Gotta Love Barkley

It was a Dewey week this week. Antoine Walker, Vincent Jackson and Jason Richardson all received DUIs within a few days of each other. And let's not leave out Charles Barlkey, who was stopped driving under the influence last week. The best part? He calmy explained to the officer that he was just trying to get a blow job. Hey, sorry for partyin.

But what I don’t get: you make tons. Just get a driver, bro. And what happened to the good ole days when a cop would recognize an athlete and let him slide? What are athletes not revered anymore? C’mon now. First pilots, then astronauts, now athletes? If people stop worshipping movie stars next, we won’t have anything left.

Mark Teixeira was officially introduced as a Yankee on Tuesday. Did you see this chooch at his press conference? I’m not sure, but Tex might be a Bro. He’s kind of hiding it in this press conference but the signs are there: he lets his wife decide where he wants to go, he makes corny jokes and laughs at them himself and he has a slightly annoying tone of voice. I’m saying toss a backwards hat or some gel on him and he’s a frat-bro, no doubt.

Couple things here, if you clicked on the link to see the press conference:

-He knew TWO WEEKs before Christmas he wanted to be a Yankee?? WTF!!?? How did this drag out for so long then? How come no one in the media knew this, and all thought the Sox were the favorite? And why the Hell did Boras let John Henry and Theo fly out to Texas?

-His wife told him to be a Yankee? Listen Lee, or Leigh, whatever it is: mind your business. What do you care where your multi-million dollar mansion is going to be? Guess what? IT”s GOING TO BE FIRE. It’s a mansion! You’re getting $180 million! You’re telling me you’d rather be in cramped, dirty New York than a nice mans in Brookline? OK.

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Finally, this is an interesting story out of Florida. Gators’’ defensive coordinator Charlie Strong, who is black, feels that part of the reason he hasn’t gotten a shot at being a head coach is because of an interracial marriage (his wife is white). This comes a few weeks after Auburn chose Iowa State coach Gene Chizik over Buffalo coach Turner Gill, another black man marriage to a white woman.

During that fiasco (remember Charles Barkley?), ESPN reported that two SEC coaches said Gill got passed over because of his interracial marriage.

I don’t even know what to think of this. Is it racist? And if so, against which race? It almost implies that if they had black wives they would be fine. And what if a white man going for a coaching job had a black wife? What would happened there? In my opinion, I feel like these schools would discriminate against him as well.

It’s just something about the South. The Good Ol’ Boy environment will never change down there.

And what about an Asian coach? What would happen there? Could a Chinese man marry a Japanese women and get away with it because the Southern officials wouldn’t know? This is what goes through my twisted mind when I read this stuff.

-Slick Nick (who would certainly celebrate after a touchdown, but wouldn't spike his own nuts)