Monday: Beamerball; Grubb; The importance of butts
The Big Three for Monday:
(1) THE HOKIES ARE PLEDGING ONCE AGAIN TO RETURN TO BEAMERBALL, making special teams progress a focus of their preparation. As Andy notes here, Tech blocked only one punt last year — just the third time since 1999 the team blocked fewer than three kicks. Also, the return game has stagnated.
(2) FLOYD NATIVE DARIAN GRUBB ACCEPTS THE BLAME for Denny Hamlin not winning yesterday’s race at New Hampshire, which the No. 11 car dominated for most of the day. “That was 100 percent my fault,” says Grubb, who misunderstood Hamlin’s desire for a two-tire pit stop and instead ordered a four-tire change. That opened the door for Kasey Kahne to win his second race of the season.
(3) INTERESTING STORY IN THIS MONTH’S ESPN THE MAGAZINE ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE BUTT to an athlete. “The outside world might not talk about them,” says the man who trained the rear ends of No. 1 pick Andrew Luck and 62 other players taken in the 2012 draft. “But for us, for athletes, glutes are everything — the absolute epicenter and powerhouse of all athletic movement. It’s all about the a–.” Here you go.
Bonus excerpt from that story that made me laugh: No one looks better in the rear view than Dontari Poe, the NFL’s new gold standard in badonkadonk. At the combine, the 346-pound nose tackle from Memphis made scouts’ hearts race after he ran a 4.98 40-yard dash in a pair of impossibly large compression shorts…The following is an actual transcript of the NFL Network’s TV feed during those five seismic seconds when Poe rendered Mike Mayock, Michael Lombardi and Warren Sapp thunderstruck.
Mayock: “You guys, look at that butt … are you kidding me?”
Sapp: “That looked so good, didn’t it? Holy smokes.”
Mayock: “I’m sorry, I’m getting all excited.”
Lombardi: “Oh … ”
Mayock: “I’m beside myself.”
Lombardi: “That butt, now that’s where you get your power from.”
HEADLINES: Youkilis says “I’m over all the Boston thing of this year” as his White Sox head to Fenway Park…Broncos’ Dumervil arrested in Miami, accused of aggravated assault with a firearm (story here)…Knicks PG Jason Kidd charged with DWI after wreck…Zach Johnson wins John Deere Classic in playoff…Orioles ace Jason Hammel out 3-4 weeks following knee surgery…Ben Sheets wins his first game in two years for Atlanta.
NAME THAT TUNE
I got ice in my veins, blood in my eyes
Hate in my heart, love in my mind
I seen nights full of pain, days of the same
You keep the sunshine, save me the rain
I search but never find, hurt but never cry
I work and forever try, but I’m cursed so never mind
And it’s worse but better times seem further and beyond
The top gets higher, the more that I climb
July 16, 2012 - 8:20 AM
Odd way to start the week talking about…butts. Mycock got excited over a man’s butt? Um, awkward?
I know women like the butts on football players, but dude, that just disturb me greatly.
Almost time for football! Things are definitely looking up. Dying a slow death waiting for the high school preview to come out. I don’t know if there are any other high school football fans like me on here or not but been really stoked about Northside for this coming season they graduated a ton of peeople last year but have dominated in 7 on 7 this spring/summer. Just how good is Burt Torrence anyway? Hey A Mac see what Robert Anderson thinks of Northside for this comin year. I really can’t wait.
Oh and as for the butt. No secret that MLB scouts love the butt too. You know a guy can have a good career as a power pitcher if he has a big butt. Even in baseball the butt is where the power comes from.
Tough day for Denny Hamlin, but he isn’t the first guy to dominate a race and come up first loser. It happens. Those guys will be a little more explicit in their communications from now on, I’d imagine. The exchange over the radio was pretty vague, all the way around.
They’ll learn the words “four” and “right side” or “left side.” It really isn’t that difficult.
They story for the year, though, is the quiet march Jr. is making toward championship contention. He’s having a really solid year. Its what happens when your car holds together week in and week out, even if you don’t win a bunch.
AM you need help dude! I bet those guys can’t wait for the omlympics and all those cute skimpy outfits.
You know if Cody Journell is coming back to the Hokies?
Oh and the song/singer: Lil Wayne – Drop the World
Aaron, notice anything else in the latest ESPN the Magazine? Thought so. Kind of passed over the article you mentioned but read in depth the story on sex in the Olympic Village especially when Hope Solo weighed in. That place turned into a brothel four years ago in China.
Holy cow! Talk about a freudian slip! Check out the spelling of “Mayock” in Trevor’s post.
I have to admit that I am not looking forward to the olympics at all. I usually like to watch but not this year. Not sure why I have lost interest but I just have.
Carmelo Anthony calls the contract offer for Jeremy Lin, his teammate, ‘ridiculous’ and openly questions whether the Knicks should match it. Gee, think Melo wants to get of Lin much? I guess wanting all the money and all the shots and all the attention can only be reserved for one guy, eh? Anthony gives every appearance of not really caring about anything but his stats and mentions in the press.
The Paterno family are barking mad. They have hired outside experts to review the Freeh report. They feel that the report was wrong and that Joe Pa have done no wrong.
I think the only reason they are doing this to protect their inheritance money through the estate.
The biggest news in NASCAR is the loss of attendance. Some tracks are experiencing 60% drop in attendance and I think overall attendance is down 38%. That’s a big dent in France’s pocketbook. No wonder, COT has taken alligence to car manufacturers out. Can’t fight in the pits or on the track anymore. Restrictor plates and engine specs have taken racing out and follow the competitor in. Go back to the old days and attendance will pick back up. France is blaming the economy, that’s part of it but it’s just plain boring right now.
Agree with Tom L, NASCAR is a joke, France’s grandfather is spinning in the grave. Let a Chevy be a Chevy, let a Ford be a Ford, etc ………Plus, stop changing the rules each week, and stop the contrived tight finishes by having cautions at the end. And finally, stop the pass around to the lead lap by the first car in the second lap, that way a bad move by a driver will really cost them and mean something.
I am confused again. Even though the Salem Red Sox were idle yesterday, today’s newspaper had no information on the Carolina League at all. There was no schedule, no Sox upday, and no team standings. Some of us care that there is professional baseball in the area.
On a positive note, thanks for the Appalachian Legue coverage. Fans of Danville, Pulaski, Princeton, and Blufield are happy. Fans of Lynchburg and Salem should not be!
Exactly Tom. Also the drivers are bland for the most part. Show some emotion and have a personality. But the sponsors don’t want that. Big money i.e. sponsorships have ruined NASCAR. A new system needs to be put in place. Not quite sure what that would be but thed drivers can’t be themselves and very good drivers can’t get a sponsor because they are not marketable. Sometimes that means older than 40 sometimes a driver doesn’t have the looks. And does anybody think Danica Patrick earned her way into NASCAR on merit? NASCAR has lots of issues right now.
From the Hokies’ Journal,
“Beamer, who enters his 26th season at Virginia Tech as the winningest active coach in college football, has shed 32 pounds since spring practice ended in April, the result of an increased exercise regimen and a new diet. He’s back down to about 172 pounds, his playing weight as a safety at Virginia Tech from 1966 to 1968.”
@shaun, TomL, that’s pretty much how I feel about pro sports in general. It have become too business-like, and that’s probably why college football is exploding in popularity.
All the team sponsors in NASCAR seem to desire is a sub-30 driver who is as bland as possible, and they somehow think that will energize marketing. NASCAR has pushed all the personality out of the sport. Beside all the WWE-type ‘coincidences’ in who wins each week, it is really boring. I can’t tell you the last time I watched more than 30 minutes of a race, it’s been a few years. If it is at a track that’s interesting, I’ll tune in for the last 20 minutes, so they can do their (almost mandatory) caution in the last ten laps to bunch the cars back up for faux interest.
Mostly, though, I don’t even bother.
Ha! Nice find, Ralph. I hadn’t reached that one yet (I always start at page 1 and go from there, usually not bypassing much in that mag). Just read it. I swear, ESPN The Mag is doing the best, most creative sports writing anywhere these days. Five years ago, I would have said that’s the most ridiculous statement ever.
HokieGal nails the song…I’m still betting on Journell returning to the team, but no announcement from Tech either way. Andy and I will have a chance to ask Beamer about that subject and others this weekend at the ACC Kickoff, so stay tuned.
crooked, what was the ‘coincidence’ of this last Sunday’s winner? I wanna here that conspiracy theory. Was it because Farmer’s Insurance was had a couple commercials near the end?
It ought to be a good one.
Actually, give me the story on the Daytona race, too, the 400. I wanna know all about that theory, too. My lights were out, so I didn’t get to see it.
Who`s gonna` believe Weaver if he says Journell can come back.
@Trevor Here’s a link to the pic of “Thin Beamer”, maybe he’s ready to strap it up for ’13?
https://twitter.com/HokiesJournal/status/224198435753033729