ESPN Reporting

You gotta love ESPN reporting they try to be so witty. On field reporter Erin Andrews at the Alamo Bowl just said. "we'll be right back where Penn State will face A&M in a virutual road game." Virutal road game, it is the Alamo Bowl in friggin San Antonio. It's not the Groundhog Bowl in Puxatony, Pa. San Antonio is 1653 miles from State College and 169 miles from College Station. It is an actual road game.

Big H

Locker Room Cancer

T.O. is locker room cancer and he has the audacity to speak out about Jessica Simpson being in the stands affected Romo's performance. Talk about the pot and the kettle. Tony Romo had a bad game because he is not a great quarterback and he hurt his hand.
T.O. leave the man alone, we know that you are just jealous because the only white girls you can get are hardcore football fans and they probably have the same size rack as Jessica, but they weigh at least 250.

Big H

Come on Roger

Today the big new broke 7 time CY Young winner Roger Clemens has been implicated in the steroids probe. The report includes many accusations against Roger including direct accounts of the man that shot him up. I hope living in that huge house in Houston is enough, because one place he will not be is Cooperstown. I don't think any of the steroid era players will get in. They way we will know it's true is that I bet Roger does not file a lawsuit against this accuser for defamation, because the truth is an absolute defense.

Big H

You are a Quiter Bobby

Today Bobby Petrino returned to the ranks of the underpaid college coach. Oops I mean overpaid college coaches. Bobby stick it out for more than 13 games. Nobody blames you for the mess the owner made by trusting that piece of shit Marcus Vick. Don't drop the soap Mike or you might find out the prison version of a "rape stand" is the towel bar. But back to Bobby, you turned a college basketball school into the best football team in the Big East. The Falcons can't be that hard to turn around. I might be a overweight guy who never made the most of his opportunites or had the most focus, but I never was never a quiter, you Bobby are a quiter. That personal trait runs deep have fun razorbacks you got a quiter.

Big H

Bowl Time

Indiana is the good feeling story of the bowl season. With a underrated QB and a Wide Receiver that will be playing on Sundays in the future. Throw in heart wrenching story about the coach dieing and you get bowl magic. Coach Hep recreated IU Football. It was no easy task. The only thing that was easy was that The General was not on campus to steal the thunder.

Big H

Mr. Warmth

Tonight HBO had a great special on about Don Rickles. He is an amazing entertainer. It's a shame that in today's world all the comedians and entertainers can't carry his jock strap. I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Rickles one night at Gibson's Steakhouse in Chicago. I sent a round of drinks to his table (it was expensed to Enterprise). He called me over to his table and thanked me and I told him that Kelly's Heroes was my favorite movie. I was expecting him to insult me, but he said thanks.

Kelly's Heroes plays a prominent role in the show. I believe that it is the best World War II movie out there. You can watch it a million times and it never gets old. Try to say that with Saving Private Ryan or even the great Guns From Navarone. Even Gregory Peck gets a little old.

Big H

Wimps

The Las Vegas Sportsbooks are wimps. How come no money line on the Patriots Eagles game. If I ran a book a would have the handicappers set the line and then double it and see if anyone was willing to lay it. I figure if you made the line -2000. Then you would risk $50,000.00 for each million laid on the game. How come every book in town ends up with a position on the Superbowl and BCS favorite but can't risk $50,000.00 on each of the next six games to win a million. If they paid out five times they would still make $750,000.00.

Big H

Digger is right once

Digger Phelps who may be the worst color commentary man in all of sports, finally got one right. He was on the The Scott Ferral Show this weekend on Sirius Radio. Digger was commenting on how in College Basketball we celebrate the little guy and everybody gets behind the non traditional teams like George Mason. But in College Football we all root against the little guys like Hawaii, Kansas or even Boise State and say their competition is bad and they are just overachieving. It sickens me to agree with a man who matches his ties and highlighter, a little thing Tony Kornheiser calls the "Tielighter." But even a broken clock is right twice, even a blind squirrel finds an acorn, you get the point.

Big H

No Cooperstown for Barry

Barry Bonds was a long shot to make the Baseball Hall of Fame but now his shot has pulled lame and was shot like that horse in the Breeders Cup. He made for a hell of race but was put out of his misery with spitting distance of the finish line.

Big H

The Gang who couldn't shoot straight

The NYPD Blue shot a teenager this which who was pretending to have a gun. I am not questioning their actions or the suicide by cop intentions of the departed. But come on cops, twenty shots at close range and only eight hit the suspect. Several years ago the three Port Authority cops fired 81 shots in the subway and not a single bullet hit the suspect. The NYPD needs to go back to qualification school or switch to shotguns.

Big H

What Happened to Monday Night Football

Monday Night Football is now the worst game of the week. The 49ers just put up a goose egg with only six first downs. Last week the Ravens only got five first downs. I imagine a high school team could have made six first downs against the porous defense of the mighty Seattle Seahawks. ESPN has gotten screwed on the deal they made with the NFL, I hope they didn't pay to much.

All my rowdy friends are not coming over for this steaming pile of crap each week.

Big H

Ohio State Buckeyes Classless Ass Clowns

Today after the Buckeyes were upset the Buckeyes showed their true colors again and started a fight with the Illini players as the left the field. For the readers of my blog who know me they have heard my story many times about how the Buckeyes clinched the Rose Bowl at Indiana and they and there fans took the field and proceeded to tear down our goal posts.

This loss may have cost my Hoosiers a trip to a bowl but it was sweet to see them lose.

Big H

Vikings no longer class act

The Vikings were starting to grow on me with a great new owner and good team players. But to dock a player a game check for going to his grandmother's funeral is terrible. Ziggy has billions of dollars and is going to make hundreds of millions on the new stadium with his land deals and he hits some poor bastard a game check who is making the league minimum. Almost every company in American gives you bereavement leave except the Vikings. You have re-taken your position at the bottom the class list. Might as well re-sign Warren Moon. A QB to who was the injured reserve for hurting his hand while beating his wife.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3100835

Big H

The Boy from Yazoo City

Haley Barbour easily won re-election today in Mississippi. It is proof that even though someone is a conservative they can win if they have proven they are good leaders. Katrina was a nightmare for the Gulf Coast and cost Kathrine Blanco her job. Haley went the other way and is working to rebuild Mississippi and the voters have rewarded him with four more years.

Big H

Go Green?

NBC has gone green for this weeks show in an attempt to show their environmental sides. They started the week with Matt Lauer live at the North Pole. I would imagine that you could heat 40 homes in Boston for the amount of fuel wasted to fly Matt to the North Pole. If you want Americans to live green promote shows in which the characters live green, use your PSA time to talk about local intiatives to promote fuel efficiancy. Not fly walking hairdos to the North Pole.

Big H

Football or Basketball

Today the Kansas Jayhawks beat the Nebraska Cornhuskers 76-39. My first thought was the Big 12 Basketball season started early. Much to my surprise it was a football score. As I write this blog it appears the Sun Devils are going down. If Kansas continues to play like they did today they have a shot. I only reiterate my prior blog that at least they control their own destiny.

Big H

Take a great test

There is a great test on my fathers blog right now. Check it out.

www.sdstraighttalk.com


Big H

Fire them All

The State Department currently has problems getting their employees to work in Iraq at the new embassy. All these "diplomats" who will not serve in Iraq should be fired and lose their pensions. These people serve at the pleasure of the Secretary of State and get to live all over the world on our dime and get paid a fortune with great benefits. These guys all want good postings and don't want to work in areas that may be unsafe. I have actually been a guest at the embassy in Israel and that building was much more dangerous than the new Iraq embassy. The embassy in Tel Aviv actually have negative setback, the building overhangs the street. You want to know whats on the street. Marines with M-16's and swabs that detects bomb ingredients. Get a life boys we need diplomats in Iraq to maintain our diplomatic relations.

Big H

Phone Gate Continues

The cover up continues Indiana has fired an assistant Basketball coach in an attempt to stop the NCAA investigation into Kelvin Sampson's phone call addiction. Kelvin I cheered your signing as our new coach and blew off the initial phone stuff as evidence of OU's inability to play by the rules. But it appears Kelvin can't keep off the phone. Kelvin if you are going to cheat you need to win titles. IU may have a had a bad couple of decades but at least we were not cheating. You need to take responsibility for this crap, and if you can't play straight move on.

Big H

New French President

Most of my close friends know that I have been in the past a very big French basher. I don't support any other thier products and refer to them at almost any opportunity as cheese eating surrender monkeys. But this new French President has been slowly turning me around. He current bonifide is that he wants each French School to read the letter written by a Resistance fighter right before he was killed by Nazi occupiers in 1941. The school teachers do not like his influence in the their curriculum. The would prefer to teach thier students about the dumb Americans and mistakes in the war on terror.

The teachers should jump at the opportunity to remind the children about the atrocities faced by their country during the war and countless lives lost by Allied Forces who stormed the beaches to drive the Nazis back over the Maginot Line.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071021/wl_nm/france_hero_dc

Big H

The Green Jerseys

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish like to pull out the Green Jerseys in order to raise the moral of the fans and players. But to pull them out for the USC game was stupid. They only shot Notre Dame had to win was if the entire USC squad except the scout squad came down with an intestinal virus and could not play, then maybe they would have had a shot. Coach Wies made a big mistake he should have kept the Green Jerseys in the locker room until the Navy game their win streak against Navy is the only bright spot of the ND season. I wish my alma mater had scheduled ND this season.

Big H

The World May End

It is within the realm of possibility that Kansas could play for the BCS Championship. Kansas has to play Missouri, Texas A&M, Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma State, and Iowa State. Plus they will have to play in and win the Big 12 Championship. A very brutal list for the Jayhawks but at least they control their own destiny unlike LSU, Florida, USC, Oklahoma and Kentucky.
Only Ohio State, Boston College and Arizona State still control their destiny.

Big H

Devil went down to Jersey

The bloom is off the rose for the South Florida Bulls. They will plummet in the rankings now. The undefeated watch now turns to Kansas and Arizona State.

It must be the sons influence

The old George Steinbrenner would have just fired a manager. This time he offered Joe Torre two options. First option take a pay cut, option two don't let the door hit your butt on the way out. Joe made the better decision. Why put up with George for 5 million. After that NY tax rate you were only looking at 2.5 million or $15,000 a game. Who could work for those slave wages.

Big H

Chester the Molester

Chester Styles a child molester from Pahrump, NV was caught in Las Vegas this week. I think if you look in the Webster's for child molester it has a picture of Chester. One of my colleagues has commented that he has a "molestache." Maybe he will get to bunk in with OJ. My guess is that his a-hole will look like the Holland Tunnel after a few weeks in the can. Pun intended.

Big H

Eastern Promises Delivers

If you want to see a good dark movie go see Eastern Promises. Viggo Mortenson turns in an Oscar worthy performance as a hitman/driver for the Russian Mob in London. It has the most gruesome scene to ever take place in the sauna.

Big H

Please don't Buy the Cubs

I hope Marc Cuban's people search the web for comments about their boss. But this is a plea from person who is very good friends with several Cubs fans. Cub fans are not psychologically prepared for the torture you might inflict on them.

I just left the theater from your latest opus "We Own the Night" on which you were the executive producer. First I will start with the fact that I almost walked out and had I not been there with someone else I would have. Second you produced a movie staring Robert Duvall, Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Walhberg three men who are amazing actors and it was like watching a paint dry. A story about Russian drug dealers night clubs and the NYPD Blue and it was boring and lacked any real action.

Please don't make the two hours of hell inflicted on me be inflicted on the Cubs fans for next century.

Big H

Al Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize. He has now joined the league of great people in the world who have strived to rid the world of war like Yasser Arafat the 1994 winner.

Big H

IU Football?

I don't want to jinx the team but Indiana Football is 5-1 and has a real shot at a bowl game. When I attended IU we only had one good year and that was only 4 wins when Antwan Randle El almost by himself won four games. It is good to see IU Football back on the map. I believe that the late Coach Hep who passed away last year was the reason IU came back. I hope that the powers that be continue with his passion and we stay off the doormat and start a new tradition.

Big H

I heard Bowzer from Sha Na Na backed him on the Shofar

Bob Dylan was in Atlanta for Yom Kippur and read from the Torah at a local Chabad Lubavitch congregation.

http://www.forward.com/articles/11699/

Big H

Great Story

Below is a great account of a soldiers story of landing on Omaha Beach.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/196011/omaha

Big H

When Pigs Fly

This week in Las Vegas a truck pulling a semi load of hogs headed to slaughter overturned on the I-15 and I-215 offramp causing a 7 hour traffic delay. The Nevada Highway Patrol did not want to just flip the trailer over for fear the hogs would just scatter out and cause a larger mess.

This story reminded me of a story Terry Wheller told me when i was a kid. For the record Terry Wheller is a Lake Andes, SD native who worked for my family in the pork processing business in the 70's and continued on with my father at his tractor parts company and retired in 1995. Terry was an accountant by degree but spent many years bouncing around from truck driver and spotter for crop dusters in Texas and Oklahoma. Terry always had a great story to tell even if I had heard it before.

Terry once told me a story about when is was hauling a load of hogs at night and was approaching a train crossing which was not marked with lights. As he was approaching the crossing he noticed a train was coming and to avoid a collision he flipped his truck instead of collide with the train. Due to the rollover pigs were laying all over the place. The local sheriff who responded to the accident decided it was best to put many of the pigs out of their misery and pulled out his service revolver out and starting his own roadside slaughterhouse.

I guess the Nevada Highway Patrol didn't want to waste the bullets.

Big H

Forbes 400 List

It is a well versed adage in my family, my father probably lifted the saying from somewhere, that it is not news until you read it. I just read the Friday USA Today and they had a story about the Forbes 400. The writer made a big part of the story that 270 of the 400 are self made men. It then mentions as persons who were self made, Sheldon Adelson the son of poor immigrants and the Google boys. The next name shocked me: Bill Gates.

I guess the writer did not research their story very well. I remembered from reading the Gates biography like 10 years ago that his father was a big shot lawyer in Seattle. So I begin my research on wikapedia. The first two sentences are provided below.

William Henry Gates III was born in Seattle, Washington to William H. Gates, Jr. (now Sr.) and Mary Maxwell Gates. His family was wealthy; his father was a prominent lawyer, his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate Bank and the United Way, and her father, J. W. Maxwell, was a national bank president.

Sounds like a real Horatio Alger story to me. I now remember the story were Bill put himself through Harvard by sweeping floors and cleaning toilets and working nights at Dunkin Donuts.

Big H

P.S. This story is not intended to be a slam on Bill Gates. Mr. Gates may be the worlds greatest philanthropist and I salute his efforts to held rid the world of childhood diseases.

Correction

It is now widely reported that the girl in question in the poker pro sex case from below was 17. The story I reported on had the victim as being a child.

Big H

The Circus Continues

A Las Vegas Poker Pro faces deportation for a 12 year old misdemeanor conviction for child molestation. Shawn Sheikhan has retained the services of David Chesnoff a top criminal lawyer in Las Vegas. I never liked "Sheiky" and thought he bit of an ass. Now I am proven right, his lawyer is not saying he is innocent, Mr. Chesnoff is arguing that his lawyer 12 years ago was incompetent. He got real lucky that the OJ thing went down, beacause it kept Sheiky below the fold. Actually it was on page 20, I wonder if there is still a fold on page 20.

http://www.pokernews.com/news/2007/09/shawn-sheikhan-faces-deportation-hearing.htm

Big H

The Circus is in town

I went down to Court yesterday and it was already a circus. Today one of my colleagues said there were hundreds of people down there. I luckily had no appearances today. One of the victims is now in the hospital with a heart attack. OJ may have dodged a bullet in a gruesome double homicide 13 years ago. Now it appears a heart attack as a result of the robbery could put him in a jail out in the desert for the rest of his life.

Big H

Had to do it

I had a court hearing this afternoon and the paparazzi were staked out waiting for the OJ hearings. On my way to security I put my blackberry to my ear and said "Tell OJ I'll be there in five minutes." I was then blinded by the flashes. So look for me on TMZ or some other gossip site.

Big H

Chargers are a Bust

The much touted Offensive Machine of the San Diego Chargers appear to be a bust. They were infective last week and looked lethargic tonight. On the other hand the evil empire of the Patriots looked great. It just tough to cheer from them since they are cheaters and their coach stalks the sidelines in the redneck cut-off sweatshirt. He looks like he lives in a trailer park. I guess he will have to mortgage the double wide to pay the fine.

Big H

The Western is Back

If you have not done so, run do not walk to your local cinema to see 3:10 to Yuma. It is an excellent movie in one of the best Hollywood genres. Leave it to Hollywood to cast an Australian and a Welshmen as an outlaw and a civil war veteran rancher who has fallen on tough times.

Big H

Fatherly Advice

My father has been bugging me since the whole "OJ" thing happened to blog about it. I had considered initially to blog on it since it was so outlandish. But I thought better of it since OJ is a piece of garbage who does not deserve my attention.

Big H

Rack em Pack em and Stack em

Fred Thompson has finally ended the speculation and announced his candidacy for President. NBC has taken the crazy step of not allowing re-runs of Law & Order that he was in during this time. What wimps. Let someone sue for equal time for a blurb on L&O. If the American voter is confused about who to vote for because of Fred Thompson playing a DA, they better not watch Die Hard 2 where Freddy kicks ass as the head of Dulles with a little help from fellow Republican Bruce Willis.

I actually rode on the elevator with Freddie once during my time on Capitol Hill in 1996. At the time he was dating a Victoria Secrets Underwear model, you should have seen his staff assistants. Wow. There is a reason they refer to the hot chicks on the Hill as Staff Ass.

Big H

NFL Kick Off

The NFL kicks off tonight with a great match-up of the Defending Champs versus the team people think is the best in the NFC, the New Orleans Saints. Lets just debunk that assumption for minute. The Bears made it to the Superbowl without a Quarterback and could have won the game had Lovie Smith not given up. Now the Bears have resigned everybody except Tank Johnson and how can you argue that Rex will not be better than last year. So it is safe to say that the Bears will cruise to the Super Bowl again. But they will not face the Colts, I think the Pats will be back, with their new explosive receivers. The Saints will be an also ran and if for some chance the Bears have to go to New Orleans to make it to the Superbowl, we can all remember the last big game played by the Bears in the SuperDome...SuperBowl XX.

Big H

Historic Dates

I was watching the Virginia Tech Football game today and the ESPN crew covering the game referred to the tragic school shooting that took place as 4/16. We need to stop this pattern. It started with 9/11 and has now been continued. We don't call Pearl Harbor day 12/8 and DDay is not 6/6. It is disrespectful for the people who suffered to refer to these dates instead of some other name. Also how about if your birthday is that day, so now we have a negative connotation to certain dates instead of understanding the underlying issues.

Just my .02

Big H

Vick to plead Guilty

Michael Vick is going to plead guilty next Monday. My bet is that he plays as a wide receiver in the 2010 season for a team like the Raiders, Dolphins, or some other doormat team.

Big H

Good Day for Michael Vick

Mike I know you think its bad that your two last scumbag buddies are going to flip and roll on you. But I let you in on a secret, this might actually help you. Now at least the only lawyer in the room you need to worry about is the Prosecutor. Before you had to be concerned that although you co-defendants would not take the stand their lawyers would try to pin on you with no impunity, now at least you get to have your pit bull lawyer rip them to shreds. Because lets be honest, if they do that to dogs and hand with you they are scumbags of the highest order.

Big H

P.S. The Over/Under on his Prison Sentence is 18 months.

Give me a break Bud

The real reason Bud Selig is going to watch Barry attempt to break Hank Aaron's record is two fold.

First the NFL is hurting with the Vick crap, NBA is looking fixed so Bud need to shine the light away from Barry's steroid use.

Second he has to attend the Hall of Fame introductions this weekend so the chances are Bud gets to pull a double. He gets to look like a good guy because he wants to watch the record go down, but he has a great excuse with the HOF inductions, he can't miss those.

Enjoy your record Barry, in five years A-Rod will pass you.

Harry

Country Music

Country Music has gone off the deep end. First of all the number one act is Kenny Chesney who basically has stolen Jimmy Buffet's show. The top female right now is Carrie Underwood, if you remember she won American Idol two seasons ago. Where is today's Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. I have started listening to some Texas and Oklahoma bands, they are technically Alternative country since they have some southern rock influence. Country has gotten so obscure that a redneck comedian wrote a parody called "show them to me." A patriotic song about women flashing their breasts. Check the following post stolen off you tube with the song done to video clips from movies.

http://www.totallycrap.com/videos/videos_show_them_to_me/

Big H

What Balls on Her

Hillary Clinton has the largest set of brass ones I have ever seen. She calls out 43 this week for his commutation of Scooter's sentence. Mind you it was not a pardon, Scooter must still have the conviction on his record and pay the $250,000.00 fine.

In the waning days of the Clinton Presidency, Bill, Hillary and Hugh Rodman(Hillary's brother) were selling pardons. Clinton pardoned a convicted drug dealer for $500,000.00 in fees paid to Hugh. Also lets not forget Marc Rich, whose wife had been a big money raiser for Bill. Marc Rich had fled the US after his tax conviction and Bill pardoned him. So Hillary before you throw rocks at 43 remember you live in a glass palace.

Big H

What a Joke

Today the Senate passed a bill today to increase the MPG requirements of cars sold in the US. The new law goes into effect in 2020. We will probably being flying around in flying saucers from the Jetson's. Check out the following link.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/21/congress.energy.ap/index.html

Big H

Check this Blog Out

For those of you who don't know I am joining the ranks of condo ownership again. I am buying a two bedroom at ManhattanWest, a condo project in Las Vegas. They just broke ground and should be done around October 2008 with Phase I. I think it's a very cool concept. They also have a blog. Find it below.

http://manhattanwest-lasvegascondos.blogspot.com/

Big H

Paris Hilton just "Acting" Dumb

Come on Paris, you tell Barbara Walters that you are done "acting dumb" and its all just an act. Who are you kidding, just an act, Katherine Hepburn can't play stupid like you can. If you are "acting" then the American Film Institute should dump Al Pacino and honor your life's work. The best piece of screen work in your career is that night vision porno where you leap of Shannon Doherty's boyfriend cock to answer your phone.

Buy your copy of One Night in Paris.....I imagine the pun was intended.

http://adult.dvdempire.com/Exec/v1_item.asp?userid=99365357231518&item_id=605269&searchStrID=28747

Big H

P.S. My sister says if you are really cold just get one of the prison bitches to knit you a sweater.

Cowboy Ultralounge?

I thought Vegas had it all, fake volcanoes, Venetian canals, the Eiffel Tower, Egyptian Pyramids and now a Cowboy Ultralounge. Ultralounges are like nightclub hybrids were the scene is more mellow, and the drinks just as expensive. Now the Belt buckle and Boot crowd get to buy 9 dollars Lone Star. The best aspect is maybe it will draw more alternative country acts to Vegas. Its a short post today, Tiger tees off in a little bit.

http://www.lvrj.com/business/8040407.html

Big H

John Travolta in Drag

Dear John,
First of all what the hell were you thinking. Did L Ron Hubbard tell you to do it. That's who I would blame. Just like Battlefield Earth. Doing Hairspray is lose lose. Even its good your not has good has Harvey Firestein. Someone who belongs to "mainstream" religion. Years ago you made good movies maybe the Scientology has messed with your mojo. The only thing going for you is the return of dancing in the movie, your movies when they have dancing usually succeed.

Big H

Mario vs. Vice City

Check this out quick folks before Nintendo files a cease and desist.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IHQKDvAIv34

Big H

An Open Letter to George Clooney

George Clooney
Lake Como, Italy

Dear Mr. Clooney,
I went last night to see Ocean's Thirteen at my local multiplex. I am hereby requesting a refund in the amount of $9.75, or if you prefer you can donate it to The Will Rogers Institute in Geena Davis's name.

While reading Entertainment Weekly prior to the movie, you were quoted as saying "Ocean's Thirteen: The one we should have made last time." So you admit that Ocean's Twelve was terrible. Let me fill you in on something big guy, Thirteen wasn't great either. Maybe its you, because The Good German was also terrible. By my count other than Ocean's Eleven, whose legacy you have sullied with the past two films, your last good movie was "Out of Sight." That was ten freaking years ago. Come on George, your supposedly a professional actor lets try harder unless you want to go back to doing Facts of Life.

To paraphrase/quote a liberal friend of yours " I knew Frank Sinatra and you sir are no Frank Sinatra." You couldn't wear his jock strap.

Sincerely,
Big H

Billy Donovan vs. "Filthy" Rich DeVos

Billy you brought a knife to gun fight. You have the balls to screw over Rich DeVos. This guys family invented the legal pyramid scheme of selling crap in a vertical sales system. I hope you brought some big time lawyers.

But all kidding aside Billy Donovan has absolutely no class. You leverage the Kentucky Job to get a huge raise at Florida, then you sign a deal for even more money in the NBA. Now you want out. Get a life. Florida is gonna take you back, but they should make you take a hometown discount now that they know you are willing to turn done more money because your family loves the swamp. How does 1 million a year sound. If the Florida AD had any balls they would make you take less to stay. Since we all know you can't make up your mind. So after you complete your 5 year non-compete the Folthy Rich is gonna make you sign. I'm sure that Dr. Buss will offer you millions to come to LA.

Big H

What has the World Come to

I was reading Rolling Stone today when the "Best of iPod Accessories" article caught my eye. Besides a nice $300 ipod alarm clock item was the following "accessory." I use accessory loosely since it costs $800. More than 2.5 video ipods. But the Sonic Integrity Tube Ipod allows it users to transform their metallic sounding mp3 clips to that beautiful sound of vinyl. Whats next a machine that allows my dvds to play with the image fading and sound problems of 8mm home movies.

For my big brother who probably would buy this the website is tube-pod.com

Big H

Eighteen Counts

Today is a dark day in Las Vegas for Plaintiff Attorney's who try to make a quick buck at the expense of their clients and of course the Insurance Companies. Noel Gage was indicted on 18 counts yesterday and appeared in Federal Court for his arraignment on his 69th birthday, must be a coincidence the Feds would never do something like that on his birthday. I do not know Mr. Gage personally, nor will I comment on the probability of his conviction or innocence. All I know first hand is from the cases I have worked against him, and he never was willing to extend any professional courtesy, I guess Karma can be a bitch.

http://www.lvrj.com/news/7643982.html

Big H

I'll Take Manhattan

An investment group including an Israeli Billionaire has purchased The New Frontier and plans on building a mixed-use project to include a Las Vegas version of the famed Plaza Hotel.

During the Summer of 1998 I was working on Wall Street and my parents came to town for the RNC Summer Meeting, NYC was trying to woo the 2000 Republican Convention, which eventually went to Philly. The meeting participants stayed at the Plaza. I stayed a few nights with them, and let me tell you it was the most comfortable floor I have ever slept on.

http://www.lvrj.com/news/7530232.html

Big H

Drama in Las Vegas

A District Court Judge was banned from the courthouse this week. She supposedly sexually harassed her bailiff so she now believes she needed private security. Well her private bodyguards were let into the courthouse with their guns. Just to fill you all in she is in a wheelchair and on a ventilator.

http://www.lvrj.com/news/7458182.html

Big H

Shane's gonna get Killed

For those of you out there who don't watch The Shield you are missing out on the best cop drama on TV since NYPD Blue left the air. One of key characters Curtis Lemansky ("Lem") got killed on last season's finale and all of us know who did it. But Michael Chiklis (aka The Commish) just found out that Shane killed Lem. Michael Chiklis is gonna kill Shane in the most gruesome way possible and I can not wait to watch Shane try to get out of it.

Big H

Read Kenny Mayne's Blog at ESPN

Kenny Mayne takes offense with Yum brands million dollar bonus for beating Babaro's 6 1/2 length victory last year in the Derby. I agree wholeheartedly. If they want free advertising for a bonus they won't ever pay go for the gold and reinstate the 5 million Triple Crown bonus, Visa got to ride that for many years, we had several close shots with Funny Cide, Real Quiet(where I was on the finish line at Belmont in 1997 and knew before the photo finish that Visa's money was safe) and Smarty Jones. Look at all that built up anticipation with no money ever paid. Yum bring back the 5 million bonus instead of if you beat the hell out of the horse in the final furlong you get one million.

Big H

Bias in the NBA

Bias in the NBA come on. Of course Black players get more fouls than white players they get more playing time. Lets focus on the real bias in the NBA, the fact that there are very few Black owners. I am not a big NBA fan but the only black owner I can think of is of the Bobcats. Why doesn't Al Sharpton get on that bandwagon.

Rick we hardly knew you

Rick Majerus has accepted another coaching job. This time at Saint Louis instead of USC. We all remember when he accepted the job at USC only to resign after supposedly failing a medical test. He doesn't look much healthier know. Most schools would love to have in on the sidelines, but come on Saint Louis what a step down, come on Rick.

Big H

New Discovery for ESPN

It would seem from ESPN's coverage that The Arena Football League and NASCAR were just founded. For years ESPN only gave a crawl of the five top place finishers each Sunday Night on Sportscenter, and unless someone died in a race, NASCAR did not exist until ESPN became a broadcast sponsor and now they have a daily show called NASCAR NOW.

Arena Football didn't even get crawl status until games started being broadcast on ESPN. Now we get Monday Night Arena Action and a 24/7 crawl of the scores and highlights. My prediction is that Cricket will be the next discovery ESPN makes.

Big H

Cubs Update

I am going to up my estimate on Cubs purchase price to 1.25 Billion. There are just too many internet billionaires and Chicago Fund managers putting groups together. Should be a fun process to watch.

Big H

The Grave Dancer

Sam Zell has struck again, this time taking over Tribune Corp with a measly 310 million dollars. He is funding the rest through debt, spin offs and an elaborate esop. You heard it hear first folks, the Cubs will set the mark for the highest amount paid for a professional sports franchise at 1 billion dollars. The number being floated around is 600 million, but I predict a bidding war will break out and the price will rise.

The Cubs sell out almost every game and they lose. Their merchandising alone will garner big bucks. My next prediction is that the new owners win a world series in the first 4 years of ownership.

Big H

What do they teach at WVU

The boys at West Virginia are a bright bunch. They win the NIT and then don't notice that the sweatshop child labor camp in Sri Lanka that made the T-Shirts misspelled Virginia. Maybe Myles Brand should recheck their academic compliance.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/basketball/ncaa/03/30/bc.bkc.nit.t.shirtgoof.ap/index.html?cnn=yes

Big H

The Proverbial Five Dollar Bet

By buddy Keith and I make the proverbial 5 dollar bet on all kinds of stuff. We never really pay each other just roll on to the next bet. Well he thinks Tiger is a lock to win the Masters, but wouldn't give me the field. So I settled for the Top 15 on the money list. We'll see.

Big H

P.S.
Al Gore you may have not invented the internet, but I am starting to believe this Global Warming deal, it snowed yesterday in Vegas. You do the math.

The Merry Go Round

Big Time college coaches are going to use the Kentucky vacancy to demand and receive huge pay increases from all sorts of Division 1 Athletic Directors. My plea to these AD's is the following, don't give in. Most of these coaches would never take the job if asked. Lets not forget Tubby won a National Title and had ten very successful years and was on the chopping block every April. Go ahead coaches welcome to the pressure cooker. Your big salary at Kentucky is great to bad you will get fired well before you get the big money. My prediction is the following three coaches, Billy Donavon (if he agrees to leave, he is the front runner like Mark Few was at Indiana last year) and Jay Wright of Villanova (Coach Wright has made some waves and took lowly Hofstra to two dances) and Lon Kruger. Both Lon Kruger and Billy Donavon have pledged there eternal love for thier schools, but didn't Nick Saban do the same thing for the Dolphins. He must have said he wasn't taking the job 50 times. Most of those phoned in from Bear Bryant's lear jet.

Big H

I feel pretty

My brother (from another mother) sent me the following clip. Check out John Edwards getting ready for prime time.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2AE847UXu3Q

Harry

Go See Shooter

Just got back from the movies, Shooter is the bomb. Some may say formulaic but there were nice twists, plus Marky Mark has become a bad ass of late.

Big H

My Worst Bracket in Years

I picked some real bad brackets this year. I had two number ones in the final four, just picked the wrong two. It goes done hill from there. The Selection Committee should be taken to the wood shed for the match-ups this year. Yes, there were exciting games, but that should go to the players, since not one team played a consistent game. Everybody just showed for one half. The Cinderellas added some nice games. You should have seen the crowd at The Red Rock for UNLV's game. I wonder if Lon Kruger goes to Michigan, and who gets Tubby's job will Mark Few decide he should have taken IU and go with Kentucky instead. I would love to coach Kentucky so I could get some one on one with Ashley Judd. Oh Baby. To bad Mark's a religious man.

Big H

The Worst Ref in NCAA History

A questionable blocking call was made in the final two minutes of the Winthrop-ND game, and the ref with the worst view made it. You can argue either way, but what isn't a surprise is that if one official was going to make that call, insert himself into the game, who else would it be than Ted Valentine?

Ted Valentine cost IU a semi-final game over Duke in 1992, which could have led to an easy Championship win, since the Dukies went on to embarrass Kansas in a blowout. The following are quotes for Coach Knight's book about Teddie.

"I like and respected a lot of guys. But my favorite was Charlie Fouty. And there's no question who's at the other end of that list; my least favorite. I have as little respect for Ted Valentine as any person I've ever known. I'll always feel he took an NCAA semifinal game away from us in 1992 at Minnesota, making our kids pay when- I don't think there's any question about it- he used me to gain recognition for himself."

"I'll stand by my comment: the way that guy worked that game was the greatest travesty I've ever seen by an official. And the three technical fouls- the first was absurd, the second even the Big Ten said should not have been called, and, because it meant ejection, it lead directly to the third."

It boggles the mind that a such an biased ref who is only looking to insert himself on the big stage than the kids who earned their way their with hardwork, get screwed. My guess is Teddie was always picked last in gym.

Big H

Side Effects

The FDA has changed the warnings on sleeping pills. They now list sleep driving, and other complex sleep conditions. The best of which is having sex while asleep. Now I must admit that I take one of the sleep medicines, but it has never made me so messed up that I had sex and forgot about it. Also that's not a side effect, the label should read "Added Bonus, have sex in your sleep" not "Side effects may include sleep induced sex." Just my two cents.

Also you heard it here first, tomorrow is upset Thursday with Texas Tech, Old Dominion, and George Washington, Michigan State, and Xavier advancing.

Big H

Vegas loses another Old School Landmark

Early this morning Boyd Gaming imploded the Stardust to make room for Echelon Place their new Condo Hotel project. It was on TV live when it happened. You can view the link below to see it. For my Sioux Falls readers this was obviously not done by the Zip Mill tower people since it was a textbook job. The Stardust was the first 1000 room hotel in town when it was built.

http://www.reviewjournal.com/media/video/stardustdemo.html

Big H

The Bracketologist's need to see a Proctologist

The NCAA Selection Committee needs to pull their respective heads out of their rear ends. This is the worst seeding I have ever seen. Not even getting into the teams that made it versus those going to the NIT. How is Florida the Number One of Number One's. They lost to Florida State a team not even in the Dance, along with Vanderbilt, a school with no formal Athletic Department, and lets not forget their head to head loss to another #1 Kansas at Allen Field House West (Orleans Arena, LVNV) Add to that the teams in the Midwest Bracket Florida gets to play, the best team is the #2 Seed Wisconsin, if they make it to the Elite 8 which is stretch without one of their key players. The #3 seed is the bright spot in that bracket Oregon is gonna shake some heads this year.
North Carolina got the hardest bracket with Georgetown, Texas, Washington State, and even the lower seeds are the likes of Michigan State, Texas Tech, and that Bible School Oral Roberts, who beat Kansas in Allen Field House. Ohio State gets several teams that could contend including Texas A&M and Memphis. Kansas gets UCLA, Pitt, Va Tech and some other decent programs in Indiana, Gonzaga, Duke and Kentucky. Also for the Texas boys, the win the State v. State Title with Five teams dancing versus Indiana's Four.

Big H

Must be Crazy

A man who was injured in car crash last year allegedly caused by Yankee Ace Carl Pavano is suing Pavano and the Yankees. The man is from Florida, which is also where the crash occurred. Where do you think this man has filed suit?

The Bronx. Is this guy stupid or what, its not like he has jurisdiction issues with bring suit in Florida against the Bronx Bombers. The Yankees are headquartered there. Stupid play of the week. His next suit is against Tom Osbourne in Lincoln Nebraska.

Big H

Kreuz Market

For those of you who know me, you know I love good BBQ and the best in America is in Texas, check out the following link. Some of the Best BBQ I have ever had. It is Lockhart, Texas. Enjoy!

http://www.kreuzmarket.com/index.shtml

Big H

Zodiac is Killer (Pun intended)

I just saw Zodiac. What a great movie. It is over 2.5 hours long, so don't get the large soda, because you don't want to miss the action. It never drags and reaches some very suspenseful moments of intrigue and who done it movie magic. Run don't walk to the next available screening.

Big H

Guilty As Charged

There is an article on Yahoo written by Jeffrey O'Brien of Fortune Magazine. It is about Zillow.com, for my uneducated friends, Zillow is a website started by the great minds that brought us Expedia. Zillow is a real estate site, that shows how much your homes is worth, comps in the neighborhood, recent sales, trends and homes for sale. Now for my readers in the Dakotas, you might be out of luck, they are probably not listed, but a large percentage of the country is. It is like going down to the courthouse and seeing how much your neighbors home is worth, except you don't have to put on clothes or leave the comforts of your own home. The following quote sums it up the best. "Caught red handed in a loop of real estate yuppie porn" Everyone wants to know what their house is worth and how much their neighbors are worth. Also people can edit the info on their own house to watch their price rise. I wonder is the County Assesors check that information... Check out the following story.

http://biz.yahoo.com/hftn/070207/020507_8400262.html?.v=1&.pf=real-estate

Big H

The Supposed Father of Basketball in Las Vegas

With the fast approaching NBA All-Star Game, sports columnist have been churning out stories of Old School Vegas and Jerry Tarkanian. The Tark came to Vegas in 1973, his wife is on the City Council and his son just ran and lost for Secretary of State. In 199o he UNLV killed Duke by 30 points to win the National Title, the next year the boys from Vegas reportedly shaved a few to many points and lost an upset to Duke, who went on to win. The Tark denies that his kids shaved the points. But its hard to believe a man when the NCAA puts sanctions on the team and The Tark retired in semi-disgrace. Members of his team were later caught hot-tubbing with a convicted game fixer, and what comment does the man who says he coached 19 years in Vegas and probably never bought 19 meals say "Every March there are upsets, Bucknell over Kansas, George Mason over Connecticut, but when it occurs no one says Kansas or UConn was throwing the game. Like the mob couldn't get to a player at a school outside of Vegas." Since The Tark's retirement UNLV has not won a NCAA Tournament Game. That might change this year with Lon Kruger's Runnin Rebels.

No NBA Team for Vegas

It appears that early reports that Mayor Oscar Goodman would announce a new stadium deal with a new NBA tenant were just gossip. We probably should have known when the lead reporter was Norm Clarke, who primarily reports on the locations if people famous only for being famous (like Paris Hilton and her no pantie squad).

Big H

Lovie Smith may have to much class

Tonight with 50 seconds to go, and down two touchdowns, Lovie Smith decided to just give up. His thoughts were probably that they could not win so why attempt to even try. So instead of the hurry up offense we get the lets give up offensive. That game should have ended with three wide receivers in the end zone and a jump ball. Instead it was a Thomas Jones run and then no play they just let time run off. What ever team out there is considering Lovie should think again, when the game is on the line, and his friend is on the other sideline he would rather give up, than take a shot to beat his buddy it what would be the greatest comeback in history.

Thanks Lovie...You Suck. Also who names there son Lovie, I guess they knew he would "Love" his friend instead of trying to beat him.

Big H

My Sister AKA "The Lucky One"

Most of my readers know my sister is in Advertising and she gets a lots of cool perks to go with her 70 hour work week. As most the nation freezes this weekend, she is in sunny Miami for the Superbowl. Friday night was low key, just a party on the beach with a old hasbeen named Prince. Followed by drift fishing tomorrow during the day, and the granddaddy party of all time, The Playboy Superbowl Bash, and then not that 180 million people won't be watching but she will be at what Vegas calls "The North American Football Championship" on Sunday. They are not allowed to call it "Superbowl."

Oh by the way DA BEARS

Big H

Congrats

Congrats to my buddy Kieth who tried his first trial here in Nevada. The plaintiff had $38,000 in medical bills, the jury came back with $3800 in damages with 0 in pain and suffering.

Big H

Minnesota High School Wrestling

There is story on Espn.com today about how the Minnesota High School Athletic Association has suspended the High School wrestling season to control an outbreak of herpes. Now common logic would say, shouldn't you just not allow the cheerleaders to travel with the teams. They are called mat maids for a reason. But it turns out that skin to skin contact can cause the transfer of Herpes Simplex 1. I hope that all the people infected get better and Minnesota can get back to ice-fishing and whatever they do up there.

Big H

It's a Small World

This last Friday night, me and some friends decided to act like tourists and head to Margaritaville at the Flamingo Hilton to have dinner and drinks. We normally stay off the strip, especially on Friday nights. I am sitting at the bar with Sarah and a co-worker of mine named Kieth, waiting on my Oklahoma friends to join us, when a man walks up to me and says are you Big H, from Canton, South Dakota, and I said yes. He goes I was in your Spanish II class. Well I almost fell out of my chair. Beau Bobeck was one class behind me, I would have never recognized him since he had grown a beard. Canton High School had around 350 kids total in a town with one stoplight. To see someone from that small pool of people, in the vast sea of people in Las Vegas is amazing. I apologize I have not been blogging much lately but, I have been super busy at work.

Big H

Cam Cameron

The Dolphins just hired Cam Cameron as their Head Coach. I hope they are ready for four years of losing football. Cam Cameron was the Head Coach at my Alma mater. He finished with a glorious 18-37 record. He actually had the gall to change the logo and colors of the team. Instead of Crimson and Cream, we got red and white with a snazzy new IU logo to replace the traditional IU logo with the I in the center of the U.

I expect he'll last a two years, now that Sean Payton has raised the bar.

Harry

The Worlds Oldest Profession

Not good news for Michigan State University Law School. A 2L has been charged with running a brothel in a upscale Manhattan Apartment. His lawyer says he was just interning for a defense attorney and was doing what his boss told him to do. Yeah Right, could be the lamest defense I ever heard of. Well I take that back, I prosecuted two crack dealers who said they were in South Dakota from Long Beach, CA for vacation in February. I guess both lawyers went to the ACME Law School

http://www.statenews.com/article.phtml?pk=39298

Big H

I Read it for the Articles

Playboy gets a bad rap from the religious conservatives in this country, they call it pornography, I call it good journalism. Every month Playboy seems to surprise even more, maybe its an historical piece written by Gary Wills (by the way my sister took his history class at Northwestern) or a great interview on some famous person from Hollywood, business, politics, or sports.

This month was no exception. The big interview was of T. Boone Pickens, for all of you out there living under a rock, this is the Oil Billionaire who gave Oklahoma State 180 million dollars. His insights into our global energy crisis was top notch. Also this month there was a great interview with the anchors that made Sportscenter the best news show on cable television. The sayings created by those sports/comics are legendary. Find me someone who hasn't repeated a line uttered on Sportscenter and I will show you an person who lives under a rock.

Big H

As an aside the pictorials this month were terrible. Pam Anderson, its getting a little old and airbrushed to be still taking her clothes off.

The Lesser of Two Evils

Tonight was a very tough game for me to watch. I really don't like either team. I'll start first with the winners:

Florida
I was not a fan of Urban Meyers campaigning to get in the big game. Lets not forget that he lost to a three loss Auburn team and almost lost to South Carolina at home. Most people will now forgive his campaign because of the dominate win he put on the Buckeyes who had almost everyone in the nation on their bandwagon. Everybody but me.

Buckeyes
My hatred of the Buckeyes can be traced to the moment of its first inception. Since I grew up in the central plains of South Dakota, the Michigan-Ohio State Rivalry meant very little to me. But what I observed as a sophomore at Indiana, makes he hate the Buckeyes to the core of my soul. In the Fall of 1996, the Big Bad Buckeyes came to Bloomington to play Indiana, like most Indiana Football games it was a blowout. The Buckeyes were in mass attendance because of the close proximity to their campus, about 4 hours, and the availability of tickets, IU Football never sells out. But this game had special meaning, if the Buckeyes won they clinched the Rose Bowl for New Years 1997.
Well not to build up any suspense, they killed us. The few IU fans left in the stadium got to witness the following event. The Buckeye fans rushed the field and tore down our Goal Posts. Let me repeat that, a team that was probably was a three touchdown favorite playing a team with 4 wins had their own Goal Posts ripped down. It was the most classless act I have ever witnessed. It must be the little league good game ritual, high school wrestler in me, but when you just pinned a kid in the first 30 seconds of a match, you don't rub it in their face, you go to the center of the mat shake their hand and walk off. So Congratulations Florida tonight you helped bring equilibrium to the world and busted the Buckeyes.

I have three Favorite Teams. IU everything, whoever is playing Purdue in basketball, and who ever is playing Ohio State in Football. Also a quick update, the casinos probably made a fortune tonight, Ohio State was a 7 1/2 favorite and the money line was Ohio State minus 300, Florida plus 250. I will report the Casino win later in the week when the Nevada Gaming Commission reports the figures.

My Brother from another Mother

Some of the readers of my blog may not know this about me, but in addition to my older sister I have an older brother named Gabe. Gabe is not biologically related to my family, but is closer to me and my family than actual blood relatives. Gabe also blogs and I have added his link to my page, Progressive Republican. Gabe is a great writer with a sharp political mind and satirical streak in him that would have made him a great writer for SNL. His current post is on Sen. Bryd's antics at the recent Senate swearing in ceremony where he may have been drunk. Sen. Kennedy actually made fun of his antics, which is saying a lot because One More Teddy is probably the biggest lush in the world.

This post reminded me of my own Senate drinking stories. During the summer of 1996, I interned on Capital Hill working for the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. It was a very large committee and one of the senior Democratic members was Sen. Wendell Ford of Kentucky. Sen. Ford served in the Senate for 24 years after serving as the Governor of Kentucky. One of my various duties was to bring coffee and water to the members before and during committee meetings. On one of my first days there, Sen. Ford asked me for a coffee cup full of Bourbon and a spoon. Because CSPAN was there and drinking from a high ball glass would have been unprofessional. No I am not suggesting that he was a drunk, far from it, he probably just needed a little pick me up to get through a boring meeting.

Big H

Number 880 and counting

The General finally snapped Dean Smiths mark of 879 games. The perception is that this mark will not stand long. Because Coach K is not far behind at 753, but that's assuming that Bobby retires soon, I would expect Bobby to finish his contract in 2011. Even with Coach K's team winning 24-28 a year, since Tech will win around 20 a year that is only a 4-8 games a year pick up for 5 years of 20 or so games. That means Coach K will have to coach for an additional 6 seasons to pass The General, 6 seasons takes him to 2017 when he turns 70. I don't see it happening. Lets not forget The General was 24 when he assumed the head coaching duties at Army. Coach K was born in 1947, The General was born in 1940, they are closer in age than people remember.

Big H

NCAA Playoffs?

Some commentators and analysts are now going to argue for a playoff system in Div 1 football that rivals the other College Divisions Football playoffs, because of a sneaky Boise State win last night in the Fiesta Bowl. Playoffs maybe the fix to the dreaded BCS, but don't campaign solely on the Boise State win as proof.

It was a great game, and Boise State did a great job, and I don't want to take away from those kids who worked so hard. But lets face it this was the worst year in Big 12 football since the inception of the league. The winner of the Texas-OU game doe not win the Big 12 south? First time to happen, also OU was rebuilding this year with the loss of Rhett Bomar and the injury to Adrian Peterson. So its not like Boise State beat the 2000 Sooners, they beat the 2007 Sooners, not the same thing people.

Big H