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Test Your College Bowl Picking Skills
Posted by Sgt Dignam on Dec 6, 2007
That’s right! Step right up! Test your college football knowledge against the writers and friends of The Hook and Lateral! Think you have what it takes to compete with the big boys? Why don’t you join our public college football bowl picks group on Yahoo Sports and find out?! Simply follow this link and sign up! The Group ID # is 9106. It only takes minutes and you can find out just how inadequate you truly are! Don’t miss this chance to fraternize with and pick against your favorite bloggers. I hope to (virtually) see you all there. Good luck!
The Return (and Subsequent Departure) of Ricky Williams
Posted by Sgt Dignam on Nov 26, 2007
Did anyone else expect Ricky Williams to come out onto the field tonight in an old Cadillac only to open the door and emerge in a giant cloud of ganja smoke onto the boggy mire that was Heinz Field like a scene out of a Snoop Dogg Video? Or at the very least trot around the field looking like a stoned Pigpen from the old Peanuts comics? Hell, I couldn’t even recognize him without his flowing Samson-like locks! In any case, the Heisman Trophy winning running back is, well, back… and I’m excited.
Anti-Sports
Posted by Sgt Dignam on Nov 12, 2007
Sport: noun; An athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
- www.dictionary.com
Ok, now that we got that out of the way, and are all on the same page as to what a sport is, we can move on. Newton’s law of motion states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. When a bullet is fired from the barrel of a weapon the gun kicks back and the energy is absorbed by the shooter. When you watch 15 hours of football over a weekend your wife demands 15 hours of “together time” (or, more realistically, “chore time”). When people congregate in the name of athletic competition, naturally, less-than-athletic people feel left out and create alternate modes of entertainment for themselves. Read the rest of this entry »