I know that many readers of TSR are fans of the HBO show Eastbound and Down. While trolling the internet the other day, I stumbled upon the wikipedia article of the show's main character Kenny Powers. The article has fictional statistics! How great is that! Also somehow his stats from 2006 are "unknown," like someone could play in the bigs and not have their stats recorded. Any speculation on how this could happen?
I only worked a half day today so I have some time to catch up on the happenings with TSR. Here is a video of the final play of a high school football game which saw Encino Crepsi (Cal) take on Sherman Oaks Notre Dame (Cal). The plot thickened because this game was a do-or-die situation for both teams striving for the playoffs. With the score tied and barely seconds remaining on the clock, Crepsi took the snap and with a herculean effort from the QB to stay on his feet, he threw the ball to the diminutive playmaker near the sidelines who scooted across the field only to pitch it into the open arms of a waiting teammate to rumble the rest of the way in the endzone.
We've been seeing this recently with amateur sports. There was a middle school who ran a trick play right up the gap to score a touchdown against a dumbfounded defense and countless others come to mind with varying degrees of trickery and ingenuity. But his one is all heart. I love seeing how much those kids wanted to win and how much it would mean for them to make it to the playoffs. I also love seeing the smallest kid in the stadium playing an integral role in the deciding touchdown. You can tell Crepsi wanted it more. Look at #72 on Notre Dame just flat give up on the play. Come on, man!
With all of the distractions that professional and college athletes are having on and off the field, its nice to have a change of pace where a couple high schools are playing for the love of the game and a simple win can mean so much to them.
This is the first, and probably last post about women's basketball on the blog. I was on ESPN.com clicking on a few of the women's college basketball prediction articles (mainly because Xavier is supposed to be a top 10 team this year. I wanted to see if XU was getting some publicity). I stumbled upon this article showing all of the 'experts' picks for the big 6 conferences in the upcoming season. Talk about parody! One writer dared to dream and put Iowa to win the Big Ten. The other 23 picks are the exact same! And people wonder why no one respects women's b-ball (well besides the lack of dunking, general athleticism and slow pace of play). Every year 5 maybe 6 teams have a shot at winning the ship with the #1 seeds pretty much always cruising to the final four. It's just not that interesting when at the beginning of the season all the fans know either Uconn, Tennessee, Baylor, Duke or Stanford will win it all.
This is absurd! Dave Meggett sentenced 30 yrs for a sex crime? The only crimes I can envision Mr. Meggett committing are against opposing special teams units stupid enough to kick to him. On the bright side, Dave Meggett was always a favorite for the D'Skae D-Lobas and this will probably just make him a more popular option for said Lobas.
On a serious note: TSR wishes a happy 235th Birthday to the United States Marine Corps and a happy Veterans Day tomorrow for all our vets. God Bless.
I stumbled across this video during the Colts/Eagles game this past Sunday. It appears if coaching wiz and moustache aficionado Andy Reid or Ried as the video labels him is the world's largest 13 year old to ever participate in a Punt, Pass and Kick competition. There are so many things funny about this video, I don't know where to begin. Well, that's what this list is for.
1. The sheer mass of Reid. Come on, the kid behind him, hell all of the kids barely reach Andy's butt.
2. The moustache: Did someone take the Brawny man and shove him into kid's pads in order to compete?
3. Did Andy know that he was going to be throwing a football and not working on pass protection/pancake drills?
4. His legs probably weigh more than some of the kids...combined.
5. #22 is probably thinking how come his Dad didn't get asked to participate.
6. Is that Jared Lorenzen's dad?
7. How did one of the LA Rams get in this contest?
This is the first known siting of a man-child. Today, we salute you Andy Ried (Reid)...aka the Hefty Righty.
This post is to commemorate Dan Hawkins coaching career at Colorado. He was fired on Tuesday and although he only went 19-39 over five seasons and decided to start his own kid for most of that run. He did provide us with a memorable off season 'post game' rant featured in the video above.
Hawkins won't need to worry about days off anymore, he gets every day off now.
Apparently Oregon unveiled their new basketball court recently. Now in addition to the best football uniforms, they easily have the best court. I really can't express how much ass this kicks. Aaron Brooks would be proud. (Rockets Aaron Brooks, a former Duck. Not to be confused with the former Saints QB Aaron Brooks, who blew.) Shout out to Oregon native and TSR favorite Thetans.
