Ramblings

Its Friday, I am bored, you are bored, and we are stuck in the nuclear winter that is the offseason. Wimbledon is going on but all of the Americans are out so nobody cares. Euro 2008 reached the finals but its soccer. NASCAR has a race in New Hampshire this weekend but that's not an exceedingly fun track. Finally, there is baseball...still happening everyday...All-Star game coming up which will apparently be the Yankees and Red Sox versus the Cubs. The validity of All-Star voting is a ridiculous topic worthy of its own post. So, that leaves us with just a few nuggets of goodness, none of which is worthy of its own post.

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ESPN continues to release its schedule of televised games. Link here. The first weekend is particularly craptastic. I know that we will all be watching certain games that first weekend like USC @ UVA [will USC win by 30 or 40?], App St. @ LSU [can they do it two years in a row] and Tennessee @ UCLA [will UCLA actually have a QB on the field. The preceding sentence is applicable unless you have back to back wedding in Cleveland like William Outstanding who is not at all bitter about friends who schedule weddings during the first weekend of college football.

But look at the filler games (notwithstanding anything that says ESPN360 because no one actually gets access to that website). The first game of the season is going to be Vandy @ Miami of Ohio. Please, try to contain your enthusiasm. At least its nice to see that the MAC came to their senses and scheduled some weekday games. NC State @ South Carolina and Oregon State @ Stanford are also on that Thursday's schedule. I can think of reasons to be excited for these games, but its really difficult to get very excited when they are still 2 freakin' months away.

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NBC and Notre Dame renewed their contract until 2015. The same year that Charlie Weis' completely undeserved extension runs out. Excellent negotiation by Notre Dame and I fully fault NBC for failing to give the BCS conferences any leverage to get Notre Dame out of the BCS.

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A Kentucky judge ruled that Duke sucks. Duke and Louisville had a 4 game series with 3 games to go. Duke backed out. Louisville sued for $450,000 in damages based on a clause that required a $150,000 per game payout if Louisville could not find a comparable team to play. Duke attorneys argued that because Duke was so bad, any DI (including DIAA) team could be a replacement. Hilariously, and correctly, the judge agreed that Duke was so bad that any football team is comparable.