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Keith Olbermann goes Girls-Gone-Wild as he uncovers the new Yankee Stadium with his handy handheld video camera.
Referring to his journey through wet concrete as a “*double-secret* tour“, he records the first public video of the David Ortiz jersey hole, among some of the other previously unknown features of the billion-dollar-plus ballpark. Read more…
FANHOUSE notes the difficulties of working for a student newspaper covering big-time college sports. (See, kids, it’s not just the adults taking crap!) THE DAILY TEXAN sports writers have taken quite a bit of abuse for reporting student-athlete arrests, receiving veiled and really-not-so-veiled threats from the Athletics Department, students, and boosters.
FANHOUSE also adds this isn’t even the first Big 12 school to take abuse from the local teams, citing Bo Pelini’s snit fit against THE DAILY NEBRASKAN.
Another member of the AOL blogging family has the solution and we’re here to get these crazy kids together. FANHOUSE, meet TV SQUAD. They spotted ABC NEWS putting bureaus on five university campuses for graduate students and upperclassmen to participate in, creating stories for ABC NEWS online and for television. Guess which university is on that list?
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O Canada, wait till you hear this: tickets to those Buffalo Bills games in Toronto will run you a pretty loonie. Like, say, a gaggle of them. Toronto has just received a snow job of international proportions.
Unless you scoop up one of the few US$55 seats near the Aurora Borealis in Rogers Centre, start considering which of your children you will miss least when sold to gypsies to afford the tickets. Sideline seats near the end zone will run US$295. Prices for choice seats closer to the 50-yard line will run more, but no one dare mention the price yet.
(How much, ya hoser?)
Better yet! You’re not just buying one seat, lucky hosers. That’s the price for all eight games (three preseason and five regular season) over the next five seasons. Each. And you have to buy tickets for all eight games. No exceptions.
We believe how Toronto fans of the Bills must feel about the deal now that they’ve seen more of the fine print below where the Devil NFL made them sign:
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The University of Kentucky is infallible. All great things come from the University of Kentucky. The University of Kentucky has a wonderful plan for our lives. Blessed be the University of Kentucky. We shall never doubt her.
(Are the angry mobs gone? Can you still see the makeshift torches made from couch legs? No? Okay. Let’s start.)
(shh; the UK mob can still hear us when we type)
Jerry Tipton from the LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER has been nigh crucified for two recent articles (and accompanying podcasts) on new UK recruits, including one about UK head coach Billy Gillespe recruiting an eighth-grader. The abuse has grown so vehement that HERALD-LEADER editor Linda Austin felt she had to step in and defend Tipton.
In both articles, Tipton speaks to all parties involved in the issues (when available) and presents reactions in an even-handed manner. You can see the flaw in his approach.
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Let the Sturm und Drang continue.
Battle lines have been drawn on both sides of the Cedric Benson arrest, with both sides showing the savvy of average Americans regarding extended public media battles. In other words, they’re both screwing up in full view.
In response to pictures from a UT co-ed showing large black men partying with white women in an attempt to humanize Benson, the Travis County Sheriff’s Office launched a multimedia counterstrike with a video showing a fuzzy surveillance video of a compliant and demure large black man with his head hung following directions without “cockiness” noted in the police report during arrest.
Seriously, does either side know what they’ve got themselves into? The police undermined their case by showing a polite young man following directions and a naive young woman sandbagged her own friend accidentally by showing many Texans’ worst fears in full color.
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Bob Huggins experienced a dangerous landing at the Charlotte airport on Thursday - and that was after the plane had already safely landed.
SbBer Don gives us the heads up that the West Virginia basketball coach, who was coming to town to meet with Mountaineer alumni, tripped and cracked his cranium on the tarmac. The CHARLESTON DAILY MAIL has further details of Huggy’s hard fall. Read more…
• Darren Rovell of CNBC knows a close shave is a-Bruin for Boston hockey fans, as Gillette is on the cutting edge of Zamboni sponsorship.
• The BOSTON GLOBE lassos in word that Tom Brady would think it super if Gisele Bundchen dresses as Wonder Woman.
• GOSSIP ON SPORTS via HOCKEY BEAT splashes up some photos of Elisha Cuthbert frolicking in the surf with the Calgary Flames’ Dion Phaneuf.
• DEADSPIN receives rumors that Marvin Harrison may have some more skeletons in his clean-cut closet.
We’ll be getting the new Eagles cheerleaders’ bikini calendar - but only because we, too, care so deeply about preserving our Mother Earth.
• Stay Classy, Atlanta! Charles Barkley
