Public Knowledge

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. – Vince Lombardi

Public Knowledge:

1.  OK, if you’re gonna do something illegal or immoral, how ’bout you stay away from the internet to do it.  Whether you’re getting prescriptions from your on-line dentist as in Operation Witch Doctor or your cheating on your finals like the entire Florida State football team.  Stay away from the Internet.  You’re going to get caught.  Oh ya.  I’d stay away from text messages too.  Just ask Elijah Dukes.  Speaking of FSU.  The Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl?  There’s a bunch of jokes in there, but this being the Internet and all, I’m staying away.

2.  First Nick Saban.  Then Bobby Petrino.  Now This: 

3.  SKOL Vikings lets win this game.  SKOL Vikings, honor your name.  I’m not too sure what the heck SKOL is, but the Vikings sure are honoring their name.  The Vikings made bad snaps.  The Vikings missed an extra point.  The Vikings committed four turnovers.  The Vikings managed only six points in the first half against the Chicago Bears.  The Vikings won a very important football game.  Minnesota’s win put them in a legitimate position to claim an NFC wild-card playoff berth.  They have won five consecutive games and six of their past seven.  As bad as they looked last night, they still look better than the Giants.  Ok just googled it.  Skol:  Written skÃ¥l in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, and sometimes “Skoal” in English.  The Norwegian/Swedish/Danish word for a salute or a toast.  As to an admired person or group.  SKOL Vikings!

4.  Let’s do the math, shall we?  Portland trades Reuben Patterson’s boy Zach Randolph to the Knicks.  The Trailblazers are currently on an eight game run.  Currently looking to garner their first winning month since November 2004.  Without Grampy Oden.  The Knicks receive stripper loving Randolph.  The Knicks are amidst the most embarrassing runs of their long basketball lives.  Coinky-dinky?  This blogger says absotively posolutely not. 

5.   NBA’s most improved player?  How about Rajon Rondo?  Sure playing with the Big Three doesn’t hurt, but the big question pre-season for the Celtics was:  Who’s gonna run the point?  Through the season’s first 22 games, he has averaged nine points on 53% shooting from the field, plus 5.2 assists and 3.9 rebounds.  All of those numbers were in question.  All of those numbers are up from last year.  Add to that his defensive prowess and you get the NBA’s MIP.

6.  Too much Youtube?  I don’t care:

7.  A horse is a horse, of course, of course.  And no one can talk to a horse of course. That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mr. Williams.  Pro Bowl strong safety Roy Williams was suspended for one game by the NFL for committing his third illegal horse-collar tackle of the season.   Have some horse sense wouldya.  Third?  Are the Boys coming unglued?  First Romo’s thumb.  Now this.  I hope they are.  I hope so for one reason.  Terrell Eldorado Owens.  Boom goes the dynamite!

8.  San Diego Super Chargers.  San Diego Chargers!  San Diego Super Chargers.  San Diego Chargers!  Charge!  Don’t look now, but here come the Chargers.  The Chargers (9-5) have won four straight and eight of ten.  They don’t have to leave the Golden State the final two weeks, hosting Denver on Monday night and finishing at Oakland.  The Chargers simply need to win out to earn the AFC’s No. 3 seed.  But they still have to the Patriots.  Oh well.  There’s always next year.

9.  I love Peter Gammons.  Best baseball man on the planet.  But he says this about reporting the steroid thing:  “But we’re not the National Star.  Roger Clemens and Miguel Tejada are not Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.”  He’s wrong.  They are.  Sports is entertainment.

10.  Since Game Five of the ALCS, the Red Sox, Patriots and Celtics have a combined record of 41-2.  How about that? 

Peace out homies.  Six two and Even!

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