Broken Tackle's Weekend Wrap-up

Georgetown is in the Final 4, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is #1 at the box-office and a Korn MTV Unplugged album is climbing the Billboard charts. What kind of cultural fucking time warp are we stuck in right now?

With that in mind...

1) Billy Donovan is an idiot if he accepts the Kentucky job. This would not be upward mobility, this would be lateral. Yes, his entire starting 5 will be wearing NBA jerseys next year and yes, Gainesville, Florida is a hick town. But why would leave one high-profile job (where they treat you like a god) to start over at an equal but much more stressful and much more scrutinized high-profile job (where they'll treat you like an asshole)?

Why do head coaches do things like this? Is there something inherent in the personality of a head coach that he's always looking ahead to the next job, even if it isn't a better one? They act like the sleazy guy who takes his girlfriend to the bar and checks out every whore in the place, no matter where they stand on the [fugly --> delicious] scale. It doesn't matter if it's better or worse, it just matters if it's different.


2) The story about comedian/actor/race car connoisseur Eddie Griffin is a classic. First of all, the story is accompanied by a photo of Griffin just standing next to the wrecked vehicle with a goofy look on his face, as if this is just a normal happening. No remorse, no shame, just "Oh hey, destroyed a rare Ferrari worth $1.5 million today. Need a snapshot? No problem. Can you get a good look at the wreckage from this angle?"

But even better is the quote from the car's owner, Daniel Sadek.

"I'm glad Eddie came out of the crash OK, but my dream car got destroyed," Sadek said. "I went to my trailer for about 15 minutes and I thought, there's people dying every day. A lot of worse things are happening in the world."

Yeah, dude, I went through the same thing when someone stole my video iPod from the gym a few weeks ago. Somewhere in China, a starving child appreciates your empathy.

Waaaaahhhhh, the black guy from Deuce Bigalow destroyed my Ferrari. Waaaaaaaaahhh!


3) Rasheed Wallace. Not only makes one of the greatest shots I've ever seen in a basketball game. But afterwards, acts like he does it all the time. Jumanji!