Starting Five
1. A pair of NFC coaches engage in a testy post-game handshake until one is Big Blue in the face. In other news, the 49ers beat the Lions last night, 27-19.
2. The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim definitely have the American League Rookie of the Year, and potentially MVP, in Mike Trout as well as a strong Cy Young contender in Jered Weaver. And then there’s Albert Pujols. The Detroit Tigers are blessed with the player most likely to challenge Trout for MVP honors as well as the league’s leading hitter, Miguel Cabrera, plus the MLB strikeout leader, Justin Verlander Max Scherzer. If the postseason began today, neither Los Angeles nor Detroit would be playing.
3. Troy and Sparta fall! Pan-Hellenic college football fans are astounded as both USC and Michigan State are bounced from the AP top ten.
“Remember, men, if your helmet comes off you must sit out the next battle.”
4. “Master”-piece: Paul Thomas Anderson’s film, The Master, is already being hailed as a classic. “Jeannie!”
5. The topless Duchess conflagration has consumed European debt as that continent’s biggest story. Our advice to the future queen of England: remain above the fray and keep a stiff upper nip.
Reserves
Do you mean to tell us that with all the cool wildlife indigenous to Brazil that they’ve chosen a three-banded armadillo as the World Cup 2014 mascot? Get it right for the 2016 Summer Games, Brasil!
Could it be that Jeremy Lin just prefers sleeping on living room furniture? (And why is a Hall of Fame basketball coach breaking this story?)
If only the Holy War, BYU versus Utah, had been decided because of a penalty called on the overzealousness of pilgrims. It nearly happened. The Cougars got a 15-yard gift when Ute fans rushed the field on the game’s final play, giving them a shot at a 36-yard game-winning field goal. Alas, Riley Stephenson’s kick struck the left upright and caromed harmlessly away. Still, this is why college football > NFL. Look at those fans going nuts over the outcome of a contest in September. And most of them don’t even have a fantasy team.
As the outcome had no bearing on the national championship, Ute fans were understandably apathetic.
The first anniversary of “Occupy Wall Street” seems like a good time to dredge up this video. “This is a good grassroots movement… for me to POOP on!”
Max Rice! Why do I get the feeling there’s a booker at Fox News who is now packing up his/her desk?
Boardwalk Empire made its season premiere last night on HBO. It’s the best New Jersey-based gangster show to appear on HBO since, well, the last one.
Amanda Bynes kerfuffle: We don’t know and we don’t care. NEXT!
Shouldn’t the Royal Family be maneuvering to suppress photos of England’s future king in this print shirt?
Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer shovels dirt on the grave of RIMM, which isn’t even dead yet. She’s Black-Burying them! Yes, if you are keeping score, Marissa Mayer has now made IAH! twice in the past three posts.
While doing highlights of the Cardinals-Patriots game on “The Blitz”, ESPN’s Chris Berman described a potential TD pass that just slipped out of the hands of tight end Rob Gronkowski by saying, “Mongo no catch football.” Hey, that was funny.
Larry David and Don Draper hit Fenway Park. How much would you love to see Jon Hamm appear in a story arc on “Curb?”
Today could be your last day to buy AAPL below $700. You’ve been warned.
This story, known in the industry as a “gamer”, was written on tight deadline. The Notre Dame-Michigan State game ended around 11 p.m. EST (or EDT, we never can remember) and it was probably close to an hour later when the scribe, Brian Hamilton, returned to the press box located in the upper stratosphere in East Lansing. Kids, please, please listen: THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD MAJOR IN ENGLISH AS OPPOSED TO JOURNALISM (actually, you should major in computer science but that’s another story).
We like Michelle Beadle. You like Michelle Beadle. We just wonder, though, whether Sam Flood and the other muckety-mucks high up on the NBC Sports food chain are enamored with this Twitter avatar pic.
As for yesterday’s Met Life spat, we’re with Greg Schiano. The game was not over. If you think you can afford to take the final play off at the Meadowlands, just talk to Herm Edwards (1977) or Dan Marino (1994).
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Never take a play off if you want to get to the playoffs. If any franchise should know this, it’s the Giants.
- Dan Marino’s fake spike TD crushed the Jets, who would lose this game and then their final four afterward in 1994.
Was it nice? No. Football isn’t supposed to be nice.