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1. Obligatory "he did go to Auburn/he's from an SEC school" comment
2. Insulting a guy that has a pretty long rap sheet when it comes to on-the-field transgressions probably isn't the smartest thing to do.

If only that 4-year-old would've just moved out and left at the first sign of trouble.

So let's take a look at the Big Ten:

Maryland loses (to WVU)
Iowa loses (to Iowa State after Ferentz blows the icing the kicker strategy)
Minnesota loses (to TCU)
Illinois loses (to Washington)
Purdue loses (to the Flailing Chickens of the University of Academic Fraud)
Indiana loses (at Bowling Green, a MAC squad...and the fans DON'T rush the field-yet another indictment on how far the Big Ten has fallen, even if it is lowly IU)
State Pen beats Rutgers in a yawner
Nebraska and ohio $t. do what they're supposed to do against lesser squads, and to a lesser extent so does Michigan-but 3 turnovers in the second quarter make the game close and have people starting to look for torches and pitchforks.

Looking at all that, and I'm supposed to believe a one-loss Wisconsin or MSU team should be worthy of a college football playoff spot? Hahahaha, good one. 


But hey, at least mostly no one in the B1G (can never count out ohio or MSU) is dumb enough to botch a coin toss like Texas did.

http://deadspin.com/texas-botched-the-coin-toss-has-to-kick-off-to-ucla-bo-1634479396


Good wins by BC over USC and UCLA over Texas last night.

Good grief, how many CFB games are taking place at Jerryworld this year? Seems like there's been one a week, and this doesn't even include when Romo lines up for the peewee squad on Sundays.

Not often I'll agree with this guy, but this pretty much covers my thoughts on the early parole.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2014309130031

Those Penn State students celebrating as if they were in Times Square at 12:01 New Year's morning should be ashamed of themselves. They cheered the news that the NCAA granted the Nittany Lions early parole for its institutional negligence in harboring convicted child molester and former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky. Their uninhibited joy coming from a sense that the NCAA finally righted a wrong.

But the only ones wronged in this ugly scandal were Sandusky's victims.

Don't ever forget that.

Penn State wasn't exonerated this week. It forever will bear the stain of institutionally protecting a child molester. It's insulting suggesting that the students, fans and players were somehow innocent victims and didn't deserve the harsh punishments the NCAA rendered two years ago.

As a Tigers fan, I just want to say thank you to the Astros for not keeping J.D. Martinez. 

Might be an understatement to say that the NFL is NOT having a good week PR-wise.

http://www.si.com/nfl/2014/09/12/adrian-peterson-child-injury-indictment

According to the police report, Peterson hit the four-year-old boy with a tree branch after removing all the leaves. The doctor told investigators that the boy had "a number of lacerations on his thighs, along with bruise-like marks on his lower back and buttocks and cuts on his hand."

The doctor also reportedly described some of the marks as open wounds and termed it "child abuse." Another person who examined the boy called the cuts "extensive."

The boy was interviewed by authorities, who reportedly told them "Daddy Peterson hit me on my face." He also told them he had been hit by a belt and that "there are a lot of belts in Daddy's closet."

The punishment happened after the boy pushed another one of Peterson's children off of a motorbike video game, according to the police report.

The Vikings have deactivated Adrian Peterson for this Sunday's game.

It's rare I get to quote myself, but here it is...you're deluding yourself if you think it's as simple as getting up and walking out. It isn't. Only she knows why she stayed, and I'm not going to pin this whole situation on her simply because she did. My opinion on Ray Rice still stands.

Because statistically speaking, it's not that easy to do for a myriad of reasons.

http://time.com/3309687/why-women-stay-in-abusive-relationships/

As for Ray Rice, fuck him. I hope he never gets another NFL job, but I'm not that naive. Real men don't hit women, period. People like Ray Rice (and Floyd Mayweather) are gutless assholes.

Because statistically speaking, it's not that easy to do for a myriad of reasons.

http://time.com/3309687/why-women-stay-in-abusive-relationships/

As for Ray Rice, fuck him. I hope he never gets another NFL job, but I'm not that naive. Real men don't hit women, period. People like Ray Rice (and Floyd Mayweather) are gutless assholes.

 

Cool...now it's just a matter of time before USC gets the victories they forfeited from 2004 and 2005 back, and Reggie Bush gets his Heisman Trophy returned to him.

In less than 24 hours, the Lions will begin the annual process of destroying my will to live...that being said, it's already started for some teams. And it's nice to see Tony Romo's already in November/December form!

And yes, it was wrong and he should probably get suspended for it, but Antonio Brown kicking that punter in the face was hilarious.

http://deadspin.com/antonio-brown-introduces-the-front-heel-kick-to-the-nfl-1631667427

Didn't get to watch any of the games this weekend, but all I can say just by looking at the Big Ten scores alone is this: if anyone even tries to advocate that the Big Ten deserves a team in the college bowl playoff at the end of this season, I'm going to seriously question their sanity. My conference is a g-ddamned joke.

Ah yes, the 'they were asking for it' argument. My favorite. 

I love how the argument for some seems to focus on "well they shouldn't have taken those photos" instead of "wow, someone must be a real piece of shit turdburglar to try to hack into someone's private property and take it". It's blaming the victim and it's utter bullshit.

Did Apple fuck up? Yeah, probably. Let them fix it, and they probably will-I for one hope so. But hey, the Apple haters got another reason to jump for joy, yay, good for them.

Some pretty good games yesterday. I don't think FSU is getting through unscathed, and I have no idea how the hell Oklahoma State was unranked but they shouldn't be after yesterday. Put up one hell of a fight.

Wisconsin coaches gave away that game against LSU last night. I'll never understand why a guy that's averaging 9 YPC gets maybe two carries the entire second half, especially with a brand new QB that, quite frankly, sucks.

Michigan did what it was supposed to do. Granted, that Appalachian State team would've probably been a 30 point underdog against the Mountaineers team that completed that historic upset, but still. Michigan's defense looked stout and has the potential to be one of the strongest they've had in a few years. Offensive line still concerns me but Gardner and the offense did what they should do-Gardner especially looks great. I'll reserve judgment on the running game if they can do anywhere near that against good opponents...starting with the University of Academic Fraud this coming weekend (f-ck ND).

Watched that Wazzu/Rutgers game for a bit last night...still not accepting the fact that Rutgers (and Maryland) are part of the Big Ten now. What a bunch of crap.

Speaking of Big Ten, I'll be in Ann Arbor to hopefully exorcise some of the demons from the last time Michigan played Appalachian State (aka "The Horror").