The Roundup: South Florida and Race, Ladies Love Sam Keller and USA Tops Switzerland
Uncategorized October 18th. 2007, 7:35am
Remember the Tostitos Doritos Girl? (ed – we went grocery shopping last night and grabbed Tostitos, thus the error) … an emailer would like everyone to know Alyssa Milano doesn’t limit her relationships to baseball players – she apparently dated Rob Brown of the Pittsburgh Penguins … further proof that our taste in music is shaped by movies and fun times in bars – here’s a song we’re into right now; play it on low in the background, and then let your thoughts drift to this scene in The Departed (we didn’t watch the Pink Floyd video, but it looks freaky) … a middle school in Maine is now handing out the pill? …
How scary is this deadly bacteria? (NY Times)
Yet another reason to love South Florida – last year, the Bulls outlawed the N-word. (Tampa Tribune)
Clearly, we’ve underestimated the power of Christine Daniels – she/he is fighting for the civil rights of transgendered folks. (LA Times)
The Celtics absolutely destroyed the Knicks in preseason hoops. (Knicks Blog)
Welcome back, Mr. Leftwich! (AJC)
Nebraska QB Sam Keller rolls with some seriously nice talent. (Mac Gs World)
Pats-Cowboys ratings in Boston were much bigger than Red Sox-Indians. (Boston Herald)
Suzy Kolber is expecting a baby girl. (Pro Football Talk)
Coach’s kid scores as USA beats Switzerland, 1-0. (Beautiful Game)
Since he’s no longer in the NFL, Antonio “Speedracer” Bryant doesn’t feel the need to take the league’s drug tests anymore. (USA Today)
On the Indians and Redface. (Deadspin)
Carrie Underwood has moved on from Tony Romo to the pretty boy from Gossip Girl. (Us Weekly)
Yes, Santana Moss has stone hands. (Kissing Suzy Kolber)
A follow-up to the NY Mag piece on Gawker and blogs. (Huffington Post)
On Steve Nash deserving the MVP. (Hardwood Paroxysm via True Hoop)
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October 18th, 2007 at 7:37 am
Doritos Girl. Doritos.
October 18th, 2007 at 8:07 am
Ali Landry I believe her name was/is. Doritos, I believe. Speak like Yoda today I do. No idea I have why.
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=Ali+Landry&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8
October 18th, 2007 at 8:08 am
‘I felt if I didn’t do it, I would somehow be found derelict of my responsibilities as a citizen of humanity,’ said Walker, a 6-foot-5, 333-pound senior right tackle for No. 2 ranked USF.
That’s exactly how I talked when I was in college.
October 18th, 2007 at 8:17 am
neonomianism?
October 18th, 2007 at 8:18 am
Again, spare me the political hack columns. Almond had a point and did a really shitty job at supporting it. Stick to sports and cheesecake, that’s your niche. Politics and economics most certainly are not.
October 18th, 2007 at 8:22 am
Wasn’t AC Slater nailing Doritos Girl at one point?
October 18th, 2007 at 8:25 am
First Ufford, now that guy – when did we start calling women cheesecake? Was this on Frank TV or something and I missed it?
October 18th, 2007 at 8:37 am
AC Slater cheated on the Doritos girl and the wedding was done in two weeks!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Landry
Alias – Dude, i got no idea how you’re going to handle 2008 when the election rolls around. We’re going to be talking about it. We just put it out there because it’s interesting. When we’re ready to offer an opinion either way, you’ll know.
October 18th, 2007 at 8:41 am
Dear Yourinternetaliasisnotfunny,
Shut the fuck up. You don’t have to visit the blog. Spare yourself the political hack columns; you don’t have to read them. Maybe I missed them somewhere, but I don’t see any credentials making you qualified to determine TBL’s, or anyone else’s, niche. I think you might need a hug.
October 18th, 2007 at 9:03 am
wheres my bong, i wanna watch the pink floyd video…damn job.
October 18th, 2007 at 9:05 am
TBL has discovered Comfortably Numb!
Next up: Hits of the 80’s!
October 18th, 2007 at 9:06 am
I always thought Suzy Kolber was a lesbian (how else can you explain a perfectly healthy woman rejecting the advances of Broadway Joe)…I wonder if this pregnancy was done the old fashioned way
October 18th, 2007 at 9:09 am
Butters- we have our theories
http://kissmesuzy.blogspot.com/2007/10/suzy-kolber-was-kissed-then-inseminated.html
October 18th, 2007 at 9:16 am
You aren’t seriously suggesting that you just discovered Comfortably Numb. Please say you didn’t.
October 18th, 2007 at 9:25 am
ButtersBC, why on earth would you think that Suzy Kolber was a lesbian? If you think she gives off that vibe, than Michelle Tafoya must as well, along with Erin Andrews.
Yourinternetaliasisnotfunny – get over yourself. If you don’t want to read links to the economy or anything related to politics, don’t click on them. HELLO, it’s not too difficult a concept to grasp, and it’s not your place to determine how and what TBL decides to post on their website.
October 18th, 2007 at 9:35 am
Mizerle06- Calling it how I see it. When these TBL does sports/ women, it’s compelling. Politics/ economics not so much. To me sports is such a pure form of escape and entertainment that I would prefer it not be diluted with the dirty, partisan underworld of political and economic idealogy. In fact, due to the current partisan climate in this country, I’m pushed even further into sports as an escape. Put it this way… sports are the really hot perfect girl… politics are her overbearing overweight anchor friend who won’t shut up. Do you kiss your boyfriend with that mouth?
October 18th, 2007 at 9:37 am
I have always wondered how teams such as the Indians, Redskins, and Braves have managed to keep their team names. Can you imagine what would happen if the American Indians had people like Sharpton and Jesse Jackson representing them? Those teams would have to change their names next week!
Whether you agree with it or not, those mascots and team names are racist and feed the stereotype. We wouldn’t accept a team called the “Blacks”, so why would we accept Redskins? It is socially acceptable to keep those names because the American Indians don’t have enough of a voice in this country and so teams like this will keep their names.
October 18th, 2007 at 9:39 am
Dude, Whitesnake will totally change your life.
Re: TBL’s political views
I don’t click on political links because I don’t care. And when TBL writes about politics – I gloss over those words because I don’t understand most of them (What’s a Hilary?) Now, if there were a political blog that showed lots of pictures of lots of semi-SFW I might read it.
October 18th, 2007 at 9:41 am
Whitesnake totally changed Craig Kilborn’s life.
And, as a really white guy, I think I’d be pretty entertained by an NBA team changing their name to the the Crackers or the Token White Guys or something.
October 18th, 2007 at 9:50 am
Pink Floyd, Doritos Girls, Alysa Milano, is exactly why I keep coming back TBL. Politics is just icing on the cake. I am too tired to get into a political debate but we pay taxes, might as well pay attention to how our government is ran.
And if you do not like the current system(most people do not), being apathetic is not going to change it at all. I think the problem with political discussions is that everyone is use to the right/left talking points crap spewed to them on cable news/talk radio and without knowing it, try to emulate that in their own personal debates.
Most issues are not just left or right, and the majority of them are more complex than that. We should be talking about policies that affect our lives, not personal attacks on people’s perceived personalities. I guess I did ramble on. Man, sorry.
Question, at what point does Milano become a full on Cougar? Or is she already there? She has unbelievably pair of F me eyes. I can not escape them. Anyone else she this?
October 18th, 2007 at 9:52 am
No stories on ESPN’s Joe Torre “non-story” yesterday?
“Our top news story today is that there is no top news story today.”
Only with ESPN. Only with the Yankees.
October 18th, 2007 at 9:56 am
Why are we talking about Ali Landry? The real question is, where in the world is Ali Vegas, who made his debut on the “In Too Deep” movie soundtrack in 1999?
October 18th, 2007 at 10:00 am
I live about 20 miles from Staunton River High School, where the young man who died on Monday was a student. As a result,yesterday, all of the Bedford County(VA) schools were closed so that they could be cleaned and disinfected. Whether or not the process was successful remains to be seen, of course, but at least steps are being taken to hopefully quell any more outbreaks. My mother contracted MRSA, after bypass surgery, about a year before she died(of an unrelated cause), and she had to spend an extra 6 weeks in the hospital. Before going into her room, we had to dress out in gown and gloves, and couldn’t touch her in any way. A year later, when she went in for aortic aneurism surgery, per Health Department regulations, she was still treated as if she had MRSA. This shit is serious, believe me…
October 18th, 2007 at 10:02 am
Oh btw…. “Comfortably Numb” has the greatest guitar solo EVER. David Gilmour is a fucking guitar God.
October 18th, 2007 at 10:02 am
pkiguy22- Wow, thanks for hitting us with this weeks version of “white guilt”. Next up La Raza heritage month.
Really, if Native Americans I.E. Indians, Braves, Redskins, Seminoles have a problem with it, than they will speak up.
Why is it anyones fight/argument other than Native Americans? It isnt, but when uppity, guilt stricken, fuhhgettaboutits start whining about OTHER peoples percieved feelings thats when problems arise.
Or, did you forget about the Seminole Indian nation of Florida speaking out against the NCAA ruling to ban Native American mascots? They let everyone know how proud they felt to have a University represent their cultural heritage, and they fought to overturn the ruling.
So pkiguy22, before you start talking for another race, and how YOU think THEY should feel, maybe you should stick to getting the Celtics banned for misrepresenting Irish Americans, or Pirates banned for having a white face representing thievery. Or how about you can stick up for you own kind, and ask the wizards to stop making fun of you and your harry potter book club buddies! Or was it the Magic that offended you and your Lord of the Rings pals?
October 18th, 2007 at 10:05 am
The Indians have casinos and firewater – what the flip do they care about a couple sports teams?
October 18th, 2007 at 10:10 am
Yourinternetaliasisnotfunny – IF YOU DON’T WANT TO READ ABOUT POLITICS, DON’T CLICK ON THE LINK. Get over it or go away. I don’t always want to read about certain topics, so I make the adult decision to not click on the link. I don’t come in here and berate the creators of this website that we all enjoy, and tell them to stop posting links because it is something that I don’t enjoy.
October 18th, 2007 at 10:16 am
TSM,
Where did I say anything about college mascots? I was speaking strictly against Professional teams. I attended UND (one of the schools in question from the NCAA) The Universities are different because they actually have permission from the Tribes that they represent and I can’t speak for FSU, but UND has a large student population of Ojibwe and Sioux Indians. They actually have classes totally devoted to these tribes and their history and culture. What I am talking about is the pro teams who do not represent anyone.
We could discuss this topic all day long and we both could bring up examples for both sides proving our points. All I was saying was that if the American Indian had better representation, we as a society might think differently towards this issue.
October 18th, 2007 at 10:31 am
The reason Native American’s don’t speak up? There’s like 200 of them left.
October 18th, 2007 at 10:31 am
Mac G, you’re on it with Alyssa, brother. You and I appear to be marks for any post she appears in.
Ahhhh, Comfortably Numb. Nothing better than being hammered at the park, watching a laser light show that has been programmed to Comfortably Numb. The name of the song was a self-fulfilling prophesy that night.
October 18th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Milano was engaged to the Islanders’ Wayne McBean when she was like 18 or 19.
October 18th, 2007 at 10:57 am
Swear – never had heard comfortably young in my life. I couldn’t name two pink floyd songs. Seriously. Yes, I am from America, I’m probably just a little different than you think i am.
But i know all about the 80s.
October 18th, 2007 at 11:46 am
Bruce,
“Comfortably Numb” has a legendary guitar solo, but I’m gonna have to go with the solo in “November Rain” as best ever. There’s a note near the end of the main solo that gives me chills every time.
And Yourinternetaliasisnotfunny,
I do kiss my boyfriend with that mouth and he loves it. I’M A GIRL, BEOCH!!
October 18th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
Nothing against “November Rain,” but seeing and hearing David Gilmour play the “Comfortably Numb” solo in Wembley Stadium while drunk off my ass, looking hot in a black miniskirt and getting felt up by two drunk Irish guys in the middle of 100,000 drunk English people will forever remain one of the best memories of my life.