The folks at "Mayhem in the AM" on 790 the Zone in Atlanta had one of the most tasteless sports bits ever heard today, about Steve Gleason.
Today, he guest wrote Peter King's Monday Morning Quarterback article. Steak Shapiro, Chris Dimino, and Nick Celini did a bit during their show at WQXI-AM in Atlanta, which was tasteless to say the least.
790's GM: "We deeply regret the offensive programming that aired this morning
on “Mayhem In The AM” on 790 The Zone, related to former New Orleans
Saints player Steve Gleason and his battle with ALS. We suspended the
three individuals involved immediately following their comments and have
since terminated their employment. 790 The Zone, our owners, sponsors
and partners in no way endorse or support this kind of content. We
sincerely apologize to Mr. Gleason, his family and all those touched by
ALS."
The audio is from Chria225:
Monday, June 17, 2013
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Jason Leffler dead
NASCAR driver Jason Leffler has been killed tonight at the Bridgeport Speedway tonight in New Jersey. The AP is reporting, along with several Philadelphia area news sources.
The crash happened at about 8:30pm, as @ChristopheTaitt at the track reported to @KendraJJacobs at 8:32. His tweet at@LoriAWorley: it was a bad bad wreck i knew it wasnt good when they tried to get him on the backboard before getting him out.
@Jim_Gardner, the well-known Philadelphia news anchor at WPVI Channel 6, reports New jersey State Police reporting death of a driver. No name released. @NBCPhiladelphia confirmed Leffler's death.
@jim_utter, NASCAR writer at the Charlotte Observer, says he died at 9:02pm as result of the crash.
@TheDalyPlanet broke this story via a RT from @ChristopheTaitt. This is a picture of the car. He said: "Its not looking good he had a cardic arrest while waiting helicop then rushed him.to another hospital." "track didn't say anything but a friend father told us he is with the fire company."
He left the track via a medical helicopter and is reported to go to a trauma hospital.
There is a state police investigation going on at the moment at Bridgeport Speedway. The track is in Swedesboro, New Jersey. The rest of the racing on this Wednesday night was cancelled. People are saying that races are never canceled down there.
Leffler is at Cooper Trauma Center in Camden, NJ per an @NBCPhiladelphia report.
Leffler is a Nationwide driver, who also races in the truck series and in Sprint Cup. He just raced at Pocono last week. He is well-liked by the racing community. Leffler was a driver since 2000 on the NASCAR circuit. He had his own Winston Cup car in 2001, the #01 Cingular Wireless car. He won the first pole at Kansas Speedway, and the first Nationwide Series race for Toyota in 2007 at Indianapolis Raceway Park.
He won one race in the Truck Series, and participated in all three series until his death. He was 37.
The crash happened at about 8:30pm, as @ChristopheTaitt at the track reported to @KendraJJacobs at 8:32. His tweet at
@Jim_Gardner, the well-known Philadelphia news anchor at WPVI Channel 6, reports New jersey State Police reporting death of a driver. No name released. @NBCPhiladelphia confirmed Leffler's death.
@jim_utter, NASCAR writer at the Charlotte Observer, says he died at 9:02pm as result of the crash.
@TheDalyPlanet broke this story via a RT from @ChristopheTaitt. This is a picture of the car. He said: "Its not looking good he had a cardic arrest while waiting helicop then rushed him.to another hospital." "track didn't say anything but a friend father told us he is with the fire company."
He left the track via a medical helicopter and is reported to go to a trauma hospital.
There is a state police investigation going on at the moment at Bridgeport Speedway. The track is in Swedesboro, New Jersey. The rest of the racing on this Wednesday night was cancelled. People are saying that races are never canceled down there.
Leffler is at Cooper Trauma Center in Camden, NJ per an @NBCPhiladelphia report.
Leffler is a Nationwide driver, who also races in the truck series and in Sprint Cup. He just raced at Pocono last week. He is well-liked by the racing community. Leffler was a driver since 2000 on the NASCAR circuit. He had his own Winston Cup car in 2001, the #01 Cingular Wireless car. He won the first pole at Kansas Speedway, and the first Nationwide Series race for Toyota in 2007 at Indianapolis Raceway Park.
He won one race in the Truck Series, and participated in all three series until his death. He was 37.
Howard's Rock vandalized
Clemson's famed Howard's Rock has been vandalized. The rock was vandalized between June 2 and 5, as two photos on Twitter show the difference. They were tweeted by Pierre Tong, a Clemson student.
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
What if there was a College Baseball NIT?
College baseball is something which has grown into one of the biggest college sports in the nation. The sport has grown immeasurably in the last twenty years, as schools are spending more and more money on the sport, and more games are televised every year. In several states, college baseball has nearly overtaken college basketball as the #2 college sport behind football. Only a few seasons ago, it was a struggle to get more than a couple regionals on television. Now, all 16 NCAA regionals will be done on ESPN's networks.
The 64 teams for the 2013 NCAA Division I baseball tournament have been announced.
College baseball's postseason is one of the most exclusive in sports. 64 teams make the NCAAs, and that is it. Only 21% of the schools playing college baseball can play in the NCAA tournament. Some very good teams have been left out of the postseason this year, and almost every year since the 64-team tournament began in 1999.
This is much different from FBS college football, where 70 teams make the postseason, and there's years where teams with losing records have to host bowls, and college basketball, where 140 of 347 teams play in the postseason.
My plan is for a College Baseball NIT. It would take on a different name from the NIT. I would differentiate this from the NCAA tournament in every way possible. The NCAA tournament is held entirely at campus sites until the championship, when the games move to Omaha in the College World Series. In this, the championship would be held at campus sites in a three-game series.
The plan would be for all regular-season conference champions to automatically get a bid to this tournament, just like the NIT does in college basketball. This would put some emphasis back into the regular season schedules in these leagues. College baseball tends to be a sport that few care about outside of the Sunbelt and major conferences until late May.
In addition, I would change it around, making the tournament four 8-team double elimination regionals instead of having the 4-team regionals that the NCAA tournament has. The sites would be named in the previous off-season, allowing for time to get the cities ready for hosting these events.
These events could be held at minor league baseball stadiums, as dates could be held for road games. They also could be held in smaller towns that don't have a minor league team. The TV network that would televise games is unknown. With CBS, Fox, and NBC all having their own sports networks that need a lot of programming, these events could be televised.
This would lead up to the four regional winners meeting in two single-elimination semis at the highest seeded team, allowing for more national match-ups, before the best of three-game finals held at the home schools. This event would finish before the College World Series, and would run during the middle of the week before the event started, in order to give the CWS, one of the most underrated events in sports, the spotlight.
The 8-team format would allow teams to play games meaning something for seniors who have bad tastes in their mouths losing in conference tournaments, and provide experience for young players.
Smaller cities would also gain in hosting these events, providing a boost in tourism for the four cities picked to host regional tournaments and for the host schools picked later in the tournament. This would also help spur more interest in the game in other parts of the country.
College baseball is a growing sport, and adding a second tournament along with the NCAA would help boost the sport more.
The 64 teams for the 2013 NCAA Division I baseball tournament have been announced.
College baseball's postseason is one of the most exclusive in sports. 64 teams make the NCAAs, and that is it. Only 21% of the schools playing college baseball can play in the NCAA tournament. Some very good teams have been left out of the postseason this year, and almost every year since the 64-team tournament began in 1999.
This is much different from FBS college football, where 70 teams make the postseason, and there's years where teams with losing records have to host bowls, and college basketball, where 140 of 347 teams play in the postseason.
My plan is for a College Baseball NIT. It would take on a different name from the NIT. I would differentiate this from the NCAA tournament in every way possible. The NCAA tournament is held entirely at campus sites until the championship, when the games move to Omaha in the College World Series. In this, the championship would be held at campus sites in a three-game series.
The plan would be for all regular-season conference champions to automatically get a bid to this tournament, just like the NIT does in college basketball. This would put some emphasis back into the regular season schedules in these leagues. College baseball tends to be a sport that few care about outside of the Sunbelt and major conferences until late May.
In addition, I would change it around, making the tournament four 8-team double elimination regionals instead of having the 4-team regionals that the NCAA tournament has. The sites would be named in the previous off-season, allowing for time to get the cities ready for hosting these events.
These events could be held at minor league baseball stadiums, as dates could be held for road games. They also could be held in smaller towns that don't have a minor league team. The TV network that would televise games is unknown. With CBS, Fox, and NBC all having their own sports networks that need a lot of programming, these events could be televised.
This would lead up to the four regional winners meeting in two single-elimination semis at the highest seeded team, allowing for more national match-ups, before the best of three-game finals held at the home schools. This event would finish before the College World Series, and would run during the middle of the week before the event started, in order to give the CWS, one of the most underrated events in sports, the spotlight.
The 8-team format would allow teams to play games meaning something for seniors who have bad tastes in their mouths losing in conference tournaments, and provide experience for young players.
Smaller cities would also gain in hosting these events, providing a boost in tourism for the four cities picked to host regional tournaments and for the host schools picked later in the tournament. This would also help spur more interest in the game in other parts of the country.
College baseball is a growing sport, and adding a second tournament along with the NCAA would help boost the sport more.
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Everett Golson out at Notre Dame
Major news in college football tonight, as Notre Dame's starting QB from Myrtle Beach, Everett Golson, is no longer enrolled at Notre Dame. There are rumors that he got expelled for cheating on a test.
A sports anchor from Notre Dame's station in South Bend, WNDU:@angdicarlowndu: Notre Dame confirms that QB Everett Golson no longer enrolled at ND. They can't say why due to privacy laws.
A Notre Dame fan on Twitter with apparent insider ties to the program:
@IrishRoo12
A sports anchor from Notre Dame's station in South Bend, WNDU:
A Notre Dame fan on Twitter with apparent insider ties to the program:
Word on the street is Everett Golson may be expelled for plagiarism on a final. #pleasegodno
Golson threw for over 2,400 yards in 2012 to lead the Irish to the BCS Championship game against Alabama. Backup QB Gunner Kiel also left the program to transfer earlier in the off-season. Needless to say, this would be huge news.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Elon to CAA
There have been rumors that Elon will leave the Southern Conference, and would be the fifth school to leave the league in the past six months, joining College of Charleston, Davidson, Georgia Southern and Appalachian State.
Breaking: Elon has called a press conference for 2 pm tomorrow (Thursday) to announce their move to the CAA. Albany is also expected to join.
At 2:14pm on Wed:@adam_smithTN
Breaking: Elon has called a press conference for 2 pm tomorrow (Thursday) to announce their move to the CAA. Albany is also expected to join.
At 2:14pm on Wed:
Advisory just released for
Thursday afternoon news conference on “important announcement about the
future of Elon Phoenix Athletics.”
Jeff Hartsell, Citadel writer at the Post and Courier tweeted that Elon's board of trustees voted Tuesday to go to the CAA, and that Albany is also joining in all sports.
Jeff Hartsell, Citadel writer at the Post and Courier tweeted that Elon's board of trustees voted Tuesday to go to the CAA, and that Albany is also joining in all sports.
This would be a big blow to the league. They have been in the Southern Conference for the past ten years after four years in the Big South when they joined Division I, in 1999.
At 3:24 on Tuesday:@adam_smithTN
At 3:24 on Tuesday:
SoCon commish John Iamarino says #Elon hopes to make CAA decision within weeks, if not days.
This is what I said about Elon last year in an article I did, ranking the CAA contenders:
Elon: Pros- would get the CAA into the Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point market. Elon is also only 40 miles from Chapel Hill and Durham, giving them a footprint in that market. Have a rich base of alumni all over the East Coast (here in Charleston, they always bring a fan contingent). Are adding women's lacrosse, and are competitive in almost all sports in the SoCon. A very good school which would fit in the CAA for academics.
Cons- Small gym (Alumni Hall), only seats 2,100, one of smallest in SoCon. Does not have a big following outside of the Piedmont of NC (only people that follow them are alumni outside the area). Campus hard to expand. Only has one radio station on its network.
Elon: Pros- would get the CAA into the Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point market. Elon is also only 40 miles from Chapel Hill and Durham, giving them a footprint in that market. Have a rich base of alumni all over the East Coast (here in Charleston, they always bring a fan contingent). Are adding women's lacrosse, and are competitive in almost all sports in the SoCon. A very good school which would fit in the CAA for academics.
Cons- Small gym (Alumni Hall), only seats 2,100, one of smallest in SoCon. Does not have a big following outside of the Piedmont of NC (only people that follow them are alumni outside the area). Campus hard to expand. Only has one radio station on its network.
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Andrew Wiggins headed to Kansas
Andrew Wiggins, a 6'8 SF from Huntington, WV, the top recruit in the class of 2013, has picked Kansas. This is a huge win for the Jayhawks and Coach Bill Self
This will elevate the Jayhawks into a title contender again.
This will elevate the Jayhawks into a title contender again.
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