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Wonderlic scores should not be made public without a player’s permission. We in the media are in the business of reporting information, but it was nauseating that, as the draft drew closer, word leaked out last week via Pro Football Talk that prized LSU cornerback Morris Claiborne scored a four on his Wonderlic test.
Claiborne reportedly has a learning disability, which might help explain why he scored so low on the 12-minute, 50-question multiple-choice test.
Goodell sent out a memo last week threatening to discipline any team that leaks information regarding a player’s performance on the Wonderlic, and he was right to do it. What probably happened in Claiborne’s case was that a team within striking distance of obtaining Claiborne in the draft leaked the news in an attempt to dissuade other teams higher in the draft from taking him. Claiborne is going to be one of the top players taken, even with the news of his low Wonderlic. Causing him the embarrassment of posting one of the lowest possible scores on an aptitude test was unnecessary.
No one seemed to remember to give the call-in number to the audience until the very last few seconds of those first fifty minutes. But yet… presto!… within seconds, Mike Huckabee did in fact have a caller on the line! Without ever questioning how that caller could have gotten on that line in less time than it takes Obama to blame Bush for anything!
The caller…”Mike from San Francisco”… was in fact not just your average Mike.
Huckabee began this way:
“Alright, we’re going to go to the phone lines and we’ve got a call from Mike in San Francisco. Welcome to the Mike Huckabee Show, Mike.”
What did “Mike” have on his mind? He started this way:
“Well Governor, let me start by saying it’s great to have a different opinion and a different person on the radio and I’m very, very happy that you’re doing this radio show. One of the reasons why I want to listen to your program every day is because you ran for office and you’ve been a politician, you have a different perspective I think.”
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In fact, “Mike from San Francisco” turned out after some digging to be one Mike McVay, the senior vice president of programming for… wait for it… the Cumulus Media Network. None of which was acknowledged on the air by either “Mike from San Francisco” or, more to the point, Mike Huckabee.
I never could see what anyone saw in Huckabee; bad candidate, bad TV host and now a bad radio host. So he thinks he’s going to “take Rush out”, eh? Like Rush or not, there are a lot of dead bodies littering that road.
Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen didn’t take long to
step in it. The other day he said, “I love Castro”
In Miami!
After he managed the White Sox to the 2005 World Series
Champoinship, he returned to his native Venezuela.
He took the Series trophy with him & visited Hugo
Chavez to show it to him.
His mother is part of the anti Hugo opposition!
Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen didn’t take long to
step in it. The other day he said, “I love Castro”
In Miami!
After he managed the White Sox to the 2005 World Series
Champoinship, he returned to his native Venezuela.
He took the Series trophy with him & visited Hugo
Chavez to show it to him.
His mother is part of the anti Hugo opposition!
I remember when baseball was a hotbed of American patriotism. I’m feeling older by the day.
I remember when baseball was a hotbed of American patriotism. I’m feeling older by the day.
When Guillen had the White Sox, it was passed off
to Ozzie bieng Ozzie. Now he has taken it too far.
The new taxpayer paid for stadium sits in Litte
Havana in Miami.
Really a stupid move for Guillen.
I remember last NFL season Arian Foster was hurt one week so they brought him into one of the network’s sports desks. Rather than talk football, he managed to praise OWS.
True & Ozzie Guillen seems to keep crossing the line.
In 05 the White Sox won the World Series for the first
time in 86 years. My life long fan father never saw it.
On parade day Ozzie was on the podium with the Venzuelan
flag draped over his sholder by pitcher Freddie Garcia,
another Venezuelan native.
Hey the are the Chicago white Sox, not the Caracas
White Sox. People were unhappy.
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Love those old movietone bits
Grandma?
Setting aside the privacy issues, can we PLEASE stop pretending that some these kids are “attending university”?
Ahh Yes another web site that should have been strangled at birth!
LOL
Why did some of those ladies have a rather ‘glazed’ look on their faces I wonder?
LOL
@ Aussie Infidel:
Outside the dooooor, they took four mooooore?
Bumr50 wrote:
Single digit on a Tuesday AM at 6:45 EDT? Tisk… I guess everybody spent their time on the Mugabe thread, praying for his speedy recovery.
Morning all. Time to share some laughter.
Classy!
Huck the Schmuck…
@ Bumr50:
@ Mike C.:
I never could see what anyone saw in Huckabee; bad candidate, bad TV host and now a bad radio host. So he thinks he’s going to “take Rush out”, eh? Like Rush or not, there are a lot of dead bodies littering that road.
Good morning. Remember, today is the first day of the
rest of your life.
If your life sucks, it’s going to be a long day.
@ MacDuff:
It will be interesting to see how the show does.
I’ve had friendly disagreements about the number of folks on the right who subscribe to Huckabee’s brand of Republicanism.
I don’t think there’s much of a market demand for him.
Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen didn’t take long to
step in it. The other day he said, “I love Castro”
In Miami!
After he managed the White Sox to the 2005 World Series
Champoinship, he returned to his native Venezuela.
He took the Series trophy with him & visited Hugo
Chavez to show it to him.
His mother is part of the anti Hugo opposition!
Bumr50 wrote:
Clinton, Huckabee, who knew being governor of friggin’ Arkansas was such a springboard to the big time?
RIX wrote:
I remember when baseball was a hotbed of American patriotism. I’m feeling older by the day.
@ RIX:
Hey! Remember when I asked you if you were in the “Clinton Airport” a few weeks back?
Voila!
Someone must’ve been listening…
@ Bumr50:
The only airport in America with an on-premisis whorehouse…
@ Iron Fist:
“Bubba’s Brothel”
next door to
“Blue Dress Dry Cleaning”
Health-care law will add $340 billion to deficit, new study finds
Imagine that! Of course this figure will only go northward.
@ MacDuff:
When it comes to these numbers, I’m quite honestly numb anymore.
@ MacDuff:
When Guillen had the White Sox, it was passed off
to Ozzie bieng Ozzie. Now he has taken it too far.
The new taxpayer paid for stadium sits in Litte
Havana in Miami.
Really a stupid move for Guillen.
@ Bumr50:
And Little Rock has the Clinton Museum.
@ RIX:
Athletes and politics rarely mix well.
I remember last NFL season Arian Foster was hurt one week so they brought him into one of the network’s sports desks. Rather than talk football, he managed to praise OWS.
@ MacDuff:
Figure on it being about at LEAST 50% of all budgets in 5 years after it’s implemented. You better hope the SCOTUS strikes down that law.
@ Bumr50:
Too stupid to realize that as a pro football player he is the 1%? Someone should relieve that fool of his money…
@ Bumr50:
True & Ozzie Guillen seems to keep crossing the line.
In 05 the White Sox won the World Series for the first
time in 86 years. My life long fan father never saw it.
On parade day Ozzie was on the podium with the Venzuelan
flag draped over his sholder by pitcher Freddie Garcia,
another Venezuelan native.
Hey the are the Chicago white Sox, not the Caracas
White Sox. People were unhappy.
Later Gators.
@ Iron Fist:
@ Bumr50:
“Positive” example! Ha! They say they want a Revolution…
Iron Fist wrote:
A revolution?
“……you say you have a real solution, well you know, we’d all love to see the plan”
MacDuff wrote:
Cloward–Piven strategy