Of course, on a serious note, the most important story of the day is the tsunami and the tragic results in Japan. But that doesn’t mean the absurdities of the world take a holiday, and so, today’s blog….. (Because I really do believe laughter is usually the best medicine.)
The NFL players have de-unionized which increases the chance there will be no professional football next year. So for 49ers and Raiders fans, sounds like business as usual.
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Note to all fans of professional football: The Canadian Football League’s first pre-season game is only three months from Tuesday.
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A new study says that women who get their daily dose of coffee are at less risk of dying from a stroke. Presumably they are also at less risk of killing their husbands and children.
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USC’s mens basketball coach Kevin O’Neill was suspended for the remainder of the Pacific 10 tournament after an “incident”/”verbal altercation” with an opposing team booster in the JW Marriott in Los Angeles. So is it something in the water in Los Angeles, or do personalites with a tendency to make public fools of themselves just naturally gravitate there?
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And wonder if they’ll suspend O’Neill for something that actually matters to Trojan fans, which this year is likely to be the NIT.
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Happy to have had a suggestion included in ESPN.com’s Page 2 alternative March Madness Top 10 list. (Although the NFL owners may go down in history as the Maddest this March of all.)
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?id=6201171
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Sunday night is the change to Daylight Savings Time in most of the U.S. If we’re going to lose an hour though, wouldn’t it be better to do it in the cruddiest month, like February?
Dwyane Wade called out Orlando coach Stan Van Gundy for his criticism, saying “When statements are made about the Miami Heat, about the attention we get and us crying about it, [from] Orlando they really don’t understand.”
Uh, Dwayne, outside the immediate environs of South Florida, they don’t understand, or sympathize, either.
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From my friend Ben Burnett: “BREAKING NEWS: CHARLIE SHEEN SUES PRODUCERS!!!!……and I think something happened in Japan.”
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Auburn coach Gene Chizik dismissed four players from the football team when they were arrested for armed robbery. Chizik said “these young men have a right for their case to be heard, (but) playing for Auburn University is an honor and a privilege. It is not a right.” Unless you have Heisman-level talent.
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Meanwhile two Michigan State players were arrested for fighting in an Aspen, Colorado, bar and then trying to flee from officers. Police also said they had to use a stun gun on one of the players. Presumably MSU will impose serious sanctions on the players, which by current Big 10 standards appears to be a two-game suspension. The Spartans’ first two games? Youngstown State and Florida Atlantic.
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