Posted: May 4th, 2007 | Author: Zim | Filed under: ICYMI | 2 Comments »
If you were Rich Eisen which one would you want to be laying the lumber to?
All the crap-o-la on a slow sports week to consider: In Case You Missed It.
by Mike Zimmer, Honk
So let me get this straight: Rich Eisen is married to sideline scud Suzy Shuster who is, well, she just looks dirty. Not dirty in an unclean way, just, you know bar/beer-cute with a randy dirty side. However, he makes nice-nice and friendsies with a hot Philly Tele-babe named…er…well, it doesn’t matter. Said Tele-babe then sends Rich some e-mail with some photos of her in a bikini and on the beach etc. However, said Tele-babe sends it to an e-mail account that Rich shares with Dirty Suzy. Oooooooh, not so smooth. Well, this week this story has been fodder for the tabloids especially in Philly, New York and out in L.A. where Rich is on NFL Network. Suzy wasn’t real impressed with the e-mail and was a bit put off apparently. Rightly so, in my opinion, the Tele-babe is hotter than Suzy even if the Shuster might seem to be a randy bedroom Queen. Hmmmm. Who ya gonna pick fellas? And how screwed is Rich Eisen at home even if this was unsolicited?
Brady needs an upgrade? Oh wait, he’s gay. Nevermind.
The other hub-bub out there in the blogosphere was the chatter over why Brady Quinn doesn’t have a hottie girl friend. Afterall he’s Notre Dame’s QB, he just got all sorts of T.V. attention the last month and of course there was last Saturday and his NFL Draft saga. However, there was some pre-occupation with the fact that his girlfriend by this and other pictures seen of her is a bit homely. OK, that’s not being nice. But, damn it, look at that picture up top. She looks mildly retarded there if not homely. Apparently, the chick is a Miami (Ohio) soccer player and was his High School sweet heart of something (they graduated from Dublin Coffman High School a couple years apart). Brady in my opinion is a bit of a troll with greasy stupid hair and no fashion sense what-so-ever even though there is an audience out there that thinks the opposite. More, I think he’s queer as a 3-dollar bill (not that there’s anything wrong with that). And, now, there’s some proof. So, the reason that Brady has a homely G.F. is because she’s OK with her being his “beard” so to speak (I hear that’s what the gays call a gay man having a woman…I know this from watching Will and Grace once.)
Aren’t you proud Browns fans? That’s your new franchise QB grabbing some smooth teenage junk.
See for yourself people. That dude is limp wristed (not that there’s anything wrong with that.). Thanks to Mike Beckman for the photo and his e-mail header that read, “LaCharles Bently just re-broke his leg”. Someone also needs to tell Brady that this is one of the easiest and most hanous ways to spread the Staff infection that seems to be going around the Browns locker room of late. What is more troubling about this photo is, I think Brady might also be a pedder-ass (er, pedophile) as that kid he’s enjoying rubbing sausages with looks like he’s 13 and scared. Where is Dateline NBC when you need them?
What the hell is up with the Eagles?
Donovan McNabb, the Philadelphia Eagles franchise QB isn’t happy. The team screwed up their draft and took a QB with their first pick after sliding down with the Cowboys to pick in the second round and reached taking the University of Houston’s Kevin Kolb. McNabb and his posse of soup weilding family members were not impressed. He met with Head Coach Andy Reid about the move but seems quite unhappy. Then, someone told him he’d have to be wearing these awful “throwback” uniforms as seen above a couple times this year. Why the hell were the Eagles once looking like the Brazillian Soccer team? Yikes. Those is baaaaaaaaad. What a bad week for #5.
Jinx, jinx, jinx, jinx…..you get the picture. But what aren’t you seeing? Hmmmmm?
There was some story that broke this week about NBA officials and perhaps them being racist. Apparently some college is paying a couple of professors to do research that includes studying the officiating paterns of NBA officials over the past 13-years or some shit. According to their findings they call black players for fouls more than whites. Now, I couldn’t give a good God-damn about the NBA as it is as interesting as watching goats fuck. The story bored me greatly on a couple of fronts. Uh, it’s about the NBA for starters and well, why is everyone so obsessed with race? And there is a flaw with the study it would seem. Aren’t like 90% of the players in the NBA African-Americans and/or Black? If you want to talk about something being racist, go talk to the boys over at EA Sports and Madden NFL Football. Look at all those covers up top there. See anything missing? That’s right: Whitey is getting screwed. This is just wrong. I suggest we put Brady Quinn on this year’s cover so we can kill two birds with one stone: Gay audience and Whitey.
Suck it George.
Nope. Not fired yet. And nor should he be. Brian Cashman? Yeah. But Joe? Hell no. The ax did fall in New York this week though, they did fire the strength and conditioning coach. Well, duh! Most of the Yankees pitchers are all hurt including promising young rookie Phillip Hughes who was pitching a no-no when his hammy went Uh-Oh…Pop! Looks like the Boss is moving in baby steps to slashing the heart and soul from the Bronx Bombers. I mean, truly, small steps. Who’s next concessioneers?
Speaking of the Yankees…WTF? That’s NEW ENGLAND QB Tom Brady with a Yanks hat?
Oh, yeah like Tommy didn’t know that wasn’t gonna fly back in Beantown. Suddenly all over New England parents are heading out to the Court House tomorrow or in the coming week to get their kids names changed and many a tattoo parlor is setting appointments for alterations to body-ink shrines to the slack-jawed mildly retarded looking Brady. See, those Meatchicken guys aren’t always that smart afterall. However, we know one thing: He’s not gay (not that there’s anything wrong with that). He’s laying the lumber to Gisele Bundchenhotty. And, inseminated Bridget Moinahan (yes, I know I can’t spell those names!) with his demon big teethed seed. Good on ya’ Tommy! You are killing the locals. First you are fucking a super model and now you are rubbing it in their faces by wearing that hated cap like “It’s O.K., you still love me. Oh, and I bang hot chicks.”.
Thanks for various outlets for the photos and some of the info used in the ICYMI segments this week. They are: www.sportsgonesouth.com, www.barstoolsports.com, www.profootballtalk.com and many others.
Posted: April 6th, 2007 | Author: Zim | Filed under: ICYMI, Kegerator Nation | 3 Comments »
Colin Cowherd of ESPN Radio
Colin Cowherd apparently causes a web-site to crash and has pissed off the masses it seems.
The blogosphere is in a tizzy against the real media as a result.
My take on where sportsblogs and real media types clash.
by Mike Zimmer
There is some buzz out there in cyberspace especially where it concerns some of the daily websites I cruise everyday. I am not a particular fan of many, yet I am drawn to them like tabloid papers near the toilet at my parents house. Some are well done. Some are expertly put together and have changed the way information flows about sports (see www.profootballtalk.com which is in my opinion the leading information spot for the NFL Period.), many are like this one which is mostly cut and paste jobs where some personal interests are mostly thrust out and tossed about amongst friends while an obsession with writing is excorsized for myself.
Most however are attempts at being hip, being first, being most jam-packed with info on all things and being as smarmy or most often cited as possible. Making a name for a blog above all else seems to be the biggest reason for most to exist at all. I have lamented that I really don’t like the blog Kissing Suzy Kolber (www.kissmesuzy.blogspot.com) all that much. It’s funny in the most crass and crude way from time to time but mostly it’s juvenile (and the lead writer seems to have a grudge against Ohio State automatic points deducted there). However, it’s very popular and I do read it often when I can stand it. They do appeal to my demented and wicked sense of humor on some days. Another site that is influential because it’s so often read is Deadspin (www.deadspin.com). A mention of your blog on that site can increase your viewership and hits instantly. Mostly though, I find that site just kind of, well, they hate everything. As much as they actully cover and as much information makes it there first, it seems all to be stuff they hate or people they hate or things that are wrong. They sound much like the “real” media they openly disdain. Much like Kissing Suzy Kulber. They mock, they have fun, they also do have real information. I read it every day. That should be flattery enough for them (They do cover soccer which should be an automatic disqualification of their credibilty though.).
The thing is, they as well as so many other blogs are becoming more and more mainstream. These sites are right up there with the mainstream big media or “real” media outlets that I routinely look for news about sports or popular culture on. The idea of the Blog has boldly taken on a life and reality of their own. Most often than not blogs are where stories break in the world of sports now. Sure there are still insiders at every major network or sports information outlet, but rumors and stories are leaked to the internet first. Electronic media is now where most news comes from. “Real” media types often don’t like this. And where there are tons of credible sites, even they take their lumps for throwing out as much that will stick to the wall and stay put and become reality. Reporters and especially established news outlets hate that. They are bound by so many other standards and cannot take such bold action. And there’s the rub. They cannot afford to make broad statements, be crude, be completely open mouthed and vocal about things that piss them off or make no sense. They have to be decent and they have to be right or they get their asses handed to them.
When the two cross paths (and more and more they are becoming intertwined and entangled) there are often clashes. ESPN it seems is not a real fan of the blogs although they seem to be at the same time trying to incorperate them into their vast body of work. Their NFL reporter Len Pasquerelli is credited with breaking news all the time, and more than a few times he’s lifted said story from www.profootballtalk.com. And as they are supposed to be the world wide leader in sports (and fail at that to be hip and PC in a completely different way) they don’t like when they are scooped, just like any other major outlet for news.
Today there was even further clashing. Apparently ESPN Radio’s Colin Cowherd issued a challenge of some sort to crash a blog spot named The Big Lead (there doesn’t seem to be a reason given either). The site was crashed and is still down. I did not hear that segment of his radio show this morning though I am a regular listener to ‘The Herd’ with Colin Cowherd. Cowherd has been the target of many a blogger for a while and I still don’t know exactly why other than some bloggers taking exception for him supposedly lifting stories from the internet for his show. And again, I listen almost every day. As a salesman, I am in the car almost all day or at the least for good portions of the day. I have a habit of listening to Mike and Mike in the Morning, Colin Cowherd and The Jim Rome Show from 9am-to-3pm while out on my daily routine. Bloggers took Cowherd to task when part of one show was lifted from a Michigan blogger. Cowherd had an on-air apology and gave credit where credit was due. This still has not appeased the masses in cyber space. I am a fan of The Herd, and critics of him and Jim Rome often don’t truly give those guys a long enough listen to decide they hate them. If they truly listened long enough I think they too would “get it”. Rome gives a disclaimer every time he gets a new affiliate to “give it 2-weeks” because it’s quite a different show. With the Herd (and with any show for that matter, too much of them is always like eating ice cream all day) you have to take the good with the bad. Cowherd moans and groans on about some issues longer than necessary on days when it is clear there is little to truly talk about or if there are a lack of guests. Sometimes it’s like a dog on a bone and you just gotta turn him off. Rome too can grate on even me, an ardent defender of his hipper than thou show. But, for the most part Rome and Cowherd are entertaining. They are entertainers not unlike Howard Stern only doing sports.
Both Deadspin.com and Kissing Suzy Kulber have taken great umbridge with Cowherd’s shenanigans today. But seriously, it’s not exactly anything they’d be above or below doing themselves when it comes down to it. Check out their take HERE and HERE respectively.
Both are harsh and unforgiving, thinking that this ‘wasn’t cool.’ Well, with this medium being still quite in it’s infancy when it concerns credibility and legitimacy that is what you are going to have. There will continue to be a great clash between the “real” media and bloggers. As a blogger I love the idea. To have your own way to put out information and spin it to your taste or thoughts on such matters as sports and what-have-you is a fantastic oppertunity. I seriously love writing on this site everyday even if some people will NEVER get it. It makes me feel some sense of accomplishment when I can post on whatever the hell I want. And say what I want where places like CBS can’t say that Chris Henry is a Stupid Mother Fucker. However, I can see where there is a great disconnect and dis-trust. There is a lot of garbage out there. Even right here. Bad spelling, poor grammer and worst of all, bad info. I am guilty on all accounts.
If there is one thing that I can say that irks me about all mediums though is, that they are almost all decidedly negative. Again, I am guilty here too. Deadspin and KSK are the worst offenders in my opinion and in the “Real” media, it’s ALL negative. ESPN tries desperately to sugar coat and sprinkle in the good in hopes that they can appease and bring out the good in sports to the masses. They go overboard with sappy stories with the fuzzy lighting and all and pushing a rather PC agenda like pounding the WNBA down our throats. They barter this as “good”. Blogs don’t have to. And, they are usually negative which is another thing that turns people off. The thing is, Blogs don’t have to change. They don’t have to appeal to anyone other than the ones that write them and those that cannot afford in some way to NOT read them. Like me.
Wow, that was long winded and a long drawn out way to say that blogs are good and bad and the “real” media is good and bad. They both enhance being a sports fan. Don’t they?
In conclusion I guess I have this to say. Blogs cannot “Boo-Hoo” about their plight and place in the world. And, they cannot complain by saying “it’s not fair”. There is so much freedom and oppertunity in this medium that complaining and crying foul isn’t something that is becoming. Bloggers in a way are winning the war, battle by battle it may not seem fair, but they/we are. Sports and news in general (for better or worse) is changing because of blogs and bloggers. The two as i said earlier are becoming so interchangable and intertwined that soon enough it will be hard to seperate the two. It already seems as if the two have merged forever to be inseperable. Just watch Sports Center and listen to how many times they say “according to internet reports”. Stop whining and trudge on soldiers. OK. I think I’m done now.
Posted: March 18th, 2007 | Author: Zim | Filed under: ICYMI | 10 Comments »
The San Diego Chargers unveiled their new look this week after internet leaks spoil their coming out party.
All In Case You Missed It
by Mike Zimmer, Bored on a Sunday
Last week it leaked out that the San Diego Chargers were set to get a new look to their Sunday best. The ‘Bolts had their home and away jerseys tweaked as well as their “3rd” or alternate look updated to be quite moderna all the way around. They also will be changing full time to a white helmet shell from the navy blue one employed since the late 1970′s.
The look is a bit reminicent of the late 70′s look with a little lighter navy blue and more emphasis on the yellow. However the team has also blended in their very popular recall of powder blue. The sweet looking retro’s have been raved about by everyone from Chris “Leather” Berman to myself, an avid fashionisto. I dig the update and especially like the move to the white helmet shell and the new look of the bolt. Now, I don’t have to be overly critical of myself when I say I kind of like the Chargers but hesitate because they look to much like the Meatchicken Wolverweenies. Check out the San Diego Chargers web site to see a pretty lame little thing with L.T. and Phillip Rivers before heading to their site to pre-order your jersey HERE.
The #55 Napa Toyota of Michael Waltrip has been absent from the last 3 NASCAR Nextell Cup races.
Meanwhile, over in the Turnin’ Left League, Toyota continues to struggle in their initial campaign. Most notable is Owner/Driver Michael Waltrip who has now failed to make his 3rd straight race after squeaking into the Daytona 500 to start the year after a month of turmoil and scandle. Waltrip has now asked Toyota and their Racing and Development department to get more involved in trying to help the situation which Waltrip says is “Embarrassing” in an article over on ESPN.com.
The entire Toyota contingent is struggling, but Michael Waltrip Racing which also employs David Ruetiman and former Cup Champion Dale Jarrett has been awful to start the year. Jarrett has made every race on a Champions Provision but has only a few more exemptions to make races before those run out and he’ll have to earn his way into races strictly on qualifying on speed. As I’ve said, I like Michael Waltrip but it’s clear that the multi-tasking that is pulling at him has gotten to him some as it seems in the interview. Some call him a phoney, some call him other names, but it seems as if in reality, Waltrip is genuine in his concerns and beliefs when it comes to racing. Check it out, it’s worth the read.
The Columbus Blue Jackets set a dubious record as Rick Nash (show in the picture not scoring) continues his slump right along with the rest of this heap of a team.
Should the NHL cease to operate (wow, didn’t they do that and still haven’t really recovered even yet?), at least the Columbus Blue Jackets would be in the record books and placed in the annals of the NHL for all time. The bad news is, it’s for a dubious honor. The club set a record for the modern era over the weekend when they were ceremoniously dumped and beaten once more, this time by San Jose 3-0. That honor? Well, they managed to NOT score for the 15th (and surely not the final) time this season which broke the NHL record. Already the lowest scoring team in the league with just a pultry 177 goals and desperately buried with only 2 other poor teams even close to scoring as few goals as they are, the club now has this dis-honor to add to their misery.
Of course, as a Blue Jacket appologist, perhaps I couldn’t have said it better than the Columbus Dispatch said it. Check out the article that was in the paper today and is posted at the Blue Jackets website.
Oh, and the NHL…do we care any more? I mean, sure, it’s a good excuse to go drink beer down in the Arena District here in C-bus and a good excuse for Big B to go start beer fuel fights at ECHL venues but is it really good for much else? The Jackets aren’t worth a damn so it’s hard to tell if I’m actually seeing real NHL hockey. Of course you can’t exactly see it anywhere else right? It’s not like they’re on TV any where right? Oh, they are? Really? Wow. Huh. Who’d know that?
And finally…this is to all you slackers…
This is a call to arms people. With my hectic schedule and certain preoccupations I am unable to bring you crap worth posting here every day. And, when I do, I need some feedback. More to the point, perhaps we could get some chatter going and some new blood in here contributing? Eh? Is this thing on? This is an exciting if not anxious time in the sports year. You have the under-delivering NCAA tourney to talk about, you have the coming of the MLB season on the horizon and you have the NFL draft and free agent period still quite in the minds of all us football credents. I call on you all to help one another, help me, help yourselves, to ask not what this website can do for you, but what you can do for this website! Boy, I can’t believe I pulled that one out. Now, as a reward, look at a picture of Jessica Beal and wonder. Good Kegerator Nation! Good!
Can you say “multi-talented”? Good, I knew you could.
Posted: March 1st, 2007 | Author: Zim | Filed under: ICYMI | No Comments »
Mr. Jangles the Kegeratornation.com Internet Monkey brings you yet another edition of ICYMI.
A round up of all the crap I never got around to posting AND cleaning out my pic file.
by Mr. Jangles, Internet Monkey
Banana. Poop. Monkey Hate Internet!
Chief Illiniwek takes his final bow as Illinois bows to the NCAA’s wishes to ban offensive mascots. Political Correctness Sucks.
The Fighting Illini’s unofficial student mascot was finally given the boot last week in Illinois’ final Men’s home basketball game of the season. The Chief, a white kid in war paint has been at the center of the debate of “offensive mascots”. Which to me, is assinine. Deadspin had something to mention about it.If mascots are offensive, then you need to REALLY start cracking down on other schools that you may not think have offensive mascots. Let’s start with Notre Dame, well, Your Internet Monkey is of Irish decent. Fighting Irish? Really? Am I a drunken sterotype? Monkey Hate Leprichan! And Syracuse? The Orangemen? Those are protestant crusaders who went about trying to destroy catholics! Monkey Hate P.C. Bullshit! Keep the Chief. Just do me a favor and get rid of Pittsburg State’s Gorilla mascot. Now, that’s offensive!
Speaking of offensive…
Tennesse Head Basketball Coaches Bruce Pearl and Minnie Pearl…er…Pat Summit
Things this Monkey doesn’t need to see anytime soon again would include coaches in body paint or in transvestite drag. All jokes aside, how about the UT coaches wanting to show the other some support. Bruce Pearl is a Kegerator Nation fav to be sure, and last month he greased up and joined the students at the Tennessee women’s basketball game to cheer on Summit’s lady Vols. To return the favor, Minnie Pearl…er…Summit dressed up as the worlds ugliest and oldest cheerleader and sang ‘Rocky Top’ and performed in the “pyramid”. It was very scary, trust me. Good for them though, it was a nice gesture of school spirit. I just don’t need to see it ever again.
Dear God! Jenna What the hell happend?
Yikes! That’s actually Jenna Jamison, although this version of her is plastic and scary!
Monkey love porn babes. However, when porn babes get old, it is a scary sight. And, apparently even the Queen of Porn Babes, Jenna Jamison has become scary. It looks like her head has shrunk and her face has been pulled tighter than a snare drum. Throw in some of the fat that has apparently been sucked out of her ass and inject it into her lips and you have a rather attractive monkey dressed as a banana. But even this Internet Monkey isn’t liking what he sees! Jenna, hun, stay out of that tanning bed and stop having your plastic surgeon start your face lifts from you buttocks!
And Sadly, Dennis Johnson passed away.
Generally reguarded as the whitest black man to ever play basketball, Johnson is seen here with the Celtics back in the mid-1980′s.
DJ passed away last week too soon, working out with a low-level professional basketball operation he was coaching and involved with running. Johnson was the consumate pro and a key to helping Larry Bird and the Boston Celtics back to prominance in the 1980′s. With red hair, bad skin and short shorts, DJ was just what Boston liked, a white version of a black guy. All kidding aside, DJ was a heck of a player and was generally held in very high reguard where ever he played. He also won a title with the Seattle Super Sonics in 1977 and played out his career on top of his game with Phoenix. He was honored at the new Boston Garden tonight, and his memory apparently helped spark the pathetic Celts to their first back-to-back win of the season.
Monkey tired.
Posted: February 13th, 2007 | Author: Zim | Filed under: Babble, ICYMI, NCAAB | 6 Comments »
Waaaaaaaaah! Waaaaaaaaah! Boo-hoo-hoo-hoo!!! Dukies have lost 4-in a row in the ACC
Can the Dick Vitale, Jim Nantz, Billy Packer and the NCAA deal with an NCAA basketball tourney without Duke?
Wright State (wrong college) upset #13 Butler over the weekend…did you know?
And some other things all In Case You Missed It
by Mike Zimmer, Bracketologist
What are all the kiss-asses at CBS and the NCAA HQ in Indy going to do when Duke is on the bubble and doesn’t deserve to be in the NCAA basketball tourney? The Dukies are (18-7) overall, and just (5-6) in conference including having lost 4-in a row in the ACC. They just fell out of the Top 25 for the first time since 1996 after the new rankings came out on Monday. With the ACC really about North Carolina and everyone else, they are mid-pack and in bad shape coming off losses to so-so Virginia, not-so-good Florida State, a close loss to UNC and then getting beat on the road at Maryland. So, are they worthy of a tourney bid if they are no better than a middle of the road team in the ACC which got no favors last year?
Look, if your team name is Duke, even if you finish at (7-9) in the ACC, you get in the tourney. Just wait and see. They do have wins over Air Force (who’ll more than likely win the Mountain West), Indiana, Georgetown and Gonzaga. Meanwhile, they have been exposed as a young and road weary team which has not been a hall mark ever of a Mike Kryzyschevskiwuzskrivsshksee coached team. The question is, do they deserve it if they continue to struggle down the stretch with so many other mid-majors on the bubble?
This year, you have 24 non-traditional conferences (along with the Big Ten, Big East, Big XII, SEC, ACC and PAC-10) getting automatic bids. Some of the mid-majors may be deserving of multiple bids. However with a team like Duke who is a major draw and other traditional big power schools on the bubble (like say another somewhat struggling traditional power like Kentucky), do those conferences get bids? The Missouri Valley Conference sent no less than 5-teams last season to the big dance, and could again this year send a bevy of teams. The MVC is log-jammed with everyone chasing #16 Southern Illinois. Creighton, Missouri State, Wichita State, Bradley and Northern Iowa are all in the race for a spot as well. The WAC has some deserving teams after #11 ranked Nevada with New Mexico State and Utah State in a position to perhaps crash the dance. And now, even the Horizon League could have 2-teams in the mix. The Horizon League you ask? Who other than #13 ranked Butler is in that conference?
DaShaun Woods of Wright State
One of the stories you may have missed this weekend was that the Wright State Raiders moved to (19-8) and got a piece of the lead in the Horizon League with their win over #13 ranked Butler. The Bulldogs who whooped Wright State earlier in the season by 31, were ambushed at the Nutter Center over in Fairborn this past Saturday 77-65. Wright State is on Butler’s heels and could be in shape to host the post-season tourney if they can win the regular season. Loyola of Chicago is also decent out of the Horizon and could cause problems for either Butler or Wright State too.
While we’re talking all this college basketball, have you noticed that ESPN has a female game night analyst for the men’s highlight show?
A sweaty Stacy Dales at a speaking engagement at Northwestern (Sorry no good pics of her apparently exist online tonight)
Dales is also a WNBA player and former NCAA Star
Her name is Stacy Dales. It used to be Dales-Schuman but she kicked her college sweetheart to the curb and took her name back. I thought I had seen her before, but recently she had popped up on the ESPN College Basketball Gamenight desk. She is also a football sideline reporter and THAT is where I remembered her from. As for her “other” career in the WNBA, she retired only to agree to come back this season to play for an expansion team. Perhaps it is her “other” interest that caused her to get a divorce. OH! I kid! I kid! The thing is, I can’t decide if she’s hot or not. One look yes, another, and she’s on that side of Rebecca Lobo. Oh, that was mean! I like Dales I think. She’s got a little Jodie Foster (pre-butchy lesbian version) cute thing going on. But that was always my problem with “Clarise”, she was good looking one look and eh in another. More than my petty man issues of whether she’s good looking of not, she makes coherant sense and for some women broadcasters doing mens’ sports that isn’t always the case. Dales looks comfortable and I actually like her insight and she appears and sounds accepted and respected for it. Her defending Duke tonight wins her no points, but she sounds quite well rounded and learned when it comes to NCAA hoops. Surprisingly, unlike the likes of one of my favs Bonnie Bernstein or the rather photogenic Erin Andrews, there are nary a few pictures to be found of Dales on the net other than when she was playing in the WNBA. ESPN.com doesn’t have anything on her AT ALL.
ESPN’s Best Gator Alum, Erin Andrews
Speaking of Erin Andrews, www.barstoolsports.com out of Boston has a Tribute to Ms. Andrews that some one posted on Youtube.com. It’s worth a watch.
And finally, as we talk about good looking women, basketball and things that you might have missed, I have been sitting on this one for quite some time now and can’t keep it in any longer…
USC women’s basketball player and Matt Leinart’s Baby Mama
This is Brynn Cameron, the mormon USC women’s basketball player that former USC and now Arizona Cardinals QB Matt Leinart knocked up. Who else is in the picture is what is funny to me. That would be Arizona State QB Rudy Carpenter, who apparently Cameron is dating despite getting some sort of support and having done the baby making dance with Leinart. Cameron would appear to have a thing for PAC-10 QB’s. Who’s next Ryan Leaf’s lil’ bro up at Oregon? One thing that would seem to be out would be hooking up with USC’s back-up QB Matt Sanchez, who apparently is headed to the registered sex-offenders list after being accused of sexually assulting a fellow student last summer.
And that’s In Case You Missed It, Basketball edition. Now leave a comment and don’t make it about Grey’s Anatomy, Cooking Shows or Foam Finger Diddling.
Posted: January 19th, 2007 | Author: Brew | Filed under: ICYMI, Movies, Sports | No Comments »
After not understanding the inside joke on Deadspin.com about Chris Berman and the phrase “You’re With Me, Leather”, Brew investigates and finds out the meaning.
by Brew….who usually isn’t THIS slow in picking stuff up
While I’m home sick, I decided to browse around my usual set of sites, and deadspin.com, again, had this reference to Chris Berman – “You’re with me, leather.” What does it mean? Ever feel like you’re at a party and everyone is in on a joke but you? So after I did some investigation on this phenomenon, I came across Wikipedia with this link. It now makes perfect sense to me now.
The first thought that came to mind after reading about it was Mel Brooks in “History of the World – Part I”. You know the part…..say it with me….
It’s good to be da king!
Sorry if this is old news for some. I feel like the last guy in the world who saw “The Sixth Sense”. Did you know that he was really dead throughout the movie?
Chris Berman’s Nicknames
Buy the T-shirt
Posted: January 13th, 2007 | Author: Zim | Filed under: ICYMI | No Comments »
Becks
World Soccer Super Star signs 5-year $250-million dollar deal to play for and pitch goods for MLS’s Los Angeles Galaxy.
by Mike Zimmer, Manchester United Honk
Nope. Still don’t care. I don’t think any of you do either. Plenty of pictures to come of Posh Spice’s new store bought rack is OK with me though.
Posted: January 13th, 2007 | Author: Zim | Filed under: Cincinnati Bengals, ICYMI, MLB, NCAAF, NFL, Sports | 1 Comment »
Yes, Randy, We know you’re the Big Unit.
Unit back to D-backs, Dodgers offer all-you-can-eat bleacher seats, Barry high on greenies and got em’ from Mark Sweeney, College Football Carosel keeps on turning and NFL Notes all In Case You Missed It.
by Mike Zimmer, never done speed balls
The New York Yankees kind of sort of admitted to a mistake and instead of buying a new player, packed one up and shipped him back for store credit. Randy Johnson was sent from the Bronx back to Arizona where he’ll take his 5.00 ERA and bitter attitude. Johnson back in the National League may be interesting to see especially with the D-Backs having Brandon Webb in the rotation. Big Unit and B.Webb back-to-back nights will be killer on any team. I dig the D-Backs new uni’s too.
Barry was high on greenies while being shot up with horse fertility drugs (aka steroids).
If you missed this story, you live under a rock. Reports have Balco Barry having tested postitive for something afterall. Well, his test for being a complete and total ass hole came back positive long ago, he apparently tested positive for amphetimines. Which means, he was popping speed, which is illegal now in the MLB. Of course, it wouldn’t be a Barroid story without him adding insult to the injury of it all. He then apparently fingered team mate Mark Sweeney as the guy he got it from. Well, Sweeney didn’t just give it to him, Barry took it out of his locker. Riiiiiiiight. He has a personal chef (because he distrusts the teams food), he has a personal trainer and doctor (as he’s too good for and doesn’t recieve booster shots of bull seman from the Giants guys) and generally ignores all of his team mates yet he just randomly reached into Mark Sweeney’s locker and downed the first pills he found? Barry, please just fucking die.
Chavez Revine Buffet?
The Los Angeles Dodgers have long offered affordable tickets in the outfield bleachers to their fans. However, this season they have nixed their low-priced, less than $10 tickets for a novel approach. Instead of promoting health and financial responsibility, they have an entire section of the outfield that will be All-You-Can-Eat Soft drinks, peanuts, Cracker Jack, Popcorn and Dodger Dogs for $40 each. While I don’t think L.A. is really the kind of “buffet” or Obesity rich places on earth (that’s reserved more for say, Milwaukee?), it’s a new approach. Consider that this actually might save a family some money in the long haul with hot dogs and soft drinks costing pennies but routinely being marked up by about 3000%. Perhaps the Dodgers should find a way to get their fans to the game on time and have them not leave early instead of helping them on their way to killing themselves instead.
Tulsa Golden Hurricanes
The Rice Owls got just one season out of their new Head Coach Todd Graham. After just signing a 6-year extension after their bowl defeat to Troy (their first since 1961 mind you), Graham bolted for Tulsa to become their head coach. Graham replaces Steve Kragthorpe who left to go to Louisville to fill the void that was left when Bobby Petrino was hired to be Ron Mexico’s coach in Atlanta of the NFL. Got all that? Graham helped rebuild Tulsa under Kragthorpe before going to Rice and making the largest one-season turn around in recent memory. After only winning one game last season Rice went (7-6) this year and looks as if they are back on the football map. Here’s a did you know factoid; Tulsa is the smallest Division I-A school by enrollment in college football. As a private Presbyterian University they have only about 4,000-students in school. I found this interesting and weird considering that Tulsa is a decent size city and the school and team are enjoying a nice big following thest days of success since 2002.
To the victors go the spoils, Florida QB Tim Tebow with his BCS National Championship “Booby” Prize (for shame puns!).
This fantastic picture was stolen from www.sportsgonesouth.com which is always a great read. A different sports perspective to be sure and much like this site quite regionally oriented, it is none the less one of the daily reads and/or preferred sites that I visit.
NFL Notes include these rumors:
Dennis Green is seriously a candidate for the Oakland Raiders job. Apparently Al Davis likes losing.
The Bengals signed Robert Geathers (aka Jumpy Junior) to a 6-year contract that is quite rich. The Defensive End had 10 1/2 sacks on the year (did you notice? I didnt’) and has some promise to be a break out star. Of course now that the Bengals have sank a ton of money into him, he’ll tank or get hurt.
Brett “Lord” Favre canceled his membership to a prestigious Country Club near Green Bay this week, maybe signalling his calling it a career.
And finally, the NFL will play a 2007 regular season game in London, England next season with the game definately having the Miami Dolphins as one of the partisipants as the home team. Rumor has the Giants and Bills as possible foes.
(Rumors and notes courtesy of www.profootballtalk.com and www.bengals.com)
Posted: November 23rd, 2006 | Author: Zim | Filed under: ICYMI, NFL | 1 Comment »
Troy Smith and the Buckeyes grace the cover of Sports Illustrated once again after their win over Michigan.
Some things that didn’t get talked about and some things that may have slipped thru the cracks…thus, In Case You Missed It.
by Mike Zimmer, Misses nothing
While working today at one of my Kroger’s Grocery stores preparing them for the mad rush that is the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, an announcement came over the speaker system. “Attention Kroger Shoppers, we have just recieved a shipment of the new Sports Illustrated magazines with the Buckeyes big win over Michigan the cover story. Don’t forget to grab one while they last before you check out. Happy Thanksgiving and GO BUCKS!!!” It said. So, dutifully, I did just that and couldn’t leave the store without a mint condition new edition that will go into my collection of newspapers and magazines that enshrine this season as a special one for the Ohio State Buckeyes.
So do you get NFL Network? I do.
There has been some flap about the NFL Network and the fact that tomorrow nights prime time game between the Denver Broncos and Kansas City Chiefs may not be widely available. The NFL has it’s own network and if you don’t get it, you are really missing out. It is on one of my 3-TV’s here in the sports bunker almost all of the time. With exception to Deion Sanders and Rod Woodson and some other analyst decision gaffs, the coverage and programming is just awesome. There is some inherant problems with the league having their own network however and showcasing prime-time games on said network. It’s also another problem when they are at war with Cable giant Time-Warner about getting the network on the air as they try to jam the issue down TW’s throat. TW has become the bitch in the situation, refusing to just instantly pony up billions of dollars to the league to carry their network even if it is made as a “premium” upgrade channel (I used to pay extra for a “Sports Pack” to get NFL Network, now it’s standard). The Network has 8-regular season game on from here on out starting with the Turkey day showcase, of which many customers in Kansas City and Denver won’t be able to see if they don’t have a dish or other means to watch. Now, the network is pimping out the game to local markets (though they originally weren’t going to) so that fans in both of those cities can see the game. But, unless you have the dish or another cable outfit not called Time Warner, you won’t. I have mixed feelings as I said over the league doing this. However, I think that they should go ahead and make every game available on cable or the dish for a price. Then again, one of these days, the NFL might just decide to charge you for EVERY game you watch. Time Warner needs to get with the program however as they don’t realize what a cash cow the NFL Network can be. When and if the network upgrades some of their on-air talent it will be seriously Must See TV for any football fan.
Sharp Dressed Men, Jacksonville Jags Head Coach Jack Del Rio and San Francisco 49ers Mike Nolan
In a move the NFL makes no sense in, they FINALLY allowed the San Francisco 49ers Head Coach Mike Nolan to honor the NFL’s past and his fathers, when he was allowed to don a suit and tie, something he has wanted to do since he arrived as head coach. Nolan however was told that he had to keep with the NFL appointed gear that is mandated for side-line personel. Until this week, when they allowed him 2 dates for the year to wear his Sunday best. Harkening back to the days when Vince Lombardi, Tom Landry and George Hallas used to patrol the sidelines in suit and tie, Nolan along with Jacksonville’s Jack Del Rio brought the look back instead of donning the team colored golf shirt etc. I think this rule is stupid in not allowing the coaches to wear what looks superior to the typical Reebok licensed gear. Not that it doesn’t look good, but suits and ties are pretty sharp if you ask me. And which would you rather have, Bill Billichek in his cut-off sleeves hoody, looking like a homeless person or Nolan and his smart look? If they can mandate that they can’t wear a suit, shouldn’t they mandate not looking like a bum?
The best Tom Brady has ever looked, even with his retarded looking over-bite grin.
Paying off a bet is a bitch ain’t it? Tom Brady manned up and payed up to Mike Vrabel this week. Brady, a University of Michigan alum lost a bet to Vrabel, an Ohio State Buckeyes alum when the 2 schools played this weekend. Brady had to wear a Buckeyes jersey during practice to pay off the bet. That is a Mike Vrabel vintage jersey that Brady is sporting while stretching before practice this week. As much as I think Brady is a jack ass, I have to say this. Not only is a a great, yes I said great QB, he seems like a good natured guy. Despite his goofy quasi-retarded grin and degree from that school up north, he owned up and lived with the consequences of a bet. Vrabel has been a favorite target of Brady too–so it seems as if they have a good natured relationship despite having been rivals on Saturday. Tom Brady never looked so good in uniform before donning the vintage #94 however.
Posted: October 28th, 2006 | Author: Zim | Filed under: Babble, ICYMI | No Comments »
Careful Y’All, Smokey bites
When Mascots attack, Homoerotica invades college football in Indiana, NFL QB’s impregnate young mormon co-eds and the World Series is unwatchable–or–as I like to call it, In Case You Missed It.
by Mike Zimmer, bored on a Friday night
As pictured above, Rocky Top’s favorite pooch is one step away from a state mandated appointment with the Vet to be put down as a menacing animal. According to some Alabama scrub player who almost fell on top of Ol’ Roy…er…Smokey during the ‘Bama/Tennessee game–the Vols mascot sank his teeth into said player. Look, that kid who got bit needs to remember that rivalries run deep, especially in the South and even 4-legged live animal mascots don’t like you. And by the way, who finds it hard to believe that Tennessee’s mascot is a Coon Hound?
Brady Quinn was photographed for Hot Irish Beefcake Magazine recently
Notre Dame has found something for Brady Quinn to fall back on when he loses out on the Heisman Trophy Award to Troy Smith. Yes, the Irish have managed to turn Quinn into a Gay Idol/poster boy right up there with Justin Timberqueer, that dude from Grey’s Anatomy and Tom Cruise. Quinn, doing his best Jeff Garcia impression mugs for the camera in beefy poses with much delight. Too bad that his twin brother, you know that dude that A.J. Hawk married wasn’t the one that decided to shed his/her clothes so we could get a look-see. Check out the link for more information on this rather strange story that is actually coming from South Bend. And by the way, Jimmy Clausen,the highly touted recruit coming as Coach Doughnut Genius Weis’s next big thing also tends to nuzzle the wrong crotch style too (not that there is anything wrong with that right? right?)–and I will find the picture evidence soon enough. http://www.deadspin.com/sports/college-football/brady-quinn-friend-to-the-gays-or-just-idol-210585.php
Not only are Purdue students a bunch of engineering nerds, they like big plastic penises–which is gay.
What the heck is in the water over in the Hoosier state any way? Purdon’t University students are so bored with the Boilermakers football squad this season that they have taken up playing with inflatable penises in the stands. WTF? Check out this link too: http://www.deadspin.com/sports/college-football/they-may-take-our-lives-but-theyll-never-take-our-penis-210249.php. Compliments to www.Deadspin.com, where I stole this from. Although I am not a big fan of the site, there is a ton of irrelivent crap over there much like what is on this site. I don’t like whomever is responcible for their content though as they are Cardinals fans. But, that’s OK I guess as long as the Red Sox or Yankees didn’t win the series right? Wait, did they play a World Series this year?
Count me as somewhat surprised that cross-eyed hunky Matt was de-flowering a mormon co-ed and making her his baby Mama instead of hanging out with Brady Quinn on that gay photo shoot
It’s a boy. At least that is the news trickling out of Utah after the birth of Matt Leinart’s first illegitimate child. He knocked up a somewhat attractive USC Lady Trojan’s basketball player last year (instead of wearing his Ultra Sensative Trojan Condom) and is now a Daddy. He was excused from practice this week to be able to go visit the child of sin, and for that he has named the kid “Thank God” as in, Thank God, I don’t have to practice with the awful Arizona Cardinals. Leinart who I think has a little gay streak (not that there is anything wrong with that right? right?) in him (and not Jeff Garcia gay, but more Tom Brady or Matt Hasselback gay) has proof now for all the naysayers who think that Paris Hilton was just his “beard”. The Cardinals QB plans on taking some advise on raising the child/having a relationship with the little bastard by speaking with Dr. J and Shawn Kemp–who have expirience in the whole out-of-wed-lock thing. Word is, little Matt Jr. already had a trust fund in place long ago and that Daddy will be proud to talk with him when he is 17-years old and deciding between Notre Dame or USC during recruiting season in 2023.
Ho-hum, the Cardinals win.
Is it just me or do you actually feel a little sorry for caring so little about the World Series this year? I do. I feel guilty because I just didn’t care and could not force myself to get remotely interested in the series. I watched some, mostly relegating it to the 3rd screen here in the sports bunker preferring NFL Network and what ever was on ESPN8 “The Ocho” at the time. I hate the Cardinals and their know it all genius manager Tony LaRussa. On top of that I loathe the idea that this piece of dung team that finished with 83-wins on the year and endured not one, but two 8-game losing streaks during the season and choked and gagged their way down the stretch. Detroit was a good story and all–but their lack of expirience finally caught them and they bored us more than the Cards did in never recovering from error after error by their pitching staff. I hate that baseball has doomed itself to being all Red Sox and Yankees and everyone else, making it boring and unwatchable as a sport this late into the season. I feel bad–considering once upon a time, I was perhaps more of a baseball fan than football fan–and fanatical at that.
And that concludes another In Case You Missed It for this, the final week of October. Other things I failed to mention because they are being pounded into the ground by ESPN but wanted to at least acknowledge include the Dallas Cowboys QB situation and the suspension of San Diego Chargers LB Shawn Merriman. I’ll answer this way: It was about time and it was about time.
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