Barking Carnival

I’m a big fan of Tony Barnhart of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Really knows his shit. He released his preseason Top 10 yesterday on his blog.
1. Georgia (11-2 last season, 8 offense, 9 defense)
2. USC (11-2, 4 offense, 7 defense)
3. Missouri (12-2, 6 offense, 10 defense)
4. Florida (9-4, 8 offense, 8 defense)
5. Ohio State (11-2, 9 […]

So Chip Brown of the Dallas Morning News said on his radio show yesterday something to the effect of ‘John Mackovic’s best players would be Mack Brown’s best players.’
Now I didn’t listen to the show because I think people who listen to sports radio are even more despicable than people who read blogs. Except the […]

Mack Brown is getting a chair endowed in his name. The University of Texas is going to endow the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs to be part of the university’s Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law.
Global Affairs? Dude doesn’t even recruit out of state. Why not the […]

Wonder who in college football is opposed to a playoff system? Look no further than Ohio State.
President E. Gordon Gee, athletic director Gene Smith and head coach Jim Tressell are all opposed to a playoff, and they think the current system is fine. It’s actually not just them, but pretty much everyone in college football […]

Former Texas running back Cedric Benson got himself arrested on Lake Travis last Saturday. He was charged with operating a boat while intoxicated and resisting arrest.
An LCRA officer performing a routine safety inspection found an intoxicated Benson driving the boat and not wearing a life jacket. Dumb.

Looks drunk to me.
The arresting officer reported that […]

I’m a rocker through and through. Here’s a list of my favorite bands: AC/DC, Van Halen not Van Hagar, Skynyrd, Def Leppard…and now Black Tide.
They’re four teenagers from Miami who are one of only a handful of new metal bands I’ve liked in the last 15 years. The guitars sound crisp and the drums don’t […]

Michael Avery is a 15 year old from Thousand Oaks, California. He’s also a pretty good basketball player. So good that Kentucky coach Billy Gillispie has offered him a scholarship.

‘Eighth graders, Dude.’
Now Gillispie can’t talk about Avery because of NCAA rules (and possibly the Mann Act), but Avery’s father, Michael Lohan Howard, told the LA […]

Ryan Perrilloux has finally been kicked off the LSU football team.
LSU head coach Les Miles said that Perrilloux “didn’t fulfill his obligation as an LSU student-athlete.” What those obligations were are left to the reader’s imagination.
He’s just the latest in a long line of players, particularly quarterbacks, who have suffered career setbacks after […]

Another day, another woman with whom Roger Clemens has had an affair.
This time the New York Daily News is reporting that ’sources’ have told them that Clemens had an affair with John Daly’s ex-wife, Paulette Dean Daly.
They met at the Bob Hope Classic where she worked as a ‘Classic Girl.’ The tournament is […]

Every year I make a list of the players drafted by the NFL who played their high school ball in Texas. I do it to see which players realized their potential in college and which players that flew under the radar ended up being given a chance to play pro football. So here’s this year’s […]