There are rituals of autumn known to every Sooner. The foliage on the state's dozen trees turn to fiery hues, the summer dust and grit coating tooth relents, and the harvest of copper wiring from homes commences before the bank's short sale.
And then there's Sooner football...
Oklahoma is led by Heisman Trophy winning QB Sam Bradford - a very
Faithful readers of and irritated visitors to this site are quite familiar with the New York Times - Thayer Evans - Jamarkus McFarland Family ménage à trois of hilarity. For a recap of the situation, please
brush-up here.
Today I came across
this offering from the Grey Lady - Internets division. Scroll down to the section entitled
The Wild Party.
A few choice items:
On Dec. 26, Thayer Evans, a Houston-based freelancer...
Thayer - Looks
Sadly, the the only part of the story of which I was legitimately proud - the Caligulan bisexual drug-raging alcohol-fueled Longhorn orgy - has been completely discredited by Chip Brown's excellent work at
Orangebloods. Chip Brown did first-rate work at DMN and it's good to see his journalistic curiousity aroused while the mainstream press naps contentedly.
Romancin': Horn style
McFiction had already mentioned that the
cocaine-fueled Longhorn
I'm paraphrasing a bit but he did have some comments:
"One-sided stories usually don't make it when sources aren't checked on the other side," Brown said. "The story has absolutely no credibility with me because the writer did the same thing exactly last year and it's obvious he has an agenda, in my mind, against Texas."
Thanks to
PB @ BON for the find at the
DMN.
A tip of the cap to poster 98 for the heads up. Outstandingly predictable snippets about Thayer's Fantasy Island article on the McFarland recruitment.
Girls Romancing each other at a Texas Football party?
The Times article included inflammatory statements McFarland had written about the recruiting practices of Texas and LSU for a senior English class assignment.
McFarland said he embellished a passage taken from the English paper
Oh.
Apparently it’s now enough to interview just two people for an article. Is it possible that those two are biased? Perish the thought!
So let’s take a look at the biggest bullshit claims.
-McFarland was a guest of OU at the game in Dallas this year. Yet somehow after the game McFarland ends up at a party thrown by Caligula. An ‘upscale hotel’ that had naked women ‘romancing each other’ and drugs among other temptations. Sure
I don't write at length here very often as I'm not much of a writer, which I will now go to great lengths to demonstrate.
This paucity of creative talent on my part is why we pay the big talent guys like Trips Right and Scipio Tex in beaucoups wampum. Chooky gets paid in blotter acid, CTJ in sportsmanship trophies and Doperbo in anything from the Clos Vougeot appellation. I'm sending it
In case you missed it, the
NYT wrote a comical hit piece about the goings on in the Jamarkus McFarland recruitment. Among the more asinine things written, were descriptions of Texas offering drug parties and interest free loans to JM in an effort to pry him away from the "little engine that could" personifying Oklahoma Sooner recruiting. I mean fuck, if a school can't offer auto-pilot grades, salaries for no work,
I've got a source that's pretty close to the athletic program. He was able to break the Muschamp
Jimbo Fisher deal days before any of the pay sites or insiders had the info. so I trust him implicitly. He's given me the blessing to post the info because it's already out there in various forms, direct and innuendo, appearing on many different boards and in different circles.
First and foremost, Jarmarkus is a great