Thanks to our good friend Jim Godfrey for this nugget: Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin will be coming to Greenville on Tuesday. She will speak at ECU’s Minges Coliseum at 5 p.m.
My take: Wow! I can already see Flagan, Heelatious and Guitar Wrecker camping out in front of Minges for a couple days so they get up close.
Guys — stalking is illegal in North Carolina. Those Secret Service agents will hurt you!
LET’S GET IT ON!
It’s Joe Biden vs. America’s Sweetheart (Sarah Palin) tonight in a vice presidential debate from St. Louis.
My take: I’m really looking forward to watching it — and I think it’s going to be much more interesting than the John McCain-Barack Obama debate (which I finally downloaded on my iPod and can see — if I find the time).
Biden is known for his longwindedness and Palin is known for … well, looking good. I really think it’s going to be entertaining on all fronts.
BAILOUT HEADS BACK TO THE HOUSE
The Wall Street bailout plan passed by a comfortable 74-25 vote in the U.S. Senate yesterday and now heads back to the House, where it failed earlier.
My take: I was shocked that it passed by so large a margin. As I said yesterday, I thought it’d have trouble passing but 74-25? Wow.
Hello, socialist government!
PAPARAZZI CALLED 911 TO REPORT LOCKLEAR
A photographer who was stalking following Heather Locklear was the “concerned citizen” who called 911 to tell authorities that she was impaired. The photographer made $27,000 from TMZ for the pictures of Locklear’s arrest.
My take: On one hand, I think it’s disgusting that these vultures follow celebrities around to make money from them. What makes me sicker is that people actually help make money for TMZ by looking at their junk.
But … if she was impaired — and it appears she was — I’m happy that someone (no matter how slimy they are) kept her from killing someone or herself.
The (sorely lacking 2,300-plus songs) iPod shuffle
Ante Up — M.O.P.
Mediate — INXS
Bring ‘Em Out — T.I.
Stuntin’ Like My Daddy — Birdman & Lil Wayne
Everything She Wants — Wham!
Eye Candy of the Day
Kate Walsh, formerly of “Grey’s Anatomy” and now of her own vehicle, “Private Practice”. Beautiful smile, gorgeous hair, shiny dress. What more can you ask for?
4A
1. Charlotte Independence (11) 3-0 119 1
2. Matthews Butler (1) 4-0 105 2
3. Raleigh Millbrook 6-0 96 3
4. Raleigh Leesville Road 6-0 74 5
5. Davie County 4-1 47 6
6. Fayetteville Britt 4-1 42 4
7. Wilmington Hoggard 3-1 38 7
8. East Mecklenburg 4-0 34 8
9. Winston-Salem Mt. Tabor 5-1 27 9
T10. Asheville Reynolds 4-1 25 —
T10. Fayetteville Seventy-First 5-0 25 —
Others receiving votes: Richmond County 15, Mallard Creek 4, West Forsyth 2, Charlotte Myers Park 2, East Forsyth 2, East Burke 1, Greensboro Page 1, Greenville Rose 1.
3A
1. Greensboro Dudley (10) 5-0 118 1
2. Rocky Mount (2) 4-1 105 2
3. Eastern Alamance 5-0 81 3
4. Jamestown Ragsdale 5-0 73 4
5. Belmont South Point 5-1 69 5
6. West Craven 5-0 52 6
7. Waynesville Tuscola 5-0 48 9
8. Winston-Salem Carver 5-1 42 7
9. Harnett Central 4-1 22 —
10. Oxford Webb 4-1 18 10
Others receiving votes: Asheville Roberson 9, West Rowan 8, Wilson Fike 3, Kinston 3, Kannapolis Brown 3, SE Guilford 2, Mooresville 1, Charlotte Catholic 1, Asheville 1, Hertford County 1.
2A
1. Reidsville (12) 5-0 120 1
2. Jacksonville Northside 5-0 101 2
3. Newton-Conover 5-0 87 3
4. SW Onslow 5-0 83 5
5. Lincolnton 5-1 64 7
6. Lenoir Hibriten 5-0 58 6
7. Bunn 4-1 37 8
8. Eastern Guilford 5-0 32 9
9. South Columbus 4-1 22 10
10. Tarboro 5-1 19 4
Others receiving votes: Canton Pisgah 11, Salisbury 10, East Lincoln 8, Shelby 7, East Duplin 1.
1A
1. Warsaw Kenan (7) 6-0 112 1
2. Thomasville (3) 5-0 105 3
3. Mt. Airy (2) 5-0 104 2
4. Murphy 6-0 83 4
5. Albemarle 4-1 62 5
6. Siler City Jordan-Matthews 5-1 37 6
7. Cherokee 6-0 30 9
8. Dunn Midway 5-0 27 10
9. Plymouth 4-1 26 7
10. East Bladen 5-1 18 8
Others receiving votes: Topsail 14, Jones Senior 10, Robbinsville 6, Louisburg 5, West Montgomery 5, Seven Springs Spring Creek 5, Elkin 4, Hendersonville 4, East Surry 3.
4A
1. Charlotte Independence
2. Matthews Butler
3. Raleigh Millbrook
4. Fayetteville Seventy-First
5. Raleigh Leesville Road
6. East Mecklenburg
7. Wilmington Hoggard
8. Charlotte Mallard Creek
9. Richmond County
10. Fayetteville Britt
3A
1. Rocky Mount
2. Greensboro Dudley
3. West Craven
4. Eastern Alamance
5. Harnett Central
6. Jamestown Ragsdale
7. Belmont South Point
8. Waynesville Tuscola
9. Kinston
10. Wilson Fike
2A
1. Reidsville
2. Jacksonville Northside
3. Newton-Conover
4. SW Onslow
5. Lincolnton
6. Lenoir Hibriten
7. Bunn
8. East Lincoln
9. Tarboro
10. East Duplin
1A
1. Warsaw Kenan
2. Thomasville
3. Mount Airy
4. Murphy
5. Jones Senior
6. Albemarle
7. Dunn Midway
8. Cherokee
9. Topsail
10. East Surry
Check back here around 4 p.m. for the Associated Press poll.
Prep
Kinston at Wilmington Hoggard
North Lenoir at Eastern Wayne
Swansboro at South Lenoir
Parrott Academy at Northeast Academy
Goldsboro Rosewood at Jones Senior
College (a horrible week of choices…)
Florida State at Miami
South Carolina at Mississippi
UNLV at Colorado State
Ohio State at Wisconsin
Illinois at Michigan
Pro
Indianapolis at Houston
Chicago at Detroit
Tennessee at Baltimore
New England at San Francisco
Buffalo at Arizona
Could this be the (temporary) end of the iPod shuffle in my MNRs? I need some help from some of you technical guys — although I think I’ve already screwed my iPod up.
As I usually do first thing in the a.m., I plugged my iPod into my work computer, which hosts my library. Somehow, I hit a button and wiped the memory of my iPod and now all I have are the videos, TV shows and music I have bought from iTunes — I don’t have any of the freaking 2,300 or so songs I’ve painfully downloaded over the past year and a half!
Is there any way to get them back? I’ve unplugged the iPod, tried to reset, but I’m still stuck with 132 songs (that I bought) and that’s all.
Yes, I’m frustrated. Can someone a little smarter than me (and that describes a lot of you out there!) help me?!?!?
This was the toughest week of the young season as only five of you guys (Deep Run Pirate, Tate Mooring, ENCMetalhead, Drugpusher and KTown Pirate) had 11 games correct. KTP went 11-3 — I didn’t count my erroneous Kinston-Wilmington Hoggard pick against him — so he was technically the top picker this week by percentage.
No one went 5-0 in either college (all 40 of us missed Houston over ECU!) or pros. Twelve of us went 5-0 in preps.
Eastern gained another game on second place, though, with his 10-5 week. I’m in second place, five games back, while there’s a three-way tie for third, seven games back.
Again, many thanks to my tremendous, terrific, tabulating, tantalizing, thrilling, teddy bear-loving girlfriend for her help in putting this together
1. Eastern 67-22 (.753) 10-5
2. Hanks 62-27 (.697) 10-5
T3. COliver 60-29 (.674) 9-6
T3. Heelatious 60-29 (.674) 8-7
T3. Jagshouse 60-29 (.674) 9-6
T3. JWade 60-29 (.674) 7-8
T3. Rocky 60-29 (.674) 9-6
8. Native Son 59-30 (.663) 10-5 (5-0 in preps)
T9. Deep Run Pirate 58-31 (.652) 11-4 (5-0 in preps)
T9. GWhitley 58-31 (.652) 8-7
Others:
Clay 57-32 (.640) 7-8
Blake H. 56-33 (.629) 9-6
Johnny Kennedy 56-33 (.629) 7-8
Jourbet 56-33 (.629) 4-11
Randy Capps 56-33 (.629) 9-6 (5-0 in preps)
Tatemooring 56-33 (.629) 11-4 (5-0 in preps)
Shandsp 55-34 (.618) 10-5
Taplie Coile 55-34 (.618) 10-5
Diamondheels 54-35 (.607) 9-6
ENCMetalhead 54-35 (.607) 11-4
Petey Pablo 53-36 (.596) 7-8
The Kid 53-36 (.596) 9-6
Greg Melvin 52-37 (.584) 7-8
Horns 52-37 (.584) 9-6
Omega07solo 52-37 (.584) 6-9
Rousehouse 52-37 (.584) 9-6
Wimpy57 52-37 (.584) 10-5
Coach5511 50-39 (.562) 8-7
John Q. Awesome 49-40 (.551) 10-5 (5-0 in preps)
RJarman 48-26 (.649) 9-6 (5-0 in preps)
KHS Defensive Tackle 48-41 (.539) 7-8
Jackson 47-27 (.635) —–
Drugpusher 47-28 (.627) 11-4
Bluedevil99 47-42 (.528) 8-7
Jeff Howard 46-38 (.548) 8-7
ECPirates11 44-30 (.595) 8-7
Tranters 43-31 (.593) 8-7 (5-0 in preps)
Comet65 40-34 (.541) 9-6
TwinFan 39-21 (.650) 9-6
KTownPirate 24-20 (.545) 11-3 (left out Clinton-SL game)
Deep Run Dynasty 22-22 (.500) —–
Alan 21-9 (.700) —–
MrNLHS1991 20-25 (.444) 4-11
HSR 19-11 (.633) —–
AdrianBrewer 15-14 (.517) —–
Scott44544 9-6 (.600) —–
Carlogan* 7-8 (.467) 7-8
* indicates first-week player
Before we get started: my apologies. When I got to work this morning, my computer was not working, so it’s finally going again at 11:45 a.m. Thanks for the e-mails and concern — but we’re now back up again…
And without further ado – your MNR:
CITIGROUP TO PURCHASE WACHOVIA
And the banking wheel continues to go round and round: Citigroup, based in New York City, will purchase Wachovia, which originated in Winston-Salem. The FDIC brokered the deal but made it clear that Wachovia wasn’t going under.
My take: My friends, these are some scary times. Last week’s Washington Mutual sale — along with the Wachovia buyout and the $700 billion government buyout — should show us that things are going to get a whole lot worse before they get better.
REDSKINS SPANK THAT COWBOY BOOTY
The Washington Redskins made sure their final trip to Texas Stadium was a successful one, defeating the Dallas Cowboys, 26-24, Sunday afternoon.
My take: As an unapologetic ‘Skins fan, I absolutely LOVED it. It just helps prove that the NFC East is — by far — the best division in the NFL.
HEATHER LOCKLEAR ARRESTED SATURDAY NIGHT
Actress Heather Locklear was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of controlled substances Saturday. A concerned citizen observed Locklear stumbling around before she got into her car, where she ended up parking it on a road. Locklear was tested for alcohol but it came up negative. Her drug test results will come in later this week.
My take: She was treated for depression earlier this year, so maybe it was some of those type of drugs. Regardless, she still looked HOT, even in her mug shot:
The iPod shuffle
Jesus Walks — Kanye West
Believe It Or Not — Nickelback
Margaritaville — Jimmy Buffett
Crossroads — Cream
Something In The Way She Moves — James Taylor
Some thoughts and observations about the college football world while the hot blonde applies something to the sunburn I have on my nose — that I got while watching my beloved Virginia Cavaliers lose at Dook Duke today.
One of our country’s all-time best actors, Paul Newman, passed away on Friday of cancer.
My take: I can’t say he was one of my favorite actors — his politics later in his life got in the way for me at times — but he is recognized as one of the best actors by people much more intelligent than me.
I loved him with Tom Cruise in “The Color of Money.”
RIP, Mr. Newman.
