So, Giants LB Antonio Pierce (who was released in February) is announcing his retirement from football. Pierce, who played five seasons with the G-men and served as a defensive captain for three, is joining ESPN as an analyst, beginning this month. (ESPN) Good for him. It's nice to have some news that's not straight from the Scandal Sheet for once.
Maybe he should get a sitcom with Michael Strahan, or be in the Subway commercials with Justin Tuck as well? (Brassbonanzatime, original source unknown)
Continuing with this off-season's plethora of bad news, USC (who was #1 on Second and One's recent list of Teams Who Are Utterly And Completely Screwed) can no longer be ranked this season in the USA Today Coaches' Poll due to the heavy sanctions imposed by the NCAA. Ouch! USC plans to appeal this decision, however.(ESPN LA)
And now to the idiocy! Did anyone hear about JaMarcus Russell and the cough syrup? Russell was recently arrested in Alabama for possession of codeine syrup, which is a controlled substance that one needs a prescription for (if I recall correctly). Russell was cuffed as part of a two-month undercover investigation which could possibly lead to more arrests. According to authorities, codeine syrup is sometimes mixed with soda to make a concoction called "sip-sip", "lean", "purple drank", or "sizzurp," terms popular in southern hip-hop culture. (Blog.al.com, Yahoo Sports, Wikipedia, darn near everywhere else). Supposedly, the stuff slows your reflexes, and makes you stumbling and euphoric (mini-Soliloquy O' Science: Codeine is an opiate, in the same family as heroin and morphine, and they generally all do the same thing to you, although codeine tends to be much less addictive). I don't know. To me, mixing cough syrup with anything and slurping it recreationally sounds like a pretty bad idea, but so does playing for the Raiders, so who am I to judge?
More to come when I get to it.
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