What's worse than Memphis' crooked-stripe jerseys?...Seeing Joey Dorsey, after fouling out, spend the last six or so minutes of the game wearing only an adidas wife-beater. Figures that it was a Calipari coached team where this would happen.I'm not some hard-ass traditionalist when it comes to basketball, but have some respect. I know that Hustle & Flow was set in Memphis, but adopting the Terence Howard look on the sidelines is a pretty desperate attempt for attitude and attention.
Get back in your pen...So Johnathan Papelbon is headed back out to the cage in right field for the Red Sox. I have to agree with the blogger Morisato, who I linked above because there's no real value in a random AP report, and say that while Boston presumably solved their closer conundrum they may have seriously weakened their starting rotation.
Who's taking Papelbon's place, Julian Tavarez?! Despite the fact that Julian likes fighting, foreign substances, had one of his best seasons as a Cub and once kicked a ball over to first to record an out, I've never really liked the guy. I'm all for "mercurial" but for some reason Tavarez takes it too far and now he could be the fifth starter in the Fens.
The good news is, Papelbon just became a proven commodity on my fantasy team rather than a slight gamble.
Footbaw!...It's easy to overlook the fact that college football is up and running again with the Tournament madness and the promise of baseball and the Masters to distract us, but it is officially on and so begins the Sam Keller era at Nebraska.
Sure, Coach Callahan is saying that it's a wide open race for the starting quarterback spot, but we all know it's Keller's to lose. You don't move to Lincoln, Nebraska with an NFL career in the balance to sit behind Joe Ganz, I don't care how complicated the offense.
Now all Keller has to do is learn the offense, play like a legitimate Heisman candidate and be good enough to back up the brash attitude that should go over about as well as hailstones in the Cornhusker State.
Personally, I like the cockiness. After his first practice Keller was quoted in the Omaha World-Herald as saying, "(The offense) isn't too fast. I've been around football too long for it to be too fast."
Good. We need a little Tim Riggins on this team, but Keller better come out firing like the gunslinger he's making himself out to be because the tide will turn quick. In a season without the traditional cupcakes early on (Nevada, @Wake Forest, USC) it could be a disaster if The Keller underwhelms.
But that's a few months off. For now, Sam, keep the quotes coming.
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