Babe of the Day!!

Sheeww....

You're Kidding, Right?

Yes, I realize this isn't sports and I really don't care.

Am I the only one that finds this product utterly ridiculous? A CHIA OBAMA? Why in the hell would Obama even allow this company to make this product?

Seriously, I thought the whole "CHIA" fad went out of business a long damn time ago....and how the hell does a ceramic Obama with a fro make us say, "YES WE CAN!"? Goodness Gracious.

I can do nothing else but shake my damn head.

South Florida Bulls...

The South Florida football program has established a meteoric rise in the football world over the past several years. Jim Leavitt's program has managed to reach the top 10 in each of the past two season, only to see a late season swoon derail their BCS chances. However, the Bulls return two of the most talented players in the Big-East this season, quarterback Matt Grothe and defensive end George Selvie. Grothe has the ability to make USF a Big-East title contender from the get-go and he is surrounded by some talent on the offensive side of the ball.

Grothe is an established dual-threat quarterback who has the moxie to lead this team to a very, very good season and he will help make new offensive coordinator Mike Canales's job a lot easier. Canales will instill a more spread oriented offense which should allow Grothe to continue to thrive and produce a tremendous statistical season. However, he must produce behind an inexperienced offensive line that returns only one starter, junior Zach Hermann. If the line can provide Grothe time to throw the ball, he will have several stellar targets to catch the pigskin. Dontavia Bogan, Ed Alcin and Carlton Mitchell all have the ability to help move the ball down the field and Bogan has super-star written all over him. Although the new spread offense will provide more opportunities for the wide receivers, it may cut into junior running back Mike Ford's production.

Defensively USF has one of the most talented players in the country in George Selvie. Selvie is a legitimate 1st round draft pick and is a disruptive force on the defensive line. Sevlie is surrounded by an experienced defensive line that includes end Craig Marshall and tackles Aaron Harris and Terrell McClain. While the defensive line is extremely talented, the linebacking corps is inexperienced at best. Kion Wilson will attempted to lead the inexperienced group from his middle linebacking position and will be joined by Chris Robinson and Sabbath Joseph on the outsides. The defensive backfield appears to be in better shape than the linebackers, because of the return of free safety Nate Allen. Allen is an All-Big East talent and is a playmaker in the defensive backfield.

Jim Leavitt has been reaping the benefits of coaching in the Sunshine state during his tenure at South Florida and this recruiting class was no different. Leavitt landed the 29th ranked class in the country, according to Rivals.com, and that includes four four-star commitments. Defensive end Ryne Giddins has the ability to become a terror from the defensive end position. The 6'4", 235 pound lineman was clocked at 4.6 in the 40 and should have no trouble becoming a nuisance for USF opponents. Four-Star athlete Bradley Battles has the ability to play several different positions, but will probably get a look at the running back position from the get-go in Tampa.

Schedule
September 5th-Wofford-Win
September 12th-@Western Kentucky-Win
September 19th-Charleston Southern-Win
September 26th-@Florida State-Loss
October 3rd-@Syracuse-Win
October 15th-Cincinnati-Win
October 24th-@Pittsburgh-Loss
October 30th-West Virginia-Loss
November 12th-@Rutgers-Win
November 21st-Louisville-Win
November 28th-Miami(Fl)-Loss
December 5th-@UCONN-Win

Season Projection: 8-4 (5-2 Big East)

Tell me he just won the lottery?

Winning the lottery is the only way to explain the fact that Anderson Varejao scored 50 million dollars over 6 years? Right? There is no way the Cleveland Cavs agreed to pay him that type of contract for nearly 9 points a game.

There are not many good young big men out there, unfortunately Varejao isn't one of them, even if he is being paid like one. He must be getting a dollar for every flop he will pull off in the next 6 years.

The Cavs are trying anything and everything to keep King James happy in Cleveland. I am not sure that signing overrated big men to these huge contracts will help keep him happy enough to resign next year.

Danny Ferry is a smart guy (he has to be, he did go to school at Duke), but this move alone has me questioning his intelligence. Don't forget, he also has Shaq's 20 million dollar cap hit on the books as well this year. None of this matters next year, they still have a shot at the finals as long as #23 is still suiting up in Cleveland.

Bruce Smith convicted of a DUI ...

On Thursday, July 9th, a Virginia Beach General District Court judge convicted former NFL star and all time sacks leader, Bruce Smith, of a DUI. Smith's argument - the old football injury story. Smith and his attorney, Larry Cardon, argued that old knee and leg injuries are the reasons he failed the field sobriety tests and not alcohol. After declining to submit to a breathalyzer, Smith thought he could fool us all by taking the field sobriety test and argue old football injuries are the only reason for his failure.

Smith's attorney argued before the court that knee surgeries prevented him from walking in a straight line. However, Smith could not follow basic hand movements and basic instructions, such as walk 9 steps. Smith in turn walked 14 steps before being told to stop. I guess old football injuries made it hard to follow common sense instructions as well. In addition, during the sobriety test, Smith stated to the arresting officer several times that he was a former athlete hoping the officer would let him go.

It is difficult to argue that alcohol was not a factor in his erratic driving, especially after you admit to the arresting officer that you and two friends actually consumed alcohol.

Smith and his attorney have appealed the ruling to the Virginia Beach Circuit Court, which set a date for August 27. It will be interesting to see how the old football injuries story turns out ...

Babe of the Day!

College Humor's Hottest Girl of '09....and I agree!

The Matrix to the Mavs??

A busy NBA off-season continues with even more off the court action continuing. The Mavericks are attempting to land Shawn Marion in a proposed four team trade. The only hindrance at the moment is the inability to find that final team to join the Raptors, Mavericks and Grizzles to complete a deal.

The Mavericks continue to try to improve a roster that managed to win fifty games last season and are intent on remaining a player in the rugged Western Conference. If Mark Cuban eventually lands Marion, he'll join a core of Dirk Niwotzki, Jason Kidd, Jason Terry, Marcin Gortat and Josh Howard. That nucleus, while aging and full of veterans, has the ability to make another strong run in the playoffs in the 2009-2010 season.

Damned Comments...

I just wanted to apologize for the inconvenience that the comments section is causing at the moment. Apparently, Bloggr has no desire in truly fixing the error messaging that we are constantly getting. I have changed the settings to where the comments are now based out of a pop-up window that has ZERO errors and commenting should be easier.

However, once google and company let us know that they have fixed our embedded comments section, we'll switch back to that style, because it's more user friendly.

Sorry about that...

Thanks,
Derrick

Wow...

Steve McNair was apparently shot because he had a jealous 20 year old girlfriend who was afraid that he might be seeing another girl behind her back. Wow, talk about ruining a good name you had for yourself there Steve. Your 16 year younger girlfriend shot you because she thought you were seeing another girl. Here is the real kicker, the other girl wasn't even supposedly Steve's wife. Steve's wife apparently had no idea who this girl was.

Maybe none of this would have happened if he would have just been home and raising his kids and spending time with his wife. Now, I know that it may be possible that he wasn't happy with his wife, but if that is the case, at least be a man and tell her about it. The real losers out of all this are Steve's kids. I feel bad for the four children who are going to hear about why their daddy got shot 4 times by some girl not much older than them (I have no idea how old his kids are, I just said that to make a point).

And no, I'm not saying Steve got what he deserved, no one deserves that. I just can't help but to be aggervated by the whole situation. It just seems that it could have been avoided if he would have just been faithful to his wife to begin with. It's a tricky situation.

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Babe of the Day!

You can't go wrong with Megan Fox!

Lebron Gets Posterized?

Lebron James has apparently been posterized at his own skills academy by former IU guard Jordan Crawford. The best part of the story, after it happened Lebron and his NIke Reps attempted to confiscate all video of the rumored dunk. Crawford had this to say about the dunk...

``I was on the right wing and went down the middle. I got past Danny Green and LeBron was waiting under the basket. I don’t think he thought I was going to dunk it, so he jumped late. It was two-handed.”

Kinda petty of Lebron, though! Hopefully somebody had a cell phone out and we'll get the pleasure of watching the video on youtube in the near future!

Volleyball Booty of the Week!

Pink....

Turf Toe Tuesday

It seems as though community members in Owensboro, Kentucky have started an adult kickball league that grew out of various fundraising events. The Owensboro Parks and Recreation kickball league is in its 3rd season and gives coworkers from local businesses an opportunity to relive their childhood days in 7th grade P.E. We all remember playing kickball in 7th grade P.E. Everyone wanted to be on that one kids team. You know, the kid, his name was probably Roy or Chad, who was a little bigger than everyone else, had facial hair, a stain on his plain red shirt and wore jeans year round. He could kick a ball 4,000 yards and was still competing in 7th grade P.E. when you were in 8th grade.

So what does any of this have to do with Turf Toe? Well one of the team names in this particular kickball league has a team name of Turf Toe. I wonder if the mascot is a big toe? Currently, the kickball league is the only one in the region. The league is usually made up of 6 to 10 teams each playing 10 regular season games with a single elimination tournament. With team names such as Turf Toe, I look for more kickball leagues to develop throughout the nation. I mean I would certainly join a kickball league.

The PMB Branches Out!

The PMB is a national sports blog and we pride ourselves on bringing you the information in the quickest and most entertaining way possible. While we have our shticks with our daily humor, volleyball booty, turf toe and other random information...we try to bring you information that revolves all around the sports world.

While it's well known on this blog that a couple of us are Kentucky homers, we have tried to deter from flooding the blog with random Kentucky news. Well, we've created a solution for the homerism! We have now created a separate branch of The PMB specifically for our Kentucky news! The Avenue of Champions is the newest member of The PMB family of websites.



Hope all the Kentucky fans that have been known to frequent the site will visit the new site as well! Be patient with us at first, it will take about a week or so for me to get everything up and running.

Thanks,
Derrick

Daily Dose Of Humor

This video has some rated R language, but is nonetheless funny.

Roy Halladay on the Move?

If you haven't noticed, we've kinda been putting off the inevitable baseball blog. The three of us usually don't follow baseball until the postseason (unless we wanna go to a game just for the beer and hot dogs), but I figured I'd go ahead and break the ice on the baseball avoidance.

Roy Halladay may very well be the best pitcher in the game today, and apparently the Blue Jays are willing to unload him if the price is right. Halladay has a no-trade clause that could deter several possible locations for the Jays, but you have to think he'd listen and be willing to pack his bags if the destination is a legitimate contender. Some logical destinations would be the Mets and Phillies, but don't be surprised to see their division rivals, the Yankees and Red Sox, attempt to get involved.

The Jays have reason to believe that Halladay will walk away from their franchise when he becomes a free agent in 2010 and it justifies their reasoning for a trade. Still, it has to be hard to part with someone who has been extremely loyal to a franchise that hasn't tasted the post season in over a decade, especially a pitcher that does nothing but win at an unbelievable clip.

Uhhhh..this isn't is awesome or anything

Okay so I had to post this link...this is the craziest shit I've ever saw. A guy by the name of B. Manley hitting some of the most unbelievable trick basketball shots ever put on the internet (Well of all the videos on the net I have seen anyways). They appear to be all legit too, you be the judge though. The link also has a bunch of porn pictures surrounding the video, so viewers be warned.

I personally like the idea of looking at naked chicks while watching some white boy hit some of the wettest jumpers I've ever saw. Be sure to check out the whole video, I'll warn you that it does kind of start out unimpressive, but believe me it does pick up.

Check it out here!

Rutgers Scarlet Knights

Rutgers football has come a long way since the hiring of Greg Chiano. When Schiano took over the program 9 years ago Rutgers was considered one of the worst BCS football programs in the country, but that has all changed over the last three seasons(3 bowl wins in 3 seasons). Most experts believed the days of Rutgers competing for the Big East championship were evaporated after the loss of Ray Rice, but Mike Teel and company, after a slow start, finished the season with a 5-2 conference record and an eventual Papajohns.com bowl victory.

However, Teel and his two favorite targets, Kenny Britt and Tiquan Underwood, are long gone and the offense will have to replace those talents to have another successful season. Teel compiled over 9,000 career passing yards and was the most successful quarterback in school history, but redshirt freshman D.C. Jefferson has the opportunity to become the successor to Teel. Jefferson was a top five quarterback coming out of high school and has talent for days. The 6'6, 240 pound quarterback has the arm to compete as a freshman in a wide-open Big East, but the question remains, does he have enough talent at the skill positions to translate into success? Jefferson has several talented running backs to hand the ball off too, including Kordell Young (550 yards) and Jourdan Brooks (516 yards). The backfield will see some nice holes with the entire offensive line returning in tact that will be lead by an All-Big East talent in left tackle Anthony Davis. With plenty of time to throw, Jefferson should have time to mesh with a young receiving core. Tim Brown (27 receptions) is the only returning wide receiver, and Julian Hayes will join him on the outside, but they lack serious depth at the position.

First year defensive coordinators Bob Fraser and Ed Pinkham return six regulars, but lose the majority of the playmakers. The defensive line will be lead by senior end George Johnson. Johnson has the talent to be a disruptive force on the outer edge and he will be joined by Alex Silvestro and Charlie Noonan on the line. The linebacking corps returns Ryan D'Imperio, an All- Big East performer, but he is the only proven playmaker on the unit. Antonio Lowery and Damaso Munoz will attempt to pick up the slack on the strong and weak sides, but they're both unproven talents. The defensive backfield is lead by a duo at the safety positions, Zaire Kitchen and Joe Lefeged, who are both proven at their positions and some of the best the Big East has to offer.

Increasing the talent level has been of the highest priority for Schiano and his staff since they've arrived in Piscataway and they continue to do a decent job. Rutgers hauled in the 38th ranked recruiting class according to Rivals.com and its headlined by one of the most touted recruits in school history. 6'4", 217 pound quarterback Tim Savage has the prototypical build that all coaches ask for at the quarterback position and he will be an impact player. Defensive tackle Antwan Lowery joins Savage in Piscataway and at 6'4", 335 pounds he is an imposing specimen as a young freshman.

Schedule
September 7th-Cincinnati-Win
September 12th-Howard-Win
September 19th-Florida International-Win
September 26th-@Maryland-Win
October 3rd-Texas Southern-Win
October 16th-Pittsburgh-Loss
October 23rd-@Army-Win
October 31st-@UCONN-Win
November 12th-South Florida-Loss
November 21st-@Syracuse-Win
November 27th-@Louisville-Win
December 5th-West Virginia-Loss

Season Projection: 9-3 (5-2 Big East)

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