That’s Charles Edward Kelly to you.
Oh, and if you still don’t like the hire and have a personal seat license you’d like to dump, give a call to the richest person you know in Eugene, Oregon. You’ll find a likely buyer now.
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Jason Cole of Bleacher Report is an NFL writer who is rarely wrong about things, so when he says Mark Davis has bought land near San Marcos, Texas, maybe with a relocation in mind, it’s damned likely he has.
But that only speaks to Davis’ own obliviousness, since he would be encroaching on (a) Jerry Jones, who just organized the plan which resulted in Davis being hit in the face with a shovel by his fellow owners, and (b) Bob McNair, who was on the podium next Roger Goodell at the press conference that announced Davis’ face-spading and looks exactly like Lex Luthor’s slightly angrier uncle.
In other words, Davis is barking up the wrong sagebrush. Again.
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News
Charles Barkley announced that the Los Angeles Lakers had less chance of beating the Golden State Warriors Thursday than “a black girl does of winning The Bachelor.”
Funny, I always thought that “winning The Bachelor” was an oxymoron.
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Scott Davis of Yahoo Sports is no more enamored of the Lakers, though he thinks the culprit is actually, you guessed it, K.B. Bryant.
“(W)hile the Lakers are clearly a lottery-bound team with little to play for, Bryant’s retirement tour is turning this season into a mess. The most recent mishandling of what should be a low-stakes affair has been the Lakers' inability to manage Kobe's health.
Kobe has had to sit several games out because of fatigue and wear-and-tear on his legs — that's understandable. But when he had to leave Tuesday's game against the Pelicans because of a strained right Achilles, Lakers trainer Gary Vitti suggested Bryant should take some time off to recover.
“That probably won't happen.
“’(Vitti) would love to shut him down,’ Lakers coach Byron Scott told reporters. ‘But that probably isn't going to happen. (Bryant) doesn't want to shut it down. He feels a certain responsibility to play in these arenas, which is admirable of him, but my responsibility is to make sure that he can play this season.’”
And:
“This is another example of Kobe's desire handcuffing the Lakers. While his retirement tour has generally been fun, as both Lakers fans and opposing fans go wild for his best games, it shouldn’t come at the risk of further injuring Bryant, who's sat games with other ailments this season. The strained Achilles is particularly worrisome, given that Bryant tore his left Achilles in 2013 and hasn't been the same since. And while Bryant's farewell tour is a low-stakes affair and it behooves the Lakers to lose games, anyway (they lose their draft pick if it falls later than No. 3), Bryant shouldn't feel a ‘responsibility’ to play for away crowds.”
And:
“Catering to Bryant has increasingly become a problem for the Lakers. Even general manager Mitch Kupchak admitted the team is essentially just waiting out the season until Kobe is gone (via L.A. Times' Eric Pincus): ‘We cannot move on as a team until Kobe leaves. Part of that to me is painful because I've been here 20 years with Kobe. This is a year that's dedicated to Kobe and his farewell.’”
In other words, the best news for Warrior fans is that the Laker renaissance is now one year further away. So yay vanity!
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And finally, Nike and Ohio State have extended their business relationship for another 15 years, during which time the school will receive $252 million.
Damned greedy players.