The Morning After: April 2, 2009
Good Thursday morning, peeps. Today is somewhat a day of reflection, but also of celebration: reflection for being day 1 of GatorTrey-lessness and celebration for day 1 of our new writer, VolDan. As you probably have heard by now, Trey left us for greener and meaner pastures at MLJ. So, we I went out and secured another writer to fill his large crocs.
I feel kinda bad for the actual date of April 2. It’s probably one of the least significant dates in the year ranking right before the day after Christmas and after the day after President’s Day. So, I feel I should share some mindless this-day-in-history trivia with you. Today’s birthdays: Japanese hip-hop artist ZEEBRA (1971), American provoker of the police victim of police brutality Rodney King (1965), and American skier and football player Jeremy Bloom (1982). In significant events: Burt Reynolds appeared nekkid in “Cosmopolitan” mag (1972), the NCAA Rules Committee adopted the 45-second shot clock for men’s basketball (1985, to begin in the 1986 season), and in a slap in the face to men everywhere, Jeanette Rankin becomes the first woman ever elected to the US Congress to take her seat as a representative (1917). If I wrote for MLJ like Trey does now, I would likely have added that all of the previous women elected to Congress were required to cast their votes from the kitchen and laundry room. But, I’m not a jerk like that and I work for the much nicer Sparty & Friends, so I’m not going to say it.
On to this morning’s links…
Me and VolDan can breathe a sigh of relief – Memphis has not contacted Tennessee for permission to speak with Bruce Pearl about some opening in their basketball coaching staff. Some think they should.
And, speaking of Coach Cal…pretty sweet deal, huh? I know Memphis was supposed to have matched the deal, but they can’t match a priceless commodity like “Eight tickets for each UK home football game.” How is Memphis supposed to compete with that? The answer is, they aren’t. So, Cal is now in Lexington; enjoy your “football” tickets, Cal.
On the darkest day in Memphis, TN basketball history, the Grizzlies won…and nobody noticed. You know, the whole nobody in the woods and a tree fell scenario.
Sidd Finch didn’t really throw 168 mph.
The copper from the Ryan-Moats-can’t-go-inside-the-hospital-because-he-rolled-through-a-red-light-story has resigned.
In today’s Jay-Cutler-is-an-effing-moron-and-needs-to-stop-being-a-whiny-Vandy-bitch-news, he’s surprised he’s getting traded and never wanted to be in the first place. Really, Jay; surprised? Bullfeathers!! Here’s 12 teams that may want him to whine for them.
Jozy Altidore netted a hat trick in the US team’s win over Trinidad and Tobago in the World Cup qualifying match.
Tim Floyd is making an intraconference move from USC to Arizona. His record during his 4 years at Southern Cal was 85-50 but most of those 85 wins will probably be vacated in the next few years.
The Toronto Maple Leafs have been fined $500k and stripped of a draft pick…they must have been taping the Rams Super Bowl walkthrough too.
In what one can only describe as on of the grandest injustices ever, Greg Gumbel was tricked into doing infomercials. *GASP!!*
Andrew Bynum knows how to hula hoop with the best of ‘em…
Ahhhh…remember the good ol’ days:
Everyone says it’s a black man’s game. When I played it was a Jewish man’s game.
McDonald’s All American slam dunk highlights:
Mike Vick is heading back to court.
Analysis (cough, unbiased, cough) of this weekend’s Sparty vs. Jonathan XII.
Joba the Drunk pleads guilty to DUI and gets time in the slammer probation.
Stick around today; we’ve got some great stuff planned for you. AND DON’T FORGET TO VOTE IN THE MOVIEOLOGY CHAMPIONSHIP GAME!!
Mizerle06 is a senior writer and editor for Sparty & Friends and may be reached at mizerle@spartyandfriends.com.
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MLJ already fired me. Called me a hack. So…
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that’s ironic.
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well, VolDan took your office so you can have the cubicle next to HR.
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Lakers > MLJ
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The only way I could get into college bball is if they cut the shot clock down to seven seconds.
/d’antoni’d
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As long as I’m not near GITC, dude hasn’t showered in weeks.
I don’t understand it, one suggestion. All I said was lets rename the site Tim Teblog.
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S&F to MLJ? that’d be like me going back to working at McDonald’s or shoveling driveways
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No one cares that the Grizzlies won. Everyone cares that the Celtics won in 2OT.
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Iverson sucks
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Bolivia 6 Argentina 1. What the crap?
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Argentina faded into Bolivian?
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I baited a lot of hooks up there including that one. can’t believe nobody took any of the bait.
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we actually have a soccer link but can’t even mention the pens winning 6-1 over the devils who are pretty much free falling since brodeur broke the wins record
/hockeyed
also jay culter just might be a dick
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I’m not going to lie Miz, I stopped reading at Toronto Maple Leafs.
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that’s messed up.
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An interesting idea for the Lions and their #1 draft pick.
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sparty–But of course it’s not true…how else would I be able to see if there was any good redneck news?
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Celebrity picks for the Final Four…Tony Almeda picks UConn.
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I love the celebs’ reasoning behind their picks. Hilarious.
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I like that idea for the Lions first pick. It makes perfect sense. It is true that top 5 picks are now a punishment for being bad. Here you go, Lions — we know you went 0-16 and you really suck, but we’re going to make you convert a 21 year old rookie into the highest paid player at his position. Yeah, so what if he was only all-conference and not all-pro, I’m sure he’ll be worth it. I mean, look how great that Ryan Leaf deal turned out – or Alex Smith, or David Carr, or…
Funny that one of the most successful #1 picks is also one of the most panned when the Texans passed on consensus #1 Reggie Bush for Mario Williams.
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Miz is a redneck
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Wow, interesting celebrity picks. Is Kato Kaelin still a celebrity? Well, he’ll never work again after bashing Obama like that….
The two most rational explanations came from models? Hmmm…. and there’s some definitely love for Sparty in there from the chicks (best mascot?) so I see a guest post coming….. please?
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I hope you friggin die this season.
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US won in soccer against some other country yesterday. So how is the US doing overall?
This is a real boring stretch in sports. At least we have the final 4 coming up real soon and then baseball.
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Leyla Milani analysis is the best. picked based on mascots. Sparty Rules!
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sparty–I take it Tony isn’t one of your faves now?
I love Kato Kaelin’s reasoning…most of the reasons were stupid though.
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“He overcame brain surgery, which a lot of people would never know.”
Awesome.
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