The Roundup: A Sad Day in New England
Baseball, College Basketball, College Football, Media Gossip/Musings, Movies, NFL, TV, Tennis September 8th. 2008, 8:00am
Good morning, Miss Adriana Lima – enjoy a comical photo of her and her athlete boyfriend after the jump … another sick bastard in Memphis …the Spiderman triology ended somewhat meekly; now, we get a 4th and 5th? … Some country for old men: Tommy Lee Jones wants $10 million … first Jackson Browne and now Van Halen: Stop using our music, John McCain … Google’s about to turn 10! … MSNBC “blowhards benched” …please avoid mention of the term bailout today … thoughts on the behind-the-ear tattoo? …
How to open an interview with an NFL GM: “Do you guys know what you’re doing?” (Wisconsin State Journal via Pro Football Talk)
Some athletes in Florida – Tiger, Grant Hill, Dwight Howard – sure are using a ton of water each month. (Orlando Sentinel)
Mets closer Billy Wagner, likely out for the rest of the season. (The ‘Ropolitans)
Revisiting that bogus penalty that helped BYU escape Washington. (News Tribune)
UCF fans acquire the phone number of USF QB Matt Grothe, bombard him with calls and texts. He’s dating a cute USF cheerleader, that’s probably why. (TBO.com)
More on the Rays’ struggles later, but perhaps these douchy designer duds are contributing to their collapse. (Yahoo Sports)
Emboldened by the win over Tennessee, Neuheisel visits recruits via helicopter. (Gutty Little Bruins)
Sure, we hit Sandler and Stiller hard, but this guy has been in a ton of quality flicks. (NYT)
Josh Beckett, unzipped. (Star-Telegram)
Signs from Gameday: “Thugs” cracked us up. (College Game Balls)
RIP Don Haskins. (Dallas Morning News)
Blogger/assistant GM talks to a blog. (It’s All About the Money, Stupid)
Serena Williams rolled Jankovic last night for her third US Open title last night. (Observer)
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September 8th, 2008 at 8:10 am
Its not in the roundup, but why the fuck is our government giving $20 billion to the auto industry? What a joke.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:12 am
CR – I had it linked up a couple weeks ago … bailouts for everyone!
May push for 20 posts today …
September 8th, 2008 at 8:14 am
There’s no way MSNBC could have foreseen that happening.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:17 am
I’m not gonna get any work done today.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Sorry bout that. I actually read something on it this weekend. I am disgusted.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:22 am
CRM can kiss my ass. He called Indy waxing Chicago’s ass. You all thought I was crazy. I hope hes not a gambling man.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:25 am
Pats will beat the Jets this week.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:26 am
Oh, and thanks for the good reading material in that Memphis story. Who wants to bond this fucker out and kill him? I think we would get the bond back.
Tampa- your comments on Friday were hillarious.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:27 am
To be fair, last week I had no idea the AFC sucked.
Steelers
…
Everybody else
September 8th, 2008 at 8:28 am
And here come all the obligatory week one overreactions. Remember after week one last year when the Browns were the worst team in the league after being waxed by the Steelers?
September 8th, 2008 at 8:30 am
@bsanders-does that mean the starting QB is being replaced?
September 8th, 2008 at 8:31 am
CRM – you need to keep a running tally on how you did.
V Good point.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:31 am
No, but here’s hoping another week of practice will bring back the Manning of old. The Bears were begging to be killed for blitzing last night and Manning just wouldn’t pull the trigger. Never seen that before.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:31 am
@bsanders – so you don’t think the Pats and Colts should just forfeit the rest of their games and get ready for ‘09? I do.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:31 am
He called Colts 38 – Bears 6. He can get his balls busted a little.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:32 am
You want me to keep count? There are like 100 games a week. Have one of the interns do it.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:32 am
Michael Smith on Mike & Mike says the Pats are going 12-4 without Brady. Not like he used to cover them or anything.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Wahlberg was given a gift with that part in “The Departed”. The Sgt. Dignam character had all the best lines in that movie.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:34 am
the colts defense dropped about 4 balls that should have been picked off.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:34 am
I love how Collinsworth said the Bills are going to win the division.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:35 am
Obligatory Week 1 overreaction: Falcons = Best team in the leauge
September 8th, 2008 at 8:35 am
For some reason at least a couple times a season Dungy just has a horrible strategic game and his team comes out completely flat and unprepared to play (San Diego and Steelers playoff game in 05, Jacksonville and Houston in 06, San Diego twice last year), so here’s hoping they got it out of the way early and it won’t happen in the playoffs this year.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:35 am
but the Rams do suck.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:37 am
I don’t think it’d be overreacting to call the Rams the worst team in the league. What’s the over/under on Linehan getting fired?
September 8th, 2008 at 8:38 am
And here come all the obligatory week one overreactions. Remember after week one last year when the Browns were the worst team in the league after being waxed by the Steelers?True…..I think this especially applies to the Colts. Offensively, the receivers looked like they just met Peyton Manning right before the game.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:39 am
so…can I retract my prediction that Atlanta would finish 0-17?
September 8th, 2008 at 8:40 am
It seemed like the Bears were on the snap count. The colts were in no rhythm at all and every play they seemed a step slow.
and NE secondary will have trouble. Croyle/Huard are two of the worst QBs in the league and Hobbs (even with pick) looked very ordinary. They will miss samuel.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:40 am
The guy with the big sign of just his head doing the “Zoolander face” was amazing. If I were ever to make a sign, that would be it.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:40 am
Michael Turner is going to rush for 3,000 yards this season. Easily.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:41 am
“I don’t even know how to play dirty, I just play the game”
But if bitches get in my way in the parking lot, it’s on!
September 8th, 2008 at 8:42 am
intern bill wins for the overreaction of the week. he emailed me, wanting an apology for saying his fantasy team sucked.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:42 am
sure are using a ton of water each month
Grant Hill has 9 1/2 bathrooms in his house. His water bill was $2,000. Tiger was billed for using 1.3 million gallons of water in one month
GO BILLS
September 8th, 2008 at 8:43 am
The Lions are the single worst franchise in all of sports. I sincerely wish they would move the whole damn thing to L.A. I told my GF the other day that I would love to move to Portland. She said “What is their NFL team?” and I said “They don’t have one and I am very happy about that.” If I were to help bring a child up in this world I would prefer that they not be forced to be a Lions fan.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Anyone ever notice there appears to be three posts with the “near castration” tag? Seems like two too many, doesn’t it?
September 8th, 2008 at 8:45 am
peyton manning looked awful yesterday. he didn’t play at all in the preseason so give him a week or two to work the kinks out. he won’t be throwing balls at the reciever’s feet all season like he did last night.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:45 am
Don’t ever confuse activity with accomplishment…
September 8th, 2008 at 8:45 am
So I guess the Colts get a pass because something didn’t seem right. The Bears D is not getting enough credit. Shit, the Bears O is not getting enough credit.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:47 am
I know it’s only 1 week, but for the Steelers to already have a game up advantage on the Browns in the division and the Chargers, Colts and Jags for playoff spots, not including the loss of Brady, is HUGE.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:48 am
@Roethlishotdog- Im lovin the AFC south. Its gonna be a battle.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:48 am
The Bears appear to finally have a good running back. The passing game still sucks.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:50 am
@Roethlishotdog – True, but considering they have to play the Browns twice and the Chargers and Colts still, I don’t know how much it’ll matter once the season starts to shake out.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Tampa – that division is tough. Not looking forward to playing all 4 of those teams this year (major contributor to why Steelers have the toughest schedule).
September 8th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Jacksonville sucked balls whats up with that?
September 8th, 2008 at 8:57 am
And didn’t they go on to beat like 1 team with a winning record? Seattle maybe?
September 8th, 2008 at 8:57 am
Jacksonville sucked balls against Tennessee in the opener last year, too. Colts, except for last year, typically struggle in their openers too (but usually win, of course). Have a feeling the AFC elite will take a few weeks to sort itself out this season.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:59 am
@Tampa – I’ll tell you what’s up with that…Jacksonville sucks balls. Their supposedly good offense got dominated by a good defense in a divisional game. Jags performance = the suck.
September 8th, 2008 at 9:20 am
never have, never will
blame it on being by the cpu all day sunday. anytime a post thought came to me .. i started it
September 8th, 2008 at 9:48 am
The Titans D is about the best you’ll ever see. I swear they may break records if they stay healthy.
September 8th, 2008 at 10:02 am
The rule itself might be bogus, but the refs made the right call. Washington still could have made the extra point, I didn’t realize a 35 yard extra point became impossible like all the ESPN pundits seem to believe.
September 8th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Only if I can retract my statement claiming Detroit to be this year’s “sleeper team.”