New York Jets linebacker Bart Scott trademarked the phrase “Can’t wait” earlier this year after he first said it in a playoff postgame interview, and he figured that if anyone was going to make money from the phrase it was going to be him. Of course that doesn’t count for my new line of “Can’t Wait” t-shirts that I made for armless restaurant employees. *rim shot* Thank you.

But instead of a simple line of New York Jets t-shirts, presumably modeled after Ed Hardy and Tapout for fan preference, made by Scott and for Scott’s wallet, he surprised everyone this week with an incredibly selfless and generous alternative. He’s donating all proceeds to former Rutgers player Eric LeGrand, who was paralyzed last year in game against Army in the Jets’ New Meadowlands Stadium*. It’s a pretty nice gesture, especially since Scott has never even met LeGrand.

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The Big East conference could make an argument for sending as many as 11 teams to the NCAA tournament, which starts next week. Rutgers (5-13 in conference, 15-17 overall) was not one of those, and desperately needed to make a run through the arguably the toughest conference tournament in the country to find a spot in the big dance. Last night, in the Big East tournament’s quarterfinal round, Rutgers ran into St. Johns–and an incompetent officiating crew.

Rutgers would lose, but not before having their last gasp stolen out from under them. Watch after the jump as St. Johns player Justin Brownlee travels AND steps out of bounds AND throws the ball in the stands with more a second remaining. Whether St. Johns was handed a break by the timekeeper because they play their home games at Madison Square Garden–the tournament site–or one of the referees really had to pee is up for debate, but it’s ugly. No one in the St. Johns basketball program should ever ridicule the WWE ever again. Read the rest of this entry »

Here comes your women’s basketball post for February, and we’re only showing you this either because it had the makings of a ruckus or someone got naked. Nobody got naked. Yeah, that was a horrible tease. My b.

Your poster girl is South Florida post player Porche (POOR-shuh) Grant. She’s 6-foot-2 and ready for you, and after a shoving fracas during the Rutgers game, she shot the “Big 11″ at the Rutgers student section. Bad move, Porche.

The disciplinary action came a day after Grant made an obscene finger gesture as she was escorted off the Louis Brown Athletic Center court following a flagrant foul that caused a scrum underneath the basket. Rutgers guard Khadijah Rushdan was charged with a technical foul after the incident, which saw some shoving but no punches thrown with 38 seconds to play in the Scarlet Knights victory.

–Daily Record.

No punches thrown? Come on, ladies. Curl those dish pan hands up into little fists of fury for us. Just don’t be late with dinner. It’s funny because all women know how to do is cook. And play basketball. And run Alaska.

Video at Deadspin.

Remember Eric LeGrand, the Rutgers defensive tackle who was paralyzed from the neck down on a hit? Good news, everyone; his rehabilitation process is starting to show some reward, as LeGrand can now move his shoulders and has sensation back in his body and will talk in an interview on ESPN soon.
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My condolences this morning to the #2-ranked South Florida Bulls, who faltered against Rutgers last night, falling 30-27 in New Jersey.  The Scarlet Knights turned around a heretofore disappointing season behind the running efforts of Ray Rice and a fake field goal that resulted in a touchdown, while the Bulls will most likely suffer a calamitous fall in the rankings compared to the slight stumbles that LSU and Cal took last week.

Even though I'm sad to see that this year's national champion won't be an 11-year-old upstart program from a second-tier conference, I can at least see two silver linings to this cloud: (1) The messier and more fucked-up the BCS situation gets, the higher the probability is that we'll eventually get a playoff system, and (2) if Ohio State continues their undefeated season, we get to watch them get their ass kicked by an SEC team in the national championship game for the second year in a row.

Yup, that's right: another unnecessary shot at Ohio State.  What are you gonna do about it, Buckeye fans?  Ooh, I fear your witty barbs!  Good luck typing your angry responses with those sausage fingers.

This screen capture of this weekend's Navy-Rutgers game comes from the splendid TV Tan Line (via The Wizard of Odds).

Frankly, I was going to make fun of the highlighted gentleman for being a creepy cheerleader-stalking weirdo, but then I realized: creepy cheerleader-stalking weirdos are pretty much my entire target demographic.  So instead, I've decided to make fun of his goatee.  Hey everybody!  Check out that guy's prison pussy!

But seriously, readers: your creepy cheerleader-stalking efforts are no good if you keep them all to yourself.  Share the wealth.  Because if I don't get fresh creepy cheerleader pictures on a regular basis, do you know what happens?  The gay videos start taking over.  And no one wants that.  Well, except the gays.  But they don't buy ad space.