Filed under: The Tide | Tags: NCAA, Ray Keller, Paul Finebaum, Gene Stallings
According to ESPN.com, University of Alabama booster Ray Keller’s five million dollar verdict that he had won in a well publicized trial up in Scottsboro was overturned today. Among the witnesses in the trial were Gene Stallings and Paul Finebaum. Needless to say, Finebaum’s radio show might be a bit interesting today.
This one isn’t quite over yet…
I was watching the Dirk Nowitzki presser last night and realized that he bares an uncanny resemblance to my favorite Captain on the Deadliest Catch, Northwestern skipper Sig Hansen. What say you?
Filed under: MLB, Miscellany, St. Louis Cardinals, Uncategorized | Tags: Josh Hancock, Mississippi, My Birthday, St. Louis Cardinals, Tupelo
Today is the somber first anniversary of Cardinals Pitcher Josh Hancock’s passing in a drunk driving accident.
- Deadspin Editor and Die-Hard Cards fan Will Leitch remembers Josh Hancock…
Also, on this day 22 years ago in the birthplace of the King, unto the masses this blogger was born.
Filed under: Lists, Tuscaloosa | Tags: Cheap Shots, Liquor pitchers, The Strip, Tuscaloosa
This is part of a series of posts in which your humble, soon to graduate blogger will wax poetic on the things that make Tuscaloosa and The University great.
The best remaining bar on the Strip is by far Cheap Shots. It’s small, sometimes cramped, but it’s great. It usually features one if not two hot female bartenders, a troubadour in the corner, and a friendly clientèle. However, it is famous for one thing: Liquor pitchers.
That’s right, not a pitcher of beer. A pitcher of liquor. There are those nights in collegiate life when one simply wants to get shithoused. This is your place. Whether you want to keep it old fashioned with a bourbon and coke pitcher, please the ladies with a Long Island Iced Tea pitcher, or go all out for the Grateful Dead pitcher, this signature libation is simply tremendous.
Cheap Shots is often my Thursday night destination, but just as frequently it’s where I head on that blessed weekday in the quarter-life when random drunkenness is the goal.
When you knew you wanted to get hosed, but didn’t have a particular destination or agenda Cheap Shots was the place, and the liquor pitcher was the drink of choice. It shall be missed…
Filed under: MLB, St. Louis Cardinals | Tags: Matt Morris, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals
Former Cards ace Matt Morris who has had monumental struggles on the mound as of late in Pittsburgh has been released by the Pirates.
Immediately one wonders, with the 10 Million bucks still owed to him by the Pirates, if the Cardinals couldn’t broker some kind of arrangement on the cheap to get Morris under the tutelage of Dave Duncan to see if he doesn’t have a little bit left in the tank.
The Pirates site mentions his potential retirement, and I doubt he’d be interested in pitching at AAA Memphis very long. Nonetheless, he gave St. Louis some good years, and at least it would be good to see him retire as a Cardinal.
Filed under: Lists, Tuscaloosa | Tags: Classic Hook Echo, James Spann, Top Ten Things I'll Miss About Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa tornadoes, Twister
This is part of a series of posts in which your humble, soon to graduate blogger will wax poetic on the things that make Tuscaloosa and The University great.
This one probably makes no sense to half of the people who read this, and pisses the other half off, but I love severe weather. It probably stems from my childhood appetite for tragedy. My favorite show was Rescue: 911, and my favorite movie was, is, and shall always be Twister.
That being said, something about the Tuscaloosa area draws storms to it, and always has. Thus one of our favorite pastimes is to sit around on the balcony with a case of brew and watch the storms. On these days of severe weather, we live for the Guru of Alabama Weather James Spann to utter the words “Classic Hook Echo,” the term used to describe a tornadic radar signature.
To anyone who’s had their homes or families ripped away by twisters in Dixie Alley, I’m sorry for your loss. That being said, I’m still going to miss the frequency with which I get to sit out on a spring or fall day and watch ominous clouds roll by just waiting for Spann to utter those magic words. Birmingham or Oxford, wherever I end up will still have its fair share of storms, but it just won’t be the same.
Filed under: Hotties, Unhealthy Obsession With Erin Andrews | Tags: Big League Stew, Erin Andrews, Joba Chamberlain, Ring Pops, Siren of the Sidelines
Not fan of Ring Pops, Photoshop, or Joba Chamberlain
For your weekend reading pleasure, Yahoo Blog Big League Stew has an insightful Q&A with the Siren of the Sidelines in which she doesn’t give her seductive body enough credit and disses on Ring Pops. Enjoy.
Filed under: Food, Lists, Tuscaloosa | Tags: City Cafe, Food, Top Ten Things I'll Miss About Tuscaloosa
This is the first in a series of posts in which your humble, soon to graduate blogger will wax poetic on the things that make Tuscaloosa and The University great.
#10. City Cafe
The summer between my move from Ole Miss to The University, I spent considerable time on the Hill with several UA students as a Congressional Intern. Upon noticing my love of food they all told me of once place I had to eat as soon as I rolled into town: City Cafe.
Nestled in downtown Northport is by far the best meal for the money that you’ll ever get. for less than $6 bucks you get a meat and 4 vegetables. It’s small, cramped, outdated, the waitresses are all older ladies who insist on calling you hun, honey, sugar, or some variation thereof. It’s Heaven on earth. The sweet tea is reminiscent of the Nectar of the Gods. The fried chicken is out of this world, and the macaroni is wonderful. Hell it’s all good, but their forte is the Fried Green Tomato. Available only on Tuesdays and Thursdays their fried green slices of goodness are damn near orgasmic. The Tuesday/Thursday ritual of fried chicken, macaroni, fried okra, double fried green tomatoes, rolls, and copious amounts of sweet tea can almost singlehandedly account for my sophomore 30lb weight gain.
There is also a rumor that you can get a “refill” plate for free, but my stomach has never considered going for round two.
City Cafe is an institution in Tuscaloosa and for anyone who attended the University of Alabama. Not that it’s greatness needed validation, but it was dubbed one of the 100 Dishes to Eat in Alabama Before You Die.
Filed under: Uncategorized
While I finish up a masterpiece of a paper analyzing the success…err..failure of UN Security Council Resolution 193, you can read what the Siren of the Sidelines, Erin Andrews, wants in her man.
Filed under: Hotties, Miscellany | Tags: Allison Stokke, Dwayne Wade, Star Jones, Stephen A. Smith
- The good. There are more Allison Stokke photos about the interwebs.
- The bad. Stephen A. Smith has been given space in ESPN the Magazine for his blowhard antics. Thank God I let my subscription lapse.
- The ugly. The OMG HOLY SHIAT!!!!11 that’s FUGLY. D-Wade might be, just might be dating former fat ass turned moderate fat ass Star Jones.
