Big Ten and out?
Lebron James says he doesn’t know yet if he will participate in the NBA’s All Star Game slam dunk contest. I guess he’s waiting for ESPN to offer him at least a half hour time-slot to announce his decision.
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The only good news for the Big 10 on New Year’s Day? None of their teams qualified for the Fiesta Bowl.
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Forget “Leaders” and “Legends” for the two new Big 10 divisions. After today more appropriate names might be “Bad” and “Worse.”
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Fortunately for Big Ten fans there are no more bowl games this year except for Arkansas-OSU on Tuesday. In the meantime, however, true connoisseurs of really bad meaningful football games can tune into the Rams-Seahawks on Sunday.
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But really, is there something in the Big Ten football charter that says there’s something wrong with actually showing up on New Year’s Day? (My friend Jerry Perisho is beginning to wonder if these teams are playing their junior varsity?)
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That music you hear coming from the sky today at the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville is Don Meredith singing to Rich Rodriguez, “turn out the lights, the party’s over.”
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Although in the Rose Bowl, TCU was completely unable to stop the Wisconsin running game in the past few minutes. So the Badgers were able to march down the field and score a touchdown to pull within 21-19. And for the two-point conversion, the Badgers THREW THE BALL? (incomplete)
Somewhere Woody Hayes is pinwheeling in his grave.
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Since Times Square officials nixed her planned ball drop, Snooki from “Jersey Shore” celebrated New Year’s Eve by being dropped in a ball in Seaside Heights, New Jersey. Apparently this was made possible by Snooki’s local fame, the cooperation of local officials, and the fact New Jersey has no real littering laws.
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Newly hired head coach Mike Haywood has been fired from the University of Pittsburgh job, after he was arrested and charged with domestic violence.
Guess his tenure will go down in history along with the George O’Leary era at Notre Dame.
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According to Entertainment Weekly, 20th Century Fox has vetoed a proposed script for the planned “24” movie. But Kiefer Sutherland is still hoping to work things out with prospective producers. The meeting would take place between 1:00 and 2:00pm.
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Apparently Jon Huntsman, Obama’s ambassador to China and the former Governor of Utah, is considering a run for president in 2012. Since Mitt Rommey has already basically declared, political junkies can look forward to a rare but potentially amusing occurence – Mormon smackdown.
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is all about cost-cutting and reducing government spending. So what happens when his state gets covered in snow? When he gets back from a family trip to Disney World Christie asks for money from FEMA to help cover storm cleanup costs.
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Left Coast Sports Babe 
January 2, 2011 at 9:09 am
Along with george O’Leary, let’s not forget the Mike Price era at Alabama.
January 3, 2011 at 12:13 am
How could I forget…. even if I wanted to. Especially the fact that “roll tide” was apparently part of his bedroom vocabulary…
January 2, 2011 at 11:27 am
Something more alliterative than “Leaders” and “Legends” would be ” Lame and Loosers” for the two new Big 10 divisions. Couldn’t be any worse.
On dueling Mormons- Jon Huntsmancan and Mitt Romney -political junkies should have fun with the battle of the Latter Day Aints. Should be some Big Love there.
The only thing George O’Leary smacked around to cause his short tenure at Notre Dame was his credentials.
January 2, 2011 at 10:21 pm
Congrats to TCU for winning the Rose Bowl and making their mascot the most popular frog in America since Bud, Weis and Er.
I’ve read so much about the Big 10 bowl failures today that I can’t recall who said it, but it’s on the mark: The Big 10 should change the names of their divisions to the “Little Sisters” and the “Poor.” I’m pretty sure it wasn’t the Pres. of Ohio State.