On the same weekend that former Brady Quinn receiver (hee hee! -Ed.) Jeff Samardzija made his debut at Wrigley, Notre Dame football coach Charlie Weis led the crowd in "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" — only Cubs fans didn't seem to get the lyrics quite right. They replaced the first couple of lines with robust booing.
This marks the first time in recorded history that Cubs fans have done something cool.
Legendary quarterback Joe Montana is suing his ex-wife for auctioning off love letters and various thingamajigs from his college days at Notre Dame. From The Smoking Gun:
Montana, 51, claims that the sale of the assorted items–which were auctioned last weekend by a Dallas, Texas firm–violated his copyright and privacy rights. In a U.S. District Court complaint, Montana names Kim Moses, his first wife, and Heritage Auction as defendants. As seen on the following pages, the collectibles offered for sale (which apparently were consigned by Moses, the athlete's hometown sweetheart) included Montana's freshman I.D. card; the Moses-Montana 1974 marriage certificate; a letter to Moses penned on a Ziggy card; an "I Love You" note; and a letter Montana wrote to Moses's parents describing his first year on the Notre Dame football squad.
In what is probably just the sweetest thing ever, the Ziggy card has Ziggy sitting by himself on a teeter-totter, and Joe (aka "JoJo" in the love note) made sure that Ziggy had a thought bubble that says, "I miss you!" Poor Ziggy. Always so lonely. Someone oughta take him to the strip club. Nothing cheers up friendless losers like a lap dance.
Notre Dame's Wade Korpi took a line drive off his dome during his start last weekend against Rutgers, leaving him on the ground for about five minutes before he walked off the field under his own power. When asked to comment on the play, he said, "Butterfly jelly banana good hammer."
After a drunken argument that ended in a bar brawl an enlightened discussion with some classy Notre Dame fans at the tavern last night concerning the match with DePaul today, I placed an ill-advised call to my local independent businessman this morning to support my vainglorious boasting with my pocketbook. Alas, my beloved Blue Demons let me down yet again as the Fightin' Irish defeated them 98-91.
"From the get-go, we've kind of bounced around a little bit trying to understand who we are, what we can do well," DePaul coach Jerry Wainwright said. "I feel where we good about where we're headed. We have to get better; we just have to get better."
Uh, what? At least he feels good about where the team's headed (I think that's what he was saying), while I feel good that I don't have to save money for retirement because DePaul's penchant for making games close will certainly cause me massive cardiac arrest. Oh well, if you don't want to send me money, send some so With Leather staffers can send the Chief to meet the Power Rankings leader:
ScarJo is raising money for the charity OxFam with an auction on eBay that begins tomorrow, March 3, the Sunday Mirror reports. Oh, did we mention that the highest bid wins a date with the silver screen siren? The winner will accompany Scarlett to the June 2009 red carpet premier of her upcoming film, He's Just Not That Into You.
Just mark the envelope Jameson Fund c/o KD, I'll make sure it's used wisely. -KD
ESPN sideline reporter Jack Arute (try saying it "Jackaroo" — whee!) seems to be a little oblivious to terminology that entered the popular lexicon via Friends a decade ago. John Walters writes,
The most disturbing image [from Saturday's Notre Dame-Stanford game]? ESPN sideline reporter Jack Arute describing how Charlie Weis likes to deviate from his scripted plays at the 8-minute mark of the first quarter. Arute informed viewers that Weis' wife, Maura, describes her husband's ad-libbing as "going commando."
Thanks to 289 and his Photoshop skills, I won't be able to fall asleep for the next couple nights. So let me stress something here: CHARLIE WEIS DOES NOT ACTUALLY GO COMMANDO. He has cast iron underwear that are never removed from his body. They get cleaned when he walks through a car wash every day.
That's what I'm going to keep telling myself, anyway. Gah. Fucking 289. That much FUPA should never see the light of day.
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I asked 289 to put together a photo compilation to help us with all the firings and hirings in the world of college football, and he kindly put together the above image. As you can see, Houston Nutt's (top left) insane rambling about Darren McFadden couldn't save his job, and Nebraska's Bill Callahan (bottom left) also got the ax. Also, Mike Sherman (sleeping) has been hired to take over the vacancy at Texas A&M, while Les Miles is widely rumored to be in line for Lloyd Carr's vacated spot at Michigan.
Also in that image, the… um, Duke guy, and… whatshisface from Georgia Tech were fired? Sure, whatever. In addition, the depraved intensity that is Ed Orgeron has been banished from the state of Mississippi, while Notre Dame's Charlie Weis has also been dismissed.
What? No one's fired Weis? Ten-year extension? Man I don't understand college football at all.
