The Roundup: WWE Crumbling, Lovin’ Jaws, and the Bachelor Gets Work
Uncategorized August 31st. 2007, 8:19am
See, when Anna puts on just a few pounds, she looks hot again … It could get a little nutty in here today, seeing as how our three-day weekend began in earnest Thursday. We’ll go today and Monday, and perhaps Saturday during the college football games … it’s unbelievable – and unconscionable, really – that our President is going to try and help bail out all the greedy morons who are about to get F’d hard in our impending housing collapse … are you ready for the final installment of movie talk? Summer ends this weekend, we hope you get your Goose on …
The Clippers have signed registered sex offender Ruben Patterson. (Press Telegram)
And the WWE begins to crumble: Ten wrestlers (and several ’stars’) are suspended for steroid use. (Daily News)
Effusively praising the early work of Jaws on MNF. (Palm Beach Post)
Tiger Wood dispenses fatherly advice to Tom Brady. (Inside Track)
How could we let the week go by without remembering Althea Gibson? (Leave the Man Alone)
An Alabama fan offers analysis of LSU steamrolling of Mississippi State. (Roll Bama Roll)
The salaries for football coaches in the Pac-10. (Contra Costa Times)
Former Giants quarterback and reality show contestant Jesse Palmer is now an NFL analyst. (TSN)
And the Bachelor will be a college football analyst on ESPN, too! (USA Today)
Dress up like a douche, win a chance to meet Brady Quinn. (Brahsome)
Navy football, it’s … got some strange rules. (Scott Van Pelt Style)
Amare Stoudemire parties with Ron Jeremy in Vegas. (AZ Sports Hub)
If you’re looking for some advice in gambling on college football this weekend, this blogger thinks he can help. (Pilot Picks)
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August 31st, 2007 at 8:32 am
A little nutty you say? Meet Brady Quinn? Screw that, I’m entering a contest to meet Derek Anderson – it involves going to a grocery store in Cleveland and other cliches about unemployed athletes.
August 31st, 2007 at 9:04 am
Huh? Anna who?
August 31st, 2007 at 9:05 am
Kournikova
August 31st, 2007 at 9:14 am
Unemployed athletes?
No sighting comes funnier than LaVar Arrington’s appearance at last night’s Morgan State-Savannah State blowout in Baltimore.
Dude is a changed man.
August 31st, 2007 at 9:24 am
Thanks TBL. Being an Entourage fan I was thinking Anna Farris. D’oh!
August 31st, 2007 at 9:26 am
I think she’s looking for her pants.
August 31st, 2007 at 9:29 am
Love that Mizzou pick that that guy made, but laying money on houston is just plain dumb. Breaking in a new qb on the road at one of the tougher places to play. That game is simple, it is either take Oregon or don’t play it at all.
Personally I think the three best plays are
Mizzou
West Virginia first half and the game
and texas tech over on monday
upset special
‘Zona straight up against BYU
August 31st, 2007 at 10:15 am
Unless Bush or Bernanke do something, we are headed for a recession. Bush can’t win. Do something and we are bailing them out. Do nothing and he doesn’t care. Deadspin had a post yesterday that talked about how they don’t mix politics with their sports website. You should do the same TBL.
August 31st, 2007 at 10:18 am
Remember LTCM?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTCM
That bailout was needed in much the same way this one is. Stay away from economics/market talk TBL, it appears you don’t know much about the topic.
August 31st, 2007 at 10:22 am
Matt – I’m ready for the recession. On various other message boards i participate in, this has been the talk for about a year. I don’t live above my means, I don’t run up credit, and I would never imagine the idiotic scenario of buying a house with no money down.
Bring on the recession.
We don’t need to bail these people out. Housing prices need to come down to normal levels, and by bailing these jokers out, you’re just setting a terrible precedent for the future. Hey, take all the risks you want! Everyone else’s tax dollars will bail you out!
August 31st, 2007 at 10:23 am
I agree General that Oregon is a very tough place to play (especially for a QB making his first start), however, with Houston’s O-line and Oregon’s weak D-front, Houston should be able to move the chains on the ground. Oregon is just not as good as everyone thinks they are (they have lost 5 Pac-10 games in 4 out of 5 years). Agree to disagree, but I say this game goes down to the wire.
Oh, and I do like your West Virginia 1st half bet…might just jump on that one now. “Country Roads…take me home…to the place…I belong…West Virginia!!!” (if you can’t tell, Pilot Picks are big WV fans and have been for some time).
August 31st, 2007 at 10:30 am
Bring on the recession? Wow.
Bernkanke has two jobs, to ensure the economic health of the nation and keep inflation in check. He and Bush are concerned with the first of those two items right now. They are doing the right thing.
Also, there is nothing impending about the housing collapse. It is ongoing. Just look at all the mortgage/finance companies that are getting hammered or even going into bankruptcy.
August 31st, 2007 at 10:39 am
Bud – the mortgage companies brought this upon themselves. They offered liar loans where some clown making 50k could buy a house for 500,000 with no money down. In real life, that kind of thing doesn’t fly. Then the mortgage companies would break down the I/O ARM and sell it and make more money.
Meanwhile, Joe Homeowner, who blindly jumped into this deal, is left scratching his ass saying, ‘hey, im going to be rich! housing values can only go up!’
Oh, but wait. Housing values can and will go down. And now that house you got into hasn’t gone up … and the ARM is resetting and your mortgage skyrockets … HELP!
Look at this chart and tell me how on earth we can avoid a recession.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/08/26/weekinreview/27leon_graph2.large.gif
If you’re in a house that’s been on the market for 6 months and you need to sell, the only answer is to drop the price of it 50k-75 k and sell. Now. Or you can be stubborn and hold onto it, and risk having the bank foreclose on it and walk away.
August 31st, 2007 at 10:42 am
I hope its not windy, or she is going to fall down…and maybe find her pants between those two cars from being torn off by Sampras…
August 31st, 2007 at 10:58 am
This housing crisis is beautiful for those of us who aren’t retards. I am stockpiling cash for a down payment and I’m going to buy a house off some idiot who thought it would be fun to get an ARM with no down payment.
August 31st, 2007 at 11:11 am
“Meanwhile, Joe Homeowner, who blindly jumped into this deal, is left scratching his ass saying, ‘hey, im going to be rich! housing values can only go up!’”
Well, Joe Homeowner is a freaking idiot then.
I’d check the politics at the door TBL. Just sayin’.
August 31st, 2007 at 11:22 am
I hear ya. I just want some responsibility, that’s all. It just feels like a bunch of college kids running up crazy CC debt and then going to mom and dad and looking for a bailout.
Uh, no. Work your ass off and get yourself out of the hole.
August 31st, 2007 at 11:52 am
I’m confused as to whose side you’re on, TBL.
First, your stance is that the FHA doesn’t need to “bail these people out” (although, I’m not sure if you mean the lenders themselves, or the homeowners — that might clear up the argument somewhat…at least for me). Then, you worry about Joe Homeowner and his eyesight, as if he didn’t have the capability of actually READING THE TERMS of his home loan, arguably the largest financial decision he was making at that time.
I say this as a mortgage broker in Texas, where housing prices are nowhere near as costly as most other areas of the country (I’m looking at you, California and New York). What continues to bother me about this ongoing story, is that I’ve read a proportionately low number of articles (read: zero) that take the borrower to task for entering into a home loan, no matter the payment, that he doesn’t discipline himself to actually pay, and on time, each month.
Lending guidelines are set up as such, to where we qualify based on the financial situation of the client…at the time of purchase or refinance. We can’t possibly take into account the fact that he’s going to run about thousands of dollars in credit cards because he needs an entirely new suite of furniture, that he can’t afford to pay cash for at that time.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not naive to think that there weren’t brokers out there making a killing off of the types of loans that are now disappearing. But, adults should still have the capacity to know how much they can afford, and maybe don’t need that house on the hill, after all.
August 31st, 2007 at 2:22 pm
To dam:
You’re points are exactly why the feds shouldn’t bail anyone out, potential homeowners with no foresight nor the irresponsible lenders. Be big boys; take responsibility for your financial mistakes.
August 31st, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Dam – I don’t think anybody deserves a bailout. Definitely not the wealthy lenders and their fat cat CEOs … nor the homeowners. Anyone that jumped on this gravy train is at fault – builders, borrowers, lenders …
Don’t know if it’ll be a nationwide recession, but places where the bubble was worst are going to get it hard. These places include Miami, most of Fla, LA, San Diego, NY and the surrounding areas, DC, Atlantic City, Detroit, etc. There was a chart on the front page of the NYT last week that mapped out all the cities that are f’d.
September 1st, 2007 at 6:15 am
WWF/E has pretty much been crumbling since Vince Russo left the company.
September 1st, 2007 at 12:42 pm
jackeck,
Vince Russo has been crumbling since he left the WWF/E as well.