1. Marcus Ginyard and I have something in common besides our hatred for Duke and our ability to reverse jam. I, too was a delivery guy in college. Well technically, I reverse jam on 8' foot hoops (which still feels good) and I delivered pizza for 3 years after college, including a couple of trips to my favorite professor, who actually liked me and thought I was smart. So that was embarrassing. He managed to tip a decent amount, but not an amount that I would have taken for pity. Ah, but the look in his eyes. It was pity. I'm going to go ahead and guess that Ginyard will not be delivering people food 3 years after he leaves college.
Interesting side note: the writer of the article is one Robbi Pickeral, who used to work at the St. Paul Pioneer Press, before they started clearing the decks in the name of profit. Maybe there was something else behind her leaving. I don't remember.
2. Christiano Ronaldo isn't always faking when he hits the deck. Of course, if he didn't dive so much, maybe Man City players wouldn't be so tempted to stick their foot into his gut. I can't help but imagine that as Ronaldo went to ground, and saw a Man City player getting ready to stomp on him he thought to himself, "Please, not the face. Not the face! My beauty must live on!" Or something like that.
3. And finally, via Deadspin's Leftovers, we get a look at Pro Athletes who moved onto careers not about sports. I only gave it a cursory look, but I'm pretty sure James Ellroy would be annoyed that (somewhat fictionalized) Sonny Liston's role as bagman/enforcer for the Vegas mob was overlooked.
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Some of your links go to weird places, Big BM.
I was hoping to see a photo of someone having their boobs fondled in an aggressive & unfriendly way. Now that they won't let me into Denny's anymore, such images have been missing from my life.
I encourage you to pursue the angle of pro-owner vs. pro-fan columnists. I think there's something there.
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