Monday, August 14, 2006
Welcome to the Blog-- Thanks Jason Whitlock
The idea behing Sports Surplus was born in the Spring of 2006, by two Texas undergraduates who decidedly had little future in the sports journalism industry, let alone any industry. While neither of us have jobs yet-- more on that to come-- "the internet" has allowed us to pretend that we too can be sports writers. I will comment from time to time on anything sports or anything I feel like, and I will likely be joined by other guest wanna be writers as well. If there is anyone out there reading, enjoy, and drop me a line.
Today's blog, the first ever, is dedicated to the man who motivated Sports Surplus from concept to delivery; Jason Whitlock, also known as, the worst sports writer in the history of sports. How did this man get a job? Because he was a marginal football player in college?
Perhaps. In the year that I have tracked him, (thanks to the soon to be co-author of this blog representing KC) he has predicted that Texas would get smoked by Oklahoma (Texas won by 33), then took Colorado to upset them the next week (Texas won by 25), defended Barry Bonds, called for the Packers to trade Favre and praised IU for hiring OU's Kelvin Sampson-- calling him the right man to provide "domestic tranquility". Let's just say, I've agreed with about 0% of the things he's ever said.
Today, filling in as host for Jim Rome on "Rome is Burning", he conducted one of the worst interviews of all time with Chargers All-Pro Running Back LaDainain Tomlinson-- asking such questions as "How does it feel to have the same initials as Lawrence Taylor?" and trying to stick Tomlinson in between management and teammate Donnie Edwards, calling L.T. out for not sticking up for Edwards in a recent contract dispute.
All I'm saying is that let's get Whitlock off the air, and someone else on. Like someone else with a blog post or two.
Have a good weekend.
Today's blog, the first ever, is dedicated to the man who motivated Sports Surplus from concept to delivery; Jason Whitlock, also known as, the worst sports writer in the history of sports. How did this man get a job? Because he was a marginal football player in college?
Perhaps. In the year that I have tracked him, (thanks to the soon to be co-author of this blog representing KC) he has predicted that Texas would get smoked by Oklahoma (Texas won by 33), then took Colorado to upset them the next week (Texas won by 25), defended Barry Bonds, called for the Packers to trade Favre and praised IU for hiring OU's Kelvin Sampson-- calling him the right man to provide "domestic tranquility". Let's just say, I've agreed with about 0% of the things he's ever said.
Today, filling in as host for Jim Rome on "Rome is Burning", he conducted one of the worst interviews of all time with Chargers All-Pro Running Back LaDainain Tomlinson-- asking such questions as "How does it feel to have the same initials as Lawrence Taylor?" and trying to stick Tomlinson in between management and teammate Donnie Edwards, calling L.T. out for not sticking up for Edwards in a recent contract dispute.
All I'm saying is that let's get Whitlock off the air, and someone else on. Like someone else with a blog post or two.
Have a good weekend.
