- Detroit Lions starting
middle linebacker Stephen Tulloch is either not very bright or he’s in the
midst of the worst case of denial documented this side of a psychological
textbook. Tulloch is a ninth-year veteran who has played in 131 straight
regular-season games between Tennessee and Detroit, but his streak will end
this Sunday because of one of the single most idiotic reasons possible for a
professional athlete to tear the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.
In the midst of the Lions’ 19-7 win over the Green Bay Packers, Tulloch
garnered the ever-elusive sack of Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, tossing
the Pro Bowl signal caller to the turf and making a big play for his team. That
is where the good news ends. To commemorate his sack, Tulloch leapt up from the
ground and attempted to lampoon Rodgers’ famed championship belt celebration
gesture, only to feel his knee give out mid-celebration. He tumbled to the
ground in a heap, got back up and tested the knee, ultimately deciding to
continue playing. One snap later, he was unable to continue and left the game.
On Monday, it was revealed that he is out for the year because he couldn’t successfully
and healthily execute a pedestrian gesture that any of the 80,000 fans in the
stands could have done without shredding their left knee. "It's unfortunate,
man," Tulloch said. "You're passionate about the game. You want to
get up and celebrate, and it happened. People do it a million times.
Unfortunately it happened to me, but I've been healthy for nine years in my
career, never missed a game, let alone damn near plays. Yet Tulloch had the
kahones to insist he wasn’t embarrassed by how he injured himself and didn’t feel
there was any reason for shame. Whatever you need to tell yourself as you stand
on the sideline in a track suit during games and endure hundreds of hours of
painful physical therapy to get back on the field next season, Steve………..
- Wesleyan University (Conn.) President Michael Roth and
trustees Chairman Joshua Boger, you are heroes. Your unselfish, innovative
gesture made Monday will change the (sex) lives and enhance the college
experience of countless numbers of frat bros for generations to come. See,
these two visionaries want to take the pesky step of actually attracting girls
to fraternity houses out of the process by mandating that all on-campus
fraternity house become coeducational within the next three years. Boger and
Roth announced the change in a letter declaring that Greek organizations have
both male and female members and to have each gender "well
represented" in their organizational leadership to quality for housing on
campus and the use of university spaces. Yes, this could have something to do
with the fact that sororities currently have houses on campus and it might not
be a move designed to get frat dudes better odds of hooking up with a hottie,
but the intent can't cancel out those possibilities. "Our residential
Greek organizations inspire loyalty, community and independence. That's why all
our students should be eligible to join them," Roth and Boger wrote.
"Although this change does not affect nonresidential organizations, we are
hopeful that groups across the University will continue to work together to
create a more inclusive, equitable and safer campus." Although the change
comes less than a month after a decision to close the Beta Theta Pi fraternity
house following an accident in which a woman fell from a third-story window, school
spokeswoman Kate Carlisle said the changes do not come as a response to any one
incident. Carlisle boldly and BS-edly said the subject has been a matter “of
ongoing concern and discussion among the people in the administration, the
school community, the alumni community and so forth for a number of years.”
Whatever you say, Katie. The only true regret here is that Wesleyan U is a
small school with just 3,100 students and just two active all-male residential
fraternities — Delta Kappa Epsilon and Psi Upsilon. The lives of guys in both
of those houses just got much, much better……….
- Score one for thinly veiled self-promotion. Radiohead's Thom
Yorke knows plenty about drawing out the drama and building hype for a new
project and he’s now busy tweaking fans who have eagerly awaited the band’s
first new album in three years. Radiohead have long played the part of the
thoughtful, mysterious and super-serious rock stars who are just a cut more
sophisticated than their peers, but they are clearly no different than the rest
of the rock world when it comes to how they create hype for their latest and
greatest album. Yorke launched the first scud in that fight when he posted a
photo on his Tumblr page of a white 12-inch vinyl on a turntable. The tabla
rosa could be some sort of metaphor for a blank slate that Radiohead are about
to paint with the wonderful colors of their music. The photo also contains a
possible hint in the form of artwork designed by Stanley Donwood, the band's
long-time collaborator who has designed all of their album and poster art since
1994. Further deepening the mystery, the image was also tweeted by another
long-time Radiohead collaborator, producer Nigel Godrich. Combine those facts
with the revelation last month from drummer Phil Selway that the band are due
to begin sessions on the follow-up to their 2011 album “The King Of Limbs” this
month because it was time to "start making music" together again. "There's
always that sense that our best record is still to come…There’s still a lot
creativity we can do together,” Selway said. Selway will be a busy man in the
coming weeks, as he will also release his new solo album “Weatherhouse” on Oct.
6. The alleged Radiohead album doesn’t have a projected release date, but maybe
another cryptic social media hint or two along the way will bring some clarity
to the picture……..
- What the hell is going on in Romania? A better question
might be who cares, because whatever is going on, it’s damn entertaining and someone
needs to be writing it all down for the inevitable feature film it should
spawn. The latest grand stroke of drama came Monday as the head of the
eastern European nation’s foreign spy agency resigned to run for president in
the Nov. 2 election. Aside from another blowhard politician jumping into the
race at the last moment, the move has stoked the fires of debate about the
presence of spies in the country's political life. Teodor Melescanu quit Monday
as director of Romania's Foreign Intelligence Agency and the timing could not
have been better. Melescanu’s announcement came a mere 24 hours after a leading
TV political talk show host revealed that he was an undercover officer for the
defense ministry. That wild allegation has yet to be substantiated, but here’s
hoping it’s true and there are spies lurking on every talk show, reality show
and soap opera that has any ties to the country. Conspiracy theorists have
already begun speculating that the two developments confirm their fears that Romania's
political life is being manipulated by the intelligence services. The country has
two main intelligence agencies and five smaller agencies not under
parliamentary control and that seems both shady and a recipe for rampant abuse
of power. Regardless of his motives, Melescanu will run as a candidate for the
Social Justice Party, the electoral office said, facing Prime Minister Victor
Ponta and others. I spy something disturbing and über-shady in this race……..
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