When I saw these… things… the first thought that popped into mind was “If Jerry Falwell were still alive, he’d declare them both to be gay.”
Kang and Kodos… errr, I mean Wenlock and Mandeville, are the official mascots of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
If nothing else, Wenlock and Mandeville will have us all forgetting that Izzy from the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta ever existed....
Relief pitcher Charlie Kerfeld asked for and received 37 boxes of orange Jell-O as a bonus when he signed a new contract with the Astros in 1987. Roy Oswalt got a shiny new bulldozer for helping his team get to the World Series. A.J. Burnett required the Blue Jays to give his wife eight round-trip limo rides per season from their home in Maryland to Toronto when he signed as a free agent five years ago.
Those are just a few of the wacky stipulations that professional baseball players have demanded or agreed to in their signing contracts, according to this entertaining lil’ article at CNN.com. One thing that I didn’t know until reading this: Michael Jordan was still getting paid by the owner of the NBA’s Chicago Bulls when Jordan tried his luck at baseball in the early Nineties. Why? ‘Cuz Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf was also the ...
And to the team and student body of Butler University: Congratulations to you for being one of the classiest and best-playing teams that I’ve ever seen in the history of this tournament! Y’all made a new fan in me… and quite a lot of other people too....
As much as I have to be cheering for Duke, I would not mind it at all to see Butler win the whole thing.
Maybe that has a bit to do with the fact that I’m feeling tonight’s game is going to be eerily reminiscent of the 1983 NCAA Championship between “invincible” slam-dunk powerhouse Houston and a scrappy little team from North Carolina State coached by an Italian kid from Queens named Jim Valvano....
The first thing that popped into mind when I read this was, “Is this what it takes to make sure Chapel Hill never again has to play in the NIT?”
(rimshot)
I can tell already that I’m going to get heaps of grief from Chad and Eric about that 😛
The NCAA is now pondering the idea of expanding the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament from 65 teams to a whopping 96 schools going to the annual tournament. Under the proposed plan the National Invitational Tournament would be discontinued, the top 32 teams would receive byes and whole new brackets would be created for the embiggened tournament.
This sounds more like a hella big mess than the big dance, if you ask me. The current system ain’t perfect, but it’s about as nicely balanced as there’s likely to be. Enlarging the field to 96 teams would ...
What. The. #&@$ ?!?!?
Just saw on the website for the Raleigh News & Observer that Governor Bev Perdue is talking with members of the General Assembly about levying a tax on all NASCAR-related sales within the state of North Carolina.
I say again: What. The. #&@$ ?!?!?
According to the article, if enacted into law the tickets for NASCAR stock car races will have a 10% tax imposed upon them. And it’s not just that, friends and neighbors: the NASCAR merchandise is going to be hit extra-hard too! Want a scale-model replica of “King” Richard Petty’s famous Number 43 car, or a calendar highlighting Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s career? Well in addition to the regular sales tax it’s gonna have 5% extra added to the final price as well.
I can guess why Governor Perdue might be trying to do this. North Carolina is already the most-taxed state in ...
Dear management and staff of WFMY:
I am a life-long viewer of WFMY. Yours is the station that I have most associated with well-produced television. Growing up our own television was always tuned to one of two channels: the local PBS affiliate for Sesame Street and Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, and Channel 2. Until the time I was 8 years old I didn’t even know that there were other stations that did news, weather and sports. I will always fondly remember Lee Kindard’s hosting of The Good Morning Show, Sandra Hughes is one of the all-time most classiest ladies in the history of anything (Lord willing I will finally get a chance to meet her someday) and whenever the weather has taken a turn for the worst or (even better) threatened snow that would cancel the schools, WFMY was there. I still remember people like Arlo Lassen (whatever happened ...
For what it’s worth, I had this thought today:
The Tarheels now finally have the opportunity to achieve something they’ve never earned before…
A National Invitational Tournament championship banner hanging from the rafters of the Dean Dome! 😛...
There is absolutely no reason for making this entry, other than because Lord only knows when the next time will be that I get to do a post like this one 😛...
It was like watching the old “Four Corners” play that the Tarheels were notorious for before the institution of the shot clock… but with the Tarheels losing!
Look, I’m not all that much of a sports fanatic, but something is seriously off-kilter in this state so far as basketball goes.
As one friend put it a few weeks ago, it’s pretty sad when the best team in North Carolina right now is the Bobcats 😛...