Nobrainer’s Think Tank

Last the underdog Oregon State Beavers took on the BYU, uh, somethings in the Las Vegas Bowl. If you didn’t watch, you really didn’t miss anything. Billed as the only non-BCS bowl featuring top-20 teams, viewers were treated to seeing a disciplined BYU team destroy an Oregon State team that seemed to have never made it to Nevada. In other words, they shit the bed. Sadly, this is about what I expect to see Clemson do in the Music City Bowl (even though in Clemson’s case they’re favored to win by about 7 points).

Sometime, maybe a year ago, I heard Lenny Dykstra on a local radio station talking the local radio station talking about Lenny Dykstra’s transformation into an uber-successful stock picking/investing guru. He apparently appears on TV regularly, has until recently been making picks for thestreet.com, and maybe even publishing other newsletters. He even had Jim Cramer in his corner, “He is one of the great ones in this business. Lenny Dykstra.” It all sounded a bit sketchy to me. Well guess who’s just filed for bankruptcy?

The 46-year-old has no more than $50,000 of assets and between $10 million and $50 million of liabilities, according to a petition filed Tuesday with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Central District of California.

Dykstra’s filing comes in the wake of more than 20 lawsuits he faces tied to his activities as a financial entrepreneur, including The Players Club, a glossy magazine for athletes he had helped launch in 2008.

According to an April article on ESPN.com, Dykstra put his net worth at $60 million, and also owned a black Rolls Royce Phantom and Gulfstream II jet.

Thanks to Fark for the heads up.

Update: Here’s the audio I heard from 3/17/2008. The guys on the radio were really just talking about Dykstra’s appearance on HBO’s Real Sports.

Update 2: For more Lenny goodness, try reading this GQ article from a photographer who worked for him, or this ESPN article, or this DeadSpin post with some video from a more recent HBO Real Sports segment.

Rachel and I went to UT this weekend to watch the Beavs play a couple of games against the Volunteers. We had a good time and I figure I should put some thoughts from the weekend here on the blog.

• UT’s campus is not pretty.
• Their baseball stadium is nice.
• UT didn’t play too well on Saturday as they only seemed to have one good pitcher. Things got really bad in the top of the 9th when Oregon State scored 8 runs on 3 hits.
• Sunday’s game was cancelled because of snow.
• This was the first real road trip in my new car. It’s definitely a step up from the old one, and i was pleased to have averaged over 35mpg on the return trip.

This is almost downright thievery!

It also makes me wonder how games like football, soccer, hockey and basketball, which basically encourage theft, have an effect on society.

Hey, look, a cartoon.

Calvin and Who? (by the The Librarianist)
(from CollegeHumor)

Watch Oregon State’s QB lay out a lineman.

CollegeHumor has started a Gnarly 90’s section. It’s totally radical.

Hold on mom, don’t take the picture yet. I want to pump up.
(from CollegeHumor)

Things were bad for during the NIT championship game. But things got worse for West Virgina right afterward. First, they had to suffer the indignity of having shirts given to them with their school name misspelled.

Then they had to suffer the indignity of having their coach bolt for a huge contract at Michigan. Yeah, Michigan, the school that does more sucking than desperate, talentless Hollywood wannabes.

Now they have to suffer the indignity of having the world’s biggest jackass as their head basketball coach.

There is no coach in the country that I loathe more than Bob Huggins. It was worth leaving Ohio if, for nothing else, that I didn’t have to hear him on the news all the time. Still, I didn’t mind him at Cincinnati because they deserved each other. Then he went to K-State. For a year. (I bet they love him in Manhattan!) But now… Now I’m upset because I almost kinda liked WVU. That feeling is gone.

UC Sucks
WVU Sucks

And Bob Huggins really sucks.