Judge declares college QB's offense as minor

Masoli's offense deemed "minor" by judge in spite of throwing for over 2K yards last season

A judge this week declared that Jeremiah Masoli's offense is minor. His stats clearly indicate otherwise, but I'm not in charge. But even though his offense was deemed minor, (in spite of passing for over 2,000 yards and rushing for 668 yards) it got his recent crime demoted from a felony to a misdemeanor. Masoli, obviously a music lover, stole 2 laptops and a guitar from a frat house on campus. Imagine how easy he would have gotten off if his offense had been better...


After the loss to Boise State in the season's first game, Oregon went on to win the PAC-10 championship. Mostly from the work of Masoli, now suspended for the 2010 season, and also from the work of LaMichael James, who rushed for over 1,500 yards, a PAC-10 freshman record. James was suspended for the opening game of the season. His crime was much less serious than Masoli's crime. James merely beat and choked his girlfriend.

LaMichael James - choker

Kudo's to Oregon coach Chip Kelly for meting out such strong punishment to two star players. This could only have been made possible by the recent signing of Temple, Texas running back, Lache Seastrunk. I think we can only hope that this doesn't become a string of renegade chokings by running backs from Texas.

Guy goes to jail for shooting himself. Really.

"No, really, I shot 'myself' with my own gun..."

What the hell has this world come to when a guy goes to jail for shooting himself?

This just plain crazy...

Religion of Peace, My Ass

Muslim Praying (trying to hold fart)

The "religion of peace" is in the news again, thanks to the founder of a muslim TV station.

Muzzammil Hassan is in big trouble for beheading his wife. Apparently, he didn't know you couldn't do that in New York City. Hassan was quoted as saying, "We is marryed for lipfe. De bitch was diborching me, so I waxed herd haid off. Das de way we roll ass Muslim. You must reliss me, or you iss raysism."

From the website: "Muzzammil Hassan, who founded Bridges TV in November 2004 to counter anti-Islam stereotypes, surrendered to police Thursday. Hassan touted the network as the "first-ever full-time home for American Muslims," according to a press release."

When asked for a response, President Hussein Obama said, "shut the hell up cracker!"

BASEBALL, BEEN BERRY, BERRY GOOD TO THEM...

Well, I guess we all secretly knew, but its dissapointing still. Many of our heroes were busted today by the Mitchell report. It turns out our superstars were geting juiced as early as a decade ago, and likely before that.



Pettite was a surprise, but Clemens was not. TU has been running out criminals for years.

Hey dude, have you seen my car?


As a baseball fan it is majorly dissapointing to know that some my favorite players are mentioned in that report. Pettite, Miguel Tejada, Gary Sheffield (who has maintained that he did not use steriods) are among around 50 players the report names. As a baseball purist, it bothers me to know that the stars may be stars because of the substances they took.

Young Barry, undefiled

I know the arguments, Bonds would still be a homerun hitter, because steriods don't affect hand-eye coordination. I agree with that. Where I have the problem, is that with steriods, a routine warning track fly ball becomes a home run. And in Bonds' case, lots of them.

I hate to say it, but I hope they get punished.

Colorado Church Shootings-HEAVY, NO COMEDY HERE

Someone is praying for You...

One of those weird unexpected things happened again. My sister-in-law lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado where they had two seperate incidents of shootings at churches. They locked down all the churches in the area for safety reasons. Now, several innocent people are dead, and for no good reason. They are not martyrs, they were not killed for standing up for thier faith. They are dead because some kid could not handle life.


It turns out the turd who did the shootings was kicked out of the dorm where he did his first shooting. He was raised in a deeply religous home, by good, God-fearing parents. Yet somehow, he flipped out. This has been a mystery to me: how people flip out when they have good parents and a seemingly good life. I guess the pressure to not fail got to him?


I know the arguments: video games and music videos desensitize them to violence; they have anger issues. But in my mind I think I have a partial answer. I wonder if these kids have ever come to grips with the reality that they are responsible for thier actions, and if they understand the consequences of thier actions?


One of the greatest gifts my parents ever gave me, was a dose of reality. My mom would say, "this is what will happend if you choose this action, and this will happen if you choose that action." Then she would tell me which was better and why, and then allow me to make the decision. Like when they told me that if I was caught drinking, I would lose my car for a month. Then when I came home stumbling drunk one night, and lost my car for a month. I remember it well. My junior year of high school: vice-president of the junior class, baseball team, one act play. Boy was I the busy popular kid! So you can imagine my consternation when I had to beg for rides to and from practice. How embarassing! (Yes, I was that shallow)


Then, another time my dad bought me a new camaro. I was in heaven. My dad simply told me, "you wreck it, and its gone." Well, I wrecked it, and it was gone before I got out of bed the next morning. They were just two of many tough love lessons, and I learned them well. It caused me to realize that every action had a result. And that I needed to weigh my actions, to avoid undesired results.


Its a tough thing for a parent to do: to provide the opportunity for a child to fail. And although they were serious issues for me personally, in the grand scheme of things they were really pretty minor. But they conveyed the greater lesson.


Tonight, I say a prayer for the families of the victims of the Colorado shootings. Please say one of your own. Those families will be forever affected because of the selfishness of one boy. The parents of those two sisters who were 16 and 18 will live different lives because thier sweet girls are gone forever from this earth. Comfort will be hard to find for that mom and dad.



It comforting for me to know, that Jesus was also "a man of sorrows." I pray they find thier comfort. Its good to know that they will see their girls in the sweet bye and bye. But its much harder to be comforted here on this earth, when those we have given our lives for are gone. I pray the peace of God comforts thier pain.

UT & ATM Cooperate on New Facilities

Local news reports that ATM football players Yemi Babalola and Brandon Joiner were arrested on Thursday after both were charged with aggravated robbery and drug possession. It seems they entered a local apartment and bound the victims with duct tape (restraint of choice for Land Thieves everywhere).



The pair will miss the team's game in the Alamo Bowl, to which Joiner, from Killeen, TX, allegedly replied "Thank God, San Antonio is a toilet."

The Home of one of San Antonio's wealthiest residents

In the aftermath of the arrests, there has been ground breaking cooperation between ATM and UT. Coach Mack Brown has released plans for the new Travis County "Jail / Dormatory" now under construction adjacent to Memorial Stadium in Austin to new ATM head coach Mike Sherman. According to Mack, "I just wanted to extend an olive branch to Mike Sherman and try to be an example of interagency cooperation." He has not been in the college game for a long time, and may not know he can have a "dormatory" for his problem players. By building it adjacent to the stadium he can utilize the 4 free hours the prisoners, I mean the players receive each day."



This move by Mack touched off a revolt in nature. (Everyone knows you can't do nice things for an aggie.) There suddenly arose a deafening roar near college station, and a large F-5 tornado touched down in College Station knocking over 2,000 mobile homes. No aggies were injured, as they were in the barn with thier sheep at the time.

"This is a one time deal says Mack. I have recently been privately supporting the Baylor Bears. I just loved that frickin' Miracle on the Brazos!"

"Sic'em Bears" says Mack