Missouri athletics cell phone goof

According to the Kansas City Star newspaper, Missouri made a big mistake when it sold off a bunch of used athletic department cell phones. They forgot to erase the phones of text messages and other information. Missouri’s athletic department sold 25 cell phones at a surplus auction and made a whopping $190 bucks off [...]

NSFW: Problem on the pitch and funny English writing

Uhhh…. this is just funny.  We’ve all seen this happen- well, at least most of us have witnessed a vandal’s work on an athletic field.  Most vandals write their team’s name on an opponent’s field or write something juvenile on the field.  Some, however, draw something you might find in a biology textbook in Oxford.  [...]

Texas Tech coach bans Twitter after team tweets his tardiness

Texas Tech coach Mike Leach loves Pirates. What he doesn’t love is being called out on Twitter for failing to show up on time. Leach, according to the Sporting News, banned the social networking tool after one of his players, linebacker Marlon Williams, wrote and published the following tweet:

Not very smart, but very [...]

FOX-TV in Chicago told not to air negative story on Olympics

This is disturbing at the highest level- or at least it should be to any journalist. Drudge is reporting that Chicago’s FOX television affiliate was told not air a report that some residents of the city are against the municipality’s bid to host the Olympics. The report has aired once, but the news [...]

Newspapers and porno providers share same problem

You just can’t escape the bad economy these days, however, unsound business practices when times were good have hurt once mighty empires… of news and porn. Yes, legitimate media and websites you can’t share with your kids are suffering from the same problem- they’ve been expecting to survive while giving away their product for [...]

Two things dudes love

Women and football.  Swear to God.  The two have finally been combined the right way- not the way the two always have been put together.
You know- especially you married guys who want to watch the NFL on Sundays.
“Honey, come do the dishes.”
“You love the television more than me.”
“Help me clean the house”
“Take the dogs out, [...]

College football reference in JFK’s Moon speech at Rice

Who knew that John F. Kennedy mentioned college football in his speech where he set the goal of reaching the Moon before the Russians.  I’m kind of a nerd, so anytime I run across a story about the Apollo project, I have to read it.  And guess what?  It comes right back to sports.  Pretty [...]