I suppose you never want the President of the United States to be drunk, and that right there is good enough reason to rationalize a brew pick by Obama of Bud Light. At just 4.2% ABV, it's only slightly more intoxicating than the Snapple I just chugged with breakfast. Still, I've always said that I want my POTUS to be the smartest man in the room, and I think I'd be remiss to fail to state that I also want my POTUS to have an appreciation for good beer. Once Henry Gates opted for a Sam Adams ...
Important Update To The Silly Dance Drama!
Yesterday, we incorrectly reported that what the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors perform before a game is called "The Haka." We were wrong. What the Hawaii Warriors perform is a "Ha'a." Please accept this correction as an apology to anyone offended by our mistake*. *Yes. Seriously. ...
ND Football Players Disheartened To Learn “Totally Awesome” Cheer They Developed Not Being Described as “Totally Awesome” By Some
According to Hawaii Football Coach... hold on, I have to look this up... Greg McMackin, the night before the Hawaii Bowl last season, the ND and Hawaii squads took part in a ceremony during which the Hawaii squad did the completely bad-ass Haka, of which you can see a performance by the "All Blacks" in the video below. *Remember, these are Ruby Players, so this is scary and intimidating. If you and I were doing this, it would be neither scary, nor intimidating. Not wanting to be ...
You’re So Predictable: 2010 Irish Draftees
Our announcement of the ND vs. Opposition Draft, coupled with this post over on UHND, reminded me of this post we did a year ago looking at draft talent in ND's upper classes and this post from this past spring looking at the poor state of draftable players on the 2008 squad (again, keep in mind, we were looking at the more senior classes) where we proposed a thought-experiment: What sort of ratio of wins-to-2010-draftees would that represent? Go ahead and throw your guesses down in the ...
Pete Carroll:NCAA Rules::Salvador Dali:Reality
Or maybe I should say Pete's more of a Bob Ross. He sees happy little trees everywhere, and, more importantly, he sees "happy little mistakes." USC football Coach Pete Carroll employed a former NFL tactician last season to help with the team's punting and kicking game, an arrangement that may have violated NCAA rules that prohibit consultants from coaching, The Times has learned. Carroll's action could widen a continuing investigation by the NCAA, the governing body of major college ...
The 2009 ND vs. Opposition Draft
Mel Kiper Jr. seen here eating his heart out. Earlier this year, and I mean early, a series of discussions on various ND football boards, plus a lot of writing about how the talent on ND's roster so "clearly" "outclasses" so much of the talent on the rosters of the opposition of 2009, got myself and a few other ND football bloggers to thinking about what a mock-draft of all that talent (Irish and not) might look like. So we decided to hold our own mock draft, and very soon we'll start ...
Incompetence To Take Spotlight Sept. 12th
We already knew this much: Come Sept 12th, either Notre Dame would defeat a fumbling and bumbling Michigan (sucks!) in Ann Arbor, shining a light on the program Rich Rodriguez seems hell-bent on beating with the mishap stick every day and twice on gameday, or Notre Dame would lose to Michigan (sucks!) in inexplicable fashion. And by "inexplicable," we mean that Weis and company learned nothing, zip, zilch, zero over the last 2 seasons, and have instead decided to forge through the jungle of the ...
HLS Tweets for the Week of 2009-07-24
Sup twitter friends! Just a quick thanks for following HLS. We will have a ton of updates as camp and the season get underway! # Fearing we may have taken vacation at wrong time. May never get back up to speed in time for fall camp! (Also feeling fat.) # My God, we're ND fans/alums, and even we couldn't care less about this --> http://bit.ly/XVaM8 # Mesmerized by the way Jason Whitlock totally ignored the racial angle to the whole ErinAndrewsNakedOGM story. Or... maybe not. # Up next ...
Friday Roundup: The “Things I Missed” Edition
I've had this sort of bizarre week where, if I were someone like, say, Hunter S. Thompson, the story of that week would be oddball, intense, and fantastical, and I'd be dead, but I'm not Hunter S. Thompson, so the story involved leasing agents, flight delays, bad cell reception, and no WiFi, and... that's about it. Yet it still summed up to nearly 7 days where I didn't know anything about anything current. The Roundup: Dr. Saturday credits Clay Travis with "working up the nerve" to ...
The NCAA Hatessssssses the Rugby Style Kicker
HT: Conquest Chronicles New Rule: If a punter carries the ball outside the tackle box before he kicks on a ``rugby-style kick,'' there will be no roughing the kicker violation this season. There is also a rule change regarding offensive formations. In the past, the rule stated that a team must have at least seven players on the line. The new rule now says a team may have no more than four players in the backfield. This is supposed to make it easier for ...