First! (lol)

Loved V for Vendetta. Great graphic novel. Pretty OK movie.

Time to scribble on this clean slate!

Down with the Community Guidelines!

I think you can watch it free on calbears.com.
Faraudo’s preview.

WHAT TO LOOK FOR: Expect the Bears to jump ahead early, allowing coach Mike Montgomery to substitute freely. He’ll want his regulars to develop some rhythm, but also will use this as an opportunity to give second-line players legitimate time on the floor.

Figure Omondi Amoke, Jorge Gutierrez, D.J. Seeley, Max Zhang and Nikola Knezevic will see considerable action off the bench. Newcomers Markhuri Sanders-Frison, Brandon Smith and Bak Bak will make their Cal debuts, Sanders-Frison likely as a starter at the post.

Three Pac-10 teams played exhibitions last night. Check this one out. WTF?

From Wednesday night’s exhibition play:

– UCLA: The Bruins needed a 3-point basket from junior Mustafa Abdul-Hamid with 16.1 seconds left to beat NAIA opponent Concordia 62-61. UCLA, which trailed by as many as eight points, got 17 points and 11 rebounds from sophomore Drew Gordon, the former Archbishop Mitty HS-San Jose star.

He has missed practice the last two days.

Kroichick’s report

Cal faculty to debate on funding athletic teams

Ratto has a piece as well (surprise, surprise) that will likely make your blood pressure rise:

It’s all in where you priorities lay, and at Cal, where the book still occasionally trumps the ball, bailing out the athletic department at regular scheduled intervals doesn’t play well.

Yet, if Jeff Tedford hadn’t created the third best team in the Pac-10 but the first, they’d be home free. His E-mails would be filled with E-donations rather than E-bitching, the cash cow would become the golden calf, and he would never ride a bus again.

Put another way, if he thought he had pressure before, one can only imagine how much there will be if suddenly he HAS to win the USC and Oregon game rather than merely WANT to.

In other words, this becomes his world if he wakes up Friday morning and finds out that he is coaching in his own little SEC, where going undefeated is the only thing that is ever forgiven.

Cal lost last year, and now we have a baby.

I’d like to add that he just made it 9 hours without waking up!

So this past Sunday, the undefeated Colts were taken to the wire by a 49ers team, led by a rookie head coach and a QB who was getting a second chance after being labelled a bust. Clearly, the Colts did not play uninspired football, nor did the Niners play well in a commendable effort. No, what happened is that the Niners were cheating.

A gem:

Here at Stampede Blue, we have no tolerance for cheating. None. And I defy anyone who says “It’s part of the game.” No, it isn’t. People who cheat belittle and demean the game. Cheaters spit in the faces of John Unitas, Bart Starr, and the greats of the great. More importantly, we fans do not pay over $100 a seat, $30 for parking, and ungoldly amounts for hot dogs, popcorn, beer, and soda just so we can watch cheating.

We pay to watch football. REAL football. And real football does not involve cheating, like what we saw Singletary attempt Sunday.

Again, if you don’t have the stomach to read this blog when we call a spade a spade, read something else. I’m serious. I am not someone who will hold your hand and softly explain why we chose to call an NFL head coach a “bum.” If you don’t get the reasons by now, I really can’t help you. At this blog, we call it as we see it. We don’t hold back, ESPECIALLY when cheating is involved. And since Kevin Lynch saw what Lamey and Wolford saw, 49ers fans can’t simply dismiss the claim, saying “it’s only the other side that’s saying it.” Hell, I heard even one commenter say that it wasn’t Singletary who cheated, but it was likely the 49ers defensive line coach.

Another gem:

I wanted to wait a couple of days after the game to thank you 49ers for some great blogging leading up to last Sunday’s contest. While I and many other Colts fans are still livid that your coach has to resort to cheating to try and steal a ballgame, that doesn’t mean we think the 49ers are “bums,” or that you fans are. Many of us just think your coach misrepresents you. That’s just our opinion.

And before some of you chime in suggesting it wasn’t cheating; yes, it was. There is an NFL rule against doing feigning injuries. The problem is the rule is hard to enforce, and since so few NFL teams do it anymore, the league doesn’t issue any “point of emphasis” type edicts on it. It’s because it is so rare, and so frowned upon, that fans like me blast Singletary for attempting it when his team is so obviously struggling to keep up with the hurry-up. I have a strong belief in the integrity of the game. Without integrity, the game is meaningless. And when people’s actions question the game’s integrity (be they players who take steroids or coaches you violate league rules), when they do that (in my view) they piss in the faces of honest fans who shell out hard-earned money in a tough economy.

Yes, you saw that second link correctly — the head blogger from one SBN site posted a fanpost on another SBN site, attacking their coach and calling their favourite team “cheaters”.

Oh, and they ban you if you don’t think the Colts are the best team ever and that Peyton Manning is the #1 team of all time. You also get banned if you have sympathetic feelings towards the Pats or the Colts.