• This made me happier than anything had a right to make me today. As a fan of both Bobby Knight and profanity, to me, this is the absolute pinnacle of entertainment.
• The NCAA is adding at least three more college football bowl games. First, there’s a fifth BCS game. And then we’ve also got the International Bowl, the Birmingham Bowl, and the New Mexico Bowl. I’m upset that none of them are named after fruits. Another, the Houston Bowl, is being voted on at a later date. Say they stop at 31… that’s 62 teams that will be in bowls, more than half of the 117-team Division 1A field. Any team that doesn’t completely suck balls will make a bowl game. Just play a terrible schedule, get your 6 wins, and someone will find a spot for you.
• ESPN.com’s Page 2 lists the 100 worst draft picks of all-time. This is the worst thing about coverage… if your team has ever made a bad draft pick, some cocksucker is going to go out of his way this week to remind you of it. I get it, asshole, Ryan Leaf was bad. That wound is still very much open. If you’d quit grinding rock salt into it, I’d appreciate it.
• You can see the clip of Delmon Young hurling his bat at that umpire right here. You can’t see him actually throw the bat, he’s off screen, but… you see the bat come flying back at the ump and hitting him in the chest. It’s not the kind of throw that’s intended to maim, but… it comes flying back at the ump with some decent velocity. It was not a little flip of the bat. He did actually throw it, and he is a crazy fuck.
Rob
I know you generally hate sweetness, but this is still a cool story –
Dakoda Dowd, a 13-year-old golf phenom from Palm Harbor, Fla., competed Thursday in the LPGA Ginn Clubs & Resorts Open – her first women’s professional event.
Her mission was not to win, but to make a memory for her terminally ill mother.
When Ginn officials learned of Kelly Jo’s wish to see her daughter play on the LPGA Tour, they offered a sponsor’s exemption into the field. Dakoda was paired with Kate Golden and Tracy Hanson — both at least 21 years older than the phenom — and held her own, even outdriving both pros on a couple occasions.
April 28, 2006 at 8:11 am
Mac Thomason
I can tell, everyone down here is just pleased as punch about the Birmingham Bowl. There’s nothing like seeing the fourth-best team in the Big East go at the third-best team in Conference USA in rainy 45-degree weather two days before Christmas.
April 28, 2006 at 11:21 am
The Postmen » Blog Archive » With the first pick in the 1984 NBA Draft…
[...] Via the mighty mjd, we caught wind of ESPN’s famed Page 2’s compilation of the hundred worst draft picks of all time. Ryan Leaf (surprise, surprise) ranks second on this list, with Sam Bowie (you know, the dude picked before a certain Michael Jordan) being the all-time worst draft pick. [...]
April 28, 2006 at 12:01 pm
Garrett Krueger
That Bobby Knight video is absolutely great. Shows that a fake fuck he is. The scenes in the sand trap made me cry….
April 28, 2006 at 12:29 pm
Mr Furious
HOly Shit! That is much more of a thrown bat than I expected to see. Young has to be a good twenty feet away when he hits the ump squarely in the chest.
The video is kinda choppy, and its hard to guage velocity, but that was no mere “flip”.
April 28, 2006 at 12:36 pm
Mike
Definitly not just a flip of the bat. He gives it a solid toss. Plus at that point the ump doesn’t have his mask on and the way the bat was spun he could have easily taken it in the face.
April 28, 2006 at 12:47 pm
eddie
MJD,
There are 119 teams in 1-a with the addition of FAU and FIU
April 28, 2006 at 1:33 pm
unc_samurai
I wonder about the people calling various sports radio talk shows today saying that it’s the umpire’s fault or that Young was put in a situation where he was “disrespected” and was provoked into chucking the bat. I don’t care if the ump is porking your mom and mentions the URL to find the pics; you don’t attempt to hit or intimidate the umpire. YOU JUST DON’T.
April 28, 2006 at 4:33 pm
The Big Picutre
good to see the backdoor cuts resurface. hadn’t seen these in a while.
as for delmon, i’d love to see how he threw it. i bet he wasn’t looking and just threw it without giving two fucks. he’ll likely get 50+ games…which is probably right…but i feel bad for this kid. he just briefly lost his temper and did something he instantly regretted. it’s one thing if there is intent, but the kid just fucked up.
oh well.
April 28, 2006 at 9:06 pm
Andy
Darko is ranked way too high on that list. He could still be better than Melo, or even Bosh for that matter. And it’s not like the Darko pick screwed over the Detroit franchise for the next decade or anything.
April 29, 2006 at 1:39 am
Pacifist Viking
How do you think Viking fans feel? If we’re not hearing a joke about getting the pick in on time, we’re hearing a joke about boats.
May 1, 2006 at 8:38 am