Thank goodness that the Cincinnati Bearcats play in the Big East and not the Pac-10. Otherwise, we assume that the Pac-10 refs would have had “no choice” but to flag Bearcat wideout Mardy Gilyard for a personal foul for taking his helmet off on this play.

The iron fist of Roger Goodell is at it again. We have received word, after reading this story, that NFL Commissioner Goodell is prohibiting Dan Linscomb of Texas City from watching the next two Dallas Cowboys games. Linscomb was arrested in Atlanta when his wife had a bite off his plate at an Iron Skillet buffet, and he refused to pay for a full meal for her. He was charged with theft of services, and Goodell will not tolerate that kind of insolence.

While Lipscomb is not an NFL player, Goodell has stated that his power knows no bounds. Hence, Linscomb will not be able to watch his beloved Cowboys take on the Giants or the Redskins. Goodell also noted that had Linscomb been a Patriots fan, then no punishment would have been handed down.

We do think that Goodell was out of line in suspending Linscomb from watching two games. But after we saw a photo of the spoon Linscomb’s wife was using for her “couple bites,” it might have been warranted.

We have it on good authority that the weather was used merely as a cover-up to stop Game 5 of the World Series in the 6th inning.  Apparently, the famous tenor Ronan Tynan was slated to sing “God Bless America” during the 7th inning stretch, much like he does in Yankee Stadium, only he was nowhere to be found.  That is, until late last night when Tynan was discovered passed out on the curb next to Geno’s Steaks with Cheez-Whiz all over his white starched shirt.

As it turns out, owner Joe Vento’s love for American and the English language sparked this incident, as he promised Tynan a free cheese steak every time he sang “God Bless America” in front of the shop.  The situation could have been much worse for Tynan, had it not taken him 3 minutes and 54 seconds to get through the song each time.

With the situation now under control, Game 5 is set to resume in the bottom of the 6th inning later tonight.

We recently came across this article about Texas Tech coach Mike Leach potentially using as his kicker this week a guy who won a halftime contest at a game earlier in the season. Apparently, Matt Williams made a 30-yard kick to win a contest a few weeks back and Leach decided he might be their best option to put one through the uprights.

Our inside source managed to get a word with Coach Leach and ask him how he was able to get Williams to agree to even try-out for the team. Leach’s answer was quite in depth:

“Well, uh, we went somewhere causal to begin with because you don’t want something real formal in the beginning. So, for some place casual, I chose Cagle’s’s Steakhouse, which is very casual. The other thing that’s great about it is there’s very little salad there at Cagle’s, so the my potential place kicker was forced to eat in front of me, which is something that I hear kickers hate. But if you can make them do it, then the earlier the better - the more they’ll conversate and show their true self and make extra points. I’m a big movie guy - I was hoping to do it the way I did when I was Matt’s age, going to the Stars and Stripes drive-in theater because that’s what they had in Cody, Wyoming. But no drive-ins here that I could find. Otherwise, the movie theater was pretty good, but I wanted to end it somewhere at some cool coffee shop kind of place where there’s bizarre-looking characters going in and out, so in case the conversation wasn’t going well I could reference some of the different characters you see coming and going from the place. And then since it was a huge night and we were really having a good time, we tried to trade, uh, computer schemes and emails and all that mischief people are up to nowadays, but those are things which I know nothing about.”

We are delighted to see that Coach Leach followed his own advice. And we really hope this new kicker works out for the Red Raiders. Confused? Check the video below…

Interactive Tuesday has been revived!  We thought it was dead after ESPN decided to place Rece Davis and company on the scene a few weeks back.  But Todd Harris and Ray Bentley were back this Tuesday for the awesome match-up between Ohio and Temple.

We’re starting with the first quick highlight, as apparently Temple was doing things a little differently.  We’re not sure if this strategy will work, but the Temple crowd was trying a “pink out” in an effort to wipeout breast cancer awareness.  Hang on, what?

Yes, thank you for that moment Todd Harris.  Putting an end to breast cancer awareness is a worthy cause!

We’d like to give some quick praise to our favorite mustache in college football.  That’s right, Dave Wannstedt.

Congratulations, coach, on winning your first ever college game following a bye week!  Yep, Wannstedt had been 0-5 in his previous 5 games following a bye.  But that streak was broken with a resounding 42-21 win over Navy on Saturday.  We know, 1-5 never felt so good.

Wannstedt: “Thank you, thank you very much.”

If Joseph Heller was still alive today, we think he would be amused by the current rankings system in college football. Of course, Heller was the brilliant author of the book Catch-22. For example, here’s a passage from that great work:

“Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane he had to fly them.”

You see, these lines remind us of the way the BCS works. The pre-season ranking don’t matter at all, except that they really do. Make sense? This year in college football is an excellent example of how messed up the college football ranking system really is.

If you look at the pre-season rankings for this year’s top-5 in the BCS, here’s what you will find… Read the rest of this entry »

We weren’t aware of this, but apparently those awful Buffalo Wild Wings commercials are filmed live. You know, the ones where the manager brings in the bad pitcher, or the ref sends the football game into overtime. Yep, filmed live. How else do you explain this?