Glory, Glory to Ole Georgia -- #10 Kupets scores a Ten

For those who do not know, UGA is one of the premier bastions of Gymnastics in the NCAA ranks.

On top of being incredibly good at their sport, the Georgia Gym Dawgs tend to be really cute, and this year at the "The World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party" we were lucky enough to tailgate next to the Gym Dawgs and the Diamond Dawgs. There was enough hotness to go around for both genders. I even got to flirt with one gym dawg. Granted she was really drunk, but hey, that's how it goes sometimes.

I digress, Courtney Kupets is one of the stars at UGA for the gymnastics team. A few days before Valentine's Day 2007, UGA faced #3 Alabama in the Stegasaurus. I had never been a huge Gym Dawgs fan. In fact, throughout undergrad I would buy season tickets to the Gym Dawgs and then go to one match the entire season.

However, once I got into law school, one of my friends, whose father would go to every Gym Dawg event with her, took me to a few matches every now and then. I had no idea what I was missing. If you are lucky enough to be at UGA right now, I suggest going to one of these competetions. They are beyond exciting and, quite often, can leave you slack jawed at how these young women can pull off some of these maneuvers.

I was fortunate enough to attend this gymnastics meet earlier this year, and it cracks my list at #10 because of the sheer brilliance of Courtney Kupets performance on the bars that night. To write about it does not do it justice. Kupets, whose sister was also on the team, won bronze on the bars in Athens in 2004. Alabama actually had a gymnast who had won silver on bars in Athens. It was already going to be an impressive night, just knowing that.

First, to reflect on the atmosphere. The Stegasaurus was sold out and rowdy. Try doing that during a basketball game these days. As Kupets took the bars she flew through the routine, nailing a beautiful handstand and flying in such perfect form half the arena was staring shell shocked that such perfection could be reached. When she hit the dismount the entire place erupted with chants of "TEN! TEN! TEN!" bouncing off the walls. It was an amazing sight. When the score came out a minute later, the place erupted again. It was the first perfect ten for UGA in three seasons, and the first perfect ten on bars in five seasons. More importantly, it helped UGA defeat the Crimson Tide and move down the path to claim what would become the team's eighth national championship.

Although UGA did not gain the #1 ranking that night, a spot reserved for the University of Florida, the Gym Dawgs would come back down the home stretch to defeat Utah, UCLA, and Florida to win the National Championship and become repeat champions for the third year in a row.

What a team.

Glory, Glory to Ole Georgia.

There is a lot to write about in the sporting world today, but I am going to take a break from that and, considering there are just a few more days until the Sugar Bowl, I thought I would make a list of the top ten UGA sporting moments that I was lucky enough to attend.



A little background before I start down that road. I grew up in Atlanta, and I am ashamed to say, I grew up a Georgia Tech fan. Truth be told, I was actually a bigger pro sports fan than a Georgia Tech fan, which is understandable I would hope, because Georgia Tech usually sucks. I do remember once, while growing up, attending a Georgia Tech - Maryland football game, where the Tech fans thought it would be humourous to use their seat cushions as frisbees after a questionable call by the referees.





Smells like we killed it again.


I will state for all those Georgia Tech people that haven't caught onto this blog yet, mainly because no one has caught onto this blog yet, I did in fact get into Georgia Tech, along with many other schools. However, being an outdoorsy person, I could not accept astroturf intramural fields, and instead chose to attend UGA.



Before I started school at UGA I had been to Athens all of one time. That's right. One. Time. I blame my parents, personally. They must have put me in a sensory deprivation chamber growing up. I attended UGA from 2000 to 2007, earning three degrees along the way, and, more importantly, attending, and sometimes taking part in through radio work, some of the most exhilirating UGA games in history.



Just in time for the holidays, I bring you the top ten UGA sporting moments I was lucky enough to attend.

We call that JAILBAIT down here

This is completely non-sports related, but it was too funny to pass up. Britney Spears little sister, Jamie Lynn, is pregnant. The funny part is that she is 16. Yup, 16. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you:

...................JAILBAIT......................

Seriously, if this was Georgia where this happened, that boyfriend would get arrested for statutory rape. And she claims it was by her boyfriend. But with that family I don't think you really ever know. What is so funny about this is that she is the star of her own KIDS SHOW. Really, you can't make this stuff up.

I wonder how she is going to pull that off in the next season of "Zoey 101."

I think she probably just wanted to beat her sister in the falling from the graces of every guy drooling over her. She wanted to fall from grace before any self-respecting guy would take another look at her because she was too young.

Today is going to be a good day.

Blow, Blow, Criminole Wind

The news today out of Tallahassee is that up to 25, and more likely 23 Seminole Football players will not be making the trip to Nashville for the Music City Bowl against the University of Kentucky.

Why, you may ask?

It is because earlier this year, and by earlier, I mean in SEPTEMBER, an internal investigation found that at least 23 players in various sports at Florida State had been cheating on tests.

You read that right. SEPTEMBER. Why is this being done now? Why wasn't this done earlier. Obviously, the University was aware of the roles that many of these athletes had during the season and yet chose not to do anything about it during the season.

The only logical reason I can find for this is that Florida State would not have been able to compete in the ACC at all if a third of the team was suspended for even one game, and more likely, four games. Imagine that, Florida State chose football over academics.

No, that is not even my biggest problem with this. My biggest problem with this is that Florida State accepted a bowl bid knowing that a third of its team had cheated.

A couple of years ago Clemson and South Carolina got into a huge brawl at the end of their last regular season game. In response neither team accepted a bowl bid.

Florida State should not have accepted a bowl bid. If a third of your team cheats then it is likely that the other members knew. If they did not know then they are still a team. You have to punish the team as a team.

This post is not meant to be funny. But if you did not get the reference in the title, here is where it came from:

Nick Saban is bolting?

This is preliminary information but apparently, Nick Saban has contacted West Virginia about their coaching opening. It looks like Bobby Petrino might have some competition again. This is like Sunday Silence and Easy Goer again!!!



Hold on, hold on, I am still the coach of the Spart...Tig...Dolp...Tid...Moun...







This is off a West Virginia website:

Sources close to University President Mike Garrison have informed WBGV that Nick Saban’s agent has contacted WVU regarding our vacant head-coaching position.

These sources tell us that Saban is extremely unhappy in Tuscaloosa and has failed to recapture the situation he had in Baton Rouge with LSU. The purpose of the agent’s call was to express initial interest in the position and to have WVU athletics put together a compensation package enough to lure Saban from Alabama. This package would not need to be as much as Saban is currently making at Alabama, but enough to not result in a 50% paycut. So, we’re obviously talking more than the $1.9 million former coach Rich Rodriguez was making.

Again, this is all very preliminary, but solid sources have confirmed that Nick Saban’s agent has contacted West Virginia University.

*** UPDATE #1 *** This report has been confirmed by the staff at WVSports.com. Unfortunately, it is posted on their premium board so that confirmation can not be reprinted here. Still, it has been confirmed.

*** UPDATE #2 *** Well, it’s not a stone-cold confirmation, but our friend Mike Casazza can’t verify that the story isn’t true. Pardon the double negative, but it looks like this baby certainly has legs.





And dooown the stretch they come....it's Petrino, it's Saban!!!

Why Bobby Petrino and Rich Rodriguez are not the same.

Bobby Petrino and Rich Rodriguez both left their teams this past week. Both coaches have been known to flirt with other programs each season, but that is where the similarities end for those two.

Bobby Petrino likes the color red. Rodriguez likes blue.

It's quite obvious now that Rodriguez has bolted for Michigan. Just last year he was offered an equally prestigious, albeit more downtrodden job, at the University of Alabama. There was one huge problem. Alabama is red. There is no getting around it. It's crimson if you want to be specific, but that is just a more pronounced red. He couldn't do it. He is a blue man, and he will die a blue man. All this time the Michigan job search was looking for the "Michigan Man," where in reality, all they really needed was the "Blue Man."











I think we can come upon one conclusion here. Petrino likes Dick Cheney. Rodriguez likes Bill Clinton.

Think about that.

Is it really a shock?

Bobby Petrino has poor communication skills, and is generally known as an asshole.

Rich Rodriguez is a charmer who is very sociable and I would not be surprised if he played the saxophone. Bobby Petrino is known as a disciplinarian, but he lacks the ability to actually convey what his plan is, at least that was the case in Atlanta.

Sounds like some Middle Eastern country I have heard of. Finally, lets not forget the clandestine meetings Petrino is famous for. Anyone here think Cheney hasn't been secretly meeting with Tricky Dick with the help of Madame Cleo?
















Remember when Dick Cheney shot a man? I would not be surprised if Bobby Petrino has done that before.




Hmmmm. That's a nice weapon....I wonder if my buddy Bobby needs a new gun?





Rodriguez is the antithesis of Petrino. I know, I know, you are thinking that they both just stabbed their employers in the back. Rodriguez just took a prestigious job that almost any coach would be insane not to take at a hefty raise.

That sounds like a blue thing to do to me. Jumping on the bandwagon of the next hot thing. Internet bubble anyone?

Petrino just took a job, that is, at best, the SEVENTH best job in the conference and for a pay cut!!! Worse yet, Petrino did it in the middle of the NFL season!

There you have another similarity that Petrino has with Cheney. Fiscally irresponsible. Of course, maybe Petrino is a pocket blue stater, after all he did pull out when the going got tough in Atlanta. Iraq anyone?

So in the end, there is another conclusion we must come to. Petrino tries to pretend he is red, he follows the evil ways of Dick Cheney, but somewhere, deep inside that soulless face of his is a blue man trying to get out --- much like Freddy Mercury. Ladies and Gentlemen, we are looking at the head coach of the Duke Blue Devils, circa 2012, when David Cutcliffe gets fired for losing his star quarterback to the NFL Draft and the Blue Devils fall to a four win squad a year after tying for the division lead in the ACC Coastal.

I want to break free! I want to break free! I want to break free from your lies!
You're so self satisfied, I don't need you! I've got to break free! God knows, God knows, I want to break free!




And just imagine that. Bobby Petrino is Freddy Mercury. They both just wanted to break free. I bet Petrino votes for Hillary.

Miami Dolphins

The Dolphins just won a game. If you are Matt Stover how do you go into the locker room knowing you should have made that game winning kick? If you are Troy Smith, how good do you think your chances are in the NFL after leading your team down the field twice coming off the bench? I know that was the Dolphins defense he was going against, but they are actually pretty good on that side of the ball.


By the way. I just found this wonderful image of Dolphins stadium at halftime today. They were pretty close to selling out that place. I know, I know, I should talk. The Dolphins are actually better than the Falcons, they just have tougher competition to play.

I was actually going to be looking forward to watching the Dolphins-Patriots game next week if the Pats were 14-0 and the Dolphins were 0-14, and with Shula's '72 team hoping for some oddly timed miracle. O well, I guess I will have more of an excuse not to watch the NFL this year now.

You have to feel good for the Dolphins right now though. Unlike the Falcons or many other losers this season they are actually still attempting to play the game. The Falcons looked downright atrocious today. It makes me wonder what would have happened if D.J. Shockley hadn't gotten hurt in the pre-season. I would think he would have at least gotten some playing time by now. That is too bad that he hasn't. I just hope whoever comes in next year gives him a shot. I also hope the Falcons don't waste their first pick on a QB. They have too many other problems to worry about a QB right now.

The Dolphins need a QB though. They are a lot closer to being a decent team than the Falcons. I miss college football.

Golf

Yes, golf.

I just played for the first time in seven months. It was pretty awful. Awful, meaning it was the worst I have ever done. I started out alright and was on pace to shoot in the high 90s after 8 holes, and then much like Greg Norman. I blew up. Ended up getting a 127. I feel bad for people up north because it was in the mid 70s today and I was playing golf. They have blizzards.

Suckers.

Makes you wonder how Tiger Woods and all those professionals do it. Just heard something while having golf on in the background that said 99 PGA tour players made a cool million in earnings from tournaments this year. Seriously. Not kidding. You could be the 99th best golfer in the world and still be a millionaire.

Hell. You could probably be the 300th best golfer and still make six figures. Think about that. The 300th best golfer probably shoots in the high 70s low 80s consistently. Sometimes he gets lucky and breaks par.

If I get lucky in what I do I don't get caught surfing the internet at work. I am not very lucky though.

Golfers also tend to have really hot girlfriends and/or wives. Hell, even the ultimate choker, Greg Norman, is marrying Chris Evert.

I actually just looked it up. The 216th best golfer in the world this year is Larry Mize. He made $105,740 this year so far. So I was wrong, the 300th best golfer didn't break 6 figures. The PGA Tour doesn't even list the 300th best golfer. It stops at 256. So dude named Guy Boros.


Guy Boros.

Sounds like a rip off Bond villain. Even he has won a Tour event in his career. He has made nearly 1.5 million in his career off the Tour. He also apparently makes just over 56% of greens in regulation. I think if I played every day and took some good lessons I could probably get near that within a year or two.


He doesn't look very athletic. I bet he has a hot wife. Or had one.

Trev Alberts

Why is this blog titled as it is?

Is it because I agreed with everything Trev Alberts said?

Quite simply, heck no!

The title of this blog is more an indirect hit at the wonders that are Lou Holtz, Mark May, Kirk Herbstreit, and that fabulous Connecticut corporation ESPN. No, I didn't forget about you Rece....or you Corso. It is just that this month I have a larger problem with the others. O yeah, don't let me forget you Mr. Bachelor.....that's right Jesse Fucking Palmer. That has a ring to it. Kind of like Luis Fucking Sojo.

Who, you ask?


Yeah, that is Luis Fucking Sojo himself, rubbing himself apparently. Must feel good. Those are some man sized saucers. ----->


Well, back to the topic at hand. Trev Alberts was an outspoken loudmouth on Gameday and he got fired because ESPN was shafting him. ESPN doesn't fire people when they sexually harass people but they fire people when they feel like they are being slighted at work. Should Trev have not shown up to work that day? Probably not. There are more effective ways to let people know that they suck. I doubt he is losing sleep over it.

I miss Trev Alberts because, as opposed to Mark May and Rece, he actually has an intelligent thought every now and then and doesn't completely let his biases determine what comes out of his clapper. Herbstreit could learn a thing or two from that. Mr. Big Ten has really drawn my ire lately because of what he did on Championship Saturday a couple of weeks ago.

Mostly I miss Trev because unlike Mr. Herbstreit he uses this weird thing called common sense. I am not as upset about Georgia not getting in the National Championship Game as I am about how Herbstreit and his cronies used ESPN air time to pander to what they wanted. I am also upset at the BCS for not getting the game match-ups rights. Mizzou should have been in the Orange Bowl and everyone but Fat Bastard knows it.

If you look below you will find a couple of recent videos from the Man himself. And, of course, Mangino aka Fat Bastard.









Also, to top things off. Here is what you should have said Herbstreit, Palmer and Holtz. Instead of badmouthing UGA you could have taken the high road like Mr. Alberts did and said. "Yes, the two most deserving teams are in the national championship, but Georgia had a legitimate argument to be there as well." See was that so hard Herby?

And it Begins

I am relatively new to this whole blogging thing. I had one a few years ago entitled "I hate my roommate," which people apparently found humourous for the few weeks I bothered to keep it going. But I am a completely lazy fool so the blog didn't last long. Neither did that roommate.

Regardless, I have decided to write about something much more interesting than roommates that put live ammunition in the dryer. (That blog had so much potential.) That topic, of course, is sports. I will dabble in other topics every now and then I am sure, but sports is what I must write about.

Just so people know, I used to work in sports radio, along with all sorts of other radio stations. Particularly, I worked in radio for Atlanta Falcons broadcasts and Georgia Bulldogs broadcasts. I also did a lot of high school football, but you people don't care about that, and if you do you and you aren't somehow connected strongly to a high school program you should really take a deep breath and re-evaluate your life. Perhaps start by putting live ammunition in your dryer and stand nearby. Could help you gain perspective.

I hope everyone finds this blog humourous and a good read. Mainly, I am doing this to pass the time. Obviously, I will be biased to particular teams, especially Georgia based teams, in my heart, but I will try to call out stupidity across the spectrum....and that stupidity could take many forms.....like Terence Moore, or the South Koreans making glow in the dark cats.

Actually, I think I know what I want to get for next Halloween now.
















Enjoy.