Nitt Picks Is Hip To Your Jive, Son

Dad = Uncle Levi

He’s trying to play basketball. Keyword, trying.

but I’m happy they are making an effort at substantive content. I agree, though, the actual tech side could use some work.

Now we actually get news about the team instead of just a library of videos.

Has anyone ever seen the Behind the Music about R.V.W.? Wow, so awesome! Apparantly, at one point, he claims that Suge Knight hung him from a hotel balcony by his ankles, which he later contradicts by denying the whole thing in the same episode. And of course there is his infamous explanation on the glaring differences between “Ice Ice Baby” and “Under Pressure.” Man, that show was so great!

He’s a baseball writer who’s lived in Kansas City since 1993. You should be proud he still writes instead of stabbing himself with a pen sometime before two Royals outfielders collided on a routine out and sometime after Ken Harvey was the Royals All-star selection.

The point on the 2009 Royals and quitting is very poignant. Fans of the Royals thought they had put it together, that they would be somewhere in the 80-85 win range, that it would be entertaining ball if not championship baseball—but they’re on pace for another last place finish. After almost two decades of this, I think the fans are just starting to quit. The investment just hasn’t paid off, and a great baseball city is at its end.

But aren’t these two completely different sports that we’re talking about here? Also, since when did Syracuse join the Big Ten? What an asinine article.

When I saw the link in Kevin’s post, I figured the Paulus article was some joke blog post or something. Bleacher Report is painfully bad.

I don’t mean for this to come off like a personal attack, but are you high on crack? The fact that College Football can be the only gateway for kids who are ‘borderline’ to get a college education isn’t a flaw in how Penn State is running their program- it’s one of the things that makes College Football so great.

Remember the big hullabaloo a couple of years ago when somebody (I think it was Fisher DeBerry) made a comment about being limited in the recruits he could pursue, and everybody branded him a racist? JoePa sat down for an interview with John Saunders late that season, and gave the best explanation I think I’ve ever heard- it’s not a question of race or anything like that… it’s a matter of some kids wanting it more than others. A kid who comes from a college-educated home in a nice, quiet suburban neighborhood isn’t necessarily going to be the best player, because he won’t have had to work as hard to get where he is. There have probably been hundreds of kids in Joe’s tenure who were close to not qualifying academically, but Joe wanted to give them a shot to be the first one in their family to go to college and get a degree. Anybody who doesn’t get that must think the whole ‘Molder of Men’ line is just idle words, and their opinion can’t be worth much.

For starters, academic issues are easy to gauge: you have grades and test scores. Character issues are very difficult to gauge: kids are young, in specific environments they won’t be in in college (good and bad), etc.

I don’t have any problem with recruiting kids with grade issues as long as they are taken care of i.e. DC17, and as long as the focus is on graduating and not just keeping them afloat while they are useful to the football team. Paterno’s graduation record is stellar, and that’s part of why I’m okay with this.

The OTL thing was a character accusation, that we were taking on fightin’ drinkin’ trouble makers, and we weren’t before, and that the coaches knew they were doing this. This was obviously bullshit.

exactly.

developed a desal engine that runs on salt water? How many mpg does it get?

Wow.