- It’s not hard to see the influence NFL players have on
younger football players. Touchdown celebrations done in the pros filter down
to college and high school, uniform trends make their way down through the
ranks and apparently, violent on-field acts of revenge do as well. Miami
Dolphins defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh has been making dirty plays, kicking
and stomping sensitive areas of opponents’ bodies for years and it seems that
USC defender Jabari Ruffin wants to follow in Suh’s footstomps, er, footsteps.
USC has boldly suspended Ruffin for the first half of its game against Utah
State on Saturday for stomping on the groin of Alabama's Minkah Fitzpatrick
over the weekend. Head coach Clay Helton announced the short-term ban, noting
that as part of his punishment, Ruffin will also write an apology letter.
"He understands his conduct is unbecoming of a Trojan and there will be
zero tolerance moving forward," Helton said. "Jabari is a good kid
who made a poor emotional decision. I am sorry as the head coach [and] he is
also.” Ruffin was clearly frustrated as his team was getting its ass kicked
late in the first half of Alabama's 52-6 win against USC and at the end of a
kickoff return, Ruffin took action, earning a personal foul and an ejection
from a game in which he wasn’t doing much good anyhow. It was the latest
indignity for a USC team that has been suffering one misstep after another in
the early season, but odds are it won't get (much) worse from here……..
- Riot Watch! Riot Watch! Nothing has the capability of
upsetting people in Europe these days quite like the ongoing migrant crisis
gripping much of the continent and nowhere is that more evident right now than
France, where hundreds of truckers in big rigs, farmers in tractors and dockers
and merchants on foot blocked a major highway in northern France to demand the
closure of the Calais migrant camp known as the "jungle." The chaos
was so severe that local authorities urged travelers to avoid the area in hopes
of limiting disruptions from the blockade, aimed at paralyzing traffic on the
route used to access Britain via the Eurotunnel and port. The whole scene was
the latest evidence of how much tensions have amped up in recent months as the
population of the camp has risen to at least 7,000 migrants from the Middle
East and Africa, who are trying to reach Britain. Authorities have tightened
security and closed half of the camp, but that hasn’t stopped its growth. “We
should not be misunderstood. We have nothing against migrants. We have just a
lot of animosity toward the government, which does not make good
decisions," said Frederic Van Gansbeke, who helped organize the protest.” Interior
Minister Bernard Cazeneuve tried to quell the rage by announcing that the
government would dismantle the camp in a controlled operation as soon as
possible, but protesters want him to set a date. The truckers are pissed because
migrants keep trying to jump into their vehicles to slip across the English
Channel, while local businesses say migrants have become an economic drain on
the city and a stain on its image. The migrants, in turn, are trying increasingly
dangerous tactics to slow trucks so they can hop in the back, throwing tree
branches and other objects onto the roadway. It’s an ugly scene and no one
seems to have an answer, so this one appears destined to go boom some time very
soon…….
- Everyone has their price. Daniel Craig’s, it would seem,
is $75 million. Craig is on the record as saying that he would rather
"slash my wrists" than play James Bond ever again, but his tune seems
to have changed now that he has been offered $150 million to shoot two more
Bond movies in succession. The news of that offer, after Craig reportedly
turned down a $90 million offer to take on the role for a fifth time, has the
British actor back as the odds-on favorite to continue as 007, a role he has
filled four times since 2006, appearing in “Casino Royale,” 2008's “Quantum of
Solace,” 2012's “Skyfall” and last year's “Spectre.” To the cynic, it might
seem like this was all one giant game of poker for Craig, making it appear like
he was going to walk away and taking with him a very capable handling of a role
that has alternated between good and terrible actors over the years - terrible
like you, Pierce Brosnan. If this was all one big negotiating game, then Craig
played it more skillfully than James Bond has ever played a single hand in any
card game in any Bond movie. The prospect of losing him at a time when the
franchise seems to have settled on a general and coherent direction clearly got
the studio to up its offer and the way the Bond franchise has become a
moneymaking juggernaut over the years, merely keeping up the status quo and
trotting out Craig in tight-fitting suits and bathing suits while tossing in
the latest up-and-coming female eye candy to round things out will likely be
enough to keep the dollars rolling in and making sure that along with the
film’s eight-figure leading man, everyone involved in the process is getting
paid……..
- This is such an ugly cliché that it’s almost hard to
believe it’s real. Yet there is no denying the fact that police are doing extra
patrols in a Winston-Salem neighborhood after two children reported seeing a
clown trying to lure kids into the woods with treats. Clowns are straight-up
creepy under the best of circumstances and these are clearly not the best of
circumstances, not when officers are called out at 8:30 at night after two
children claim that some freak in white overalls, white gloves, red shoes with
red bushy hair, a white face and a red nose approached them and tried to lure
them into the woods using candy. An adult heard, but didn’t see, the clown and
a few hours later, an anonymous tipster called to report spotting a clown about
two miles from the scene. The clown fled when officers initially arrived and
police say they didn’t find any evidence pointing to the clown when they
scoured the scene. There have been several unverified clown sightings in
northern South Carolina in recent days, so there could be a sort of clown epidemic
happening here and honestly, that would be far scarier than any possible zombie
apocalypse that might happen in the world. Many of the clown sightings have
happened at apartment complexes and other areas of Greenville and Spartanburg
counties and according to deputies in Greenville County, the clowns were
initially seen in wooded areas, where they allegedly tried to entice children
to join them, but sightings have now increased with reports that clowns were
also knocking on the doors of homes. Way to denigrate your already-awful
reputation, you freaks in white makeup and big, floppy shoes………
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