The Roundup: Summer’s Over, Unfortunately
Athletes and Celebrities, Baseball, College Basketball, College Football, Courts, Legal, Death, Drugs, ESPN, Hazing, NFL, Race September 8th. 2009, 8:00am
Blake Lively … oddly addictive … securitizing death? Way to go, Wall Street … “Due to a legal loophole, prostitution is legal in Rhode Island as long as it happens indoors” … our personal favorite: the cussword approach … yup, we’ll be watching the new Melrose Place tonight …when in doubt, go with the kick to the groin … @shitmydadsays gets the WSJ treatment … woman tongue-kisses 6-year-old boy, gets arrested … two great white sharks tagged off Cape Cod …
Great read: The first integrated basketball game in the South took place in 1944. Yup, the date is correct. (Duke Magazine)
If Mark May can find a good tie, the guy could be the most menacing college football analyst on the planet. (Sports Hernia)
So Terrell Owens is no longer dating SI model Jessica White? Apparently she was photographed in London with Sean Penn. (Page 6)
This might be the best non-sports story you read all week. Incredibly long, but incredibly awesome. (New Yorker)
“ESPN on ABC’s Alabama-Virginia Tech on Saturday night. Brought to you as ‘The Chick-Fil-A Kickoff Game presented by Southwest Airlines as part of Dick’s Sports Kickoff Week, followed by the Ford Wrap-up Show,’ it was none of that. The game’s dominant theme was that ESPN had a NASCAR race the next day.” (Do we even need to say?)
The sad history of the kid who killed a legendary high school football coach. (Des Moines Register)
Signs from the Virginia Tech-Alabama game – we’re fond of the Julio Jones one. (CGB)
A vote for Chris Carpenter in the NL Cy Young race. (But the Game is On)
That’s quite a dinner tab for a rookie to pick up. (Shaun Phillips twitter)
“The reason college football does not have a playoff is that most of the people responsible for administering the sport do not want one.” Greed. (NYT)
High school football coach slash police officer. (Chicago Tribune)
Cecil Cooper and race. (Sports Justice)
“… was arrested Friday after police said they discovered squalid conditions and people living in converted chicken coops …” (LA Times)
The ladies of Lingerie football want to be taken seriously, dammit. (Red Eye)
Challenge: Find a better punt return than this one in football history. Rocket Ismail comes close because the National title was on the line, but it was called back. Desmond Howard’s up there, too thanks to the rivalry and Keith Jackson.
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September 8th, 2009 at 8:24 AM
ugh. I read the cecil cooper title and xed out of it. He hasnt even been fired yet and all the race and raw deal articles are coming out. If only he was doing a good job instead of a poor job. Damn..
September 8th, 2009 at 8:33 AM
The people of Heber, UT sure do love their candy….
September 8th, 2009 at 8:35 AM
is the CNN vid working for everyone?
saw this AM on the news … unreal
September 8th, 2009 at 8:37 AM
I, for one, would like to be the first to salute our new dark, lisp-free college football overlord.
September 8th, 2009 at 8:38 AM
great round up today TBL. Awesome article about the kid who killed the HS football coach. Sad stuff
September 8th, 2009 at 8:44 AM
The thing I love about Mark May, other than that he was a fucking awesome player, is he sits there just as incredulous as I do when Holtz says something ridiculous or starts getting his spittle all worked up into a lather over Notre Dame. He knows the camera’s on him and some of the old timers might take umbrage, but he doesn’t give a fuck. He knows he’s sitting next to a buffoon, so he laughs. And so do I. Good for you, Mr. May.
September 8th, 2009 at 8:46 AM
read that New Yorker article last week. Texas executed an innocent man.
September 8th, 2009 at 8:46 AM
God damn that Miami game was great last night. Jacory Harris looks like a stud. That article on the shitmydadsays was awesome. I want to meet that man.
September 8th, 2009 at 8:52 AM
emmitt smith’s new career: BBQing on GMA.
i had it on mute so i dont know what he’s been saying.
September 8th, 2009 at 8:54 AM
no prize for the challenge?
September 8th, 2009 at 8:55 AM
Sanders you really need to hear some of Holtz’s speeches and talks he’s given. He’s an incredible speaker when he’s not playing the wacky analyst for ESPN.
September 8th, 2009 at 8:56 AM
Harris looked good for the U last night as did there tailback, Cooper. He is really explosive once he gets thru to the 2nd level of defenders.
Hester’s punt return is sick.
September 8th, 2009 at 8:57 AM
Hernia, I agree completely. I will say though, they were a bit better when he could actually pronounce the words.
September 8th, 2009 at 8:59 AM
I’ve heard some. Didn’t do much for me. Just can’t take him seriously.
September 8th, 2009 at 9:10 AM
He is a very good and uplifting public speaker. In person, he isn;t a crazy batshit old man.
September 8th, 2009 at 9:11 AM
That New Yorker article should just be called “Whoops: Why we shouldn’t have the death penalty.”
/totally not surprised by any of the things that happened in that guy’s trial.
September 8th, 2009 at 9:15 AM
Signs from the Virginia Tech-Alabama game
What’s up with that shirt? And what the fuck is Hokietron?
September 8th, 2009 at 9:18 AM
Take the time to go back and read it. The article takes pretty much the opposite position you’d infer from the title.
September 8th, 2009 at 9:35 AM
Yeah, great return by Hester there, but the best ever? Seriously? In all of football history?
It’s not even the best one on the college level. For one thing, it was against a lousy Duke team. Secondly, it was in a position of the field that seems conducive to good returns.
The Howard return was longer and against a much better opponent in a big spot.
On the Pro level, give me Brian Westbrook’s game winning punt return against the Giants in 2003. Classic moment.
September 8th, 2009 at 9:39 AM
I’m not going to look up the video, but I seem to recall Roscoe Parrish having a pretty nasty one in the Peach Bowl against LSU before that game devolved into a brawl.
September 8th, 2009 at 9:48 AM
HAHA. Thats funny.
September 8th, 2009 at 9:52 AM
HAHA. Thats funny.
You could paste every single one of those in. They’re all fabulous.
“The dog is an outside dog. You want an inside dog, you go get your own inside.”
September 8th, 2009 at 10:44 AM
Challenge:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJOlzDJiaDw
I nominate Heisman trophy winner 1972 Johnny Rodgers 1971 Nebraska versus Oklahoma. Great call too that was far better than on Hester’s return. Too bad the camera footage was not that great in those days, but Rodgers evasion of contact plus the crushing block at 0:15 were superior. He also did it against a ranked and superior team that could tackle unlike Hester against that sorry-ass Duke team.
September 8th, 2009 at 10:51 AM
mark may can burn in hell. i wish holtz would give him that same incredulous look whenever may says something retarded…then again, holtz would have the same incredulous look on his face whenever mark may opens his bitch mouth.
September 8th, 2009 at 10:54 AM
+1.5 Spencer Aggregate +3
September 8th, 2009 at 11:03 AM
Challenge:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxpoqP9PkqM
Also for sake of evasion, Desmond Howard’s return against Ohio State 1991 is one of the best, but to me there was indeed a clip on the play yet it was on a player who already had been beaten by Howard’s evasion and speed. Notice the “block” to the right of Howard about 5 yards into the return on the replay from the straight defensive angle. Another legendary call by Keith Jackson of course.
September 8th, 2009 at 11:30 AM
“And there’s a picture—a Led Zeppelin picture of a falling angel. . . . I see there’s an association many times with cultive-type of activities. A focus on death, dying. Many times individuals that have a lot of this type of art have interest in satanic-type activities.”
Jesus Christ, just cause a guy listens to ‘Fool In The Rain’ it doesn’t make him a child killer.
I’m waiting for the “He played Grand Theft Auto for hours on end, he MUST BE GUILTY!” stories to emerge.
September 8th, 2009 at 12:18 PM
He said those ribs done got debacled!
September 8th, 2009 at 12:33 PM
Emmitt Smith — Champion player and dancer who is a fantastic media casualty who a la Tiki fell on his own face! When will it happen for good to Pam Ward as it did to the lame Jemele Hill? The sooner these undeserving media types a la the 1990s are off the air, the better for the good of us all as well as the mission of course. In a country of “free media” my ass, we know damn well there have to be many with better game not getting those jobs.