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Happy Mother’s Day from the Kids…

Wrapping up the week with a few links from around the web worth giving a look…

The Top 10 Childhood Sports Hatreds – Epic Carnival (ahh, the joys of hatred)
Apparently a few athletes actually do graduate – GoVolsXtra
Following-up on my article about StripeHype, an article on defending the Blogosphere – Cat [...]

In case you haven’t noticed (and given the fact most of my readers live in the south, and the fact that the Cincinnati Bengals … well … suck hard, you probably haven’t), there is a major showdown between blogosphere and the NFL brewing. This battle pits the Cincinnati Bengals against the Fan-Sided Blog Network [...]

Since there hasn’t been a whole lot going on lately (or at least I haven’t been dutiful enough to write about what has) I thought I’d take the opportunity to give a few shout outs to various people around the internet and beyond who I think do a great job of … well … whatever [...]

After his performance on the court over the past 4 years, I hardly needed anything to make me consider Chris Lofton to be one of the great players to wear the orange and white. The revelations of last week regarding Lofton’s off-the-court struggles, however, only serve to further cement Lofton’s place in Tennessee Volunteers [...]

Ramar, Duke, What the Hell Were You Thinking?
Less than 24 hours after Les Miles showed Ryan Perrilloux the door for failing a drug test, ESPN is reporting that Bruce Pearl dismissed both Ramar Smith and Duke Crews from the Tennessee Basketball Squad for reportedly failing multiple drug tests.
Coach Pearl said:

They did a lot of [...]

A little news from Baton Rouge… (hey man, that rhymes)
Apparently, Ryan Perrilloux just wants to be like his idols … Roger Clemens, Michael Vick, Charles Manson…
LSU Tigers coach Les Miles made it official today that Ryan Perriloux has been dismissed from the team for failing to keep up “his obligation as an LSU student-athlete.” According [...]

Wow … all I can say is “Wow.”
We all knew it was bad when the Mitchell Report came out naming Roger Clemens as a doper, but I figured there was more to the story — a more complete telling, if you will. It got worse when Brian McNamee started waving around dirty syringes and [...]