We just came across this story about two women who claimed they were discriminated against by Southwest Airlines employees because they were too pretty.

Nisreen Swedberg, a student at South Florida, and her friend Sarah Williams, claim that the flight attendants were rude to them based on a don’t-hate-me-because-I’m-beautiful theory.

Here’s a quote from Williams: “I mean, nobody else on the plane looked like us except us. [The flight attendants] were like older ladies. We were younger. Who knows, they could have been just jealous of us because we were younger.” Read the rest of this entry »

Seeing as the season ended on Monday for Presbyterian College men’s basketball team, we would like to commend the team (nicknamed Blue Hose) on quite a remarkable season.

The Blue Hose do not play in a conference, so their schedule was a random mix of teams.  Along the way to posting a 5-25 record, the Blue Hose lost to the like of Clemson, Nebraska, Georgia, and Wake Forest.

But here’s what is remarkable about the season: Presbyterian compiled a record of 5-0 at home, while going 0-25 on the road.  One could assume that had Presbyterian found a way to play many more homes games, they might be looking at an at-large berth in the NCAA Tournament.

It really is impressive to us.  On top of that 5-0 home make, the Blue Hose won their home games by an average of 33 points per game.   However, on the road they lost by, er -  actually they lost too many road games, and we didn’t have time to crunch the numbers.   But we’re guessing it was a double-digit number.

So, our congratulations go out to Presbyterian and their leading scorer Al’Lonzo Coleman on completing a season we will be talking about for years to come.

We read a few weeks back that South Carolina hoops coach Dave Odom will be retiring at the end of the season.  What follows is our plea to his players to step it up the last 4 games of the season and send Odom out in style.

Look, fellas, you are checking in right now at 12-14, 4-8 in the conference.  You have 4 games left in the regular season, plus at least 1 game in the SEC tournament.  You must somehow find a way to get your record to .500! Read the rest of this entry »

For their game Saturday night, Indiana Hoosiers basketball players wrote the initials “K.S.” on all their sneakers to honor Kelvin Sampson, their recently fired head coach.

We agree that this was a better way to honor Sampson than their initial plan… blatantly break the rules during the game and then lie to the referees about what they had done.

We have recently come across another terrific piece of evidence explaining why Duke is so hated… because even when the Blue Devils are “bad,” they are still better than most teams out there.

Hear us out. Read the rest of this entry »

Hey Alanis Morisette, how is this for irony?

Sesquipedalophobia = Fear of long words.

***It’s not having 10,000 spoons and needing a knife, but we think it would have added a nice touch to the song.

It’s been quite some time since we handed out any awards here.  Then we read a story that screamed out for the Gob Bluth “I’ve Made A Huge Mistake” Award.

And so, then winner of the Gob Bluth “I’ve Made A Huge Mistake” Awards is… Thomas Ballard!

Congratulations.

As it turns out, Ballard, of Delhi, LA, was attempting to call a friend to brag about his X-Box skills.  Instead, he accidentally dialed the wrong number and freaked out the recipient of the call when he blurted, “I have killed them all.” Read the rest of this entry »

We don’t like to make predictions here at CIV.  There are too many people out there throwing out why this team will win that event - we prefer to not get mixed up in all that.  But, after some heated discussion and crunching of the numbers, we felt obligated to make the following prediction regarding the NCAA Tournament.  You might want to sit down for this…

THE IVY LEAGUE IS ONLY A ONE-BID LEAGUE THIS YEAR. Read the rest of this entry »