Rich Rod out at Michigan?

Coach O(fer)SU - in Hawaii

He finally makes a bowl game, and this is the thanks he gets? I know his team got blown off the field, but look at The Ohio State University -- they have become a Division II team to the SEC, and no one in Columbus is screaming about Jim Tressel.  Well, at least not until later tonight?

Michigan took three years to come up with an excellent offense because that’s how long it took Rodriguez to recruit the players to run it. Now, if it’s true, they scrap that for the next guy. Even if the next coach really is Jim Harbaugh, well, it’ll be another 5 years of sub .500 teams and getting punked by the Buckeyes, the Spartans, and in any bowl games the Wolverines are lucky enough to make.

Good luck with your Michigan guy, Michigan.

Favre and Jets Sued Again

I have two questions right away, the first being that in the one season that Brett Favre spent with the Jets, how many massage therapists did they employ? (I want to know when this entire story will finally be done?  I mean, doesn't Brett need to channel his inner Tiger Wooods here, or what?)  The second question is, did Brett just text, or did he send along snapshots too?


Nothing to say here


I ask that one because I was speaking with a male friend and co-worker today about the allegations that Favre sent pictures of little brett to Jen Sterger. My friend said it was his understanding that "Women are not excited by seeing those kinds of pictures, and that only an idiot would do something like that."  I am going to ask him to conduct a poll for the blog.  (If I do ask him, please send "Speedy Recovery Cards" and flowers to the Fletcher Allen Hospital in Burlington, Vermont.)

Last question is aren’t all of us hoping that Brett really does go back to Mississippi, and stays there for a good, long while?

Texas Rangers Signing Adrian Beltre?
Being the last good-sized fish in a shallow, and mostly (big) fished out market counts for a lot – like $96 MM over 6 years, apparently.

Many baseball fans can recall the fabulous year Beltre had with the Dodgers in 2004.  It got him a huge contract from Seattle. He never came close to that 48 homer, 121 RBI, and .334 average '04 season with the Mariners, but the 25/90/.270 version wasn’t awful. When Boston signed him, it was a good signing. I have to think Beltre has managed to parlay another above average year into another way above average contract. I like Texas, so I hope it works out, but I suspect they’ll get the ’05 through ’09 Beltre. And you know, that may be enough?

NFL Bloody Monday


Another one lost, Norv?

 I know that some NFL Head Coaches kept their jobs because of the pending new agreement between the owners and players, but how does Norv Turner keep his job? Is it all because he’s (GM) A. J. Smith’s boy? Sounds like an ownership problem, doesn’t it?



NY Mets Sign Buchholz
I wonder if any aged Red Sox fans saw that headline and went into cardiac arrest before finding out it was Taylor Buchholz, not Clay Buchholz? Of course those that didn’t ‘have the big’ one with that news may have felt some heart palpitations when they found out about the Chris Capuano signing?

Love stinks

In all fairness, I think both are good signings. Experienced bullpen help (Taylor) is a good thing for 600K, and there were signs late last season that maybe Capuano was finally healthy again? He was a good pitcher in ’05 and ’06, and for the $1.5 MM guaranteed that NY is giving him, it’s worth the shot. After all, do Met Fans really want to see Sandy Alderson give Carl Pavano 3-years and $36 MM, or whatever it is he wants?

2011 PGA Season Begins Thursday

I love golf, but until we get to Augusta in mid-April…sssnnnzzz...

It is beautiful, isn't it?  Amen.