Happy Thanksgiving!!

In response to Connor’s post:

Ten Things I Am Thankful For:

1) Police video recordings.

2) My good friend, Jim.

3) My good friend, Steve (on the right).

4) Carolina rednecks.

5) Living in Jersey.

6) Dairy Products.

7) Tampa.

8) People with too much time on their hands.

9) People that spent more time in Sunday school than elementary school.

10) Saturday.

Oh, P.S.

Apparently, Ryan Succop has been leading the SEC in touchbacks whilst suffering from a sports hernia.

I have somehow been unaware of this until now. I hadn't heard anything since it was thought to be an abdominal strain. What a badass.

Ten things for which I am unthankful

1) Twilight and anyone who went to see it on opening night

2) Autotone
Seriously, Kanye? You're better than this.

3) Nikon commercials
Attention ad executives: No one thinks Asthon Kutcher is the essence of cool.

4) Hank Paulson

5) Mowgli Wentz
The only thing worse than Fall Out Boy? Members of Fall Out Boy having children... with Ashlee Simpson.

6) The Harper Valley PTA wing of the GOP

7) The new "At the Movies".
Ben Lyons plays a man-child easily distracted by whichever movie has the brightest lights and shiniest objects. Ben Mankiewicz delivers a more subtle performance as the former's babysitter, but in the end the audience is left wondering, "Why am I watching this?"

8) Jeff Francoeur

9) Commercials suggesting you buy your loved ones Illinois State Lotto tickets for Christmas
Here, enjoy this present that quite probably has no value

10) The Jonas Brothers
Proof that little kids will like whatever people on TV tell them to like

SEC v. Big East

I am trying to straighten out my thoughts on this one, so I thought I'd give my not well thought out two cents and then see what everyone else has to say.

Right now, which conference is better: SEC football or Big East basketball? In the coaches' poll for basketball, the Big East has #2, #3, and #4. In the AP poll for football, the SEC has #1 and #2. Both conferences are unarguably the best in their sport.

My initial reaction is that the Big East in basketball is superior. The Big East has 4 more teams than the SEC, yet is still strong from top to bottom. Last year, South Florida continually gave top teams such as UConn a serious run for their money. The SEC is also strong top to bottom, but Arkansas could play Florida 20 times and not win a single time. There are no such match-ups in the Big East.

Tigerburn is back!

A glorious tradition returns one year after it was cancelled because a vocal group of nit-wits unilaterally deemed feline combustion to be too offensive...

Rumors seem to indicate that Emmanuel Cook (S) and Jared Cook (TE) will enter the NFL Draft, forfeiting thier senior seasons. Captain Munnerlyn and Eric Norwood are also looking at the NFL, but seem more inclined to return for their final season at this point.

Giants First In League, Last In Humor

I opened this Michael Silver column on the Giants offensive linemen pranking Eli's wife, expecting a HILARIOUS account of the big uglies up front getting some laughs at that douchebag's expense. Turns out, this is the extent of it:

“It was family day at the facility, where guys have their wives and kids come out to visit, and we got ahold of Eli’s phone and sent a couple of texts,” Giants guard Rich Seubert explained. “We said, ‘Please come. It would really mean a lot to me.’ So she showed up, which was a total surprise to Eli. She had some stuff to do and didn’t really want to be there, so needless to say she wasn’t thrilled.”

Ok let me get this straight. You texted his wife telling her to be there, and she didn't really have to be there?

HAHAHA...LOL...OMG! You guys are totes funny!

FALSE...Try a real practical joke on Eli's wife...like telling her that she has to sleep with ELI MANNING for the rest of her life. Now THAT'S funny.

Gamecock Notes

The USC-Clemson game will begin at Noon ET. It will be televised on ESPN2...

I've had two dreams in the past week in which we lost. The first was a 6-3 defeat on a game-winning field goal following a goal line fumble that would have put the Cocks up 10-3... The second was a beating...

Chris Smelley will get the start at QB this weekend for the Gamecocks...

Win or lose, the Cocks look a good bet for the Outback Bowl...

Over the weekend, the Gamecocks lost an offensive line commitment to North Carolina while picking up two in-state defensive prospects (one for '09 and one for '10).