Opening week…
So most Division 1 football teams have made it through the first week of the season. Many of them with wins against FCS opponents
(FCS – Football Championship Subdivision – formerly known as Division 1-AA)
But really, routs against FCS teams? This is like winning a hot dog eating contest with supermodels.
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Or being the NFL team who gets to open against the Detroit Lions.
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How the mighty have fallen. Jonathan Broxton was an All-Star closer and saved the game for the National League. Since then he hasn’t saved a game since Aug 3, and has lost his closer’s job with the Dodgers. And yesterday he gave up a two-run game winning home run against the Giants.
This could be the biggest and fastest fall for a star without an Escalade being involved.
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Manny Ramirez, who got a few hits in the series when the White Sox swept the Red Sox, said his departure from Boston was “my fault,” and he would have happily rejoined his old team had they claimed on waivers.
Okay, how many Sox fans would have expected more mature behavior out of Manny than Johnny Damon.
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from Nick Coombs: Matt Leinart was released from the Arizona Cardinals yesterday. Fortunately he still has a lot of money saved from when he played for USC.
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JetBlue apparently has fired Steven Slater, the flight attendant who became famous for his emergency chute beer-carrying exit. Makes sense, the only employees who can behave that badly in public and still keep their jobs are elected officials and professional athletes.
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California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman stated “I have been a full-time candidate for well over 20 months. I’m battle tested now.” Uh, Meg, anybody warn you about little things like a budget and a legislature?
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Mark Hurd, former CEO of HP, is reportedly in talks to join Oracle. Makes sense, at Oracle being involved in a public sex case is practically an executive requirement.
(Larry Ellison has been linked to several office “romances” and at least one lawsuit, Oracle president Charles Phillips had his ex-mistress put a picture of the two together on a billboard in Times Square.)
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Left Coast Sports Babe 
September 5, 2010 at 7:16 pm
After being upset by Jacksonville State, Mississippi QB Jeremiah Masoli might re-appeal his initial appeal to the NCAA in hopes of having his elgibility revoked.
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After blowing an 18-point, 4th quarter lead to Div. I-AA Jacksonville State, Ole Miss must be thinking, “Bring on Bama!”
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Jax State Gamecocks. What’s a Gamecock? Just something else a Rebel trips over.
September 6, 2010 at 8:23 am
Hmm I think Jonathon Papplebon must have taken notes from Broxton. Blows bosox lead yet again.