Sports Notes, 12/9/07: What A Drag It Is Getting Old Edition

-- Wow. Michigan can’t possibly be used to getting turned down by one coaching candidate in a week, let alone two. The cosmic revenge for driving out Lloyd Carr has begun.

-- Speaking of the Fighting Helmets, Appalachian State will get a chance to beat another team with that nonsensical design on their brain buckets when they play Delaware (at right; photo swiped from Mark Campbell off the official U-Delaware website) in the Div. I-FCS final. This gives me a perfect opportunity to remind Michigan fans that their helmet design is not in fact unique in college football.

-- My buddy Scott, who you may remember from last week’s notes, commented the other night that Adam Archuleta “should be in jail for all the money he’s stolen from NFL teams.” Yep, that about sums it up.

-- And let this be a lesson to the rest of you: If you don’t stop by and comment on my posts, your comments are going to show up in the blog as my own.

-- Here’s why it sucks getting old: I was getting ready to go to the Illinois game at the UC on Saturday, and I found myself excitedly thinking, “I get to have NACHOS! ’Cause I don’t have anything to do tomorrow!!!”

-- Speaking of getting old, I was also reminded of how old I am this week when I noticed that Jenny McCarthy recently starred in a made-for-TV movie on ABC Family. Yes, the same Jenny McCarthy who was in Playboy when I was recently out of college. Apparently that was long enough ago that nobody watching ABC Family would remember it. (Except, technically, for me. Hey, my guilty pleasure is Step By Step reruns – what can I say?)

-- (And I know I’m the only one old enough to remember this, but Jenny McCarthy was also a pretty good high school athlete in her days at Mother McAuley, so there you have it – another Chicago sports connection!)

-- Speaking of Playboy, it occurs to me that Anna Kournikova’s career has been dead just about long enough for her to show up there any day now.