A few moments ago, the moon — just over half a day from being the Full Wolf Moon — rose over the Superstition Mountains, which was turned a beautiful shade of orange by the sunset:
Out: “botched jokes.” In: “bad typos.”
Remember CNN’s segment about confusion between Obama and Osama? Well, apparently not everyone at CNN watched it…
The network has apologized for what Wolf Blitzer calls a “bad typo,” and the Osama campaign has accepted the apology.
Er, the Obama campaign, that is. Sorry… bad typo. ;)
Obama’s press secretary did note “that the ’s’ and ‘b’ keys aren’t all that close to each other,” but said he nevertheless doesn’t “think there was any truly malicious intent.” My guess? It was an in-house prank gone bad, probably a private joke between interns or some such. Reminds me of the time a student newspaper ran a front-page article with the byline “By George W. Bush,” then ran a correction the next day explaning that it was an inside joke that accidentally went to press.
In other Obama-related news, Hillary Clinton thinks his candidacy will fade. Oh, snap!
[UPDATE, 7/27: Due to the ridiculous volume of vile racist bulls**t on this thread, I’ve turned off comments for the moment.]
[UPDATE, 7/26: I just want to say that I utterly condemn and abhor the racist garbage that is being posted in comments on this thread. It’s unfortunate that the despicable riffraff from places like the white-supremacist site Stormfront.org have found their way here and are poisoning my site with their disgusting verbal vomit. Because I’m generally averse to censorship, I’ve decided — at least for the moment — to leave the racist comments up as a testament to their own ugliness, but I reserve the right to delete them later if I change my mind. In any event, I certainly don’t condone them in any way, shape or form.]
[UPDATE: For more on Ian and Chrissy, in addition what’s in the post below, see this post and this post (which contains a video of the proposal). For all of my college-football posts, go here. Or just visit my homepage for all the latest.]
Chrissy Popadics, a.k.a. the future Mrs. Ian Johnson, has a MySpace page. So does Mr. Johnson. Both contain pictures. For example:
Need I say more? (Hat tip: The 700 Level, via ESPN.)
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Categories: Babes, Boobs & Sex, College Football
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Here’s Boise State’s touchdown and Statue of Liberty two-point conversion in overtime:
(Hat tip: AOL Fanhouse.) And here’s the slow-mo analysis after the play:
P.S. Here’s the game-tying play in regulation, of which Pat Forde says “It was as shocking a last-gasp play as anything but Cal’s five-lateral slalom through the Stanford band. It might also have been the most daring last-gasp call (that worked) of all time.”
P.P.S. Over on Burnt Orange Nation, HornsFan complains:
In the wake of Boise State’s dramatic victory over Oklahoma, all that the stupid pundits can talk about is “Cinderella” Boise State beating the “Mighty Oklahoma.” Over and over and over, it’s “David” taking out Goliath. Mark May has now said three times how Boise State “played above their heads” to, in the words of the studio host, “pull the greatest upset in the history of college bowls.”
The only pundit making any sense at all is - of all people - Lou Holtz, who’s simply reiterating that Boise is just a talented, well-prepared team.
And that’s right. Boise whipped Oregon State, and four other bowl teams. They’re a damn good team, and instead of talking about this Fiesta Bowl like it was some one-in-a-million event, we probably ought to be asking, “Should Boise State have an opportunity to play Ohio State?”
Well, the Fiesta Bowl was a one-in-a-million event, but only because of how it ended, not because of who won it. If they played that game ten times, Boise State would win five or six of ‘em. They’re an excellent team, and that was NOT a battle of a “big dog” vs. an “underdog,” as the Fox announcers kept obnoxiously saying … it was NOT Rocky Balboa versus some oversized foe, as ESPN has been intimating … it was a heavyweight fight between two equals, with a coaching chess match thrown in for good measure, and Boise State won fair and square on both counts. They were the “big dog” last night.
Anyway, in response to HornsFan, commenter “billyzane” makes an excellent point:
[A] contributing factor to all this cinderella talk is that Boise effectively ran nothing but trick plays in overtime (plus the last TD in regulation). That’s a strong indicator that a team doesn’t think it can win straight-up (see K-State v. Texas).
But lost in that is the fact that Boise DOMINATED most of the game. It wasn’t even close. It was OU that needed the gifts and miracles to get back into the game. And Boise did it playing OU straight up. They’re a solid team, no question.
P.P.P.S. Here’s how the Idaho Statesman summed things up this morning:
Also… I quoted ESPN’s Pat Forde earlier. Well, his whole column about the game really says it best. Excerpt:
At the end of a game unlike any college football has ever witnessed, two of the great female icons in American culture staged a harmonic, hypnotic, borderline hallucinogenic convergence.
Boise State introduced Cinderella to Lady Liberty.
A head-to-toe, shining-beacon-to-glass-slipper miracle ensued.
More after the jump, or just click here.
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Patrick and I were chatting on IM early this morning about the most incredible, amazing, stupendous, phenomenal, unbelievable football game we’ve ever seen — a.k.a. last night’s Fiesta Bowl — and we decided that it needs a name. You know, like the “Music City Miracle” or the “Bush Push,” except ideally, the name should refer to the whole game, not just the play that ended it (because really, the Statue of Liberty play that ended it was only, like, the 27th utterly ridiculous and impossible play that occurred in the final few minutes of that game).
Anyway, we tried to brainstorm, but we couldn’t think of anything adequate, so I thought I’d turn it over to my blog audience and see what you guys can come up with. Possible half-ideas include the “_____ in the Desert,” or the “_____ in the Valley,” or the “Glendale ______.” Other words to consider using (alongside whatever synonym for “holy f***ing s*** that was f***ing amazing” you choose) are: Arizona, Fiesta, Tostitos, BCS.
The name needs to be catchy, reasonably descriptive, and worthy of that unbelievably ridicuously impossible game. And if there’s some way to simultaneously express the incredible nature of the game itself and its potentially far-reaching implications for the future of college football, all the better. So… any ideas?
P.S. I’m waiting for some game highlights to show up on YouTube, so I can “embed” them here on the blog. Until then, you can get them from Fox Sports.
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Categories: College Football
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Some people have trouble keeping their New Year’s resolutions. I’d say Boise State running back Ian Johnson is off to a pretty decent start. Here are a few things he accomplished on the first day of 2007:
1) Help prove to the world that your team deserves its spot in the BCS — and arguably more — with a performance for the ages in a game for the ages against an über-talented Oklahoma team that should have been 11-1 and in the national-title discussion. Check.
2) Win said “game for the ages” with perhaps the most dramatic trick play in college-football history (beating out the game-saving 50-yard hook-and-lateral from a few minutes earlier), a Statue of Liberty play for the game-winning two-point conversion in overtime. Check.
3) In the course of accomplishing #1 and #2, make your legions of fans, not to mention your friends and family, diliriously happy. Check.
(That’s Ian Johnson’s brother, Kyle.)
4) Propose to your extremely attractive cheerleader girlfriend on national TV. Check.
5) She says yes. Check.
Yep, I’d say that’s a pretty damn good day.
Incidentally, her name is Chrissy Popadics, and… did I mention she’s cute? Patrick was kind enough to send me links to these photos:
I nominate the future Mrs. Ian Johnson for next year’s Athlon cheerleader contest. Do I hear a second?
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