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Fab Five of the Week

January 15, 2010 at 9:00 am | Fab 5
By: StevieY19

Hey, remember me? No? Okay, well since things have gotten a little busy I’ll be trying this out for a while. Every Friday we’ll highlight five stories you should have been paying attention to during the week.

Lane Kiffin leaves Tennessee for USC, public eats him. Wow, I hate Lane Kiffin but things really got kicked up a notch when he left UT for the left coast and USC. Students put on a “riot” that an average Michigan State student would have slept through, the media wrote some scathing pieces, and they drew dongs on rocks! Still more perplexing than all of that was the choice by Southern Cal to stick it to the NCAA and hire Kiffin. The NCAA already denied the Trojans request to self-impose sanctions (a bad sign for USC) and they hire a guy who committed a handful of violations in a very public manner during his first year as a college head coach. Predictable? No. But, perfect match? Well, no.

David Backes is an American hero. In case you don’t know who that is, Backes is a forward for the St. Louis Blues and was recently selected to represent the U.S. in Vancouver on the olympic hockey team. The Canadians are the team to beat in the tournament and the US of A will be fortunate to medal, so Backes is taking to intimidation to level the ice. In the first five games since the team was announced, Backes has been in five games and gotten in three fights… all against Canadian olympians. First he gave Chicago’s own Jonathan Toews a beating, then took on Corey Perry of the Ducks, and finally Rick Nash of the Columbus Blue Jackets. Keep it going David!

He was who we thought he was! Mark McGwire admitted to steroid use during his career and in particular in his record-breaking season where he hugged the Maris family a lot. By now if you suspect someone of steroids use, just assume they did it. An interesting issue in all of this is Tony LaRussa’s role. As a professional coach do you have the obligation to look into something if you suspect foul play? I guess it’s plausible he didn’t notice, what with the passing out in cars and such.

Agent Zero charged with felony gun possession. More like felony FUN possession, amirite? No, not really. This was idiotic from the beginning. NBA players and their affinity for guns did some warping of my mind apparently. I just thought to myself, “they should really be counselling pro athletes on how not to be batshit crazy when handling their guns,” instead of “what’s with all these athletes owning so many guns?!” Anyway, Gilbert could be facing some serious time–like Plaxico time– all over a prank. Might want to rethink that C-4 prank you were going to play on me Stormin’ Norman.

Barkley was on SNL. While being generally robotic and goofy-looking, I thought Charles was pretty funny. Here’s a good skit.