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Sports Sports Sports Sports
A few sports-related items today:
-Computer Science Department Softball season supposedly starts this week. This will only happen if the weather significantly improves, however. This year we will not lose to lame frat teams. Schedule TBA.
-Colorado football coach Gary Barnett is crazy. If you'll recall, his program was accused last week of throwing sex parties to attract recruits during which at least one woman was raped (there's no excuse for rape, but wouldn't these types of parties gain some sort of reputation amongst students?). He made matters worse for himself this week when, asked about the rape allegation of former female kicker Katie Hnida, he responded with something to the tune of "she was a girl and she was terrible. She couldn't kick the ball through the uprights." I don't see what this has to do with whether or not she was raped. Apparently it's ok to rape the bad players, but not the good ones. Regardless, his lack of common sense when giving a press conference is startling.
-The Yankees got A-Rod, and without really increasing their payroll since the silly Rangers are paying a majority of his salary. It's always funny when teams pay players to play for other teams, like the Marlins paying Mike Hampton to pitch for the Braves even though he was never a member of their club, but the funniest is and always will be a tie between the Orioles paying Albert Belle millions of dollars for the last few years, even though he retired in 2000 and the Mets paying Bobby Bonilla one million dollars a year for thirty years to not play for them. Imagine being so bad at your job that your former employer pays you pretty much for the rest of your life to not work. Now that's a sweet deal.
Comments
Or the Cardinal's paying for Tino to play in Tampa...
Posted by: Nathan at February 22, 2004 2:08 PM
Yeah, Tino never really took to St. Louis the way many athletes do. We'll see how much he enjoys playing in an ugly stadium in front of maybe 10,000 fans, 80% of which cheer for the opposing team, for a horrible ballclub.
Posted by: Chris Hill Festival at February 22, 2004 2:11 PM
Who's on the CS softball team?
Posted by: rkc at February 22, 2004 4:43 PM
Hopefully the CS Team has made some additions to cover up the considerable free agent losses from last year - I know my .900+ batting average and maddeningly inconsistent defense in centerfield will be hard to replace.
And don't even think about bringing the baby bat back....
Posted by: Lucas at February 22, 2004 6:53 PM
The baby bat has been forced into an early retirement. The team consists of Mike Henrichs, Richard S., Jamie Payton, Robert Pless, Cindy Grimm, Sally Goldman, Christine Julien, Franklin Williams, Shannon Lieberg, and some ringers we brought in to make sure we have enough people to play.
Posted by: Chris Hill Festival at February 22, 2004 7:42 PM
Excellent. Give my regards to the Danger Squad.
Posted by: Lucas at February 23, 2004 8:54 PM
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