1st Quarter Roundup 11/16

Mike Vick Is FORCING His Naysayers To Put Him In The MVP Conversation



So there was a LOT that went on in the sports world this weekend that I fucking LOVED: namely, the Bears beat up on Brett Favre and the Vikings and Michael Vick just obliterated all of his haters and put up almost 100 fantasy points for me in a league. I mean, when you put up almost 100 fantasy points in FOOTBALL?? You've CLEARLY had a once-in-a-lifetime game. The funny thing is, I can see Vick doing this again THIS YEAR: he's developed so much as a passer that I can see him TORCHING defenses with all of the skill weapons that the Eagles have, plus his ability to run. Vick is back on top of the world people...Notice: the PETA offices in Philly haven't made a fuckin SOUND since he took over the reins and started winning.



I just love this shit. Every week Brett Favre loses, it makes me feel better. ESPECIALLY when DABEARS are the ones beating him. People have allowed him to get away with murder every offseason because he's played well on STACKED teams. Well look what happens when ONE WR (Sidney Rice) isn't healthy!! You get Randy Moss and don't throw to him? What. The. Fuck. Is. Wrong. With. You. Nonetheless, he's still had a great career and is a Hall of Famer. Just a regular person that's been put on a pedestal and now is buying into his own splendor and regal esteem. Fuck outta here.

Could This Be The Year Of Banner Number Seven??


The Bulls are playing really well also, can't wait to see how the team does when Boozer gets back. They could be really dangerous indeed! The basketball that I'm looking forward to this season is some good ole HALES FRANCISCAN BASKETBALL. We're slowly putting the pieces together but the season will DEFINITELY be fruitful. I'm ready to get this shit on!

What Is WRONG with this guy?


In other news, Charlie Rangel is fucked. Nuff said.

Hales Franciscan. In Virum Perfectum.

Updates From A Coach

Well, I recently finished my first season as a high school football coach. I must say that the role is BEYOND fulfilling. I get to teach football, LEARN football, apply tips and training to aspiring athletes AND I get to recruit. It's like I'm playing NCAA 10 every weekend. Lol. Here's the rundown of season #1:

~ We finished 5-4 with NINETEEN (19) kids on the Fro-Soph.
~ We have a DAMNED good Freshman QB and a STAR Freshman WR.
~ We may be developing a monster at Nose Tackle.
~ I love the kids and they love me. They fuckin follow me around after school lol.
~ I've lost 25 pounds working out with them this season. It's inspiring.
~ We were REALLY a 7-2 team, but injuries during the last 2 weeks fucked us up.
~ The Catholic League is SCARED now.
~ Other schools have approached me after games about coming to their schools.
~ I'll NEVER leave Hales unless they don't want me there.
~ I realize now why Coach Sanders loves his role at Hales so much.
~ We're going to lift this school back up to prominence. GUARANTEED.
~ THIS SHIT IS FUN. I was put on Earth to work with kids and coach sports.

Here's today's gratuitious sports photo:



Army broke out these DOPE ASS UNIS for their game against VA Military Institute (VMI). That would have my interest as a recruit FOR DAMNED SURE. Lol.

Altogether, I'm just really proud of my experience and the way God shifted me back here so that I could be exposed to this. Coaching and mentoring is EVERYTHING I dreamed it would be and I'm SURE it will get better because I'm not even IN the school building full-time yet. I can't wait. IN VIRUM PERFECTUM. Hales Franciscan OWT.

WTF Is Going On??

So, as many of you know, I'm a STAUNCH OPPONENT of the feminist double standard. I'm not an ally for domestic abuse, but I don't believe in a woman acting like a man and not being treated like one (by the law). I'm not an ally of sexual assault, but I don't believe those that lie about it should be able to just walk away. And I DEFINITELY don't believe that a woman should be able to KILL A MAN and avoid jail time. Of course, I'm speaking about the Chris Henry case.

This post will be short and to the point. This woman did an interview for ESPN that will be aired in full on Sunday at 9am EST, and addressed the day in question during which Chris Henry fell out of the bed of the pickup truck she was driving. After watching what's been shown, she has accepted NO RESPONSIBILITY for ANYTHING that happened, and you can definitely attribute that to legal advice. I mean, she may as well say she wasn't the one driving. But considering that I live in the school of common sense, let me prosecute her right quick. The speed limit was 35mph, you were going over 50mph. That's enough for a ticket, and enough for an arrest in the case of a simple accident. Given that Chris Henry is DEAD, I think that should be enough for prosecution via Reckless Homicide at the least. The fact that you would drive that fast with this man back there IN THE OPEN because he didn't want to fund an extravagant wedding and buy a set of $10,000 wedding rings (and because you've blown SO MUCH of his money that he died bordering on being flat broke) leads me to believe that you were fucking with him and being evil. Maybe not TRYING to kill him, but what's done is done; and YES, you have a moral responsibility in it that cannot be denied. Secondly, the ONLY thing she said at this man's funeral is "yall just don't have no idea on how I'm feeling inside right now" and walked away. No tears, no real show of emotion or anything: people that attended the funeral have made EXCESSIVE note of your seeming lack of emotion. Third, this chick has a HISTORY of domestic abuse on HER part, having been arrested for assaulting a boyfriend in 2004, and being removed from the home of another by police during the same year. Fourth, that man's life insurance papers were filed by HER, not his family (considering that she is NOT his wife), and DOES NOT include his family on the initial drafts. Seemed to be done pretty fast too. FIFTH, if there is even a possible way to have 5 reasons to prosecute this broad, a NEIGHBOR that lived 3 doors down HAPPENED to hear him say "if you take off, I'm going to jump and kill myself"...FROM THREE DOORS DOWN??! Her PARENTS, IN the house, didn't hear this but you did. THEN she goes in an interview and says "I don't think he tried to kill himself, he had too much to live for...I think maybe he thought he could land right or that he was afraid of the person behind us because they were calling the police." No compassion, no responsibility, and using the person behind them as a tepid self-defense, when you COULD NOT have POSSIBLY known the woman was calling the police until after the fact (neither could he as the caller SAID to the 911 OPERATOR that he was holding on to the truck and beating the window yelling for her to stop). That shit is VERY SUSPICIOUS and it adds up to something REAL BAD if you ask me. It should be enough in itself to AT LEAST take her to trial, but I guess since she's a woman she MUST HAVE been scared to death. My "suspicion" of this broad's character and intentions is BY FAR the biggest understatement that could be made of my opinion of her. She's guilty as hell of being reckless, if nothing else. Let's see if justice is served evenly.

It's Been A LONG Time...

So I've been hearing and reading about this Walmart situation for the last couple of days. As a man, I can readily admit that I normally would take the side of a Black person when the argument is Black people vs. White people, but I do respect the human race well enough to hear both sides of the story and form my own opinion. With that said, I think anyone with some common sense (and without a racial bias) can see right through this story and find the simple truth. As the general story states, this young woman switched (or cut) lines at Walmart in Kennett, MO to join her cousin at the front of another line. Upon doing so, there was an altercation of some kind with a White female customer who was behind her cousin, which actually resulted in no PHYSICAL incident whatsoever; a war of words and her being expelled from the store. Where the story goes wrong is in the parking lot: where NO ONE has seen any tapes, no WITNESSES are available and no evidence of any truth to the story of EITHER side has been proven (ALL of this over the course of 3 years). According to police, this young woman kicked the shin of one officer and split the lip of another, all while resisting the arrest of THREE POLICE OFFICERS. Is it possible? Well with a shin kick and a head butt, sure. Is it likely, especially with THREE arresting officers? I can't say that it isn't but I CAN and WILL say that it shouldn't be. According to her story, she was verbally harassed by the officers to the point of turning around and making a physical threat to them contingent upon them putting their hands on her in any fashion. She was then thrown to the ground and arrested, her shirt being tightened around her neck (she claims to have been choked) as she was taken to the squad car and into the department for booking. Her "only" witnesses (according to those taking side with the police) are her family members. Now here's where I find that a balanced line of questioning to find fault could have had this case solved years ago; also by the case JUST NOW going forward with proceedings, one can find a slight taste of home cookin' (aka racism) within the case.

A.) So you're telling me that according to witnesses within the store, there was a physical altercation but there are NO CHARGES when it comes to THAT altercation...
B.) You're also telling me that it took THREE police officers and a security guard to get her out of the store? But she wasn't arrested for disturbing the peace at that point...
C.) THEN you're telling me that you've CLEARLY said something that rubbed her the wrong way and she turns and SAYS something to you, and THEN it takes THREE of you to get her in handcuffs? So she basically put up a better fight than some true criminals that are trying to run for their lives.
D.) So you say that there's no presence of the KKK or any racist organizations in the area, but there have been KKK cards found EVERYWHERE in the town's Black neighborhoods/areas and the parent's of this young woman, as well as the parents of a Black athlete involved in a racially motivated fist fight in 2005 say that a police officer actually HANDED one directly to them.
E.) So after you've made this bogus claim about there being no kinds of racist organizations in the area, when Missouri as a state is a known KKK stronghold, there are groups of "Aryan Brotherhood" and "KKK" fans/members/followers that are VIDEOTAPED to have been present. But you actually had snipers on the roof watching over the marchers on behalf of the Black young woman involved: which shows me that you KNEW there was a strong possibility of some kind of racial incident to occur, but it would "only be caused by the presence of the Black protesters".

I feel like I still don't have enough information to draw an viable conclusion as to what happened that day (over THREE years ago), but I do recognize that when you change court date when this woman is traveling from Louisiana, but WILL NOT change the date when she lets you know in advance that she can't make it (which would result in contempt of court and immediate warrant for arrest) and you've tried to sweep every past incident of racial tension under the rug in advance of this highly publicized court case, that you KNOW something is wrong and that you're trying your best to maintain the status quo. My conclusion is this: she was in a fucked up town, with a bad attitude herself. She got mad because someone didn't want to let her get in front of them, but she was definitely harassed by the people around her. This is a $500 fine for disturbing the peace that has become a case when she could lose years of her life if she doesn't win in court. Again, the law overpursues the prosecution of people of color.

President Barack Obama Addresses Healthcare

What's up world? Following last night's Presidential Address of Congress on the issue of Healthcare, I was moved to blog about a few things about the state of America that has truly disturbed me. I was moved IMMENSELY by the carefully crafted words of President Obama, who I have decided is one of the most genuine, honest and caring Presidents that we will EVER have. I believe he has begun to stamp an indelible legacy on our nation, and I respect his courage to stand tall against critics which come by the MILLIONS on an everyday basis. I find it to be beyond disrespectful for people to continue to try to shift the blame of our current standing on President Obama and what he "hasn't done", when he has actually stopped an economy under a multi-trillion dollar deficit from imploding and going into total default in less than 8 REAL months on the job. I think that in itself should be enough for critics to at least get off his ass: but they won't. It seems that when everyone can't get what they want RIGHT NOW from President Obama, they label him as a "failure" to THEIR cause. We see this everyday from the Republican Party, especially last night. I won't even go into that fool's nonsense, but I will say that "that governor from South Carolina" embarrassed himself to DEATH last night. I want people to start understanding that race is a major part in a lot of this: many White people, especially long standing politicians, CEOs and also parents (in the case of the Presidential Address on Education) have a MAJOR PROBLEM with taking orders from a Black Man. Say what you want, it's true: we know it, you can't fool us about it and we'd ACTUALLY respect you MORE if you were just honest. Lying about it is a slap in OUR faces. Nonetheless, I have total confidence that President Obama is going to continue along this path to prominence and I fully support him with all that I have to offer. Never before have I felt so strongly that someone was right, and never before had I ever felt that someone was a LEADER. EVERYONE CAN SEE what I see, some don't like it, but they know it's true. I'm proud to say that I now know how my grandfather felt about Martin Luther King, Jr. I'm proud to be a voting, able-bodied and empowered American. I am proud to be a follower of President Barack Obama.