Lakers guard Jordan Farmar is writing a blog for Playboy while rehabbing his bum knee, and in his latest entry he talks about his alma mater (UCLA) and the potentially deadly dangers of being a sports star there. Yes, deadly. A man can drown in poon, you know.
[F]emale fans’ attention is part of the life on campus, and it’s all good. You’re young, you’re doing what you love and you get attention from girls and everyone else, ’cause they all know who you are. So it’s nice when girls give you that attention. But sometimes, the girls and fans can get a little pushy. [...]
Groupies are always part of campus life and it’s something you have to watch out for. Girls used to come to our dorm room all the time, knocking on our door, leaving off notes and propositions. [...]
And you get some invasion of privacy, like I said, they’re knocking on your door, all the time. There’s no secret where you’re staying when you’re living on campus. Most freshman [sic] and sometimes sophomores stay on campus, so they’re the ones getting hit on. [...] Until [you move off-campus], there’s notes and cards under the door, gifts, Valentine’s Day-grams, all kinds of stuff. Girls in the stands are wearing your jersey with writing asking you to marry them. Anything you can think of, it happens.
You mean there’s no shortage of hot, horny 18- and 19-year-olds who ache for you and know where to find you? That sounds awful. Just… awful. Whoa, hey, I just popped some capillaries in my eyes. Who knew you could do that from clenching your teeth?
Stressed-out UCLA students have a quarterly tradition of taking a break from Finals Week to strip down to their underwear and run around campus for the appropriately named Undie Run. And finally an intrepid reporter (Adam Rose of the LA Times’s What’s Bruin blog) went and got video of the event to capture such newsworthy events as beefcakes shushing their friends so they can talk on-camera and girls kissing each other.
This reminds me of letting loose during my Finals Weeks at Northwestern. Except replace “running in underwear” with “trudging into the icy wind along Lake Michigan in fleece-lined pants and a winter parka.” Good times. Sometimes I wonder if my college years were almost too sexy.
[Also see LAist: Best of Undie Run 2006-2008]
USC coach Pete Carroll wants his team to wear their red home jerseys at UCLA this Saturday, even though it will cost his team two timeouts during the game.
Carroll said on Monday that the Trojans would wear their cardinal red home jerseys on Saturday at the Rose Bowl. That violates an NCAA rule that requires visiting teams to wear white, and the infraction will cost him two timeouts, one per half…
“I just thought it was a really cool tradition,” Carroll said. As for losing timeouts? “I don’t care about it right now,” Carroll said. “I think it’s the fun thing to do, and I think the fans will appreciate it over time.”
The “tradition” of both teams wearing their home jerseys was last carried out 26 years ago, and USC has to win the rivalry game in order to secure their spot in the Rose Bowl. So no pressure, boys. Just focus on tradition and fun, and relax knowing that you’re not wearing white after Labor Day. That has to be a relief. Those away jerseys totally made you look fat.
This is a semi-regular thing that the Houston Rockets organization does: they have their mascot Clutch the Bear stand still for a while, then have him scare passersby who think he’s an inflatable dummy. These videos — I’ve seen a few of them now — get old really fast.
And that’s what makes this one so much better. By the end of the video, Clutch is getting kicked in the balls by kids and punched by adults. It’s probably staged, but whatever, man. Mascots getting their asses kicked always cheers me up. It’s why I make my girlfriend wear a Phillie Phanatic costume.
[Basketbawful via Fan IQ]
Eastern Kentucky played Cincinnati to open the college football season on Thursday night, and the UC Bearcat parachuted into the stadium. I think it went pretty well. In fact, he was probably trying to get caught on that wire. Mascots are always doing things like falling down and hitting themselves in the groin for our entertainment. Look! His little plush head is bleeding! What a kidder!
NCAA Football — #18 Tennessee began its season on the road at UCLA, and left 0-1 after losing 27-24 in overtime. Bruins quarterback Kevin Craft threw four interceptions in the first half alone, but rallied the team in the second half by not throwing more interceptions… After a thrilling 0-0 first half, Fresno State beat Rutgers 24-7 in New Jersey. The Bulldogs were comfortable because Fresno is the New Jersey of California.
MLB — Cliff Lee handcuffed the White Sox in a five-hit shutout that improved his record to 20-2, becoming the Indians’ first twenty-game winner in Gaylord Perry 34 years ago. Hee hee, Gaylord! … Arizona’s Stephen Drew and the Mariners’ Adrian Beltre both hit for the cycle last night, a statistical anomaly that hadn’t happened since Woodrow Wilson was president. Great job on World War I, jerk… Greg Maddux picked up career win number 345, tying him for 8th with Roger Clemens on the “steroid-inclusive” list.
Beach Volleyball — One match removed from their gold medal run in the Olympics, Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh had their year-long 112-match winning streak snapped. Don’t worry, ladies. You still have each other. (Maaaaaaaaaaaaake ouuuuuuuuuut.)
