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College Football

Announcers go gaga as Stanford shocks the world

Unless you have an unhealthy obsession with your TV Guide, then you probably didn’t even know a channel named VS. existed. But it does and they hit the friggin’ jackpot by broadcasting the biggest upset of the year when Stanford knocked off USC late Saturday night. Considering they’re pretty new at this whole college football scene and it was a 40-point underdog scoring a last second touchdown on fourth down to win the game, we’re going to overlook the fact that the announcers totally botched the call.

Ron Thulin: “TOUCHDOWN USC!!!…Stanford, touchdown Stanford! My Goodness.”

Kelly Stouffer: “Jim Harbaugh, if you’re asking, is going to go for the tie right here, he’s holding up…Obviously, they are tied right now. He’s going to go for the extra point.”

Ron Thulin: “You got to.

Talk about a killer duo! One guy doesn’t know which team is which and the other guy doesn’t know what the score is. No offense, we know you both have decent resumes, but you fellas got a lot of work to do before you’ll be on the big boy channels.

Perhaps you could learn a little something by watching this seamless transition from Britney Spears’ life to a game winning touchdown. Take notes, this is how the pros do it.

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All Other Sports

Hey, Rick Reilly, don’t quit your day job

We don’t know about ya’ll, but we love reading Rick Reilly’s stuff. You heard us, right? We said reading his stuff. We’re just really not feeling his new animated stand up act.

Ugh, that was painful. Reilly should ask these guys for a little help with his routine. However, we gotta admit, we did love his rip on Rex Grossman. Rex is so bad that Roger Goodell should ban him from the league for not using performance enhancing substances.

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High School Sports

Florida high school football teams get blasted with suspensions following bench-clearing brawl

The hammer came down today following a huge brawl during a high school football game between the players of Florida’s Miramar and Flanagan. In all, 56 players got suspended for anywhere from one to six weeks for their roles in the fight.

It’s considered by many to be the biggest mass suspension in Florida high school history with 29 suspensions going to Miramar and 27 more going to Flanagan. It all went down on September 28 during the third quarter of the game.

A cameraman for the Sun-Sentinel High School Sports program was rolling after a scuffle broke out following a play. Pushing quickly turned into thrown punches and grappling, as players from both benches rushed in to help their teammates.

“I saw one of the football players push somebody in the dirt, push their head down in the dirt. And then I saw the whole team just come out and fighting,” said one student.

Another student agrees with the suspensions, “I believe it was deserved because fighting is not tolerable amongst all schools, so I think they should have got it.

The entire offensive squad that was on the field for Miramar and the entire defensive squad for Flanagan got suspended, in addition to a bunch of other kids that came off the benches to join.

While something like this could happen anywhere in the country, it figures that it would happen in Florida. Obviously, these kidos should be receiving their scholarship letters from Miami and Florida International at any minute now.

Links:

[Sun-Sentinel.com]: Mass suspensions in Broward throw high school football programs for a loop
[CBS4.com]: Dozens Suspended After Broward Foot-Brawl

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General Sports

Hulk Hogan kinda takes a step up from reality TV, but not really

Listen up, brothers! American Gladiators is back and badder than ever because Hulk Hogan is going to be hosting the new version of the old classic. Look for all the Eliminators, Human Cannonballs and Atlaspheres you can handle to hit the tube around midseason on NBC.

Hulk Hogan is an American icon,” Craig Plestis, an NBC vice president, said in a news release. “For over 20 years he has been a symbol of strength and toughness in all facets of entertainment. His electrifying personality will no doubt inspire Herculean efforts from our everyday challengers. There is no one more qualified to host this program.

We don’t know about how qualified the Hulkster is; after all, you do remember his appearance on the Teen Choice Awards don’t ya:

Be careful Zap, Thunder, Siren, Jazz, Bang, Boom or whoever else joins the AG crew, that could be you if you’re not careful. And then “Whatcha gonna do?!”

Links:

[BaltimoreSun.com]: NBC picks Hogan to pump up new version of `American Gladiators’

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Fantasy Football

The worst fantasy football players in the world

If you thought this kid from Florida was PO’d after Auburn handed the Gators their first home loss under Urban Meyer, then just wait until you get a load of the these two guys as they reflect on their fantasy season to date.

Alex Smith and J.P. Losman as your quarterbacks?!? Dude, you were screwed way before Steven Jackson and Andre Johnson went down.

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All Other Sports

Apparently tennis humor consists of more than just Novak Djokovic

Tennis is a great game, but as much as we love to see matches that go back and forth for hours on end, we love this kinda stuff even more.

Streakers, Andy Roddick’s antics, Anna K, Andre’s hair; we’d better not hear anyone saying tennis is boring ever again.

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College Football

Mike Gundy and Coors, a match made in heaven

Mike Gundy’s self detonation made him a household name. Even your grandmother suddenly knows who the coach of Oklahoma State is. Well, with fame comes opportunity and it didn’t take long before Gundy was cashing in on his on-air meltdown/spasm.

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College Football

If you thought that Bobby Knight was a sore loser…

There were a ton of upsets in the world of college football this weekend, but we’re guessing by this clip that nobody had a worse Saturday (or Friday in the case of Mountaineers fans) than the Florida die-hard. Wait, let me rephrase that: nobody had a worse Saturday than this Florida die-hard.

One word of advice before you hit the play button: Earmuffs.

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[Our Book of Scrap]: So Gators Fans, How Do You REALLY Feel?

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General Sports

LeBron James got showed up on SNL

If you’re anything like us then you probably don’t watch Saturday Night Live anymore. However, we will tune in when sports figures are bestowed the hosting duties for the week. So, when we heard that LeBron James was going to host the season premier of SNL, we made sure to set up our DVR. Unfortunately, Kanye West stole the show.

After the show, Kanye proceeded to call out LBJ for winning the Eastern Conference Championship, claiming that it was his album that went crazy against the Pistons in Game 5.

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General Sports

Local TV station screws up the Kevin Everett story. Big time.

Listen, we know that people make mistakes. We’re no different, we’ve had our share of blunders, but this just isn’t right.

“That is not the right video.” Geez, you think. Was it the courtroom that gave it away?

And in case you were wondering, the Kevin Everett imposter is an interesting fellow to say the least.

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[Awful Announcing]: Kevin Everett Can Move His Legs And Is Kicking Cops