Drunken Omelette

Coaching with Christ… NASCAR…?

We’ve made no bones that we do enjoy Len Pasquarelli and are very upset that a quintuple bypass* has robbed us from receiving a (subscriber-0nly) deluge of tightly-compiled NFL information each week. But we found something interesting while checking Wikipedia to see if we going to have to permanently reconcile Pat Yashinkas as our main source of NFL analysis like some sort of underwhelming journalistic rebound girlfriend**:

Pasquarelli has never been shy about expressing his opinions in online columns. Some, including profootballtalk.com, have alleged that his columns are biased, particularly in favor of players whose agents supply him with useful information.

We giggled when we read this. We really did. (more…)

Oh, crap.
Richard Zednik of the Florida Hockey-Panthers is in stable condition after having his throat slashed open by a skate in his team’s 5-3 loss to the (really unfortunately named) Buffalo Sabres last night. Zednik reacted quickly, putting pressure on his apparently severed jugular vein while skating over to a team trainer.

We are not fans of the hockey, though this is not why. We’re glad to hear this fella is all right, but we have to wonder how something like this doesn’t happen more often, even if the folks on skates are (semi-)trained professionals.

This is why we prefer a support like football, where you only have an 80 percent chance of being killed on field:

Mmm. Safety.

JULIO! JULIO! JULIO!
We apologize for our prolonged absence, but we were distracted by issues caused by the massive, deadly tornado that ripped up much of the Mid-South early last week.

But while most of the blogosphere has put the recruiting to the bed, we will now give you our first of our delayed reactions: (more…)