- Anyone who has played, coached or been around children’s sports has seen him or her. Overbearing Mom or Dad, bent on making the world see that their kid is the next big thing and ready to beat down anyone, coach, fellow players, fans, who doesn’t agree or tries to “stand in my kid’s way.” Usually these parents are bitter, myopic individuals trying to relive their glory days or glory days they never got to have through their kids. Most of the time, you see them at youth soccer games, Little League baseball, sometimes as high up as middle school and high school basketball, football, baseball, etc. Now, parents of three University of Arkansas football players have taken things to a whole new level. The parents of players Damien Williams, Mitch Mustain and Ben Cleveland went to Frank Broyles, athletic director at AU, because they didn’t like the way their kids were being used in the offense. After going over the head of the coach, who by the way has the authority to run his team, the parents then issued a statement, in which Mustain’s mother is quoted, that said basically that all involved parties “concede that the coach has authority to run his team and operate it as he sees fit.” Thank you very much, parents, how magnanimous of you. You are going to allow the coach to run the team, the team he’s paid millions to coach. You, with no authority or jurisdiction here, are going to grant him the right to run things how he wants. Thanks for the stamp of approval, I’m sure head coach Houston Nutt, who guided the squad to an SEC West title and a New Year’s Day bowl bid, is relieved to know that he has your support.
- You’ve done it again, PETA, high comedy, laughs and hijinks galore. Those wacky comedians/civic activists have sent out a letter that attempts to be both humorous and socially conscionable, yet manages to fail miserably at one and be totally irrelevant when it comes to the other. PETA sent the letter to crack on NBA players who criticized the Association’s new, yet soon-to-be-discarded synthetic basketball and claimed, among other things, that it cut their hands. PETA chastised (well, as much as a bunch of deluded, namby-pamby, bleeding heart liberals who have no touch with reality and no actual clout can chastise) the players for being wimps and offered to send them no-animal-harmed-in-the-making-of hand cream to help their ailments. PETA is bent because now the NBA is switching back to the old leather balls, meaning more cows will have to die to make them. Once again, as I munch on my plate of steak, chicken wings, a turkey sandwich and some duck pate, allow me to provide some silver lining on this cloud for the PETA people…..the cows were going to die anyway in order to provide all of the steaks and hamburgers that we love to eat, so using their hides to make the basketballs is just making best use of all parts of an animal that would not have lived even if the NBA had stuck with the synthetic ball.
- Today is Golden Globe nomination day. Wahoo…………I think. Honestly, there are so many awards shows that at present I am drawing a blank as to exactly what industry the Globes honor, but I think it’s TV or film….either way, here’s a question: other than being self-aggrandizing and self-congratulatory, what the hell good are these shows? They honor music, shows or movies that have been on TV, in theaters or on the air for several months, and if said entities are any good, people will already have listened to or watched them. When was the last time you watched an awards show, saw someone win for an album or movie and automatically went out and bought or saw it? People who care about music or entertainment follow it closely enough that they are aware of what’s out there and purchase or take in what they have an interest in. Whether it wins an award or not is irrelevant. After all, most music, shows or movies that a lot of people like don’t win any awards because the awards are given out by snobbish, out of touch groups and organizations that are more interested in perpetuating the status quo and patting themselves on the backs than rewarding artists, actors and others who actually do great work. So best of luck to all GG nominees, I hope you win whatever pointless statue they’re giving out and it validates you and your work.
- Now here’s a fight I don’t want to be in the middle of…..legendary daredevil Evil Knievel is suing legendary egotist and rapper Kanye West for portraying a character called" "Evel Kanyevel" in his video for "Touch the Sky". Honestly, the details of why Evil is suing Kanye aren't all that important, I’m just giddy with excitement over the prospect of these two having it out. But honestly, is a courtroom really the best place to settle a dispute between two guys like this? When you have a guy who has attempted scores of insanely dangerous stunts, including a jump of Snake River Canyon in Idaho that Knievel himself said he went into believing there was a “50/50 chance” that he would die and he’s going after a big time rap star, isn't there a better way to settle this? Maybe have Kanye set up every one of his bevy of tricked out luxury vehicles in a line and construct a ramp for Evil to use in attempting to jump over them all? If Evil clears all the cars, he wins, if he can’t make the jump, Kanye wins, that simple. And with all of the other reality TV crap on the airwaves, you’re telling me you couldn’t squeeze some decent ratings out of an hour program like that? Bring in Judge Judy to oversee the proceedings, give it a corny name like “Knievel’s Court” and slap it on FOX, problem solved.
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