UCLA wants to ride 18 year old freshmen Josh Rosen to the promised land....and a bowl

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If your going to be called "the chosen one" a la Lebron James back in the Mount St. Mary's days, you better take each step on and off the field like it's all part of your master plan. Incoming true freshmen Bruin, Josh Rosen, has all the right high school credentials but the next step means taking over the starting QB role while competing against two minimally recruited Juniors after the departure of last years hit or miss slasher Brett Hundley. While Hundley did make it to the NFL, it's likely he's going to be relegated to a lifetime backup. He lacks accuracy, and the "it" factor when a play breaks down. More Vick then Manning he's going to get hurt if he doesn't protect his body at the next level.

Back to Mr, Rosen. The recipe for success in football often times means relying on the other men on the roster to do their job and that allows you to shine. Obviously the quarterback position is the focus in football but without a line to keep him upright, a running back to keep the linebackers honest and receivers who can anticipate the throws, that quarterback isn't going to look quite a shiny as he did on the first day of practice. 

Well, that all bodes well for QB1 because the Bruins are returning 6 starters on the offensive line, the top rusher in the Pac 12 named Paul Perkins and the leading contender for top draft pick in the division in linebacker Myles Jack. This all doesn't mean the division is going to be handed to them but it's a great start to a promising college career for Josh Rosen.

IOC RULES OUT VIRAL TESTING IN RIO FOR OLYMPICS

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Ok, let me get this straight. Years ago when the Olympic voting committee was deciding where to have the 2016 Olympic games the decision was made to go with Rio de Janeiro, Brazil....with the caveat that the disgusting, vile, repulsive, dirty(literally I mean DIRTY) disease infested water would be cleaned up prior to the worlds BEST ATHLETES participating in events, in the very water this is filled with all kinds of "shit" .... both literally and figuratively. 

As of yesterday August 12, 2015, the international Olympic committee has decided against viral testing after realizing that it is going to be impossible for Brazil to clean up the water to pass the original tests prior to the games....

This is all after an associated press story investigated and found out that ALL OLYMPIC VENUES WERE INFESTED WITH DISEASE CAUSING VIRUSES. DID YOU HEAR THAT???? ALL VENUES. EVERY SINGLE FUCKING ONE. THAT MEANS THE ABSOLUTE BEST, FASTEST, GREATEST, MOST ACCOMPLISHED ATHLETES IN THE ENTIRE WORLD, WILL BE SWIMMING LITERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY IN HUMAN FECES, COMPETING FOR GOLD METALS.

In order to call the water "passable" the director says they instead will be sticking with only bacterial testing. Let's just hope that the majority of the athletes we send to Brazil make it back to U.S. soil without being infected.

Ok, so this is supposed to be like the GREATEST, MOST ACCOMPLISHED, INCREDIBLE, AMAZING, ATHLETES IN THE ENTIRE WORLD RIGHT???? AND NOT ONLY ARE THEY GOING TO BE LITERALLY SWIMMING  IN HUMAN EXCREMENT, BUT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO JUST ACCEPT IT AND PRETEND "IT'S ALL GOOD"

Could someone please, tell me what incentive athletes have to attend, besides that shiny gold metal???

Red Sox look to blow another game

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With a 2 run home run in the top of the 7th giving him 2 long balls for the game David Ortiz made this laughable performance by the entire team just a little less painful to watch. After overcoming a 4-1 deficit after two innings pitcher Edward Rodriguez did something the majoring of the Sox starters routinely fail to do....shut down the opposing offense when your team finally puts some runs on the board for you. Unfortunately for Boston the positive feelings were short living as the meager Miami Marlins offense managed to bash out TEN HITS throughout the bottom of the sixth to chase the Sox young ace.

Another worrisome performance is that of Cook out of the bullpen again shatting himself while giving up 4 hits, 4 runs all earned while recording a miserable single out! His ERA now stands at a whopping 14.29 as of this writing.

Please Boston, let's get Jackie Bradley Jr back on track so we have a great group of defenders in the outfield making more then reasonable money with Mookie Betts and Castillo. Between the pair of young catchers coming back along with Travis Shaw showing some capability to compliment standout Xander Bogaerts we can finally really look towards the future without needed to acquire that many position players for exorbitant sums of money....get out there and find a #1 starter and then start building around him. I don't want to hear the name Porcello ever again, I dont care if you have to eat every god damn dollar of that stupid moronic $80,000,000 contract before his worthless ass ever recorded a stinking out in a Red Sox uniform.

AND PLEASE PLEASE BRING SOMEONE ANYONE IN WHO CAN FIX OUR FLAME THROWING 6TH OR 7TH MAN JOE KELLEY.