The Roundup: Blake Griffin Out Indefinitely, Coyotes Sold, Pac-10 Referee Suspended
Athletes and Celebrities, Baseball, College Basketball, College Football, Gambling, Media Gossip/Musings, NBA, NFL, NHL, Soccer, Video October 27th. 2009, 8:00am
Mila Kunis, via … where are all the minorities on TV and in film? … CNN: last place … these numbers are so inflated it isn’t even funny … not usually a fan of Whitney Port, but damn … two men beat alleged child molester into a coma … Norway officials bust python smuggler … 5-year-old pocket Hercules … Time Magazine (!) tackles Deadspin vs.ESPN … here’s another Bill Simmons interview …
So much for our LA Clippers preview yesterday: Blake Griffin may miss six weeks with a stress fracture in his kneecap. (LA Times)
Cool soccer post: The Adidas XI vs. the NIKE XI. (The Offside)
Chris Cooley broke his ankle last night, and is done for the season. (NFL.com)
Phoenix Coyotes owner Jerry Moyes is selling the team to the NHL. (Arizona Republic)
Lamar Odom and Khloe Kardashian got matching ink. But not too much, so it can be scrubbed away when this experiment fails. (People)
Bart Scott on the Dolphins-Jets rematch: “This is a must-win. Plus, there’s extra incentive because they embarrassed us … They exploited us and made us feel bad about ourselves.” (NYDN)
If you missed this yesterday … the Redskins are similar to Zimbabwe. (New Yorker)
Newspaper circulation plunges, again. (Morning News)
The house lost big last weekend on the NFL. The dogs really are dogs. (Review-Journal)
In Eric Mangini’s defense … ah, we got nothin’. (Beacon-Journal)
Andre Johnson of the Texans is day-to-day with a lung contusion. (Chronicle)
A man who can admit his mistakes is a very big man. (CBS Sports)
Sorry, but San Francisco’s just embarrassing: “San Francisco is about to give a big break to people, many of them illegal immigrants, who are caught driving without a license. Beginning Sunday, cops will no longer impound cars the first time drivers are pulled over without a license.” Read on. Depressing. (SF Chronicle)
This is how you celebrate your first win in Lincoln, Nebraska, since 1977. (via Wiz of Odds)
Pac-10 official suspended for not throwing a flag on this play. (LA Times)
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October 27th, 2009 at 8:05 AM
where are all the minorities on TV and in film?
I guess sports, music and the White House aren’t enough
/greedy bastards
October 27th, 2009 at 8:08 AM
where are all the minorities on TV and in film?
Please don’t start showing the George Lopez show again. Please.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:12 AM
I’ll make sure not to mention this to my wife as she trims my dome with a #3 on top and #2 on the back and sides on our backyard patio this weekend.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:12 AM
So how long until Simmons starts talking about how he foresaw Blake’s injury?
/Clipper’s Curse
October 27th, 2009 at 8:17 AM
Brooke Hundley?
October 27th, 2009 at 8:18 AM
I heard Simmons was going to be on PTI tomorrow
October 27th, 2009 at 8:18 AM
kudos to Jon Gruden last night for giving such specific examples of how shitty Jason Campbell is. He’s not even allowed to call audibles.
The best was when Campbell went checkdown on a double pump/double move route, and right as he checked down, the guy was running completely free behind the whole defense.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:18 AM
I think everyone foresaw Griffin’s injury coming.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:18 AM
And by tomorrow I mean today
October 27th, 2009 at 8:18 AM
Brooke Hundley?
October 27th, 2009 at 8:19 AM
I was dumbfounded at this. I didnt know this happened in the NFL.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:20 AM
Plus, there’s extra incentive because they embarrassed us … They exploited us and made us feel bad about ourselves.
Brooke Hundley?
Steve Phillips and Brooke Hundley talking about TBL?
/Vader fist bump’d
//on Today Show again this AM w/ pic of the wife…finally
October 27th, 2009 at 8:22 AM
So much for our LA Clippers preview yesterday: Blake Griffin may miss six weeks with a stress fracture in his kneecap
20 games in 6 weeks. not a good start for the Clippers
October 27th, 2009 at 8:22 AM
Another athlete shooting death…
http://www.dailypress.com/news/hampton/hampton-university/dp-local_hushooting_1027oct27,0,4479734.story
October 27th, 2009 at 8:24 AM
Simmons on Colbert Thursday
October 27th, 2009 at 8:24 AM
Steve Phillips’ soon to be ex-wife is hot. Yes, it does make a difference. What a fucking moron.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:25 AM
Did anyone else feel that Gruden was giving Dan Snyder reasons he would need a new QB when he takes over the Redskins coaching job next year?
October 27th, 2009 at 8:26 AM
TBL – is this enough to pull down a pretty comfy lifestyle in NYC?
October 27th, 2009 at 8:26 AM
I was dumbfounded at this. I didnt know this happened in the NFL.
I don’t normally watch and listen to football games, but Gruden is really good. Dungy is good, but he gets time to work up his little critiques. Gruden is really critical on the spot, and that’s awesome.
The Redskins are an absolute shitstorm, now with no Cooley to check down to. TBL’s Sorry Seven is actually the Icky Eight.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:26 AM
He needs to turn his penis in.
/Vader Fist Pump! Yeah!
October 27th, 2009 at 8:26 AM
hopefully he doesn’t bomb on that like he did when he went on the daily show.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:27 AM
Its “Vader Fist Pump” Asshole
/Vader Fist Pump’d
//YEA!
October 27th, 2009 at 8:27 AM
Sparty, he actually bombed on Colbert the last time. I didn’t know he did Daily Show, but he really embarrassed himself on Colbert.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:28 AM
Ehhh. You can never tell. What if it has been years?
October 27th, 2009 at 8:29 AM
OH, TBL, if we’re still charting the Simmons’ effect, I pre-ordered this book the very first time he mentioned it was available, at least 8 months ago.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:30 AM
The difference is pretty insane. And that looks like a recent picture of Stevie boy, so..
October 27th, 2009 at 8:32 AM
courtney cox coming up on GMA. looked real nice in the brief promo
no post-GG chatter? solid episode last night.
how many blogs will post the Simmons video Friday, regardless of what happens?
October 27th, 2009 at 8:33 AM
/Vader fist bump’d
Its “Vader Fist Pump” Asshole
sorry, I couldn’t understand you with that cock shoved down your throat. asshole.
He’s not even allowed to call audibles.
I was dumbfounded at this. I didnt know this happened in the NFL.
I bet less than half are allowed to, and the number is only going up w/ these unskilled spread QB’s coming into the league
Dilfer (spencer’s favorite!) said he thought Bradford would take 3 to 4 years to effectively learn the pro game, as he has NEVER played in an offense (HS or college) where he has had to read a single defense. All the plays are simplified, there are no progressions, shotgun, etc. Also, he described him as “frail”. ha
He said a kid like Clausen would take 1-2 years, but because of his background, is a way more prepared prospect that Bradford. He also wasn’t too high on Locker.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:33 AM
he did the daily show when he promoted his first book. it was horrendous.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:34 AM
Simmons to blame for Blake Griffin knee cap injury.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:37 AM
I’m picking up Simmons’s book on friday simply due to how much I liked the excerpts. Plus I have a plane trip, but mostly the excerpts.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:37 AM
Paolo?
October 27th, 2009 at 8:40 AM
I can’t be the only one who thought McNabb was equally as poor as Cambell last night. The 5 yard pass into the ground on an 8 yard route never gets old. Granted Philly’s o-line is pisspoor.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:41 AM
Re: Gambling.
Paolo can’t find a game that’s not a scare game, TBL went absolutely broke betting with Artie Lange’s advice, and yet, The house lost big last weekend on the NFL. The dogs really are dogs.
I think that’s funny. A couple of guys in here have paid off their house notes betting the Colts.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:43 AM
Maybe its the 3 man booth, but I literally cant stand watching MNF with the sound on. They talk wayyy too much. I do love what Gruden has to say. But it seems like after every single play, they have to go back to hammering some storyline into the ground instead of telling us what just happened.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:44 AM
Darrell thinks you and Gruden are full of it.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:45 AM
In the first half, they just kept repeating that the playcalling wasnt an issue and it is up to the guys on the field to perform. Ok. We get it.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:46 AM
Man, it’s almost like the number of minorities in the entertainment industry is proportional to the demographics of America generally. How about that?
October 27th, 2009 at 8:48 AM
Jaws and Gruden sort of sound alike.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:48 AM
@cracker, I long ago gave up the sound on MNF. I am strickly a Marv/Boomer girl on Westwood One radio. Last night, Marv was MIA, presumably getting ready for NBA tonight, so Ian Eagle was play by play. Boomer can rant and rave at times, but I prefer him to the alternative.
/still miss Jack Buck & Hank Stram
October 27th, 2009 at 8:49 AM
@Young lefty – nice work Saturday.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:50 AM
Maybe its the 3 man booth, but I literally cant stand watching MNF with the sound on.
CJ, I mostly don’t listen during Sunday games, so I’m all fired up when I hear somebody working in a few things that are actually happening.
You know who i like? Dan Dierdorf. I learned years ago how to tune that moron out, so when he’s talking, it’s like white noise. I find his voice easy to ignore.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:50 AM
@Virginia4lovers: There’s no excuse to listen to any other announcers when Marv Albert is available.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:51 AM
I can’t believe she’s still with Mac Culkin.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:53 AM
It’s nice to see us do our part to end Al Groh’s tenure there. I’m trying to decide whether I should go to Tampa for the ACCCG, or wait and see if we make it to Miami.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:55 AM
Based on past games – you’ll have no trouble getting tickets.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:55 AM
I actually like Simms and Nantz most of the time, except when Simms pronounces things funny like “heeem” instead of “him”, but for the most part they are just providing us with whats happening on the field and not repeating things over and over to just fill the silence. I dont watch the game to be entertained by the announcers.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:56 AM
I went in 06. It was turrible. Cold and rainy in Jacksonville. Whoever decided that was a good place for that game should be slapped.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:56 AM
@young lefty – is both an option?
October 27th, 2009 at 8:56 AM
that’s probably a good thing…now he can spend more time being funny than being an exceedingly mediocre TE. he’s better at being funny.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:58 AM
I truly believe Simms has coherent, credible thoughts on the game he can contribute. Shame he can’t ever get them out of his mouth right.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:00 AM
you know the game is important with simms/nantz, gumbel/whoever and deidorf/whoever (cant remember who the sidekicks are for those two)
i hate fox announcers. besides joe buck/aikman (they suck), the rest of them are horrible. chris rose in particular
October 27th, 2009 at 9:00 AM
Not likely. Due to work, it’ll have to be one or the other.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:00 AM
fox hasnt been the same since madden/summerall
October 27th, 2009 at 9:01 AM
i also like gus johnson. hes good at what he does
October 27th, 2009 at 9:03 AM
I think Cooley might be better than mediocre, but he is in a clusterfuck of an offense with Jamarcus East throwing to him.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:04 AM
you mean he’s good at college basketball? i agree…football? not so much.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:05 AM
you can live comfortably off 60k in NYC.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:06 AM
This is pretty interesting.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:06 AM
Dirt – i wish i had followed artie’s advice the first 6 weeks. of course, the time i follow him on the giants, LOSS
October 27th, 2009 at 9:07 AM
Simms is really good half-time on Westwood One MNF coverage with Jim Gray. He comes in, makes some comments about the weekend, comments on the Monday night game in progress (not much to say last night) and he’s out. He did say last night that he liked the London experience and thinks the NFL could be a success there longterm.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:08 AM
All I am saying is you don’t know if she is a prude. She could be a 10 and be as satisfying as a picture on the wall. Obviously Brooke 2Hundley was not the way to go, but the hotness of the wife may have no relevence to the situation.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:09 AM
you can live comfortably off 60k in NYC.
As long as you have a lot of room on your credit cards, and don’t have any interest in owning a home.
TBL, how many times this year have you bet against the Colts? At least twice. And you’ve gotten on the free money bandwagon no times, I think.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:10 AM
Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins. Homer Simpson, smiling politely.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:10 AM
im not sure if this was intentional or a typo, but that made me laugh audibly.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:11 AM
for sure intentional, that bitch is 2Hundley, easy.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:12 AM
let me amend it – you can RENT comfortably on 60k in NYC. no shot of owning. and yes, you might go into some CC debt.
bad bets, indeed.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:12 AM
dirt: no alternative facts allowed. The public’s perception has been established, and poured in concrete. Bill Maher told us of the disparity between CEO pay and worker pay, and Taguchi then disseminated that here. There’s no going back.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:13 AM
that makes it funnier.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:13 AM
dirt:Lefty:October 27th, 2009 at 9:13 AM
For every hot woman you see, somewhere, there is a dude that is tired of fucking her.
/science
October 27th, 2009 at 9:14 AM
True. To look at the wife and say “she’s hot, why would you cheat on that?” is to totally miss the reason why guys do this stuff. It seems as though 99% of the time when men cheat they are definitely trading down.
Anne Archer >>> Glenn Close
/Fatal Attraction reference for the youngsters
October 27th, 2009 at 9:15 AM
with Lefty’s interesting article, all you have to do is adjust a bunch of figures, and voila, the poor havent’ gotten that much poorer. As for the rich getting richer, well, that’s a topic for another time.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:16 AM
Simmons said there are more footnotes per page in this new one than in his first book.
How is that even possible? He clearly loathes cutting any material.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:16 AM
Are you talking about executive compensation?
October 27th, 2009 at 9:17 AM
He said on his podcast with Klosterman that he thinks he should go back and add some stuff to the Shaq section.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:18 AM
I agree. whoever scheduled that weather should be fired!
October 27th, 2009 at 9:19 AM
Judging by those excerpts, I could see it. I kind of want to read it, but it seems like an awfully big time investment about a subject I really don’t care much about. I haven’t even gotten to the new Richard Russo yet.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:20 AM
let me amend it – you can RENT comfortably on 60k in NYC. no shot of owning. and yes, you might go into some CC debt.
I must be a little fuzzy on living comfortably…how can you say you can live comfy in NYC on $60k when you might go into CC debt? is that the roundabout way to say “no, you can’t live comfy in NYC with $60k”?
October 27th, 2009 at 9:21 AM
It could be 75 and sunny and Jacksonville would still be a shithole.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:22 AM
I do understand why guys do this shit – but trading down to the snake pit in Pit Fall is no way to live.
Never trade down unless you suck.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:23 AM
anybody read Malcolm Gladwell’s latest and greatest?
October 27th, 2009 at 9:24 AM
I disagree, but I live in a Jax ‘burb, WTF do I know?
October 27th, 2009 at 9:24 AM
Ugh. Let it go. It fucking printed.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:26 AM
The house lost big last weekend on the NFL. The dogs really are dogs.
Obviously, that happens from time to time. However, those times are extremely rare. Everyone keep betting the Colts, Saints and all other heavy favorites. I can promise that at some point this season it will come back around on you. Take the Patriots two years ago: everyone kept betting on them to cover big, which they did almost every game in the first 2/3 of the season, then things began to even out and finally the house won big on the Giants in the SB.
Just a big fucking circle.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:26 AM
Jacksonville is big enough to have burbs? Who knew!
October 27th, 2009 at 9:27 AM
a 700 page Simmons book on the NBA is 697 too long
I agree. whoever scheduled that weather should be fired!
It could be 75 and sunny and Jacksonville would still be a shithole.
Jacksonville is a little bit country, and a little bit rock ‘n roll, and don’t do either very well
October 27th, 2009 at 9:28 AM
Eating tacos?
October 27th, 2009 at 9:30 AM
a 700 page Simmons book on the NBA is 697 too long
always bitching and complaining about the NBA. always
October 27th, 2009 at 9:30 AM
TSH – I cannot begin to explain how a man with options (Steve Phillips is a good looking man, no?) puts his dick into this. But, men who cheat do it not because they have January Jones and Sofia Vergara lined up, but because they want some…strange. I’m not defending or rationalizing this…just stating what I’ve observed.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:34 AM
a 700 page Simmons book on the NBA is 697 too long
always bitching and complaining about the NBA. always
you always bitch about Boston. We both have our issues
October 27th, 2009 at 9:35 AM
Jax is the 13th most populous city in the US. kinda makes sense it would have a ‘burb or five.
the only problem I can find with Jax is that the local news broadcasts are amateur hour. the solution is to turn the channel. I find this place a pretty fun place to live. to each his own.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:36 AM
@Miz, better than Nashville?
October 27th, 2009 at 9:37 AM
you always bitch about Boston. We both have our issues
I dont give a fuck if you stick up for Boston.I’ll trash them if i want. Did you ever think that Orlando was playing Boston in the playoffs and the Rays beat Boston in the playoffs last year. just shut the fuck up for once on here
October 27th, 2009 at 9:37 AM
lol
October 27th, 2009 at 9:39 AM
This
October 27th, 2009 at 9:40 AM
not better, not worse. just different. there are so many things to do here that I can’t do in Nashville. then, there are probably an equal number of things to do in Nashville that I can’t do here. we’ll be moving back to Nashville in about 4-5 years, and I imagine I’ll enjoy living there just as much, but for different reasons.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:42 AM
I dig Nashville. That’s a cool ass town.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:43 AM
agreed.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:46 AM
This
agreed.
word.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:48 AM
I dig Nashville. That’s a cool ass town.
Same here.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:49 AM
jacksonville = cleveland south
October 27th, 2009 at 9:50 AM
nashville rawks.
my dream is to give up all this shit here, move down to nashville and do recording sessions for country music the rest of my life. god damn would that be sweet.
too bad id probably be the 1,308,489 best guitarist in nashville, but a guy can dream, right?
October 27th, 2009 at 9:51 AM
You can live comfortably in NYC on $60-$70k, easy. Not only with no credit card, debt, but also saving a decent amount, too.
This is provided you live with a roommate (or a girlfriend, one less bedroom) and have the ability to control your discretionary spending, which, unfortunately, most people cannot.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:55 AM
yea, those people are stupid.
/buys another $400 driver and $300 putter
October 27th, 2009 at 9:57 AM
Jax isn’t exporting jobs and hope.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:59 AM
no, they’re just importing cleveland’s exported poverty and depression.
October 27th, 2009 at 10:01 AM
but we have more than one building!
October 27th, 2009 at 10:02 AM
/buys another $400 driver and $300 putter
Hey! Those are necessities!
October 27th, 2009 at 10:03 AM
by the way, you know the Cleve isn’t exporting their poverty and depression. they hoard it like TBL hoards ammunition and canned goods.
October 27th, 2009 at 10:04 AM
if you want to call that sad metropolian vista of jorts and cheesecake factories a skyline, feel free.
the only thing you have is good golfin’ weather for 10 mos. and TPC sawgrass.
October 27th, 2009 at 10:09 AM
spencer – going to Sawgrass Thursday night for a Halloween party.
October 27th, 2009 at 10:13 AM
anyone expect anything different from san francisco? a liberal wasteland
October 27th, 2009 at 10:13 AM
miz…i’ll paypal you $1 if you can spraypaint “sergio FTW!!!” on the 17th green and take a picture so i can put it on my background.
October 27th, 2009 at 10:18 AM
I’ll see what I can do.
October 27th, 2009 at 10:20 AM
But Dirt, you told us last week that you don’t bet because you have the heebie jeebies about ALL gambling?
My NCAA season is going much better though. I’m colling off for two weeks now and staying away from the NFL until the playoffs. And hey so what of course sometimes the dogs show up to be real dogs.
October 27th, 2009 at 10:38 AM
TBL Godfather, that’s usually the way it goes when you try to jump on someone else’s bandwagon. Pick and choose. Paper bet first a few weeks for practise, and don’t get caught up trying to bet every game you want to bet in the first week or two.
October 27th, 2009 at 10:45 AM
Plus minimal driving and preferably no need for a car. For once I agree with MikeNYC.
October 27th, 2009 at 10:51 AM
If the person is actually funny unlike George Lopez, Steve Harvey, anyone on Tyler Perry’s shows, Cedric the Entertainer, then folks don’t care about the racial or ethnic background, so quit the whining.
No one of any background has matched the bygone era of Dave Chapelle yet, and Chris Rock is quite the has-been since he botched the Oscars.
October 27th, 2009 at 10:54 AM
Words of wisdom here that should be in his own chapter of the sports bettor’s bible.
+3 Ill
October 27th, 2009 at 11:02 AM
Jacksonville’s economy is based on LeBron James?
October 27th, 2009 at 11:04 AM
JAX sucks no doubt. Ask anyone in Florida who does not live there.
October 27th, 2009 at 11:07 AM
Ask anyone in Florida who does not live there
I like it
October 27th, 2009 at 11:07 AM
Let’s trade San Fagcisco and much of California other than the agricultural lands and San Diego and Orange Counties to Mexico for their entire coast going down to Acapulco plus all of Baja California.
/Reconquista’d The Right Way
October 27th, 2009 at 11:32 AM
I should have qualified this. If you live inland or near Orlando, you’d probably like ANYTHING on the coast in Florida. Otherwise, try staying for more than a weekend to get drunk with friends, for then just about any place you visit is great. Even Cleveland or Philadelphia.
Otherwise, I think you’ll find that most coastal Floridians not living there know JAX sucks.
October 27th, 2009 at 11:34 AM
I live on the Gulf of Mexico Paolo. I think Jax is nice. would i live there? prob not
October 27th, 2009 at 11:41 AM
Nice Irish. “Along the Gulf of Mexico” is many fine areas of Florida. I’m working on moving to Florida, Gulf side, next year with location undisclosed until I do it. JPQ is relieved already.
Don’t worry I won’t hassle you except when you come on here as a Magic fan perhaps. They should not have gotten rid of clutch man Hedo.
October 27th, 2009 at 11:42 AM
They should not have gotten rid of clutch man Hedo
we got Vinsanity now Paolo. bigger and better things
October 27th, 2009 at 11:44 AM
What’s in that Gulf water Kool-Aid? You have to be kidding me. Ah never mind then.
October 27th, 2009 at 12:08 PM
Looks like it’s been another 30 days
October 27th, 2009 at 12:55 PM
Looks like it’s been another 30 days
shut up