 9:01 am
I’m guessing the nice one just south of Orlando, I been there, it is good. Nothing happens TBL, lots of times the animals are far away, we had a lion walk pretty close, that was about it. You drive your own car, and they didnt hand out weapons (sadly).
January 28th, 2009 at 9:01 am
@clown: True story?
January 28th, 2009 at 9:01 am
I went on one of those safaris in Texas on some exotic wild animal farm. Most of the animals appear to be heavily sedated or more likely, bored out of their minds. Kind of pathetic.
January 28th, 2009 at 9:02 am
I’m ok with Blake Lively, as long as she doesn’t start talking.
January 28th, 2009 at 9:03 am
Beak tweak
January 28th, 2009 at 9:04 am
@TBL- nothing fancy. it was in Toronto. Something called African Lion Safari. you drive your own cars
January 28th, 2009 at 9:08 am
Blake has always been sporting serious cans. How could you not notice them before?
btw, where are you guys seeing this Simpson pictures? Are they in a youtube video in the post or something? (the youtubes is blocked at my job).
January 28th, 2009 at 9:09 am
Oh, and if anyone here actually reads. My problem with Updike is this.
He was too precocious. He already had a stable recognized genius gig at the New Yorker at 22-years-old. He’s never suffered through writer’s block, writing like 50 books and many short stories, articles, poems. For all the problems he had as a person, he never had one as a writer. His writing never seemed human to me, and, therefore, never enjoyable.
January 28th, 2009 at 9:11 am
The Discovery channel is running something called Jesus: The Complete Story against the Super Bowl on Sunday. I know what Kurt Warner will be Tivoing.
January 28th, 2009 at 9:13 am
Oh, well that makes total sense. I could never enjoy Michael Jordan, either.
January 28th, 2009 at 9:14 am
Everything but your soccer posts. Way to not be condescending.
January 28th, 2009 at 9:17 am
aside from being a hypocrite and an asshole…yea, he’s pretty cool.
January 28th, 2009 at 9:18 am
Updike is a local hero around my parts. Get outta here with that crap!
January 28th, 2009 at 9:23 am
Sanders coming out with fists-a-flying!
January 28th, 2009 at 9:23 am
dude that lion video is fucked up.
that’s why i kinda like living in ohio…no animals here that can kill you, no weather that’ll blow your house away, no cobras or sharks, and when global warming melts the poles, we’ll have beachfront property.
January 28th, 2009 at 9:23 am
You aren’t kidding, that is one horrendous beak.
January 28th, 2009 at 9:32 am
His poetry was awful. God awful. His short fiction wasn’t bad but it was his longform work that was notable. People who write that much are bound to churn out a bunch of shit and he did. Often.
January 28th, 2009 at 9:36 am
TBL—
come on, just the outfit? Ill agree the outfit doesnt help, but her face is swollen as hell too!!
January 28th, 2009 at 9:36 am
spence, what’s your problem with Rooney? the harrison stays/wilson cut for what sounds like the same offense?
He and his dad are a HUGE reason that football is what it is today. they and the Mara’s had the vision to know that if every franchise is strong, the league will be stronger than the sum.
January 28th, 2009 at 9:40 am
rooney is ghey
January 28th, 2009 at 9:43 am
Spence – no one opposed what Modell did more than Rooney. He was a leading supporter of getting CLE got a new team PDQ after they left for B’more.
January 28th, 2009 at 9:45 am
This is why I say it’s probably for the best Jim Morrison (and a few others) died when they did. Jim Morrison started writing some absolute shit at the end. Guy just ran out of ideas.
January 28th, 2009 at 9:46 am
I think Jessica Simpson looks pregnant. Perhaps Romo can actually be successful at something. Maybe in a few years, we’ll have another overrated, snap-fumbling, playoff losing, pretty boy QB.
January 28th, 2009 at 9:46 am
roeth -
Don’t you DARE paint the Steelers and their owner in a good light when it comes to the Browns…
/Let those of us who bleed brown and orange grieve in silence
January 28th, 2009 at 9:48 am
Wally – he was one of the 2 owners who voted against Modell (I forget the other one).
January 28th, 2009 at 9:49 am
but Wally, you guys have all of those AAFL championships. that’s….pretty good.
/otto graham’d
January 28th, 2009 at 9:49 am
T.S. Eliot used to make fun of writers who died before they turned 25 and didn’t have to realize that most of the stuff they wrote was full of shit–stuff they would have eventually renounced in their old age.
January 28th, 2009 at 9:51 am
first off, he owns the steelers, bad enough. he also, for a long time, owned dog tracks where gambling was allowed, which was in direct conflict with ownership regulations, yet did almost nothing about it until this year.
he gets a free pass for no fucking reason. and the “rooney rule?” the biggest joke in professional sports.
January 28th, 2009 at 9:53 am
yea…i mean, the rooney family has done a ton for the NFL and he was a supporter of the browns against modell, but the dog track thing still pisses me off. it’s one of the few rules that owners have and they violated it without giving a shit.
January 28th, 2009 at 9:57 am
wasnt it the owner of the bills?
January 28th, 2009 at 9:58 am
Why confuse details with blind hatred of all things black and gold?
January 28th, 2009 at 10:48 am
Wow, this clinches it. Rooney is pretty cool.
/sincere
January 28th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
I’m a Cardinals fan(have been for 47 years), and I’ve always hated Bidwill. He is solely responsble for the team’s futility over the last 30+ years, and I will shed not one tear when he leaves this Earth.