THIS AND THAT..........TUESDAY
The Miami Dolphins continue to sell off small percentages of their club to entertainers. Jimmy Buffet & Gloria Estefan bought small pieces of the Miami franchise recently & now, singer Marc Anthony will be joining their ranks as minority owners in the football team. Mr. Jennifer Lopez claims to be a lifelong Dolphin fan & could "only dream of a day like this".
From the "this idea is doomed to fail" department, the Dallas Cowboys are counting on Junior Siavii to backup Pro Bowl nose tackle, Jay Ratliff. If Ratliff gets injured, the drop off to Siavii might be the most dramatic gap in performance in the entire league. Siavii was a 2nd round choice of the Kansas City Chiefs in 2004 & was a miserable bust. On a team that had almost zero talent at the position, he couldn't even stick as a backup. He tried out for other teams in '06 but wasn't signed. He hasn't played a single snap in an NFL game in over 3 years & the Cowboys expect him to backup a Pro Bowl player? Anyone else see a potential problem here?
Michael Irvin has gone thru quite a transformation. I had washed my hands of him & his bad behavior a long time ago, but it seems like he has done a 180 degree turn in life. I think he finally 'gets it'. On the NFL Network's "Total Access" show the other night, Irvin spoke my language. He said the proper term is "bad decisions, not mistakes, because no one accidentally does something they know they shouldn't". For those of you who have read this page for any length of time know, the phrase "bad decisions" is one of my favorites. I've thought for a very long time that a mistake is something you do on a test or in a game, not when pertaining to bad behavior. Think about which sentence makes an honest point. "I made a mistake trying cocaine." "I made a bad decision to try cocaine." A mistake is hard to avoid sometimes, a decision is a thought process. Bless you Michael, welcome back from the dark side.
Word out of the Mizzou weight room is all Big-12 linebacker, Sean Weatherspoon, benched 475 pounds today. This from a 242-pound guy known mostly for his speed. 'Spoon led the Big-12 in tackles, forced 6 fumbles, recorded 5.5 sacks, intercepted 3 passes & returned 2 of them for touchdowns last season. By the '10 NFL draft, I think he will be the highest rated outside linebacker in the land, barring injury. Boston College's Mark Herzlich is in a fight for his life with Ewing's Sarcoma, a rare cancer. Herzlich had been rated #1 by most scouts. Texas' Sergio Kindle was ranked right there with Weatherspoon but he's had his second driving mishap in 3 years, driving a car into an apartment, pushing it out, then abandoning it & not reporting it to police until the next day, when most likely, he was sober or wasn't texting. Weatherspoon will be a marked man on a rebuilding defense, so matching last year's stats will be tough, but this young man, who passed on being at least a 2nd round pick in the '09 draft, has the drive to be a great player at the next level.
Boy, they've done it now, got me real angry. I hate the fact that just about anything can be put on the internet, regardless of the source or how it was obtained. And getting the damaging stuff taken down can be just as exasperating. But this time somebody went too far, they wronged one of my favorites, Erin Andrews. The ESPN college football sideline reporter was video taped in her hotel room by a hidden camera & a 5-minute blurry video of Ms. Andrews' nude form in front of a hotel mirror has surfaced on several of the most salacious websites. Her attorney, Marshall Grossman, said criminal charges & civil lawsuits against the cameraman, publishers & the offending websites will be pursued. Grossman claims most of the videos of the 31-year old have been taken down, but that a couple remain. I haven't gone looking for them & I won't. I won't give a 'hit' to any sleazeball website that deals in this kind of creepy, stalking voyeurism.
From the "this idea is doomed to fail" department, the Dallas Cowboys are counting on Junior Siavii to backup Pro Bowl nose tackle, Jay Ratliff. If Ratliff gets injured, the drop off to Siavii might be the most dramatic gap in performance in the entire league. Siavii was a 2nd round choice of the Kansas City Chiefs in 2004 & was a miserable bust. On a team that had almost zero talent at the position, he couldn't even stick as a backup. He tried out for other teams in '06 but wasn't signed. He hasn't played a single snap in an NFL game in over 3 years & the Cowboys expect him to backup a Pro Bowl player? Anyone else see a potential problem here?
Michael Irvin has gone thru quite a transformation. I had washed my hands of him & his bad behavior a long time ago, but it seems like he has done a 180 degree turn in life. I think he finally 'gets it'. On the NFL Network's "Total Access" show the other night, Irvin spoke my language. He said the proper term is "bad decisions, not mistakes, because no one accidentally does something they know they shouldn't". For those of you who have read this page for any length of time know, the phrase "bad decisions" is one of my favorites. I've thought for a very long time that a mistake is something you do on a test or in a game, not when pertaining to bad behavior. Think about which sentence makes an honest point. "I made a mistake trying cocaine." "I made a bad decision to try cocaine." A mistake is hard to avoid sometimes, a decision is a thought process. Bless you Michael, welcome back from the dark side.
Word out of the Mizzou weight room is all Big-12 linebacker, Sean Weatherspoon, benched 475 pounds today. This from a 242-pound guy known mostly for his speed. 'Spoon led the Big-12 in tackles, forced 6 fumbles, recorded 5.5 sacks, intercepted 3 passes & returned 2 of them for touchdowns last season. By the '10 NFL draft, I think he will be the highest rated outside linebacker in the land, barring injury. Boston College's Mark Herzlich is in a fight for his life with Ewing's Sarcoma, a rare cancer. Herzlich had been rated #1 by most scouts. Texas' Sergio Kindle was ranked right there with Weatherspoon but he's had his second driving mishap in 3 years, driving a car into an apartment, pushing it out, then abandoning it & not reporting it to police until the next day, when most likely, he was sober or wasn't texting. Weatherspoon will be a marked man on a rebuilding defense, so matching last year's stats will be tough, but this young man, who passed on being at least a 2nd round pick in the '09 draft, has the drive to be a great player at the next level.
Boy, they've done it now, got me real angry. I hate the fact that just about anything can be put on the internet, regardless of the source or how it was obtained. And getting the damaging stuff taken down can be just as exasperating. But this time somebody went too far, they wronged one of my favorites, Erin Andrews. The ESPN college football sideline reporter was video taped in her hotel room by a hidden camera & a 5-minute blurry video of Ms. Andrews' nude form in front of a hotel mirror has surfaced on several of the most salacious websites. Her attorney, Marshall Grossman, said criminal charges & civil lawsuits against the cameraman, publishers & the offending websites will be pursued. Grossman claims most of the videos of the 31-year old have been taken down, but that a couple remain. I haven't gone looking for them & I won't. I won't give a 'hit' to any sleazeball website that deals in this kind of creepy, stalking voyeurism.
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