Florida State University opened up their season in a big way, announcing to the world they are returning as a major force in college football, thrashing the heretofore undefeated Western Carolina Catamounts, 69-0.
The Seminoles scored more points than any other Championship Subdivision team on Saturday. Their convincing win over the Southern Conference powerhouse of WCU [...]

College Football is back at the end of this month.  It’s a good thing we had all these elections and scandals to give us something to talk about since January.  UGA starts the season with an official number 1 ranking from the coaches.   I like it better when we are underdogs.
The Pros are back as [...]

If anyone cared, Michael Vick has declared bankruptcy and says he is $10-$50 million dollars in debt. Here are the bankruptcy filings, from TMZ.com.
And, yes, I read TMZ.com daily. I shall now turn in my “guy” card at the door.

Smith says Smith hired by Birds.
The Atlanta Falcons are expected to select Jacksonville Jaguars defensive coordinator Mike Smith as their next head coach, according to league sources. An announcement could come as soon as Wednesday afternoon.
Looking at Google News, it appears a done deal.
Still, who?

Poor Bobby. I am sure $14.25 million will cheer you up. This season certainly showed you are worth much more than that.
Arthur Blank was too meddlesome with the Falcons and former coach Bobby Petrino’s family was “miserable in Atlanta.” Those are the latest salvos in the continuing fallout from Petrino’s sudden departure from Atlanta [...]

“I will redeem myself!” he says.
Let’s make this today’s open thread.
Update:From the ESPN article:
By 8 a.m. Monday, about 50 people were in line outside the courthouse waiting for the doors to open. About two dozen animal rights activists stood across the street holding posters showing injured pit bulls and the messages, “Report Dogfighters” and “Dogs [...]

To paraphrase, commenter cheapseats asked Earl Ehrhart if he should be planning on buying his next boat in Alabama or another neighboring state if/when the GREAT plan passes, because Georgia sales taxes will go up 4%. Here’s Earl Ehrhart’s response:
Since we are not advocating any change in the state portion of the sales tax, [...]

From a comment by Earl Ehrhart, responding to a question by Rusty about how the GREAT tax has been polled:
I will paraphrase the question which was similar to this:

According to Whoopi Goldberg, Michael Vick thought dog fighting was OK because he grew up in the South where it’s part of what we do down here. Sorry Whoopi, but as we say down here: that dog won’t hunt.
You’d be hard pressed to find someone South of the Mason-Dizin line who thinks killing dogs [...]

Here’s Vick’s plea agreement (via the AJC).
It’s 22 pages and I haven’t read it in detail but it appears Vick has agreed to cooperate with other dog-fighting investigations and even testify in court. Prosecutors recommend minimum sentence and Vick could receive “downward departure” from the sentence (I suppose if the more he [...]

WARNING: Curse words uttered.

Hat Tip: Banter in Atlanter

Of course my ex-husband (a writer at some

I just heard on WGST that according to Billy Martin Vick’s attorney, Vick has agreed to a plea deal with the US Attorney. Vick will appear in court on August 27 and admit his role in the affair.
UPDATE: From AFP:
After consulting with his family over the weekend, Michael Vick asked that I announce today [...]

Now we’re getting somewhere… seems why animal cruelty and dog fighting laws are so lax in our state,