Cleaning Out the Closet, Heading for Perfection Edition
It's getting near the end of the year, so we're cleaning out all those things we've been saving up and haven't had a
chance to talk about yet:
chance to talk about yet:- The Patriots go for their sixteenth in a row in a game that literally took an act of congress to get on TV. However, isn't it #19 that we should be concerned about? Face it, if they go 16-0 in the regular season and shank it in the playoffs, no one will care.
- The NFL decides that enabling loud mouthed, fist throwing players is more important than lowly officials trying to break up fights and restore order. Why? The players have agents, coaches and team officials bombarding the league with complaint calls. The refs have no one to stand for them.
- The Chicago Bulls win their first game under interim coach Jim Boylan. This is your classic career assistant takes over in the middle of the season stories. Usually what happens is the team will rally around him, they make the eighth seed in the playoffs and become Cinderella; the team signs him to a multi-year extension but fails to perfom at the same level for a season and a half, in which case he's fired and somebody like Larry Brown or Scott Skiles gets recycled. Just saying.
- In Canada, if you supply the DNA for a beloved sports figure, you get an award.
- Darrin McFadden may not have won the Heisman, but he may be a candidate for the 2007 Curtis Enis award. A nervous Bobby Petrino begins to e-mail his resume to UCLA.
- Sadly, Georgia radio announcer Larry Munson will not be calling the Sugar Bowl game. For those of you that have never heard Munson do a radio game, the man is magic and part of an elite corps for former SEC announcers who have either retired (John Ward) or passed away (Jim Fyffe, John Forney, Caywood Ledford.)
- Gone Bowling: See, we told you all year that ASU was a fraud. Elsewhere, Beavers rule. And, either BC was not motivated or Michigan State is a lot better than we gave them credit for.
- You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not put, I'm telling you why, Bill Parcells is coming to practice.
- Southern Illinois University announces the departed Jerry Kill's replacement. This is probably of little interest except to those of us that attended that university. Go dogs.
- Eddie Sutton, a man who has brought taint and scandal (along with several wins) to many schools, takes over on a leased basis at San Francisco. Eddie's first outing? Not so good. The sad thing about this situation is Sutton, who has no connection with the University of San Francisco, took the job over the phone so that he could win two more games and retire with 800 wins. It's not about the game or the kids he coaches, it's about Eddie winning 800 games. What a slime bucket this guy continues to be. Fortunately for Dons fans, Emery Air Freight has been out of business for a few years.
- A couple of White Sox refugees find new homes: Darin Erstad with the Astros and Miguel Olivo with the Royals.
- Eleven seasons after he almost single handedly took down the Braves in the 1996 series, former Yankee pinch hitter extrondinaire Jim Leyritz is in some deep doo doo.
- A minor league hockey player is in trouble for apparently thinking he was on the ice during a plane flight. This has Hansen Brothers written all over it.
- Opinions are like, Dept.: Jay Glazer's take on who some of the sexier NFL assistants who may become head coaches are. What's interesting is Gregg Williams, who failed at Buffalo is on the list, but Ron Rivera, a hot name last year is not. Also, Joe Posnanski in the KC Star on what makes Bill Belichick a master at what he does and Windy City Sports Blog's outstanding take on the resurgent Chicago Blackhawks.
- Humor Dept.: Kissing Suzy Kolber's hilarious NBC vs. CBS tale of the tape for tonight's Giants/Pats game and Loser with Socks' creative Brent Musburger drinking game.
- Today's list: The top 10 college football moments of 2007.
- Here's a little video I stumbled across of a minor league hockey fight and an announcer who just got way too involved.
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