The Roundup: Only Five Days to the NFL Draft!
College Basketball, ESPN, High School Sports, Media Gossip/Musings, NBA, NBA Draft, NFL, NHL April 21st. 2009, 8:00am
It’s Jessica Simpson! … who’s ready for the mounting credit card losses? … Brooke Hogan in a bikini always stirs debate … 12 major brands that could disappear this year, including Esquire? … Susan Boyle as a metaphor for hope, and it’s not a good thing …TBL reader Jerry O’Connell is getting hounded by paparazzi in Toronto … FBI agents busted videotaping girls trying on prom dresses … after the jump, Andy Roddick’s new wife …
Stephen Curry’s dad, the old Hornets sharpshooter, claims his son really has not made a decision about turning pro. (Charlotte Observer)
T-Mac, not sold on the Cavaliers. (Sports Radio Interviews)
Semin scores twice, Caps finally beat the Rangers, trim the series deficit to 2-1. (Wash Post)
Jaguars lock up Torry Holt for three years. (Times-Union)
Why we don’t think the Seahawks will draft Sanchez fourth. (Seattle Times)
We’re over Roger Clemens, but we are eager to hear what this porn star has to say about hooking up with Rocket. (NYDN)
Anyone want to buy the swanky Cleveland home of Larry Hughes? (Cleveland Scene)
ESPN’s John Buccigross talks to a blog. (Barry Melrose Rocks)
Will anybody ask this of Goodell during his NFL.com chat today? (Joe Bucs Fan)
Jay Cutler’s college coach: He’s no whiner. (Blogdown Chicago Bears)
Hey, look! It’s Matt Ryan filming a Sportscenter commercial with the morning team of Hannah Storm and Josh Elliott. (Boston Herald)
Forget about Stephen Strasburg – what about the Florida high schooler who keeps tossing no-hitters? (Online Sports Guys)
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April 21st, 2009 at 8:09 AM
pay off your credit card debt and you’ll be ready for it.
April 21st, 2009 at 8:15 AM
wil – actually, it may be a decision. if you have 15k in CC debt but no other cash in savings … what if you lose your job next month?
then you have no money, and no job.
i’d save first a nice little safety net first (6 monthts of living expenses), and then pay off the CC debt.
April 21st, 2009 at 8:16 AM
i cant remember who the hell he married because she looks different. its too early in the morning.
April 21st, 2009 at 8:19 AM
I’ll say it…. I would tap Brooke Hogan. Period.
April 21st, 2009 at 8:20 AM
shes hit or miss. i’d like to know what she looks like in person. today she looks like a tranny
April 21st, 2009 at 8:24 AM
the people that are in over their head with CC are debt, are much like the people (dare I say the same?) that couldn’t afford their mortgage and never should have received one. These people cannot even attempt to save now because all they are busy doing is paying off the finance charges on their credit card to just get by without it going to collection.
April 21st, 2009 at 8:25 AM
I’ll never understand racking up that much CC debt. Barring major illness, I have no pity for this. I’ve never had more on a credit card that I couldn’t pay off at the end of the month.
April 21st, 2009 at 8:25 AM
The Hulkster must be really getting ready to go Orenthal after seeing his daughter with the skinny little rapper punk. First his wife is doing a 19 year old loser, now is daughter is doing a Pitbull look-a-like from Miami
April 21st, 2009 at 8:27 AM
BK Decker?
the guy in fla. throwing no nos is crazy. if that was iowa or oregon i’d buy it but those numbers in fla. is astounding.
April 21st, 2009 at 8:28 AM
I’ll say it…. I would tap Brooke Hogan. On her period.
April 21st, 2009 at 8:29 AM
i thought it was funny as shit what he said about understanding oj
April 21st, 2009 at 8:33 AM
That’s too bad. I hope Stacey Greenrock-Woods latches on somewhere else or goes online. She may be the funniest magazine writer in America. Not sure that’s saying much, but still…
April 21st, 2009 at 8:39 AM
no doubt, it’s a tough decision for everyone. sparty’s right, a lot of the people with massive credit card debt are the same ones that bought massive houses with an ARM rate and are in trouble. Learn to live within your means, it’s a rude awakening for a lot of people.
April 21st, 2009 at 8:39 AM
Esquire is the most self-important publication in existence. Its demise will not be lamented.
April 21st, 2009 at 8:42 AM
You realize you’re under contract with the ROCKETS, you know, that team you stabbed in the back, and those teammates you like to throw under the bus. What a piece of shit.
April 21st, 2009 at 8:42 AM
crooked – i was reading some of the “rules” to my wife this weekend and she said the exact same thing. I believe one of the ‘rules’ was … ‘the most difficult temperature to dress for is 48 degrees.’
funny or lame?
April 21st, 2009 at 8:42 AM
My smoothie king just came up a little.
April 21st, 2009 at 8:44 AM
Isn’t the way you phrased that just a BIT hypocritical?
April 21st, 2009 at 8:47 AM
Music to my ears.
April 21st, 2009 at 8:52 AM
How should I have phrased it, BSanders? Isn’t it “self-important” to make comments on blogs in general? I mean, you’re commenting because you think you have something worthwhile to say, no?
What, I need to write ‘dick joke’ after everything, just to keep my street cred?
April 21st, 2009 at 8:54 AM
As far as the credit card debt issue…
Have a close friend who bought what he thought was an investment/flip property. He then dumped his savings into it and had it on the market for sale. About the same time the economy dumped and he lost his job. He then couldn’t find employment and he used his CC’s to pay his mortgage and try to live on.
In the end he lost the house to the bank and was stuck with CC debt up to his eye balls.
Obviously there is risk with any investment but my buddy hit the worst string of luck I have ever seen. Thus sticking him with CC debt he couldn’t pay off.
April 21st, 2009 at 8:56 AM
I’ll never understand racking up that much CC debt. Barring major illness, I have no pity for this. I’ve never had more on a credit card that I couldn’t pay off at the end of the month.
I agree. However, I know a handful of people who have excessive credit card debt because they used them to pay off their college loans when they lost their jobs last year. I don’t feel bad for people who have CC debt and a 6k wardrobe, but I do feel for those people who were pretty much forced into paying school loans off with CCs.
April 21st, 2009 at 8:58 AM
2nd round of the playoffs not sold on T-Mac.
April 21st, 2009 at 8:59 AM
12 major brands that could disappear this year
Not the GAP!!
/Hef
April 21st, 2009 at 9:00 AM
Ill im in credit card debt because I bought playstation, XBOX, Jerseys, Jordans, Alcohol and took cash out for weed in college. Luckily its only about 3K. My girlfriend moved in with me and Im almost debt free.
April 21st, 2009 at 9:02 AM
TBL, I used to subscribe to Esquire just to read Klosterman, and there’d be occasional great pieces from Chris Jones and (believe it or not) A.J. Jacobs. But Tom Chiarella is a poser. He talks about being a man’s man and the guy looks like Artie Lange after an 8-ball. Their sports writing, both in the mag and online, is pretty awful, too. And the way they present everything — the genius issue, the greatest this, the greatest that, buy a $1,000 cigar and match it with these $5,000 cuff links — is just lame. Hey, if Best Life can go out of business (and it just did), then Esquire can, too. They used to print good fiction. Now they print fiction written on cocktail napkins.
April 21st, 2009 at 9:03 AM
Luckily its only about 3K. My girlfriend moved in with me and Im almost debt free.
Have her pay $3,000 to fuck you all the time, tampa? I’d say either that’s slavery or brilliance
April 21st, 2009 at 9:05 AM
I can’t have any empathy for house flippers, as they were a major offenders in the whole predatory lending phenomenon. They always wanted zero down, zero interest ARMs and if your buddy got burned, well, so did a lot of people. He jumped into a risky endeavor.
I have a credit card that I do as close to 100% of my spending on. And every month, I cringe at how remarkably cavalier I am with money, and then I pay it off.
Thank God my wife’s job(s) are depression proof.
April 21st, 2009 at 9:06 AM
McGrady just doesn’t like players that aren’t injury prone/pussies.
April 21st, 2009 at 9:07 AM
Tampa – Fat white chicks have been saving brothers with debt for years now, that’s nothing new.
April 21st, 2009 at 9:10 AM
If you are carrying any credit card debt, now is a great time to call your credit card company and ask for a reduction in the interest rate. You’d be surprised how many times this will work. They often would rather drop the rate than risk having another delinquent account.
April 21st, 2009 at 9:12 AM
If you are carrying any credit card debt, now is a great time to call your credit card company and ask for a reduction in the interest rate. You’d be surprised how many times this will work. They often would rather drop the rate than risk having another delinquent account.
/spam alert
April 21st, 2009 at 9:17 AM
you can also see about balance transfers since a lot of offers have a very low interest rate for 12 months. probably a lot better than paying the absurd 25% APR most cards carry with debt.
April 21st, 2009 at 9:18 AM
I’m with most here on the credit card debt thing. The ONLY excuse you have is for sudden, unforeseen health issues. Your buddy that flipped a house? He was taking a calculated risk, and he lost out. That’s not “the system’s” fault (not saying that’s what you were implying), that’s his fault.
Why would you pay student loans off with a credit card? Most student loan interest rates are 5% or lower, and the monthly payment is low too (because they stretch them out over 20+ years. So in my estimation, paying your student loan off with a credit card is pretty stupid.
I agree with Sparty – this is equivalent to people who had to try to keep up with the Joneses by buying houses they couldn’t afford (what they didn’t realize is the Joneses could actually afford theirs). It’s not my fault, it’s not the housing market’s fault, and it’s not the credit card companies’ fault.
Wow…I sound really self-righteous. Sorry – this just gets me fired up.
April 21st, 2009 at 9:19 AM
nice to see some props for brooke hogan
April 21st, 2009 at 9:20 AM
This is true. I need to get one.
April 21st, 2009 at 9:20 AM
And not to be overly judgmental, but Brooke looks a little too much like her dad for me…she’s got some pythons for legs.
April 21st, 2009 at 9:23 AM
What up ATL, long time no see. I agree with all of that and I believe (not positive) that with most student loans you can file for a hardship waver if you lose your job where they let you go without payments for like 6 months.
April 21st, 2009 at 9:25 AM
re: Brooke Hogan – wouldn’t her balls get in the way of relations?
April 21st, 2009 at 9:28 AM
Hey Coop – changed jobs and I actually have to work now…that’s where I’ve been.
You’re right about student loans. That’s why most financial experts say they’re one example of “good debt” to have, because it’s usually a very low, fixed payment with a very low interest rate, and they’ll make all kinds of concessions for you. It just seems like people try to find an excuse for everything. If you have too much credit card debt, it’s probably your fault. Not anyone else’s
April 21st, 2009 at 9:29 AM
i tried to buy a car after my first deployment to iraq. thats when i found out my mom had a credit card in my name and i owed $6,000 and it hadnt been paid in 2 or 3 years
April 21st, 2009 at 9:30 AM
ill, I guess that did sound a bit spammy, but Dave Ramsey is solidly behind that idea.
And Brooke Hogan is starting to look a little too much like Linda for my taste.
April 21st, 2009 at 9:32 AM
linda had to be on steriods. i have no evidence like that reporter writing about grant hill.
April 21st, 2009 at 9:33 AM
shes a big bitch though and look at her daughter
April 21st, 2009 at 9:33 AM
TexansFan thats horrible. That sucks on so many levels.
April 21st, 2009 at 9:34 AM
Why is that dude wearing a bikini?
April 21st, 2009 at 9:35 AM
I know I’m in the minority here, but I like taller, leaner girls… I feel weird when I’m with a tiny, skinny one… God I sound like A-Rod
April 21st, 2009 at 9:36 AM
I agree with most of the credit card statements here but not everyone in credit card debt has done it to themselves. There are some things that happen that leave you little choice. I have a decent amount of credit card debt but I bought a house well within my means and did the same when my car finally crapped out. My problem is that my wife got laid off right as we got married and had her own car and house payments. Needless to say, most of the saved cash that I had went to the car and house payments every month and left any other expenses on the credit cards. Shit happens and you deal with it but not everyone in cc debt has self inflicted said debt problems.
April 21st, 2009 at 9:43 AM
dwalt, Mike posted something here about saving to buy a car. You should never, ever have car payments. Cars depreciate in value so much that paying interest on them is insane.
Jersey, the problem isn’t that she’s lean and tall. The problem is she has a dude’s chin (and probably the balls to match)
April 21st, 2009 at 9:44 AM
I like big bitches.
April 21st, 2009 at 9:48 AM
thats when i found out my mom had a credit card in my name and i owed $6,000 and it hadnt been paid in 2 or 3 years
damn dude thats horrible, how did you get that worked out?
April 21st, 2009 at 10:08 AM
She’s also got some massive C cups. Possibly low Ds. Are you not impressed?! ARE YOU NOT IMPRESSED?!?
April 21st, 2009 at 10:11 AM
Glass Yard Dog – Sorry. I hear that commercial everyday on my way to work.
April 21st, 2009 at 10:22 AM
Wow credit cards are a hot button here I see go figure.
Brooke Hogan needs some more tramp-stamping to slim down that otherwise fine round ass
Mmmm Jessica’s got back — her too for that matter. Go Tampa I like ‘em spicy too!
Speaking of fine asses, did you catch the new Burger King ads that should piss a whole bunch of folks off because they promote square pants like this? Sir-Mix-A-Lot cameo too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm6d2oy8GRk
Amazing for a product targeted to little kids!
April 21st, 2009 at 10:38 AM
I agree. I paid it off in two years. So, I currently, am car payment free.
April 21st, 2009 at 11:29 AM
I’m in the camp that I’d hit it too and then I’d come off the ropes and drop the leg on her.
/I am a real American!