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Beverly Hills, 90210 or Philadelphia, 19415

The drama continues in Philadelphia, despite the fact that they have a legitimate shot at going deep into the playoffs. Lito Sheppherd has continued his “I’m underpaid, I should start, me me me” ranting this week. He continues to walk a fine line between looking out for himself and dissing his own teammates. See this post from the Eagletarian. Sheppherd is a fine player who has been hurt, off and on. He’s paid fairly well, just not as well as Assante Samuel. This is the week, when players get off their demands, and start playing football again. Lito, get over it, have a great season, and then watch the money pile up, which is basically what Brian Westbrook did and he was rewarded for it.

Is it too late to pull back my picks?

I hate to be one of several picking a particular team, because that inevitably means that team is doomed. And in this case it happens to be my favorite team, the Philadelphia Eagles. Apparently Gene Wojciechowski, Dr. Z, and Tom Curran all think the Eagles will at least make the Superbowl. Not to mention several other writers who think they can make the NFC Championship game and that DeSean Jackson is Devin Hester and Steve Smith all in one. Scares me. On the flip side, I think I’m the only one who likes Pittsburgh to make the Superbowl. I like being out on that island.

Terrance Newman - screaming Cowboy

Little advice, if you’ve never been on a roller coaster, don’t let them video tape your first time. You’ll just sound crazy screaming and praying. Check out the Video.

If Dante Culpepper Retires Does Anyone Care?

I wrote before that he’s way to talented a QB to not be playing somewhere, and based on this post by Kevin Seifert, apparently Culpepper believed his own hype. See this is what happens when you have too much confidence and ego. He needed to break his game down and start over in many ways, maybe start fresh as a backup to an injury prone/bad performing starter. Instead, he labored on about wanting a fair chance to start. He needed to prove himself over again, and didn’t seem to believe that.

LPGA - Does that stand for dumbest sports organization?

Did they seriously believe that they were going to get away with forcing English in an international sport? I hope this was just a publicity stunt to get the media to talk about women’s golf.

Chalmers and Arthur - Dumb and Dumber

So let me get this straight, the two of you are in the NBA’s rookie program, being warned about the dangers of being a young, rich baller and how to carry yourself on and off the court; yet, you manage to get two women into your room, set off a fire alarm, flush your pot and get David Stern so ticked off he kicks you out? Wow, at least your professional idiots, it took a couple of years for Sebastian Telfair to get Stern that mad. I don’t know how Stern hasn’t had a heart attack as NBA commisioner, he’s dealt with gambling scandals, fights in the stands, weapons violations, a sexual harassment lawsuit against a hall of famer and GM, and these two dumbbells can’t last four measly days without women and weed? Great career move, see how long it’s going to take to wash this stench off yourselves.

Do Better Syracuse

I’m a Syracuse football fan, I admit it. But I gotta say, you stink. And not even in that Notre Dame down years stink, or that South Carolina can’t quite figure it out stink, or that over the hill head coach Penn State stink. No, ‘Cuse you are going down Temple style. There seems to be zero hope, when you can’t even put together a reasonable effort at Northwestern. And now you are being compared to a New Kids on the Block song? Look at the programs on that list, they are all generally speaking lower tier programs anyway. But Syracuse is the only “big” team on the list. Syracuse has a rich tradition of quality football, but since Donovan McNabb graduated, it’s gone steadily downhill. Greg Robinson needs to go, he’s getting whipped in recruiting by Greg Schiano at Rutgers of all places. The northeast clearly doesn’t have the football talent as other regions, and it is difficult to recruit to the cold north, but this is pathetic. I don’t really expect the Orange to play on the level of the top SEC teams, USC, Ohio State, Texas etc. But can you play on Rutgers or Connecticut’s level? Can you get into the Black Ball Sports.com Bowl? I think we can get a field somewhere and you can square off against a Newark, NJ team, but we’ll take you only if you have a minimal 3 victories this season. My guess is you won’t make it, and we’ll just cut our losses and sponsor an electronic football matchup.

And your uniforms are ugly.

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