Can BP plug Les's mouth? Tony Danza peeved and South Beach at the center of the College Football universe.

Since August is just over a week away and it is well known that August signifies the beginning of the college football season, we feel it appropriate to offer up some tidbits and stories of interest that in some form or fashion have a direct link to college football. As expected a full pre-season synopsis will be forthcoming, but in the meantime it is with much hope that these little nuggets will keep the palate wetted and the mind entertained.

As we all still wait for the Les Miles decoder ring to come out, we hope you are able to take some reassurance from this interview that worth-Les is.......... well still just that.
*Edit [16:04 cst] - It appears that Miss Teen South Carolina and Boobie Miles have collaborated on what will certainly sway many opinions concerning the genius that is the South East United States. Audio can be found under the confused man in the headset.


Rumor out of Tuscaloosa is that there have been 3 different bronze renditions of Nick Saban (to place along the other National Championship winning coaches at Alabama) commissioned and shown to Saban and crew for approval and that all three have been rejected. That leaves only one obvious question, how long can they expect Tony Danza to sit and pose for this project?

Memo to all college football players with eligibility remaining – If an agent, a street agent, an agents friend, one of your homeboys, your Dad that you just met or any grown man in a white linen suit invites you to a party in South Beach……don’t go. The fall out from this should be interesting. Oh and when the NCAA invites you up to their nice offices as they will no doubt be doing, don't lie to the NCAA, ask Dez Bryant how that works out.

Capitalism gone wrong

In theory and with good practice capitalism is a wonderful thing, but when free markets are at the disposal of the ill informed it can turn into a cruel yet somehow semi-entertaining spectacle.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/07/20/pin-sail-donkey-russian-prosecutors-investigate-cruel-parasailing-donkey-stunt/?test=latestnews

** BREAKING NEWS **

** Tar balls found on Galveston Beach **

In other news:

- Yanks put man on the moon
- Water is wet
- Japs bomb Pearl Harbor
- Titanic sinks on maiden voyage
- Steroids rampant in Major League Baseball

FIFA 2010 World Flop

Some say love is the universal language, however most would agree that English is the universal voice, commonly used at international events the world over. But let us offer up another international commonality that is presently being displayed by at least 32 countries, all of which are gathered in South Africa at the moment, that is the language of art and theatrics, and not in a Michelangelo way more the flop and writhe in bogus pain kind of way. FIFA and its metro-sexual band of faux hawk sporting, Armani suit wearing, solo name totting thespians have converged at the southern tip of the African continent for their once every 4 years expo to exchange the latest diving techniques, to show how to best appear to have broken an ankle only to be up sprinting 15 seconds later and most importantly to remind many Americans why futbol will never be football. Certainly the pageantry, with the help of ESPN/ABC, and the build up is hard to ignore deny or avoid if one so chooses. American soccer fans cautiously come out of their suburban homes and head into town to mix it up at the local pubs with the regulars who will never root for anyone or anything named Kaka. Others will throw on the club team jersey they bought while backpacking through Europe after college and do some Googleing to look like the resident expert on why the Dutch might be underrated and why France is a ticking time bomb. Then there are those that just like sport and will take it in any variety. Regardless of how they get there, they are all there shoulder to shoulder throwing back pre-noon brews waiting on the spectacle. And no matter what his or hers self proclaimed level of expertise is on the game, all will witness the folly that is the dive, the fake ankle sprain and the child like antics of grown men throwing hissy fits for all the world to see, except maybe North Korea. Which actually might not be a bad place to go come World Cup 2014 time, apparently when things aren’t going the way of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, the feed mysteriously gets cut, and goalies disappear, but we digress.

Because the internet is global, thank you Al Gore, and anything posted on the World Wide Web can be viewed and accessed from anywhere, things must be put into context. This is aimed at those that grew up with a large amount of sporting options to participate in and a surplus of teams in a variety of sports to follow and support. It is one thing to understand the strategy of a game and appreciate the skill level of those that do it better than 98% of the rest, and for that soccer will retain and acquire new fans every four years. But in a society that is force fed football for at least 8 months out of the year, watching pretty boys dive and writhe is forever going to be a hard sell. We like our heroes tough. Hell Nancy Kerrigan took a worse beating than anyone on the defending champion Italian team and she still won silver, Italy didn’t make it out of the first round. When our pros walk-out or strike, NFL circa 1987, everyday Joes put down their pipe wrenches to take a shot at their dreams. The French futbol team walked out of practice and sat on the bus in protest of a teammate being sent home. When our guys go down and stay down, they sure better be dragging an arm or a leg off the field with them a la Joe Theisman or they will forever be labeled soft, see Colt McCoy. When a referee blows a call, the first thought shouldn’t be about geo-politics or spheres of influence, but inevitably when a ref does blow 1 or 8, why shouldn’t they have to answer for it? Ask MLB umpire Jim Joyce about that, no doubt he would have preferred to be protected to the extremes that FIFA does for its prancing card issuing “officials”. When soccer goes right, like 3 Brazilians weaving in and out passing the ball effortlessly between themselves and sashaying about their opponents who all appear to be stuck in mud, it is a beautiful thing, but there is nothing beautiful about a 0-0 final. Games and contests were played to be won and lost, ask the Gladiators.

Every so often something great comes out of soccer, like Posh Spice, vuvuzelas, South American female footie fans and new sideline fashion, but as far as we are concerned every 4 years is plenty, because we still have the MLS, or do we?