Mizzou Links, 1-4-10

by Bill C. on Jan 4, 2010 5:48 AM CST in News

Another Good Day in the Pros

Jets 37, Bengals 0: Box Score
Gang Green Nation: Jets 37 Bengals 0: And We'll See You Saturday Afternoon
The Missourian: Former Tiger helps Jets secure playoff spot
The Trib (via AP): Mr. Versatility
Niners 28, Rams 6 (check out Mr. Justin Smith's line: 8 solo tackles, 3.5 sacks, 4 TFL, 4 QB Hits

Mizzou Football Links (like it or not)

The Trib: MU was up, down, up and down at last

On offense, Missouri took an inevitable step backward after replacing career passing king Chase Daniel and the team’s three leading receivers. Points per game dropped from 42 to 29, but the most striking regression came on third downs — a 36.8 conversion rate, compared to 53.4 in 2008 — and in the red zone, where the Tigers scored touchdowns on just 40 percent of their trips, down from 71 percent last season. Hailed in the preseason as the Tigers’ primary threat, Missouri’s running game became less effective in 2009, averaging just 127 yards per game, the lowest mark since 1994.

Instead, that threat was No. 81. His career ravaged by injuries, Danario Alexander wrapped up his senior year leading the country in receiving yards with 1,781, an MU single-season record and the sixth-most in NCAA history. Eight of his 14 touchdown catches came on plays that covered 50 yards or more.

On the other end of those throws, first-year starting quarterback Blaine Gabbert shook off a midseason slump that coincided with a right ankle sprain by playing like the five-star prospect Missouri recruited two years ago, including a four-game interception-less streak to close the regular season. Gabbert nearly matched or eclipsed Daniel’s 2006 passing numbers, though Thursday’s performance — two interceptions, four sacks — was reminiscent of his dreadful October.

“2010 starts right now,” Gabbert said after losing to Navy. “We’re going to use this as motivation and work hard in the offseason.”
The Trib: Border win and broken hearts
The Birddog: Texas Bowl Day 3
The Birddog: Some Scenery
PowerMizzou: Lucas Vincent shines at all-star game

Mizzou is Better Than Georgia at Basketball

StatSheet.com: Recap: Missouri vs Georgia
The Trib: You're in for a headache
The Trib: Missouri forwards measure up in convincing win over Georgia
The Missourian: Georgia swarmed by Missouri pressure
The Missourian: Bowers has career night for Missouri
Post-Dispatch: Laurence Bowers sparks Missouri to lopsided win
PowerMizzou: Forward thinking
PowerMizzou: PMTV: Another Blowout

More Leach

Wiz of Odds: Mike Leach Curses Out Adam James
Senator Blutarsky: Bob Davie isn't a lawyer; he just plays one on TV
Naples Daily News (via Senator): ESPN leaving itself open for criticism with handling of Leach dispute
Double-T Nation: ESPN is Wrong in its Characterizations of the New Affidavits
Dr. Saturday: Ruffin McNeill's Texas Tech audition has a familiar ring
Dr. Saturday: Tech fans deck the Alamodome for Leach; Tech players less sympathetic
ESPN.com (shockingly enough): Texas Tech players describe a different side of Mike Leach
ESPN.com: Tech pursuing Jets' Lynn?

Big 12 Links (football and basketball)

Rush the Court: Tiny Gallon's Not-So-Tiny Hello to America
Boulder Daily Camera: Three ways to shake up CU's offense

Goodbye from Mizzourah

Our boys at Mizzourah closed their doors this weekend. Below are their individual goodbyes ... be sure to stop by and pay your respects...

Finally, this has nothing to do with nothing, but it's potentially the best movie review I've ever read. I'm really going to miss Ebert when he's gone.

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Roger Ebert is the man

that is all

by AlaTiger on Jan 4, 2010 7:31 AM CST reply actions

Amen...

…I love that he’s responded to his voice being taken away by seizing life and writing roughly 150,000 words per day on twitter and his website.

Rock M Nation
Thrust nunchuk upward!

by Bill C. on Jan 4, 2010 7:59 AM CST up reply actions

Ebert is a titan; this is one of my favorites

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050811/REVIEWS/50725001/1023

The movie created a spot of controversy last February. According to a story by Larry Carroll of MTV News, Rob Schneider took offense when Patrick Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times listed this year’s Best Picture Nominees and wrote that they were “ignored, unloved and turned down flat by most of the same studios that … bankroll hundreds of sequels, including a follow-up to ‘Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo,’ a film that was sadly overlooked at Oscar time because apparently nobody had the foresight to invent a category for Best Running Penis Joke Delivered by a Third-Rate Comic.”

Schneider retaliated by attacking Goldstein in full-page ads in Daily Variety and the Hollywood Reporter. In an open letter to Goldstein, Schneider wrote: “Well, Mr. Goldstein, I decided to do some research to find out what awards you have won. I went online and found that you have won nothing. Absolutely nothing. No journalistic awards of any kind … Maybe you didn’t win a Pulitzer Prize because they haven’t invented a category for Best Third-Rate, Unfunny Pompous Reporter Who’s Never Been Acknowledged by His Peers.”

Reading this, I was about to observe that Schneider can dish it out but he can’t take it. Then I found he’s not so good at dishing it out, either. I went online and found that Patrick Goldstein has won a National Headliner Award, a Los Angeles Press Club Award, a RockCritics.com award, and the Publicists’ Guild award for lifetime achievement.

Schneider was nominated for a 2000 Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor, but lost to Jar-Jar Binks.

But Schneider is correct, and Patrick Goldstein has not yet won a Pulitzer Prize. Therefore, Goldstein is not qualified to complain that Columbia financed “Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo” while passing on the opportunity to participate in “Million Dollar Baby,” “Ray,” “The Aviator,” “Sideways” and “Finding Neverland.” As chance would have it, I have won the Pulitzer Prize, and so I am qualified. Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks.

by Michael Atchison on Jan 4, 2010 10:00 AM CST reply actions

What makes him special, I think...

…is that he’s not just the angry critic who hates 90% of the movies he sees. It seems like he gives well over half the movies he sees 3 stars (that’s probably an exaggeration, but not a huge one)…but when he dislikes a movie, NOBODY eviscerates better than he does. I keep up with all of his ratings, but I don’t necessarily read every review…however, every time I see him give some movie half a star or something, I make sure to read it because the review’s going to be infinitely more entertaining than the movie itself.

Rock M Nation
Thrust nunchuk upward!

by Bill C. on Jan 4, 2010 10:43 AM CST up reply actions