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Odds and Ends: Florida Gators boosters are doing a poor job


You’d think that a national football and college basketball championship would have the Florida boosters in fine form. But this story about a robbery is an excellent example of how they are just dropping the ball:


On Saturday, a UF student was taking kegs out of his truck when [five] men approached him. One 6-foot-4, 280-pound man attempted to steal his keg, cutting his neck in the process, according to the report. The cut was 5 to 6 inches long, the report states, and it appeared to be the result of a fingernail or ring.

The suspect was a Gator football player who had to be restrained from attacking the victim a few times by four of his teammates. Look at the travesty here. Why does a Florida Gator football player feel the need to rob a man of his keg? Shouldn’t the football players have unlimited access to the local beer distributor? After all, they are champions! For shame, Gator boosters, for shame. (Hat tip: Loserwith socks)

In other news…

[Fish stripes]: Dontrelle Willis pitches as his wife prepares to give birth

[Deseret News]: Andrei Kirilenko and Jerry Sloan just lost in translation

[Ben Maller]: Tigers Sean Casey comes home from a road trip to find his car on cinder blocks at the airport

[The Offside]: A book sheds more light (eccchhhh) on Wayne Rooney nailing a 48 year old grandmother/prostitute

[Can’t Stop the Bleeding]: Toriiiiii Hunter almost suspended three years for giving champagne

[Lopez@Large]: Yao Ming needs a strong postseason to define his legacy

[WBRS Sports]: The Orioles to offer groupies free mustache ride

And finally, if the Kansas City Royals adopted the My Name is Earl scratch and sniff episode promotion, would it just smell like garbage?

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Houston Nutt denies affair with television anchor


Things are getting so out of hand for Houston Nutt down in Arkansas that he issued a letter to the press concerning internet rumors that he was having an affair and that he was actively seeking higher profile jobs.

First, a little background:

– In December of 2006, disparaging comments previously made by Arkansas QB Mitch Mustain in 2005 about coach Nutt were published in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
– Family friend Teresa Prewett then sends an email to Mustain addressing him as the “Interception King” and calling him a “little boy” and a “fag”. (You can read the timeline and entire email at Hog Blogger.)

– Mitch Mustain uses the Freedom of Information Act to request the telephone records of Houston Nutt.
– Everyone gets suspicious when it’s revealed Nutt text messaged a cute blonde television anchor over 1,000 times.

First, Nutt asserts that he remains “committed to our players, our fans, and the Razorback program’s tradition of excellence and success.” Well, that’s fine but we have heard that one before. No one trusts coaches after what Nick Saban did at Miami. Second, Nutt also addresses the rumors that he was having an affair:


The speculation and rumors that I have had an inappropriate relationship with Donna Bragg are unfounded and false. Let me be unequivocally clear that the relationship between Ms. Bragg and me is that of a friend and colleague in the community. Any allegation or suggestion that our professional and personal friendship or involvement goes beyond that is false, careless, and purposefully vindictive.

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My communications with Ms. Bragg have concerned her work as a professional fundraiser for a non-profit organization dedicated to providing services to the developmentally disabled, her insights regarding the media, words of condolence and support regarding the loss of my mother-in-law after her battle with cancer, and information relating to her close friend who was diagnosed with cancer.

Translation: “Look, dickheads, my mother in law died of cancer and I was supporting a friend who had a friend with cancer. So back off.” You see what Nutt did there? Well played.

Links:
[Arkansas Online]: Nutt defends text message traffic in open letter

[Hog Wired]: Houston Nutt Open Letter to Razorback Fans

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Those crazy BYU kids and their water balloons



It’s all fun and games until
someone kicks in a door

Two members of the BYU team, Terrance Deshawn Hooks and Vitale Ta’aaga Magauli So’oto, were arrested on suspicion of burglary after they kicked in a couple of doors at an apartment complex while trying to hunt down the throwers of a water balloon that hit one of the player’s girlfriend.

While looking for the tossers, the pair mistakenly kicked in the wrong door. After discovering their mistake, they went into another wrong apartment, but then found the balloon throwers hiding in a closet in a third apartment. The policeman neglected to opine whether the pair of balloon pranksters were cowering like little bitches. The two balloon throwers were arrested on criminal mischief but their names were not released.

Hooks and So’oto were also suspended by the BYU coach for violating team rules. Two football players going after two guys after one of their girlfriends was hit by a water balloon? Coach Mendenhall should count his blessings. This is kids stuff. If this was Florida, there would have been a rifle and weapons charges involved.

Links:
[Salt Lake Tribune]: BYU football players arrested, suspended

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Odds and Ends: Point shaving at Toledo

Since Friday, the arrest of Harvey “Scooter” McDougle Jr. has sent shockwaves through the sports gambling community.  Actually, no it hasn’t.  We realize that Toledo is DIV I and all but you gotta be pretty desperate to bet on Toledo vs Akron. Still, the question is always whether it could happen at a big time program that garners big time bets.  

According to the Detroit News, a man named Garry Manni gave McDougle cash, a car,  valuables and trips in exchange for affecting outcomes of games.   Although he was only a 4th string running back, McDougle was able to influence other players on both the football and basketball teams.  

Toledo officials held a press conference today to announce that they were unsure whether others would be charged.   Uh yeah… thanks for the staggering info guys.

In other news…

[Still Listen to Gangsta Music]: Another Tony Parker rap video you can’t understand

[NY Times]: Cheerleading responsible for more than half of the catastrophic injuries to female high school and college athletes

[Hockey Rants]: St. Louis blews play strip shootout

[Sydney Morning Herald]: Ian Thorpe to use the I was hammered that night defense

[Our Book of Scrap]: Something about women’s golf… we’re too distracted by Carmen Electra and Joan Jett rumors

And finally, here’s a video of a trick bowling shot.  Yep, that’s right.  Trick Bowling.

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Hey bro, I just said it’d be nice if you could come to the game



We talkin bout practice!

It’s nice when a man cares so much about his brother that he will go out of his way to attend a spring scrimmage for the Carolina Gamecocks. Not only did Demetrius Pepper shoot a coworker at his grocery store in the face and steal her car to get to the game, when that car broke down, he shot and killed a retired schoolteacher and stole her car. That’s perseverance folks. He didn’t just give up because the first car broke down. Nope, he had a meaningless scrimmage game to go to.

Demetrius was arrested just 15 minutes after the game started when someone noticed a suspicious car outside the stadium and police found him at the vehicle that belonged to the slain schoolteacher. He is being held without bail.

Nathan Pepper, who is a sophomore defensive tackle at USC, had no comment. You have to feel sorry for the two shooting victims who were simply at the wrong place at the wrong time when Demetrius went batshit crazy and decided it was perfectly ok to shoot people and steal cars because he needed to get somewhere. Guess what Demetrius, it’s gonna be even harder to see the games from prison.

Links:
[The State]: Man charged with murder

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FireKirkFerentz.com is now in the hands of The Man


It usually takes a couple of years of ineptitude for Fire____.com to show up but Iowa decided to make a preemptive strike and puchased FireKirkFerentz.com from a company that specializes in such domains. (Yes, people will speculate on anything.) Redshirted.com now has 20 domains on its “roster” including fireMikeShanahan, fireJoeGibbs, fireRomeoCrennel, and fireTony Dungy. Hmmm… We don’t think Tony Dungy is going anywhere and the Redskins faithful would never turn on Joe Gibbs. Remember, when he was hired, they guaranteed he’d bring a Super Bowl within 3 years. (Because he won it in 2 years his first time around.) That was in 2004. But we digress…

Prices range from $50 to $250 which we think is way too low for a domain name. Would a school not pay more than $1000 to keep a potentially embarassing site from being erected on the web? Plus, what’s a grand to these big name schools where boosters drop millions on new cars for the athletes?

Curiously, FireKirkFerentz.com redirects you to HawkeyeSports.com, which might seem to imply that Hawkeye Sports is somehow thinking about firing Kirk Ferentz. We think the smarter move is to redirect the site to an absolutely terrible coach so that any surfers typing in FireKirkFerentz.com would immediately think, “oh yeah, it could be worse.”

Links:
[The Wizard of Odds]: Iowa Purchases FireKirkFerentz.com

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USC’s "White Nation" just a joke… ha ha


We know the the kids today are all up on their myspace and facebook social networking buzzword blah blah blah but we gotta think that athletic directors must hate those things. It’s fun for the athletes but has only caused trouble for the athletic departments and their PR staff.

The latest in Bad Idea Jeans is a facebook group created by five white USC football players called “White Nation”, which featured a graphic of a black baby in handcuffs. (“arrest black babies before they become criminals.”) The group was created by Clay Matthews and included teammates David Buehler, Brian Cushing, Dan Deckas and Dallas Sartz.

The players said that the group was created as an inside joke because a coach nicknamed them “White Nation”. Unlike the “oops, it was my wife’s phen-phen” excuse, we actually believe them. Still, we have to ask, are they fucking retarded?

Look, everyone jokes about race and most of them aren’t racist (much) but it’s still a bad idea to do that on a public forum when you’re a part of a high profile college football program. If you don’t want it on the internet and people to spread it around, don’t put it on the internet. The internet is an evil place, full of bloggers who have nothing better to do than to tell the world how stupid you are.

Links:

[Daily Trojan]: Facebook group lands USC football player in hot water
[LA Times]: Racism issue raised in USC players’ Web page

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Have you seen the Cincinnati football sex tape?


Admit it, you immediately thought of the Bengals right? The Bengals reputation for dirty deeds is so strong that any wrongdoing immediately conjures up the orange and black. But nope, it’s the Bearcats this time.

The University of Cincinnati is investigating allegations that four football players and four recruits had sex with a former soccer player during a recruiting trip and videotaped it. The sex tape is being circulated around campus. (If anyone has a copy, we’d love to see it.)
Officials were notified via an anonymous letter from a “Concerned Athletic Department Employee” and are proceeding “methodically and thoroughly.” The letter was sent to Daniel Cummins, Director Judicial Affairs because the writer did not trust the Athletic Director Mike Thomas.


I am bring this to your attention, due to the fact that I have no confidence in our senior leadership of the Athletic Department to complete a thorough investigation. I hate seen on numerous occasions that the men’s basketball program and the football programs have received preferential treatment by our Athletic Director.

Remember, four football players having sex with someone is fine but once you bring recruits into it then it violates legislation that the NCAA passed in 2004 the prohibited the use of alcohol and sex as recruiting tools. (Gary Barnett thinks, ‘well how the are we supposed to recruit em!’) The Bearcats had at least five recruiting weekends this winter and one occurred before new coach Brian Kelly’s watch. Kelly is praying that the timestamp on the videotape shows a date prior to Dec 4 2006.

That’s a hell of an 8 on 1 drill.

Links:
[Enquirer]: UC: Letter to be investigated
[Enquirer]: Investigation ‘making progress’

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Yep Notre Dame girls sure are ugly



Hey coach, how many hot
chicks are there at ND?

Finally, a high school student that has his priorities straight! Kyle Jackson signed with Georgia Tech because he didn’t like the look of the co-eds in South Bend.


Notre Dame didn’t exactly have the best-looking chicks.

Not that they were ugly, but they were not what I was looking for. There’s a big difference between Southern girls and all the others.

We didn’t know this but the girls of Notre Dame as so notoriously ugly that in 2002, a senior girl wrote a letter to the Notre Dame newspaper about it. Who knew? (Well, apparently everyone at Michigan.)

We love how college recruiting trips are the high school equivalent of walking into a strip club and deciding whether the chicks are hot enough to stay for 4 years. Sounds like Spike Lee wasn’t too far from the truth when he had Jesus Shuttlesworth in that dorm room with Buffy and Suzie. Or check out this post from Every Day Should Be Saturday.

Links:
[The Fanhouse]: GT Recruit Says ND Chicks Unattractive; Franco Still Dead

[AJC]: NATIONAL SIGNING DAY: What we learned

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Replay official gets the boot

The Pac-10 replay official who blew one of the most obvious calls in college history has been relieved of his duties. Gordon Reise ruled that the Ducks had recovered an onside kick even though the replay clearly shows #23 of the Sooners walking away with the ball. We can understand how an official on the field would miss it but how can a replay official be so stupid? Well, finally some accountability for a ref as Reise gets the axe. This doesn’t help the Sooners get back that 34-33 loss but at least the NCAA is willing to admit a mistake.

On another note, the Super Bowl this year was controversy free. (Well, except for the ridiculous controversy about Prince’s guitar. Gee.. the guitar is like a huge penis? really?) The refs did their job and we aren’t debating days afterward on whether a correct call was made. As far as we know, every single call in the Super Bowl was correct.

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[Fox 23]: Official in booth for Oregon-Oklahoma loses replay booth job