Former UF star quarterback and assistant coach John Reaves has found some serious trouble again, as he's been accused of assault and cocaine posession. John's always been a nice guy to deal with, but he has had a number of substance abuse issues throughout his career. A few years ago he showed up at a radio remote I was doing and it was clear sobriety was not in the cards that day. When you're reduced to trying to claim the cops are planting cocaine on you for no good reason, it's pretty clear you've hit bottom. Hopefully John will get it together again - this is sad to see.
UF's back on the field, with defensive tackle Ronnie Wilson (now known as Ron) a part of the group practicing. Joseph Goodman of the Miami Herald did some digging and found out Wilson was arrested in January for marijuana posession. Word around that time was Wilson had made a mistake involving marijuana, but it was believed to be a positive test and not an arrest. Goodman details other elements of the story on his blog which make it clear this is a young man who has been given an extraordinary amount of breaks. We'll see if he takes advantage of them.
Wilson may catch another break in his quest for playing time, as it looks like DT Torrey Davis will be academically ineligible. Davis is the classic example of why I don't buy recruiting hype. Physically, he's unquestionably got great gifts that made him a "five star" guy. Despite that, he was lazy in high school, played with poor technique and didn't do much more than the minimum in the classroom. Who could possibly be surprised those habits carried over to a level where he couldn't get away with it?
The latest Georgia knucklehead is LB Darius Dewberry, who gets a two game suspension for doing over two grand of damage at a hospital. The Bulldogs have some real questions about focus to answer right now. Meanwhile Kentucky boots their potential starting quarterback Curtis Pulley off the team altogether and loses starting cornerback Paul Warford to academics for the year.
In keeping with the theme today, here's Notre Dame "superstar" quarterback Jimmy Clausen and his teammates taking part in the Beer Olympics. When you're underage and a celebrity athlete, there is no way posing for photos like that can help you.
Ben Folds will finally be coming out with a new CD, Way To Normal, September 30. The guy's a tremendous performer. You can hear one of the new tracks, Hiroshima, on Ben's myspace page. He played it and several of the other new ones live in Savannah when I saw him there earlier this year - good stuff.
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I think you set a record of number of knuckleheads getting themselves arrested, suspended, or embarrassed in a single blog entry. It must be August! Thank heavens we'll be able to discuss football for what happens on the field in a few weeks, because this drinking game I started with every time current SEC players goes knucklehead is starting to make me real woozy. Georgia alone has given me a wicked headache.
I made it a point to listen to the Braves radio broadcast last night so I could hear the Skip Carey tribute. The stories shared by all the broadcasters they talked to in the pregame were poignant and showed how much Skip Carey carved his own place in sports broadcasting history. He wasn't like his Dad. He developed his own style, and his sincerity, dry sense of humor, and passion for calling baseball games came through each broadcast.
Like you, Heath, I'm not a Braves fan, but they were the team to follow down here in Florida when we were growing up, so Skip Carey was my voice of baseball as a kid, and I thought he was great. Kudos for Pete Van Weiren for boradcasting the game last night under difficult circumstances, and doing it while sharing amusing stories and ancedotes with the audience about Carey, all while not treating a rather meaningless Braves / Giants game as meaningless. He did it the same professional way he always did, just like he would've if Skip were there in the booth with him. He even cracked on the pigeons of San Francisco knowing when the game is over to swoop in and eat the leftover food in the aisles, just like Skip and he would back in the day. It was great to listen to, and I will miss Skip Carey, even if I wasn't dancing in the streets after the 1992 NLCS. (BTW, I laughed because Barry Bonds couldn't throw out Sid freakin' Bream from left field???)
I can't wait for this "Way To Normal"- it's been way too long since "Songs for Silverman". I love pretty much every Ben Folds songs. I loved him with Ben Folds Five, but his solo work is just so different. I'm glad, though, that the classic Ben Folds sound has come back with the work he did on his last album.
I hope the album does well and that Ben will come out with an album more than once every three years!
~Jim
The Laptop Sessions Cover Songs
I can't wait for this "Way To Normal"- it's been way too long since "Songs for Silverman". I love pretty much every Ben Folds songs. I loved him with Ben Folds Five, but his solo work is just so different. I'm glad, though, that the classic Ben Folds sound has come back with the work he did on his last album.
I hope the album does well and that Ben will come out with an album more than once every three years!
~Jim
The Laptop Sessions Cover Songs
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