- The pool of candidates was deep and their abilities
immense, so it’s fortunate for new Wisconsin
Badgers football coach Paul Chryst that he was able to elbow past the pack and
get this chance. Sure, he was the mildly successful head coach for another Division
I program and had a past history with Wisconsin, but beating out the luminaries
against whom he was competing…that ain't easy. Take, for example, the likes of
Jarrad Dann, Arturo Bonomie and Greg Miller. Hardcore college football fans
might take a long look at those names and ask, “Who the hell are these guys?” It’s
good that you asked. Dann is the icon who glossed himself "The Man, The
Myth, The Legend," on his application for the job and the native of
Chandler, Arizona also claimed that being "ridiculously good" at NCAA
football for XBOX 360 qualified him to be the man best qualified to lead the
Badgers into a new era. Somehow, that made him qualified to replace Gary
Andersen, who surprisingly left the Badgers to become the head coach at Oregon
State. Yet when Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez stacked Dann up
against local product Miller, a Racine, Wisconsin, resident who cited his
skills in Madden '92, Bill Walsh '93, and NCAA Football '96 and '97 as the
primary reason his candidacy was valid. My man, why don’t you master a video
game that was released this century before you angle for a gig walking the
sidelines for a Big Ten program? That $2.3 million annual salary demands
better, perhaps even the services of Bonomie, who noted that his wife who
"makes a mean Gatorade." Among the 46 applicants, salary requests
ranged from "maybe an autograph?" to $10 million, with the $10
million demand coming from Wisconsin native Justin Dodge, who listed looking
great in sideline attire, believing in #karma and superb yeller among his
qualifications for the job. It’s amazing Chryst was able to fight through that
minefield to earn the job………
- When traveling, many people feel like they are under the
gun. Delays, missed connections and baggage issues put immense pressure on
vacationers and business travelers alike, but rarely is an actual gun involved –
unless there’s the occasional absent-minded idiot who forgets they left their
loaded pistol in their carry-on. Toss all of that out the window – not the ones
on the side of the plane that don’t actually open – with now-former Delta Air Lines
baggage handler Eugene Harvey, who toiled for the airline at Atlanta's
Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. According to authorities, Harvey
moved much more than baggage, helping to smuggle various firearms and weapons
through the airport. One of his suspected accomplices managed to board a flight
with 18 guns and ammunition in his carry-on bag, an affidavit states, with the
help of his inside helper. Harvey is now charged with trafficking firearms and
entering an airport area in violation of security requirements. The affidavit
states that Harvey used his security clearance to help provide guns to a
passenger named Mark Quentin Henry after Henry cleared security and that Henry allegedly
brought the firearms in his carry-on luggage on at least five flights from
Atlanta to New York between May 1 and December 10. In that span, the duo moved a
total of 129 handguns and two assault rifles to co-conspirators in New York,
with their plan unraveling when one of those co-conspirators ended up selling
the firearms to an undercover New York police officer. Henry flew his final
gun-toting mission on December 10, when he landed at JFK International with 18
handguns in his bag -- seven of which were loaded, the affidavit says.
"During the post-arrest interview, Henry informed the investigating agents
that he had flown from Atlanta to New York with the 18 firearms and associated
ammunition in his carry-on bag," FBI task force agent George Taylor wrote.
Quite a criminal crew, these two………..
- Seriously, Dave Grohl? The busiest man in rock and roll,
he of the Foo Fighters frontman gig, Nirvana legacy, documentary films, dozens
of producer credits, guest drummer for up-and-coming acts he stumbles across
and too many other endeavors to name, is adding another entry on his ledger. Grohl and
Slipknot's Corey Taylor are members of a new super group called Teenage Time
Killer. TTK have signed to Rise Records and will release an album in 2015 and
given the prodigious nature of the band’s lineup, it’s safe to imagine that
their built-in fan base and name recognition will give them a chance to sell a
lot of music in their first go at it as a unit. Along with Grohl and Taylor,
TTK also includes ex-Queen's Of The Stone Age bassis Nick Oliveri and Lamb Of
God's Randy Blythe among its large list of members and collaborators. The new
band has a direct tie to Grohl’s past projects, including his documentary about
Sound City Studios, as they recorded their album at Grohl's 606 Studio in
California using the Sound City mixing board. Mullin noted that when they first
formed, Teenage Time Killer was intended to be a smaller project, but it kept
growing and growing as more people wanted in on the effort. "We had all
these other folks that want to participate. It’s a very good mixture of old
hardcore punk, punk and metal stuff,” Mullin said. “People are going to be
pleasantly surprised. It’s pretty cool." The album itself won't be
conventional, as Dead Kennedys vocalist Jello Biafra will sing comedian John
Cleese's poem “Ode to Hannity” and other famous punk faces like Black Flag's
Keith Morris, Max Cavalera of Soulfly, Neil Fallon, members of The Misfits,
Municipal Waste, Red Fang, Goatsnake, Brujeria, My Ruin and Prong also
participate in various ways. At the center of it all will be Grohl, playing
with yet another band and proving that dude really likes making music and has a
tough time meeting rockers with whom he doesn’t want to collaborate………
- Serious crimes occur daily in countries around the globe.
This is not one of them. Instead,
police
in Germany are looking for a missing pigeon and there is a $12,250 reward
dangling out there for anyone who can provide information or assistance in the
bird’s safe return home. According to police in Dusseldorf, the 6-year-old male
homing pigeon, named AS 969, was stolen at some point on Saturday night from a
locked aviary in the city's suburbs. Why anyone would break in and steal one
damn pigeon is unclear, but what’s ever more stunning is that police say the
light gray bird is valued by its owner at $184,000. Read that again. One
freaking hundred, eighty freaking four thousand dollars. There has never been a
bird in the history of the world worth that much, but in light of that number,
how is the owner offering less than 6 percent of the bird’s worth as a reward?
Anyone who can afford nearly a fifth of a million dollars in feathers and beak
can certainly afford to be more generous with their reward money, perhaps
pushing the total up near $25,000 or so. Because of the specific nature of the
theft, investigators suspect the thief or thieves were "connoisseurs"
as this particular bird was the most valuable in an aviary full of other homing
pigeons. That kind of theft right in the middle of the holiday season is a
truly douchey endeavor, not to mention a really despicable way to get a
Christmas gift for someone without having to pay for it……….
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