The Roundup: Hansbrough’s Hurt, Tebow’s a Film Geek, and Halloween’s Tonight
Baseball, College Basketball, College Football, High School Sports, NFL, Race, Sick and Twisted Individuals, Soccer, Track & Field October 31st. 2008, 8:02am
Elizabeth Banks, because her movie opens this weekend, and after the jump, our favorite WAG … the Bonnie & Clyde of Las Vegas real estate … a sad, sad way to die, and as an aside, not only did we cross paths with this person a decade ago, but we also have been to this spot in Hawaii, and it is incredibly spectacular … if you’re from New Jersey, you’ll love this … Kansas State tries to incorporate the new Batman, fails …
Three initials UNC hoops fans do not want to hear: an MRI for Hansbrough. (Ballin is a Habit)
Tim Tebow spends 20 hours a week watching film of opponents, yet somehow still maintains a 3.8 GPA. (NY Times)
Terrific look at sports franchises and the shaky economy. (Play Magazine)
Thinking that Marion Jones lied to Oprah. (Chicago Tribune)
An oldie but a goodie: How Suriname loses all of its best soccer players to the Dutch. (Virginia Quarterly Review)
Despite an opening-night loss to Minnesota, optimism reigns in Sacramento. (Sactown Royalty)
Things we can’t believe about this story: EVERYTHING. Please read this and send it to every single person you know in Concord, New Hampshire. They’ll need it. (Concord Monitor)
The redemption of Brad Lidge. (Bugs and Cranks)
Getting back to Serby vs. Plax and that “noose” reference. (NY Post)
High school kid catches 24 passes for 461 yards and six TDs in a loss. (The Big Picture)
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October 31st, 2008 at 8:05 am
Which WAG is that?
October 31st, 2008 at 8:09 am
Gotta be Cheryl Tweedy, right?
October 31st, 2008 at 8:10 am
3.8 GPA my ass, how many classes do you think he takes while in season? 2 at the most probably, and what kind of classes do you think those are? Let’s not get too crazy here
October 31st, 2008 at 8:12 am
Of course it helps to put your cursor over the picture. Or notice how often Miss Tweedy is shown by TBL.
/slaps forehead and mutters “I’m an idiot.”
October 31st, 2008 at 8:14 am
How ’bout JUST TAKING HIM OUT OF THE GAME!
October 31st, 2008 at 8:14 am
wow, small world, very sad. I actually spoke with Heather Westphal quite a bit while dealing with that agency.
October 31st, 2008 at 8:16 am
Tebow majors in Family, Youth and Community Sciences. WTF is that?
Just major in General Studies or Kinesiology like every other football player.
October 31st, 2008 at 8:16 am
maybe oprah will be angry and just make marion jones disappear.
October 31st, 2008 at 8:30 am
Jonathan Perfetto, ohio state fan.
October 31st, 2008 at 8:30 am
The parking garage pedo has been all over the news up here. He’s since moved elsewhere.
October 31st, 2008 at 8:31 am
@roth – it’s a social services major, basically.
October 31st, 2008 at 8:36 am
I think some of the people that majored in that will be cooking/serving me my lunch today.
October 31st, 2008 at 8:45 am
Remember that UF is in the Florida panhandle, education isn’t exactly their “thing”.
October 31st, 2008 at 8:46 am
Mike and Mike actually made me laugh. For one they are wearing Batman and Robin costumes, but more importantly Golic went on a tirade about people passing out fruits and toothbrushes on Halloween. I hated that as a kid.
October 31st, 2008 at 8:50 am
@cool rick
What about the asshole who gave out nickels?
October 31st, 2008 at 8:52 am
Nickels? Really?
October 31st, 2008 at 8:52 am
CR-Rather have a toothbrush than a Razor blade in my Snicker. I’m never le
Remember that UF is in the Florida panhandle
FSU is in the Panhandle.
October 31st, 2008 at 8:53 am
I love handing out candy. I love sending the kids who are not in costume away empty handed. The least they could do is put a sheet on. I know I wasn’t about to spend a fortune on costumes for my kids, so i made them get creative and make their own.
October 31st, 2008 at 8:55 am
67 degrees in Milwaukee @ 8 am. it’s gonna be really nice this weekend. the Halloween sluts will be out and i for one am really excited about this.
October 31st, 2008 at 8:56 am
oh i hated the asholes who gave out nickels. what am i gonna buy with a nickel?
October 31st, 2008 at 8:56 am
A few years back my dad and I would hide behind our bushes and scare the kids and then give em candy.
October 31st, 2008 at 8:56 am
Peyton Manning scoffs at Tebow’s 20 hours a week.
October 31st, 2008 at 8:57 am
what am i gonna buy with a nickel?
Nickel Candy?
October 31st, 2008 at 8:58 am
20 hours a week?
That’ll really pay off when he’s playing safety in the NFL in 2 years.
October 31st, 2008 at 8:58 am
Nick Saban was born on Halloween, figures.
October 31st, 2008 at 8:59 am
He’s too slow to play safety. Maybe fullback…
October 31st, 2008 at 9:00 am
67 degrees in Milwaukee @ 8 am. it's gonna be really nice this weekend. the Halloween sluts will be out and i for one am really excited about this.take pictures, please.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:02 am
Mike Greenberg’s nipples > Chris O’Donnell’s nipples
October 31st, 2008 at 9:02 am
I am giving out raisins tonight
October 31st, 2008 at 9:03 am
Does anybody know what US city has the highest population of ghosts?
October 31st, 2008 at 9:04 am
Erie?
October 31st, 2008 at 9:04 am
Spookane, Washington
October 31st, 2008 at 9:05 am
will do.
damn, i’ve never heard of someone giving out nickels. that’s pretty weak. one house i went to every year had what we thought was a giant stuffed person with blood and all ghory shit on him. and when you would reach in the bowl to get candy, the fucker would jump out at you because it was a real person. it was a funny but mean prank.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:06 am
Actually, its New York
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Egon
October 31st, 2008 at 9:08 am
who didn’t take “just one” from home that put the candy in the bowl on the doorstep?
October 31st, 2008 at 9:08 am
I thought it was Salem.
/nerd
October 31st, 2008 at 9:09 am
Maggs- that would be where the witches are from.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:09 am
@CRM
Wow.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:09 am
@sparty- took the entire bowl
October 31st, 2008 at 9:12 am
i hated raisins. quickly threw them out or gave them to mom upon returning home.
i really liked nerds. it’s cool to crush one of those tiny boxes on one gulp.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:12 am
Well said, cool_rick.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:13 am
I think the most haunted city is New Orleans. There is this old cemetery in NO that has over 100,000 people buried in a one block lot. It’s called the St. Louis Cemetery Number 1. Among many other things, like the home of voodoo….and French people!
October 31st, 2008 at 9:14 am
see: CRM, intern bill, tyduffy, Imig, etc.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:15 am
I’ve got nerds in my packages. Nerds, skittles, and starbursts. Doesn’t get any better than that my friends.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:16 am
The absolute best were the houses that gave out whole candy bars. The families must have been loaded, and it was glorious.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:17 am
I think I am one of the minority that enjoyed getting Good and Plenty.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:19 am
Smarties were always my favorite. Anyone know if they still make Fun Dip?
October 31st, 2008 at 9:19 am
I’m pissed that you can no longer get Nerd Blizzards at Dairy Queen, it was like mainlining sugar.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:20 am
@cool_rick: they do. I bought one a couple years ago just for the hell of it.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:20 am
yes, fun dip is still around. i love me some M&M’s
October 31st, 2008 at 9:20 am
Pixie Sticks. Never was a fan of them, but that was the cocaine of candy.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:21 am
We used to crush smarties up as kids on the bus and snort them. Man did that hurt…
October 31st, 2008 at 9:23 am
peanut m&ms are the bees knees irish
October 31st, 2008 at 9:23 am
Yeah – like nwilson with his smarties, we actually snorted the pixie stix on occasion.
Personal fave: Peanut M&M’s
October 31st, 2008 at 9:25 am
Sugar Daddys were the best.
A sure fire way to rip the teeth right out of your head.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:25 am
The funny thing about us snorting the candy was that none of really knew why we were doing it or what we were trying to imitate. We were just some good ole’ stupid.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:26 am
i want a hundred thousand dollar bar.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:28 am
When I was in grade school, a bunch of kids in the class below mine got suspended for snorting concentrated powdered Gatorade.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:28 am
Peanut Butter M&M’s > Peanut M&M’s
October 31st, 2008 at 9:31 am
Crispy M&Ms > any other M&Ms
/never understood why those never caught on
October 31st, 2008 at 9:34 am
Coop – I know a DQ that still serves nerds blizzards. Oh yeah, Suggardaddys. Those were good.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:41 am
Peanut butter M&M’s are the shit. Buffett used to give out King Sized Hershey bars, if I remember correctly.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:43 am
i loved the “honor system” houses on halloween
October 31st, 2008 at 9:49 am
Those were the best, without question.
Nerds > all other candies.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:50 am
dark chocalate peanut m&m’s pwns all else.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:52 am
Actually, let me rephrase:
Nerds > all non-chocolate candies
Peanut Butter M&M’s are the king of chocolate candies.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:56 am
Oreo blizzard > Nerds blizzard
October 31st, 2008 at 9:57 am
I’m going to be giving out fried eggs and beer.
/coneheaded
October 31st, 2008 at 10:03 am
recees peanut butter cup blizzard kicks ass
October 31st, 2008 at 10:10 am
I had a Great Aunt who used to tell me she would put pennies on a sheet tray, heat them up, and hand them out to all the little “snotty-noses” on her block. For a couple of years, I actually believed her. Then I turned 30 and realized she was kidding
October 31st, 2008 at 10:15 am
I’m with cool_rick on this one. Oreo blizzards knock the socks off of all other blizzards.
My favorite Halloween tradition when I was in high school was to put a couple of rocking chairs out on our lawn with a strobe light. One had a scarecrow in it, the other had me dressed in all black so you could not see any of my skin. It was right next to the path to the front door. I had my mom put out a “take one” bowl, and anyone who took more than one got scared shitless.
Good times.