Sunday, August 25, 2013

The unexpected triumph of 'Duck Dynasty' - All It's Quacked Up to Be - Grantland/Andy Greenwald


http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9586999/the-unexpected-triumph-duck-dynasty


Time has come to fire Rex Ryan | FOX Sports - Jen Floyd Engel


http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/new-york-jets-rex-ryan-should-be-fired-now-082513


Tiger Woods drops to his knees after tweaking his back | For The Win


http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/08/tiger-woods-drops-to-his-knees-after-tweaking-his-back/


What if the Dodgers fired Don Mattingly? - CBSSports.com - Matt Snyder - Let's go back to June 21, when the Dodgers were 30-42. People were calling for Mattingly's head. The Dodgers as an organization even approached Mattingly and told him a change might have to be made. Imagine if he were fired prior to June 22 and the team went on its historic run without him. The Dodgers have gone 46-11 since then. They've turned a 9.5 game deficit into a 9.5 game lead. They went from last place in a sub-par division to possibly being the favorite to win the National League.

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http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/23317330/what-if-the-dodgers-fired-don-mattingly


Reindeer Games - NYTimes.com - Maureen Dowd - On the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Kerry Bentivolio, a Michigan congressman, has a dream, too: to impeach the nation’s first black president. -“If I could write that bill and submit it, it would be a dream come true,” the freshman Republican told a local G.O.P. club meeting Monday in Birmingham, Mich., in a video posted on YouTube and reported by BuzzFeed. Bentivolio graciously conceded that he’d have to come up with some grounds first. -- It isn’t the president who should leave. It’s the misguided lawmakers trying to drive him out. For some of the rodeo clowns clamoring for impeachment around the country, Barack Obama’s real crime is presiding while black.

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http://themeck.blogspot.com/2013/08/reindeer-games-nytimescom-maureen-dowd.html


Gaddafi's harem: Shocking book reveals dictator's sexual abuse of schoolgirls | Mail Online


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2401702/Gaddafis-harem-Shocking-book-reveals-dictators-sexual-abuse-schoolgirls.html


Coach: Kentucky DB will play despite DUI incident - USATODAY - Kyle Tucker - University of Kentucky football coach Mark Stoops said Saturday he plans to play starting strong safety Ashely Lowery in the season opener Aug. 31 against Western Kentucky. Lowery was cited for driving under the influence following a horrific single-car crash this spring that left him hospitalized for several days.

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/sec/2013/08/25/ashely-lowery-kentucky-will-play-despite-dui/2696749/


Why does Rex Ryan still have a job? - USATODAY - Kevin Manahan


http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/jets/2013/08/25/rex-ryan-blunder-mark-sanchez-injury-geno-smith/2696985/


With a week to go, Will Johnny Manziel play for A&M? - CBSSports.com - Jeremy Fowler


http://themeck.blogspot.com/2013/08/with-week-to-go-will-johnny-manziel.html


Other leagues shooting blanks in the war against the SEC (CFB preview) (Kevin Scarbinsky) | al.com


http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/08/other_leagues_shooting_blanks.html#incart_maj-story-1