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I haven't known a hell of a lot about St. Louis Rams wideout Isaac Bruce until now. To me, he's been a guy who won me some Fantasy Football money back when he was one of the top five receivers in football. I know he won a ring with the Rams, and lost another at the hands of the Patriots. I know he had a 1,000 yd season last year, but he's 35 so was probably going to go untaken in my Fantasy draft later tonight. But today Bruce became arguably my favorite non-Patriot NFL player. Here is what it says on Bruce's blog, under the title "Perseverance:"

Troy Brown intrigues me. Here is a person with three (3) Super Bowl rings, which means he's been to the pinnacle i.e. the mountaintop at least three times and brought home the prize. It's a feat in which every National Football League player past and present has played this game. Troy is entering his 15th season with the New England Patriots. He is an integral part of the once again favored Patriots. He can do it all: punt returner, wide receiver, and line up as a gunner on the punt team. I even raised up out of my stance to find my safety and corner and you guessed it, it was Troy Brown playing corner. Troy is very well known, not just in the New England part of the country, but also around the league for his blue collar play. Troy's STORY is much more intriguing than his glory that he now possesses. You see, Troy was released by the Patriots early in his career. ...Why do I admire Mr. Troy Brown? ...[H]is ability to thrive in a cut throat business and he always gives more than is asked of him. There are many who get caught in the numbers game or are placed on that so-called "waiting list", but they never quit and never give up (a slogan that I've added to my daily meditation).

I will not be defeated and will not quit.

I'll grant you that when it comes to stylish prose, Issac Bruce is no Uncle Buck. But you can't argue with his sentiments. Any guy with that much class, and who's that perceptive about Mr. Patriot, who flat out gets it that much, has a spot on my FF roster any day. (I found this linked on Mike Reiss' blog.)

SFGATE.com - The "High School Musical" franchise could be rocked by a nude scandal -- teenage star Vanessa Hudgens reportedly once took naked photos of herself to tease co-star and boyfriend Zac Efron.The 19-year-old's alleged candid mirror-image shots were intended for Efron's eyes only, but the National Enquirer suggests the photos are about to start circulating in cyberspace after a third party got hold of them. A source, who claims to have seen the snapshots, tells the National Enquirer, "Shooting into a mirror with her camera phone, she took photos of herself naked except for a gold chain around her waist."

If I had to pick one subject over the past couple months that I’ve heard more about without really having any clue what it is, it would have to be High School Musical.   I haven’t got a freaking clue what it is or who watches it or why it’s so popular.   But if High School Musical means chicks taking naked pictures of themselves with their camera phones wearing nothing but gold chain belts, count me in.   No wonder it’s so popular.

Hollywood Reporter - - BRISTOL, Conn. -- After such ratings and creative successes as "Playmakers" and "3," ESPN is taking a timeout from the scripted business. With the end this week of the eight-part miniseries "The Bronx Is Burning," nothing else is planned or likely to be green-lighted any time soon, ESPN executives said Thursday. Instead the company will spend more time on its bread and butter sports properties and news-oriented shows while announcing plans to run selected documentaries.

So they did get my letter...Another venture outside the comfort zone of sports has failed ESPN and one can only hope they learn their lesson and focus on sports-alone from here on out. It's not that these mini-series/movies are any worse than the same thing you'd see on Lifetime network, it's just that Sports fans have been beaten over the head with ads and promotions for "The Bronx is Burning," "3," "Playmakers" and other shows while all we want to see is a freaking ball game. They are reportedly going to be focusing more on documentaries with the money that would normally be budgeted for crap like a ballwashing Steinbrenner bio-pic. Maybe they'll finally do that SportsCentury on Marty Barrett or Reggie Lemelin.

Well this is interesting to say the least.  A couple people sent me this link and didn’t even mention the fact that the guy called out UB.  Seems like an important detail right?  Therefore, my jaw hit the floor when I was watching this.  I started looking around my living room to see if there were any hidden cameras around or worse yet that the Jets fan was somehow sitting in my bedroom or something.   But I guess I have nothing to worry about.  This is UB’s deal.   I’m waiting with baited breath to see what kind of bet these two bozos (UB included) conjure up on this week’s game.     Maybe a Youtube wearing the other teams shirt talking about how great the other team is?    Come on let’s help out UB.  What can he realistically bet this clown? And more importantly would you be slightly scared if you were UB?

Since no one here at the Stool can ever be criticized for being politically correct it's hard to bust on Jerry Lewis for dropping his "illiterate faggot" comment on the unsuspecting viewers of his telethon. UB thinks it would be pretty tough to be 81 and have to remember what not to say, when just 50 years earlier "illiterate faggot" was no big deal. Having said that, it was pretty funny to see the guy responsible for breaking up the Rat Pack screw up on national television. From now on when UB says something he shouldn't have he's just going to turn and say "NO!" and walk away flustered.

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So I was watching a little of the Tennessee vs. Cal game on Saturday Night and couldn’t help but notice that people were living in the trees right behind Cal’s stadium.   Yeah, I said people living in the trees.  Apparently all the hippies at Cal are pissed at the school’s plans to cut down a bunch of trees behind the stadium in order to build a new training facility for its student athletes.   So the hippies did what any good hippies would do and that is they put their ninja gear on and started living in the trees to prevent construction.    They don’t seem to care that the University planted the trees in the first place back in 1923 when they built the stadium or that they promised to plant 3 trees for every one they cut down.   None of this matters to the hippies who have lived in the trees for 9 months.   Now keeping this in mind I’ve got to say that Jeff Tedford probably has the hardest recruiting job in America.  I mean what do you tell a prospective blue chip athlete when he comes to campus and sees the stadium?   “Hey son, that’s where the new weight room will be once we shake those damn hippies out of the trees.  You’re just going to have to ignore their annoying songs and the strong odor for the time being”     I can only speak for myself but if I had to choose between dealing with hippies in trees or partying in the ocean with the USC song girls, I think I’d go with USC every day of the week and twice on Sundays.

Sun Online - - MANCHESTER United are to quiz star striker Cristiano Ronaldo after he invited hookers back to his home for a poolside orgy. The five girls travelled 60 miles by taxi from Leeds to Ronaldo’s home on the outskirts of Manchester to party with the players, who were celebrating United’s first victory of the season against Spurs this week. The girls spent around six hours romping with Ronaldo, his team-mate Anderson and several other men in the pool, Jacuzzi and changing rooms.

Good for Ronaldo. Why the hell not, right? You've got some cash, you're in a country that gives a crap about soccer...Why not spend some money on some high priced trim. Think about it, most guys want to hang out with chicks who are sexually uninhibited so why not bring in some pros. UB did a little research into the McKenzies Escort agency based in Leeds and two things really stood out:

• There is a section for Bi-Escorts that features 19 of the 26 girls. That's almost 75% of the chicks you hire are up for playing with the other chicks you hire. Even Manzo would like those odds...
• They have a section for "Escorts over 30." Do you know how many chicks are over 30? Try none. That is smart business.

First of all you got to kind of expect this type of story from a place called Tippecanoe, IN.   It just comes with the territory.    More importantly I kind of feel like the mom got a bad rap here.   I mean what did the authorities want her to do?   Drive drunk?   Not take percocets and Vodka in the first place?    Come on, let’s be realistic.   The way I see it the Mom had three options once her kids started acting up.  #1 She could beat the hell out of them #2 She could make a percocet/vodka cocktail and drive drunk the rest of the day or #3 she could make a percocet/vodka cocktail and let her son handle the driving duties.    I think we can all agree she made the right choice.    And frankly I admire her honesty.    She’s not going to sit here and bullshit us that she took the percocets for medical reasons.  Her kids were acting up and she needed to relax.   But it’s not like she didn’t take the proper steps to find a designated driver.   She handed the keys to her 3 year old son.    I don’t get how you can be arrested and hailed as a hero by the MADD people all at the same time.  It makes no sense.

You know that commercial Nike keeps running where they have LaDainian Tomlinson running roughshod over the Chicago Bears defense? LT revealed the other day that the opposing team was orginally supposed to be the Patriots, but Tomlinson thought better of it. "I told them, don't use New England." Tomlinson said.

The Bears are ripped about it. They open the season against the Chargers Sunday, and they're all sorts of fired up. “We're pretty excited for next week because of that commercial,” said Bears DT Tommie Harris.

But Tomlinson isn't worried. He shrugged off the idea of giving Chicago bulletin board material with “Oh yeah, that's expected. It's all fun and games though.” So apparently LT's concern about cheesing off an opposing defense begins, and ends, with the Pats. The Bears? They're just a football team. Tomlinson knows he can handle them.

Smart move. No team in sports history has been better at finding slights, real or imagined, to motivate themselves than the Pats. If that defense had to sit through repeated viewings of a bunch of union actors in Patriots uniforms flopping around helplessly after Tomlinson, they would've dismembered him when the teams meet in Week 2.

So let's get this straight: Right after the Pats beat San Diego in the Divisional Playoff, Tomlinson says the Pats are classless. Days later, he reiterates what he said and calls them everything but terrorists. At the Pro Bowl, Belichick has one coversation with him, and Tomlinson starts confessing his manlove for the Hooded One. Now he's the world's leading advocate for respecting the Pats. Can there be any doubt Belichick used a Jedi Mind Trick on him?

I understand that the kids today like their text messaging and mobile devices but so help me God, if some band of hipster douchebags ever has a shopping cart race in a supermarket I'm in, I will kill every last motherfucking one of them.

When it comes to shopping cart races, there is one rule- take it outside. Indoor shopping cart racing is for pussies. Real men race in the crowded parking lot and dodge cars driven by 90-year old's.

If anyone is in a supermarket and sees some hipster pushing a shopping cart at anything over 1 mph, feel free to ram your cart at full speed into his legs. Because nothing says "please stop ruining my shopping experience" like a compound fracture.

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Who do you want to Wake Up with? Ub@barstoolsports.com