January 31, 2010 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Comments Off
Random thoughts, having watched 95 percent of the show …
• Roberta Flack can still sing, but her plastic face doesn’t move. Literally, it does not move • Taylor Swift is great, and I’m thrilled she won Best Album because the CD rocks. But Taylor Swift with Stevie Nicks—no good • Maxwell is Marvin Gaye: 2010 • Did anyone really need to hear Bon Jovi do Livin’ On a Prayer for the 593,213,432nd time? • Hall & Oates didn’t win. Bummer. • For my money, Dead and Gone by T.I. and Justin Timberlake was the year’s best song. Won nothing, but an epic tune. • Who the f*** invited Ricky Martin? • Placido Domingo presented an award to Rihanna. She didn’t even look at him, and uttered nary a word. You’re a 21-year-old pop star who, if all the stars align, will be doing Vegas variety shows in 10 years. Show some respect to a legend • Strong, strong showing from Eminem, who remains a lyrical phenomenon • When LL Cool J is being introduced as “the star of NCIS …” well, the world has exploded. • What’s not to like about Mos Def? • Usher is wearing sunglasses indoors. Why? • Pearl Jam did a Target commercial. What the hell? 
• Fergie has a tremendous voice. She really does. But the Black Eyed Peas suck, and in the not-too-distant future their fans will look back and agree with me. • Beyonce absolutely, positively butchered Alanis Morissette’s You Oughta Know. I like B, but a pop princess can’t sing that tune. It has to be done with venomous anger. • Flipped to the Pro Bowl for 8 seconds. This game shouldn’t exist. Nobody plays hard. •
January 31, 2010 | Filed Under Breaking News, Brett Favre, Cowboys, Dallas Cowboys, Danny White, NFL, News, Pro Bowl, Super Bowl, afc wins, pro bowl acf wins, roger staunbach, tony romo booed, tony tomo | Comments Off
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo was booed when announced into the Pro Bowl tonight. He ended up completing his first six passes and led the NFC to a touchdown run by DeAngelo Williams. But on the next drive he threw a game-ending interception. The AFC won 41-34.
I didn’t quite expect the boos for Romo. The game was in South Florida and I’m not sure what the fans had against Romo.
The boos and the interception were quite an ending for Romo, who had one of his best seasons as a Cowboys starter. He is already the team’s leader in seasons throwing for more than 25 touchdowns. Only Danny White and Roger Staubach have done it, both twice for the Cowboys.
I think the comparisons of Brett Favre and Tony Romo are spot on I think. Romo hasn’t thrown nearly as many interceptions as Favre did early in his career, but they both have a knack of losing games.
I believe Romo does win a Super Bowl, and he’ll go down as one of the Cowboys great quarterbacks. It may be in 2011, in Cowboys Stadium. That’s a feat no team has ever accomplished.
January 31, 2010 | Filed Under Add new tag, BCS, Cleveland Browns, ESPN, Fantasy Football Advice, Jerry Jones, MLB, Minnesota Vikings, NCAA, NFL, Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, Radio, Sports Jabber, Sportsjabber Radio, college football, fantasy football injuries | Comments Off
Colts or Saints? That’s everyone’s question this week. Join Mark and Ben as they break down the big game and important matchups.
Also, Mark will do his usual sports world whiparound to cover the other major stories and Ben will keep you up to date with everything happening at Sportsjabber.net.
Join us this Wednesday - 2/3/10 [...]
January 31, 2010 | Filed Under Cincinnati Bengals, ESPN, NFL, Pittsburgh Pirates, Rey Maualuga, SportsJabber.net, USC, USC Trojans, college football | Comments Off
The Cincinnati Bengals seemed to be turning a new leaf as the laughing stock of the NFL who never seemed to be able to keep their players out of trouble. After the recent arrest of Rey Maualuga for reckless driving while under the influence, the team’s reputation has taken a step back for keeping [...]
January 31, 2010 | Filed Under Curtis Stevens, General Sports, Jesse Brinkley, Lucian Bute, Raymond Serrano, Vic Drakulich, boxing | Comments Off
Jesse Brinkley (35-5, 22 KO’s) won a one-sided, 12 round unanimous decision over Curtis Stevens (21-3, 15 KO’s). Official scores were 117-109, 118-108 and 119-107.
In the first round, it appeared that Stevens was heading toward an early knockout win over Brinkley. Stevens connected with some left hooks that almost floored him. Brinkley recovered, and used [...]
January 31, 2010 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Comments Off
Tonight I entered my son’s room to give him a cup of water before bed. He was sitting on his pillow, looking at me, playing with his fingers. “Emmett, do you have a booger?” I asked.
“Yup,” he said.
So I took it from him. Literally removed the booger from his fingers with my fingers. I then immediately thought about parenthood, and how while everyone pictures cooing babies and first steps and joyful romps to Disney World, well, this gig is extraordinarily gross.
Human feces on my wrist? No biggie. Snot in my hair? Meh. Piss on my toes? Whoop dee damn doo. By now I’ve seen, felt, smelled it all. I’ve changed diapers in the nastiest truck stop bathrooms the world has ever seen. I’ve had my daughter coat my head and shoulders in milk-laced vomit.
Gross, gross, gross.
Fatherhood, fatherhood, fatherhood.
January 31, 2010 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Comments Off
When I was a kid, the Grammys meant something. If a performer won Best New Artist or Album of the Year, I’d most likely check the product out. Was I naive? Sure. But, in my eyes, a Grammy win was huge.
Now, well, uh, not so much. During tonight’s show, we will learn if Hall & Oates wins a Grammy in the category of Best Pop Performance by a Group or Duo with Vocals. The song they’re nominated for is Sara Smile, which is off of their 2008 album Live at the Troubadour and which was originally recorded by the duo … more than 30 years ago.
Let me say that again: They’re being nominated for a song that was recorded when I was an infant. Not only that—Hall & Oates have recorded Sara Smile live, oh, at least a dozen times. And this one sounds just like the other one. Which sounds like the other one. Which sounds like the other one. Which sounds like …
I love Hall. I love Oates.
But this make zero sense.
January 31, 2010 | Filed Under Bruce Weber, Bruce Weber Illinois head coach, Illinois, Illinois Fighting Illini, Mike Davis, Mike Davis' playing time, Tyler Griffey, illini mike davis | Comments Off
By Paul Schmidt
The title is self explanatory. Will we, Bruce? Though he didn’t say it outright, his answers during yesterday’s press conference after Illinois’ 72-70 win over Indiana spoke volumes about his intentions.
“Mike Davis has to change,” Weber said. “And, you know, I love him, he’s a great kid. But he’s got to come to practice every day and try to get better. He’s got to have a good mindset. If he does that, he’s going to be one of the best players in the league.”
Every one knows Davis has that capability…but he has to change? And does that mean he’s not showing up to practice?
“No, he never missed any practice,” Weber clarified. “He’s there physically…his body is there. Yeah, he’s never missed practice. Actually, he’s there more than anybody, and he’s there early, and he’s…he’s a great kid. But he doesn’t always go as hard as we’d like him to go.”
The most telling thing that Weber said about Davis was the staff’s intention about his playing time in a close game against a team that Illinois should have, quite frankly, been blowing out.
“Ironically, I think mentally our staff thought we weren’t going to play Davis in the second half today,” Weber conceded. “Dominique (Keller) came up to me — And to me, this is the part that’s real ironic, because they fight for time, and Dominique wants minutes — but Dom said, ‘Hey coach, Mike Davis is ready, and we need him.’ That’s pretty good for Dominique to do that because he always wants to play. So we gave him a shot and he made a blocked shot that no one else could make on our team. He made the basket, he made a couple of nice passes to Tis (Mike Tisdale). So, you know, at least he didn’t pout and he made some plays. Now we need to see if he can come every day and give us the intensity we need.”
Wow, so that’s what the issue is, it’s an intensity thing? And Davis wasn’t even going to play in the second half?? It did appear, during the first half, that Davis, when on offense, was sleepwalking through sets.
Even still, Weber was conflicted about what to do with Mike Davis prior to the game, and didn’t make the decision until close to game time. Complicating matters more is the desire to have a rotation where everyone has an idea of how many minutes they will see in a game, as opposed to the more random rotations that we’re seeing now.
“I went back and forth with the assistants, ‘Should I start Mike? Should I not?’” Weber said after the game. “We held 
Demetri accountable (during his two game benching), and obviously it’s done something, so I’ve made one good coaching move all year. So, now, we’ve got to hold him (Davis) accountable. And you know, we were good with Tyler (Griffey) in there. He’s done well, and he deserves it. He really tries and he works at it, and I’ve said all along that he’s going to be a pretty good player for us. And I like that he rebounded for us, that was really important early. But it really would be nice to get an established rotation.”
In short, it looks like Mike Davis is going to need to earn his way back on to the court. And that he hasn’t done that yet.
Bring on the Tyler Griffey era!
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January 31, 2010 | Filed Under 25 year super bowl shuffle reunion, Chicago Bears, Jim McMahon, Mike Singletary, NFL, boost mobile shuffle, boost mobile super bowl ad, boost mobile super bowl shuffle, boost mobile super bowl spot, jim mcmahon super bowl spot, mike singletary ad, super bowl shuffle, super bowl shuffle 25 years later, super bowl shuffle reunion | Comments Off
By Paul M. Banks
In America, every single holiday is pretty much all about consumption and consumerism. Therefore, the Super Bowl, a day in which the opportunity to sell us crap costs more than it does at any other point, is truly our national holiday. It’s the time when Madison Avenue’s All-Star team gets to shine. But let’s be honest the Mad Men haven’t really given us much to enjoy or talk about on Super Sunday ever since the Justin Timberlake/Janet Jackson “wardrobe malfunction”. However all of that will change one week from today, when Boost Mobile gives us the Super Bowl Shuffle 25 year reunion spots.
The Sports Bank.net has acquired these exclusive advance teaser clips for your amusement (and/or bemusement). I still remember giving the original Super Bowl Shuffle 45 record away in a 1st grade Christmas party grab bag. So I guess I’m getting old. Especially since I don’t recall being this excited about a Super Bowl advertisement. I really can’t.
We can’t even be sure this was even right 25 years ago? But just to be sure we are bringing them back for you to decide just how much more wrong- uh, Wronger? Umm… Wrongified??? Well, we’re afraid that things are going to get a whole lot worse!
It’s simple. Groins will be pulled. Cowbells will get rung. And Mike Singletary trades in those intense eyes for bifocals? (Talk about wrong!)
That reminds me- this website was founded on January 16th, 2007. We had two whole writers back then, myself and current V.P. David Kay. A week after the site was founded, the Chicago Bears clinched their first trip back to the Super Bowl since 1985. So Dave and I wrote out own 2007 Super Bowl Shuffle remix. Since most of you probably missed it the first time, here are our verses again
We’ll start with Kyle Orton.
I’m Kyle Orton, I like to drink.
You think Rex is bad, last year you saw how much I stink.
I’ll grow a beard, to try and fool ya.
Everybody knows I’m no Steve Fuller.
If Rex gets hurt, they’ll put in Brian,
If he goes down, my buzz is dyin’
Cause I’m not in Miami to get in the game
I like what Barrett Robbins did, I want to do the same.
Rex Grossman
Sexy Rexy. Get behind the 8 ball!
Both the fans and media don’t trust me at all
watching me play can be quite irritating
125+ or -30 could be my passer rating
When I throw off my back foot, our fans fear
But would you rather have Chad Hutchinson here?
lots of people been unjustly harsh
remember, most Bear QBs don’t make all
16 starts
Cedric Benson
Its Cedric here and I entertain
But some peeps don’t like how I speak so plain
I’m a force running North to South
I can also cause trouble runnin my mouth
The backfield situation won’t become sticky
And don’t compare me to Williams, Ricky
So bring on New Orleans, bring on Indianapolis
This is for Lewis Tillman and Raymont Harris
Nate Vasher
This is Nate, but not the D-O Double G
Burn the Tampa Cover 2? Ha! We’ll see
Last season, I made the Pro Bowl
Patrolling the secondary is how I roll
108 yards, the longest play in NFL history
now I share the honor with teammate #23
Among CBs, I’m the King, where’s my scepter?
All opposing receivers should fear “The Interceptor”
Lovie Smith
Make Lovie, not war, I’m ready and able
To control the play with Comcast Digital Cable
My style’s the polar opposite of Bobby Knight
Yell at my players? Nah, they’re doin’ alright
The ladies all dig my Southern Drawl
I stress Defense first, when coaching football
My laid-back demeanor, the only way I know
To bring a Super Bowl trophy to Chicago
Ron Turner
The West Coast Offense, my brand of ball
Go routes, slants, screen passes; I like to call
I get upset when Rex misses his mark
but I got more ways to use Desmond Clark
with TJ and Ced, we run quite well
The Colts front 7 will get ‘48 minutes of hell’
This season, Berrian emerged as the deep threat
South Beach, post game party, wild ‘n’ wet
Devin Hester
I’m Devin Hester, the special teams King
6 TD’s this season, that’s record breaking!
Against the Rams, returned two in one game
Still didn’t put me on O, guess Lovie’s to blame
Brought a missed field goal back 108 yards
Housed a punt in our comeback versus the Cards
So bring on Desmond Howard and Neon Deion
Dante Hall……what team is he on?
Lance Briggs
They say Brian is our man
If Urlacher can’t do it, I sure can
This is Lance, I’m sick of 54
He gets all the attention, he’s a media whore
But he plays middle, I’m just weak side
My contract’s up this off-season -Chicago good-bye!
But it’s okay cuz Drew’s my agent
This off-season, he’ll get me a huge cash payment
Brian Urlacher
I’m not Samurai Mike, but I still stop ‘em cold
Forget Butkus and Ditka, I can’t be controlled
If you haven’t realized, this is Urlacher
I feel sorry for any opposing blocker
Try to stop me, you’ll be in dismay
I lead the 2007 Monsters of the Midway
Before Leinart was scoring, I visited Paris
Now I’m in Miami, damn right you should fear us
Thomas Jones
Its TJ here, we’ve had a quite a season
My skip-hop step is beyond reason
Now up in the air, throw your hands
And give props to the ‘SNL Superfans
‘Yes Virginia, there is a Thomas Jones
My stints with the Cards and Bucs, I disown
We’re underdogs, but I ignore that noise
Big ups to my bro, Julius, of the Cowboys
Charles ‘Peanut’ Tillman
This is one peanut that no one will roast
Treat the Colts like champagne, about to toast
Like Kanye West, we ‘Touch the Sky’
I was born here, I represent The Chi’
We jam receivers at the scrimmage line
Break up the pass, deflecting right on time
My coverage skills are a gift
‘I’m going to Miami’, just like Will Smith
Tank Johnson
Its Terry here you know me as Tank
I hear Miami has the finest dank
The cops raided my house and took all mine
So for a game, Lovie made me ride the pine
A one game suspension, what a joke!
That just gave me more time to smoke
We’re off to the Super Bowl, I won’t bring my rifle
Peyton’s game you bet I’ll stifle
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January 31, 2010 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Comments Off
By Nick Gholson
Posted January 31, 2010 at 12:48 a.m.
Jerry Jones might not want to take another gamble on a Texas wide receiver.
After all, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys has been burnt twice by burnt orange guys.
The team spent a fourth-round draft pick on Wayne McGarity in 1999. He played three forgetful seasons in Dallas and caught one touchdown pass.
And then of course, there is the current Roy Williams mess.
We all know that story.
The Cowboys gave the Lions a first-round draft pick and more for the former Longhorn star.
That pick could have been Percy Harvin — whom the Vikings drafted two spots later.
While Roy Williams was disappointing everyone in Dallas, Harvin had 2,081 all-purpose yards in his rookie season in Minnesota. He caught 60 passes for 790 yards and eight touchdowns.
We all know that the NFL Draft is a crap shoot.
Ryan Leaf and Jamarcus Russell go in the first round. Joe Montana and Tom Brady aren’t picked until the third and sixth, respectively.
But every once in awhile, a guy shows up that you just really want on your roster. I think Jordan Shipley is one of those guys.
His size — 6-foot, 190 — will scare off most first-round shoppers.
The draft experts don’t consider him to be any team’s No. 1 receiver.
Right now they have Shipley pegged as a slot receiver worthy of teams inneed to be looking at in the third and fourth rounds.
One draft scouting service has him ranked No. 6 among the 354 wide receivers evaluated.
Most, however, have him 10 or lower.
Those same draft experts didn’t even have Wes Welker on their boards back in 2004.
Welker was considered too small (5-9, 185) and too slow (4.6) to play in the NFL.
He proved everybody wrong.
Shipley is often compared to Welker, but mainly I think because they are both white wide receivers, a rarity in pro football today.
Their main similarity is not skin pigmentation.
It’s heart and smarts.
They are guys we simply call “football players.”
They play hard every play every day. And they are students of the game, always striving to get better.
The biggest difference between Shipley and Welker is Shipley is bigger and faster.
He runs a 4.4 and has the speed to go deep. He also has the toughness to go over the middle.
He has extra value as a kick returner.
Most people think the Cowboys will focus on getting a big, strong offensive left tackle to replace Flozell Adams with their first pick.
Their second biggest need, however, is to give Tony Romo another good target to go with No. 1 wide receiver Miles Austin and tight end Jason Witten.
They need to improve on Roy Williams and Patrick Crayton.
I would love to see Jordan Shipley wearing the star.
Who knows? Maybe having another Texas wide receiver as a teammate will light a fire under Roy Williams.
Now try selling that to Jerry Jones.
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