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Hey, before you judge, they did just beat Auburn.
Les Miles is deliriously happy after his win on Saturday, and who can blame him? It’s a move that no doubt horrified Larry Johnson, but at least Miles didn’t use tongue. (If they beat Alabama, however, all bets are off).
Was that inappropriate? Anyway, following the jump, another dramatic example of an LSU man-on-man football celebration, in video form. Read more…
• Is ex-Laker Rick Fox calling it quits on his basketball broadcast career?
If so, could he bring his sister Jeanene onto the show before he goes?
• This Celtics-Bulls series is turning into an instant playoff classic.
• Trev Alberts: Form the TV analyst’s chair to the athletic director’s chair.
• Tommy Lasorda visits with the troops - but he’s not looking so well.
• Under Armour recalls over 200,000 athletic supporters. Well, ain’t that a shot to the balls.
The Twitter fad keeps growing & growing throughout the sports landscape. Athletes have used it to talk about getting into near-fights with the local populace, and to just say a simple hello to any fellow diners.
So it was only a matter of time before Twittering made its way into the college football ranks. And coaches are taking notice of the new technology. Like Les Miles, for instance.
Even though he has yet to coach a single game for the Tennessee Volunteers, Lane Kiffin is probably already my favorite coach in the SEC. Sure, he hasn’t won any national championships like Urban Meyer, Nick Saban, Les Miles, or Steve Spurrier, but in his first few months in Knoxville he’s already done more to entertain me than any of those guys and has won the national championship of my heart. Having a hot wife doesn’t hurt his case, either.
Whether it was the time Kiffin accused Urban Meyer of cheating when he wasn’t, or when he thought going topless would help recruit, or when he insulted the high school of a player he’d just landed at Tennessee, Lane is always finding a new way to make college football’s offseason fun. So when a story comes out from prized wide receiver recruit Alshon Jeffrey that Kiffin tried to convince him to come to Tennessee instead of South Carolina by telling him that he’d end up pumping gas if he became a Gamecock, well, you know it’s true.
There are many ways for a coach to deal with a tough loss. Most involve profanity, raised voices, and a hair-trigger temper, ready to unload a fusillade of invective at that miserable fat piece of f*cksh*t who missed on that block in the third quarter and let the defensive end decapitate the star QB. That’s usually how a loss goes. But longtime Ohio State coach and opponent-puncher Woody Hayes had his own way of dealing with the stress of a loss: conducting post-game interviews naked.
(OSU wins, and the pants stay on… for now.)
That got us to wondering, though: Seeing Woody Hayes give an interview while buck naked would be repulsive. But it could probably get worse, yes? Of course it could; Hayes is hardly the worst-physiqued man in college football history. So after the break, we present the 5 worst coaches to see naked in college football today. Buckle up, bulimics; today’s your lucky day.
How great must it be to be a top high school football prospect in Texas? The world is at your feet, and so are the big universities who will do anything to make sure you attend their school. Anything.
Jamarcus McFarland is a highly rated defensive tackle who just selected Oklahoma over Texas, which I’m sure is huge news in Norman, but even bigger news for the rest of us because of the window it gives on the sordid recruiting process, which at Texas takes the form of a party with “free alcohol, drugs and young women taking off their clothes.” (More examples after the jump, which means I know I’ll see you on the other side.)
I’m sure Mike Stoops is really excited about this one. As Stoops gets his Arizona football team ready for the biggest game of his coaching career, vs. USC on Saturday, ESPN’s Dick Vitale reported earlier today that Arizona Basketball Coach Lute Olson “is stepping down as the school’s men’s basketball coach.”
(Bald story-breakers keeping things interesting for ESPN this week)
In other words, no one in Tucson now cares about Saturday’s football game.
But while Vitale has staked his reputation on the story - culled from a “source,” the UA athletic department is wholly denying it. Though curiously, Olson has not made a public statement since Vitale’s report.
So what’s really going on? Read more…
Maybe praying for Tim Tebow works after all. Certainly, any prayers for LSU coach Les Miles fell flat, as the Tigers were whacked 51-21 by Tebow’s Florida Gators in a match-up of the last two BCS national champions. At least Miles didn’t get struck by lightening, so maybe your prayers helped after all.
Florida went up 20-0 early, and after allowing LSU to close to 20-14 early in the third quarter, Tebow was able to steady the ship and the Gators rattled off 21 unanswered points to put the game well out of reach.
• The Green Bay Packers are willing to part with $20 million just to keep Brett Favre back at home in Mississippi.
• Some S.O.B. steals a poor kid’s wheelchair during a Twins game.
• Les Miles knows how to roll with Snoop Dogg. Geaux Tigers, fo’ shizzle!
• An Olympic journalist pleases his palate with a meal of animal penises.
• Oh, Pudge! Analyzing the Ivan Rodriguez-Kyle Farnsworth trade.
I thought Snoop Dogg and David Beckham kicking it together was weird. But after watching the post-jump video in which Les Miles is “humpin’ and scrumpin’” and “all over the glass” a few times, I’m not even sure what I think anymore.
Of course, when FRIENDS OF THE PROGRAM rolled up the news that Snoop appeared at a Rotary Club meeting with Les Miles while wearing an LSU jersey, I kind of figured we were already a few miles into bat country.
