Drunken Omelette

The prosecution calls, uh, JULIO! JULIO! JULIO!

Alabama wide receiver recruit Julio Jones will bring justice to the football field this fall and … oh, oh God …

The kind of weird thing about this:

Wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt emblazoned with the Oklahoma Sooners logo, Jones took the stand after Gibbs, essentially repeating his friend’s testimony (that he saw someone shot in the head).

Uh … Boomer Sooner?

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…)