The Roundup: It’s Pro Bowl Weekend!
Baseball, College Basketball, College Football, ESPN, MMA, Media Gossip/Musings, NBA, NFL retirees, NHL, Television, Video, Women's Sports February 6th. 2009, 8:00am
Nice work by Sasha Baron Cohen locking up Isla Fisher … let the tax revolts begin! Starts out West, natch, then it’ll head East … hope you’re aware of the tiny changes on how to improve your FICO … who puts a curse word tattoo on their face? … calling all Christina Hendricks fans … from rocker to business columnist … Pennsylvania town being decimated by mystery arsonist …
Derrick Coleman’s restaurant in Detroit gets shut down over unpaid rent. (Detroit News)
Pretty awesome hockey goal by Zednik. (Total Pro Sports)
Hat Guy writes about stupid snuggies trend. (Tremendous Upside Potential)
In regard to yesterday’s post about KG’s fighting ways, here’s an article from November with quotes from Rick Rickert about how KG’s sucker punch ruined his career. (Sunday News)
ESPN’s Doug Gottlieb calls Nebraska player a punk; said player’s father demands an apology, but doesn’t get one. (Sports by Brooks)
HBO Sports President Ross Greenburg says [Joe] Buck is “downright funny, although I don’t know if the American public is aware of that.” (USA Today)
Idiot MMA fighter makes stupid threat on MySpace by saying someone should “smoke” the President; loses his job. (Yahoo)
First came Kobe, then LeBron, and now the Celtics come to MSG tonight. Will Pierce get 50 while the Knicks star gaze? (NYDN)
Pat Summitt does it: 1,000 career victories. (Tennessean)
The great college hoax. (Forbes)
Ohio State fan fears Buckeyes are recruiting too many white guys. (Cursed Cleveland)
Former Jet gets to keep Super Bowl ring. (Star-Ledger)
Why did Joe Torre write the foreword to Alyssa Milano’s book? (Can’t Stop the Bleeding)
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February 6th, 2009 at 8:12 am
No mention of Lakeshow snapping 2nd long win streak of Celtics?
Sweet road win!
February 6th, 2009 at 8:13 am
Tax revolt link is broken
February 6th, 2009 at 8:20 am
I’d like every person that visits this site to read this link and heed the warning of “don’t go to college, it won’t pay off.” You not getting a degree is going to put me in even greater demand as I get older and more experienced and in turn make me a very rich man.
February 6th, 2009 at 8:32 am
the college loan thing is brutal. professional schools are very expensive and if you have to take the loans the hole you start in is daunting. people in movies have jobs while going to law/medical school. most in the real world don’t.
The FICO thing pisses me off. Closing accounts and having less available credit counts against me?
If I pay for my score between now and whenever the hell the “new” score becomes “commercially available” what am I paying for?
February 6th, 2009 at 8:39 am
whoops, forgot to include there is an interview today.
Fatty - the Lakers get their own post.
tax revolt fixed!
i figured the college loan thing would stir some passions.
February 6th, 2009 at 8:43 am
I’m knee deep in the college loan thing as well (as I’m sure a lot of people are who read this site).
After 2 degrees, I can’t say if it’s worth it or not yet. I don’t think I’ll truly know for another 10 years or so whether or not an MBA pays off.
My only hope is that Sallie Mae doesn’t get bailed out, and our “receivables” are liquidated to other parties on the cheap. Sallie Mae is nazi-like with their collections, and I feel there might be some re-negotiation if a smaller party got a hold of our debt.
Yeah, I’m sure it’s going to stir up a passion among all of us.
February 6th, 2009 at 8:43 am
Re: College Loans, “With interest accruing at up to 12% a year.” Who the F takes out school loans at 12%? My wife has 180K in med school loans, the rate is 2.25%.
That article reads like the morons who’s homes are getting foreclosed. Person said to sign this, and I no read so good, so me sign X on line, now money not so much.
February 6th, 2009 at 8:45 am
2 degrees - no debt.
Love me some Isla.
February 6th, 2009 at 8:49 am
1.5 degrees, no debt, the key is university employment. My mom worked for Penn State, so 75% off that tuition. I currently work for the university I’m going to, so 100% off tuition. Suckas.
February 6th, 2009 at 8:50 am
2 useful degrees, no debt.
February 6th, 2009 at 8:51 am
coop - 1.5 degrees is a major and a minor?
February 6th, 2009 at 8:53 am
1 degree, no debt. straight cash homey.
February 6th, 2009 at 8:53 am
I was blessed to have my college paid for
Christina Hendricks. yummy
February 6th, 2009 at 8:55 am
miz - what’s your 2nd?
February 6th, 2009 at 8:55 am
Are u plugging movies now? I just have the one degree, but anyone who actually gets advanced degrees in journalism and isn’t going to teach just likes going to school. Of course, anyone today who actually gets any degree in journalism is digging his own grave.
February 6th, 2009 at 8:56 am
masters, nickp.
February 6th, 2009 at 8:57 am
miz, nice shot at journalism and English majors on here.
February 6th, 2009 at 8:57 am
Miz, half way to a masters in Comp Sci.
February 6th, 2009 at 8:58 am
benji - how did I take a shot at journalism and English majors on here?
February 6th, 2009 at 8:58 am
coop, that’s what i thought. i thought college loans were dirt cheap, like under 5%
sanders - i’ll say this about journalism degrees … the staff at us weekly was much smaller than the newspaper i was at, and far more people at the mag had a j-school degree. top-flight ones, too (Northwestern, Missouri, Columbia, etc).
and i dont thin you need me to tell you that magazine salaries dwarf newspaper salaries.
February 6th, 2009 at 8:59 am
What does someone who actually majors in English do, anyway?
February 6th, 2009 at 8:59 am
coop, can you email me?
February 6th, 2009 at 8:59 am
Who the F takes out school loans at 12%? My wife has 180K in med school loans, the rate is 2.25%. Coop.
No shit. I’m paying 2.5% on my MBA. Well worth it.
February 6th, 2009 at 9:00 am
@miz: Yeah…but in eng?
miz hates English majors. He always has.
February 6th, 2009 at 9:00 am
unless your silver spoon, straight cash homie ain’t getting it done in law school.
February 6th, 2009 at 9:02 am
miz hates English majors. He always has.
nothing wrong with that
February 6th, 2009 at 9:03 am
the wife has an english degree and was the copy editor for our morning rag.
February 6th, 2009 at 9:03 am
nick - yeah, bs and ms in civil.
February 6th, 2009 at 9:04 am
i read between the lines.
February 6th, 2009 at 9:05 am
Re: English Majors.
I’ll take a large dark roast, cream, no sugar. Thanks.
/sweet burn
February 6th, 2009 at 9:06 am
Eh, most of the people at EW are from the Ivy League. One of the guys I work with actually used to edit the TV section of US Weekly. But I remember when I got hired my boss said, “don’t go to grad school, people don’t care. if you can write, you can write.” I concur. I’ve met some people who have masters degrees from Columbia who really wasted their money.
February 6th, 2009 at 9:07 am
you read between the lines wrong, benji. should have said:
February 6th, 2009 at 9:07 am
the wife has an english degree and was the copy editor for our morning rag. herdatious
Is she looking for a job? I may know of one for a fella that works at this site in the afternoon and on weekends.
/Cthomashowell’d
February 6th, 2009 at 9:09 am
the value of a graduate degree is incredibly different to different professions.
February 6th, 2009 at 9:09 am
3 degrees - no debt. Undergrad at JMU (always one of Newsweek’s “Best Deals in the South” schools). Scholarships for masters and PhD. Only thing better than having your parents pay for school is having someone else pay.
February 6th, 2009 at 9:10 am
my wife editing tbl would make me the envy of … nevermind.
shockingly the nights and low pay encouraged her to go to law school. now she’s a corporate attorney rubbing out the little man.
February 6th, 2009 at 9:10 am
2 degrees - blessed that the undergrad was scholarships. (Physics)
MBA was evening program from a pretty good school. 20k in loans left but the investment has paid off.
February 6th, 2009 at 9:13 am
i think it’s only wasted money if you don’t know what you want to do. if you know you are 100% certain that you want x field … then yes, grad school makes sense. but if you’re wishy-washy and just going to ‘get that higher degree’ … then i’d say bad move.
my limited experience in NYC was a lot more people had them than i thought would. you hear it isn’t important … but then you meet people have accomplished impressive shit and … well … most of them had an advanced degree.
February 6th, 2009 at 9:13 am
Most definitely.
February 6th, 2009 at 9:15 am
btw - I think the loans rates depend on when you graduated and if you consolidated. unlike mortgages, you can’t re-fi a student loan once it’s consolidated.
February 6th, 2009 at 9:16 am
no because pierce isn’t nearly as good as lebron or kobe.
February 6th, 2009 at 9:17 am
thrillerb, isn’t that the whole point of consolidating? i know when i consolidated mine i got locked in around 2%, so no point in re-fi. why someone wouldn’t do that is baffling, consolidating that is.
February 6th, 2009 at 9:27 am
I read somewhere that arson can sometimes go hand in hand with rape, both being completely about power. All you girls in Coatesville get your chastity belts on.
February 6th, 2009 at 9:28 am
I have $70K in loans from undergrad and MBA at 4.25%. picking the people who didn’t understand that they were taking a bad loan and didn’t know how much education they needed for the job they wanted is a weak, weak premise.
but hard work can get you far. girlfriend has a masters and no debt.
February 6th, 2009 at 9:35 am
arkbadger, you get one shot at consolidating. my b-school loans were at 8% and I consolidated to 6.25%. this was back in the late 90’s.
February 6th, 2009 at 10:25 am
Did anyone see Isla on Letterman last night? She looked great, but I did not know she had a thick Australian accent. It actually made her a little less hot to me, which I found weird.
February 6th, 2009 at 11:24 am
THANK YOU! If Wade was next on the list, maybe this would be a possibility.
February 6th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Interesting comments re: degrees. I do think it all depends on the profession and how willing you are to network, etc. And by the time you’ve been out of school for 5 years or so and had at least one or two jobs, your work experience will begin to trump any educational item on your resume.
And, did Rick Rickert say that he’s been denied a chance at playing in the NBA b/c Garnett punched him? Yet he’s not even playing a bunch of minutes for his Australian team? Yeah, I’m sure that guys that don’t get much run in Australia all are NBA quality. Makes no sense.