Here's a sampling of headlines from AOL Tuesday night:
"Tim Floyd plays peacemaker in catfight"
"West faces six weapons charges" (yes, that would be our own Delonte)
"Arkansas basketball players face new inquiry into rape allegations"
But … no murders, assaults or forged checks.
Well … since you're all part of my life now … I feel compelled to update you on the Fantasy Football question I asked this week:
This was my team heading into the week:
QB — Jay Cutler, Matt Schaub, Matt Stafford, Shaun Hil
RB — Willie Parker, Marshawn Lynch, Correll Buckhalter and Chris Wells.
WR — Anquan Boldin, [...]
So I've got a Fantasy team that is woefully short of running backs, but pretty well stocked at receiver.
I've been offered Steve Slaton of Houston for Randy Moss of New England.
I throw it open for discussion. Do you make the deal?
(Please respond by early this afternoon … league rules require this trade be completed by [...]
Folks, I post links just because they're interesting. Some interest me more than others, some I think will spur discussion. I hope nobody takes them personally.
But … in the interest of being more positive I present the real reason Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize today (though the woman in the front does not [...]
A friend texted me this link and called it the most amazing story of the year. I cannot disagree. It has to be a joke, no? And please … let's go easy on the "frozen rope" cracks.
Who the hell is Tila Tequila anyway?
And could she hold a candle to Adriana Lima before she got married and broke the heart of a dumpy Irish sportswriter?
Noticed that Charles Gibson is giving up the broadcast on ABC. He’ll be replaced by Diane Sawyer. Sawyer is kind of to ABC what Sting used to be to the NFL. Any time the NFL needed someone, they’d bring Sting out to sing, even if it was like the 38th time in the past three [...]
The latest internet craze is to go through a person’s story and pick through it line by line until nothing is left but some bones and hanging cartilage. Consider my bones picked over. This is all well and good, and in fact it feels like some sort of right of passage. One caveat everyone should [...]
I’ve been up, down and all-around the web today. And I can’t find a lot to blog about. There’s the death of Ted Kennedy. His loss is great, but that’s a tad political. There’s preseason football; good Lord, preseason football. There’s the Cavs, who start in 34 days. There’s the Indians. Yes, there’s the Indians. [...]
Basket Case, by the man himself … Now this is art …
My baby is a basket case
A bi-polar mama in leather and lace
Face like an angel
She's a perfect waste
My baby is a basket case
Dracula's daughter
Calamity Jane
Smoke on the water
Water on the brain
She's pretty as a picture and totally crazed
My baby is a basket case
She's gonna [...]
Every time I hear Sinatra sing Summer Wind I want to go rent "The Pope of Greenwich Village" and watch it one more time.
“Nothing hurts as much as you think it will. You go numb… then you wrap your belt around your wrist and get to the nearest hospital.”
Classic.
My daughter Janie asks: What kind of world would it be without Goldfish?
Of course she means the crackers.
Now THIS is the kind of question the world needs to answer.
It's vacation time of year again folks, and after Sunday I'll be off for two weeks. Taking my daughters someplace very special.
So I ask … and please respond in the spirit of the question … do you the kind readers of this drog care to be updated on the trip? Sights, sounds, ins, outs, castles, [...]
The Roy Halladay trade rumors have taken on a Francisco-Franco-is-dead-the-British-are-still-sailing-to-the-Falklands quality. It's time for it to end so we can all get on with our life without the seven daily and breathless Halladay updates.
This arrived in the e-mailbox today … time to change the vacation plans:
The 10th annual Motorsports Marketing Forum Moves to Las Vegas
For the first time in its 10-year history, the Motorsports Marketing Forum (MMF) will be headed west!
The Raiders have a marketing deal with a Malaysian Airlines that does not even fly to the United States. Planes are decorated in Raider logos, Raider scenes and … yes … Raiderettes.
I promised myself I'd never do an Erin Andrews post. Promise broken.
She should be steamed. Completely, totally, absolutely and insanely angry.
As ESPN said: "Erin has been grievously wronged here."
The story: Some nut job posted a video online that purports to be taken through a peephole in a hotel room door that shows Andrews sans clothing.
Andrews is [...]
I have an ethical and logistic dilemma in my life: How does one get rid of garbage cans? Where I live, the local garbage company decided our old Home Depot cans would not work anymore, so they gave us these monstrosities, one for recycling, one for trash. They have more square feet than most bathrooms [...]
Paul McCartney was Dave's guest, and it was really cool (great writing there!). Come on, Paul McCartney.
OK, the hair dye job is pretty awful. And he’s not John Lennon, but he’s still an original Beatle, and he did the interview in the same theater where he first appeared in the U-S-of-A in 1964: The Ed Sullivan [...]
Sean May. Scott May. John, Paul, George and Richard. Alan pointed out that I put Scott May in the headline of a previous post. I’ve had this problem before. A couple years ago I wrote about the Bulls drafting Yannick Noah. A friend pointed out his forehand would be welcome, but it was the wrong [...]