Vuvuzelas Go Viral

The attention given to the vuvu during this year’s World Cup has led to at least 20 apps being produced for the iPhone. Five of them are free and they range from being able to shake your phone and produce that deep buzzing sound to having to actually blow into the microphone of the phone until you develop smokers cough trying to reach the upper limit of vuvuzela nirvana. Now that we can take this horn anywhere, I’m thinking that it should be introduced to other sports.

Soccer is un-American? Thank God!

If soccer was the American Dream we would have to subject ourselves to its version of Dick Vitale, the Pittsburgh Pirates, LeBron-mania, Tiger Woods, and Jerry Jones.

NostraDONus: Big 10 landing a 12th will have domino effect in CFB

Call them the Big Tentative. This week the Big 10, which really includes 11 teams but had as few as nine member schools during World War II, announced its desire to find a 12th suitor over the next 18 months to round out the conference and create more problems for elementary math students and those hoping to gain entry to Ohio State University, where entrance exams for football players in the Woody Hayes era included the question “How many teams are in the Big 10?”

What Really Inspired Tiger?

These billboards are scattered throughout the Asheville, NC area hoping to draw rich fans of Tiger to purchase high-priced mountain top lots on a new golf course that is part of The Cliffs line of developments. What really inspired him?

“E..lin..caught Tiger Chasin’ Tail, It’s plain to see” - Another Tiger Woods Parody

To the tune of Buck Owens “I’ve got a Tiger by the tail” (tune: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP2oT7F6DSo)

“Looks like we’ve got Tiger chasin’ tail” 
E…lin…caught Tiger chasin’ tail, it’s plain to see;
She swung a club and then he hit a tree;
Well, his Caddy’s wrecked and his life is in the pail.
Looks like we’ve got Tiger chasin’ tail.
Well, we […]

Uncork the whine, this year’s Siesta Bowl purposely set-up to be a ratings snoozer

TCU and Boise State are not the victims of some vast conspiracy against the non-BCS conferences. That would imply there is some level of secrecy to the whole charade and we know those are only used on the Clintons, Kennedy family members and Tiger Woods sext-message-o-the-week recipients. They are simply the victim of greed disguised as higher education, a model adopted and perfected by the Ivy League over the past 200 years and adapted for football by the six major conferences over the past 12 seasons. Let the whine and kickers flow.

“I am Tiger Woods!” - The Sequel

Oh, these are the times I wish I was a video producer or writer for Saturday Night Live…Let’s re-write the fabled “I am Tiger Woods!” ad sequence.

Uga VII’s Heart Couldn’t Handle Georgia’s Mediocrity

Some SEC pundits are already speculating that Uga VII’s demise was partially due to Richt’s undying loyalty to coordinator Martinez, who is the proverbial fire hydrant for SEC offenses. Others are suggesting Uga VII was still reeling from UGA donning black helmets for the Florida game last month.

Culture of Corruption Handcuffed Chicago’s Olympics Bid

His name is Daley and he’s stomping in the sand.
Not in Rio, mind you, but at Oak Street Beach.
It took more than 100 years, but Chicago’s long-standing culture of corruption, kickbacks and graft finally doomed the City on the most visible international stage since Upton Sinclair published The Jungle in 1906. Packingtown and its homegrown President were […]

NASCAR: A 12-Step Recovery Program

Face it, Bubbas, NASCAR is in the tank. Actually, NASCAR should face the fact that its organization is in the tank. The Bubbas have already left the arena. You can actually find tickets for races at Bristol. Backstretch seating was not open for the July 4 race at Daytona. Television ratings now rival those of hockey, lacrosse and tiddly winks. NASCAR is on the brink of becoming what it was: a regional anomaly. Unfortunately, it’s regional draw (drawl?) is already eroding in the breadbasket of stock car auto racing, namely western North Carolina and other parts of the Southeast, due to a decade worth of poor marketing and growth decisions. Here’s what NASCAR can do to get back its swagger.