Big Lead Sports Bar

9/10/2007

The News

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--ESPN says that Pitt AD Jeff Long is headed for Arkansas. If you've ever heard any stories about Arkansas' athletic department, you know what kind of headaches he's in for.

--Tom Barrasso joins the Carolina Hurricanes.....as director of goaltender development.

--Howard Stern led off his Monday show by talking about Joe Paterno. I never knew that Howard's future brother-in-law was a Nittany Lion football player.
--Speaking of JoePa, he and his wife haven't seen a movie at a theater since "Titanic", and they just discovered a TV show called "MASH".

--Brady Quinn leads the Browns into the Post-Preseason

--If the Patriots are so awesome, why must they cheat?

--Michigan QB Chad Henne is ruled out of the big Wolverines-Notre Dame game. What's Michigan to do? He's been such a crucial part of their early season success.

--Anyone feel like reading an article about Russ Grimm?

--Look, it's the 2007 Big Ben action figure!



--Some Bill Cowher broadcasting highlights, courtesy of bigbennews.com :

Dan Marino on wearing a spit-shield while sitting next to Bill Cowher during their show -
"It was a gift from Ben Roethlisberger!"

Bill Cowher, during the same CBS pre-game show -
"There’s no doubt that Roethlisberger is going to have more leeway [under coach Mike Tomlin]."

Boomer Esiason, sitting next to the former Steelers coach, responds to Cowher's comment -
"It must be good for Ben Roethlisberger to actually have a coach that will trust him.''

--There's way too many Pirate hat appearances in this Chris Brown video. And by Chris Brown, I mean the rapper and not the Titans 175-yard rusher.

--More fallout from the MTV VMAs, including expanded coverage of the Britney disaster, video of Kid Rock and Tommy Lee's fight, and an angry Kanye West.

--Loyal reader Dave shares with us two rarities from his collection: a Pirate helmet signed by the one and only Raul Mondesi, and a Pirates program signed by Dave Littlefield AND Bob Nutting, surely a collector's item now.

--Here's the photo of the weekend in college football:

--Wondering how Shaq got to the Va Tech-LSU game, also known as Tragedy Bowl I? Wonder no more...


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

That guy in the Rutgers pic looks like Tom Green. Yes, the "my bum is on the rail" guy.

Rutgers = Slutgers.

Do you think that Alan Faneca is watching the Cardinals game tonight with his pants around his ankles?

"Oooh. There's Coach Wiz. He's my friend. And there's Coach Grimm. He's a good bean. I need a haircut."

P.O. said...

shaq might possibly be the coolest person in the world not named joey porter

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