- Am I the only one who is extremely pissed about NFL No. 1 overall draft pick Sam Bradford inking a six-year, $78 million contract with the St. Louis Rams, a deal with $50 million in guaranteed money and a max value of $86 million? Don’t get me wrong; I love the idea of a downtrodden team like the Rams getting their big gun into training camp as early as possible, giving him a chance to earn a starting spot and begin helping his team climb up out of the basement. However, I have a HUGE issue with a guy who has yet to take a single snap in the NFL receiving the highest amount of guaranteed money for any NFL contract, ever. That’s more money than Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, Tom Brady, Adrian Peterson, Chris Johnson, Andre Johnson or Jared Allen. Sure, the former Oklahoma quarterback could be the quarterback to revive the Rams, but right now, no one knows how good he’ll be. He could be the next Brady or he could be the next JaMarcus Russell and handing him $50 million guaranteed is ludicrous. There’s a reason that a rookie wage scale seems to be the one issue in the ongoing negotiations between the NFL Players Association and the league on a new collective bargaining agreement that both sides have any sort of agreement on. Even if they won't come out and say it because it’s considered poor form to criticized or begrudge a guy getting as much money as possible, veterans cannot be happy that a rookie fresh out of college is making so much more than proven stars. If Bradford plays and helps take the Rams from a 1-15 team to the playoffs within a couple years, then you can pay him accordingly. Instead, the trend of guaranteed money for the first overall pick escalating substantially continues for another year, Bradford’s haul tops the $41.7 million in guaranteed money that Matthew Stafford, the No. 1 pick last year, got on a six-year, $72 million deal with the Lions. Sooner or later, there isn’t going to be enough money to keep that trend going and there will be one very pissed-off first overall pick when that happens………
- You can stop the bitterman routine any time, former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher. He and brother Noel, the band’s two main cogs during its contentious 15-plus years together, having been sniping back and forth and trading barbs since the band broke up last year, so the comments and bitterness is getting old at this point. All involved parties should just move on and focus on the future, but Liam Gallagher can't seem to do that. In a recent interview, he sniped that his former band will only get back together when they're "fucking skint". If you don’t speak British, skint means broke. Liam Gallagher, who is in the studio recording his debut with his new band Beady Eye, gave the interview at the launch of his first Pretty Green pop-up store in London on Friday and could not have been more dismissive about the chances of an Oasis reunion. "The only reason why Oasis will come back is when we're fucking skint. I'm far from skint as you can tell - and I won't be skint for a long, long fucking time. Believe me, it ain't gonna be happening," he said. Those words don’t exactly jive with previous comments he made about initially being "gutted" about the Oasis split. Of course, he chased those words by declaring it was "the best thing that's ever happened.” At this point, the only clear thing is that Liam Gallagher is as egotistical as ever and loves hearing himself talk. Beady Eye actually features former Oasis members Gem Archer, Andy Bell and Chris Sharrock and the über-arrogant Gallagher declared they have written the "best record you'll hear for the next 50 years. We have this tune and it was a bit Rolling Stonesy, and I didn't like it. It was slow and boring. So we just got on a piano and f*ck it up, Jerry Lee style, and stuck a John Lennon vocal on the top. It's good." He’s also working on a new Beatles biopic based on Richard DiLello's EMI memoir The Longest Cocktail Party, which charts the story of the famed record company at the end of the 1960s. "It's a good book and we can't balls it up now so the heat is on," Gallagher stated. "I'm more worried about getting that book right than getting the clothes right, and my record right. I'm not going to be in the film but I'm worried about getting it right, because it's other people's lives." Sounds like a man who loves being in the spotlight, eh…………
- In a continuation of an activity that consumes the vast majority of its work schedule every single day, Microsoft is releasing an out-of-band patch for a Windows security vulnerability that attackers have been targeting for the past few weeks. Security holes are a staple of every Windows operating system, so fixing those holes follows suit each and every time a new version is released. This particular bug is a vulnerability in the Windows shell component attackers have been exploiting via malicious .LNK files. the number of attacks has increased exponentially and Microsoft finally responded by announcing that it will put out t a patch Monday. “We are releasing the bulletin as we've completed the required testing and the update has achieved the appropriate quality bar for broad distribution to customers,” Christopher Budd, senior security response communications manager at Microsoft, wrote on the company’s blog. “Additionally, we're able to confirm that, in the past few days, we've seen an increase in attempts to exploit the vulnerability.” Not to get too technical on you, but the reason this part of the system is vulnerable to attacks is because of the way Windows parses .LNK shortcut files. In short, the Windows Shell component fails to correctly validate specific parameters of the shortcut. A user who opens an infected USB drive in Windows Explorer or any other program that parses the shortcut icon opens the door for malware to be executed. Oh, and Microsoft also warned that an attacker could set up a malicious Website or a remote network share and place the malicious component there, so there’s something else to consider. Thanks for staying consistent, Microsoft……
- Long live the mystery goat of Londonderry, New Hampshire! For weeks now, an elusive goat has frustrated all attempts to capture it in Londonderry and has earned something of cult hero status in the process. Although some locals have captured it on camera and others have reported seeing the goat in the woods near Rockingham Road, the goat remains at large. Londonderry resident Sean Buckley said he sees the goat just about every day when he gets to work near the tree line by the road. "It never reaches below those rocks," he said. "It's never made its way toward the road, so it's a well-trained goat, apparently." Aren’t all goats well-trained when it comes to evading capture? Goats are like the ninjas of the farm animal world. Londonderry residents have even bestowed a name - Rocky, logically - on the goat and spend a lot of time watching him. "I've actually made noises to him, and he just looks at me like I am nuts," local Robin Costigan said. While town officials have made a point of capturing the goat and brought in the Animal Rescue League of Boston to set up a trap in the woods, the town’s residents aren’t exactly supporting the effort and a few of them actually drop off food for Rocky that they buy from the Blue Seal store in Derry. "I would say in the last couple weeks, this goat has probably had over 100 pounds of food supplied to him," said Blue Seal employee Kerry Rodgers. That doesn’t sit well with the New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which has erected signs on the path up to the goat's favorite place. "We are going to ask people to stop coming by and feeding it and let us take over from here and do the capture of the goat," said Steve Sprowl of the NHSPCA. "We want to get it out of here before there is any problem," Sprowl said. That is something we cannot allow to happen, Londonderry residents. Viva la goat………
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