Chip Shots: Quick Shots: Don't Expect Lou Dobbs To Attend The Sun Bowl

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Chip Shots: Quick Shots: Don't Expect Lou Dobbs To Attend The Sun Bowl

Quick Shots: Don't Expect Lou Dobbs To Attend The Sun Bowl

The Oklahoma delegation is staying away from the Sun Bowl, which is just across the river from the murder capitol of Mexico. (The Wiz of Odds)
Trent Dilfer turns a blind eye to reality. Dilfer probably gave the captain of the Titanic a vote of confidence after he hit the iceberg. (Bear Goggles On)
Where I come from, there is a term for Jerry Angelo and Lovie Smith: Grinning idiots. These two guys have run the Bears into the ground, bankrupting the draft and bringing in free agents who either have no business being in the NFL (Frank Omayle) or that should have retired three years ago (Orlando Pace). Yet both of them think that somehow, this team, which has quit on its coach, will somehow be back in contention next year. Puh-Lease.
ESPN Chicago has posted the top ten White Sox players of the decade. All of the usual suspects are present except for Joe Crede. If omission is a sin, then they need to go confess.
If you hear someone with the Bears plead poverty (like the White Sox do) DON'T DRINK THE KOOL AID! (Windy City Gridiron)
I know a lot of the younger, more abrasive Cub fans hate this, but one half of the funniest comedy act on the radio will stick around until at least 2012.
Canada gets a Broadway show. (MLB Trade Rumors)
I'd love to be a fly on the wall for the conversation between Cardinals third baseman David Freese and manager Tony The Useless. "Dave you shouldn't drink and drive. Pull over and take a nap like me."
You heard it here first dept.: In what might go down as the Captain Obvious moment of the decade, when the Tiger Woods story first broke, I predicted he would be offered an opportunity to go on Oprah and cry. Oprah must have heard me.
Speaking of Tiger, the only guy who makes absolute sense is Nike chairman Phil Knight who says in regard to Tiger "this too shall pass." He's right. It has for just about everyone who has had public issues not named Charles Manson.
Speaking again Of Tiger, it looks like Elin is doing the right thing and leaving him. This should be a good test of how the prenup holds up in court, even though she is sure to get excessive alimony and child support.
ESPN finally gets the memo that as nice a guy as he is, Dr. Jerry Punch sucks at doing play by play(or lap by lap.) Sadly, because they only own a third of NASCAR, ESPN doesn't take it nearly as seriously as they do other sports and produce it sort of WSOP or World's Strongest Man.
Mark Mangino's settlement from Kansas? Meal money for a month.
Former MLBPA executive director Don Fehr is part of a committee to select a new leader for the NHLPA. Don, while you are at it, can you find a replacement for Gary Bettman? When Forbes comes out with a list of the fifty most influential and the commissioner of the NHL isn't on it, somebody needs to do something.
What compels large news organizations to interview helicopter parents who defend their children? What else did they expect?
People joke that they should make the BCS Championship Game a national holiday. In Alabama, they are deadly serious. (Rumors and Rants)
The SEC may readjust their football schedules to keep teams from playing league teams after a bye week. While they are at it, they should also prevent teams from playing Chattanooga and Memphis, which also qualify as bye weeks.
Today's list: The Top 10 Sports Villains of the 00's. How The Chairman doesn't make this list is beyond me.