Not to put you on blast, Jerry, but I think we get it.
Ravens Take Matt Elam with 32nd Pick in NFL Draft
The worst part about having the 32nd pick this year is spending the evening worrying that the Ravens were going to take Manti Te’o. (Ok fine, I spent it monitoring the draft online while watching Scandal. Olivia Pope > Roger Goodell, all day every day. I love football, but the NFL draft is actually not compelling television.)
I’m happy about the Ravens’ pick solely because Matt Elam is not Manti Te’o. Other than, I have no strong feelings one way or the other.
It’s hard for me to get too invested in the draft, just like I have to force myself to care about college football recruiting. Just because a dude is a star at one level, it doesn’t necessarily mean he’ll be a star at the next. I’ll care when I have something concrete to care about but until then, it’s all a crapshoot, like me typing out this blog post on my phone. We just don’t know what’s going to happen.
If I had to guess, I’d assume Elam will be pretty good. Perhaps not great, but hopefully worthy of sliding into the first round. I’ll get excited about him when he shows us something to be excited about, on the field, in the regular season.
For now, Te’o’s not a Raven so Draft Day One = success. (And ok, #inozziewetrust and all, and maybe Te’o is considered a steal later, but can we just not? Please??)
Kiff kind of suited the play-calling toward Marqise,” Barkley says. “It was rough at times, because defenses kinda knew what was coming. It was sort of predictive. Robert Woods is a great player. … You want to be respectful of your coaches, because they are your elders, but when it falls on your shoulders, you probably should get involved.
-NFL draft prospect Matt Barkley regrets not being more outspoken, forceful at USC - Yahoo! Sports
Nothing we didn’t already know, but it’s interesting to hear it coming from Barkley.
It’s a shame he didn’t speak up last season, obviously because changing things up could’ve helped a lot, but also because as a four-year starter and team captain and elder statesman of sorts, he might’ve had a little bit more leeway to be outspoken.
Even if the coaches are stupid enough to keep looking at Lee again this season, whoever the new quarterback is won’t be able to get away with it.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is the Washington College men’s lacrosse team (my alma mater) hoisting the Charles B. Clark Cup after beating #5 Salisbury, 7-6.
First WAC win since 2002. First WAC win at home since 1990. First midweek War on the Shore since….?
This would’ve been one to see. Congratulations to the team, to Coach Jeff Shirk who’s doing a great job getting the program back where it should be, and to all the students who got to see it in person (whether or not they remember it clearly).
Hope we don’t have to wait so long to see this again!
(Photo and fun facts via @wcathletics)
Chris Davis Hulks Out
By smashing his bat over his knee with very little effort, Chris Davis proves he is the man once and for all. Definitely in the running for GIF of the Week. (via nickluckystripes)
Impressive
Full GIF including third strike swing: Chris Davis angrily breaks a bat over his knee, Bo Jackson style | Big League Stew - Yahoo! Sports
‘If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon’ ⇒
This morning, I was on the phone with some runners who have raced marathons to raise money for Spina Bifida research and awareness.
Their story was so inspiring that I actually felt a little ashamed that I wasn’t running marathons, too. (I’ve occasionally, briefly considered it before realizing that is a really long time to run when you don’t really like running.)
Between this morning’s uplifting conversation and this afternoon’s absolutely horrific news from Boston, I feel like I’ve gotten a small glimpse of the very, very best and the very, very worst of humanity. I’m starting to understand why people run and maybe even becoming more and more motivated to run for everyone who can’t.
This video is not sports-related, unless you want to count the fact that it’s a sports-inspired workout program, which totally counts for my purposes.
Your street (internet?) cred as a freelance blogger takes a hit when you don’t even realize you haven’t blogged on your own website — your baby! — in a solid week.
This video is a one-minute, 23-second explanation of how I’ve been spending the majority of my time while I’ve been MIA. (I’m an instructor, and we launched the new stuff, snippets of what you see here, on Friday night, which meant lots of rehearsing and prepping and all that fun stuff.)
Now that the launch is out of the way, I’ll be back blogging even more than before.
That might be too ambitious. Let’s start with “at least as much as before.”
I don’t usually share too much of my non-Sports in Stilettos life, but if you enjoy the more personal stuff, get on the Twitter and Insta.
HAPPY OPENING DAY, O’s FANS!!!!
Beautiful (sunny! sort of warm-ish!) day for baseball!
Let’s go, O’s!!!
Sexy team-spirited stilettos pic courtesy of the lovely Eleni of BestBloodys!
Here’s us celebrating Opening Day 2012:
And yes, it is driving me absolutely insane that I can’t tell what shoes I wore with the above outfit.
Oft-Injured USC Trojans Receiver George Farmer Injured Again.
Womp.
My latest post from Rant Sports.
For my new followers, I also ruminate on college football things and sometimes other things for Rant Sports, because let’s face it, my opinions (and, sometimes, judgment) just can’t fit on one sassy little blog. Sometimes I re-post them here — I really should do a better job of that — but I almost always put the links up on Twitter and G+ so be sure to add me there to stay in the loop!
In the latest BRUINS :30 video, Adam McQuaid checks in from the 6th Annual Cuts for a Cause with the “before” and “after” of his haircut.
To mullet, or not to mullet? That is the question….
Normally, the answer is always not to mullet.
Except, of course, when it’s Adam McQuaid, and then the answer is always, always to mullet!
EXCEPT when it’s for charity, in which case, whoooo hoooooooo Take. It. Off.
