Yes, you are reading that right. This is an actual headline to an actual story that KUSports.com is currently running on their site.
I would assume Coach Mangino knows that he is more than a little overweight, but if I were him I might be a little upset that my own school website is making fun of me. I truly hope that editor had permission to run with that image.
As you know from reading this site, we like to talk trash just as much as the next fan. But I think Texas Tech fans might have gone a little too far with this one.
It has been reported that a student at Texas Tech has designed a t-shirt that says “Vick ’em” on the front, and the back shows an image of a football player (Vick) hanging Reveille. While I guess you could call this “clever”, it will no doubt cause an uproar in the public.
I am thinking this won’t help with the perception that Tech has a bunch of classless fans. It’s also kind of funny that this comes just a few months after Texas Tech announced Raider Power, a campaign the university start to help promote “Honor, Respect, Pride, Tradition.”
In some sad news, it looks like [tag]Limas Sweed[/tag] will undergo wrist surgery, effectively ending his season and career at Texas. After evaluating Sweed’s wrist after the game, the medical staff decided that Sweed was just in too much pain to continue playing football.
“We’ve been very fortunate to have Limas for the past four years,” Brown said. “He’s made a lot of great plays and had a record-setting career at Texas. Limas is a fine young man who has been a tremendous representative of our program on and off the field. We appreciate everything he did to try to help the team this year, but since he is in such intense pain, he cannot continue to play. He will stay involved helping us and supporting the team even though he won’t be able to play, but since he keeps re-aggravating this injury, it’s important that he gets it fixed because he has a bright future in the NFL.”
I wonder, if Texas was 6-0 and not 4-2, would the recommendation from the medical staff be a little different. I am not trying to say that Sweed’s injury is not serious, but winning sure can make things feel better.
Well there definitely isn’t as much fanfare going into the Red River Rivalry this weekend with both teams losing last week, but that doesn’t mean we still can’t start some of the trash talking between the schools.
Chance McClain from Sports Radio 610 down in Houston The Houston Chronicle hooked us up last year with some nice OU suckage songs from his band Apollo XVIII. So here are the songs, None Suck Better and OU Sucks. Both equally great. The lyrics to None Suck Better are available after the jump.
Apollo XVIII – None Suck Better
Apollo XVIII – OU Sucks
Not sure what to even think about this one, but the San Antonio Express-News is reporting that Texas A&M Coach Dennis Franchione had been selling inside information about his team to select boosters. This “secret” newsletter, called the “VIP Connection,” was available to these boosters for the hefty price of $1200 / year. Apparently detailed information about players’ injury status was made available, something Coach Fran usually keeps under wraps. Sounds like a sports gambler’s dream to me.
The Aggy athletic director Bill Byrne said that he was not aware of the newsletter (yeah right), and the money from the newsletter supposedly went to finance his personal website, coachfran.com. I don’t know about you, but if I was getting that kind of money solely for my website, my site would look quite a bit better than Coach Fran’s.
Yet another black mark on what is turning out to be some rough times for Coach Fran’s reign in Aggyland. The funny thing about all of this? If A&M was actually winning games, this probably wouldn’t even be a big deal.
Not really anything interesting going on this weekend in college football, with only one match-up between two ranked teams. Probably one of the better games to watch is happening tonight, with the over-rated West Virgina facing off against South Florida. Anyone else notice the Bulls use the same hand signal as us? Copiers.
Baylor at Texas A&M – 11:30am on Versus. What’s funny about this match-up is that on the radio Aggy faithful were talking about it being a big game in the season. My thoughts, anytime Baylor is a “big game”, you have reached a sad day in your program.
Kansas State at (7) Texas – 2:30pm on ABC. Revenge game for the first second loss last season. Texas has started this season off a little slow, but things are getting back on track. Texas needs to make a statement in this game in order to carry some momentum going into the match-up against OU.
(6) California at (11) Oregon – 2:30pm on ABC. Talk about some high powered offenses. This game might end up looking like the Texas Tech / OSU game last weekend. I am thinking Oregon will pull the upset off in this one.
Auburn at (4) Florida – 7:00pm on ESPN. Definitely not as much hype in this match-up as last year, but when these two teams play you know it will be a good game. Auburn could get their program back on track with another win against Florida.
I can’t tell you how tired I am of reporting news like this. But yes, you guessed it, yet another Longhorn was arrested last night, charged with two felony counts of obstruction and tampering with evidence. Don’t have any details on what exactly this could be, but it sure doesn’t sound good.
This makes it the 6th Longhorn arrested since June, officially making Texas the new Miami. Seriously though, how hard can it be to stay out of trouble, especially when you know what has been going on in the program. The last thing I want to do is make a new category for this type of stuff, but I think that is exactly what I might have to do. We will have more details once they come in.
OBSTRUCT OR RETALIATION
3RD DEGREE FELONY — Cause Number: D1DC07302254
Bond:$20,000.00 ANY TYPE OF BONDTAMPER OR FABRICATING PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
3RD DEGREE FELONY — Cause Number: D1DC07302252
Bond:$10,000.00 ANY TYPE OF BOND
Ever since the tragic death of Korey Stringer a few years ago due to overheating, there has been a big emphasis on the health of players when practicing in hot temperatures. And in Texas, where heat indexes can get into the 120s, it is even more important to watch the players.
To combat heat related issues, the Texas Longhorns have now started giving their athletes a little white pill. No, not the same pill Barry Bonds takes, but actually a tiny little electronic device that players can ingest. This allows trainers to get internal body temperature readings to insure players are not overheating. Not every player receives this pill, only the heavier players such as lineman and incoming freshman whom the trainers do not have a good read on yet.
This seems like a pretty smart idea, though it does seem a little big brotherish. It is kind of creepy to know that something inside your body is electronic and is sending information outside of your body. Seems like the next step is to inject RFID into the players arm so that they can keep track of their every movement. Hey, maybe that isn’t a bad idea. Might keep some of the players out of trouble.
In case you want to know what is going on in the Big 12 this year, all you need to do is watch the following video. Kige Ramsey brings you a whopping 30 seconds of hilarity. I guess this guy is about 20 years old, but sounds like he is 40. If you listen to Sports Radio 1310 The Ticket in Dallas, then you may have already heard this today. Enjoy.
Interestingly enough, he is also a Tennessee Titans and Vince Young fan. He has plenty more hilarious segments, including some of my favorites after the jump.
I am pretty sure no one will ever be able to do what Vince did for Texas, but [tag]John Chiles[/tag] sure looks promising. Chiles speed is impressive and he can juke like a running back. Needless to say he needs to get some playing time in the near future.
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