Last Call: Erin Andrews coming back to TV soon…on Oprah?
Rock left The Girl (oh hey, that’s me!) in charge of Last Call today. I think he will regret this. (Rock note: You survive for today, Girl.)
It seems we’ll get to hear from Erin Andrews soon, but it will be far away from any sideline. Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch tweets thusly:
Because of my longstanding girl-crush on EA, I may have to actually watch Oprah. This will be a scary first. Will any of you be watching? Anyone think this is a bad idea? Anyone think it’s a great idea? Anyone need an excuse to see her GQ pictures again? That’s what I thought. Here ya go, ya sick bastards.
- This kid knows more about his Phillies than many national sportscasters know about anything. And he’s 2!
-It’s almost college football season, toot toot! With that in mind, check out this Bleacher Report assessment of college football’s 40 hottest fanbases. My Huskers are in the Top 10. The rest of the Big XII can suck it.
- An interview with Predators owner David Freeman, the man who is supposed to save hockey in Nashville. [From the Rink]
- Back-to-back hockey links? What is this? Greg Wyshynski breaks down the firing of the NHLPA’s executive director. [Puck Daddy]
- Michael Irvin and Stacey Dales join the NFL Network. Yay? Yay. [Fang's Bites]
- Mark Bradley isn’t too worried about recently-fired Chiefs OC Chan Gailey. [AJC]
- Martina Hingis on Dancing With the Sta–oh, it’s just Strictly Come Dancing? The fuck? [Sportress of Blogitude]
- Steve Nash isn’t very good at disguises. [Ball Don't Lie]
- HOMERISM ALERT: Royals fans were all feeling pretty good about our Cy Young candidate today, as it was announced he is again the AL Player of the Week. Oh yay, some positive recognition!
But now, the GM who trades top pitching prospects for no-bat, no-field shortstops that no one else wanted is getting a contract extension through 2014. Dayton Moore does not deserve this. Dayton Moore berates his fans, responding to legitimate criticisms by telling us to “trust the process.” No joke.
He also thought it was a good idea to trade for a 1B whose career OBP is barely over .300, because he needed a “feared bat.” Yeah, I’m sure pitchers quake in their boots when they have to face Mike Jacobs. Oh, and what about the time he signed Kyle Fucking Farnsworth to a 2-year $9+ million deal? Thanks to Moore, Jose Guillen gets $12 million a year to stand still in the outfield and call his teammates babies.
I don’t trust the process. Fuck the process, right in the ear.
Good God Aaron Barrett can’t write decent songs.
Is this thing working?
/doesn’t see anyone else here
//removes pants
The only error was wearing pants in the first place.
What’s up folks. I would like to lodge a complaint with that list of hottest fans. They found the only good looking chick in Purdue. And Auburn #4? This is why I hate arbitrary lists.
Ok. Fuck sports tonight. CMT music festival. Jeniffer Nettles of Sugarland absolutely does it for me. Good lord.
And that is why Brett Favre isn’t as important as everyone is making him out to be.
Well, I guess AP wants to make sure he’s the #1 pick in the rest of the Fantasy Drafts being held.
Who is this Erin Andrews lady? never heard of her.
I find it funny that ESPN’s official Twitter account just announced the date of the show. I’m sure they would say it was for “informational” purposes, though.
Good evening… let’s see how much Favarro I can put up with before flipping back to US Open.
Is this thing on?
So anyone else here get feelings of unbridled joy when they saw Rich Rod and his crocodile tears in that press conference?
I hope the “gratuitous Reel Big Fish” tag gets a solid workout.
I successfully made it through the first day of my internship without getting fired. It’s important to have goals.
So I am a Michigan homer, but am I really off-base in thinking, objectively speaking, that the Rosenberg/Snyder piece in the FreeP and the Schad piece quoting Toney Clemons do almost nothing to establish actual violations?
The only thing that would be a no-brainer is having grad assistants/QC staff observing 7-on-7 drills organized by the players, but that’s about it.
Also, I meant to say, am I also right in being annoyed at how Deadspin and Fanhouse (among others) are happy to just swallow the FreeP’s lacking interpretation of the rather byzantine NCAA regs?
“It was just a nightmare, the whole thing was a nightmare”~Rich Rodriguez
BEST PRESS CONFERENCE EVER.
I get a kick out of the mock outrage over this shit. Does anyone honestly think big time NCAA programs in any sport (football & basketball especially) actually follow the rules?
I went to a small D-1 school. Our basketball team used to break the rules with coaches holding summer scrimmages, watching “pickup games”, etc. They weren’t even good.
Also- it’s not like these kids go to class. Again, they didn’t in my small time college with 30-40 kids per class. They sure as fuck aren’t going to to class at big time schools with 300-400 kids per class. I’m not saying it’s right, but it’s reality.
As a tOSU homer I am 99% sure he is cheating. Because every big time program is doing the same damn thing. It isn’t possible to get by on that level with 8 hours a week or whatever horse shit it is. That being said….I didn’t like Rich Rod when he was at WVU and he proved why when he left. Now I hate the man. I truly miss Lloyd Carr. Say what you will about him. At least he had some class.
Well, wait a minute. Everyone doing it is a given (see, e.g., Myles Brand’s quote in USA Today a while back pooh-poohing the average 40+ hours a week spent on football figure from a survey of D-I football players). Whether it’s cheating depends on the NCAA’s definition of “voluntary”, which is my point. No one accusing Rodriguez of violations has done anything resembling an analysis of that – not Tommy Craggs, not Dash, not Joe Schad, and certainly not Rosenberg/Snyder at the FreeP.
What about Rodriguez (other than the departure from WVU, and, actually, what specifically about that) makes you say he’s got no class?
I agree about him having no class. Just watch his entire post game after the ‘07 brawl. Not once did he give credit to a 4-7 team for holding his juggernaut offense to 9 points (including the 2 we gave them) and beating his team in every facet of the game. When a team (that’s a 28 point underdog on the road) beats you, then they beat you. Give them credit.
Oh I’m not arguing the shoddy reporting at all. They all have a personal beef with the man. I get that. The departure from WVU is really all that needs to be said about his character/class. After stating his long term commitment numerous times the university gave him a long term contract. 4 MONTHS later he pulls the Saben. Then he refuses to coach the bowl game after making his resignation effective for the day after. And if that isn’t reason enough to question his class then read anything written about the man when he was at WVU. He isn’t liked for a reason.
Okay, I can understand that.
If Jared Allen touches Schaub again and jeopardizes my fantasy season, I will personally go to Minnesota and cut that mullet and stupid mustache off him.
I have Allen, actually, so if he’s still in a QB-killing mood, that’s fine with me – especially since he won’t be chasing either of my QBs.
@CEM, RATL – hey, both of you guys are MMA fans. Did you see UFC 102? If not, I think the fights are still available on mma-core.com. Pretty good stuff. We had a good Last Call saturday talking about the fights, hopefully we can build on that.
I did not see it, i heard about some of the results and I would love to see the Todd Duffee and Demian Maia matches. I was looking for them earlier on the Pitt computers and Zuffa took them off youtube. One of them was an mma web-site which didn’t work. Any idea where I can see them? I’m going to try the web-site you have above. Also any idea how the pay-out system works? After every ppv i loov at it on wiki and it makes no sense. I get that Brock gets so much because he’s the fucking man and his name draws, but aside from him it makes no sense. Like take the Machida/Evans match from 98. Evans made 60 grand more for showing up than Machida made for winning.
You can find the payouts the next day on sherdog.com, that’s the main MMA site I follow. Some of the payouts are odd, and they always say that there are unreported wages. I would hope so – for example, Soszynski apparently earned 8 grand for his UFC 102 fight. That is horseshit. That means, if he fights three times a year, he makes 24 grand.
MMA-core should work – they still had fights on there this morning. You might not want to watch Gonzaga/Tuscherer unless you’re wearing a cup…Tuscherer took a kick in the nuts that you can hear like a gunshot on the tape.
“That means, if he fights three times a year, he makes 24 grand.”
True. Drinking during MNF, ftw.
That income doesn’t count endorsements (like whomever had patches on his trunks, if any). But yes, the lower-level guys aren’t paid that much, relatively speaking.
Worse than the one that asian guy (i can’t spell his name) took at the beginning of the fight at 100? That was a hell of a shot.
Yeah, I realize that they probably make more in endorsements than they make actually fighting, but those pay-outs insanely low, especially considering what they are doing. Even Brock’s pay is a joke. I would just like to know what those guys make in a year total (with endorsements), especially the champs.
Yeah, it was a bit worse. Tuscherer ended up puking in a bucket in the cage and then after his allotted five minutes decided to continue with the fight. Then he got brutally kicked in the head, brutally elbowed in the head, and took 75 unanswered strikes before they called the fight.
In regard to endorsements, the UFC recently implemented a $100K rights fee of if a company wants to endorse a fighter. However, I don’t know if they do package deals where companies pay the 100K fee and get to put their logo on several fighters at once. Regardless, it limits the options guys have to make extra income.
That sounds a lot like boxings system. Maybe the payouts are predetermined.
Didn’t see it – was at a thing in DC, out all night. Heard the Nog-Couture fight was a real war, though.
Petite perfect into 7th. He will get it for sure.
/jinx
Great Success!
Can we talk about the whole “40 hottest fan bases” thing. 1st of all why are there 40 of them? Isn’t a top 10 enough? From what I have seen this list starts with ASU, Texas, Florida St, Florida, South Florida and Oklahoma and goes from there. Is there any basis for this list? By some of these pictures, it seems like some of these schools have no reason to be on this.
Yeah, it’s a pretty bullshitty list. But I figured A) It was something to talk about, and B) It will be the only time anyone ranks my Huskers in the Top 10 of anything.
I like your link to Weed’s site, though.
Yeah ranking the one decent looking chick that Purdue has in the top anything is a joke. Auburn ahead of any Florida team is a joke. Lists are a joke. But she is right….it starts conversations.
Oh goody, a 9/11 conspiracy piece on NGC. I’ll switch back to the football game before I break my TV. It was about “real estate”, and the money that certain businesses would make and about certain legislation that would pass.
“I want to (puke)”.
/back to your regularly scheduled programming.
FUCK YOU SCHAUB. You better walk this off and get out there.
I’m not holding out from the Rookies – what’s up folks?
Hey guys!
BRETT FAVRE BRETT FAVRE BRETT FAVRE!
/turns off TV/
/pukes/
I wish Mario Williams would decapitate him.
Hows everyone’s monday?
I don’t like Mondays.
/prefers Tori Amos version of song.
Two class, two syllubi and very little lecture. Pretty damn good day.
I came home this morning after a 36 hour shift. What did I come home too? My puppy shitting in the basement and pissing on the rug upstairs. Then when all I wanted was a couple hours sleep I got some jagoff cutting down a tree next door. All in all a great day. How bout you FD?
I would punch kittens to get these awful Viagra ads off the air.
Yo yo yo.
Six days to the total evisceration of Charleston Southern. You ready?
uh, aren’t you supposed to draw attention AWAY from the cupcakes you play? Not, you know, brag about how your multiple-championship-winning team is going to defeat a nobody?
Do I really need to defend a W?
not at all- but talking up a victory of the number one team over a nobody could be considered distasteful.
mostly though, i’m surprised to hear it from you. i’ve read your stuff, and you’re a good, sound writer who is well informed as a sports fan as well. i’m not above getting excited about the start of college football (or football in general, for that matter). but i’m not really going to go bragging about KU demolishing Southeastern Louisiana. I will do it for destroying Nebraska. There’s a difference, and i thought you were one who understood so.
Yeah after last year, i’m not thinking about a win until I leave Heinz field drunk on Saturday afternoon.
Gonna cover that 71 point line?
That’s the craziest line I have ever heard of. I would probably bet it… but that would be a sure fire way of making sure they cover.
1. It was actually 63, and that’s not a line you can get in Vegas.
2. No. They will not cover.
ESPN lies then, either than or someone realized how retarded a 71 point line was in a week.
If anybody cares, here’s the UFC fighter payouts:
http://www.cagepotato.com/ufc-102-fighter-payouts-randy-couture-and-big-nog-take-home-lions-share
Chris Leben made $30,000 for being obnoxious, then being choked unconscious.
Fuck me.
Yeah, I saw that. I would take 30 large every four or five months to get the shit choked out of me.
That Gonzaga fight was a fucking shambles.
Noguiera vs Couture…
http://www.mma-core.com/videos/_Randy_Couture_vs_Antonio_Rodrigo_Nogueira_UFC_102?vid=10006226&tid=100
I never really hated Chris Berman until this year, maybe last. Now I want to cause him unfortunate and unending pain and misery that will perhaps equal my current discomfort and hatred.
I actually liked him also up till 5 years ago or so. Now he is just unwatchable and the sound of his voice makes me want to stab him in the larynx.
Motherfuck Delta Airlines. Fuck ‘em in the ass — sideways — with the wing of that fucked up plane I spent 10 hours on yesterday.
That is all.
what’d they do now?
After getting everyone on board, we sat for 30 minutes. Why, you ask? Well, the backup electrical system on the plane blew a fuse or some horseshit. The pilot told us it didn’t prevent us from going, but to sit tight. Then it became getting a new flight plan. Then it was we didn’t need a new plan, and we were taking off…without it being fixed.
So, we were treated to a 9 1/2 hour flight from Rome to NYC with the reading light going off and on at random, while my headphones fell apart. Did I mention the 45 children on the plane, going to NYC as part of some children’s group, all under the age of 10? And that doesn’t even cover what happened on my connecting flight home from NYC. Fuck.
Yeah i guess mine doesn’t compare, but they put us on the plane and say we’re taking off right away. An hour and a half later we’re still sitting on the runway…then my mom gets pissed because she sat in the car for 3 hours. Same thing i always say when my mom or dad bitches about my flights getting back late, “well, what the hell can I do about it?.”
Well, you’d rather be late than “the deceased”, after all. And for whatever it’s worth, one of the chaperones for the kiddies was scorching hot…this thin, petite, dirty blond version of Aria Giovanni.
It’s not just them, I can’t remember the last time my SW flights have been on time. Snow, wind, rain, no plane, you name it, it’s delayed my flight.
Our connecting flight home from NYC was delayed 45 minutes because the pilot pulled into the wrong gate at JFK. I’m not bullshitting you.
Jesus. That sounds like the worst travel day ever. But we won’t feel too bad for you since you just got home from a honeymoon adventure in Rome where your wife seemed to drink too much on occasion.
Be fair here — I did too. And I brought home a couple six packs of the one and only Duff beer.
No shit? I didn’t know it was a real beer. Thats great!!
Duff, and The Simpsons in general, was wildly popular in Italy. I ended up buying two Duff t-shirts, along with the aforementioned beer. The beer’s not the greatest, but the bottle itself is cool as shit.
Fuuuuuck, that class was longer than Shiancoe’s cock!
Is the prof, actually keeping you the full time on the 1st night? DICK. I got out of my sports writing class tonight at 7:15 and he said he won’t keep us later than 8 (supposed to go til 8:30).
That was a nice hit. I just wish it was on Favarro instead of nameless player B.
And can I just say, now, before I get too loopy… Hearing problem or not, the bald head with the Britney Spears microphone is NOT a good look Brad Childress… someone needs to tell you the truth.
Oh come on. I think it looks great.
/bald as the day i was born
I cannot believe some dumbass in Minny gave him a coaching job. I experienced his coaching when he was in Philly. It’s probably an understatement, but he’s a horrible coach. I also love that Simmons calls him “The Gym teacher” dead ringer for what he looks like.
Speaking of him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQtbzkT4iQE
He just put the “Fal” in Rosenfals…
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
/going to bed soon.
See, because he fell down while dropping back to pass… it’s a pun… “fal” instead of fall…
Anyone here watching Raw?
Do we really need to see every Favre press conference? I hope this ends soon. By this I mean them showing EVERY single press conference.
By “this”, I mean Farve’s career.
Evening, folks.
and by Farve I mean Favre.