- New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez is either really dumb
or just a bad liar, but expecting anyone to believe that he really likes having
cult favorite backup quarterback Tim Tebow as a teammate is patently absurd.
The Jets acquired Tebow earlier this offseason theoretically to back up
Sanchez, play in a “Wildcat” role and get about 20 snaps a game. Every one of
Tebow’s former teammates who has spoken about his move to New York has said
otherwise and multiple reports have indicated that Tebow wanted to be traded to
the Jets because he believes he can beat out Sanchez for the starting job.
Still, Sanchez is trying to pretend that all is copasetic and during a paid
appearance Thursday night at Westchester Mall in White Plains, he praised
Tebow’s effort in the team's offseason conditioning sessions. "He's been as advertised, as good of a
guy, if not better, than anybody said," Sanchez said of Tebow. "So,
he's been a great addition so far. I'm thrilled to work with him." Of
course, “working” together so far has meant working out in the weight room,
where the insanely ripped Tebow is undoubtedly putting up massive amounts of
weight and making Sanchez look bad. There is nothing more insulting or annoying
than lifting with a guy who’s so much stronger than you that you have to take
100 pounds off the bar every time it’s your turn to do a set. In other words,
not only is Sanchez lying, but he’s disingenuous as well. Oh, and he knows how
to dish out a backhanded compliment as well. "From a competitor
standpoint, he's great," Sanchez said. "He's what you want in an
offseason program -- working hard, competing with the guy in the weight room.
This is a big, strong guy, so it's good for me. Wow. Complimenting a guy by
saying he’s “what you want in an offseason program” is in essence saying, “He
works out hard, he tries hard, but he’s not that good of a player once you get
on the field.” Should be an interesting year ahead for Gang Green………
- Cairo's Tahrir Square had a throwback feel Friday. A massive protest
gripped the square much like last Arab Spring, when crowds came en masse to demand the ouster of Hosni
Mubarak. This time, the protests were ahead of parliamentary elections and tens
of thousands of Egyptians from across the political spectrum turned out at the
iconic plaza in unified opposition to remnants of Hosni Mubarak's regime.
Various rival factions put their differences aside to come together against
military rule and the sight of the Muslim Brotherhood join hands o voice
discontent with an electoral process that has disqualified several candidates,
including the leader of the Islamist group. Their anger was directed at the Supreme
Presidential Electoral Commission, which said this week that it endorsed a
previous decision to exclude 10 of 23 candidates from voting scheduled for May
23 and 24 due to "legal irregularities." Alaa Ayad, a campaign
spokesman for barred Muslim Brotherhood candidate Khairat el-Shater, called the
disqualification a "political decision" and said the party's lawyer
will appeal it. "This decision may cause tension on the streets," Ayad said.
Some of the bans were truly absurd, like ultra-conservative Hazem Abu Ismael
being prohibited from running due to information that his mother holds a U.S.
passport, which is against the rules of candidacy. Those barred from the
election were part of a diverse group that also included Omar Suleiman,
Mubarak's former spy chief, who entered the race at the last minute and failed
to gather enough signatures required to be on the ballot. Suleiman's candidacy
had been singled out as a move that could galvanize rival political parties to
unite against the remaining vestiges of Mubarak’s regime. Either way, next
month’s polling will be the nation's first presidential election since
Mubarak's ouster in February 2011. The Muslim Brotherhood got the election
season off to a strong start by winning nearly half the seats in the first
parliamentary elections in November. The elections, regardless of their
outcome, will hopefully mark the end of the military control that has existed since
Mubarak fell. If the military makes good on its promise to yield power to a
civilian government, that is……….
- Was that bad? West Virginia U.S. Senate candidate John Raese
does not seem to be asking that question after video of his speech during an April
12 campaign appearance was posted on YouTube and allowed the world to hear him
liken his home county’s indoor smoking ban to the tactics of the worst human
being in history, Adolf Hitler. In Raese’s mind, requiring stickers on buildings
declaring them smoke-free is like how “Hitler used to put a Star of David on
everybody’s lapel.” That’s right, this numb nuts likened a genocidal madman
wiping out 6 million people and forcing those targeted people to wear a mark
essentially condemning them to death to a county marking its buildings as
places where addicts to a product that kills millions of people worldwide each
year cannot choke down their cancer sticks. Well played, moron. It’s difficult
to imagine why the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a n international Jewish human
rights group, condemned the remarks. How are anti-smoking laws not exactly like
the yellow star that Jews were forced to wear during the Holocaust? For some
reason, the Wisenthal Center believes the remark shows ignorance of the horrors
inflicted by the Nazis and demonstrates callousness to the millions of Jews
they murdered. However, don’t expect Raese to back down – not until he’s
publicly excoriated and ridiculed for a few days, then sees his poll numbers
plummet like the interest level any time Mitt Romney speaks to a group for more
than one minute. Raese defended his statement as “reciting history,” clearly
ignoring factors like accuracy, context and appropriate use of historical
facts………..
- Where was the volunteer sign-up sheet for this mission? A team of U.S. scientists embarked
Friday on a mission to conduct research on Mount Everest climbers in an attempt to widen
their knowledge of the cardiovascular system at extreme altitudes. They hope to
use their findings to improve treatment for heart and lung patients and Mayo Clinic cardiovascular
diseases consultant Bruce Johnson and his team plan to study a U.S. team that
plans to replicate the first 1963 ascent of the mountain by an American group.
The 1963 mission featured five Americans summiting the peak, two trekking along
the difficult, unknown West Ridge route and the rest traversing the traditional
Southeast Ridge route used by New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa
Tenzing Norgay in their pioneering 1953 ascent. In the past six decades, nearly
3,700 people have climbed Mount Everest, the world's highest peak at 29,035
feet, including 15-year-old Jordan Romero, the youngest person ever to summit
the tallest peak on all seven continents. "We are interested in lung
physiology in high altitude, which is similar to the lung physiology in heart
failure patients," Johnson explained. The climbing team arrived at the
mountain ahead of the researchers to adjust to the climate and atmosphere. Once
Johnson and his crew arrive, each of the nine climbers will be fitted with
equipment including a special wrist watch and an arm band that will allow their
body to be monitored at a base camp laboratory. With the watch, the researchers
will be able to measure the blood oxygen level and with the special armband,
they will be able to record energy expenditure and how many calories climbers
burn. Adding to their cache of gear, climbers will also be wearing the
"Mayo platform," an instrument devised by the clinic that fits in a
tiny pocket and measures their cardiovascular activity. Oh, and there are video
games too – seriously. Climbers will play specially developed video games to
test their cognitive performance, specifically their ability to think at high
altitude, where oxygen levels are low. Back at the base camp, Johnson’s team
will work out of a dome-shaped tent. Many medical studies have been done at
Everest in the past, but Johnson hopes this effort will specifically benefit
the work done at the Mayo Clinic. "The study is also very closely
associated with the work we do back home with heart patients and patients with
lung diseases," he said. Onward and upward, science…………
- The whole Tupac hologram at the Coachella festival may have been
unnecessary. According to rap mogul, Tupac friend and conspiracy theory
lover Suge Knight, perhaps. During a radio appearance Friday in Los Angeles,
Knight espoused a theory that Tupac really faked his death and that the reason
why no murderer has ever been caught is because there never was a murder. "Maybe
the question is ... Pac's not really dead ... Pac's somewhere else,"
Knight postulated, adding that no one ever saw the body. He was asked about the
topic because he was supposedly with Tupac that night in Las Vegas. Further
compounding the mystery in his mind, Knight said that he paid the man who
supposedly cremated the body $3 million. “...And next thing I know I never
heard from the guy or seen him again ... he retired and left.” For those
completely ignorant of hip-hop history, Tupac was killed in a drive-by shooting
and Knight was in the car at the time. He was subsequently suspected of having
something to do with the shooting, but has denied any connection. Knight is far
from the only kook still buying into a Tupac conspiracy theory and there will
continue to be plenty of like-minded kooks as long as the mystery of Tupac’s
killer continues. If Tupac is alive, then a lot of money was wasted on the hologram
of Tupac that debuted at Coachella Sunday. Staged by Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg,
the hologram “performed” at the festival and could be headed out on tour as
well. How great would it be if the real Tupac, still alive, showed up to
perform with his holographic twin…………
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