I'm still in a little shaken by the Xavier Johnson news -- this photo of him on a scooter is especially awkward. With XJ now out of the mix (at least for the rest of 2015), the Buffs are pegged to start the season without four of the six best players from a year ago, when before they were only expecting to be without one. Ugh!
Ski's graduation is (obviously) not a surprise, but the twist transfers of Jaron Hopkins and Dustin Thomas loom even larger now that Xavier is hurt. Those are veteran performers that could've been counted on to eat up extra minutes. Now, the roster is left with a number of questions that we were not expecting them to have to answer. I still believe that the program is in store for a bounce-back season, but I'm starting to wonder how high that bounce will be...
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Today in the bag, I'm talking the Women's World Cup, the NBA Draft, and Top Gear's melancholic farewell.
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Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Colorado Burning
I hope all in Buff Nation are staying clear of the score of fires raging
through the state. The sight of the Flastaff Fire poking its hellish
nose over the Flatirons Tuesday evening was one of the most unsettling images I've seen
in quite a while.
Luckily, Boulder was spared the horror of a wildfire
spilling down the mountain, and into populated areas. Colorado Springs
wasn't so lucky, and the scenes from the Waldo Canyon Fire defy description.
All told there have been more than a dozen wildfires started this month, affecting all corners of the state. My thoughts and prayers go out to those affected by all the fires. THANK YOU (!!!!!) to all the firefighters throughout the region who continue to put their lives on the line to protect our homes and communities. If you'd like to help the victims of the fires, please check out helpcoloradonow.org
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| YOU SHALL NOT PASS! |
All told there have been more than a dozen wildfires started this month, affecting all corners of the state. My thoughts and prayers go out to those affected by all the fires. THANK YOU (!!!!!) to all the firefighters throughout the region who continue to put their lives on the line to protect our homes and communities. If you'd like to help the victims of the fires, please check out helpcoloradonow.org
Monday, April 9, 2012
Quick Post: ... and I would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't those pesky recruiting violations
Ah Baylor. Once again you've crossed into my consciousness with your outright dickishness.
Over the past few years Baylor, once the athletic laughing stock of the American Southwest, suddenly became a Waco behemoth, seemingly capable of no wrong on the court. Football? Check. Men's hoops? Check. Women's basketball? Double-check. A combined 80 wins this past season in football, mens and womens basketball set an NCAA record. Sic 'em, indeed.
Of course, everyone knew, with a wink and a nudge, that Baylor had accomplished these feats with typical SWC aplomb (read: they cheated), but the proof was lacking. That is, it was lacking until today.
Finally getting around to it, the NCAA has let it be known that the saintly Baptists in Central Texas are just as scum ridden as the rest of us heathens. 1,671 acts of impermissible contact with recruits across nine different sports (including equestrian!), the illegal hiring of recruiting services, and an assistant coach encouraging witnesses to lie? Not very Christian of you, Baylor. The NCAA even threw in the old "failure to monitor" chestnut to top the sundae off.
The Bears tried to sweep this all under the rug by self imposing a few extra recruiting silent periods and a few empty scholarships. However, since the mens basketball program was still under probation when some of these major violations were alleged to have taken place, we might just hear more about this in the coming months.
No wonder El Jefe and his millions of "Pac-12 Funbucks"© wanted nothing to do with them two years ago.
Over the past few years Baylor, once the athletic laughing stock of the American Southwest, suddenly became a Waco behemoth, seemingly capable of no wrong on the court. Football? Check. Men's hoops? Check. Women's basketball? Double-check. A combined 80 wins this past season in football, mens and womens basketball set an NCAA record. Sic 'em, indeed.
Of course, everyone knew, with a wink and a nudge, that Baylor had accomplished these feats with typical SWC aplomb (read: they cheated), but the proof was lacking. That is, it was lacking until today.
Finally getting around to it, the NCAA has let it be known that the saintly Baptists in Central Texas are just as scum ridden as the rest of us heathens. 1,671 acts of impermissible contact with recruits across nine different sports (including equestrian!), the illegal hiring of recruiting services, and an assistant coach encouraging witnesses to lie? Not very Christian of you, Baylor. The NCAA even threw in the old "failure to monitor" chestnut to top the sundae off.
The Bears tried to sweep this all under the rug by self imposing a few extra recruiting silent periods and a few empty scholarships. However, since the mens basketball program was still under probation when some of these major violations were alleged to have taken place, we might just hear more about this in the coming months.
No wonder El Jefe and his millions of "Pac-12 Funbucks"© wanted nothing to do with them two years ago.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
#stopSOPA #stopPIPA
Along with my brothers at Allbuffs, I'm going dark today. Why? Because, under proposed legislation SOPA and PIPA, a simple link like that could get my whole blog shut down. That's some bullshit.
Protecting intellectual property rights holders against wanton piracy is a noble and just goal, but these legislative actions are far to vague and expansive for the task at hand. In order to protect the village, SOPA and PIPA would burn down the forest when a little advanced horticulture would do.
Along with many of the sites you visit every day, I strongly urge you to call or write your congressional representatives, and express your concerns over these over-reaching acts. Having worked in politics way back when, I know that, from time to time, massive efforts like this do work, and can kill legislation that once seemed a shoe-in to pass... or at the very least force some changes.
Normal service will resume tomorrow. Go Buffs!
-RumblinBuff
Protecting intellectual property rights holders against wanton piracy is a noble and just goal, but these legislative actions are far to vague and expansive for the task at hand. In order to protect the village, SOPA and PIPA would burn down the forest when a little advanced horticulture would do.
Along with many of the sites you visit every day, I strongly urge you to call or write your congressional representatives, and express your concerns over these over-reaching acts. Having worked in politics way back when, I know that, from time to time, massive efforts like this do work, and can kill legislation that once seemed a shoe-in to pass... or at the very least force some changes.
Normal service will resume tomorrow. Go Buffs!
-RumblinBuff
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
On BrittFar and The World Wide Leader
Yesterday, whilst I was trying to have a tame and enjoyable lunch, ESPN came at me with the "news" (and I use that term as loosely as possible) that, according to "sources familiar," good old Brett Favre would listen to My Bears, if contacted, to fill in for injured QB Jay Cutler.
My approximate reaction:
Holy Hell on a Stick! What kind of bullshit "reporter" would waste his journalism degree by dredging up that waste of time. Who thinks that's news? Asking some 87 year old quarterback if he'd like to play isn't news. If there was some Bears source that said there was any level of interest, that may have been worthy of the "Breaking News" treatment afforded the story yesterday afternoon.
The Bears, of course, have no interest in signing a old-ass QB with no remaining arm strength and a penchant for costing his team wins. I could've told you that Sunday night. With a gun to my head I would've unhesitatingly said 'no' to the very notion. The Bears may be quite desperate without the services of Jay Cutler and Matt Forte, but no one is that desperate. The idea is ludicrous.
Was the reporter just bored in the office, and thought that this would be a funny gag to pull on a Monday afternoon? This guy went to a "J" school, right? He didn't just show up one day, asking for a job with a background in physics, or some such nonsense, right?
I'm sure it had something to do with the complete lack of interest shown by the Bears in signing Donovan McNabb. Without one media darling to blather on about, ESPN was desperate for some other "media-friendly" angle to the whole "Jay-Cutler-is-injured-and-Caleb-Hanie-isn't-an-NFL-QB" story. Additionally, I bet the bosses in Bristol had been waiting all season to drag this out when a contender in a big market had a QB go down. Give it up, ESPN. He's gone, and that Golden Goose will lay no more eggs. You'll have to find some other aging warrior to drizzle your jizz over.
What a bunch of whores; does anyone even remember when that place had integrity? This is just a recent example why places such as Yahoo Sports and SBNation are far more reliable and interesting sources for sports news and opinion.
Note: Normally, at some point in the opening paragraph, I'd have done the whole "courtesy thing," and linked to the offending article and named the offending "journalist." However, in this case, with the piece in question being a blatant ploy for cheap hits, and the "journalist" having proven unworthy of any level of courtesy through bald-faced concern trolling, I have chosen not to afford the author, his specific forum, or his article this courtesy. They can suck a bag of dicks.
My approximate reaction:
Holy Hell on a Stick! What kind of bullshit "reporter" would waste his journalism degree by dredging up that waste of time. Who thinks that's news? Asking some 87 year old quarterback if he'd like to play isn't news. If there was some Bears source that said there was any level of interest, that may have been worthy of the "Breaking News" treatment afforded the story yesterday afternoon.
The Bears, of course, have no interest in signing a old-ass QB with no remaining arm strength and a penchant for costing his team wins. I could've told you that Sunday night. With a gun to my head I would've unhesitatingly said 'no' to the very notion. The Bears may be quite desperate without the services of Jay Cutler and Matt Forte, but no one is that desperate. The idea is ludicrous.
Was the reporter just bored in the office, and thought that this would be a funny gag to pull on a Monday afternoon? This guy went to a "J" school, right? He didn't just show up one day, asking for a job with a background in physics, or some such nonsense, right?
I'm sure it had something to do with the complete lack of interest shown by the Bears in signing Donovan McNabb. Without one media darling to blather on about, ESPN was desperate for some other "media-friendly" angle to the whole "Jay-Cutler-is-injured-and-Caleb-Hanie-isn't-an-NFL-QB" story. Additionally, I bet the bosses in Bristol had been waiting all season to drag this out when a contender in a big market had a QB go down. Give it up, ESPN. He's gone, and that Golden Goose will lay no more eggs. You'll have to find some other aging warrior to drizzle your jizz over.
What a bunch of whores; does anyone even remember when that place had integrity? This is just a recent example why places such as Yahoo Sports and SBNation are far more reliable and interesting sources for sports news and opinion.
Note: Normally, at some point in the opening paragraph, I'd have done the whole "courtesy thing," and linked to the offending article and named the offending "journalist." However, in this case, with the piece in question being a blatant ploy for cheap hits, and the "journalist" having proven unworthy of any level of courtesy through bald-faced concern trolling, I have chosen not to afford the author, his specific forum, or his article this courtesy. They can suck a bag of dicks.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Buffs logo on Top Gear
As I always do in season, I semi-legally watched the newest episode (and last of the current season) of Top Gear last night. If you haven't discovered the brilliance that is Top Gear, I can't suggest enough that you check it out. I don't even particularly like car conversation that much, but the show is extremely well produced, and it's flat out great television.
Anyways, in the final segment of the Sunday night's show, presenter James May came to America to take a peek at NASA's new lunar rover. While attempting to parallel park the multi-million dollar piece of equipment he sided up to an SUV with an interesting logo on the side:
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| GO BUFFS! This is my own cropped screengrab from Top Gear UK episode 16x06 |
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Quick Post: Eeeek! Kill it with fire!
Check out these pictures of Al Davis at his press conference yesterday. I'd advise against it if you're about to eat something.
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