The New Justice, er … uh, Blackhawk Team
Okay Chicago, while you were busy drinking your Goose Island 312 from the Stanley Cup perhaps you didn’t notice that something is missing this season: like a large chunk of last year’s Championship team. But Stephen Stills has some wise words for you: “If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with.” (What? You don’t know who that is? Of course not, you were all born in 1987.)
TCU: Totally Contradictory Utterances
As troubling as the news was of the alleged behavior exhibited by Texas Christian University head coach Gary Patterson toward both running back Ed Wesley and team physician Dr. Samuel Haraldson last month, the developments since that incident are twice as disheartening.
Wait. The Napolis Are Attacking Rival Fans By Doing What Now?
If you admit nothing else to yourself today, admit at least that soccer hooligans are becoming a little more considerate. Make no mistake, they’ll still hunt you down and assault you for no other reason than you’re wearing the wrong colors, but how and where they assault you has never been more convenient for the recovery process.
Smashmouth Ain’t Just Your Older Brother’s Favorite Band
If there has been one overwhelming theme to this football season so far, it’s that concussions are more prevalent than we had previous thought and do more damage than we ever knew.
Leave it to Penn State head coach Joe Paterno, one of the game’s oldest surviving brethren, to suggest an old solution to this new problem: if the head is constantly in danger, force players to take better care of it by protecting it less. Remove facemasks from helmets.
Say What You Will, This Guy Is Better Than Jared Leto
I always promised myself that if I ever had an opportunity to talk to a celebrity, I wouldn’t ask a question they’ve heard a thousand times before. I’d ask them something like, “how do you prefer your corn? Cut? On the cobb? I’d ask if they ever cut the corn directly off the cobb and formed tiny, fragile sheets of corn. This would stun the celebrity. They’d never forget me. Probably because they’d think I was nuts.
