{"id":117455,"date":"2009-12-28T19:50:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T00:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebuckeyebattlecry.com\/?p=4451"},"modified":"2009-12-28T19:50:48","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T00:50:48","slug":"the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/117455","title":{"rendered":"The Gift That Keeps On Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow- the &#8220;after Christmas events&#8221; are getting more and more interesting, ain&#8217;t they?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/2009\/12\/28\/1222746\/mike-leach-suspended-texas-tech-alamo-bowl\" >Texas Tech&#8217;s Mike Leach Suspended for Alamo Bowl<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Allegedly,<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/SchadJoe\" > he made a player sit in an equipment bin during practice<\/a> after the player wouldn&#8217;t play with a potential concussion. Because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2009\/10\/19\/091019fa_fact_gladwell\" >being careful with brain issues<\/a> is for losers.<\/p>\n<p>Bad enough, right? But, to take things further,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsbybrooks.com\/mike-leach-suspended-over-treatment-of-player-27494\" > the player was Adam James. As in Craig James&#8217; son. As in the ESPN broadcaster initially assigned to do color commentary for the Alamo Bowl (<em>he has since been reassigned<\/em>)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No surprise that I love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewizofodds.com\/the_wiz_of_odds\/images\/2008\/08\/21\/leach_2.jpg\" >Cap&#8217;n Mike<\/a>, and believe that his willingness to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c6brYtuPX-Q\" >speak first and think second<\/a> makes college football more interesting.<\/p>\n<p>However, if this is true, and given <a href=\"http:\/\/rivals.yahoo.com\/ncaa\/football\/blog\/dr_saturday\/post\/Next-on-Burning-Kansas-Ex-Jayhawks-hang-Mangi?urn=ncaaf,203719\" >what we saw at Kansas<\/a>, this does not look good for the Red Raiders&#8217; commander.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Begin SexyBookmarks Menu Code --><\/p>\n<div class=\"sexy-bookmarks sexy-bookmarks-expand\">\n<ul class=\"socials\">\n<li class=\"sexy-twitter\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=The+Gift+That+Keeps+On+Giving+-+http:\/\/b2l.me\/ceq7u+(via+@The_BBC)\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external\" title=\"Tweet This!\">Tweet This!<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"sexy-facebook\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=http:\/\/www.thebuckeyebattlecry.com\/?p=4451&amp;t=The+Gift+That+Keeps+On+Giving\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external\" title=\"Share this on Facebook\">Share this on Facebook<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"sexy-myspace\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/Modules\/PostTo\/Pages\/?u=http:\/\/www.thebuckeyebattlecry.com\/?p=4451&amp;t=The+Gift+That+Keeps+On+Giving\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external\" title=\"Post this to MySpace\">Post this to MySpace<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"sexy-delicious\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/post?url=http:\/\/www.thebuckeyebattlecry.com\/?p=4451&amp;title=The+Gift+That+Keeps+On+Giving\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external\" title=\"Share this on del.icio.us\">Share this on del.icio.us<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"sexy-digg\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?phase=2&amp;url=http:\/\/www.thebuckeyebattlecry.com\/?p=4451&amp;title=The+Gift+That+Keeps+On+Giving\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external\" title=\"Digg this!\">Digg this!<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"sexy-technorati\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/faves?add=http:\/\/www.thebuckeyebattlecry.com\/?p=4451\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external\" title=\"Share this on Technorati\">Share this on Technorati<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"sexy-reddit\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/reddit.com\/submit?url=http:\/\/www.thebuckeyebattlecry.com\/?p=4451&amp;title=The+Gift+That+Keeps+On+Giving\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external\" title=\"Share this on Reddit\">Share this on Reddit<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- End SexyBookmarks Menu Code --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow- the &#8220;after Christmas events&#8221; are getting more and more interesting, ain&#8217;t they? Texas Tech&#8217;s Mike Leach Suspended for Alamo Bowl Allegedly, he made a player sit in an equipment bin during practice after the player wouldn&#8217;t play with a potential concussion. Because being careful with brain issues is for losers. Bad enough, right? But, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}