While most of you have been sleeping, eating and following Sir Woods’ story, I have been diligently digging through the weeds and crawling through the trenches looking for those sports stories you may have missed. Here are a few of my own “Headlines” that I would like to share with you now. I also have some other interesting tidbits that you might like to know about.
BREAKING NEWS: The United Football League season is over! I can’t be totally sure that they even had their championship game, but if you go back to my blog after week 1, you will notice that I picked the Tuskers to win it all. If I had to guess, I would say they did. So will they be back next season? Despite losing 30 million dollars as a league and averaging a meager 10,000 fans per game (which seems high to me), they are planning on coming back….and expanding! Commissioner Michael Huyghue stated yesterday that they are looking at putting a team in Omaha and/or San Antonio. It looks like New York’s team will also be moving to Hartford (Sorry to JAS’ Tim who is certainly heartbroken). Huyghue seems to be committed to the UFL for at least 2 more years. God willing things will turn around.
MORE UFL NEWS: Maybe the system is actually working? News out of Indianapolis is that the Colts have signed Redwoods’ QB Shane Boyd. The Carolina Panthers signed Tusker Quinton Culberson, Ravens signed Charles Ali from the Sentinels. Matt Bryant from the Tuskers was picked up by the Falcons and about 5 other players were signed to teams’ practice squads. This is exactly what the UFL wanted. They stated early on that they never wanted to compete with the NFL, merely compliment them.
Warm up to the Winter Olympics: With less than 80 days until Vancouver, the US team has run into some speed bumps…or moguls. The US Ski Team golden boy TJ Lanning is out for the year after a nasty little skiing tumble that fractured a vertebrate in his neck and dislocated his right knee. If you want to see it… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By4iUSxZNmA . Top American in the Super G Ted Ligety finished a disappointing 8th in the World Cup. If you are a fan of the USA dominating in medal counts, this should be an interesting Olympics for you. While you may think Canada would be a power house, the USA is 3rd all time in medal counts (217) to the Soviet Union (217, but more Golds) and Norway (280). Canada is 7th all time.
Crime statistics at a few Maryland Universities: This according to Stateuniversity.com
All stats are per 1000 students (Loyola stats were not available)
Violent Crimes Property Crimes
UMD- 0.56 St. Mary’s- 39.96
Salisbury- 0.53 Salisbury- 16.62
Towson- 0.51 UMD- 15.19
St. Mary’s- 0.50 U. Balt- 14.94
U. Balt- 0.37 Towson- 8.71
~ Gordon Southard
Filed under: Football, Hodgepodge | Tagged: TJ Lanning, United Football League, Winter Olympics 2010
The only Loyola Stat I could find was that the number of prank call arrests and fines were down 100% since Jimbo Left the school 5 1/2 years ago.
This should be a great winter for fans of arctic recreation as there is a Winter Olympics & X games. Maybe Bode Miller will re-emerge and win some medals this year. Miller rejoined the U.S. Ski team two months ago and will compete in Vancouver. He is always seems to provide good theatre. I have been communicating with the U.S. National Ski & Snowboard Association and hope to get Shaun White on the show!
I went to U. of MD College Park and that town is garbage. Riverdale, Hyattsville, and NE DC that border it are chock full of criminals. I can’t believe they didn’t have the highest incidents for crime.
Im a huge fan of the Olympics and plan on having a Olympic viewing party where we will drink Molson and eat goose meat. Also- what is going on at St. Mary’s where there is so much property crime?
I knew an asshole lax player that went to St. Mary’s and used to poke holes in the community condoms that were at the front desk of his dorm…does that count as property crime?
UMD campus = PG County Zoo
am I invited to the Olympic goose meat & Molson party?