Thursday, April 10, 2008
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Ever Wish The NFL Was More Like The Mafia?
Today's your day!!
ESPN.com is reporting that an email from Matt Stover (kicker for the Ravens and 18 year NFL veteran) discloses a plan to oust Player's Association Director (read: Player's Union boss and head knee-breaker) Gene Upshaw by March 2009.
Read the article here.
Its actually not really as exciting as it sounds, but I like to think that the inner-workings of the NFL seem like The Sopranos, with bosses getting "offd" instead of just corporate blah-blah-blah.
100th Post
Thanks to everyone who has read both the interesting and incredibly boring posts during the first 5 months of this blog. Keep reading!
Stanford Loses Another Good Coach
In what is becoming a frightening trend for those of us East Coasters who actually pay attention to West Coast basketball, the Stanford Cardinal have lost their 3rd great head coach in 6 years (Willingham-football-2002, Montgomery-basketball-2004, Johnson-basketball-2008) today as men's basketball coach Trent Johnson left the program to take the head coaching job at LSU.
Johnson, who led the Cardinal to a 28-8 record and a Sweet Sixteen appearance, was an assistant coach under Mike Montgomery, who left the school to take a job with the Golden State Warriors. Johnson had expressed a desire to coach the Cardinal for years before the job was offered to him, and reports say that he often told his players at Nevada that he would only leave Nevada for a job at Stanford.
HOWEVER, the inability of Stanford AD Bob Bowlsby to sign Johnson to a contract extension in a timely fashion has bitten him in the ass yet again. Perhaps he'll be able to go out and find another talented coach chomping at the bit to coach at Stanford, praise his successes for a few years, and hang him out to dry until he leaves the school for another, less-prestigious position. That seems to be his m.o., after all.
Think about the Stanford basketball team next year. Intelligent or not, the school will lose both the Lopez brothers to the NBA next year, one likely to the first round of the Draft and the other to a lucky NBDL team somewhere. Now they lose their coach, too. Even though they have 4-star forward recruit Miles Plumlee coming in next year (from Arden, NC... western NC represent!), this blogger just doesn't see things going well in Palo Alto next year.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
30 Upcoming Movie Sequels You Didn't Know About
The lowlights include:
Jeepers Creepers 3: Do we seriously need 3 of these damn movies? Does anyone really walk around during the day, thinking to himself "I wonder what the resolution to the Jeepers Creepers franchise is. I must know!"?
Ghost Rider 2: The first movie looked like the shittiest thing I could possibly watch. The sequel can only be better, right? I'm betting not.
Jurassic Park 4: Whats the only way to make a movie crappier than JP3? Take away William H. Macy, and take away any chance of watchability.
Highlights!
The Brazilian Job: I liked Italian Job and Marky Mark and Charlize Theron are both on board, so I'll see it.
The Untouchables: Capone Rising: De Palma is making this one too, and they've had long enough to work on it, so it has the potential to be more like The Godfather 2 than Godfather 3 in terms of sequels.
And that's it! The rest is some shit in the middle. Generally, I hate sequels, and my prediction is that of these 30, 2 might be watchable.
Guess Memphis Should've Practiced Free Throws
After having a national championship in their grasp, the Memphis Tigers choked away the game last night by missing 4 of their last 5 free throws and allowing Kansas to tie the game with 2 seconds remaining.
It brings a little tear to this blogger's eye to think that a blowhard like John Calipari may just finally get whats coming to him. He claimed for months that Memphis's free throw percentage (last in the NCAA) wasn't an issue because, in his words, "we're not supposed to win because of free throws. Its my job to beat you by 20." Sorry, John, but that shit only flies in the Conference USA.
Memphis finally met up with an opponent with a great defensive gameplan, who shut down Derrick Rose for 3/4 of the game, and kept it close to the end. A team without fundamentals (or morals, for that matter) will never win a close game at the end, and last night proved it. But Cal shouldn't worry too much: I hear he's there are some pretty good prospects in the Shelby County Correctional Facility that are chomping at the bit to play for him next year.
