I laughed when I read Dave’s recent article about the huge all day coverage ESPN gave to the national high school national signing day. All these experts talk about these kids like they are the second coming of Adrian Peterson, when most are the second coming of Whitney Lewis. Who is Whitney Lewis, you ask? Exactly…
I love to spar with UCLA folks and they are all on fire over Rick Neuheisel’s latest recruiting class, which they point to as proof that “the monopoly is over.” Truth is, Neuheisel HAD to get a big recruiting class. After USC’s off year and questions about Lane Kiffin’s ability to coach, the Trojans were ripe for the picking. But New Weasel was under the gun, because he loses two huge trump cards that he plays when recruiting against USC—the Pete Carroll is leaving and the NCAA is going to put them on the death penalty threats won’t be there to use. Ricky can be quite a charmer , but he negatively recruits more than maybe anyone in the country. A friend of mine has a son headed to Oregon State, and after Carroll left, it took Neuheisel all of an hour to have his assistants get on the phone to Beaver recruits to tell them that “Mike Riley has already signed to be the new USC head coach.” And, a USC recruit told me that his parents were turned off by Rick’s pitch to “spend a weekend on their campus and then spend a weekend on ours and tell me why you’d want to live there” as elitist and racist. All’s fair in love and war and one of my sources at USC told me that one reason Carroll threw the rub it in touchdown against UCLA was his disdain for Neuheisel and that Carroll was truly turned off by Rick’s negative recruiting tactics…
But give Ricky credit for building up his talent, and trying to level the playing field, now he has to do something that gets lost in all his bluster—actually coach…
So Floyd Mayweather and Shane Mosley really are going to actually get in the ring? It was a great fight—two years ago. At 38, I don’t think Shane has enough quicks to neutralize Money and in another boring fight, Mayweather will dominate and win…
I laughed at Dave’s account of his day watching one of my guilty pleasures–
“Man Vs. Food”. Wow, now I have a tough time wondering who has the better life, the host of MVF, Adam Goldman, who goes around getting paid gorging himself, or the fictional Charlie harper from “Two And A Half Men”, who sits around, drinks, does nothing but live off of residuals and get laid. Tough choice..
Watching the Lakers play reminds me of myself during my senior season in high school—just counting the days until, graduation—bored, with nothing to look forward to, and only there to look at the ladies, and my effort just enough to get by…
Laker coach Jim Cleamons made me laugh the other day when asked what advice he gives to Laker center Rip van Bynum—“Run, Andrew, Run!”
Really now, Lamar Odom couldn’t do better than Khloe Kardashian? As Roger Lodge said, she’s a dead ringer for the WWE wrestler Chyna…
Quite honestly, I don’t get into politics too much because I find myself getting aggravated over public servants worrying more about their reputation and getting re elected more than actually serving the public…
Back in 2008, when the election was going on, I asked my dad, an older gentleman who has no problem speaking his mind, what he thought would happen in the election. He told me thought that although he was unqualified, Barack Obama would win because he was bringing a message of hope and change to young America , but that after he won he would realize hope and change always run smack dab into reality. Also, he said, “You know, the most embarrassing situation in sports is the lack of minority head coaches in college football. The only time a school hires a black coach is coming off a winless season, with no real hope, and then they can say, ‘Well, he got his shot.’ Well, right now with the economy and divisive feelings in this country, this nation is kind of like a hopeless football program, so the black man will finally get his shot—and it won’t be pretty.” Well, looks like he’s right on…
Wow, Super Sunday is coming up—let’s see, Colts 48, Saints 28 in a game not that close…
