Kim Kardashian is turning black! Well, at least her eye is….
November 5, 2009
This is Kim all made up....
SO much is made of Kim and her luscious cakes that the face gets lost in the shuffle. Now, with her black eye, she will have something else to display for the paparazzi.
Are you sure Reggie wasn't practicing the Pimps Prayer?
Kim Kardashian’s charity boxing match got ugly when she left the ring with a black eye and her brother Rob ended up in the hospital with a concussion, according to the reality star’s blog.
Kim says her family took a helicopter to a charity event where they agreed to participate in boxing matches in order to raise support for The Dream Foundation. “We literally had three days of training to prepare for the event,” she explains on her blog. “We didn’t expect what happened…”
The reality star beauty says that her brother went against an opponent “at least 25 pounds heavier than him” and when his mask fell off, he got hit hard. “When he put his hands down, he got hit in the face and ended up in [the] hospital with a concussion. Rob’s a strong guy and can definitely hold his own, but he wasn’t expecting to get hit after his mask had fallen off! This guy just got really down and dirty!”
Kim says her opponent was tough as well. “I knew I had to do it for charity, since that’s what it was all about, but man, my girl could throw a punch!” Kim writes. “Look at my black eye!!!”
Regardless of the bumps and bruises from the event, Kim says a concussion and a black eye can’t hold her family down! She blogs, “Rob is doing fine now and my black eye will be gone soon … I hope. You can try to bring the Kardashians down … but we’re a strong family.”
But Rob got a foot broke off in his ass. You might want to finish the quote with, but we can be knocked out. Plus, why are you making excuses for him? At the point he crossed the ropes, all excuses go out the window. he got served, plain and simple.
Vince Young steps up for Steve McNair’s kids….this is why I rep BLACK QB’s!
September 17, 2009
Vince celebrating....and the way we should celebrate hom now, even if you are a Trojan fan...
Vince,
All people want to hear about is your failures. I want to big up you for your actions…It’s easy to get caught up in the day to day matters in your own personal life. Vince, your personal life has been in the news too much.
Shirtless, sweaty with a bunch of dudes throwing back the bottle of Patron is not a good look Vince...
Lord knows you have problems. Remember when people thought that you were suicidal?
Don't let the stress of life and work get to you....
It was just work….and you were eating wings. Just because you don’t have your phone, people got spooked. This became another story that people fed on. You might even state that it is the curse of this…
At least you got paid for this.....I have it for the 360 too...
But, like any normal black man, you persevered. You are still getting paid and the racist formerly known as Kerry Collins will either say something that we get him mangled, or will just get old. You will be a starting QB in the league again, if not for the Titans, then another team.
People are not talking about Steve McNair anymore. (except us) We use this tragic loss of life to get advice to others, including President Obama. They should talk about him more….he did a ton to help the communities that where he lived. Once the story died and people moved on, there was still his family to think about. They lost a father and a provider.
Vince, if only for a day, good job stepping in…
ESPN.com: NFL [Print without images] Thursday, September 17, 2009 Young surprises McNair’s sons
ESPN.com news services For one day at least, Vince Young stepped up to try to fill the void for the late Steve McNair’s two young sons, the Tennessean reported Thursday. Young surprised 11-year-old Trenton and 5-year-old Tyler on Wednesday by showing up at their house and taking them to their school’s “Dear Dads Breakfast” at a local restaurant.“
Those are my boys. I wouldn’t say it was to pay anyone back; it was just out of love. Steve would do it for me. He pretty much did it for me when I was growing up. I have a history with the boys and I want to do anything I can. I am their big brother. ” – Vince Young
“Those are my boys,” Young told the Tennessean. “I wouldn’t say it was to pay anyone back; it was just out of love. Steve would do it for me. He pretty much did it for me when I was growing up. I have a history with the boys and I want to do anything I can. I am their big brother.” Julie Dilworth, admissions director at St. Paul Christian Academy, lauded Young’s actions. “It was a great, great gesture,” Dilworth told the Tennessean. “All the kids had been talking about the dads’ breakfast and [Trenton and Tyler] were wondering what was going to happen with them. “They were thrilled … the boys came to school with huge smiles on their faces.” Young had a close relationship with Steve McNair, even before the latter was drafted by the Titans four years ago. He attended McNair’s football camps when he was young. McNair was shot and killed July 4. Besides being there for McNair’s sons, Young gave other kids at the school jerseys and autographs. “It was a surprise, and just to see the excitement on their faces, it’s a great feeling,” Young told the Tennessean. “We had a good time eating pancakes. I had an omelet. “Overall they are doing cool, doing good. Just talking to their mom, I think they are going to be all right. I am always going to be here for them, always.” McNair also had two older teenage sons.
I see you Vince and I know it was out of love. The same love he showed you coming into the league.
Just like black actors, black QB’s have to stick together. Who will be the one to reach out to Nate Davis?
Tongue in, you are not Jordan...
When the loot dries up: Nicole Bobek, former Olympic figure skater caught up in meth scandal
August 14, 2009
one of these ladies is caught up with the police...can you pick out which one?
Do smart things with your money when you start earning a lot of it. I started contributing to a 403B as a way to start planning for the time when I wasn’t earning and wanted to still do fun things. Ronin is the financial wizard of the trio and he can and does provide some good money making suggestions, none of which I am going to share with you, since we are not getting paid.
But, once the marry-go-round stops and you have to get off the ride, you should have a plan in place of something else to do. The problem is that most of the our young athletes don’t. This is the sad story that is shaping up for Nicole Bobeck. Amy K. Nelson lays out the tragic story of how it went bad
JUPITER, Fla. — On an overcast late-July afternoon in a Jupiter strip mall, the Belle Maison shop is quiet, the stillness interrupted only by a bell that chimes when the occasional customer opens the door. The quaint store is filled with scented soaps and enough tchotchkes to keep any grandmother content. These days, this is where Nicole Bobek spends most of her time, working at the store owned by her mother but funded mostly by the earnings from Bobek’s figure skating career.
So, the best you could do is the store that sells random crap? Your mother should be arrested for mismanagement of your funds…
On a reporter’s recent visit, one of the door chimes signals Bobek’s arrival for her shift. Under other circumstances, this strip mall styled as a country inn might be a comfortable place to hide, or at least to fade away. But in Belle Maison, Bobek is anything but incognito. “People know who I am,” she says. “There are pictures of me all over the store!”
I bet the pictures are pictures like this one....where she looks really good.
Bobek seems to take little joy in being recognized right now. It’s been almost three years since she skated professionally and more than 11 years since her sad 17th-place finish at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, but her face and her name are back in the public eye this summer for a very wrong reason. In June, New Jersey authorities arrested her and 19 others as part of a raid on an alleged methamphetamine ring and charged her with conspiracy to distribute over five ounces of the drug. Prosecutors describe Bobek’s involvement as “high-level.” She faces the possibility of 10 years in prison.
See kids? This is the reason you do not do meth, or even be associated with it....From riches to rags...
No amount of foundation or makeup is going to hide that. You were a beautiful woman, who has lost it all. Your looks are something that you have to hold on to. That doesn’t mean plastic surgery, or botox, but you have to take care of yourself. Taking meth is not included in taking care of yourself…
This is how you are supposed to look in a mugshot if you are a former figure skater. Here is Tonya Harding after being booked....She looks fresh and happy to have her picture taken....
Thirteen years ago, Bobek outskated Michelle Kwan to win the 1995 U.S Figure Skating Championships and became the country’s next Winter Olympic sweetheart. Later that year, she stood on a Birmingham, England, podium with China’s Chen Lu and France’s Surya Bonaly as the bronze medalist at the World Championships. She was a Barbie doll with blonde hair and big blue eyes who coupled athleticism with ingenuity, choreographing her own routines and often improvising during performances. She was a master at playing to crowds who were wowed by her beauty and grace and a flexibility that seemed to ease her effortlessly into a trademark spiral move, her leg held straight up to her ear. Who could have imagined, back then, Nicole Bobek alleged to be part of a distribution ring that, according to authorities, was moving $10,000 worth of methamphetamine a week? “It’s sad, it really is,” says Hudson County prosecutor Edward DeFazio. “It happens every single day to people you wouldn’t think.”
Was she jonesing for that next hit, or looking for the rock she dropped on the ice?
Only 10 minutes from the Holland Tunnel and about a 20-minute ride from Bobek’s Manhattan apartment is the Hudson County Correctional Facility in Kearny, N.J., where Bobek was held until posting bail. On a Monday morning in mid-July, deputies are abuzz because the local paper, the Jersey Journal, has just published an article featuring comments from a few inmates there. One of them was quoted as saying Bobek had referred to the facility as a four-star hotel compared to the jail in Florida’s Palm Beach County, where she was held after her arrest at her mother’s house June 25 until her extradition to New Jersey over the Fourth of July weekend. One of the inmates who spent some time with Bobek in the dorm-style Hudson County jail is Beverlyn Sierra, 24, who until recently worked for an insurance company. Sierra, arrested on the same meth distribution charge as Bobek, is the girlfriend of Eddie Cruz, who has been charged as the drug operation’s ringleader. She’s been dating Cruz for the past seven months, and lived with him in an apartment in Belleville, N.J., until their arrest. Among other things during a 90-minute jailhouse interview with ESPN.com, Sierra says she’s only in jail because of guilt by association but has used meth on occasion to help her study for insurance tests at work. “I was surrounded by people that [dealt drugs],” she says. “You know what’s sad? People that were doing it, they are out there. They are out there, living the life. What was I doing? I was working; I was being a good girl. I can’t wait to get my court date. I want to fight it.” Sierra’s bail was set at $200,000 when she was arrested in mid-June.
What are you really fighting? YOU ARE A METH HEAD! You are admitting to occasional use, which means your word is less valuable. You are not a good girl, since good girls don’t use things that will age them horribly on the inside and out.
As of this week, she hadn’t made it and was still incarcerated. Bobek posted her bail, reduced from $200,000 to $100,000, and was released July 6. While Sierra proclaims her own innocence in the meth operation, she acknowledges both its existence and Bobek’s involvement. She says Bobek distributed the drug out of her Chelsea apartment in Manhattan along with three other people. “Her house was being used; her apartment was being used,” Sierra says. “People would go over there and pick up [the drugs] and leave. So she was pretty much distributing.” Asked in Florida about Sierra’s allegation, Bobek says, “Legally, I can’t answer that question.” Sierra says she didn’t meet Bobek until they were in jail together, but had spoken to her over the phone when Bobek called the Belleville house for Cruz. The first time they saw each other in person, Bobek’s introduction was this: “I’m from Florida, and they call me ‘West Palm b—-.’” Sierra is still laughing about that a week or so later. She’s 24 but giggles as if she’s 14 with a crush on a boy.
She says Bobek ran exercise classes for the women in the jail, performed cartwheels with Sierra and made drawings with the colored pencils Sierra was using for makeup in lieu of eyeliner. She says Bobek told her how much Cruz loved her. She says Bobek even made a tube top for her in jail and inscribed it with “Ed ♥ Bev,” which got front-page play in the local paper.
What kind of friend attempts to profit off of one of her "friends"?
Friends don’t sell out friends to the paper. Plus, what did it really get you, except some more publicity about your case, which you probably didn’t need. Plus, you are still in the clink, while she is out and about…
But Sierra says she saw another side, too. At times, Bobek became upset and nervous, and expressed fears that her mother wasn’t going to bail her out. When the two of them were relaxing in the jailhouse recreation yard, the sun beaming down, Sierra says Bobek cried. In Bobek’s jailhouse mug shot, her hair is short and dark, and her face appears pockmarked. It was a stunning image for at least one of her friends who knew her as the blonde Barbie with a perfect complexion. “It was terrible,” says Johnny Weir, the bronze medalist in men’s singles at the 2008 World Figure Skating Championships. “It was so devastating because I always have and always will think of Nicole in such a bright light and as such a beautiful person. It was a shock. The spirit was out of her eyes. It didn’t look like Nicole Bobek. To me, it looked like a stranger.”
Bobek was born in Chicago in 1977. Her mother, Jana, a Czechoslovakian figure skater and model, raised her without Nicole’s father.
Congrats Mom! Your daughter is famous! Wait, she was already famous BEFORE THE meth...
By age 3, Nicole had begun skating; by 9, she and her mother had moved to California to train with different coaches. And by age 13, Nicole had been endorsed by Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who reportedly wrote her a $15,000 check after he watched her skate. She was newly a teenager, had trained in Italy and was already aspiring to compete in the Olympics. The Chicago Tribune published a story in 1990 calling Bobek, then just a seventh-grader, “U.S. figure skating’s newest darling.” That article dealt in part with the difficulties of being raised without a father figure in a high-cost sport. Her mother worked as an ice cream vendor, and they relied on outside support to defray her skating expenses. A local dressmaker donated Bobek’s skating outfits; Steinbrenner’s goodwill helped finance her training. Over the next several years, Bobek worked with eight different coaches in almost as many different cities. It left her with little stability, and with the responsibility of being the family’s main breadwinner after figure skating’s restrictions on income for amateurs were lifted in the mid-90s. Bobek, as many young skaters must do, navigated her ascent in the sport while going through puberty with no core set of friends or a true home base. In 1993, according to a People magazine profile that appeared in 1995, she briefly ran away from home, reportedly when she discovered that Joyce Barron — whom Bobek had been told was her aunt — was instead her mother’s live-in friend, and that her father and mother had never married. Also that year, child welfare authorities received calls on two occasions from people alleging that Barron and Jana Bobek were mistreating Nicole, and one of those calls came from Barron’s own daughter. The complaints eventually were dropped because of insufficient evidence. “I get a lot of criticism,” Jana Bobek told People. “I hear that either I’m neglecting or overpowering. But every child is an individual, and I go by my instincts and try to do my best as a parent.” A year later, Bobek was arrested for home invasion when she used a security code to enter a friend’s home in Michigan. She was given probation in that case, but her juvenile record was later leaked to the media and the incident found a place in nearly every profile written of her.
Still, back on the ice, she won the ‘95 U.S. Championship, succeeding 1994 winner Tonya Harding.
One would think that by now, you would be able to tie your own skate...
The victory was the highlight of her career, and it made her a celebrity. Her manager at the time, Steve Disson, says at the height of her fame, Bobek — nicknamed “Brass Knuckles” because she wore rings on each finger — had about a half-dozen endorsements and was earning around $300,000 a year. “She was very marketable,” sayd Disson, who last saw Bobek in 2006. “She had all the talent in the world … U.S. Figure skating had asked to help me out to kind of protect her and give her some direction. I helped her get endorsements and get work, and, I would say, help cleaned up her act. She was a rebellious, young kid with no supervision.” Renowned skating coach Carlo Fassi, one of her mentors and her closest father figure, died suddenly a day before Bobek skated her short program at the 1997 World Championships in Lausanne, Switzerland, and she finished out of the medals. She qualified for her only Olympics the following winter, but several falls left her far back in 17th place in Nagano. When she turned pro in 2000, she was in her early 20s, rich and, by most accounts, without direction. As one former associate, who asked not to be identified, put it, “It seemed she was spending more time with members of the opposite sex than she was on the ice.”
By 2004, Bobek was working on the Champions on Ice tour, an outfit run by promoter Tom Collins in which professional skaters perform around the country. She was taking in a nice paycheck, likely in the low six figures. “She was an extremely talented young lady,” Collins says. “She was a striking performer; she got your attention.” Bobek lived in a small studio apartment in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, a lively area where there is no shortage of clubs and bars. The Chelsea Piers skating rink is just a few blocks away, with New York’s nightlife waiting right outside her doorstep. “What fantastic, wonderful girl doesn’t want to live in New York City at some point in her life?” says Weir, who is currently training for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, B.C. Weir and Bobek became friends while touring with Champions on Ice in 2004. Weir says his favorite memories of Bobek involve talking all night in her hotel room after a show, while she took a bubble bath and ate grapes and cheese. He says when she moved to Manhattan she decorated her apartment with “Hello Kitty” keepsakes. “She loved to dance,” Weir says. “I heard she was out partying a lot, out dancing at the clubs a lot … New York City is a lovely, wonderful place, but there is also a dark underbelly you can get caught up in. “Nicole was in some ways secretive and was closed off from people. If she had a problem, she wouldn’t be one to throw it out in front of everybody.” Weir told ESPN.com that he’d heard rumors about drugs, but never saw her use them, even when they were out together at clubs in the city. “She could have been one of the greatest skaters the United States has ever seen,” says Kerry Leitch, who coached Bobek in 2000. “But her work ethic was horrible. There are two sides to Nicole. There is the side that is sweet and nice and is a great skater. And then there is the side that is a mystery. You never knew why she did strange things.” Some of her former skating coaches and associates who spoke with ESPN.com remember this about Bobek: the way she smelled. She was beautiful on the ice, they say, but her smoking habit away from it was jarring. “She was not the best person to be in training,” says the former associate, who mentions her numerous cigarette breaks during practice sessions. “Every time she got off the ice, she was smoking.”Leitch says Bobek sometimes failed to show up for their practice sessions, and that her mother would beg Leitch to drag her daughter to the rink with the promise that there would be more money in it for him if he did. Leitch, a veteran coach from Canada, refused, saying he wouldn’t “be bought.” “She was a very easily led young lady,” Leitch adds. “Any time Nicole did anything wrong, her mother always justified it. That’s the story of Nicole’s life. In her mother’s mind, she’s never done anything wrong.” He says Jana and Joyce Barron spoiled Bobek “immensely.” In her store in Jupiter, Jana Bobek declines to comment on any details of her life with her daughter, or the charges against her. Leitch and Disson say Barron, who passed away in 2006 after complications from surgery, handled the business of Bobek’s skating, and her death created at least a temporary vacuum in Bobek’s financial support network. Friends say perhaps it is no coincidence that around that time, Bobek disappeared from the skating world. One of her last performances on the ice was a small role as a seductive skater in the 2006 movie remake of “All the King’s Men,” starring Sean Penn.
As far as the skating world is concerned, the past few years of Bobek’s life have been lived in the shadows. She’s been in touch with virtually no one involved with figure skating, apparently. She worked odd jobs such as walking other people’s dogs, and started school to become a music producer. The original plan was to study fashion at The New School in Manhattan, she says in Belle Maison, but it was too costly, so she found her way to Night Owl Studios. Sierra says Bobek’s connection to Cruz, the alleged leader of the meth distribution ring, was through Bobek’s roommate, who worked with Cruz’s ex-girlfriend. The investigation has been ongoing for over a year, but Bobek only showed up on law enforcement’s radar a few months ago. Now, a little more than a month after her arrest, Bobek is back in Florida. When she arrives on the late-July afternoon at Belle Maison — French for “beautiful home” — her hair is back to blonde and she looks tan and fit wearing a summer dress. Her face is covered with foundation, but it doesn’t hide the pockmarks the world saw in her mug shot. She says she can’t talk about her legal situation, but she is friendly and warm. It’s easy to see why people gravitate toward her. In spite of her problems, past and present, many who know her regard her as a kind soul. She is still something of a public figure in Jupiter, so simple tasks such as going to the grocery store can make life uncomfortable these days. She tells ESPN.com she wants very much to get her side of the story out, but her lawyer has instructed her and her mother not to speak with the media. They can’t afford to lose this lawyer. Bobek says she’ll talk to him tonight and ask if he’ll approve an interview, and she’ll call with the update as soon as possible. As promised, she calls the reporter that evening. She explains that her lawyer has told her she can absolutely not grant the interview, for the sake of her own future. She politely answers a legal question. Then, just before she hangs up, she says, “I’m sorry you didn’t get great weather while you were down here.” It will likely be at least another month before prosecutors take her case to a grand jury which will decide whether to indict her on the drug charges. For now, she is at home with her mother, the two of them together.
The whole story is just sad. She had money, but decided to get involved in meth. After the failed Olympics, she was still earning six figures skating, but couldn’t be happy with that.
The King of Pop Michael Jackson is dead at 50
June 25, 2009
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Party on Garth!!!!
The Grim Reaper is busy as hell…
In a breaking news alert, The Los Angeles Times just reported that troubled pop star Michael Jackson has been rushed to the hospital. Jackson, 50, was not breathing when paramedics arrived at his home about 12:26 p.m. Celebrity news site TMZ reports that Jackson suffered a heart attack and is posting a series of updates from Los Angeles, including a note that Michael’s father says “he is not doing well.”
Reuters gives us the bad news…
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Pop giant Michael Jackson, who took to the stage as a child star and went on to set the world dancing to the thumping rhythms of his music for decades, died Thursday, TMZ website reported. He was 50. “We’ve just learned Michael Jackson has died,” TMZ said. “Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon and paramedics were unable to revive him. We’re told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back,” the entertainment site said. There was no official confirmation of the reported death and spokespersons for Jackson could not be reached for comment. Earlier, the Los Angeles Times said that the singer had been rushed to a Los Angeles-area hospital by fire department paramedics who found him not breathing when they arrived at the singer’s home.
The newspaper said paramedics performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation at the scene before taking him to the UCLA Medical Center hospital.
- MJ was in the crosshairs a lot for his behavior
Now, we don’t need to get into the King of Pop and all he meant. This for me is the legacy of MJ. As a musical icon, his legacy will not be matched. There are just too many hits, too many record breaking tours to allow someone to touch his records. Here are a few of his accomplishments. I totally discount the records of Elvis, because like PE said..
Elvis was a hero to most
But he never meant shit to me you see
Straight up racist that sucker was
Simple and plain
Mother fuck him and John Wayne
Cause I’m Black and I’m proud
I’m ready and hyped plus I’m amped
Most of my heroes don’t appear on no stamps
Sample a look back you look and find
Nothing but rednecks for 400 years if you check
Don’t worry be happy
Was a number one jam
Damn if I say it you can slap me right here
(Get it) lets get this party started right
Right on, c’mon
What we got to say
Power to the people no delay
To make everybody see
In order to fight the powers that be(Fight the Power)
- Jackson’s Thriller remained at number one for thirty-seven weeks, the longest-ever stay by a non-soundtrack album and second only to West Side Story.[1]
- Thriller spent a record 80 consecutive weeks, more than a year and a half, in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200. It was the first of only three albums to remain on the Top 10 for more than a year (along with Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill and Celine Dion’s Falling into You).
- “Thriller” is the second-best-selling album in U.S. history, at 28 million. Only a greatest hits compilation by The Eagles has sold more.
- Thriller is the only album in the United States to have sold more copies than any other in two separate years, topping the sales charts in 1983 and 1984.
- Four of Jackson’s albums, Bad, Dangerous, HIStory, and Invincible, debuted at number one in the United States.
- Jackson was the first artist to have four top-ten singles from one album (Off the Wall).
- Jackson was the first artist to have seven Top 10 singles from one album (Thriller), a feat matched only by his sister Janet and Bruce Springsteen.
- Jackson was the first artist to simultaneously have the number-one album and number-one single on Billboard’s Pop Charts and Black Charts.
- Jackson was the first artist in the 1980s to have two simultaneous top-five hits (“Beat It” and “Billie Jean” on April 16, 1983).
- Jackson is the only artist to have five number-one hits from one LP, Bad (“Bad“, “The Way You Make Me Feel“, “Man in the Mirror“, “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You“, and “Dirty Diana“).
Yes, it could be worse...not really, but I will say it to humor myself....
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The girl is mine is another classic crossover hit that I loved back in the day…
Really!?!?!! Out the window...it looks like you don't have a great grip either...
No, this is all natural...BTW, I have a bridge on Craigslist I think that you would love!
Michael Jackson will need to be supremely fit to perform a series of 50 shows in London starting next month. The dates are fast approaching. Who better to get the so-called King of Pop into royal shape than bodybuilder and actor Lou Ferrigno, who was known for having fast-growing muscles playing The Incredible Hulk on television in decades past.Ferrigno’s wife, Carla, on Thursday told Reuters that her husband has been helping Jackson train in advance of the shows. “He’s known Michael 15 years,” Carla Ferrigno said. “He used to train him a long time ago and now he’s doing it again.”
But Carla Ferrigno would not give details on the workout regimens. A spokesman for Jackson did not return a call. The only question is, will the Ferrigno workouts allow Michael Jackson to mimic the Hulk’s ability to turn into a man of brawn within seconds of getting angry? That would be a show ranking right up there with the headlock Ferrigno put on actor Jason Segel in this year’s movie “I Love You, Man.”
Jamie Foxx goes after Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Crybaby steps in to defend “his little tramp”
April 17, 2009
This is what happens when you find yourself irrelevant. you try to go after someone else.
From BallerStatus.com — Despite an apology from Jamie Foxx for his comments to Miley Cyrus earlier this week, the teen star’s dad has fired back.
Billy Ray Cyrus spoke to “Bonnie Hunt Show” on Thursday (April 16), calling Foxx’s Miley rant “hurtful” and “not funny.”
“It was hurtful,” he said Thursday. “There wasn’t nothing funny about it. And, quite frankly, I think if I said those things about his daughter, he might not find it so comedic.”
Actually, it was pretty funny, since that is the road that she is going down. we are anxiously awaiting the time that she does a LEGAL (no child porn here please) porn video and to get her in the mood, do some heroin.
On Jamie’s Sirius Satellite radio show on Sunday (April 12), the comedian told the 16-year-old Disney star to “grow up,” make a sex tape and do drugs, in response to a radio interview Miley did in which she called out Radiohead for refusing to meet her backstage at the Grammys.
Here is some funny shit that others had to say about this…
carao posted on 04.16.09 at 11:58am
Sweet little Miley vowed to “ruin” Radiohead because they refused to meet with her. And she makes racist picture remarks and slams friends on youtube. Miley is a spoiled, very cold, and ugly brat. I’m glad Foxx said that. He was the only one to take a stance against the retarded girl and he should not have apologized to her. And who really cares about Billy Ray Cyrus? He has no career of his own except through his daughter.
Now, I am not the only one who says things like this? If Radiohead did not want to meet you, then there is nothing that says that they have to. Saying that you are going to “ruin” their career is laughable and immature. YOU ARE NOT FIFTY! You do not rap, nor can you ruin someones career. Don’t let a little fame and fortune go to your head.
“She’s gonna ruin Radiohead’s career?” he asked before ripping into the teen star. “Make a sex tape and grow up. Get like Britney Spears and do some heroin. Do like Lindsay Lohan, start seeing a lesbian, and get some crack in your pipe; catch Chlamydia on a bicycle seat.”
After mass outrage, Foxx issued an apology when asked about the situation during an appearance on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” on Tuesday (April 14). He admitted that he crossed the line, but called his comments jokes.“Miley, I apologize. I’ll call you,” Jamie said, as he stared. “I so apologize to her. This is sincere because I am a comedian and you guys know that whatever I say, I don’t mean any of it. Sometimes, as comedians as we do, we go a little bit too far.
“I have a radio show … we’re really the black Howard Stern. We go at everybody. But, there was a situation with Miley Cyrus, and I just wanna say I apologize for what I said. I didn’t mean it maliciously. I’m a comedian,” he continued.
Jamie, if you are a comedian, then you should not have to apologize. we were thinking the same things about her. You didn’t go at her as hard as you could. You should have brought up that she has already laid a good foundation for her being a lesbian. Remember this picture?
Its just an experiment... like Linsey Lohan...
According to E! News, Billy Ray was angry over the comments, and said that “He doesn’t understand why he would do that to Miley, especially since he has a teenage daughter himself.”
Billy Ray,
Give it a rest. Don’t try to step in now and try to act like a parent. Where were you during the lesbo pics? Where were you when you daughter was sexting?
To answer your question about why he would do this, it’s simple.
1) He is a comedian and his job is to make fun of people and current events. your daughter placed herself at the center of this with her many missteps in life and on the internet.
2) His daughter has not a) flashed for the internet, b) had lesbian style pictures of her on the internet, and
3) Is not dating a man when she is 15.
Dude is an underwear model and 20. Do you think that he is going to wait for you? Wait, I bet that he didn't need to wait, because you have already been broken in by DAD. BTW, Do those look real? Is this child porn? Will I be held responsible?
The last one is the worst one, because you are okay with some dude who is a man (dude is at least 20) when your teenage daughter is 15. Either A) she is a woman and can date who she wants, thereby allowing her to fight her own fights, or B) You see her as a child who can’t make her own choices and thereby needs your her to fight her own fights. Ultimately though, nobody really cares that you are butt hurt over this Billy Ray. Write some horrible country song about it if you really have a problem with it.
Green Bay Packers give Duke PG a try-out at QB
April 14, 2009
That is the American dream… One day, after work, you get a call asking you to try out at your favorite sport for a chance to make the team. They like what they see, and ask you to come back. You make millions and live happily ever after…THE END.
Nice story huh? Too bad it never really works out that way.
I had a moment that was somewhat similar to this story. When I was in college, they started a brand new minor league baseball team. I figured out in the sticks where I was going to school, they must have not been that good. they had ads in the school newspaper looking for players. I played in high school, like most people probably did, and I was decent. (really, not great, but pretty good. I hit .350 my freshman year. Which meant that I was batting 6th…lol)
I went out the first day and didn’t embarrass myself. I caught everything hit to me in left field, had some good throws home on line, one hop and hit well in the cage. I think that because I was black, (one of four, and yes, I knew the other three…) they brought me back for the next day. That day, we just did a lot of scrimmaging and situational hitting/fielding drills.
I lasted a whole three days. They found out what I already knew…I had a good eye, took a lot of walks, mashed what I hit, but had a LOT of problems with the breaking stuff. That and my advanced age ( I was going to turn 23) made me a bad fit for a single A rookie league baseball team. I got to keep my gear from the experience, which amounted to some Odgen Raptors T-shirts, a pair of stir-ups ( I hate the socks with the stitched on stir-ups) some BIKE undershirts and pants and a cap.
I didn’t belong, and that was okay with me. I got to compete and that was good enough for me. I knew my trip was going to be short (although it was longer than I expected) because when I got there I saw 4 players that actually deserved to be there and another dozen or so that could do some exceptional things (like they had a rocket arm, they were fast etc…) that I couldn’t do.
Does that mean you should give up?
Greg Paulus, who chose to be a point guard instead of a quarterback in college, last week had a workout for the Green Bay Packers.
Paulus, who started 95 games at Duke before his role was drastically reduced his senior season, worked out in front of Packers representatives in Durham, N.C., Duke spokesman Art Chase said.
This was a good move for him, since the best that he could of hoped for is playing overseas. His DUKE pedigree is definitely worth something, and his numbers as a starter are not that bad either…But if the team has the internet, it might not be to his advantage.
This looks like an all you can eat buffet!
Chase said that Paulus threw to receiver Eron Riley during the session in advance of the draft, which is April 25-26.
The Wisconsin State Journal and ProFootballTalk.com first reported the story.
Though Paulus, from Syracuse, N.Y., opted for the Blue Devils as a basketball player, he is not without some serious football credentials. He was offered a football scholarship by Notre Dame as well as the University of Miami, and was a former Gatorade football player of the year at Christian Brothers Academy.
Paulus, 6-foot-1, 180 pounds, was a four-time all-state football player; a starter in the U.S. Army All-American game; and set six state passing records. Christian Brothers was 42-3 during his time there, and he had 11,763 career passing yards and 152 touchdown passes in 45 games.
He is the only one among his male siblings to take the basketball route. Each of his five brothers played Division I-A football; Mike Paulus is currently a quarterback at North Carolina.
Paulus averaged 9.9 points and 4.1 assists as a three-year starter for the Blue Devils. But coach Mike Krzyzewski shuffled his lineup and Paulus, with a history of injuries, was replaced by Nolan Smith at the point. Paulus played just 16.1 minutes a game this season, averaging 4.9 points and 1.3 assists.
He earned widespread praise, however, for his conduct and demeanor after losing the starting job, giving guidance to the younger players and never showing outward disgruntlement.
He also expressed no regret about choosing basketball over football, during an interview in January with USA Today.
“I wanted to play point guard, and I got a chance to do that and to play for Duke and Coach K,” Paulus told USA Today. “I wouldn’t change a thing.”
I can think of this as something that I want to change...
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
Clearly, one of the most overexposed women in the game is Kim Kardashian. I get so tired of hearing about her I could scream. I don’t hate her or Reggie Bush, but why do we hear about her and not about the myriad of other famous relationships? For the record, I don’t really care about the other ones either.
The only Kardashian that I am down with is this one…
Juice, if my wife re-marries, can you make sure she is taken care of....No, not like Nicole...
Wikipedia details why I am down for Robert Kardashian…R.I.P.
Kardashian and Simpson first met in the early 1970s and had become close friends. Kardashian had let his license to practice law expire three years before the Simpson case. He reactivated his license to aid in Simpson’s defense, as a volunteer on his legal team. Kardashian sat by Simpson throughout the trial.[1][2]
Now that is a true friend and homie. He is out of commission, but he re-activated his license to practice, just so he could be near/next to his boy and be a part of the defense team. That is what you want out of someone you call your friend. A lot of people feel that they have a ton of friends, but you really don’t. You have associates, but you do not have friends. Most of the people you know would turn you in or abandon you in your time of need.
In the days following the murders of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman, O.J. Simpson stayed in Kardashian’s house. Kardashian was the man seen carrying Simpson’s garment bag the day Simpson flew back from Chicago. Prosecutors speculated the bag may have contained Simpson’s bloody clothes and/or the murder weapon; However, a later examination of the bag revealed no evidence related to the criminal case.[1]
When Simpson failed to turn himself in at 11 a.m. on June 17, 1994, Kardashian read a letter by Simpson to the collected media. The letter was interpreted by many as a suicide note.[2]
Some time after the trial, Kardashian expressed doubts about Simpson’s innocence; The California bar later investigated.[2] Although this strained his relationship with Simpson at the time, by the time of Kardashian’s death they had “put it aside”. After his death, Simpson said, “Bob was there when I needed him most.”[3]
Bottom line, we had our issues, but when the bat signal was illuminated, he answered the bell. If you look for a visual definition of a friend, the OJ case brought examples of true friendship.
SNL did an interesting parody of the OJ trial
Terry Moran: But the real fireworks came on Friday, when long-time Simpson associate Al Cowlings finally took the stand.
[ dissolve back to the courtroom, A.C. Cowlings at the stand ]
Marcia Clark: Would you state your name, please?
A.C. Cowlings: [ yelling each time he's asked a question ] I’m A.C.! You know who I am, dammit!!
Marcia Clark: Alright, I.. would you tell us your full address, please?
A.C. Cowlings: 2-1-3 Willowcox!! You know where I live, dammit!
Marcia Clark: Uh.. Mr. Cowlings! We’re in a court of law! There’s no reason to shout!
A.C. Cowlings: I KNOW there’s no reason to SHOUT, dammit!! I’m A.C.!
Marcia Clark: No further questions!
[ dissolve back to Terry Moran ]
Terry Moran: Finally, the week ended with Robert Shapiro’s meticulous questioning of the Simpson team’s own DNA expert.
[ dissolve back to the courtroom, A.C. Cowlings still at the stand ]
Robert Shapiro: For those of us who are layman’s, Mr. Cowlings, would you please explain.. what DNA is? A.C. Cowlings: [ yelling ] You KNOW what DNA IS, dammit!! It’s genetic information encoded on a double-helix!!
Robert Shapiro: Now, Mr. Cowlings, may I remind you we are on the same side?
A.C. Cowlings: I know..
Robert Shapiro: So, will you tell us what a double-helix is?
A.C. Cowlings: You KNOW what a double-helix is, dammit!! It’s DNA!! I’m A.C.!! AWWWW, man!!
[ dissolve back to Terry Moran ]
Terry Moran: At that point, Judge Ito called a recess, to allow prosector Marcia Clark to make it to the Viper Room in time to hear Kato Kaelin and Johnny Depp’s new band. I’m Terry moran for Court TV.
Now, getting back to Kim Kardashian, here is the latest issue
I am not a big deal. There are thousands of other women who walk around and look better than me...
AnimalNewYork.com grabbed an unairbrushed photo of Kim Kardashian off the Complex magazine website.
The photo was apparently removed, as the photo gallery no longer includes that image.
Kardashian, famous for a sex tape with an ex and her family’s reality show “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” on E!, appears thinner and with smoother, lighter limbs in the retouched.
Look at what you are known for… that is a damn shame. You are known for Ray J breaking your back in a homemade porno, and that got you a show on E!, because of your fathers connection to OJ and that your stepfather is Bruce Jenner.
Here is what Kim had to say about it on her blog… Thanks to Bossip.com
Kim Kardashian faced controversy after Complex magazine posted a non-Photoshopped pic of her and then replaced it a few hour later — but she doesn’t care. “Everyone has been putting up these pics from Complex Magazine showing the comparison of the original un-Photoshopped photo that mistakenly was put up on complex.com,” she writes on her blog.
“Complex later replaced the pic with the photoshopped version, causing all of this drama. But you know what, who cares!” she continues. “So what: I have a little cellulite. What curvy girl doesn’t!?” She went on: “How many people do you think are photoshopped? It happens all the time! “…I’m proud of my body and my curves and this picture coming out is probably helpful for everyone to see that just because I am on the cover of a magazine doesn’t mean I’m perfect,” she says before signing off “XO, Kim.”
If you were not exposed for a fraud, you would have been just fine with the continued worship of your faux-perfection. To answer your question, a lot of women do not, and are curvy to boot. It is called working out and doing squats. That is how you get your legs looking right. Even a big guy like myself can have good looking legs because of all the squats I did during sports. (minus my beer gut of course…) Here is a normal woman getting her workout on and working the legs…
How dare (fill in the blank) leave me! I am going to overturn (his/her) car when I see it!
Why do you think that your calendar sells so well? Most guys can see cellulite all the time at home on their girlfriends. That is not the point. You get paid to look great, so you should actually, well, LOOK GREAT! We don’t need you if Photoshop is going to do all the work…
Peyton gives everyone of Too Old a Pep Talk…
Now, the cottage cheese is not the issue for me, its the face or grill piece. It just seems very distinct, and I don’t mean that in a good way. It reminds me of some old African artifacts that my Mom had around the house.
Find the one that looks most like Kim...
I guess I am tired about the amount of shine that she gets. She is a media creation, similar to Paris. Yes, I know that it is a double standard that I blog about her, but it’s only because I am so tired of her. Her airbrushed body is tight, but since it is not really her, then whats the big deal? I have already seen the goods at KimK Superstar, and that is not airbrushed… work out with your man Reggie and you will actually reach the perfection you are seeking, not on the computer..
The Last Great Race on Earth
You can’t compare it to any other competitive event in the world! A race over 1150 miles of the roughest, most beautiful terrain Mother Nature has to offer. She throws jagged mountain ranges, frozen river, dense forest, desolate tundra and miles of windswept coast at the mushers and their dog teams. Add to that temperatures far below zero, winds that can cause a complete loss of visibility, the hazards of overflow, long hours of darkness and treacherous climbs and side hills, and you have the Ikilladog Iditarod. A race extraordinaire, a race only possible in Alaska.
Is that really something to be proud of? Only my state of Alaska (and I guess Virginia, since Michael Vick lived there) can kill and torture dogs to this extent and call it a sport? The damn dogs do all the work and the human just has to beat the shit steer the sled. Seems rather uneven to me. I would love to see the dogs beating the shit out of the human driver sometime…
So the Network (ESPN) has an article about the winner of the race that I read and it made me think that the definition of sports has gotten too big…
Here is the trail of tears, for dogs
NOME, Alaska — When Lance Mackey’s father won the 1978 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, he did it with one second to spare.
That isn’t a scenario Lance Mackey ever wants to experience.
“I don’t want to do that. I’d have a damn heart attack,” Mackey said.
Mackey didn’t have to worry. The 38-year-old son of Iditarod champion Dick Mackey crossed the finish line Wednesday in the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race hours in front of the competition, joining an elite group of only two other mushers to put together three consecutive wins.
He even had time to stop his team about a half mile outside Nome, where he went down the line, primping and thanking each of his 15 dogs before resuming the final stretch.
Primping? Really? I bet that the bigger issue was protecting himself from the dogs who wanted a piece of his ass…either that or cleaning them up as to make the sport look more humane. I can’t decide which one yet.
The crowd roared as Mackey came into view down Front Street.
About a block from the finish line, Mackey raised both arms in victory and rode that way into the chute at 11:38 a.m., hours ahead of his nearest competitors in the race.
Immediately after winning, he gave treats to his dogs, calling them the “real heroes.”
“This never gets old,” he said at the finish line as he hugged two of them.
It never gets old beating a dog to exhaustion and forcing him/her to do some shit that they probably have zero interest in doing, while dragging your ass around like the king.
Then it was time to take a phone call from Dick Mackey, who barely edged the Iditarod’s only five-time champion, Rick Swenson, in a mad dash down Front Street 31 years ago.
“Pretty cool, huh,” Lance Mackey told his dad.
“I did it, yeah. Did you have doubts?”
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was the next one to congratulate Mackey by phone.
What the hell was Sarah Palin doing that she couldn’t get off her ass to come see if this is something that ONLY ALASKA can experience? Isn’t King hubby Todd a snowmobile racer? This event certainly has to be up his alley. I bet his father did it, or his grandfather, since they didn’t have cars during his generation…
Also, great father and son moment. I bet they had great times torturing animals together and to have the son following in the footsteps of the father had to make his heart swell with pride..My boy is an animal torturer! Interesting fact is that they are the only family torturers to ever when the Ikilladog Iditarod… she made it out for the start
Governor and former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was there to cheer the teams on.
“This is what puts Alaska on the map,” Palin said. “This uniquely Alaskan event. We’re just proud to get to — Alaska gets to host such an event. It’s world-class, it’s so unique. We’re just so proud of this race every year.”
Sixty-seven sled dog teams will race. Among them two-time defending champion Lance Mackey. Thirteen female teams are also in the race this year.
Material courtesy of KTVA.
If you have time you can see Sarah Palin opening the ceremony
Just like PUMA’s who like to say shit about President Barack Obama, I have this to say to Governor Palin. Sarah, honey… Don’t you have a state to run or something…? Please protect us from Russia. You have to keep an eye or two on them, as they are crafty
I Love ME some ME! T.O. does it again
January 26, 2009
What you got on DeeBo's popcorn?
We here at Too Old joke about that Erik is about about himself. When T.O. said this comment, all we could think about was Erik.
Terrell Owens is clearly about himself.
Here is what the Cowboys blogwriters at the Dallas Morning News had to say about T.O. and his “love of the game.” Because, what fan doesn’t want the star player on the team to be willing to play for nothing?
T.O. said he could see himself playing for another three to five seasons. He’ll turn 34 in December, but he’s a fitness freak who definitely doesn’t look his age. But he doesn’t expect to play into his 40s like former 49ers teammate Jerry Rice.
“Jerry had a unique and uncanny love for the game,” T.O. said. “That, that’s the difference between he and I. He grew up with that football mentality and that was his dream. As far as for me, it’s something I fell into. I’m very athletic. I’m able to do a lot of things. I’m very competitive, so that’s pretty much my drive.”
T.O.’s first love is still himself, as his famous “I love me some me” quote indicated. His love for the game is directly related to the love he gets from his coaches and quarterback.
“They’re giving me those opportunities,” T.O. said. “That’s all I ever wanted last year. I think I mentioned that when I said, ‘Why did you bring me here?’”
We’re seeing why Jerry brought T.O. to Valley Ranch, and it sounds like it’s something we ought to get used to.
Now T.O. needs to have the spotlight all to himself
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Monday, January 26, 2009
Owens to star in reality show
DALLAS — Terrell Owens hopes to score with a new cable reality show. The Dallas Cowboys‘ controversial wide receiver will star in his own show on VH1 this summer, giving fans a look into his life off the field. VH1 announced Monday that the series takes place in the offseason, and T.O.’s best friends and publicists — Monique Jackson and Kita Williams — will help him re-examine his personal life. The two will work as “matchmakers and therapists” for Owens. Owens, who caught 69 passes for 1,052 yards and 10 touchdowns this season, was prominently featured on HBO’s “Hard Knocks” that tracked the Cowboys in training camp last year.
Erik, when are you going to have this happen? People woulds like to see how to live the life of Riley that you live…
Dallas Coach loses job after 100-0 blowout
January 26, 2009
From a very early age, we are taught to be winners, not losers.
we still wear NIKES....PUMAS just don't get it done...
We assign masculine qualities to winners, and feminine qualities to losers (You are not a sissy, stop crying, take you skirt off and get into the game are some of the terms that coaches have used, in attempts to motivate players)
As a man that coaches young ladies, I constantly have to monitor what comes out of my mouth and how I address my players. I like to win and always have been a competitive person. I played and lettered in a ton of sports in high school (football, baseball, basketball, tennis, track) and in college. (water polo and football)
Most of the Too Old crew loves video games, especially when you compete against others and you can talk a little trash to them while you are beating them. But, after the game, we know its a game and we fall back and begin to chill. After coaching a game, I attempt to always find something positive to focus on during the discussion post game. We recently lost to a school in the City 50-10. With a score like that, it is clear who the better team was that day. They rained threes during the first quarter, they pressed for the first 5 or six minutes. Once the game was no longer in question, the coach played all of his players, they stopped pressing and they worked the ball around trying to score.
When looking back and thinking about the moment, I was appreciative of the other coach thinking about good sportsmanship. I like to win, but I also like to win with class. We got in some good work, understood what our weaknesses were and that allowed me the ability to focus on the things that we needed to improve and the things that we did well. (We rebounded decently, we shot the limited FT well and no one fouled out)
A few weeks later, the roles were reversed with another team. We started off well and really started to put sticks to their backside. At halftime, the score was 24 to 6. That could have been a million and it would not have changed the outcome. I knew that we were going to win, it was a question of how. The ladies got really excited at halftime when the buzzer scored and I told them to settle down and act like this has happened before ( even though it had not…lol) As a coach, I told them that as easily as we did it, it can happen to us in the second half and we should work on improving our fundamentals, making good passes, rebounding and boxing out etc…) I knew that the other team was not going to come back and all we had to do was play our game. the starters played real lmited minutes the rest of the game and we worked on defense, not offense.
Art imitates life and we have an example of when its your fault that you got fired, and I think that the school should be fired too…
When is enough too much?
For those unfamiliar with the story: On January 13, Covenant played Dallas Academy, a lowly squad that hadn’t won a game in four years. Covenant pressed from beginning to end, and shot threes whenever possible. No, it wasn’t the do-unto-others-as-they-would-have-them-do-to-you thing to do, but let it be said that Covenant parents cheered well into the fourth quarter, and there was a small eruption from the crowd when the team hit 100. So they wanted this win as much as Micah Grimes did. Let it also be said that though the game took place on January 13th, Covenant officials showed little public remorse and did not look to forfeit the win until January 23rd, 10 full days after the contest and one day after the Dallas Morning News reported what happened.
Here is what the Coach said afterwards…
Micah Grimes stood by his principles — odd principles, but he stood by ‘em — and he will be happy with that.
The coach of the Covenant School girls basketball team in Texas, which beat Dallas Academy 100-0 on Jan. 13, was fired Sunday after he sent an e-mail to the Dallas Morning News defending his and his team’s actions.
Last week, Covenant issued a statement on its Web site saying it was embarrassed and would ask that the victory be forfeited. But Grimes wrote that he doesn’t agree with the apology, adding, “We played the game as it was meant to be played. My values and my beliefs would not allow me to run up the score on any opponent, and it will not allow me to apologize for a wide-margin victory when my girls played with honor and integrity.”
This was a sad commentary on competition, and the fundamental tenets of what a “good” coach is. I coach woman’s basketball and JV football and have coached for over a decade. I played in high school and college. None of the great coaches that I had, or worked under would have allowed this to happen.
1) It’s a Christian school. I am not religious, but where is compassion? I know that is a part of every religious school that I have worked out. They are taught to have compassion for others and attempting to humiliate (which comes from the coach not the players) is inexcusable.
2) One player had 48 points. Anytime you have a situation like that, it COULD have been controlled, whether it is passing to other players, or stopping the press.
3) At no time should the winning team been asked to stop playing, but they could have worked on other facets of the game. Shooting threes and pressing and/or trapping at halfcourt was not necessary.
4) The losing women are not handicapped or have an ailment that prevented them from playing. ESPN and others are not reporting the whole story to get some sympathy. Because they had ADD does not prevent them from playing. They are like any other team that steps on the court. We play CSD, the CA school for the Deaf and if you don’t come ready, they will beat you badly. The only issue here is fair play.
5) The coach who lost his job deserved to. No remorse for his actions. Contrition goes a long way. At will employee who didn’t get it.
There are two different issues here at play
Issue One: Should there be mercy rules?
After reading most of the comments and examining my own feelings as a coach, I think that there should not be a rule. I think that the coaches should be the one who can correctly control that. Most coaches have been on both sides ( I have with a basketball team who went to the semis of the CA state tourney and coaching a team that has only a single win last year) and the opponents that put the wood to us throttled back in the second half, played non starters and didn’t press. We still lost, they still asserted their dominance over us, but it was done in a way where all could leave with a positive lesson for the next game. My women had lost by 40, but could look at things we did well that could be built on for the next game. When you attempt to crush someone like that, that is not very Christian (since there is a blending of church and state at that school)
2. Was this coach out of line and is there something to apologize for?
Again, that is something that should be left up to individuals. Having served as an AD for a charter school and starting their athletic programs, if I had a coach that did that, I would ask him or her to seek new employment. The school is in the wrong too, as this was not an issue until it become a story in the DMN and ESPN. The coach is an egomaniac for his constant denials of having done something wrong. At least say that you were caught up in the moment.
Maybe you would still have your job. In today’s world, if I got another Athletic Director’s job, before I hired a coach, you best believe that I would google your name. His name will forever come up with this story. The story will not go away.
The school should not get a free pass either. This happened two weeks ago and it is just becoming a story. You could have saved a lot of grief and negative publicity had you just taken the bull by the horns and addressed this issue. Part of the problem is that the school ONLY cared when they got negative publicity and people voiced their outrage… How can a Christian school allow them to beat the hell outta another team? When you care only about the W is when that happens. Coaches are supposed to be educators as well and there was nothing educational about getting foot to ass…
