The Roundup: The Job Nobody Wants, “Grass-Eating Men,” and a Reason Not to Gamble
College Basketball, ESPN, Gambling, NBA, NBA Draft, NFL retirees, Soccer, Video, Women's Sports June 17th. 2009, 8:01am
Blake Lively seems nice … pot brownies ruined the junior prom for two kids … why isn’t the White House helping California? … pretty funny ‘should I unretire’ quiz … any Diane Kruger fans in the house? … the late Payne Stewart’s daughter is very attractive … New York back on top of the most aggressive drivers list … if you’re into Woody Allen, you’ll enjoy this interview … do not use Zicam … after the jump, regional douchebaggery …
ESPN’s already working Jon Gruden hard. (Orlando Sentinel)
An interview with the Nigerian Nightmare. In his prime, he and Barry Word were a nice tandem. (Arrowhead Pride)
Names being mentioned for the USC hoops coaching gig: Guy who Sprewell choked; guy from ‘Hang Time.’ (LA Times)
Please learn a lesson here, all gamblers: Never put that much loot on a game, ever. Even if Greinke is pitching. (Ball Star)
A Rutgers women’s basketball player is leaving school early to play basketball in Europe. (NY Times)
Dan Shaughnessy with a ‘LOS ANGELES SUCKS’ column. First the city, then the Lakers, Phil, etc. (Globe)
“Japan panics about the rise of “grass-eating men,” who shun sex, don’t spend money, and like taking walks.” How can you not want to read that story? (Slate)
The Magic need to trade Rafer Alston, so sayeth one columnist. (Orlando Sentinel)
Why do Florida athletes love tweeting so much? (Miami Herald)
What the hell is Rio Ferdinand wearing here? (Kickette)
Candace Parker can bowl. (Tweet)
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June 17th, 2009 at 8:05 am
wayne brady didnt know those prom girls liked to get wet.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:10 am
when your boss – or life – gets you down … go here. laugh. repeat.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:12 am
the pick of Okoye from that article is f’n awesome. i loved watching him and the obvious tecmo impact.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:13 am
It’s good to know that even the sports fans of Boston are embarrassed by that hack. Was that article for real? Didn’t the Lakers beat the Celtics twice this year w/ Garnett? Where was the asteric(sp) last year when Ariza and Bynum where injured and out? Shaughnessy is a joke. Didn’t Red win 8 titles in row w/ 12 Hall of Famers in a water down league? Unreal.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:13 am
fixed
June 17th, 2009 at 8:16 am
Great pick.
Best one in this morning’s roundup.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:18 am
WhyIAm: Shaughnessy is one of the biggest hacks on the East Coast. He single handedly created the the phrase “curse of the bambino”. Why some Boston fans still like him is beyond me.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:18 am
Okoye was the shit, man. He was like a jr. Earl Campbell.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:18 am
I could have women begging me for bukkake? Christ, sign me up.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:20 am
Good to know at least in Boston, full of the spillover effect of arrogant Patriots and Celtics fans into all other local sports except for the overall good-natured Red Sox fans (sorry bitter Yankee fans), they have enough sense to call out that hack for the douchebag he is.
Cleveland, though without any arrogance by common observation, could learn an awful lot from Boston, but of course that is wishful thinking for Cleveland again I guess.
Don’t get mad at me or other Laker fans you of that pack of bitter folks in Cleveland just yet (and a few of you Knicks fans) — look at that trophy again first.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:25 am
I was unaware that there were any Boston fans that like the CHB.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:26 am
His failure in Sacramento aside (who hasn’t failed there recently?) I think Reggie Theus would be a great hire for USC. He has the charisma and personality that program will need to survive whatever NCAA sanctions it gets and he did a good job at New Mexico State while he was there. I hoped Georgia would have taken a look at him, but no they got Mark Fox(wtf).
June 17th, 2009 at 8:26 am
We used to listen to Too Short, when I was a freshman in high school, already ruining my life with drugs.
Are you bleeding?
Can’t think about sex?
Irritated by your Kotex?
Too Short made Easy-E seem like a champion of women’s rights.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:27 am
keeping an alligator in your house: brilliant!
June 17th, 2009 at 8:31 am
Okoye was the shit, man. He was like a jr. Earl Campbell.
That’s a little blasphemous. Earl Campbell was a once in a lifetime guy.
Christian Okoye, though, was once a part of my favorite NFL films miked-up segment ever. Steve Atwater was miked up, and he tackled Okoye on one play and then helped him up. Atwater’s teammates gave him hell for it, and he shrugged them off. Next play, he absolutely destroyed Okoye (who ran straight up and was easy to hammer). He decleated him viciously, and then just stood over him, while Okoye lay there like a dead body. The very essence of being jacked up.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:32 am
It’s our money TBL Godfather did you forget? Why would we want to bail out a state with decades of do-gooders, especially for illegals, with mostly money from the rest of us? These folks in SoCal even fuck up Las Vegas. Did you miss the recap of the route of that Lakers parade? I’ll bet you the security entourage around the main stage will be as heavy as for a presidential visit.
But you still want to help out California? You and your San Fran and Hollywood friends just send your money directly to The Governator in Sacramento if you feel that moral obligation yourselves and just leave the rest of us and our money alone to get our own houses in order (especially Michigan)!
Then I sure hope you feel great about yourselves.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:33 am
Dont get so defensive Laker “fans”. Dan makes a fine point in that winning doesnt change the fact that Kobe is still a douche. Fantastic player, but a douche.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:33 am
Poor Epiphany Prince. Can’t beat UCONN, so she’s off to Europe.
Look, Epiphany. You’re not going to score 100 in a game over there, either.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:37 am
huh? you had an epiphany?
June 17th, 2009 at 8:38 am
Lange on the Carolla podcast today, downloading it now.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:39 am
Duder: Switch “kobe” for “garnett” in your post and you’ll see why CHB is terrible.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:41 am
Five years after Lebron becomes better at some point due only to age, feel freer to mouth off.
Otherwise Kobe is a champion and top ten all-time. With 4 rings to show for it.
YOU in that pack of Kobe-hating homers here, for whom Kobe could never possibly do enough good, are calling him a douche, possibly not getting over his mistakes years ago and definitely not respecting his rise from some really rough personal times and hardly much support from the media. And those 4 rings again.
I’ll let the other readers decide who is the real douchebag on that one.
Maybe later you can tell us something more about your 2 buildings in Cleveland, but ah, I take that back, never mind …it’s still a mistake by the lake.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:42 am
good point wilhelm
June 17th, 2009 at 8:45 am
Blake Lively > Megan Fox
The Magic need to trade Rafer Alston, so sayeth one columnist
I agree. Get rid of him and his $5 mill contract. Need to make room for MJOT
Gettin’ It- Best Too Short Album
June 17th, 2009 at 8:45 am
Oh yeah Duder, and you are the guy who implied yesterday shitting in your own hands for that matter! Geez dude lay off the herb and hooch or what the heck?
http://thebiglead.com/?p=15001#comments Comment 14
June 17th, 2009 at 8:46 am
Paolo is up early today. Is it Friday? My birthday?
June 17th, 2009 at 8:48 am
Happy early birthday Magglio
As an undercover operative, my schedule is unpredictable. 
Seriously, I never have been able to get off that 24-hour Vegas clock since I left. I miss that part too.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:48 am
you’ve got a lot of hate for Cleveland, Paolo.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:48 am
Its Paolos “library day” at California Penal.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:49 am
When is the fuckin’ iPhone update coming out today.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:50 am
SBTB > SBTB TCY > Hang Time > Hangin with Mr Cooper > SBTB TNC
/know I’m missing something
June 17th, 2009 at 8:55 am
coop: What about California Dreams?!
June 17th, 2009 at 8:55 am
when your boss – or life – gets you down … go here. laugh. repeat. TBL
Awesome. So, now we now what happens to emo clowns when they get out of high school. I fully expected to see Will Leitch in one of those photos.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:58 am
too much Paolo
June 17th, 2009 at 9:00 am
oh, and “our money” that you don’t want sent to California, they get .79 back for every dollar in federal taxes. (from 2004). so “we” have been spending their money for quite some time.
June 17th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Couldn’t agree more. Always could recruit the west coast, even at Louisville
June 17th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Don’t wake me up if I’m dreamin!!!!… what about city guys?
June 17th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Good, but not as funny as http://www.awkwardfamilyphotos.com or the classic http://www.hotchickswithdouchebags.com
June 17th, 2009 at 9:15 am
Taylor Swift raps with T-Pain. Amazing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2Ru5itZ7rs
June 17th, 2009 at 9:17 am
that is pretty funny ATL
June 17th, 2009 at 9:21 am
June 17th, 2009 at 9:21 am
Awesome. I can’t watch it at work becase our network is so bad that videos look like a bunch of still shots, but I have to watch that tonight.
June 17th, 2009 at 9:22 am
Atwater was the man back in the day. Dude would knock you out cold. In today’s NFL he would have over $1 Mil in fines easy.
June 17th, 2009 at 9:30 am
If she’s anything like Payne, she definitely goes down.
/ I’ll see myself to hell now.
June 17th, 2009 at 9:38 am
An interview with the Nigerian Nightmare. In his prime, he got knocked the fuck out by Atwater
somewhere, NFL films has some of those hits with audio. Atwater knocked the shit out of Okoye time and time again. Okoye was very easy to hit, and Atwater was by far and away my favorite Bronco in the 1980’s – and I hated the Broncos. Fucking shovel passes.
June 17th, 2009 at 9:47 am
around 12pm
June 17th, 2009 at 9:49 am
how is it an upgrade over the last iphone? i have the 8 gb … is it a software thing?
June 17th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Will that work with the original?
June 17th, 2009 at 9:52 am
MMS and copy and paste are the main things (for me, anyway)
http://www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/
June 17th, 2009 at 9:54 am
The new one is more powerful…basically Apple has finally decided to go toe to toe with Nintendo and Sony in the handheld gaming market. Too bad the app store is a complete clusterfuck.
June 17th, 2009 at 9:54 am
copy and paste is clutch. it hurts when im trying to post from the phone.
June 17th, 2009 at 9:55 am
TG – the app store rules! though i confess to having never paid for any of them. only get the free ones.
June 17th, 2009 at 10:01 am
It’s terrible in execution tbl…no standards, incredibly hard to find anything, and 99.999% of the crap is useless. Apple needs to actually do some quality control if the app store is to ever be actually useful.
June 17th, 2009 at 10:01 am
Copy and paste is going to be money. Now if only it would refresh to the point of the site where you were, and not go back to the top., it would be wonderful.
June 17th, 2009 at 10:01 am
tbl: i’ve paid for two, CityTransit for NYC, worth the $10, and the MLB Gameday app so i can listen to games at work. great investment.
June 17th, 2009 at 10:11 am
i would like the ability to quickly scroll to the bottom of a web-page like you can with the songs list on the ipod or your contact list
June 17th, 2009 at 10:27 am
I thought no MMS until “late summer”?
June 17th, 2009 at 10:29 am
You’re right, Mike. Gawd, AT&T sucks asshole.
June 17th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Not to mention the tethering.
And the no Slingbox over 3G.
June 17th, 2009 at 10:43 am
i could be mistaken but i thought i read somewhere that MMS would be good to go when u get the software update?
im pretty happy about the landscape keyboard for texting and email
June 17th, 2009 at 10:56 am
“In the Cleveland series, it certainly was all about LeBron [James]. It was… and the Cleveland situation sort of amazes me because now it’s just become accepted fact, I mean, even between Games 3 and 5 [of the Finals] the other day, when the rumors about Cleveland and Shaq started, the story was all, ‘Clearly, Cleveland’s not a contender with the roster they have now. Clearly.’ That was obvious to everybody. And yet, two weeks before that, they were clearly championship contenders with that same roster, and a great team, 66 wins, they were great. And then after we beat them, [the media said,] ‘Well, they’re just clearly not contenders. They don’t have the roster that can do it.’ [....] it becomes laughable
true story
June 17th, 2009 at 11:10 am
Step Daddy!! You are bringing the heavy lumber lately with your music videos TBL. Keep it up.
June 17th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
yea, i was out and wanted to comment on one of the finals threads that was 500 comments, wasn’t even worth all the trouble.