Mike Gravel: The Spartans were gay!

Presidential candidate Mike Gravel (Alaska), said that the Spartans were trained to be homosexual, in order to foster deep feelings of devotion to one another on the battlefield. Gravel, you douche. If that was the case then a gay person could be untrained as well, right? Given the success of the Spartans, why not make the "training" standard in the armed forces? Mikey, love in the foxhole just complicates things. A soldier has an objective, a cold blooded one at that, and adding extra emotions is just stupid. Hey, Alaskan dude: Stop calling Spartans "homos", and stop coming up with poor battlefield ideas.

This Barry was the best in the biz

195 pound Barry Bonds was the best outfielder in the game in the early 1990's. Probably the best all around player too. The 235 lb present incarnation of Barry is a cartoonish train wreck. His body and his DOME are bigger. His average and power spiked AFTER the age of 35. After never hitting 50 homers, he hit 70 plus bombs in a year. With a career average around .300, he then hit .373 one season, also past the age of 35. Supposedly, he was jealous of the press that Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire got for their home chase of 1998, and he decided to start juicing. It's a shame because he would have been a hall of famer without the 'roids OR the home run record. Because he is an a-hole he basically was jobbed out of about 5 MVP awards (voted on by the media), and he subsequently became a bitterman. It's too bad, because when he was with the Pirates, he was a 5 tool cat and along with Ken Griffey Jr., he was regarded as the best in the biz. It just wasn't enough, tho'. Barry Bonds: A natural born jackass.

CM's DVD o' the week

Knockaround Guys, (2001), was a much hyped, but straight to video movie that has a powerful cast (Vin Diesel, John Malkovich and Dennis Hopper) about these cats who are sons of wise guys, but would like to break into the family business. Barry Pepper and Seth Green are good as well. Check it out if you dig mob movies with a twist.

Hey X: Colt IS the best QB in the nation!

Ok, ok. I'm trying to draw Comrade X offsides with this one. Commie X thought in my University of Texas football preview that I said Colt McCoy was the best QB in the nation. What I said was that Texas has the best set of offensive skill players in the nation. Although I do think McCoy is the best QB in the Big 12, the best QB in the nation is Hawaii's Colt Brennan (6-3, 200).When the Detroit Lions suck again (it's a given that they will), and they need a QB (it's a given that they will) and they are picking very high (it's a given...you get the point), this is the guy to take. He's better than Chad Henne or Brian Brohm. Great arm, great release and although he's not the athlete that Kentucky's Andre Woodson (another good senior QB prospect) is, he ain't bad (4.6 4o yd dash, 500 yards rushing and 5 TDs in 2006). Much like Texas Tech's Graham Harrell, he plays in a wild assed offense, (Brennan threw for 58 TDs in '06) where all QBs put up big numbers, but HE (and Harrell) has big time talent. Mark it down: Hawaii's Colt Brennan is the most talented QB in college football today.

Gotdamnit!!!!

My favorite Ranger ever is gone. The GREAT Eric Gagne has been dealt to the BoSox, and I'm not happy about it. The fucking Rangers blow.

The "Genius", Bill Walsh, dead at 75

Former Stanford and San Francisco 49ers coach Bill Walsh has passed away at 75. Being a Dallas Cowboy fan, I couldn't stand him at times. Being a coach and former QB, I basically worshipped at the altar of his teachings: The famed "West Coast" offense. It was (and is) an offense I believe in and enjoyed playing in. It's a complicated offense (I've seen playbooks 500-600 pages thick based on the offense) that relies on short passes in an attempt to "out flank" one's opponent. If you are a pass catcher, you don't have to be super fast, if you are a pass thrower, you don't have to have a big arm. Your running backs don't have to be the prototypical "I" back (i.e. 20-25 carries a game running from the I-formation), they do need to be able to catch, as do your tight ends, who by the way don't have to be enourmous either. A genius offense that can make an average team competitive, and a good team great. Some of the philosophy comes from Paul Brown, but most of it was perfected by Bill Walsh. The football world lost a legend today, even if he was a 49er.

The "Cavemen" are coming

Yep, those boys from the Geico ads are heading to ABC, replacing The George Lopez Show. I never watched Lopez' show, but I gotta tell you, I am kinda interested in the Cavemen.