Archive for the 'Sports' Category

THAT’S THE BIG TEN FOLKS

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

BORING FOOTBALL?
Couple has sex in bathroom as crowd cheered them on and their significant others watched Minnesota-Iowa game
Football fans found action to cheer in Metrodome loo
By John Brewer
jbrewer@pioneerpress.com
Updated: 11/26/2008 10:35:22 AM CST
A couple of University of Iowa fans took a break from Saturday’s game at the Metrodome against the University of Minnesota to have some […]

THE KID CAN PLAY

Monday, November 24th, 2008

DID YOU AGREE WITH THE DISPOSITION?
Kid can play football
Matthew B. Stannard, Chronicle Staff Writer
Monday, November 24, 2008
(11-24) 17:33 PST OAKLAND — An Alameda County judge ruled today that the organization that oversees high school sports in California violated state law when it found a Placer County foster child ineligible to play football because of a […]

RUTGERS, DEAR OLD RUTGERS, SELLS ITS SOUL FOR A MESS OF POTTAGE–FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES

Monday, November 24th, 2008

NEW YORK TIMES
November 24, 2008
EDITORIAL
The Rutgers Mess
Rutgers, the biggest and most important public university in New Jersey, has spent millions of dollars furthering its ambition to become a major football power that might otherwise have been devoted to academics. It has done so during a period of rising tuition and budgetary cutbacks in academic departments, […]

HERE’S A SPORT CONUNDRUM

Monday, November 24th, 2008

WHAT WOULD YOU DO ABOUT THIS SITUATION?
AN INTERESTING AND TROUBLING CASE STUDY THAT SAYS A LOT ABOUT HOW HIGH SCHOOL SPORT IS NOW BECOMING MORE AND MORE PROFESSIONAL IN SCOPE……
FROM THE SF CHRONICLE AND MATTHEW STANNARD
High school football playoffs halted by judge
Matthew B. Stannard, Chronicle Staff Writer
Monday, November 24, 2008
High school football has […]

SPORTSMANSHIP AT NOTRE DAME……EH?

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

THE AP COPYRIGHTED THIS, BUT HERE IT IS ANYWAY…..
South Bend fans shower Notre Dame players, police with snowballs
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Notre Dame football players were pelted by snowballs from fans sitting in the student section during their loss to Syracuse on Saturday.
“To throw snowballs at their own team, I didn’t think that was a […]

HARVARD BEATS YALE 29-29

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

MOVIE REVIEW, FROM THE NY TIMES
November 19, 2008
Back in 1968, When a Tie Was No Tie
By MANOHLA DARGIS
For most of the world, I suspect, the year 1968 signifies upheaval, revolution, power to the people, Vietnam and My Lai, Paris in flames, Martin and Bobby, Nixon versus Humphrey. Another great rivalry played out that year in […]

Here is your college athletic program, TV related, and nothing else–another sign that the apocalypse is upon us..

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

RAY RATTO IN THE SF CHRONICLE, ON ST. MARY’S BASKETBALL….
THERE REALLY IS NO EXCUSE FOR THIS…..
BUT THE SCENE IS WHAT UNIVERSITY SPORT IN THE U.S. HAS NOW BECOME.
Gaels stay up late to serve ESPN, and defeat Fresno State
Ray Ratto, Chronicle Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Three hours before Saint Mary’s College obeyed its alien overlords in […]