The Loose Ends and Links: Soon Du Bu Edition

Honestly, the combination of the New Years weekend and an exhausting week at work has me running on fumes. All I want to do is go home and eat. What will I eat you might be wondering? I will eat Soon Du Bu. It's a delicious Korean soup made with enough chili powder to burn a hole in your esophogus before it ever reaches your stomach. And to add to the excitement, they cook it in a stone bowl. This means they cook the entire bowl, bringing the temperature to somewhere around 275 degrees. That's two kinds of hot.

Moving on, looks like the bad rumor is turning into bad news in Ann Arbor as Ryan Mallett is planning to transfer to UCLA. That whole Terrelle Pryor siutation really escalated quickly. Now, the Wolverines are looking down the barrell of a gun if he doesn't show up. As reputable as the Toledo Blade may be, this seems a bit rash considering Rich Rodriguez probably hasn't even had a chance to speak to him, let alone discuss the future in any detail. I do respect the good folks of Toledo for naming their paper something a little more unique than gazette, tribute, or herald. It sounds like an expansion team. I think I will name my newspaper the East Village Burst and print it on Lime Green newsprint.

As for the other stuff we put out around the interweb, the Glide column, Story of the Ghosts, came out pretty good this week. We took the One Timers feature that shows up around here from time to time and applied it to the music world. We touched on a handful of good stuff, including Michael Franti & Spearhead, a cool movie called Once, the Disco Biscuits, Quintus, and the Felice Brothers. I think it was probably our best column yet over there - which says little. Also, the usual Thursday feature at Epic Carnival, Doc Brown's Imminent Luminaries, highlighted a 5'6" high school baller by the name of Erving Walker.

Speaking of Epic Carnival, the gang was added to this list of the Top 25 Sports blogs, which is based on actual traffic as opposed to link whoring (ahem, Ballhype). So, that is a good thing. To celebrate, we're throwing a sweet cyber dance party tonight where we will all get our Sims characters together and show off our new moves.

Finally, before we move on to the links around the Sphere, I have a gripe/request. Can the people at Yahoo! please come up with a tool to auto fill fantasy baseketball rosters. Don't ask me why, but I have three fantasy basketball teams and it literally takes over a half hour just to fill the lineups with starters with games on that particular day. How hard is it to just default to the players with games?

OK, it's Richard Linklater time. Sorry, I mean, here are the links...

The Deuce of Davenport takes a look at the playoff contenders as if they were beers. The Seahawks only wish they were Red Hook. Red Hawk is delicious. I'd say the Seahawks are more like Mickeys in the 40 cooler. It's pretty gross, but realtive to the competition, it's the best option.

Lozo poses an interesting question: Who lies about not having sex? Much like the friends in this story, I think I would be confused here as well.

MJD's 7 Deadly Sins of Sunday is always a good read as are the rest of the debriefings.

With Malice gets us pumped with this weird Japanese feat of Physical Prowess.

Mike Martz is out, the Lions still suck, and Chris is looking for a woman who can explain the possession receiver.

Ever wondered how much your favorite college basketball team is worth? Me too, but mine didn't even make the list. Come on Beilein, it's been like 2 months already. Nevertheless, Storming the floor has some interesting information on the ones who did make it.

This is kinda old, but not to me. Check out what the Dugout would have looked like in 1986 with Dale Murphy and the guys in the chatroom.

The Postmen explain why Ohio State is so good; they use motivational DVDs and crying Grandmas. As much as it pains me to say this - Go Buckeyes.

Enjoy the weekend folks. See ya next week.