The Stankoniforous Files

 The person in question this time is no other than Cam Newton, the front runner and presumptive Heisman trophy winner. 

The word is that a man claiming to represent Newton said money had to exchange hands for Newton to consider their school, Mississippi State.  Stank-0 won't bore you with the particulars.  The "request" was passed up the food chain to the athletic director (AD), Greg Byrne, and that's as much as is known. 

This has to worry the Heisman group mainly because they just went through this with Reggie Bush just two months ago.  The NCAA must be concerned as well, unfortunately they've tied their own hands here.

The problem is that the NCAA refuses to acknowledge that collegiate athletics (namely football and basketball) is big business.  You are talking about young men on the verge of becoming multimillionaires overnight.  The prospect of landing one of these young men as a client is worth the risk for an agent or an athletic program.  One of these highly touted young men could take your team to the promised land or to a national title. 

They are not the same.  The promised land is the point when your school/program is the place everyone wants to play.  That usually results in a national title which makes your school/program the place everyone wants to play...a positive feedback loop ensues. Coaches get new salaries, new facilities, new perks.  Schools get new facilities, more money from boosters, more primetime games, and more money in general. The "student"-athletes get more exposure (read: TV time) which can raise their draft stock (read: they can make more money). 

The NCAA obviously doesn't take this serious because they have a grand total of 8 investigators.  As in more than 7 and less than 9 to cover collegiate sports. What exactly are they expected to find? 

Shout out to Music Snob for the heads up

D Rose bangin on fools. From the game going on right now against the Knicks in Chicago.



Someone got Dragic'd, fa real.

Eric Gordon (EG for short) dunkin with reckless abandon.




The other one is on Timmay



Po lil tink tink.



KG musta got tired of controversy over what he said to Villanueva and took it out on Bogut.

 Since Werd's post referencing last weekend's action, Randall Gene Moss was placed on waivers by the Vikings.  The reason is because of some remarks about some post-game meal catered by a mom-and-pop's place.

Moss had a profanity laced tirade about how he doesn't eat such food now that he's rich.  It did not go over well with the team. Stank-0 can see the anger that such remarks would garner, however, is that sufficient to cut a man that has since helped your stagnant offense get on track? Moss was drawing consistent over-the-top help even though he's 33 and has a history of lackluster effort.


In any case, fans of every team across the league imagined what life would be like with Moss on their offense.  When it came time to claim Moss off the waiver wire, 21 teams passed on him.  This is eerily similar to how the draft went for Moss.

Now the Titans have claimed Moss off waivers. Stank-0 has a feeling that this is Moss' last reasonable chance to play in the NFL. This is Moss' Buffalo.  He has to be a model citizen if he wants another chance on another team.  The spotlight is squarely on the Titans but Coach Fisher can manage Moss' personality if he was able to keep VY on task. Britt probably cannot wait to heal up and play on the other side of Moss.  It's possible that he could score 4 TDs the next time he takes the field.

In the postscript for this bewildering experience, the Vikings are taking shots at Moss. Percy Miracles is probably crying is his car right now.  Moss opened up alot of things for Percy.

Kye Allums is the NCAA Div 1's first openly transgendered player. This is quite an achievement, but it will raise some questions if this becomes widespread.  How does this affect scholarships, eligibility, etc.? That doesn't even speak on the misunderstandings amongst teammates and opponents. 

 In this case it is a trans man playing women's basketball. Stank-0 understands Allums identifies as a man but physiologically is Allums a woman or a man?  Fundamentally we have a man playing women's basketball.

At some point, questions will come as to whether Allums should be allowed to play on the women’s team. Losing his scholarship was a real concern for Allums just six months ago as the task of fully expressing himself while still playing basketball seemed overwhelming. As he’s educated himself, that fear has dissipated.

According to Royer, as long as Allums does not accept hormone treatments, he is eligible to participate in NCAA women’s sports.

This is fascinating. Stank-0 hopeful that more transgendered people decide to participate in Division 1 sports.

(h/t to Music Snob for the heads up)

There's a lot to cover this weekend. Let's begin with a simple fact: 6 of 8 division winners last year are in 3rd place in their division this year.  SD, Arizona, Indy (2nd), Cincy, Dallas, Minny,and NO.

Let's begin with some surprises.   The Bucs and the Chiefs are both 5-2.   This Sunday the Chiefs visit the Raiders in a game that could decide the division.  I'm not quite sure we aren't in an alternate reality, but I'm sure Stank-0 is thrilled.  The other surprise team, the Bucs will face off against the Falcons in a game that could decide the NFC South.  This season makes not a bit of sense. 

Favre got knocked out of a game, literally.  Which largely knocked out the Vikings chances of winning the game. Then Randall Gene Moss had some very frank comments during his post game conference.  There';s speculation that Moss could be released. This could ultimately cost Childress his job.  Due in large part to the owner being irate that after all he did to bring Moss in that Childress is letting him go.  This doesn't help Minnesota's season that is starting to spiral out of control.

The Cowboys are playing for draft position now after the Jags blew the doors off them.  Too talented to have one W thus far in the season. Romo is out 6-8 weeks, this season is a lost cause. The only way the Cowboys will be in the Super Bowl is on Madden '11.


Can we call the DROY for Suh right now?  His line was unreal.  He had 2 sacks on consecutive plays, 5 tackles, and a game winning fumble return for a TD. The kid is a meast. The Skins have their own controversy.  A certain Mac-5 was benched for Turnoversaurus Rex Grossman who promptly fumbled to Suh to end the game, on his first snap.

Switching gears, the Oregon Ducks offense is a 2 minute drill for 4 quarters.  That has to be tiring. That kinda pace just wears down defenses and SC was looking real gassed by the 3rd quarter.  Which may explain why the Ducks dropped 53 on 'em.  That's a low scoring basketball game not a football score.

Lastly the World Series is largely over with the Giants taking a commanding 3-1 lead in Game 4.  I only know this through Twitter because I was watching a highly entertaining Steelers @ Saints game.  That game had playoff intensity and it showed with the hits.  Folks were getting hit stick'd out there.