More in common than we could ever imagineTop of the morning, Dubyans all, and welcome to your midweek skull session.
Hopefully, you all had a safe and happy holiday weekend with friends and family. I wish I could say the same but after being conned into a brief canoe trip, I'm left with a banged up elbow, a badly bruised foot (and ego) and a gimpy ankle thanks to some frothy rapids (and by frothy rapids, I mean I've never been on a canoe before and have zero canoe skills).
Why on earth do people go canoeing? First off, it doesn't even look like a properly spelled word. Second, the activity seemed to rotate from boring to life-threatening with little in between despite my attempts to liven it up with Absolut or snarky cracks on all the WT frolicking in the disgusting creek water as if they were vacationing in Belize.
Seriously, I watched the mother of what appeared to be a no more than 10 year old boy yelling at everyone passing by to look up in a tree hanging over the water to watch her "monkey son" jump from probably 40 feet into the creek below. She was so proud of her son as he plummeted into the water - sans life jacket - and resurfaced seconds later that she began clapping and encouraged onlookers to join in.
Too bad I didn't have my phone, I would've called children's services the local head carnie to reap a finder's fee.
With my hatred for a grim canoeing experience now conveyed, let's see what's happening in the world of sport...
Are you consistently reading Buckshots yet? We've seen a few rookies comment within the larger posts about stories already linked in our Buckshots section so consider this a PSA to be sure and check the far right column of the site for quick hit news links.
In yesterday's Buckshots appeared Dan Wallenberg's tweet that Ohio State will most likely make public their response to the NCAA's notice of allegations as early as next Monday, July 11th. The school was given an extension to respond to the notice by this Friday, July 8th.
Maybe I'm reading too much into this but the real news, noted in a USA Today article at least, states that the Buckeyes "still appear headed toward an Aug. 12 hearing before the NCAA's Committee on Infractions in Indianapolis."
Avoiding a delay in the hearing, and a subsequent delay in the announcement of penalties woud be huge especially if a postseason bowl ban is part of our medicine as a one year bowl ban could be served this season, alleviating some of the long term recruiting pain.
Must be nothing else to do in Lincoln but read. Hopefully your work week got off to a better start than Nebraska's after the Huskers acknowledged erroneously giving away roughly $28 gurr in textbooks/supplies to student-athletes over a span of four years, amounting to three minor NCAA violations.
Props to our friends in Lincoln for imposing a two year probationary term and paying $28k to charity. In addition, all impacted athletes have paid amounts to charity equal to the value of their extra benefit. If only we had their compliance problems.
Those poor student athletes - given extra textbooks as an impermissable benefit?! I know they're expensive but so are hookers. Nevermind.
Small time college football gimmicks are cute. The Baylor Bears got creative with football ticket sales offering non-premium season ticket packages based on the high temperature in Waco on July 4th.
Waco - the exact spot of America's taint - reached 101 degrees, setting the season package price at $101 if purchased by July 10th.
The deal is actually a pretty good one if you're stuck in Waco as the Bears host TCU, Texas, Oklahoma and Mizzou this season.
Hoops?! Why you talkin' bloody hoops? Literally. I know how irritated some of you get when we talk hoops outside of the roundball season but I must make an exception in honor of Oregon State guard Roberto Nelson.
Playing overseas as part of the other OSU's "Beavers Without Borders" service-based college basketball team which helps with construction in Skopje, Macedonia, Nelson converted a putback jam shattering the backboard leading to various lacerations on his face and arm totaling 20 stitches. Skip ahead to the 2:10 mark if you are impatient.
Features include a luxurious leopard print sunroom. Rich and RitaRod's abode south of Ann Arbor is officially on the market with a list price of $1.9 million.
The actual listing notes five bedrooms and five baths, three fireplaces and nearly 5,700 square feet on a 1.2 acre lot.
Some digging by commenters on the article at annarbor.com claim the property is currently worth $572k and was valued at $700k when purchased back in 2008 for $1.5 mil. If anywhere near true, these figures only reinforce Rich's struggles in the real estate world.
As a guy currently trying to unload a crib, I'm trying my best to empathize with his plight.
Drive By. The 10 most disgusting eating competitions...MTV Cribs episode featuring a Columbus garage...Pickles. Renamed.
