Left Coast Sports Babe

Damn, I miss Molly.

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Not so many sports jokes tonight. But wonder how many heads would explode on both sides if say, a star Muslim football player made a public statement that he was pro-life, meaning anti-abortion and pro-gun control.

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Will Grier, who was the University of Florida’s starting QB, has lost his NCAA PED appeal and will be suspended a full year, until the 7th game of the 2016 season. Unless Grier goes to the NFL, where such offenses mandate a serious four game suspension.

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A Massachusetts woman who won $1 million in the lottery in 1996 just won $1 million again. Wouldn’t you think that a $1 million win would give you enough money not to need to play the lottery?

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J.R. Smith was accused of choking a 19-year-old man who reportedly heckled the Cavs guard about his trade to Cleveland from the Knicks. And the NBA is thinking “whew, at least it wasn’t a young woman.”

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Chris Christie’s United Airlines flight today from SFO to Boston was delayed almost 6 hours to remove a passenger who was turned over to police. Not as some might think, because the airline hadn’t put enough food on board.

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Starbucks is trying to get a liquor license in Utah. Makes sense. For all those Mormons who don’t want anyone to see them heading into a real bar.

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Jeb Bush says that Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim rants are “just wrong,” and that the Donald is “manipulating people’s angst and their fears. That’s not strength. That’s weakness,’
Forget winning the nomination, is Jeb trying to get himself kicked out of today’s GOP?

Roanoke Mayor David A. Bowers, who praised the internment of Japanese-Americans in WWII, and drew a rebuke from George Takei, today apologized, saying “No one else is to be blamed but me,” adding “I anticipated that the statement might receive some coverage in the Roanoke Valley, but I did not in any way anticipate that it would trend internationally over the Internet.”

Uh, if that last sentence is true, forget the bigotry, Bowers is too STUPID to be mayor.

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And then with all that is going on in the world, this email “from” Debbie Wasserman-Schultz -“Janice, we were just getting ready to seal the Vice President’s birthday card and send it over to the White House when I noticed that your name isn’t on there yet.” Uh huh, I am sure Joe Biden will be heartbroken….. ‪#‎SMH‬

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The CDC said today the E. coli outbreak affecting Chipotle Mexican Grill  has now spread to California, Minnesota, New York, Ohio. Time for some GOP candidate to talk about shutting down the Cabinet Department of Health and Human Services?

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Statement of the day -“”While recognizing that security concerns must be fully addressed, we should not turn our backs on the thousands of legitimate refugees..” The statement is from the National Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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A friend posted the names of California Democrats in Congress who joined the GOP in voting for that rushed bill against Syrian Refugees, even though the U.S. already had a year-long vetting process in place: Pete Aguilar , Ami Bera, Julia Brownley, Jim Costi, John Garamendi, Janice Hahn, Scott Peters, Raul Ruiz.
Well, i just reduced my future emails a bit, as I unsubscribed from the four who had me on their list. ‪#‎cowards‬

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Mark Zuckerberg says he will take two months of paternity leave after his daughter is born. And Facebook does allow four months of leave for new parents. Although, unlike other FB employees, Zuckerberg doesn’t have to worry about losing his position or status during his leave.

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Off-duty police subdued a masked man without injuries after he entered Apple’s flagship store in Manhattan brandishing and swinging a Samurai sword. So which GOP candidate will be the first to call for profiling Japanese?

Arkansas football coach Bret Bielema, to help with strength of schedule for the playoffs, is proposing an annual “Big 12/SEC Challenge,” so that each team in the conference plays a game against the other. So meanwhile will the Pac 12 match up against the ACC or Big 12 in the “Chopped Liver Challenge?”

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Police in Northern California have released a picture of a female robbery suspect. She apparently took a selfie with a stolen phone, and the photo was then uploaded to cloud storage. So we might have a winner in this week’s ‪#‎cantfixstupid‬, women’s division.

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The Rockets fired coach Kevin McHale after Houston started the season 4-7. And 76ers fans are saying “Was he fired for over-achieving?”

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A new Harvard study claims that people who drank 3-5 cups of coffee per day “had about a 15 percent lower [risk of premature] mortality compared to people who didn’t drink coffee.”
And presumably their significant others also had a lower risk of premature mortality after these caffeine addicts had their 3-5 cups of coffee.

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President Obama, in an October 5 GQ interview that just hit the newsstands, compared himself to Aaron Rodgers. And now doubt some Packers fans are going “So it’s all YOUR fault.”

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So for those looking for a break from reality, reportedly two contestants on the upcoming “The Bachelor” are twins who formerly aspired to be Dallas Cowboys’ cheerleaders. ‪#‎youcannotmakethisshitup‬

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Headline ” Ben Carson is fading fast in the latest Fox News New Hampshire poll.” Did the state’s GOP just figure out Carson was stupid, or that he was black?

A 12-ft 600 lb alligator was snared at a Houston golf course today. The gator, nicknamed Chubbs, was not killed but will be relocated to live out his days at a local alligator farm. Sounds like both he and the folks who snared him might better be nicknamed “Lucky.”

(or as my friend Michael S. says, as opposed to “Gucci?”)

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Sports is ultimately trivial in the grand scheme of things.  But anyone looking for a small gesture could do worse than to root for French citizen Tony Parker ‪#‎Spurs‬

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Tony Romo says the Dallas Cowboys season “Is not over.”  But “you just have very little room for error.”  Is Romo aiming to be an advisor to Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign?

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So the House GOP has now moved on from trying to shut the government down over Planned Parenthood, following their attempts to shut it down over Obamacare, because some now want to shut it down over Syrian refugees.

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Leaving aside what liberals and moderates think is the absurdity of all this, do Republicans, who hope to take back the White House, really want to give Democrats the idea that this is the way you fight a President?

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Chris Christie is slamming President Obama saying he “allowed the situation in Syria to happen, he hasn’t set up a no-fly zone that could create a safe haven for these refugees to live safely in their own country…”
And presumably Christie thinks if he were President he’d have just kept ISIS out by closing down some of Syria’s bridges?

So it will be Dusty Baker who will be the new manager of the Nationals. Have to think after Obama it’s “deja vu all over again.” Another black man heading to Washington to fix a mess a white man left.

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The  NFL’s Tennesee Titans have fired coach Ken Whisenhunt. So sorry for those who had Jim Tomsula in the pool

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So at this point with the SF 49ers would TIm Tebow actually even accept the QB job? This year’s team seems less in need of God than St. Jude.

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In Ohio today, voters rejected legalizing marijuana. So  I guess the state’s residents decided that the only legal way to transcend reality in the state is to root for  the Browns

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A Taco Bell spokesman has been fired after his alleged assault of an Uber driver was caught on a video cam. This I think is not what the company meant when they wanted him to promote their Doritos Locos.

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In Mississippi, a Tupelo man who was unhappy the store didn’t sell Confederate flag was charged with allegedly setting off an explosive at a Walmart Sunday morning. Well, they think he set off a small bomb. Either that or it was just what the place looked like after their Halloween sale.

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Notice when NFL coaches are fired the teams always say they want to move in a different direction? And then the lousy teams just keep going in the same direction.

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The GOP is vowing “more bipartisanship” in Washington. Well, they could hardly vow less.

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Urban Meyer said he told QB J.T. Barrett, suspended 1 game, “How do you deal with 20 years of doing right and 30 seconds of doing wrong, or three minutes, or whatever it was, That’s real life.”
Uh, first, it takes a lot more than doing wrong for 3 minutes to get a DUI and an attempted evasion of a checkpoint, second in “real life” you don’t get slapped on the wrist for doing both.

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Larry Lessig announced he iis ending his bid for the Democratic Presidential nomination. And even Lincoln Chafee is going “who?”

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So after the 49ers gave Colin Kapernick a seven-year $126 million contract they are now benching him. With that kind of pay to performance, wouldn’t the SF 49ers’ QB be better suited to Congress?

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woman is suing Nike for $1.3 million after she said she was injured during a running event where participants were not allowed to use anything but Nike equipment. Hmm, I see a whole new revenue source for lawyers with college and professional athletes.

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Now Volkswagen is admitting that they also understated carbon dioxide emissions and overstated mileage on some 800.000 models. Uh, at this point would it be simpler to list what the car maker WAS honest about?