2007 Nevada Football Preview
I’m feeling a 5-7 record and quite a drop off from last season’s 8-5 record. The 2006 season was a good show but you can’t put your arms around a memory and this season will be a harsh reality for the Wolf Pack faithful. Jeff Rowe has left No Town for the greener pastures of the Cincinnati Bengals and now a sophomore, with 17 career pass attempts, is the trigger of the Pistol. Ideally they’ll grind it out on the ground every week and lean on their defense to keep it close. Unfortunately the competition in the WAC has raised their game and their first two games out of the gate are against bigger dogs.
Adios, Dan Patrick
The Farewell For Now tour ends today as Dan Patrick leaves ESPN after 18 years. Strange and or hokey as this will sound but I have spent my entire life as a sports fan with Patrick in one capacity or another. Initially as a Sports Center anchor and then through his radio show. The main reason I am a Patrick fan is the simple idea that he is not a know it all, condesending, antagonist journalist.
Even after I left northern California for Reno and eventually Phoenix I still listened to KNBR, The Sports Leader, via their Internet simulcast. After a decade or so I have come to the realization that successful radio and TV personalities (or talk show hosts) are very even handed for the most part. Or they make my listening experience a lot easier. At KNBR you get you get both ends of the spectrum. Ralph Barbieri and Damon Bruce seem to play the role of 
antagonist radio hosts that have a bottomless anger because they were not blessed with God given ability to be athletes. So accordingly they spew venom at those not related to San Francisco sports (which is a given due to their employer’s relationship with the 49ers and Giants) or they maintain a simple “I know more than the public” stance.
Gary Radnich and Tony Bruno both take the stance, as a tag team or in their solo endeavors, that the public can provide great entertainment when granted their 15 minutes of fame and that you can never take yourself or sports too seriously. Both shows are informative and entertaining but they are not broadcast from an ivory tower.
Patrick parlayed aforementioned qualities into a tip top 18 year run on ESPN and I never remember blowing his top at a caller from Lodi that maintained Dwayne Murphy was better than Barry Bonds.
Pacman (Fever) Update 17.0
The Tennessee Titans and Pacman Jones have come to an amicable decision regarding the possibility of the suspended cornerback becoming a pro wrestler.
Adam “Pacman” Jones can appear at a wrestling show Sunday, with a couple of provisions: The suspended Tennessee Titans cornerback won’t be allowed to touch or be touched, use or be hit by any object or anything else that could injure him. - Teresa Walker of The Associated Press
Scarlett as a Nanny?!
David Patrick Castro.com has always been pro Scarlett Johansson and there could be an office wide field trip (from our new international headquarters in Santa Rosa, CA) to the cinema to see her latest work, The Nanny Diaries. If you click on the picture to the right you can experience the greatest movie trailer in the history of western civilization. (The title of Western Civilization’s Greatest Movie Trailer would have been surpassed by the proposed Jenna Jameson biopic that Scarlett refused to star in as everyone’s favorite porn star.)
Pacman (Fever) Update 16.0
The Tennessee Titans filed a motion requesting a court order prohibiting Pacman Jones from wrestling. Jones was expected to wrestle in TNA’s pay per view event “Hard Justice” on Sunday.
All NFL players have language in their contracts that prohibit them from engaging in activities ‘which may involve a significant risk of personal injury.’ We certainly believe wrestling to be hazardous and it is obvious from the player’s conduct that he is ignoring this aspect of his agreements with the club. As an organization, we feel it is our obligation to protect our rights in this instance.
Statement from the Tennessee Titans on Friday August 10, 2007.
Pacman (Fever) Update 15.0
Though brief, Pacman Jones made his professional wrestling debut last night on Spike TV’s TNA Wrestling via a series of previously taped segments.
“You don’t know me … Nobody knows me … misunderstood. Nobody knows who I am. A player, a gamebreaker, a risk taker, a man,” Jones said during last nights broadcast.
Pacman (Fever) Update 14.0
On Thursday, August 9, 2007, Pacman Jones will make his debut for TNA Wrestling on Spike TV. Pacman was suspended for the entire 2007 season for various run in with the law.
“He wants to prove he’s the best team sport athlete. You can take that for what it’s worth. He’s looking forward to coming in and wrestling,” Total Nonstop Action Wrestling co-founder Jeff Jarrett said Monday. “He wants to concentrate on the tag-team aspect of wrestling.”
NFL contracts stipulate a code of conduct away from the field which includes but is not limited to participating in activities that could lead to injury and effect their ability to play on Sundays. Pacman is still under contract with the Tennessee Titans and can appeal his suspension after the 10th game of the season. Brian Urlacher participated in one wrestling match and his wrestling career was stalled when the Chicago Bears got wind of his hobby.
