Tuesday: On “blocking” and getting haircuts at a Sport Clips when no sports are on
AROUND THE BLOCK: Virginia Tech wideout Marcus Davis responds to the criticism he’s been getting for that video of him loafing in the blocking game against Florida State. Meanwhile, the Hokies are unsure about Michael Cole’s status moving forward after the Cave Spring grad was diagnosed with a cervical neck sprain against FSU.
GOING GREEN: Erick Green ties his career high with 25 points as the Hokies improve to 2-0 with a 69-50 victory over Rhode Island. Tech hosts VMI at 7 p.m. Thursday.
THE BIG D: Virginia holds Fairfield to five field goals in the second half to score a 54-45 win in the NIT Season Tip-Off. At 7 tonight, the Cavs host Delaware, led by former William Fleming standout Jamelle Hagins.
BCS TICKET: The best team from the Big East, Mountain West, Conference USA, Sun Belt or Mid-American Conference will get an automatic spot in the BCS to play a team from the Pac-12 or Big 12.
OFF EASY: Jeff Gordon is fined $100,000 and docked 25 points for intentionally wrecking Clint Bowyer on Sunday at Phoenix.
COSTLY WIN: The Steelers beat the Chiefs in OT but lose quarterback Ben Roethlisberger to a shoulder injury.
ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK:
Today is the 24 hours of college hoops deal on ESPN. Northern Illinois is facing Valpo as I type this. The marquee game is Duke vs. Kentucky in Atlanta at 9 p.m.
SPEAKING OF WHICH: This might be the only day when the whole “Sport Clips” barber shop idea makes sense to me. If you get your hair cut there on a typical Tuesday at 2 p.m., you get to watch, what? ESPNNews?
ANGRY NERDS: Fantasy football players become incensed when Yahoo’s site goes down about an hour before kickoff of Sunday’s game. Good luck with commissioners sorting that out.
YOUTH IS SERVED: Mike Trout becomes the youngest AL Rookie of the Year honoree, nosing out Martinsville High School grad Lou Whitaker (the 1978 winner) by 2 months and 26 days. Bryce Harper becomes the second-youngest NL Rookie of the Year.
AND THE SKIPPER, TOO: Interested to see whether Buck Showalter or Bob Melvin gets AL Manager of the Year tonight. Hard to argue with either choice. That’ll be announced at 6 p.m. on MLB Network.
NAME THAT TUNE
Warm bodies I sense
Are not machines that can only make money
Past perfect tense
Words for a feeling and all I’ve discovered
I’ll be along son with medicine supposed to
Designed to make you high
I’ll be along son
With words for a feeling and all I’ve discovered
Old, bad eyes
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November 13, 2012 - 8:54 AM
I’d like to see a video compiling clips of actual Marcus Davis blocks. Or, are they about as rare as legitimate Bigfoot sightings? The world may never know…
Another solid effort from Hokie hoops…I like what I’m seeing. They may not have a ton of success this first year with Coach Johnson, but they seem to be playing the right way and doing the right things to be successful.
I likewise don’t truly get the Sport Clips concept. Yeah, if you get your hair cut there on a weekend or in the evenings, I suppose it works. But, I wouldn’t know, I haven’t had enough hair to jusify paying someone to cut it since 2006.
Marcus Davis will give full effort for an entire football game just after Stinespring masters offensive football strategy.
Hokie basketball’s real season begins in January. Let’s hope they work out the kinks in the system prior to then.
Jeff Gordon didn’t get suspended for a race because he’s Jeff Gordon. Here’s the list of drivers that will never be suspended, even if they pull out a gun and shoot another driver, in order – Dale Jr., Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart. It’s a fact of life in NASCAR. IIWII.
I missed the BCS announcement. Anyone have a link?
AM, how about Kezlowski’s fine for the cell phone in his car? Can you imagine pulling along side someone at nearly 200 mph and look over to see them driving with their wrists as they are texting someone? I know he was doing no such thing but I can’t get that image out of my head…funny stuff. What’s not funny is that I see plenty of idiots out here on Colonial Avenue doing just that, only at 25 mph or so but all the while paying no attention to whats in front of them. 25,000 dollars sounds about right for them too.
I found the info on the ‘Group of Five’ conferences. It’s for the playoffs in 2014 & beyond, not the current BCS.
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8624387/six-bowls-pool-college-football-semifinal-games
Maybe the sportclip management might think about putting their clipper girls in uniforms to rival the Hooter girls. That would make reruns of old sporting news and ESPN Classic more appealing to the masses on an average Tuesday afternoon.
I read that Keslowski was also fined for having his cell phone in the car. I wonder if he wasn’t the points leader by 20 points if he would have been docked points? My guess is yes since NASCAR rarely dishes out a fine without points too.
The Sports Clips thing is a joke to me. If you want to put a TV up while I’m waiting that’s fine but I’m not there to spend all day getting a haircut. I’m not into paying double for a haircut either just so I can watch TV. Now if the barbers/stylist have a special thing going on like a strong resemblence to Kate Upton and maybe they are sans upper clothing, I might be interested. Of course I wouldn’t be allowed to go there anyway so that wouldn’t be any good either.
In reading about the NASCAR fiasco, I discovered a name from not too long ago. Dustin Long, who formerly served the RT parent company as a NASCAR reporter, and whose services were terminated in a decision to rely solely on wire reports for NASCAR coverage outside of the two Va based races, has found a home. Dustin Long is now a NASCAR columnist for Sports Illustrated’s website. I don’t know how soon this occurred, but I just learned of it.
Congrats to Dustin, who was a quality reporter. The RT’s fans’ loss is Dustin’s gain. He’s far better in the long run, and if NASCAR fans didn’t already know this, you can find him on the SI website.
Is no one going to comment on the case of Bernie Fine and the irresponsibility of ESPN today? I didn;t see any reaction yesterday either.
While it might be understandable that any accusations of misbehavior draw a huge response when it piggybacks on something like the Sandusky business it doesn;t change the fact that ESPN (and most of us) rushed to judgment on Fine.
We owe Fine an apology for jumping to conclusions (and ESPN owes him big time) and we ought to pledge to do better in the future.
OG, I’m surprised that Nascar didn’t dock Keslowski points to go along with the fine just to even things up between him and JJ going into Homestead, you know, just to give the Chase some more juice here going to the wire.
Like your Sportclip idea even better than mine….but like you I couldn’t go either. A haircut is not worth what it would cost after the other finds out where you got it.
Marcus Davis is the master of looking lethargic. He went to the Randy Moss school of receiving, only Moss could catch the long ball. Davis appeared to volleyball spike the one long pass into the turf on Thursday night…
Dustin Long also writes for CBS Sports, I think. He’s a great ‘follow’ on twitter
I only have two rules about haircuts.
Rule #1 – The barber/’stylist’ cuts my hair like I want & it doesn’t make me look any uglier than normal.
Rule #2 – The person cutting my hair is an attractive female that is younger than me, and that looks good in a pair of well worn jeans or black leggings.
Point of clarity – each rule earns the ratio of importance based on its’ numerical value. To be precise, Rule #2 is TWICE as important as Rule #1.
Inconsequential addendum – If the person cutting my hair can shave my neck and/or face (i.e. – a barber), the point values triple. As long as they’re female and look good in a pair of well worn jeans.
If the Hokies weren’t thin on experience at WR, and they didn’t need to rely on the passing game to move the ball, they could bench Davis. But, with DJ Coles lost to injury and an experience gap between the upperclassmen and everyone else, they’ve really got no other option. And, it’s hurt. His lack of effort has contributed to yards not gained because his assignment is free to make a tackle. His drops also have taken away yards at critical moments. I truly think (at least I hope I’m right on this) that if VT really had a better option, they’d be using it.
The most current image of Davis blocking I have is Fuller catching a crossing route, being tackled near the right sideline by 2 defenders. One block would probably sprung him which he didn’t get. As he goes down there are Davis’s legs in the view where he has been the whole time without making a move. Made no effort to block at all. Before the FS game I mentioned moving Davis and Roberts down to backup. Still do.Have a good looking great barber, fills the jeans out nicely, and her top. Shaves the neck with a razor, a plus. The only problem is her significant other is a professional wrestler so anything close to inappropriate is out of the question, he is a “big” boy.
CR, on your rule no.1……
What’s the difference between a bad haircut and a good one?
About two weeks…..the amount of time needed to make me look not quite as ugly from the original hatchet job.
Song is Pillars of something……dunno who it’s by.
HD, I get my hair cut monthly, and I get it cut almost military short. Actually, the cut I get is called an ‘Ivy League’ or ‘Princeton’ cut. Think of Anderson Cooper, only not that gray/white haired.
My request is that you do the fundamentals. Like a shortstop who can turn the double play and not ground out every time at bat. Or a point guard who gets 3X the assists to turnovers ratio. That kind of thing. I’m just asking for a 4.5-4.6 40 yd dash from a skill player, not a 4.27.
I tip like Floyd Mayweather, and I don’t expect much, except conversation and smiles from the gal in the well worn jeans.
What’s a bad haircut? Too much poured into the jeans,or not enough. Shape my hair to my head, and don’t finish in ten minutes or less.
One day I’m afraid I’m going to be an old perv like alot on here seem to be lol. I’m only 28 so I’ve got time I guess, but I prefer to look at the females in well worn jeans back at my house not in the barber shop.
Anybody that doesn’t take advantage of any & all opportunities to look at gals in well worn jeans, wherever they might be, well that guy is obviously… a wahoo.