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College Football

Odds and Ends: A vote for Ohio State


Are you having trouble deciding who to root for in the uber-hyped Game of the Century between Ohio State and Michigan this weekend? Well, maybe this will sway you in the direction of the Buckeyes.


Steve Snapp, associate athletics director for communications, turned down a ticket request from the band Nickelback.

“I told them, `Not that I don’t appreciate your music, but even if you were John Lennon and calling for four for the original Beatles, I couldn’t do it,'” Snapp said.

Actually, Nickelback, if it was anyone but you guys, he would have found some tickets. He simply has enough good taste to not allow the worst rock band in the history of the world to be in the stadium and mar such an exciting event. (Thanks to The Hater Nation)

In other news…

[Inside Bay Area]: Art Shell ponders, “Is Prozac in the substance abuse policy?”

[Yahoo]: Patriots pay 51 cents for the rights to Vinny Testeverde

[NY Post]: Is backing from Isiah Thomas a good or bad thing?

[Off Wing Opinion]: The Fighting Sioux At UND Fight On

[Can’t Stop the Bleeding]: The CFL’s Anti-Pinball Bias, Explored

And finally… not exactly sports related but a drunken elk is funny.

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New England Patriots

Junior Seau comes out of retirement after 3 days



psych!

So much for the story that Junior Seau would retire as a Charger. Boltstalk said, “The good news: he will be signing a one day contract with the Chargers and will retire as a Charger. No date has been set for that. Given Junior’s honesty, I’m guessing it’ll be sooner rather than later.” Ooops.

Looks like Junior will be signing a contract but it’s a one-year $1M contract with the Patriots who need some help at the linebacker position with Tedy Bruschi hampered by wrist surgery.

Of course, Seau did say in his retirement press conference that he wasn’t retiring (“So please, understand when I say this.I’m not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you’ll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside.It ain’t going to happen.”) so perhaps he meant graduating from the Dolphins to the Patriots. Either way, this is the fastest turnaround since Dan Marino decided he didn’t want the Dolphins VP of football operations job after three weeks.

Everyone who wrote the puff pieces on how great of a player Seau was can just save them and dust them off when he retires again next year.

Links:

[SI]: Belichick, Pats convince Seau to play one more year

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New England Patriots

Belichick is a homewrecker

Bill Belichick has been named in a New Jersey divorce case as “the other man”. Vincent Shenocca has accused his wife of having an affair with Belichick for the past several years. Belichick first met Sharon Shenocca when she was a receptionist with the New York Giants.

According to Shenocca, Belichick has been sending his wife cash and expensive gifts as well as flying her to Super Bowl XXXVIII in Houston.

Mrs. Shenocca reportedly is looking at posh pads in Brooklyn, N.Y. and her husband is questioning how she can afford pricey real estate when she doesn’t work.

Yes, it seems either she won the lottery and didn’t tell her husband or she’s having an affair with somebody rich. Sadly, a google search of “Sharon Shenocca” didn’t turn up any pics. We want..no… need to know what this woman looks like.

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[Boston Herald]: Belichick named `Other Man’ in nasty N.J. divorce