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Hunt organizers are accused of plying a tame bear with vodka-drench honey so that the King of Spain, Juan Carlos would have an easier time of killing a bear during a recent hunting excursion. Apparently, Russian hunt organizers have done this before as they used to ply animals with booze or tie them to trees so that former Soviet leader Brezhnev could still enjoy hunting even as he got older and his aim got worse.
Now Dick Cheney might shoot his friends in the face but he never had to resort to having hunt organizers ply quail with booze. America! Fuck Yeah!
In other news…
[Slate]: The physics of baseball’s most popular illegal pitches
[High and Tight]: Kenny Rogers no stranger to cheating
[MSNBC]: Backup punter surrenders on attempted murder charge for stabbing first string punter
[Hoops Addict]: Hey! Whatever Happened To John Starks?
[Fanblogs.com]: Ohio State #1 selling “Team Colors” paint
[TrojanWire]: Ivy League Mascot Wars: More Entertaining Than Ivy League Football
[Can’t Stop the Bleeding]: PETA Takes Credit For The NBA’s Much Maligned New Ball
Oakland Bound?
1. The Great Escape Part I
If Notre Dame somehow backs its way into the national title game it will be because Brady Quinn would not let them lose. The stirring comeback he led on Saturday afternoon will be remembered for both its precision and drama. If the Oakland Raiders draft anybody other than Quinn with the first overall pick they should be kicked out of the NFL and replaced with whatever team wins the BCS championship.
2. The Great Escape II
Forever will Ryan Bailey be known as the walk-on who saved Texas. Their hopes of a repeat national championship were in his hands and did they ever prove capable. You have to take your hat off to Bill Callahan as he has revived the Cornhusker program. Callahan’s a guy who never got the credit he deserved for leading the Raiders to a Super Bowl in one of the only two years that he coached.
3. Bring The Ruckus
I’m not saying Rutgers is the best team in college football………but they deserve more respect than they have been getting. As somebody who has now taken in two full Scarlet Knights games, I can tell that Rutgers is good at two things. The first thing is that they play killer defense and are extremely fast up the middle. Former University of Miami Defensive Coordinator, Greg Schiano has this defense looking like a poor man’s version of the Old Canes. Secondly, Rutgers is going to line up and they are going to run the football. I don’t know if they beat West Virginia, but mark my words………Rutgers will beat Louisville.
4. Chad Johnson is Jealous
Marshawn Lynch driving the injury cart around after a touchdown is one of the greatest things I have ever seen. Nice win by California over an improving Washington team. I think Ty Willie is two years away from having a national title contender
5. Still on Track
The Ohio State University and Michigan are still rolling along with their date in November getting closer and closer and closer………….
In 1936: The first Associated Press poll ranking the top college football teams in the nation was released. Minnesota was the first no.1 with LSU, Pittsburgh, Alabama, Washington, Santa Clara, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Nebraska and Pennsylvania rounding out the top ten. The AP poll, a collection of sportswriters across the country who vote on the top 25 teams each week of the college football season, determined national champions for years. It is still used today to rank the teams but is no longer considered in the BCS formula to determine who plays in the national championship game.
In 2004: The Boston Red Sox became the first team in baseball history and only the third team in sports history (it happened twice in the NHL) to come back from a three games to none deficit in a seven game series to win. Having been completely dominated by the New York Yankees and down to their final at-bat in the fourth game, the Red Sox began a remarkable comeback by winning the two longest games in postseason history in Games 4 and 5 at Fenway Park, and then going back to Yankee Stadium to take the final two to complete the turnaround. Boston swept St. Louis in the World Series to win their first championship in 86 years.
In 1993: In one of the wildest games ever in the World Series, The Toronto Blue Jays out-slugged the Philadelphia Phillies in the fourth game 15-14 at Veterans Stadium. Already delayed by rain, the game took four hours and fourteen minutes to complete, the longest ever World Series game. The Phillies overcame a three-run first inning deficit with four of their own in the bottom half and eventually carried a 14-9 advantage into the eighth inning, where the Blue Jays scored six times to win. The game featured 32 hits, 14 walks and it set the record for most runs combined in a World Series game and the most runs by a losing team. Oddly, the Blue Jays did not hit a single homerun despite scoring 15 times.
In the all the hullaballoo over the Miami-FIU brawl last week, overlooked was the brawl that broke out after the Holy Cross v. Dartmouth game. After winning the game on an 18 yard field goal, Holy Cross players started dancing on the D at midfield. Understandably, the Dartmouth players were displeased and a melee developed. The two schools proved that they might be Div I-AA in football but they could brawl as well as the D1 schools. While no one brandished a helmet like a battle axe, there were crutches waved about. Police are reviewing the videotape and arrests could be made. Unfortunately we don’t have pics or video of the fight but we do have a photo of Keggy the Keg, greatest unofficial mascot outside of the F&M Fightin’ Amish.
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[Inside Bay Area]: Macha’s relationship with players and not ALCS loss lead to firing
[Foul Balls]: Mike Tyson Could Be Beating Women in a Town Near You
[MLB.com]: Dominican Republic police issue warrant for Juan Uribe
[Can’t Stop the Bleeding]: Keep your kids away from this mascot
[There’s Your Karma Ripe as Peaches]: Leinart and Urlacher might share the same STD! (How could Tony Kornheiser not mention this?)
Taylor and Houston
Eulas Jerrel Taylor III and Brandon Houston of Ball State football! Both were arrested before the team bus left for the game against Central Michigan for suspicion of burglary and possession of stolen property. Police were responding to a fire alarm when they were told by students that three laptops were stolen from two dorm rooms and that they saw one person throw a bag out the window to another.
The football team has suspended the two players indefinitely until the matter is resolved. Good going guys. Say goodbye to those scholarships.
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[Fort Wayne.com]: Two Ball State football players arrested on theft charges
Get him a body bag!
In addition to the 31 players who were suspended by Miami and FIU, one more piece of crap from the Miami Melee has hit the fan. Former Hurricane Lamar Thomas was broadcasting the game for Comcast Southeast and instead of pulling a Joe Buck, Thomas decided to go the exact opposite route:
You come into our house, you should get your behind kicked. You don’t come into the Orange Bowl playing that stuff. You’re across the ocean over there. You’re across the city over there. You can’t come over to our place talking noise like that. You’ll get your butt kicked. I was about to go down the elevator and get into that thing.Why don’t they just meet outside in the tunnel after the ball game and get it on some more? You don’t come into the Orange Bowl, baby — we’ve had a down couple of years — but you don’t come in here talking trash… You come in here talking smack, it’s time to get it on.
Well, Lamar Thomas is going to have to get it on somewhere else. Comcast canned him on Monday and will edit out his comments for any replays of the game. Thomas said that he got caught up in the emotion of it and that he was new to this “media thing”. We believe broadcasting 101 specifically says “don’t celebrate a brawl” but Thomas probably had someone take that exam for him.
[Miami.com]: Lamar Thomas fired over Orange Bowl brawl remarks
[All Canes Blong]: Random thoughts on Miami/FIU 2006
[YouTube]: Video of Lamar Thomas’ call
1. Let The Bickering Begin
In my opinion, the BCS Standings are pretty fair. Unless Notre Dame can top USC in Los Angeles, I think the Trojans will get to a BCS Title game against the winner of Ohio State-Michigan.
The team with the biggest complaint has to be West Virginia. All they have done is follow-up last season’s Sugar Bowl win over SEC Champion Georgia with a perfect start to this year’s campaign. At the very least the Mountaineers should be ranked fourth. The conference that should be complaining about a lack of a playoff system is the SEC as you can make a compelling argument that Auburn and Florida are as good as any of the unbeaten teams.
2. We’re back……….
Just when you count out Auburn, they circle the wagons and beat Florida 27-17. You have to take your hat off to Tommy Tuberville. He may well be the most underrated coach in the nation. If Notre Dame beats USC and Louisville beats West Virginia then the Tigers may well get into the BCS Title game.
3. Are you sure it’s not basketball season?
Indiana over Iowa 31-28……….Vanderbilt over Georgia 24-22………these are the kinds of losses that send 87,154 people onto a message board to complain. The Iowa loss truly surprises me as I had thought the Hawkeyes were a national title sleeper at the beginning of the season.
4. Wins yes……….style points….not so much
USC keeps winning but they aren’t doing it with flair right now. They should count their lucky stars that Dirk Koetter is an idiot and decided to play for a loss (at least from a time management perspective). John David Booty is making nobody forget that Matt Leinart is starting tonight for the Arizona Cardinals.
5. The L Stands for Loser.
John L. Smith is going to be out of a job at Michigan State by the end of this season. The way the Spartans have quit on their coach is ugly. At least Michigan State students can take comfort in the fact that basketball season is right around the corner.
13 Miami players and 18 Florida International players were suspended for their part in a brawl that lasted 5 minutes. On the video, you can clearly see Miami player Anthony Reddick use his helmet as a weapon. What you can’t see if an injured FIU player swinging his crutch at a few Miami players. That’s taking it old school. Some people play through pain, he fights through an injury.
Sun Belt Conference’s commissioner said, “There is no place in higher education for the type of conduct exhibited.” That’s the first and last time anyone calls FIU ‘higher education’.
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[Yahoo]: Miami, FIU have 31 players suspended for role in brawl
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Video of annoying Tennessee Vols fan
Yesterday, we told you about the lady who was told to tone it down because other UT fans complained about her cheering. In case you were wondering, “what’s the big deal?”, here’s video for you.