By Peter Christian

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Comcast

So let me get this straight, Comcast can afford to pay $6 billion to purchase NBC from Universal but then turns around to DirecTV to say that they need MORE money from their biggest competitor in order for the satellite provider to carry the cable network that it owns? How the Hell does that make sense?

The corporate bully of Comcast has such a skewed view of ethics in the business place that Eric Gordon from “Billy Madison” would look at their corporate practices and say, “that’s effed up.”

Meanwhile, Comcast is leaving Versus (cable network that they own) to struggle for pennies on the dollar because it is no longer getting the money from DirecTV all while floundering under the big money television contracts the network shelled out to the NHL, the Tour de France and the UFL. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if Comcast next tried to make DirecTV and other cable and satellite providers pay extra to have access to NBC. Comcast’s slogan might be “It’s Comcastic” but the general public should know what their customers already know… They’re Crap-tastic.

Tiger Woods

I must say I’m amazed at how quickly the American public went from “Gasp! I’m shocked that Tiger would do such a thing as cheat on Elin” to “Meh, nothing with Tiger shocks me anymore.”

Has there ever been a quicker plummet from near sainthood to what The Sports Guy has titled “The Tyson Zone?’ I say no and I don’t think we ever will. Tiger had reached the stratosphere as a guy who was ultra competitive, came off as a bit of a prick sometimes but was forgiven for it because he was so good at his craft and was still very marketable as a clean cut, well educated, high class citizen.

Then the tabloid rumor about a mistress, which no one really put stock into (even though maybe we should start to take The Enquirer seriously), the fishy Escalade accident and then the floodgates opened. Not one mistress, not two, not five, but one million mistresses! OK, maybe not a million… but it seems like it. Every day that passes it seems like there is another woman who is claiming Tiger has carnal knowledge of her. Now I know that it’s very likely that some of these women are just saying that they and Tiger hooked up so that they can either get a pay day or be in line to make an appearance on the sure to be upcoming, “I Slept With a Tiger” reality show/Dateline Special with Chris Hansen as host, but at this point it is just overkill. Tiger is a total sleazebag. Two weeks ago, if someone were to ask, “would you feel more comfortable letting your wife/girlfriend fly on a private jet with Tiger or John Daly?” You would have answered Tiger 15 out of 10 times. Now, it’s Daly and it’s not even close.

The other thing is that when it was just one mistress or mayyyyybe two, you would still run into people that would excuse the actions. While talking with a few buddies about it, one pal let out the gem (that I’ve heard before, but I still think the saying was created for this exact situation, just a decade early), “For every smoking hot chick, there’s at least one dude who is tired of [having sex] with her.” (*I cleaned it up a bit, use your imagination).

Except Tiger has now gone too far to even be covered under that umbrella, now he is just another rich dude who doesn’t give two shits about his wife and apparently flaunts it every where he goes when his wife isn’t within the same zip code.

Tareq and Michaele Salahi

After I heard about this attention hungry couple crashing a State Dinner at the White House I initially wondered what the big deal was. Then after being bludgeoned over the head with the story about their lame lives I decided that the couple were a pair of the worst people in the world. They are a glorified Spencer and Heidi just basking in the limelight as the media showers them with undeserving coverage for being talentless, worthless to society and desperate for attention. Like Spencer and Heidi, they deserve to be stripped of the right to pro-create and should have a sack full of hammers thrown at their face. Daily.

BCS

If there ever was a organization that deserved to be the face of pansy asses everywhere, it’s the BCS Committee. That’s why no one is even remotely surprised that they chose the cop-out route by pitting Boise State against TCU in the Fiesta Bowl. Of course they were going to go the route that would most definitely eliminate one undefeated non-BCS team from any talks of controversy. Of course they would avoid the route in which two non-BCS (who happen to be undefeated as well) could defeat two other BCS conference teams (i.e. Iowa and Georgia Tech) and would thereby increase public outcry to demand a change due to potentially FOUR teams being undefeated (which is also why they pitted Florida against Cincinnati, the BCS committee thought Florida had the best chance to beat Cincy in an effort to not have a split championship). Instead the BCS took the easy road. They’ll let the non-BCS schools beat up on each other and then when fans of the winning school and haters of the BCS alike yell and shout for a new system because there are two or three (praying that Cincy beats Florida) undefeated teams the BCS will use the excuse that they put in place… well TCU/Boise St. only beat a non-BCS school in its bowl game, they didn’t beat a worthy opponent. No mention of the fact that, THE BCS DIDN’T GIVE THEM A CHANCE!

So on January 8th, when there are at least two undefeated teams (hopefully 3) save your breath about not having a real champion because there is only two ways the fans will get what they want. One is to have some big money corporation that has no bowl ties to make it worthwhile to the undefeated schools to play an unsanctioned game to give the nation a REAL national champion OR to have Congress step in, but that won’t ever happen because the BCS members, the Conference Commissioners and the Bowl representatives will grease enough palms to make the situation go away. Unless, however a school like Boise State continually gets screwed year after year until finally a Senator or Representative from Idaho decides to make a stink on Capitol Hill regardless of who tries to pay him or his buddies off. Sadly, that is our most realistic option.

Honorable Mentions:David Kahn, Kurt Rambis, Shaun Suisham, Florida Gators football, Washington Redskins,

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