Thursday, January 14, 2010

BREAKING NEWS!

Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas has been charged with a felony stemming from the locker room confrontation with a teammate.

Arenas is already on indefinite suspension without pay by the NBA and this felony charge is just adding insult to injury.

If convicted, Arenas will most likely have to serve the maximum 5 years in prison.

I figured that the authorities were going to file charges eventually because of the seriousness of the issue. The gun issue has also brought an issue among the public as they are wondering how many athletes actually have guns in the locker room.

All I can say is that Arenas is a bonehead for even pulling his gun out, let alone bringing a gun into the locker room, no matter what the reason is for bringing a gun.

Skip Holtz to coach USF football

South Florida Fans, do not fear, we now have a new head coach!

Skip Holtz has agreed in principle to be the new head coach of the South Florida Bulls this afternoon. Earlier reports on several sports outlets said that the East Carolina AD stated that Holtz is not leaving East Carolina.

Holtz will be replacing former Bulls coach Jim Leavitt after his immediate firing earlier this month for placing his hands on one of his players and then lying about it.

Holtz won two Conference USA titles with East Carolina, compiling 38 victories with the program. He previously coached at Connecticut before they came into Division 1 football. He is the son of Lou Holtz who last coached at South Carolina, and now is a college football analyst for ESPN.

Personally, i believe that this is a very good hire as he can take this program to the next level, which would be winning a Big East title and possibly playing in a BCS bowl game for the first time in program history. The one notable player that he has coached at East Carolina is Titans running back Chris Johnson, who happens to be the NFL offensive player of the year.

I'm not saying that Holtz is going to turn our program around right away, but the truth of the matter is, Jim Leavitt took the program as high as it could possibly go. It was about time he stepped down, but in this case, he was fired.

Maybe this will be the beginning of a new era for South Florida football.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Lane Kiffin to USC?

So I was sitting on my couch looking through all the sports news when I see "BREAKING NEWS: KIFFIN TO USC." I did a double take as I couldn't even believe the fact that Lane Kiffin, the same guy who claimed that he was going to sing "Rocky Top" all night long when he beat Florida (he never beat Florida) decided to jettison to sunny Los Angeles to take over the Southern California program that was previously under the control of Pete Carroll.

As I am reading the news on several sports outlets and listening to sportscenter, I'm thinking, what did Lane Kiffin do to deserve a top job like USC. Sure he did a great job recruiting talent to Tennessee and for a few months, put Tennessee on the map, but he honestly caused so much drama in his short tenure as the Tennessee head coach. He rubbed Georgia coach Mark Richt, Alabama coach Nick Saban, South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier and Florida coach Urban Meyer the wrong way, calling them out about them trying to steal a recruit or two or just simply attacking their program.

Kiffin has caused a whole lot of problems since he was in Oakland. The fact that I have to look back and think that Al Davis was right about one of his coaches is sickening. But the fact remains, that Kiffin pulled a "Bobby Petrino" in the college ranks by leaving his own program without even a warning.

I just hope that USC wont suffer the same fate that Tennessee did this entire season.

I'm Back!

To all my fellow readers,


Have no fear, i am back and ready to diagnose all the ongoing activities in the sports world!