Ok, so Mustafa is in Africa and I am going to Pittsburgh, PA for the holidays with the future Mrs. Rage’s family, which means no one is going to be posting on the Deuce for a little while. So Merry Christmas to you all and we will see you late in this year or perhaps the new year. Cheers.
It appears awesomeness is not enough to make it in the world of finance. HRJ Capital, an investment firm started by Harris Barton, Ronnie Lott and Joe Montana (EDIT:Apparently Joe Montana left the company in 2005) (HRJ get it) all formerly of the San Francisco 49ers, is about to get taken over. HRJ apparently owes Silicon Valley Bank a staggering 69 million dollars. Sixty-nine million dollars. I mean, who would’ve thought 3 ex athletes would have no idea what they were doing in the world of private equity and finance? Don’t get mad at me, even actual financial analysts say that what they were doing was pretty dumb.
In the financial equivalent of a Hail Mary pass, HRJ apparently doomed itself by using the firm as collateral on a bridge loan as it was attempting to raise $250 million. It was able to raise only about half that amount — between $110 million and $130 million — yet it had committed the entire $250 million for investments, according to a report from Thomson Reuters.“Yes, that’s just as dumb as it sounds,” wrote Dan Primack, the top private-equity analyst at Thomson Reuters, and founder and editor of the www.pehub.com Web site.
“It’s very hard to kill off a PE firm,” he said. “The significance here to me is that one is actually dying. This is an exceptional case.”
Exceptional indeed. I wonder how some of their well regarded clients like Andre Agassi, Jerry Rice, Tim Duncan or Oscar de la Hoya feel about it? I don’t care how tough Ronnie Lott or Harris Barton were in their prime, I wouldn’t want to be the one to tell Oscar de la Hoya that you just lost a few million of his dollars. Ouch.
Former Baltimore Raven’s Cheerleader Molly Shattuck has decided to use her powers for good instead of evil. She’s a mom, she’s formerly the oldest member of the Ravens cheerleading squad at 38, she’s a rich socialite, she’s hot, she’s climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and she’s active in public service. Basically, she is one of the greatest people on the planet that should make you take a hard look at your life and realize how little you have done with it. Well, she’s so amazing that she decided to show up on Fox’s television show Secret Millionaire to slum it for a week, find some needy people who deserve a break and then give them one.
In this case, Molly gave out checks of $20,000 each to two different people, a yard full of toys for a bunch of needy kids and a check for $100,000 for a lady who runs a food pantry but her own house is falling apart around her.
Amazing woman huh? This pretty much means her kids will always win the “My Mom is better than your Mom” argument right there. What has your mom done lately? What have YOU done lately? Wait…what the hell have I done lately? I mean i woulda gone and climbed Mt. Kilimanjarp but, ya know, the freakin Redskins started out so well this year, i couldn’t leave and not see their inevitable collapse. Sigh…
From RealityTV Magazine
There is no way in the world that anyone should buy this. An 800 dollar fantasy football trophy for the richest of the fantasy football geeks out there. Its the limited edition fantasy football trophy by Titlecast and they will hand craft you the finest trophy ever made for your meaningless fantasy sports league. They even have a custom made one that spares no expense, so awesome they don’t even have a price quote for it.
Dear God, if anyone actually has one of these for their league, send me a picture of you with it so I can mercilessly mock you on a daily basis.
From Uncrate
I am a huge fan of the Showtime show “Weeds”. Its one damn good witty dramedy type show right there. Its never inspired me to become a purveyor of pot however, but in looking at Corie Blount’s case before a grand jury it seems he might have been into the show more than me. Dude got arrested when police stopped 11 pounds of marijuana from reaching his grandmother’s house and, as a bonus, they found 18 more pounds of weed in his OWN house. I hope for Blount’s sake his grandma isn’t like the weed dealing grandma Heylia on the tv show, because you he wouldn’t ever want to show his face around her house again.
Holy fancy dancin Jesus that is a lot of pot. Sure its not as much as Nate Netwon who got caught with 213lbs of the sacred herb in his car, then a few weeks later got arrested with another 175lbs of the mary jane, but maybe the 3 guns and nearly $30,000 also confiscated will get him a little bit more cred in the American Professional Sports Criminals Club.
Yea i just made that club up. But if that existed, doesn’t Rae Carruth have to be the president?
From Journal News
1914-2008This has been around since the summer but it’s new to us. This must have been so much cooler in the summer when Matt Cassell was a high school starter. The last backup we saw kick it like this was Kyle Boller busting some moves for charity.
An anonymous source called this horrific. It’s so bad Emmitt Smith would probably start speaking the Queen’s English after watching it.
The 40 oz in Adriano’s lap is freezing his balls and the Special One is not amused. The talented Brazilian striker’s time may have run out at Inter Milan after he was sent home from training by manager Jose Mourinho for showing up drunk last Thursday.
Training after the defeat by Bremen was set to resume at 10.30am. The Brazilian arrived in good time but in a very bad state. The coach saw this and asked him to leave the training centre.
Gazzetta dello Sport describes Mourinho as “inevitably furious” after the incident. Adriano is obviously not aware of the damage the Special One can do when crossed. Former Chelsea striker Adrian Mutu found out after testing positive for coke. He was tossed off the team and banned from play. After several court battles, he now owes Chelsea £13.68m for breach of contract. Lesson? Do not fuck with Jose.
This isn’t the first incident involving Adriano and alcohol. He’s well known for his partying ways even back in Brazil where he fled last year after going a bit insane in Milan. Inter was nice enough to let him go back to Brazil and get his head straight. After promising to change his ways, he was pictured out on the same night with everyone’s favorite tranny connoisseur, Ronaldo.
Good times! Hope Ronaldo has space on his couch. Adriano returned this season and already has shown up to training wrecked several times in addition to being seen out in the clubs and showing lackluster effort on the pitch. It’s surprising that Mourinho has tolerated this behavior for so long but maybe he feels differently about Adriano than he did about Mutu. It’s not as though he’s the main or only option up front. Inter has the talented Swedish international Zlatan Ibrahimovic as well as the young Mario Balotelli (who is going to be a star before long). The two of them make Adriano excess to requirements. Inter would probably be best served cutting him loose and sending him back to Brazil before he completely turns into the Brazilian Gazza.
I remember watching Moscow on the Hudson when I was younger and thinking that every Warsaw Pact country resembled movie Moscow with no choices and long lines. I also thought smoke stacks filled the skylines and everything was in black and white. Good job, American propaganda but guess what. We were wrong.
The West, especially Wendy’s, owes the former Eastern Bloc a big apology. Who knew they were trying to prevent infiltration by things such as this disastrous union of soccer, fashion and 70s Germans?
Don’t try to tell me goofballs weren’t involved in this vomitorium of color and bad haircuts. If I were a Communist leader, I too would feel it my duty to never allow such nonsense into my country even at the cost of my people’s freedom. You shame Erick Honecker and Ceausescu now but that’s only because you don’t see the big picture like they did.
If you don’t know, you better ask somebody. Tony Bruno is back. For those who don’t live in the Los Angeles area or were unaware of Into The Night on local station KLAC AM 570, he’s been on the air since September. He went national last week as Westwood One launched Into The Night on 20 stations and hopefully more to come in the near future.
We’re not going to front. We’re huge Bruno fans here at the Deuce. Daulerio interviewed him back in June when he was still unemployed. It was great to finally know how he was doing however the interview was somewhat bitter and a bit of a downer like horse tranquilizers as he discussed his difficulty finding a job. He’s simply one of the best in sports radio. Of course, you may disagree but you probably think clowns like Kevin Cowherd, Mike and Mike, the Sports Junkies or Michael Kay are good.
You may remember Bruno from his days on Fox Sports Radio with Andrew Siciliano or even further back on the four letter word. Now that was good sports radio. He, along with partner Tim Cates, is in great form. There may be comparable quality in local markets such as the Sports Reporters in DC but we’ll take Bruno any day over the vast majority of national hosts.
This post is way too positive for us so let Tony debacle your ears as he gets his Shania Twain on. Yaaaarghh!!
If you don’t hate him after that, you can catch the podcasts of past Into The Night shows on http://am570radio.com. Thank us later while listening to Tony instead of whatever douche you’re stuck with now. We have no affiliation or contacts with KLAC or Westwood One. Just figure it’s good to push whatever good sports radio is left on the airwaves.
