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• Imus is Back in ‘New Incarnation’ http://tinyurl.com/2ezrz6 Why didn’t they just suspend him? Seems like radio’s version of Elian Gonzalez. #
• UCLA searching for Dorrell’s successor - Los Angeles Times http://tinyurl.com/2dwvjk Karl Dorrell to be fired? Big shock at UCLA. #
• BCS Madness:Whatever Choice Was Made, It Was Going To Be Wrong http://tinyurl.com/ypfho3 BCS does it again. Let’s just go back to bowl games #
• Mac Gs World: BCS Sucks http://tinyurl.com/yqofsn Money grubbin’ bitches. How LSU is still in it I have no idea. Something needs to change. #
• Larry Brown Sports: Joe Gibbs Studied Under Chris Webber http://tinyurl.com/ynw9so Gibbs is getting blamed for a timeout gaffe. Tough week. #
• MLS Announced New Pan-Pacific Tournament: 90 Minutes Soccer Magazine http://tinyurl.com/yrndxl MLS tournament in Hawaii? with Becks? Hmmm.. #

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I’m seeing more and more parallels between Dolphins’ head coach Cam Cameron and former England national team manager Steve McClaren. Becks came out after getting knocked out of the Euros and said that he didn’t fear the England gaffer:

The former England captain, 32, put the boot in on Michael Parkinson’s final chat show — less than 24 hours after England were knocked out.

Becks said: “I’ve been scared of every manager I’ve had. That included my dad when I was seven or eight.

“Every one of my managers scared me.” Parky, 72, asked: “And Steve McClaren?”

David broke into a grin and said: “I’m a lot more grown up now and a lot braver.”

Similarly Cam Cameron has made no believers about his ability to be a head coach. His in-game tactics, his choice of personnel, and everything in between has failed to produce even one win this season - where every other NFL team has already won 2 games in the era of “Any Given Sunday” parity. Something tells me that his players have had enough too. I know I have: (Copy of original article here)

But the blame for this game does not rest solely on the players. This loss, more than any other this season, is the fault of the Miami coaching staff.

If the Patriots had blown out the Dolphins, one could argue the disparity of points was due to a disparity of talent. But against the previously 2-9 Jets, a team that was an underdog coming into the game, the Dolphins coaching staff was supposed to make a difference.

Cameron and his coaches failed in that regard.

”This was an effort on everybody’s part, it’s not just players,” defensive end Vonnie Holliday said. “It’s players and coaches. I think everyone can look in the mirror, top to bottom, and say they are contributing to being 0-12.”

That sort of contribution will get a coach fired, and though December is not yet the time to fully judge Cameron, the coach’s job security is now a fair topic of conversation in the locker room.

And in that conversation, no one is coming to Cameron’s defense.

I would be more confident if I saw progress in a winless season. Where initially we had blowouts that slowly turned into close games. But it seems to be going the other way. The team is playing with no confidence that they are being put in a position to win. Just like England. And we know how that ended.

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A funny post about match fixing taking place in matches in certain Eastern European countries:

The majority of the teams involved come from Bulgaria, Georgia, Serbia, Croatia, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia.

Hmm, what do these countries have in common? They all end in ‘A’? Undoubtedly. But they’re also all former territories or allies of the Soviet Union. These countries should receive a pass on these investigations. It’s been less than 2 decades since these nations could begin freely practicing capitalism, and even the smartest people have trouble grasping the subtle nuances of Adam Smith’s economics. For example, it took at least 3 visits to the VIP room before I deciphered the the cryptic language exotic dancers use to transact “special services”. Coincidentally, that lass was was from the the former Soviet Union as well.

And in a completely unrelated clip, a scene from Family Guy where Peter begs Death to go back in time to 1984 so he can party some more, and ends up screwing up the past. Totally Back To The Future-ish.

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