Odds and Sods

Steely McBeam may be doing some “hard time” after being popped for a DUI in Pittsburgh.  Sounds like a movie plot to me.

Seeing his draft stock stumbling due to the dreaded “character concerns” label, former Michigan wide receiver Mario Manningham sent a letter to all NFL teams apologizing for his past Marijuana use.

Manningham admitted failing two tests for Marijuana while at Michigan, after previous denials.

“I don’t use marijuana anymore - and I have passed tests since,” Manningham wrote in the letter. “I know what is at stake for me, and my career. I am learning what it is going to take to be a professional. I am writing this letter because I just want a fair evaluation, and I want to be accountable for my actions. I am willing to be re-interviewed, re-tested, and to undergo any evaluation any team wants me to undergo.”

Marijuana usage by white, every day students is seen as a normal right of passage.  Why, when black athletes use it, does the issue transform into a “character concern?”

Marijuana is not a drug.  I used to suck dick for coke.

Now that’s an addiction, man.  You ever suck some dick for Marijuana?

Ave Maria!

Apparently, Lauren Conrad is a huge NHL Fan, according to her new blog at NHL.com.

I am still trying to decide what the worst part of this is.  That the NHL would actually orchestrate this?  That, judging by the grammar, they let her write this herself with no editing?  Or, that NHL fans actually took this seriously enough to comment and to criticize her?

The Kids, they’re alright.  But alright does not win you a title.

Yes, Arsenal got hosed.  Theo Walcott’s coming out party was spoiled by a pathetic penalty decision, a putrid product of the Kop End.  

Stevie G got to grin and smile like he had won the match, though he did everything in his power to lose it by squandering so many possessions.

But, a win would only gloss over glaring problems.  Problems for which Wenger has not had to account.

Why was the squad not strengthened in January?  Arsenal is the fifth wealthiest club in the world, why are they turning a profit in the transfer window?  What future glories are so great that one can pass up a shot at the title or the Champions League?  Why have they gone two months without playing decent football?

Wenger scoffs at the outrageous sums spent for Torres and Babel, yet these are the two players who killed his team’s hopes today.

He seems to have the answers for all of football’s ills, yet sits incredulous when his team – starting a central midfielder and a right back on the wings – struggles to attack the goal.

Wenger may still have a magic hat.  But, when the rabbit repeatedly comes out dead, it begins to lose its effect.