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From the Mountain Top – Sports Musings From Someone Better Than You

Hide yo wife, hide yo kids, hide yo moose. They rapin’ errerone up in herr! Or Montana.

From the Mountain Top – Sports Musings From Someone Better Than You

Did you know Texas A&M is a top tier academic institution with a top 10 football program to boot. Well, it is according to anyone who attended Texas A&M and no one else.

The Aggies (lack of) football prowess is well documented:

• one conference championship in 20 years.
• A single national title in 1939.
• Thee bowl wins over the last 21 years
• 14-19 overall in the postseason.
• Ten top 10 finishes in the modern era of football.

But at least Texas A&M is a great university right? I mean, aside from its Geosciences department:

From the Mountain Top – Sports Musings From Someone Better Than You

I thought when you reached that level in your professional life when your name was on the front door and the top of the letterhead, you could play more golf, drink more small batch, download more porn, and write witty commentary. I was wrong. But work wasn’t the only thing keeping me off my irregular article schedule. The above picture is a hint. And here’s another hint – one of those wasn’t present.

The Lady Bears of Baylor became the first men or women’s team in NCAA basketball history to win 40 games, completing an undefeated season by dominating the Lady Irish who Fight something to something Tuesday night. Dozens of people cared.

Prior to the game, Baylor star Britney Griner announced she would be returning to Waco for her senior season, passing on the opportunity to make thousands of dollars in the WNBA. On a related note, our nanny has decided to forgo an opportunity to be a teller at Weokie Credit Union in order to remain as our child’s nanny for 2012.

From the Mountain Top – Sports Musings From Someone Better Than You

As of 8:00am this morning, Peyton Manning is no longer an Indianapolis Colt. After fourteen usually good, sometimes underacheiving years with the Colts, owner Jim Irsay announced the Colts would release Peyton Manning, avoiding the $28 million bonus due Manning by the end of Thursday. Arguably the greatest quarterback in NFL history, Manning threw for over 50,000 yards and 350 touchdowns, leading the Colts resurgence as an NFL power. He missed all of 2010 with a surgery-required neck injury.

From the Mountain Top – Sports Musings From Someone Better Than You

Linsanity has taken over the sports world, probably because an Asian dude, who likes Jesus, is playing in New York and setting the sports world on fire with his turnovers scoring, distributing and game winning shots. Though not everyone is happy about the attention Mr. Harvard is receiving. Probably because he is an Asian dude, who likes Jesus, and is playing in New York.

Jeremy Lin is Tim Tebow. Except he’s actually good at the sport he plays. Plus, Lin can’t drive, scoffs at customer service and is good at math.

Yeah, I can’t do this without racial stereotyping.

Which brings me to this – why is it OK to make fun of Asians? Don’t get me wong, I am as guilty as the next white guy with a semi-regular blog column. But what PC god mandated that we can’t make fun of black people, or women, or gays. But Asians? Sure! What the hell!! It was probably Obama.