GQ Ranks Ten Most Hated Athletes

You don't need to be a sports fan to know that a lot of athletes are dickheads. Ten athletes, however stand out from the pack. GQ Magazine listed the Top Ten Dickheads in the sports world with anecdotes and quotes to back up these claims. It's a very interesting read although #1 will surprise no one.

GQ's Top Ten Hated Athletes

Syracuse Offensive Coordinator Leaves for Texans

Syracuse Offensive Coordinator (yes, we had one) Brian Pariani is leaving Syracuse to become Tight Ends Coach for the Houston Texans after running the SU Offense for only one season. Coaching an offense that ranked 114th out 117 teams in Division 1-A, 2005 Syracuse Offensive Coordinator is up there with Sago Mine Director of Media Relations and New York Times Fact-Checker as jobs you'd rather leave off your resume.

Pariani is best friends with Gary Kubiak, the former Broncos Offensive Coordinator is all but certain to be named Texans Head Coach this week.

Syracuse Head Coach Greg Robinson, knowing the relationship between Kubiak and Pariani, anticipated this move and brought in former Wisconsin Offensive Coordinator Bryan White to be his Quarterbacks Coach last week, replacing Major Applewhite who left to be Offensive Coordiator at Rice. It is expected that White will be promoted to Offensive Coordinator after Pariani's departure is officially announced.

While Pariani's first year with the SU Offense was forgettable to say the least. This coaching carousel on the offensive side of the ball, isn't good for a program struggling with the transition to the West Coast Offense.



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Royal Rumble this Sunday!

WWE presents the Royal Rumble this Sunday on Pay-Per-View. The Royal Rumble has always been my second favorite of WWE's annual Pay-Per-Views for two reasons.

1) It marks the beginning of WWE's big angle booking period, as matches are formed for Wrestlemania

2) It is the only Pay-Per-View you can gamble on or run pools around.

There are a couple ways you can do it. You could draft the 30 entrants in a Fantasy-style draft. You could draw wrestler's names. The most fun way is to draw numbers from a hat and be assigned the wrestler that gets that entry number, if you have the number coming up, the wrestler that comes out is yours and if he wins you win (this is fun to see guys anticipate their number coming up and seeing who comes out, and watching it be Hardcore Holly).

If you want to place straight-up bets. This is a good year to do it. As to this point no superstar has been placed in a long program with a champion (i.e. Batista, last year was an obvious selection as he was already beginning to feud with champion HHH). Kurt Angle, Mark Henry, John Cena, and Edge are in the two title matches on the card, every other big name on the roster is in the Rumble.

I took an opinion poll from one of the wrestling web sites to make odds:

HHH 11-9
Randy Orton 4-1
Rey Mysterio 6-1
Rob Van Dam 9-1
Shawn Michaels 24-1
Kane 99-1
Chris Benoit 49-1
Field 32-1


I personally think this would be a great year to have a mid-card wrestler in the "Field" win the whole thing. Say someone like Chavo Guerrero won the Rumble, if he had lasted a long time (say he drew #3 or some early entry), he would get a positive reaction. Then the two months before Wrestlemania could be spent with Vince McMahon doing a "holy shit my biggest pay-per-view of the year is going to be headlined by Chavo Guerrero??? over my dead body!!" angle. Chavo would have to win matches with rediculous stipulations to keep his spot and in time gain enough support to justify his new main event status. Put The Rock or Bret Hart in his corner and you have star power, charisma, and a little bit of unpredictability that could keep the WWE product, dare I say...fresh!

Jack is Back (Hour 5) Tonight!

'24' Returns tonight with unfortunately only ONE hour of fast-paced counter-terrorist drama. Last week's two hour episodes taught us much and provided some basis for predictions going forward.

What We Know

-Another Black leader has been killed in his hotel room

-Michelle Dessler looks hot with her hair down

-Michelle Dessler looked hot with her hair down

-Chloe's a slut

-For someone with a bounty on his head, Jack didn't venture far from Los Angeles

-Now whenever I meet a '24' fan for the first time they will say "I was expecting someone younger with long hair who blows snot bubbles out his nose"

-Cell Phones can activate bombs

-Rudy is now a power-mongering snot

-The aide (his name is Walt Cummings) who ordered Jack to be killed at the end of last season is working with the terrorists.

-President Logan looks like Nixon and runs the country like James Buchanan

-Martha Logan knows the truth but we didn't have a "crazy lady angle" this year so no one will believe her until the very end.

-"Flank 2" used to mean "deep shit" when Jack was an active CTU agent but now it means "we're cool, go ahead as planned"

What We Don't Know

-Who found out Jack is alive.

-Whether or not the mastermind behind this season cares about anything better than Russian Separatism

-If Tony Almeida will be okay

-What that guy from the Chinese Consulate is doing right now

Predictions for Tonight

-Rudy tries to keep Jack out of the field, on purpose as he is a mole

-Tensions start between Diane (Jack's new love interest), Audrey (Jack's old love interest) and Jack.

-Bahroos Araz comes back to tell Derek to "stop acting like a pussy".