After reading this blurb about Auburn’s new recruiting limo, we have but one comment…

Coach Gene Chizik: All the subtlety and class of Caddyshack’s Al Czervik, but without those annoying consonants.

If so, it’s a pretty sad irony.  Generally, we don’t like to venture too far outside of the realm of sports, but…

We just found it interesting how on Friday night one of the big stories for the Cavs-Pistons playoff game was how tickets were going for just $11 and how the Pistons were sending emails to Cavs season ticketholders offering seats in Detroit and how the economy downturn has hit the area so hard that fans just can’t afford to come out in support of the home team.

Then, late Friday night, the 0-16 Detroit Lions reached a deal to pay $72 million ($40 million guaranteed) to a 21 year-old quarterback who has never taken an NFL snap.

(We think we have an idea where a large chunk of the money in the city of Detroit is going.)

It was only a few months ago, but somehow it seems like everyone has forgotten.  This article we just found was dated January 16th - three months ago.  But on Saturday, not one mention of the jerk that is Pete Carroll.  The USC coach totally threw his QB, Mark Sanchez, under the bus when Sanchez announced he was going pro.  Comments such as this were what came from Carroll’s mouth: “The facts are so strong against this decision.  After analyzing all the information, the truth is there — he should’ve stayed for another year.”

And now, all the facts - at least as far as the draft goes - are out there.  The New York Jets had the 17th pick.  They traded 2 picks plus 3 players to the Cleveland Browns - why? To draft a quarterback that Carroll seemed to think was making a huge mistake.  Yeah, Pete, good call!  Sanzhez went so low in the draft that Carroll must feel vindicated - um, actually he should feel like jackass.  Sanchez went 5th overall to the Jets.  A professional football organization decided that Sanchez was such an excellent prospect that they would make a big time trade in an effort to pick him as their QB of the future.  And yes, it’s the same Sanchez that three months ago Carroll said: “Mark’s chance to increase his value and become the top player in college football next year would have been worth $10-$20 million or more — likely more.”

Maybe Sanchez could have stayed one more year and made a bit more money.  But there is no doubt he 100% made the right decision in coming out when he did. Is it worth injuring yourself (as he had done in the past) in an extra year of college for the chance to move from the 5th pick to the 3rd?  No way.  Is it possible that Carroll is far more selfish than people give him credit for and was and that his start quarterback would not stick around for 11 more wins at USC?  Very likely.

But for all the sports writers out there that love to criticize college coaches (i.e. Pat Forde) - where are you now?  Sure, Carroll may not have agreed with Sanchez’s decision, but should you really say publicly that your player is not ready?  Aren’t you just doing your damnedest to submarine his chance of success.  Of course you are.  So why not call him out?  Especailly now, as he was completely in the wrong.   Matt Leinart stuck around one year too long, and look where it got him.

We just came across a commercial on ESPN to promote ESPN Radio.  You have probably seen this one - it has the local guy making some comments about gladiators, then they cut to Mike Golic and Mike Greenberg.  In theory, this guy is supposed to be much happier getting Mike and Mike versus his local guy.

We have two major problems with this: (1) the local guy they are mocking utters the line, “It will be a tornado inside a volcano” - how is that line not awesome?  We would absolutely love a radio guy that spouts off phrases like that.  And (2) Mike and Mike suck.  Have you ever listened to these two?  They get on one topic, then harp on it for no less than 40 minutes of every hour.  You cannot handle Mike and Mike for more than about 10 minutes.  Just not tolerable.

SO we say, give us the freakin’ tornado inside a volcano any day.

Folks in Virginia got quite a scare last month with a flash in the sky, leading to this AP headline:

“Explosions, Fireballs in Virginia Skies May Have Been Russian Rocket”

Then, just this week, they were told that Pavel Bure retired in 2005. Thus, it was likely just a meteor.

And now we bring you the second installment of “Larry the Lawyer” - a Matthew Dukes Production.

After reading about how Washington Nationals outfielder Elijah Dukes was benched and fined $500 for showing up five minutes late for warm-ups due to the fact that he was at a Little League charity event, we shudder to think what happened to the guy who forgot to put the “O” on their jerseys.

NCAA Basketball : Teams only playing in a dome venue when the national title is on the line ::

Miss USA Pageant : Winner picked by the likes of Kenan Thompson and Perez Hilton