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Four of my favorite all-time Florida Gators are represented in the lithograph above. They are (from left to right): Steve Spurrier (#11-QB), Chris Collingsworth (WR), Wilber Marshall (#88-LB), Kerwin Bell (#12-QB), Emmitt Smith (#22-RB), and Stever Spurrier (wearing visor as former head coach).

This (along with other cool Gator art work) can be ordered by going to the following link:

http://www.skylinepictures.com/Florida.htm

What a joke.

Imagine the police knocking on your door after an incident like this and you rebuffing them for a SECOND time.

What a freaking joke!

http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/pga/news?slug=ap-woods-accident&prov=ap&type=lgns

When they hired him, I had my suspicions.

Sure, Ron Zook hadn’t been Steve Spurrier. But the hiring of Urban Meyer to replace Zook by the University of Florida in 2005 struck me as another episode of college football’s version of “Catch a Rising Star.”

Now, as an alumnus, I’m hearing (and seeing) some disturbing sounds (and sights) that might put me in line for a reprisal of the Yoda role.

To wit:

http://www.cbssports.com/columns/story/12585042/meyer-going-to-nfl-believe-it-numbskulls

Listening to the hilarious recounts/speculation surrounding today’s news that Tiger Woods crashed his car into a fire hydrant and tree at 2:30 am this morning, I was reminded of a funny exchange between Abbott and Costello. The one where Bud Abbott is trying to teach Lou Costello how to drive a car. In the skit, Lou (who’s getting more and more frustrated, ala “Who’s on First?”) keeps asking Bud if he should “put it in reverse?” And Bud keeps replying, “Go ahead. GO AHEAD!”

Some of the news announcers I watched discussing the Woods’ incident, seemed to be holding back laughter as they reported on the circumstances (“Tiger Woods crashed his car into a fire hydrant and then a tree at 2:30 am this morning. His wife used a golf club to break a window to help free him from the vehicle. He suffered minor injuries…..”

Imagine the yarn being spun right about now.

You can’t make this stuff up.

Or can you?

Insightful article in the New York Times regarding the current state of affairs of the University of Michigan football team.

Please go to:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/sports/ncaafootball/20michigan.html?_r=1&hp#

Rutgers Celebrates 140th Year of College Football.

There are three deep cuts in my heart. My sports heart.

1976. Final Four. A Jersey-boy roots for Rutgers. I’d graduate from RU fourteen-years later.

1977. The Sun Bowl. From snowy New Jersey, that same Jersey-boy would watch the orange-helmeted University of Florida Gators play Texas A&M. I’d leave my heart in Gainesville as an undergraduate.

My whole life. New York is the baseball capital of the country. Born and raised in New Jersey, I had no choice. The Yankees were offered to me. They stuck.

And to this day, I die hard for all three teams. I’d been scarred.

Here’s the New York Daily News perspective on last night’s ALCS game. For those who don’t live in the NY Metro area, the News has always been my “go to” sports section when it comes to the Yanks.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2009/10/17/2009-10-17_new_york_yankees_los_angeles_angels.html

Since 1990, here are the teams Nick Saben has coached:

Toledo-1990

Michigan State: 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999

LSU: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004

Miami Dolphins: 2005, 2006

Alabama: 2007, 2008, 2009

…just sayin.’

Chip Carey (TBS baseball announcer): Please stop talking! I’m begging you. Please!

Bathroom hand dryers: When was the last time your hands actually got dried with one push of the button? Still end up using paper towels (or toilet paper).

Sports “color” commentators: Dave Winfield today on ESPN radio when asked what the Yankees had to do to win- “The Yankees need to get the lead and then they need to hold the lead.” I’m screaming.

Tired of hearing one of my colleagues telling me, “FYI.” It’s tired.

As I watched expert after expert dissecting every aspect of every sporting event and athlete known to man, I pictured how critically important all this information was/is to the lives of so many. And I wondered, “what if we spent half as much time focused on our own lives?”

I swear, Starbursts have gotten smaller over the years. Pretty soon, they’ll each be no bigger than a Skittle.