The Roundup: Sober Yet? Happy New Year!
College Football, Courts, Legal, Howard Stern, Media Gossip/Musings, NBA, NFL, NHL, Television, Video January 2nd. 2009, 8:00am
Would have been nice to open the year on a beach, like Kristin Cavallari … why Wall Street is messed up: Three months on the job, $25 million bonus … forget our negative savings rate: Why is everyone carrying so much debt? … back on the chain gang … some of the comments on this Brady/Gisele non-item are hilarious … Aspen is lucky local police snuffed out this bomb plot … after the jump more Cavallari; see a shot from the back here …
The Winter Classic sounded like a lot of fun. (Tribune)
How to be frugal in 2009, with help from websites. (Slate)
Bob Stoops, the $6 million man. (Sports Biz)
2009 is a pivotal year for SiriusXM, which stinks, because we greatly enjoy it, and regular radio (sans NPR) is absolutely unlistentoable. (NYT)
Redskins’ fan rebellion, quickly squelched online. (DC Sports Bog)
George Karl on his 900th win. (Sports Addict)
Really hope Mike Greenberg mentions his NFL predictions victory on air next week, and doesn’t forget to mention the lowly blogger who somehow pulled off another 5th place finish. (Wall St. Journal)
Because we didn’t really get into it: Some serious love for Oden after his awesome performance against Boston. (Dwight Jaynes)
People driving Escalades and other high-end vehicles are frequenting pawn shops. Uh, why not ditch the leased car you can’t afford? (Plain-Dealer)
Barry Bonds had hip surgery. Anyone want him now? (Ricky Treon)
It’s drunk-driving wrecks like these that make us upset at Charles Barkley for his DUI. (Star-Telegram)
Hoping that the sour economy means cheap deals for attending sporting events. (New Republic)
Three Oakland RBs and Clinton Portis all rang in the New Year in Vegas. (Review Journal)
We’re just happy to be mentioned in the same rankings as the esteemed Newsday blogs. (What about Bob)
TSN’s new hockey theme is done by the Barenaked Ladies. (Online Sports Guys)
No Redskins in the playoffs? No job? Bummer. (Jobless and Less)
Scrubs returns to the air next week. (NY Times)
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January 2nd, 2009 at 8:13 AM
Would have been nice to open the year on a beach, with Kristin Cavallari
January 2nd, 2009 at 8:15 AM
you should try it sometime, it really is great.
January 2nd, 2009 at 8:17 AM
done it before, but this year, with the chilling temps in the north, i REALLY wish i had
January 2nd, 2009 at 8:21 AM
would have been nice to open the year with a friggin bowl win
January 2nd, 2009 at 8:33 AM
You still actually listen to that crap? The First Team on FSR blows it out of the water. I’d rather listen to radio play-by-play of the latest Bass Fishing event than Mike & Mike.
January 2nd, 2009 at 8:42 AM
the real problem with SiriusXM, aside from their poorly managed financial issues, is the lousy programming after the merger. Rock stations on XM were much better than this crap Sirius puts out there.
January 2nd, 2009 at 8:44 AM
If you aren’t a fan of either Clemson or Nebraska you probably didn’t watch the Gator Bowl, but I’m telling you, that was a good game. Games like that make me still think the bowl system is the best way. Any one who says the “lesser” bowls don’t matter should watch that game and see if they think the players wanted to win that game.
January 2nd, 2009 at 8:45 AM
@wilhelm – I can’t figure out some of the new programming. I hear SiriusXM ads all the time about new programming such as the NFL now on a few XM channels and if I turn my receiver on any of these new XM channels, it automatically goes back to the one I was listening to like the new ones don’t exist.
January 2nd, 2009 at 8:47 AM
no, i dont. but they name-checked me last time, and that’s always good pub for the site.
January 2nd, 2009 at 8:48 AM
in a 16-team playoff, that game would have mattered to more than the players and the schools. i saw some of it, good times indeed
January 2nd, 2009 at 8:49 AM
@angry – the Gator Bowl is not a “lesser bowl.” here’s some lesser bowls:
EagleBank Bowl – Wake Forest vs. Navy
New Mexico Bowl – Colorado State vs. Fresno State
magicJack St. Petersburg Bowl – Memphis vs. South Florida
Pioneer Las Vegas Bowl – BYU vs. Arizona
R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl – Southern Miss vs. Troy
January 2nd, 2009 at 8:49 AM
@mizerle
yeah, you have to sign up for those, and i think those channels might actually cost more than a regular subscription (could be wrong, probably am).
i signed up b/c it was in my car and terrestrial radio in my area was limited and played the same songs over and over again. that’s what SirusXM rock stations sound like now. It’s shitty.
January 2nd, 2009 at 8:52 AM
sure, most teams on the field want to win the game they are playing, even if they are crappy teams. the thing is, there’s too many bowls and they are full of teams that shouldn’t be there. I thought a bowl invite was a reward for a good team that had a good season, no?
January 2nd, 2009 at 8:52 AM
The Winter Classic, especially the national anthem, was incredible.
January 2nd, 2009 at 8:53 AM
The Gator Bowl isn’t what it once was.
January 2nd, 2009 at 8:55 AM
@wilhelm – interesting. I know a couple of channels that came over in the merger for free. they already want me to get a new receiver because I received a letter from XM saying mine is a nuisance since someone else’s vehicle could pick it’s signal up beside me at a traffic light so I probably won’t be paying for any new channels. funny thing about that is the only way they’re picking up my signal is if they are listening to a frequency with nothing but static playing.
January 2nd, 2009 at 8:56 AM
Good points by both TBL and miz.
However, to TBL, a 16-team playoff isn’t happening. I think we’ll see a playoff in the future, but not 16 teams.
The point of my inital post was to retort some of the idiots I see of TV who say that any bowl that doesn’t have national championship implication doesn’t matter. That’s just plain wong. Maybe it doens’t matter to the casual fan. But, to the players and fan of the teams involved, it matters a whole hell of a lot, and I think this year’s Gator Bowl was a prime example of how much the kids playing the game wanted to win.
January 2nd, 2009 at 9:05 AM
i used to be all for a playoff but now, im against one. a +1 is the only way to go…gotta keep the bowl games because, really, what’s the point of having a college football team if only the same 10-12 teams have a shot at the whole thing every year? why would a non-BCS school like utah even waste the money on football when they know, even if they go undefeated, they don’t have a shot at it?
the bowl system is fine…why are we complaining, we get to watch teams we don’t normally see play teams they don’t normally play? just adopt the +1 and let the big boys fight it out but going to a 16-team playoff would be disasterous.
January 2nd, 2009 at 9:06 AM
angry – how’s this … a bunch of bowl games COULD matter if a playoff were instituted. a post is coming on this topic, but when people say it “doesn’t matter” – they mean that the game has no bearing on anything (standings, rankings, national title, etc).
that’s why i put little stock in the pac 10 going 5-0 (also a post later)
January 2nd, 2009 at 9:26 AM
I miss my Old School Hip-Hop on XM. Luckily, I now have Elvis and Jimmy Buffett 24/7.
/sincere
January 2nd, 2009 at 9:30 AM
@clown they took backspin off of sirius which was also old school, I don’t understand it but glad I now have Zeppelin
/now sober and feeling all the bruises from a 2am fall
January 2nd, 2009 at 9:30 AM
don’t forget 24/7 Led Zeppelin, clown.
January 2nd, 2009 at 9:33 AM
Zep I can take. Same for the Boss. The rest can go fuck themselves: Margaritaville, the Dead, Buffett, AC/DC, Elvis.
XM went from 3 Hispanic stations to 1. XM is racist.
January 2nd, 2009 at 9:54 AM
Reason #342 why there will never be a playoff, I read that the PSU band required 2 planes to carry all the people and equipment. Good luck just packing all that up and flying somewhere else the next week.
January 2nd, 2009 at 10:05 AM
speaking of marching bands…can we please get an injunction against the PSU band from EVER playing that gay ass riff from that one White Stripes song again? jesus, they fucking play that at least 3,000 times per game and it sucks.
January 2nd, 2009 at 10:13 AM
give them some credit, spence. it’s usually pretty tough to cover a song that already sucks.
January 2nd, 2009 at 10:17 AM
“why would a non-BCS school like utah even waste the money on football when they know, even if they go undefeated, they don’t have a shot at it?”
they do it now, why wouldn’t they do it with a playoff
January 2nd, 2009 at 10:28 AM
I agree. Terrestrial radio is completely unlistenable. Thank you, Clear Channel, Chancellor, ESPN, and the rest. Thankfully, I have my iPod and podcasts.
Who is Kristin Cavallari? Besides a semi-attractive white girl? She is no Lauren Graham.
January 2nd, 2009 at 12:00 PM
Would have been nice to open the year on a beach, under Kristin Cavallari
Does Mike Greenberg really know anything?