Being a single dad these days, people ask me quite often.  Are you doing your girls hair? My response is….. Nope! The brats have braids dagnubit.

The brats daycare provider’s daughter does their hair.  As you can see, she is good. Plus, her prices are reasonable. 

Ole Sarge is good at alot of things except combing girls hair period.

Snyder denies dictator image - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - March 30, 2005

Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder said yesterday he's not the overbearing, hands-on villain that he's portrayed to be.

I always argued that Dan Snyder has gotten a unfair rap from the media.   What is wrong with an owner pulling out all stops to put a winning product on the field? If I had 800 million to buy the Redskins the media would hate Ole Sarge.  Much as I love living within the beltway boundaries.  I want to see my city to be the mecca of all sports town. With the addition of the Nationals, plus an improved up and coming Washington Wizards. I vision DC being not only as the Nation’s Capitol but the “Sports Capitol” of the free world.

It first start with the Redskins…

Ole Sarge fresh from Operation Iraqi Freedom standing in front of Fed Ex Field tailgating. 

Slow Start for RFK Naming Rights (washingtonpost.com)

If I had a few million to blow…  My proposal(s) would be…are you ready?

“The Hunter’s Lair @ RFK” or Ole Sarge Stadium @ RFK 

Ole Sarge is such a narcissist

UPDATE:

Army May Team Up With the Nationals

Service Considering Sponsorship at RFK

Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 30, 2005; Page B01

As JB Cissel  for Inside Carolina writes: (article)

The mood surrounding the team was one of happiness without being satisfied. It's been a tough road to this point, but the goal is not yet accomplished.

The first time in five years the North Carolina’s Mens basketball team is back in the final four. The previous four years I’ve witness the Heels go 8–20, 19–14, 19–11, and finally 31–4 (with a chance for ultimately 2 more victories).That 8–20 season was the darkest season for the program. Carolina fell from grace.   A year later Coach Matt Doherty (a former Heel player) was let go and Roy Williams came back home to coach his alma mater. Sort of like the prodigal son returning.  In his second year at Chapel Hill coach Williams has the Heels in a place where they belong…………………….THE FINAL FOUR….. Two more games fellas………. Lets roll in ST. Louie

Continuing with JB Cissel article:

 Rashad McCants took the microphone with one of the Final Four nets draped around his neck and hung it from the mic stand to a standing ovation. "That looks really good, doesn't it," he said to a round of cheers. "…We know for many years that we'll be able to look up there [in the rafters] and see that we are a part of history. (Pauses for applause) 

 Ole Sarge likes that Chain of Command HOOAH!

But we have important games left, and they are going to be the hardest games of our lifetimes. "But we have the toughest soldiers up here. And we have the smartest generals, and colonels, and sergeants… We aren't going to let you down… We are going to bring one of those back home." (pointing to the 1982 national championship banner. 

Damn that 82 team was great!!!! (Worthy, Jordan, Perkins). If this current crop of Heels can bring home the title. That will be no arguing about the greatest Tarheel team.  This group would get my vote.

Note:

My Washington Wizards (minus two former Tarheel players Antwan Jamison and Brendan Haywood who happens to be on the injured list)won last night in Seattle beating the Sonics 95–94 to improve to 38–30.  Great Game fellas 

How about

those

HEELS!

Final Four

 and

ST. Louie

 bound

More to follow……….

(Picture Courtesy of Inside Carolina)

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Rashad McCants’ free throw with eight seconds left gave No. 1 seed North Carolina just enough points to eke out a 67-66 win over upset-minded Villanova Friday night at the Carrier Dome. But not before the Wildcats battled back from a 10-point deficit with 3:45 remaining and nearly ended the Tar Heels’ hopes for a fifth national championship.

As I was watching this game I was thinking about 1985 the year when an underdog Villanova team  knocked my beloved Tarheel team out of the regionals and thus advancing to the final four where they ultimately played  a great Georgetown team led by Patrick Ewing in the championship game. That Villanova team which beat the Hoyas are hailed as one of the greatest Cinderella stories of all time.  Last night was the 20th anniversary of that game

With that in mind fast forward to the present. With :09 seconds left on the game clock the Tarheels were clinging on to a 3 point lead.  Villanova’s guard Alan Ray received the inbounds pass, drove the lane and banked in a runner as the whistle blew. Alan Ray probably thought he might have been fouled by the Tarheel’s Rashard McCants and would get a chance to tie the score at the free throw line,  however, the referee signaled Ray had traveled.  Thus ending any hopes of Villanova victory after they mounted a furious rally to cut the Tarheel lead from 10 to 3 in a span of 3 minutes and 36 seconds.

 Upon further review (I have TIVO mind you) He did travel! In the NBA it would have been a good play.  However, this is college and the bottom line is he traveled.  Plus, regardless of whether the refs would have called it or not. Rashad McCants did not foul Alan Ray as some might have implied. 

Quotes:

“On the play, (CBS commentator) Bill Raftery told me that (Ray) clearly did walk,” Tarheels’ coach Roy Williams said.

“I knew I didn’t foul him,” added McCants. “I felt like when he drove he wasn’t expecting anybody to be there. So I just wanted to make a defensive rotation, without a foul, and just make him be as surprised as possible.”

However, Villanova players Wright and Ray saw things differently.

“I didn’t think he traveled but it doesn’t matter,” Wright said. “There were probably other calls during the game where we got a break.”

The Villanova Wildcats played a great game. The Tarheels showed their nay-sayers (Digger Phelps ) that they can win the close games.

Lets go Heels and march on to Saint Louie………………..

Update: 

You be the judge did Alan Ray walk or not

(Click on ) The Walk

Vote on the Call

Ole Sarge needs to teach Rashad the proper way to render that salute.  Nevertheless Ole Sarge Salutes the Heels

Rashad McCants salutes the CBS announcers after hitting a three-pointer (picture courtesy of Inside Carolina)

For the first time in 5 years the Tarheels made it back to the Sweet 16 with a 92 – 65 beat down of 9th seeded Iowa State. 

Both Sean May (24 pts, 17 rebs) and Marvin Williams (20 pts., 15 rebs., 2-4 3pt.) had double-doubles, with Williams’ coming before halftime.

Next up for Carolina Friday night in the regional semifinals in Syracuse is No. 5 seed Villanova (24-7), which defeated fourth-seeded Florida, 76-65. The Wildcats tied for third with Syracuse in the Big East with an 11-5 conference record.

“We’re not going to be overconfident,” McCants said. “Villanova is very good.”

Link:

Heels Run Iowa St

 Watching some of the replay of the Congressional Baseball Steroids hearings on TV last high-school, made me Reminisce about the research  paper I wrote in high school back in 1989.  I can vaguely remember the title of report which at the time constituted 30 percent of my overall grade. Yet, the subject was about steroid use in high-school athletes. What possessed a 16 year old who at that time weighed about 135 pounds to write a paper about the steroids? The main reason why was because of an article I read in Sports Illustrated magazine about and high school football player by the name of Benji Rameriz.  The year was 1988 and Benji was a star player for his Ashtabula, Ohio, high-school football team.  Then he collapsed during practice one day, dying from what was an apparent heart attack. It was speculated back then that the Benji was taking anabolic steroids and that was what ultimately led to his sudden and painful death. Since then, and out of the respect and fairness to the family of Benji Rameriz.  The Kids Endangered Now Heart Association has a brief statement that refutes the claim of that steroids cause of death for Benji Rameriz.

The Statement Reads as follows:

“Benji's autopsy showed no trace of steroid use. In 1988, there was not as much research about sudden cardiac arrest and sudden death in youths and athletes. He has had many family members die of heart disease, including his cousin Fernando, who is shown on this site. He also died of cardiomyopathy at the age of 24, outliving Benji by 7 short years. Benji's classmates and coaches spoke very highly of him. Most people knew those that placed undetermined blame were wrong. This was proven, but not reported.”

As 135 pound frail looking fella in high-school who wanted to to play football. The thoughts ran across my mind to take steroids.  However, after that Sports Illustrated article and the additional research I did on steroids and its effects. I was scared to point that it wasn’t worth the risk. By the way I never made the football team (fact is I never tried out) . So it was a moot point.

The steroid problems in athletics has been around long before Jose Conseco wrote about baseball’s abuse in his so called tell all book.  In 1989 Congress held a series of hearings in reference to steroids. The commissioner of the National
Football League, at the time Pete Rozelle,  was joined by NFL Executive Vice President Jay Moyer and coaches Marty Schottenheimer and Chuck Noll in testifying about the use of performance-enhancing drugs and in professional football. Pete Rozelle was quoted as saying  "As is true under our policy on cocaine and other so-called street drugs," Rozelle explained, "we will not hesitate to remove those who use steroids from professional football.

Maybe Bud Selig should had taken his que from the late Pete Rozelle.