It's Official! **RANT**

George Lopez's late night show CANCELLED. Good riddance. The worst of the bunch, his tbs show had about 2 years of bullshit that I think tbs executives gave in and pulled the plug for good.

The man was a over-political (more political than the competition and just as political as Bill Maher), race-card playing idiot that deserved this treatment. Also look at the Nielsens. All of the other late night hosts had HIGHER Nielsen ratings than his show, especially those on cable (Conan included).

Sadly, every late night show these days, from Leno and Letterman to Kimmel, Conan, Handler and Fallon, are lacking some brilliant comedic material that are turning some people off. But again none worst than Lopez, who had what he had coming when his sitcom got the axe by ABC years back. Now this.

Where does he go from here? Who knows? I don't give a fuck. He could go flip burgers for all I care.

The end.

PGA Championship 2011 This Weekend!

Last year, Martin Kaymer scored his first major win at Whistling Pines. This year, it's headed south to the ATL. Hot temperatures will most likely play a role all weekend at Atlanta Athletic Club, in the last major of the year.

Notable tee times (times local to the course):
THURSDAY:
Front 9
8am E Molinari
8:50am Daly
9am Mediate
1:05pm Els
1:15pm Kaymer, Yang YE
1:25pm D Johnson, Fowler, Garcia
1:35pm Oosthuizen
1:45pm McIlroy, Clarke, Schwartzel (excellent group)
1:55pm Westwood
2:05pm McDowell, Z Johnson
2:15pm Glover, F Molinari
2:15pm Barnes, Slocum

Back 9
7:55am Scott
8:05am Cink, Cabrera
8:15am Mickelson, Toms, Singh (excellent group)
8:35am Harrington, Love III, Woods
8:45am Watson, Poulter
8:55am Furyk
9:05am Stricker, Jimenez
9:25am Verplank, Kelly
9:35am Andersson Hed
1pm Sabbatini
1:20pm Snedeker, Olazabal
1:50pm Goosen
2:10pm Jacobson

FRIDAY:
Front 9
7:50am Sabbatini
8:10am Snedeker, Olazabal
8:40am Goosen
9am Jacobson
1:05pm Scott
1:15pm Cink, Cabrera
1:25pm Singh, Toms, Mickelson
1:45pm Love III, Harrington, Woods
1:55pm Poulter, Watson
2:05pm Furyk, Choi KJ
2:15pm Stricker, Jimenez
2:35pm Kelly, Verplank
2:45pm Andersson Hed

Back 9
7:55am Els
8:05am Kaymer, Yang YE
8:15am Fowler, Garcia, D Johnson
8:25am Oosthuizen
8:35am Schwartzel, Clarke, McIlroy
8:45am Westwood
8:55am McDowell, Z Johnson
9:05am Glover, F Molinari
9:15am Barnes, Slocum
1:10pm E Molinari
2pm Daly
2:10pm Mediate

Live scoring here. Coverage Thursday and Friday on TNT, Saturday and Sunday on CBS.

London Riots (WARNING: RANT!)

We can learn a lot about a riot. Vancouver three times experienced a riot, including in June after the Canucks lost game 7. LA in 1965, 1992 and after the Lakers win a world championship. Toledo 2005. Just to name a few.  Now it's London this time.

It all started when there was reported to be a confrontation between an armed male (biracial) and police officer. One outlet reported that the man didn't shoot at cops. The man was shot and killed by cops. And some people in the neighborhood decided to tear down buildings, homes and cars for nothing. I don't get it. This city is hosting the Summer Olympics next year at this time. They don't need nothing that would hurt their image such as this. Burning cars. Looting. Burning businesses to their ashes. As a result, Scotland Yard will probably order more and more police officers on the street because they're running short. So short, even the friendly between England and the Dutch at Wembley (the primary football venue for the Summer Olympics next year) was scrapped.

People shouldn't do any shit like this whatsoever. It just hurts a city's image. Again look at LA and Vancouver and you'll see why. It makes me sick when people do this. It's all about class and morality. They need to be taught a few or just get the fuck out of here. Plain and simple.

51st 410 Knoxville Nationals this weekend!

First of all, congrats to Shane Stewart who once again is 360 Nationals champion. Rain plagued the entire weekend bunching up the heat races at the Knoxville Raceway.

Now there's another Knoxville Nationals, and this time it's the 51st installment of the 410 Nationals, starting Wednesday and featuring all your favorite heavy hitters of the winged sprint car world, including some former winners of this event.

Speaking of those heavy hitters, the Wednesday and Thursday qualifiers are here. It should be live on Speed and on kniakrls.com, where there's great live streaming too!

Shanghai 2011: A Review.

It has been over a week since the closing of the worlds, but the two weeks have been interesting. No US medals in the first week that is made up of diving and synchronised swimming. However that changed in the final week. More in a moment.

But first, the water polo. Congrats to this year's champions. Italy defeated multi-time world champs Serbia in the gold medal match. Croatia won third place. Greece defeated China in front of their home crowd to win gold on the women's side. We'll see how they'll do in London in a year.

Now back to the final week of action. The swimming. First USA medal was an open water 10k gold. And then it was on from there. USA swimming piled them up, resulting in the USA's move to 2nd in the medals race behind China (the host country).

And it also shocks me that only a couple world records fell in the swimming-in the hands of Ryan Lochte and Sun Yang, who broke the old record in the 1500m set by Grant Hackett.

What we learned from this? A whole lot. Remember swimming is usually in the second week of the Summer Olympics (if you include the midweek soccer kickoff, which is three weeks altogether), and who knows what's gonna happen in that week of swimming next year at this time in London.

Friday Jukebox 8.5.11

Re: "30 Years Ago: August 1, 1981"

Love the Buggles? I do. This is the song whose video was the first to receive airplay on MTV on Friday, August 1, 1981.

From the 1980 The Age of Plastic album, that also contains the awesome singles "I Love You (Miss Robot)" and "Clean Clean."

360 Knoxville (IA) Nationals This Weekend!

The best time of year to be a sprint car fan, no matter if it's wings or non-wings. The first of two back to back Knoxville Nationals begins Thursday night, with the 360 ci Nationals. Mostly American Sprint Car Series (ASCS) touring series drivers, this will be just the right treat before the 410s begin on Wednesday night, the 10th.

Some of the best 360 racers will be there including the "Cajun Sensation" Jason Johnson, multi-time ASCS national tour champ Gary Wright, as well as a bunch of others. Even the "Dude" Danny Lasoski, a former Nationals winner (410s), will be there too.

Here are the entries and all the lowdown, including the qualifiers on Thursday and Friday!