Be sure to pick up this week's Score Atlanta at any metro-Atlanta area Kroger, Blockbuster or QuikTrip. And I know what you're thinking, SBF is PRAISING David Pollack? Don't worry. I still cannot stand the guy, especially since he thinks it is the Stanford Cardinals. I didn't realize that the St. Louis baseball team moved to Palo Alto. What, Stanford shares its mascot with the official state bird of Virginia? And I'm STILL mad about the forward lateral...
Did you catch the Georgia game this past weekend? Unless you ponied up for the Pay-per-view, odds are you missed it. I realize that the University of Georgia Bulldogs headed into the game with a 4-4 record and the game was against Tennessee Tech. But come on, this is Georgia football. Pay-per-view? Are you telling me that CSS didn’t want to pick this game up? For Pete’s sake CSS showed Ole Miss against Northern Arizona University. CSS, which has several shows highlighting Georgia football, really missed the boat at getting the chance to carry the Dawgs. I am sure that there are contract issues that I am not aware of, but to me it seems as though CSS could have still had an SEC game featuring a conference team against a non-BCS homecoming foe. It seems to me like the network should have pushed harder.
Speaking of college football, ESPN’s Gameday for whatever reason decided NOT to go to the best game of the weekend, but instead to Colorado Springs, home of the Air Force Academy. Maybe the decision was based on the idea that Veterans Day was this past Wednesday and it was a salute to the Armed Forces, but I think ESPN just did not want to alert potential viewers to switch channels to CBS for the Alabama/LSU game. ESPN has tried to use the excuse before of “we don’t want to set up at a certain school’s site repeatedly in one season,” but that argument is a bunch of bull considering that Gameday regularly sets up at Ohio State and USC and Texas. Throw in the fact that ESPN/ABC just signed a huge deal with the SEC, you’d think that ESPN would want to promote its new deal. If the LSU/Alabama game had been on the ESPN/ABC family of networks, you can nearly guarantee that the gang would have been in Tuscaloosa last Saturday.
Andre Agassi was on 60 Minutes over the weekend, promoting his new book. In the book, Agassi admits that he used meth for about one year while he was on tour. This fact was revealed in an excerpt in Sports Illustrated recently and was big news on ESPN. The real humor comes in Marat Safin’s comments to L’Eqipe where the former No.1 men’s player in the world said of the retired Agassi, “I’m not sure why he did it [wrote the book]. I’ll never write one because I won’t need the money.” Umm Marat, you certainly look like you crave the attention. Safin is due to retire at the end of the tennis season and the two-time Grand Slam winner said that Agassi should give back the titles he won while on tour when he used a banned substance. Again, Marat, meth is NOT a performance-enhancing drug. Agassi wasn’t on steroids, that we know of, at least. I like it when athletes have an opinion on relevant topics, but in this case, your stance doesn’t make a lot of sense. Give back his titles? And you don’t get why Agassi is writing a book?
If you haven’t picked up this week’s copy of Sports Illustrated and you are a Georgia Tech fan, go now to your local newsstand. (Wait, do they have those in Atlanta? Really? An actual newsstand?) The Yellow Jackets are featured in a story that highlights Coach Paul Johnson’s offense. The Jackets have been living in the shadow of the Georgia Bulldogs for so long when it comes to national pub, it must be nice for Tech fans to feel a little love from SI.
V103 also carried the Falcons game last week. How did Dave FM let that happen? Apparently the coverage wasn’t very good and I’m not sure who would tune in to that broadcast when Wes Durham is calling the game. Bob Neal is an Atlanta icon, but Durham is the Voice of the Falcons. He knows the team and he has a flow about him when doing the Falcons games that is unmatched, especially by a broadcast team that is doing a one game and done production.
Finally, 790 The Zone’s David Pollack made an interesting point when broaching the DeAngelo Hall situation following last Sunday’s game between the Falcons and the Redskins. As co-host Mike Bell was calling Hall a knucklehead, Pollack conceded that point but responded that, if Hall was still on the Falcons, he’d be the best player out there in the defensive backfield. That is a true statement. Chris Houston and Brent Grimes have talent but nowhere near the talent that Hall possesses. True Hall was a cancer in his last few seasons with the Falcons, but the guy is talented. He has Pro Bowl ability and as much as Atlanta is putting team first, at some point, talent does need to be imported. Hall isn’t the guy to do it, but Pollack, as a football man, was right to recognize that despite the win Hall’s talent is missing here in Atlanta.
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