Wayne is Sleepy

It bed time with Wayne and Jose tells him a special story.

A lazy day

So the weather outside is terrible and no games to go to, that can mean only one thing a few day of sports. Starting with some soccer Arsenal vs. Aston Villa and then moving on to college football. Here are my thoughts during the lazy day.

The Next Generation of Heels

While North Carolina comes into the season ranked number 1. Roy Williams is planning for the future of the program with the top ranked recruiting class for 2009. The early signing period started Wednesday and here is a look at the next generation of Heels:

Jon Henson, PF


Dexter Strickland, PG


Travis Wear, PF


David Wear, PF


Leslie McDonald, SG


You can see why this next generation might be comparable to the 2006 class, which has carried the program for the last couple of years. It makes you feel good to know that talent level at the Smith Center is not going to drop any time soon.

It's not easy being Orange

What do Clemson, Tennessee, and Syracuse all have a common, they all wear orange and are looking for a new football coach. Orange seems like the color of doom around college football.
Clemson started the year as a different pick to play for the national championship. Now they are such a mess that making a bowl game seems like it's going to be impossible. They fired Mr. Tommy Bowden and now are looking for someone to restart the program.
Tennessee over the off season went out and hired a new offensive coordinator to change the offense, that has not worked out. The team has no quarterback and an offense that might be one of the worst in any BCS conference.
Syracuse where do you start with them, they are just terrible. No offense, no defense and a coach that could not coach a Pop Warner team.

Usually black is the color of doom, but this year in college football it appears to be orange.

It's now the start of the season

The season started last night with Duke beating a church or some terrible school. Here are some of the covers Athlon College Basketball Preview Magazine.

Memphis

Arizona/Arizona State

UCLA/USC

Texas/Texas A&M/Baylor

Professional Tailgating: Greg Robinson's last trip to the Garden State

The Only Time Will Tell Tailgating Crew was back where it belong at the Stadium. The crew has not been there the last couple of weeks because of wedding season. Rutgers vs. Syracuse wow what fun.

Noon start no problem, screw drivers for all.

Getting ready for the funnel

Funnel time

No spilling, please

The game lacked quality so we started taking pictures of our self

Soccer Saturday with the gang

Jeff Stelling should look out as the gang gives a great recreation of the Soccer Saturday on Sky Sports, classic and Wayne can get a puppy after the Specials Ones election win, sound familiar.

So Far Ok

A couple of months ago the best sports talk team in the United States was broken up. Mike and the Mad Dog was no more and both Mike Francesa and Chris Russo decided to go their separate ways, with Francesa stay at WFAN and Russo moving over the Sirius XM Radio to host his own show and channel.

So far Russo's new show, Mad Dog Unleashed, has been ok. There are a couple of things that Russo has to learn in order to take his show to the next level.

The major thing that Russo has to do his learn more about college football. I think that Russo under estimated how popular college football is. When he was in at WFAN college football never really came up except for the time they took the show to the Rutgers Louisville game a couple of years ago. People living the SEC and Big 12 countries do not have pro teams to root for and their college football's teams are the only thing that they have. Besides that his show has been a success. The guest have been outstanding and have not been limited to New York media types.

His show is already moving in a positive direction and I can not wait to continue to watch the show develop, which it will.

Our New Leader

Like in the presidential election, The Special One wins in a landslide.

It's that time of year again

November is here and that can mean only one thing, the EPL has gone to the yellow and purple bal, for the winterl. When the yellow ball comes out that means the season starts for real and Arsenal struggle. We will again see the traditional white ball in a couple of months.

Boy Wonder

Its Halloween party time, and the gang is dressed to impressed.

A Return to Respect

For the last seven years Lyon has dominated the French League and PSG has been down at the bottom part of the table for the last couple of years. But that all appears to be change.

For the last couple of years PSG has been battling to stay out of League Two. But this year that appears not to be worry. The club that gave Europe their first look at Ronaldinho appears to have their house in order.

Last week PSG went to OM and won for the first time in a long time. So maybe Paul LeGuen has gotten Paris's only top flight team back to the top of the French standings right where they should be.

Maybe if it all continues PSG will be hosting a Champions League game which would be nice.

Jose has been smoking the peace pipe

Jose has been smoking a little bit, he thinks that he is a member of The Beatles now.

Phinally!

A couple of years ago, comedian Bill Burr did a set during the Opie and Anthony Comedy Festival about how the Phillies would never win anything because their uniforms look like candy stripers , well last night, Mr. Burr was wrong. The Phillies are World Series Champions, yes that sounds weird but true. Congrats to all of the Phillie fans out their and especially my friends at Sox and Phils.

Here is how the front pages covered the dramatic events last night:

The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Philadelphia Daily News

The Morning Call (PA)

The Tampa Tribune

The Tampa Tribune

The season is almost here

When the preseason college basketball polls came out a couple of weeks ago, the Tar Heels were on top of all of them. On Friday, North Carolina held their annual Late Night with Roy event. Here are some of the highlights.

The introductions


Senior do ""Glory Days"


Team Dancing


The scrimmage

Wayne Rooney is the new Gwen Ifill

The Great Debate is here and its does not disappoint.

The future of the Manchester United Shirt?

So AIG is really no more and in honor of that Who are Ya Designs has created this classic shirt to honor the bailout of AIG. This could be the next sponsor on the United kit.

Heisman Trophy Propaganda

Every year Sports Information Directors at major football schools do their best to get the word out about the possible Heisman Trophy candidate playing on their roster. This year that was no different at Missouri, as they try to raise the profile of quarterback Chase Daniels. So the gang in Columbia decided to send this following package out to newspapers around the country and I was lucky to get my hands on it.

Nothing beats a box with a huge Tiger logo on it. By the way, each item that was sent out cost $2.52 to mail.

Inside each box was a view finder, yes a view finder, with highlights of Daniels

The classic view finder ring, complete with the Tigers logo

Wow it was great to get this in the mail at work, but it came after Daniels had two of his worst games of his career. Oh well, I'm sure this did not cost a ton of money.

Bringing the Pain

I am not a huge fan of the MMA, but I am huge wrestling fan and that is where this video comes in. ESPN's E:60 did a great feature on Brock Lesner's switch from pro wrestling to MMA, here it is.

Separated at Birth: Left Wing Spurs

Things are so bad at Spurs that now some of their own players are being compared to radical left wing commentators. Just look at MSNBC left wing commentator Rachel Maddow and Spurs winger David Bentley. They look like they have been separated at birth.

David Bentley, no wait that is Rachel Maddow.

David Bentley

So as you see Maddow and Bentley might be the same person.