This Ref.......Still has a Job?

Shocking.......appalling.....

In Saturday nights' LSU / South Carolina game, a referee makes a forearm shiver tackle on South Carolina's QB, Stephen Garcia.

He was clearly .....not .....trying to get out of the way........Instead, he initiates the contact.

This ref should be fired.....today......if not sooner.

But don't believe me........you can be your own judge........

Courtesy of ESPN and YouTube:

Friday Picks

The Cell Phone is 25 years old today.......


Look at that thing.......Try putting that.....in your pocket.

25 years ago.......only the CIA and the FBI.......and the rich and famous had cell phones...

Wow......technology is great!

Anyway.......our weekly Friday Picks.......3 college, 2 pro.......


Last Week: 4-1

Season: 18-12





Clemson (+2 1/2) over Georgia Tech.....Historically, these are the kind of games Clemson wins....New coach.......underdog......backs against the wall. The Tigers win this one straight up.


Kentucky (-7 1/2) over Arkansas.......Kentucky had its bell rung against South Carolina last week, while Arkansas beat an absolutely bad Auburn team. The Razorbacks aren't that good. The Cats will roll. Lay the points.


Oklahoma (-19 1/2) over Kansas....The Sooners are mad.......still smarting from that loss to Texas. They will pile it on the over matched Jay Hawks.


Indianapolis (-1) over Green Bay......I think we've picked Indy every week. And for good reason. The Colts started looking like themselves of old last week and don't look for them to slow down in the cheese head state. Indy by at least a touchdown.


Chicago (-3) over Minnesota.......The Bears are due.......Last weeks final second loss against the Falcons was mind boggling .......but.....it was just one game. I think they will not only win.....but dominate.

Take it to ..........the bank........or Vegas.......or..........

buy a new cell phone.

Hump Day News & Views

They're still playing baseball?????

So it seems. But not for long.......Both the Tampa Bay Rays and the Philadelphia Phillies have commanding 3-1 leads in their best of seven league championship series over the Boston Redsox and the L A Dodgers.

So instead of an east coast -- west coast match-up between L A and Boston in the World Series.....it looks like a Philly-Tampa .....nobody cares....series.

And..........is any one watching?

MLB has a knack for screwing up the obvious. Think about it....How many starting times have their been in this post season? 4pm.....4:05pm.....7:05pm.......7:30pm.....8:05pm....10:05pm.....It's so frustrating.....In the NFL, the early games aways start at 1pm.......the late games, 4:15pm.....been that way .....for 30 years. It's not that difficult..........but MLB.....as usual........still doesn't get it.



The train wreck.....that is the Dallas Cowboys.....

This could get ugly. The starting QB (Tony Romo) is out for 4 weeks with a broken pinkie finger.......the number one coverage DB (Adam "Pacman" Jones) is suspended for at least 4 weeks. Rookie sensation RB ( Felix Jones) is injured. The offensive line is big....but slow.

And..........mark my word.....T. O. is about ready to have one of his team ripping tantrums.....to totally derail this football team.

Oh yes........and a coach (Wade Phillips) who all they players like.....but do not respect.

This won't be pretty.



Home Coming......this Saturday in this southern college town......


For the first time in history........Vanderbilt and Georgia .....will play a football game ........with both teams ranked in the top 25. UGA is #9 and Vandy is #22.

Fun facts:

Since Mark Richt took over as Georgia’s head coach in 2001, the Bulldogs have won six of seven meetings against Vanderbilt. However, Vandy won the last game against Georgia in Sanford Stadium after picking up a 24-22 win in 2006. The Bulldogs beat Vandy 20-17 last year with a field goal as time expired. Georgia leads the series 48-18-2 overall and is 24-4 in Sanford Stadium.

But...........this will not be easy.....The line is Georgia by 14....... And Vandy will just be Vandy.

Just hang around 'till the 4th quarter.....Should be an interesting game.




Shaq...........talking ........smack.......

The only thing I call cowardly is when you're up by 10 and do it. That's a coward move and he knows that and I'll make them pay for it.

--Shaquille O'Neal, on KTAR

Alright already.....Shaq..........we get it.....

Read the link below:

Shaq still hacked, vows revenge on Spurs

Our take is this: Shaq, you are an old man. You are no where near the player you once were. You are a 1985 Bonneville going up against 2008 Nissan Maximas.......

The Suns grossly over paid for your services. You hold this high powered offense back........because it takes you 15 seconds to make it.....back....... across half court.

Ten years ago.....if Shaq had made these same comments.......they would be relevant.....but in todays' game? Nope........

The only thing that has remained constant during Shaq's NBA career? His free throw shooting.......It still sucks.



The final debate..........

It will go down tonight. Obama and McCain......McCain needs a miracle. McCain comes out yesterday with his economic stimulus plan.........a day after Obama's. And a bit bland in comparison.

And watching Fox News........it was hilarious.... They want .......so bad to derail the Obama Express.......and all they could come up with is ACORN

Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now - Wikipedia ...

Just vote........

And have a great Hump Day......

Some Idiots.......Will Never Get It.......

Yes.....Adam "Pacman" Jones........

We mean ...you! We are talking about....you. You ........were given yet another "second chance" by the NFL and the Dallas Cowboys.

You........were coming off a one year suspension........

You........were told by the league.....there would be a zero tolerance......

You........were then re-instated.......signed by the Cowboys.

You........had 4 "body guards" (hired by Dallas) to follow you around....to make sure ...you...stayed out of trouble.

You........got drunk.......and punched out one of those body guards.......in a bathroom........

And .......you.......may have played your last game........in the NFL.

Jones was suspended today by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, for a minimum of 4 games.

Our thoughts?..........

Adam "Pacman" Jones......should never play another down in the NFL. He is either an idiot.....or stupid.......or both.

Yes .......he is talented.......But.....more so than.......say.......Michael Vick? And we all know where Mr. Vick resides today.

Enough.......is enough.

Kick his ass out of the league..........Mr. Goodell........you did what you could....

It's just a sad fact.......some idiots.....will never learn.





Here's a glimpse at this boys' legal problems.....starting in college:

10/2003 Sentenced to a year in prison. Dropped to 2 years probation for a fight (Punched a WOMEN in her face)

4/2005 At a club at 3am Pac Man friend punched a women in her face

7/2005 Arrested on charges of assault and felony vandalism stemming from a nightclub altercation. Jones was in handcuffs, a white T-shirt and light blue exercise pants when he appeared smiling before a night court commissioner

9/2005 Jones was counseled for a loud verbal tantrum when he was told to wait in line for his vehicle.

10/2005 In a petition filed by the state, it was alleged that Jones has not made regular and sufficient contact with his probation officer. Given 1 year probation

3/2006 Charged with marijuana possession in Fayetteville, Georgia

4/2006 Nine people were arrested on suspicion of having roles in two major drug rings that trafficked cocaine and marijuana in Sumner and Davidson counties, including a Nashville man with possible ties to Tennessee Titans cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones.

4/18 Police say Pacman was one of 12 or more people that gathered at a gas station in Nashville when a fight broke out and gunshots were fired

8/23/06: Jones was also accused of simple assault by Toya Garth, who said Jones spit in her face.

10/2006 Jones was issued a citation for misdemeanor assault after a female student from Tennessee State University claimed that Jones spit in her face at a Nashville night club.

2/2007 Jones was in the middle of a fight and shooting at a strip club in Las Vegas that left one man paralyzed and two more wounded. The fight broke out after Jones showered strippers on stage with $81,000 dollars. The club owner claims Jones was beating a strippers head against the bar while claiming to kill one of the club's employees.

1/2008 Pacman is accused of punching Wanda S. Jackson in the face at an Atlanta strip club called the Body Tap Strip Club. Jackson says Jones reached over the counter and sucker punched her in her left eye.

Again.....enough....is enough!

Another Serena Williams Sighting.....in Hawaii?

Ah........yes...........our girl, Serena.....

On a recent vacation in Hawaii.......

Enjoy.....Courtesy of "The Young, Black, & Fabulous":

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Poor Sportsmanship? Or Poor Match-up?

91-0..........In multiples of 7, that's 13 touchdowns.....

The fallout from this high school game has reached a 10 on the Rickter Scale.

Courtesy of the Associated Press, Yahoo Sports, and Rivals. com.

You be the judge:

ESTERO, Fla. - The Estero High football staff gathered in head coach Rich Dombroski's office late Friday, almost in stunned silence.

Earlier that night, Estero lost to Naples High by 13.

Not by 13 points. By 13 touchdowns. That's right: Naples 91, Estero 0.

All-purpose back Greg Pratt helped Naples pile on the points.

The rout fallout has been growing since the game ended.

"Hey," offered Estero defensive line coach Pat Hayes after the one-sided affair, "I didn't even know 91 was a multiple of seven."

With that, the coaches all got a much-needed laugh.

A half-hour away in Naples, Eagles coach Bill Kramer—the man on the winning end—could use one of those.

He looked at the scoreboard late in the game, saw 91-0, and said he felt sick to his stomach. Kramer's team ran only 31 plays and he kept most of his best players on the sideline—for the entire game in some cases. But still Kramer knew what was coming.

Soon after the game ended, his inbox began filling with angry e-mails, some from Estero parents wondering why so many points were necessary, some from Naples parents wondering why their kids didn't play more in an effort to pad their stats.

"There's only one way to describe it," Kramer said. "Just bizarre."

The schools aren't far off in size: Estero has about 1,400 high schoolers, Naples roughly 1,700.

But the pedigree of the football programs couldn't be more different.

Estero is rebuilding from the lowest level, with Dombroski in his first year at the school and having inherited a program that had simply crumbled. Naples is the reigning state Class 3A champion, and a contender to win the title again. Naples has players committed to Division I schools like Ohio State already and a roster filled with talent at every position. Estero has no college prospects and only about 25 healthy or so players remaining on its roster.

"Some of us, most of us, well, all of us were intimidated," said Tyler Eastridge, a free safety who may be exaggerating when he says he weighs a 150 pounds.

Naples led 70-0 at the half; only four of the 1,420 games reported by member schools to the Florida High School Athletic Association this season have seen teams score more than 70 points.

"It was David versus Goliath," Dombroski said, "and David didn't have a stone to throw."

The national record books are incomplete, but a score like 91-0 won't register a blip on the list of all-time defeats. It wasn't even the most lopsided score in the country this weekend—in Ohio, Beechcroft beat Centennial 96-0, taking knees on plays in the fourth quarter to avoid triple figures.

According to the National Federation of State High School Associations, five teams have scored more than 200 points in a game, with the record believed to be 256 by Haven (Ky.) High in 1927.

Dombroski isn't blaming Naples.

"Naples did absolutely nothing wrong," Dombroski said. "We just didn't do anything right."

Kramer has been in this spot before.

In 2001, the Golden Eagles scored 63 first-quarter points and beat Lely High — ironically, where Dombroski's girlfriend teaches today—85-0, and Kramer suddenly became the target of perceptions that he intentionally ran up the score.

But in that game, just as on Friday, Naples had some of its starters not play at all, and others just for one or two series.

	Carlos Hyde paves the way

"We've been through it before and you never want to go through it again," Kramer said. "There were people ready to burn my house."

It's an unsettling time again.

The Naples Daily News ran a poll asking if Kramer and his team "should be ashamed" over the result, and by Monday afternoon, the vote was nearly dead-even: 239 no, 225 yes.

Hearing that, even Dombroski shook his head. He e-mailed Kramer on Monday to reiterate that Naples did nothing wrong, but that's hardly the only opinion swirling around Naples these days.

"My daughter plays basketball and there's a local team that's really good and when they're about to score 100, there's no polls about that," Kramer said. "When the local lacrosse team wins 24-0, where's the outrage? Or when kids win 6-0, 6-0 in tennis? We score 10 touchdowns and everybody loses their minds.

"The real irony is we've got some of our parents upset that their kids didn't play or didn't play enough. And you just say, 'Wow."'

Dombroski knew when he took the Estero job that there would be days like Friday, but he said the 91-0 thumping might help him turn the program around.

"We won't forget this. I won't forget this," said Dombroski, whose freshman program is off to a 4-1-1 start this year, a sign that better days could be ahead for Estero. "We're not going to lay down. We're going to fight for 48 minutes, every time we're out there."

So on Monday afternoon, when school got out at 1:45, the Estero High football team headed to its locker room and prepared for practice. New scouting reports were waiting for them, and soon the team headed onto the field for practice, their blue jerseys whipping in the wind as they stretched.

"Our team might not be winning or might not be on top right now," said right guard Mike Perez. "But we all have to do the best we can do. We can't forget that."

And so, they were back to work, which they'll need. This week, Estero plays Cape Coral—a team that nearly beat Naples.

The NFL....at It's Best

A truly amazing Sunday.....

This is why we love the NFL.

The Atlanta Falcons beating the Chicago Bears, 22-20.....on a field goal (Jason Elam pictured).....with no time left.

The Arizona Cardinals beating the Dallas Cowboys, 30-24....in overtime.....by a blocked punt.

The Houston Texans beating the Miami Dolphins on the last play of the game, 29-28.

The Saint Louis Rams beating the Washington Redskins.......kicking a field goal with no time left, 19-17.

The Minnesota Vikings beating the Detroit Lions, 12-10.....with a field goal....with 9 seconds left in the game.

The Philadelphia Eagles........rallying....with 23 unanswered points in the 4th quarter to beat the San Francisco 49ners, 40-26.

Such is a Sunday in the NFL........Somebody once said, "On any given Sunday".......These are the best of the best. The talent pool is so even. It's who....makes plays..........who is mentally tougher.

NFL........we thank you.......

What a wonderful weekend of football at it's highest level.

Here is how an Arizona newspaper saw it: