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College Football at Random

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Daniel-San
on September 2, 2008
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Kevin Craft is to redemption what I am to writing articles that no one reads nor cares about.

The third-string UCLA Bruins Quarterback, who was starting due to injuries, actually didn’t start off the game that bad.  He completed several passes and moved the Bruins to Field Goal range.  Then, something happened.

He began playing worse than Luke Wilson after Gwyneth Paltrow married Bill Murray in The Royal Tennenbaums.

Kevin Craft, literally, just threw the ball to the other team.  Four times.  In the 1st Half.  After the 3rd one you could see new Head Coach Rick Neuheisel just start screaming at him when he reached the sidelines.  It appeared he was shouting, “Come on!  That was right to him!  Come on!  That’s three!”

And just when Neuheisel thought it couldn’t get any worse, Craft inexplicably threw right at Tennessee Defensive Back Nevin McKenzie with less than 30 seconds left to go in the half to break the tie and put the Volunteers up 7 at the half.

That interception was the back-breaker of all back-breakers.  It reminded me of Frank Reich’s awful throw right at Bubba McDowell in the legendary Bills/Oilers 1993 Wildcard Playoff Game.  That put the Oilers up 35-3 about a minute and a half into the 2nd Half.  Yes, the point differential does not compare, but in that situation Frank Reich didn’t have time to think about it and had to get right back on the field and lead a touchdown scoring drive.  In Craft’s case, he had to go to the lockerroom with an entire team just staring at him, knowing he was the reason they were down and probably the reason they could not win.  That’s even more painful and harder to come back from; having to stew in the lockerroom for 20 minutes and just let the failure sink in.

But as you all know, Craft never made those awful throws in the 2nd Half and led UCLA on two very long scoring drives in the 4th Quarter.  Will this lead to a great season for the fastest goat-to-hero ever on the Westwood campus?  I sincerely doubt it.  Everything seemed to go right for UCLA this game and Ben Olson will probably come back and start two games before he gets injured again and Craft will have to then come back in during a very tough PAC-10 stretch run.

A great win for a program that is looking to build some momentum in the Cardinal and Gold draped city, but it’s back to work for Neuheisel and crew.  In two weeks they have to travel to play a very good BYU team and although I wish them the best, they will most likely be knocked down from this Cloud 9- probably to Cloud 2, which is actually just a bunch of LA smog and a 5-7 record.

Thoughts at Random

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Daniel-San
on September 22, 2007
in College Football, NBA, NFL and Thoughts
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- Baltimore fans are feeling what Bills fans felt the last few years- that Willis McGahee often seems to not try- often near the end zone. Just watching a couple of Ravens’ drives this season- where Willis just stutters as he doesn’t know whether to take it outside or smash into the line- it makes me feel like a weight has been lifted off my back- and thrust upon Ravens fans.

- Ian Thomsen of Sports Illustrated recently wrote about Larry Brown and his decision to stay in Philadelphia, instead of going to be an “assistant” under Doc Rivers in Boston (or numerous other college jobs).

Thomsen says at one point in the article: “But his meetings with Snider (76ers owner) and 76ers president Billy King convinced Brown to stay in Philadelphia, where he and wife Shelly are raising their young family.”

Larry, you just got like a $40-million buyout from the Knicks- you want to live in Philly? Don’t you have a house in Malibu? You can live anywhere you want in the country- in the WORLD even, and you pick Philadelphia? I have nothing against Philly, I like Philly- but come on, Larry. Your kid could’ve been so much nicer a person.


- I can’t watch Jesse Palmer. Not that he’s an idiot or anything, I just can’t physically look at him. He looks like the epitome of a douche bag. Even the douchiest of the frat boys at Syracuse University or the douchiest wannabe actor I see out at a bar here in LA- they don’t compare with Jesse Palmer. I just want to punch him in the face. Yet, I don’t hate him- I can’t explain it.

- Talked about intensely over 2 months ago, ESPN2 again showed Darren McFadden’s pimped out Crown Vic during the Kentucky at Arkansas game on Saturday. Making it on blogs is one thing, but letting ESPN cameras come and film your ride which has at least $10,000 worth of “extras” on it, seems a bit overconfident. Where is D-Mac getting all this money from? As far as I know, his mother has been in jail and was addicted to drugs, but even if someone in his family has money- don’t flaunt it like that. I’m not saying he’s getting paid- I’m just going to leave saying people in Arkansas take their football seriously.

Thoughts at Random

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Daniel-San
on May 15, 2007
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- From a NY Times article, Oscar Pistorius has no legs and is trying to make the actual Olympics, after dominating the Special Olympics (or some other sort of Retard Olympics (Paralympics, I think)). He’s using strange, L or J shaped carbon-fiber legs and he says they give you no extra help, in fact, he says they impede him. Ok, Oscar, simma down now. I’m going to go with those carbon-fiber legs help you, because if they didn’t, you’d be crawling around on the track like Lieutenant Dan. Or maybe you’d be doing this, who knows.

- Award for Most Random, Yet Utterly Intriguing, I Have To Find Out Why Someone Would Pay For This, License Plate I have ever seen. (I found this in Burbank, CA)

- From Scout.com, very embarrassing pictures of Ted Ginn, Jr. crying at his father’s 50th birthday party a couple years back. He’s even looking right at the camera in one of them- almost knowing he’s going to be made fun of later on. So first he wusses out in the biggest game of his life and now this. Man, he’s going to be easy to hate, even for Dolphin standards.

(in other Ted Ginn, Sr. news, Bills Safety Donte Whitner just got a tatoo that says “Thank God for coach Ginn” (Ginn was his coach at Glenville High School in Cleveland). No word yet if Terrell Owens has got a similar tattoo about Coach Parcells.)

- The best rap name ever would be “DJ Tanner”

- Speaking of the Tanners, there are an inordinate amount of tributes to Jodie Sweetin on YouTube. Maybe 7. Which is 7 more than I thought there would be.

- An interview with Kevin Durant’s older brother, Tony (Mixtape here), where he says things like he would stay in school if he was in Kevin’s position and that he and his brother are basically the same player, just Kevin is more athletic. Right, Tony. That is why you went to a Junior College and Kevin is going to be a top 2 pick. Same game, though. If that’s true, I have the same game as Mark Price, he just shoots a little better.

(the best, though, is the comments on the video by Tony Durant’s Girlfriend, AshleyS30. It’s not embarrassing enough he’s never going to live up to his little brother, he also has to deal with his Girlfriend saying “Please don’t hate thanks!” on a freaking YouTube video. Jesus, Ashley, just let him be Cooper Manning and get on with his life.)