Thursday, May 28, 2009

KSU scandal

Great read from Joe Posnanski's blog about the KSU football scandal.

Snyder-Prince

This is a great blurb about KSU's former head coach, Ron Prince...

From Joe Posnanski's blog...

Then, the team flattened out. Snyder stepped down — we’re slowly getting to the story — and the Wildcats hired a Virginia assistant coach named Ron Prince. From the first day, it seemed like a strange hire. Prince was from Kansas. But — at least from afar — he seemed utterly un-Kansas State. He seemed aloof, maybe arrogant. He seemed pretty certain that he had the answers. This was quite the opposite of Snyder, who was always quick to remind us that he was not a very smart man. I like Kansas State quite a lot — my wife went there — and I think there’s a certain Midwestern level-headedness about the place. Prince did not seem to fit that at all.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

My man Charles...

Top 50 from Sir Charles...

Take the time to read all 50...it's worth your while.

50. "I can be bought. If they paid me enough, I'd work for the Klan."

49. "You got to believe in yourself. Hell, I believe I'm the best-looking guy in the world and I might be right."

48. "I don't hate anyone, at least not for more than 48 minutes, barring overtime."

47. "We better not be doing the Bulls this year. Man, they suck! Bunch of high school kids with $70 million contracts. Damn! I hate my mother for having me too soon."

46. "You can talk without saying a thing. I don't ever want to be that type of person."

45. After retiring from basketball "I'm just what America needs - another unemployed black man.

44. Ernie: "Did they recognize you in South Dakota?"Charles: "Yes, they did. It was easy because I was the only black person there. When they see me walking down the street they say 'There he goes again'. And when I come back the next year they say 'He's back yawl!'"

43. Right after Peja won the 3-point contest: "Kenny said it was going to be an all-international night. I want to know which international brother is going to win the slam dunk contest."

42. On the Enron scandal investigation: "Almost all those politicians took money from Enron, and there they are holding hearings. That's like O.J. Simpson getting in the Rae Carruth jury pool."

41. "I had to explain to my daughter why that skank Monica Lewinski has an hour special on HBO this weekend."

40. Ernie: "Auburn is a pretty good school. To graduate from there I suppose you really need to work hard and put forth maximum effort."Charles: "20 pts and 10 rebounds will get you through also!"

39. "Every time I think about changing a diaper, I run a little bit harder and a little bit faster to make sure I can afford a nanny until my daughter's old enough to take care of that herself."

38. EJ: "Did you graduate from Auburn?"Charles: "No, but I have a couple people working for me who did."

37. "*** Bavetta and Moses parted the Red Sea together."

36. Ernie Johnson, on Reggie Evans being caught grabbing the rocks of Chris Kaman: "(Reggie Evans) got caught with his hand in the cookie jar."Charles Barkley: "Ernie, I don't know where you get your cookies at but the rest of us don't get ours there."

35. On his 17-year old daughter not dating yet: "Thank goodness. I just hope she doesn't start before I go in the Hall of Fame. That way, I won't have to kill anybody before I get inducted."

34. Kenny: "There's guys who go over to Europe and play overseas from America, and they dominate!"Charles: "Those are called 'brothers'

33. After Wang has a shot blocked: "He's got to bring something stronger than that. That's like bringing milk to a bar, it's not strong enough"

32. Barkley on Turner Sports office having a betting pool on his weight: "That is starting to hurt my feelings. I don't mind skinny people making fun of me, we all do that, but I don't want fat people making fun of me."

31. "We are in the business of kicking butt and business is very, very good."

30. When the Dream Team was about to play the Angola national team, during pre-game interviews the other USA players provided diplomatic, face saving comments about how they would play hard and felt strongly they would win. When Chuck was asked about Angola and the game, he replied: "They're in a lot of trouble."

29. Charles Barkley on his thoughts about retiring before the season: "I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, 'Yeah. I'm going to retire.' They said, 'Well, we'll give you $9 million.' And I said, 'You got a pen on you?'"

28. Man, everything gets blamed on the Clintons, every single thing in this world. I think Bill Clinton shot JFK, too.

27. "I know why his name is DMX. Because his real name is Earl. Imagine if his name was Earl the rapper."

26. "If you go out with a girl and they say she has a great personality, she's ugly. If they tell you a guy works hard, he can't play a lick. Same thing."

25. After Kevin Garnett threw a ball into the crowd out of frustration and was ejected. They showed footage of the man that got hit by the ball being taken away in a stretcher and his daughter was crying. Charles commented that players take passes to the face all the time. He topped it off by saying: "You know why that little girl's crying? It's because she's thinking 'my daddy's a wussy'".

24. Barkley on Ernie Johnson and Kenny Smith eating a box of hot Krispy Kreme donuts in front of him: "Both of y'all are2 going to hell for that. Y'all are going to hell with a first-class ticket. Is that how you treat your partner? Krispy Kreme might be the greatest invention in the history of civilization when they're hot. Y'all are cruel man."

23. "It's kinda great to see the Celtics doin well again cuz that was so much fun in my day to go to the Boston Garden and they spit at you and throw things at you and talk about your mom. It sounds like dinner at Kenny Smith's house."

22. "I think that the team that wins game five will win the series. Unless we lose game five."

21. Charles Barkley after seeing a picture of Sam Cassell on the screen: "Phone home." And later he remarks to Kenny, "Sam Cassell is a good guy, but he's not going to wind up on the cover of GQ anytime soon."

20. While watching someone in Australia put $1 million worth of rubies on a table: "Damn, must not be any black folks in Australia. You can't just leave $1 million worth of jewelry lying around the 'hood."

19. Asked if he had ever been in the governor's office in Montgomery, Barkley said no. "They don't let many black people in the governor's mansion in Alabama," he said, "unless they're cleaning."

18. On the goal of the '92 Olympic Dream Team when playing Panama in the Tournament of the Americas: "To get the Canal back."

17. To Kenny: "Hakeem couldn't kick your ass cuz you were too close, kissin his!"

16. Barkley on Hanno Mottola, who, as EJ remarked "is the first NBA player from Finland". Charles replies: "Of course he is the first NBA player from Finland, he's the only person in Finland."

15. On supersized Oliver Miller: "You can't even jump high enough to touch the rim, unless they put a Big Mac on it."

14. "All I know is, as long as I led the Southeastern Conference in scoring, my grades would be fine."

13. On North Carolina missing 22 of its last 23 shots in losing to Georgetown in the NCAA tournament last weekend: "Stevie Wonder could make one of 23 shots."

12. I'd never buy my girl a watch... she's already got a clock over the stove.

11. "I always laugh when people ask me about rebounding techniques. I've got a technique. It's called just go get the damn ball."

10. On the Portland Trail Blazers (back when they were known as the Jail Blazers) serving Thanksgiving meals: "In between arrests they do community service."

9. "Yeah Ernie, its called defense, I mean I wouldn't know anything about it personally but I've heard about it through the grapevine.

8. "Well, when I went off to college, the guys I used to hang with were pumping gas and voting Democrat. Today they're still pumping gas and voting Democrat. Guess the Democrats didn't do much for them."

7. "When I was recruited at Auburn [university], they took me to a strip joint. When I saw those titties on Buffy, I knew that Auburn met my academic requirements."

6. "Hey Stanley, you could be a great player if you learned just two words: I'm full."-- Barkley yelling to 300-plus-pound Houston Rockets teammate Stanley Roberts

5. "I heard Tonya Harding is calling herself the Charles Barkley of figure skating. I was going to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized I have no character."

4. On the All-Star Game: "Hell, there ain't but 15 black millionaires in the whole country & half of 'em are right here in this room."

3. On Jerry Krause still being able to keep his job as GM of the Chicago Bulls: "Jerry Krause must have pictures of his boss's wife having sex with a monkey."

2. After throwing a guy through a 1st floor window in a bar Charles was in front of the judge.Judge: "Your sanctions are community service and a fine, do you have any regrets?"Charles: "Yeah I regret we weren't on a higher floor"

1. After an Olympic Dream Team victory over Angola, in which they won 116-48, Charles got into a physical altercation with a member of Angola towards the end of the game, afterwards he says: "Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a couple weeks. I thought he was going to pull a spear on me."

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

USA! USA! USA!

I remember setting my alarm for 3am in Gypsum, KS this past year so that I could wake up and root on team USA in the gold medal game.

I've often joke that I only root for 3 "teams"...The KC Royals, Tiger Woods and the team that I coach. Team USA is definitely a fourth. No matter the sport. So I only root for 4 "teams"

Watching Team USA play basketball last summer was a true treat. I hope this article is true and they maintain that edge in 2010.

USA! USA! USA!

KSU in the news

For all the wrong reasons...

When you have incompetent people in authority positions, stuff like this is bound to happen.

I hate saying this, b/c I think it's arrogant/gloating, but...

Told you so

Great picture


Trouble in Texas

He's my only source of income...

This article is definitely one of my favorites.

I also know a friend in Oregon who will enjoy it.

Woman busted at Nowitzki house : I'm pregnant

Monday, May 18, 2009

Here I come, there you go...

Hmmmmm...

I'm still trying to figure out what to type....

Hmmmmm...

Well, just check the article...write your own...

Baseball playoffs

I am still hopeful that the Royals will make the playoffs this year.

I LOVE playoff baseball and I think what FOX is doing is really smart.

MLB, FOX move up start times

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Outliers

More Outliers...
page 84...

"To get a sense of how absurd the selection process at elite Ivy League schools has become, consider the following statistics. In 2008, 27,462 of the most highly qualified high school seniors in the world applied to Harvard University. Of these students, 2,500 of them scored a perfect 800 on the SAT critical reading test and 3,300 had a perfect score on the SAT math exam. More than 3,300 were ranked first in their high school class. How many did Harvard accept? About 1,600, which is to say they rejected 93 out of every 100 applicants."

Make sure to pick up a copy of the book...you'll like it.

Outliers answer

The reason manhole covers are round...

"Round manhole cover can't fall into the manhole, no matter how much you twist and turn it. A rectangular cover can: All you have to do is tilt it sideways."

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Judge

I really didnt want to post again, b/c I wanted you to think about the question from "Outliers"...so please think about that question...

When you get stuck, take a look at this article, pay special attention to the quote from the judge...

Judge with some humor

Outliers

I'm reading the book, "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell and sincerely enjoying it...

An excerpt from the book:
"High tech companies are convinced that those at the very top of the IQ scale have the greatest potential. Microsoft, famously, asks job applicants a battery of questions designed to test their smarts, including the classic...

*I want you to post comments as to what you think the answer is. I'll post the answer tomorrow*

Q: Why are manhole covers round?

Maybe its not about the $

This might be the first athlete in the history who says, "its not about the money" and it turns out, it may not be about the money!

Jason Taylor took a 7 million dollar pay cut so that he could play for the Dolphins.

Staying home in Miami

Another good read

A kid willing to help and give back...

Here's a reason to root for Davidson that's not Stephon Curry.

Andrew Lovedale

Another Pastner article

It's extremely difficult to follow the post I just made, but...here's an attempt.

Here's another article about Josh Pastner.

Safe to say, I'm a Memphis fan.

"Spending two frenetic days with Josh Pastner"

My favorite blog post ever

This is perhaps my favorite blog post I've ever put on here.

Please pay special attention to 1:16-1:40. It would be good if you watched that part at least 5 times.

WOOOOOOO WOOOOOOOOO!

Power & Light district

This is a GREAT article that my buddy from Oregon sent me.

It talks about Portland's want/need for a place like KC has created.

Portland gets some Rose Quarter revitalization ideas

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Did you know what "huffing" was...

Ladies and gentleman...the local newspaper!

Wal-Mart huffer...wait, can you say that?

Monday, May 11, 2009

White Sox

If there is any more reason to hate the White Sox, it's this...

The arrogance to just come out and say it makes me mad.

Then again, the White Sox could give $50,000 to a charity and I would still find fault with it.

I hate them...

Jenks threw inside to "send a message"

Baseball

Just a bit outside...

First pitch

Newspaper part 2

It keeps getting better!

Deer - Airport...huh?

Newspaper

You never quite know what you're going to find in the local newspaper!

This was posted on Sunday, to start Mother's day...

Taser story

Friday, May 08, 2009

Simmons

Bill Simmons at his usual best. This guy has set quite a standard for his writing. He's truly the best...

May 7th, 2014

Ad

This takes marketing a product to a new level!

Craig's list...sister?

Thursday, May 07, 2009

Outside the Lines article

This is from ESPN's outside the lines.

NFL ref Ed Hochuli is the topic.

Good read.

Another Greinke...

Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports.com

More Zack attack...

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Newspaper

Now...I don't quite know how to prepare you for this article. I don't know if the article is quite needed though.

Check the headline, then reference the picture...pay special attention to the hooded sweatshirt.

WOW!

Some people are extremely pathetic...this guy might take the cake...

Izzo

This is why he's one of my favorites...

"Same old song and dance? Not with Izzo, whose regular-guy talk is no act"

Baltimore Sun

A title does this article justice...WOW!

Press Box Layoff: How the Baltimore Sun Fired Me

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Budget cuts

This was news to me when I read it. Have any of you heard anything about this?

This would be pretty amazing if it ended up happening.

I'm somewhat speechless about it.

Hard times in New Orleans...

On the subject of weird news...

This story might just take the cake.

If someone told me this, I would think they were lying. No way you can make something like this up...

Tale of two boyfriends involves a gun, two knives and two wounds...

Baseball

One of the many reasons why baseball is "America's pastime" is in this article.

This is why baseball is my favorite sport...

11 year Minor Leaguer called up

Barkley quote

If you haven't had a chance, The Golf Channel has a program, "The Haney Project", where world re known golf coach Hank Haney tries to fix Charles Barkley's swing.

Haney is Tiger Woods' coach, if that helps.

It's worth trying to catch an episode of...

Check Barkley's quote from the Dan Patrick show this morning...

Dan asked Barkley about his improving golf game. "If I could find the guy who invented that game, I'd beat the hell out of him," Barkley said.

Monday, May 04, 2009

Coaching in the NBA

I've always thought coaching in the NBA would be awesome...

ESPN Truehoop blog caught a good exchange between Atlanta's coach and one of his stars during the playoffs...

Mike Bibby to Coach Woodson

Greinke part 4

This is the best one yet...

MLB.com Greinke article

Greinke part 3

USA Today article on Zack

Hockey

I love the hockey play-offs. The teams geniunely hate each other.

I suppose this minor league hockey team also has some hate. Pay special attention to the goalie after he gives up the goal.

Goalie - watch about the 14 second mark