Others receiving Votes.

While anxiously waiting for the college football season, there was water cooler debate about why our President would be involved with a parochial issue between the Cambridge police and his college professor friend? With his rugged agenda and ubiquitous presence in our lives, it was odd to see so much time spent with a civil matter. A Yard intern connected a few dots and proffered a scenario. While Michele and the girls are hunkered down in Martha’s Vineyard, Barry scoots back to the White House for some beers with the boys? The same week, former President Clinton flies to North Korea to diffuse the school yard fight between Kim Jong II and Hillary and maybe hit a few karaoke bars? Solving problems or cover stories for nights out? These guys are good.

The college football season begins in earnest when the USA Coaches Top 25 poll is released early each August. BCS fortunes can be dashed before the first game is played. The only team to win the BCS Championship without being ranked in the pre-season Top 10 is Oklahoma in 2000. We have a call into the White House to see if can catch a beer in the rose garden to drill into this BCS profiling.

The 4th ranked Trojans look to contend for another National Championship. Pete is past the Mark Sanchez departure. He had his hissy fit at the press conference when he flipped the game board on Sanchez. Sanchez did sign a 5 year $60 million contract with 28 million of those clams guaranteed by the New York Jets. He might be the first rookie QB to start in the Big Apple since Joe Namath. Or he could be partying in LA, taking cake classes at the U, impregnating girlfriends and being worshipped by the Trojan faithful for staying and leading the team for one more season. Sanchez will never regret not staying. Pete, what did getting Matt Leinart to stay for one more year do for Matt?

The Bruins broke back into the “Others receiving votes” category in the national polls. Some might snicker about the Bruins fourteen votes compared to USC’s 1,321 but Michigan only had one vote! Coach Neuheisel hopes the defense plays better and the Bruins can put some points on the board. We all hope that the NCAA gets a little more hitch in their giddy up and starts deposing people and stuff across town. The best defense is a good offense and the NCAA Rules committee is one of the best in college football.

USC fan is outraged that Pete Carroll was on the front page of the LA times with a cover story about USC’s use of an NFL consultant last season. It is a violation of the rules albeit a rather obscure one. Pete was shocked it was even an issue and we must admit it did seem rather petty. Peter, you should have been paying more attention when Reggie Bush was showing up to football practice in a fully restored powder blue Impala sporting two carat diamond studs. Timmy Floyd should have maybe asked a few questions of O.J. Mayo’s posse while they were installing that 56 inch 1080 DPI flat screen in his dorm room.

Extra Innings:

We were surprised by all of the hoopla about the high tech swim suits at the World Swimming Championships in Rome. Michael Phelps was soundly beaten and his world record smashed by a no name German swimmer in a soon to be outlawed neoprene suit. Phelps’ coach was outrageously outspoken. He threatened to pull Phelps from future meets if these suits were used. He declared that Phelps is the one who “puts butts in the seats” at these swim meets.

The Yard had two thoughts on this swim suit controversy. First, Phelps would probably be using the same suit if he did not get one million clams from Speedo to wear their suit. He might have picked the wrong suit but we do not believe the other company had the mil in the briefcase for Phelps and his coach.

Secondly, who attends swim meets outside of the Olympics anyway? We can name more people in the Hot Dog eating championships than in World Swimming Championships! American Joey Chestnut is keeping the American dream alive being ranked #1 in the International Competitive Eating Federation! He holds world records for macaroni and cheese, jalapenos, waffles and every other food group that is never on the Food Channel. He has kicked arch rival Kobayashi’s ass the past two summers in Coney Island to keep the competitive eating world title in this McNation!

After Phelps, name anyone on the men’s swim tour? We do have Dana Torres in our Fantasy swim pool league. She did not win either but she gets all of our votes and she rocks in any swim suit.





Tony

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