With March around the corner, I thought I would call attention to a handful of interesting items. Also if you are bored feel free to check out my blog on ranking the sports months and see where February and March get ranked
– ESPN this week got rid of Sean Salisbury but added two Buckeyes. Bobby Knight and Chris Carter will join ESPN and will cover NFL and college basketball respectively. Chris Carter’s son, Duron Carter, is one of the 2009 top receivers in the country and has had an influx of scholarships come in as of late.
– It was merely a week ago I commented on street fighter, Kimbo Slice’s rise to fame. At the time I was cautiously optimistic on just how much further Kimbo could penetrate American pop culture.
Today CBS announced an agreement to televise 4 two hour events per year for the next several year. A lot of analysis on why CBS would pick Pro Elite fighting over the more established UFC points to A) Viacom’s prior relationship with Pro Elite B) the demand for Kimbo Slice.
As I stated earlier, I am not a MMA fan by any stretch of the imagination, but just find if surprising to see such a rapid ascension in sports media and such an infatuation with Kimbo.
– The Terrelle Pryor Sage is picking up steam again. Pryor made a surprise visit to Ohio State this past weekend. By all means it was a positive trip as Pryor seemed to enjoy sitting with fellow recruits, synching up with Coach Tressel and Daniels, as well as enjoying the crowd’s chants of “we want Pryor”. Rumor’s have Pryor visiting Penn State this weekend which may in fact be his last visit as he is iffy on the need to visit Oregon.
– Speaking of recruiting, this link is a map of the countries top 100 recruits via Google Maps. You will have to zoom in, but it’s pretty damn cool.
– Lastly big props to Indiana for giving Kelvin Sampson the boot
