Whether or not you agree or are even aware….. College Football (and to some degree College Basketball) is in the 2nd-3rd year of an on-site attendance decline. Decidedly fewer fans are actually attending games even at traditionally Top Ten schools.
No, I have NOT done “the ice bucket thing” but I DO support the eradication of bad diseases. …. Now that we have a girl in the LLWS, how long before “they” go ga-ga over a 12 y/o gay kid? I give it two years. I think Jim Grobe explained it.
So now we officially have The Power Five AND a ruling in “the O’Bannon Case”. Is the world a better, saner place yet? And I have found a new guy to add to Jack, Jack and Mitch. His name is Jericho Quinn.
I received the first “incoming” just before noon corresponding to the parade celebrating the public lynching of Mary Willingham for the high academic crime of “plagiarism”. All the C-Blue hop toads, short-busers and goggle-eyed goobers officially declared “today” their best day ever …..
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There are not enough hours in the day to catalogue the pure foolishness that finds its way to my desk. I climb said mountain for the reason that Sir Edmund trekked up Everest – “Because it is there!” I like the word “DEVASTATING” and the phrase “Toxic”.
Since last I took to this bully pulpit (gee, how long has it been?), I enjoyed a stimulating lunch dialogue with “a very well-known sports celebrity”. Our several hours’ conversation wandered over many subjects. We laughed a lot over absurdum that seems to never end…. it gets worser and worser.
They are both from the South Side of Chicago…. but she doesn’t drop F-bombs in conversation. Neither of them are too popular along picturesque Franklin Street these days. He would certainly be recognized…. she was not as we strolled that legendary sidewalk earlier today. Both their names start with “M”.
She had a cheese quesadilla. I had a cobb salad. Who she ? Oh, I’m sorry. I had lunch Tuesday with Mary Willingham. ……
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If this planet was still revolving around the sun as Galileo intended it to do, we would talk about LeBron going back to Cleveland. IMO THE coolest thing ever in the NBA since Bob Cousey invented the no-look pass….. but in this post-Marvin Tweet Apocalypse World we can’t do that. Nooooo…..
Contrary to the current mantra of the ABC Short-Bus faction, the vast majority of UNC FB & Bkball student-athletes who have matriculated over the past 50+ years did so without “special help” from Deborah, Julius, Wayne, Burgess, Jennifer et al. No one cares how many safe landings occur at RDU Airport.
So I get this email from The Grand Wizard of Websites (TGWoW) reminding me that, to stay certified, I HAVE TO write a column about “soccer”. I reminded TGWoW that I had discussed “soccer” several weeks ago. TGWoW said “That’s not enough.
Monday was a Bad day for Obamacare AND Flagships. I celebrated with AgentPierce, then another “Power Lunch” at, believe it or not, AMEDEO’s. First question….. will the NCAA goons stay at the toney Siena or an Extended Stay facility. If the latter double Uh Oh.
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There are a lot of folks caught up in The Great Unpleasantness (TGU) either as Prime Time Players….. spear carriers…. kinda-naive bystanders… and many many in the bi-partisan Peanut Gallery. Today – for Entertainment Purposes Only – we take an askance glance at these proceedings…..
We finally got a peek at Investigator Wainstein. This leaves Deborah Crowder as the only unseen PrimeTimePlayer in The Unpleasantness. Ken expects to turn in his exhaustive report in the Fall giving us 3-4 more months of thumb twiddlin’, bitchin’, blamin’, and teeth-grindin’.
This is a deep cleansing breath column. One that does not beat a certain “not dead yet” horse of infamous unpleasantness. Fear not you fans of unpleasantness, we shall return to our favorite dumpster fire, but not today.