all-encompassingly

i wasn’t a believer before. for example, here is a recent email exchange between doug and me:

Subject: UK
From: Doug
To: Travis
Date: Sep 28
When are you going to blog about UK football?

my response:

i still feel like its too good to be true.

no longer.
early last fall, i was so frustrated with […]

At the end of last year’s college football season I posted Notre Dame: Were they ever that good? wondering out loud about Notre Dame and lamenting the sad state of football at South Bend.
N. Chung, a frequent commenter on the blog, said the following:
I just finished Lou Holtz’s bio, and he even complained that media […]

his cheating is 1000 times worse than barry bonds‘ because, unlike bonds’ teams, belichick’s teams have won championships. an astonishing 3 in the last 5 years or something like that. if the league determines they cheated in any of those seasons, they should be stripped of their titles and those involved should be […]

Non-nappy headed Rutgers fans yell profanity-laden chants at Navy players.
Hat tip: Drudge.

This guy is awesome on the court…and seems to have a wicked sense of humor too.

We all know that Bonds used steroids arthritic rubbing balm and flaxseed oil.
Now, take a look at this fascinating article exploring the giant protective gear that Bonds uses.
For years, sportswriters remarked that his massive “protective” gear – unequaled in all of baseball — permits Bonds to lean over the plate without fear of […]

ted miller has written a great article putting MLS doubters in their place. the money quote is about halfway down, where he engages in a fun little hypothetical involving frontline.

Whether Beckham makes his Major League Soccer debut Sunday in Toronto or not, you can count on many so-called pundits trashing the […]

as an animal lover, i cannot believe anyone could do this to a dog:

In or about April of 2007, Peace, Phillips and [atlanta falcons star quarterback, michael] Vick executed approximately eight dogs that did not perform well in ‘testing’ sessions at 1915 Moonlight Road by various methods, including hanging, drowning and slamming at least one […]

we’re just ‘gringos’ to them.

i wrote this post last football season, but never published it because he had a passer rating of zero a few weeks later, and so 1.3 wasn’t even uniquely bad for him anymore. anyway, since i’m cleaning out the old posts, here it is — travis
the QB scores a 1.3 passer rating, but the […]

Imparable.

 
Boca Juniors, campeón otra vez de la Copa Libertadores.
¡¡Cantá con La 12!!

Señores yo soy de boca desde la cuna
que vamo a salir campeones no tengo duda
con un poco más de huevo la vuelta vamos a dar
y todos de la cabeza vamo a festejar
dale dale Bo dale dale Bo y dale dale Bo dale dale Bo

Lionel Messi is really becoming Diego Maradona. First the amazing goal against Getafe and now Mano de Dios II.
After reading about this goal on La Nacion on Saturday, I checked YouTube but there weren’t any videos available. Now there are. Thanks to Briant for the reminder!
 

Boca 3 - Cúcuta 0
 

An interesting idea from Mark Cuban.
Replace the lottery with a simple better team record or coin flip based on conference standings. In other words, for the last two teams in each conference , the team with the better record gets the first pick. If its a tie, there is a coinflip. The next to last […]

the way amare stoudemire has been booed in san antonio this week, youda thunk he called their fans nappy headed hos or something.
he didn’t say that. what stoudemire did say after game two, however, is that the spurs are a dirty team.
as if on cue, robert horry set out to prove him […]