Chris Berman Antics...

Have you seen this video yet? If not, you need to see this first before reading further...

That video was originally posted by an ESPN employee who I would assume no longer works for ESPN. I have not a clue how old the video is, if you do please tell the author of this blog (myself). I have seen it multiple times and it just proves my belief that Chris Berman is a complete asshat.

Recently The Miami Herald wrote a column that interviewed Berman regarding these comments. Berman says these comments were made about 9 years ago. Personally I don't buy it nor do I care. You act like an asshat at least one time to your producers and camera crew, it is going to most likely happen again and again. So yeah I said above I have no clue how old the video is, but ESPN says, they "supported Berman, noting the off-air videos are now nearly a decade old and don't reflect his typical workplace demeanor." Who cares. It happened. Berman in my eyes, before the video surfaced was an asshat just proves it further with this video.

I love the fact Berman acknowledges his mistake. I have made many mistakes in my young life. I can only dream that one day my stupidity in my life will make it to the stature of Chris Berman.

All people make stupid mistakes they wish they could forget, yet only a handful of the worlds population will ever get to have their dumbass remarks broadcast on the internet for all to see.

One thing Berman does say though, "you're being watched whether you're on TV or not. Everyone is very brave when they're anonymous, and that's very disturbing to me, whether it's about me or anyone else. I'd like to think people would be more productive with their time."

Well Mr. Berman, I agree. If people want to reach me my name is Russ Poush and my email is russpoush@yahoo.com. And as a further counterpoint, with a faltering economy I am out of work due to layoffs. I wish I was more productive than I am, but I am not, so other than looking for work 50 hours a week, I spend my time posting blogs, eating, meeting new people, and working out.

Tim Weiser out at K-State

Tim Weiser is leaving a good job at K-State to take a position with the Big 12. Kansas State reported that in Weisers new role with the Big 12 he "will assist the Commissioner as a staff liaison to the Board of Directors, oversee the day-to-day operation of the Conference office and coordinate activities in the Commissioner’s absence."

Weiser has made some questionable hires and fires at Kansas State. He hired Jim Wooldridge which in did not lead to many great wins and many u Wooldridge had 83 wins and did a decent job. However after a flop in the 2006 Big 12 tourney Weiser fired Wooly. Wooly's big win was at Allen Fieldhouse in 2006 when his Wildcats came in and won for the first time in a long long time against the Jayhawks. After Wooly's departure and Bill Snyder retirement earlier in the year, there have been questionable hires.

Ron Prince, who has never been a head coach was brought on to lead KSU Football and Bob Huggins the animated coach who does not graduate kids was brought on to lead KSU Basketball.

Weiser looked like a fool after Huggins left for West Virginia. Huggins did however bring some top level coaches and athletes to KSU win him. He did get the Wildcats to a 23 win season. Weiser though looked bad after Huggins left after one season. It was a black eye.

Weiser might have another black eye with Ron Prince too, unless Prince can come up with some big North division wins. Yes wins over Texas are nice, but they mean nothing when K-State football is not able to beat Missouri and Kansas constantly.

Tom Osborne came out of "retirement" to take over Nebraska Athletics, I wonder how many times Bill Snyder is going to be propositioned to take over the Athletic Department at Kansas State.

Sprint Cup runneth over...

So I find it disappointing that Sprint has had to lay off 5600 full time employees and contractors. Sprint has had some serious bad luck lately. They have been stuck in third place in the Telecom industry for some time now. The Sprint merger with Nextel also hurt. Both corporations had different technologies that did not come together as smoothly as one would hope. When Sprint merged with Nextel, Sprint also took control of a deal that Nextel worked with NASCAR in 2003. The deal was for the naming rights for 10 years at $700 million.

Okay so to add to the bad luck....

The Daytona 500 was won by Ryan Newman. His Sponsor... Alltel. Newman broke an 81-game winless streak to win the biggest race in NASCAR's Sprint Cup.

The ugly gets uglier.

Bye Bye Omaha, Hello...???

So, yesterday Omaha took a hit while discussing the College World Series. I am a huge fan of the CWS and would hate to see it move to another city, but it just might happen. The Omaha-World Hearld reports that, "an independent seven-member stadium review committee unanimously concluded that the best way to keep the CWS in Omaha is not to renovate Rosenblatt Stadium, but rather to build a new stadium on the grounds of the Qwest Center Omaha."

That SUCKS! So basically they want to tear up parking lots used for the Qwest Center and put a downtown baseball stadium in there. Real bright there fellas!

There still is the chance the CWS will stay in Omaha, but there are serious issues to be worked out.

I have personal reasons to keep the CWS in Omaha. Its close, and its a good road trip during June. I can't think of a better area for it. Of course there are doubters of Omaha, but shame on them if they live in the Midwest.

Big 12 Football Spring game

Seems like football is never ending. It has literally turned into an annual event. Rivals has listed all 120 Division 1 teams right here. The local Big 12 Football schools all start around the middle of March.

Missouri starts the earliest and will go the longest of all the local Big 12 schools.

-Mizzou starts March 11 and goes till April 19. The Spring game is April 19.
-Kansas start March 12 and goes till April 12. The Spring game is April 12.
-Kansas State starts March 29 and goes till April 19. The Spring game is April 19.
-Nebraska starts March 26 and goes till April 19. The Spring game is April 19.

The earliest Big 12 team to start Spring Practice will be Texas which gets going February 22.

Already lots of hype for Mizzou on message boards. Preseason hype for the Tigers both LSU and Missouri is insane.

Arrowhead is gonna be rocking again i'm sure for Mizzou especially with their preseason rankings. Regardless it is going to be a typical Kansas/Missouri football game. Only once again its at Arrowhead Stadium. Stubhub.com has tickets going for between $175 and $775 already for this game. No chance of e teams living up to the hype again this coming year like they did in 2007 can they?

OVER-RATED!!!

Being a Kansas Citian I flat out hate east and west coast NCAA schools with a passion. Especially those 4-letter one's like UCLA and DUKE. Sunday night ACC rivals Wake Forest and DUKE, the Demon Deacons forced 31 fouls from the Blue Devils. Wake has a +13 free throw advantage over that 4-letter curse word. Know what happened next that I just am blown away by? All of Duke's five starters fouled out! First time ever in Blue Devil history for that to happen! I love it! The curse of Skip Prosser is alive against the Dukies!


Duke is my most hated school. By FAR!!! What is yours?