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    Gender: Male
    Location: Cincinnati
    Orientation: Straight
    Children: Don't Know
    Body Type: Average
    Religion: Mind Your Own Business
    Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
    About Me: I host the midday show on 1530Homer, weekdays from 9:00 - Noon. I've been working at Clear Channel Cincinnati since 1997 in about 7,000 different roles, none of which you would find interesting. I grew up in New Jersey, but moved here my senior year in high school. Long story, but I'm not bitter. I was the only kid in the Garden State who grew up rooting for the Bengals and Bearcats. I went to the University of Dayton and am still in debt because of it. I live in beautiful Sharonville.
    Music: Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters, A Tribe Called Quest, A long and embarrassing collection of songs on my iPOD. Then usually back to some more Springsteen.
    Movies: Rocky Movies 1,2,4 and6, "Hoosiers," "Clerks," Rambos Movies 1,2, and 4, "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," the first half of "Full Metal Jacket," "Can't Buy Me Love," "Eight Men Out," "Juice," "Ocean's 11, "Death Proof," "The Departed,"GoodFellas," "SuperBad," "Dazed and Confused"
    TV: Letterman, anything in HD, up to an including the Food Network, "Rachael Ray," "The View," "The Today Show," That Fox Sports Net highlight show where they show highlights instead of the ESPN anchors auditioning for late night TV gigs, "Family Guy," "The Hills," any VH-1 show where 4th rate actors and comedians who can't get on Comedy Central make smart****, ironic statements on any and all subjects, anything on opposite Oprah, oh and "According to Jim," only because the fact that Jim Belushi makes the kind of coin he gets for being on that wretched show and playing that cliched character highlights what a wonderful country we live in.
    Books: "If At First" by Keith Hernandez, "God Save the Fan" by Will Leitch, "Loose Balls" by Terr Pluto, "Amazin,'The Story of New York's Most Beloved Baseball Team," "Dream Team," by Lewis Cole (greatest basketball book ever written) "Tales from Q-School" by the self important John Feinstein, anything written by the immortal Roger Angell.
    Likes: UC Bearcat football and basketball, Mets, Bengals, Knicks, and the UD Flyers, Great American Ballpark, Pizza from Fratellis, HDTV, the use of the word dillweed, beer. The Cotton Candy guy at Fifth-Third Arena. Pancakes.
    Dislikes: Louisville. The Yankees. The Steelers. Tom Glavine. Mike Scioscia. Yadier Molina. Tom Kleinscmidt. Joe Montana. Jarrod West. Any adult infatuated with Disney characters. Successories. Douchebags. Man-hugs. Bluetooth headsets. Smalltalk. Guys who call me "bro." Sports stags. Beer snobs. Anybody with the sticker of the kid peeing on the logo of the brand of car opposite of what they drive. #1 Fan Foam Finger Guy. Ushers over the age of 85. Wedding DJs who think everyone's there to see them. Mall kiosk workers. The guy at Jiffy Lube who tries to sell you all sorts of stuff and makes you come look at the filter when all you want is an oil change. The guy I used to sit in front of at Bengals games who thought he knew every play that either team was going to run. The girl I dated in college. The girl I dated in college's parents. Poker on TV. Skinny beards. Quotations at the end of e-mails. Chain pizzerias. French toast. Haircuts that cost more than 12 bucks.
    Hobbies: I need some.
    Vices: I need some of them too.
    Virtues: The only two that matter.... 1) You get up to take a leak during a game, you wait until there's a normal break in the action. Between batters, during a timeout. Never, EVER, when it's 3rd and goal from the one. 2)If in the course of walking past me, you knock over my beer, you owe me another one, provided it's more and a third of the way full. 3)Bernard King should be in the hall of fame. This is not even up for debate.
    Heroes: Charles Oakley. Mookie Wilson. Bernard King. Dominique Wilkins. Jeff Query. Darnell Burton.

    ED WHITSON

    Monday, January 5, 2009, 08:22 AM EST [General]

    CHELINA MANUHUTU'S NAME IS FUN TO SAY
    And the Dutch model is fun to look at.

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    ME TELLING YOU WHAT TO WATCH
    7:00:  College Hoops on ESPN.  Tenth ranked Georgetown and number 13 Notre Dame.  The Hoyas were flat out pounded by new number on Pitt on Saturday.  The Irish were shut down by a bad (Norm Roberts in the coach, they're bad) St. John's team at the Garden.

    8:00:  Ohio State and Texas play in the Fiesta Bowl on channel 19.  Seeing how the Buckeyes might use both Pryor and Boeckman will be interesting, but I'll be spending my evening wondering if Colt McCoy's parents knew he'd be a quarterback at Texas when they named him.

    8:00:  The City on MTV..  This is Whitney Port's new show.  Whitney leaves The Hill's, a show about a bunch of big city rich girls who do nothing of substance and date douchebags to star in a new show where a bunch of big city rich girls who do nothing of substance and date douchebags. 

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    THIS IS WHY PHIL MUSHNICK IS THE BEST COLUMNIST IN AMERICA
    From today's New York Post....
    .....Despite 22 people in motion at once and hundreds of variables, TV wants you to believe that everyone operates alone, from inside a lab, inside a test tube. TV producers believe it, so should you.

    Late in the Colts-Chargers game, headed for the wire, NBC asked us to stop paying attention to the game in order to consider a graphic - the Chargers' record in games determined by "eight or fewer points." Why not show us a kitten pawing at a ball of yarn?

    .....Saturday against UConn in the International Bowl on ESPN2. Hamlin caught a pass at midfield, then began to exalt as if he'd just won the game and captured Constantinople. His team was down 11 with 4:31 left.

    He mentions a kitten pawing a ball of yarn and capturing Constantinople in the same column.  Tre-freaking-mendous.  Good God we need this guy here.  Even if he'd hate me.

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    BOB KRAVITZ HAS APPARENTLY NEVER BEEN TO CINCINNATI
    Tony Dungy has been in Indianapolis seven years.  He's been the the playoffs seven times.  That type of success in Cincinnati and we rename the damn city after you.  That type of success apparently gets you run out of town by the local columnist in Indy.

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    RACHEL STEVENS DECIDED TO POSE FOR FHM
    According to Wikipedia...

    Rachel is an English singer, actress and occasional model. She is a former member of the successful pop group S Club (7), and launched a solo recording career in 2003, releasing seven singles and two albums in the UK between 2003 and 2005. In 2008, she came second in the sixth series of the BBC One series Strictly Come Dancing with her dance partner Vincent Simone.

    Oh.  Anyway, here she is.

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    YOUR 2008 NATIONAL CHAMP

    Their most famous alums might be Bob Trumpy and Ted Bundy, but the Utah Utes are college football's national champion.  Florida and Oklahoma are competing for second place.  Only in college football can a team do everything it's required, win all its games, and still not be number one.

    Dan Wetzel puts it better than I could ever try.

    Why didn’t Utah merit consideration to play for the BCS national title?

    Why are the Utes, despite their 13-0 record, victories over four Associated Press top-25 teams and the champions of a conference that went 6-1 in the regular season against the Pac-10, watching one-loss teams Oklahoma and Florida play on Thursday?

    Just ask some of the voters in the Harris Interactive Poll, which helps determine the title-game matchup.

    “I did not see them play (in the regular season),” Bobby Aillet said.

    “I didn’t see any live games,” Lance McIlhenny said. “I just (saw) highlights.”

    “I don’t recall if I saw them play specifically during the regular season,” David Housel said. “I don’t remember a specific game.”

    Even by the absurd standards of the BCS, having voters not bother to watch an undefeated team play a single game is a new low.

    Amazing.  The people who help determine which teams get to play for the championship didn't even bother to watch a team worth of consideration play.  Hold whatever grudge you want agains the NCAA Basketball Selection Committee (and I still do after 2006) but those people watch games.  They're locked in a room and they watch games.

    You've got your "most exciting regular season."  You also have a joke of a way to determine a winner.  Olympic gymnastics is more legit.  Nice sport.

    (Go Sooners.)

    My man Larry Brown disagrees.  Too bad he's wrong.

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    TRESSEL:  MORE GATORADE BATHS > LEGIT CHAMP.
    The excuses for not determining a true champion get lamer and lamer.  Including this from Jim Tressel....
    "You saw a bunch of coaches getting Gatorade poured over their head when they were 8-5. That's great. And I worry about the physical well-being of the student-athlete, not about missing class. This is a violent game, and what if something happens in that high-powered (playoff) game because someone wants to know for sure," who is No. 1.

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    IRONCLAD RULE OF THIS BLOG #45
    Gymnast dudes failing = comedy gold.

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    TODAY'S EDITION OF JOBS I WANT
    I have a cool job.  This guy has a cooler job. He's a freaking beer writer.  A beer writer.  That job doesn't even really exist.  I've never been more qualified for something.  Anyway, I bring this up because the guys at Tasty Booze have found Roger Protz's 300 Beer To Try Before You Die.   Since some are saying the world is gonna end in four years, I've got some work to do.

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    WILL 2009 GIVE US MORE BUSH?
    No, not him.  Or the overrated Saints running back.  Her.

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    MONDAY TOPICS AND OTHER CRAP

    Kind of nice to be back to the normal schedule today.  Get the week started with Sarah Shahi, who's on something called Life on NBC.

    Good of UC to stay within five touchdowns against Marquette.  What a brutal game.  Forget making the postseason.  Forget winning nine Big East games.  Forget winning a game.  Can we have back to back possessions where the Bearcats score?  Good God, when is Mike Williams gonna start playing?  Why does the team's best player not know what the defensive gameplan is?  We forgive youth and inexperience, but Mike Williams played in his 72nd college game yesterday and gave the Cats five and three.  Deonta did not score, and defense to just about everyone on the team, is just a rumor.

    -What does Bill Cowher know that we don't?

    -NFL Playoffs....since 1991, the Arizona Cardinals, (the freaking Arizona Cardinals!) have won two playoff games.  The Bengals, none.  San Diego/Indy was a classic.  Normally a playoff game where the punter is the best player on the field is a snoozer.  Not Saturday night.  Anyone betting against Baltimore?

    -I don't think Charles Barkley should be fired.  But I do think there's some merit to this.

    -Edgar Sosa picked the worst possible moment to be relevant again.

    -Only four more days before Oklahoma and Florida play in the National Runner-up Game.  Or the the third place team if Texas happens to win.  Speaking of, anyone excited for that Fiesta Bowl?

    -Know what would open up a new round of Brian Kelly speculation?  This.

    -Why is everyone so willing to dismiss the idea of Chris Dickerson as the everyday left fielder?  Yes, he has an injury history, but doesn't Jerry Hairston as well?  And we'll touch on adding Andruw Jones for $400,000.

    -This is outstanding.

    -I'm for reshaping the BCS, but I'm not sure we need to tangle up our courts with ways to fix it.

    -College football has that great regular season its apologists keeping talking about, but the day that used to be all about college football has been ruined.

    -22 more days 'til the new Boss album.  Yee-haw.

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    CHICO WALKER

    Friday, January 2, 2009, 04:39 PM EST [General]

    TIM TEBOW PLAYS FOR THE BEARCATS?

    (Thanks to Awful Announcing)

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    Back after a long day getting back from Miami, encouraging you to suspend your Friday night plans and listen too 700WLW 6-9 as I fill in for P-Doc.

    We'll have some reaction from last night, and someone will hopefully explain some of the playcalling.

    Looking forward to a normal schedule on Monday, which will include some normal blogging.  In the meantime, enjoy the Charles Barkley police report, the coolness that is this...

    and perhaps you can explain to me what the hell is going on here.

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    BEARCATS v. HOKIES

    Thursday, January 1, 2009, 08:44 PM EST [General]

    Greetings from Miami.  The is so freaking cool.

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    LENNY RANDLE

    Wednesday, December 31, 2008, 08:49 AM EST [General]

    NEW YEAR'S EVE TOPICS AND OTHER CRAP
    Short and sweet today.
    -Thom Brennaman from Miami at 9:00, Va. Tech play by play guy Bill Roth at 10:00, Tommy G at 11:15 all from Miami.

    -Hello Neumann.

    -Honestly, a little disappointed in the amount of Orange Bowl talk from UC fans.  We got more reaction to Bengals topics yesterday.  Today being the last show before the Biggest Game In School History 5 I'm hoping for more.

    -What's kinda odd about this game is that UC at least nationally, is the unknown, is the new kid on the block, yet they should win.  Agree?  Anything about the actual game itself stand out.  If the Cats can get out to a lead, they really should be ok, though they'll have to do it in the air.  That being said, this is a team that didn't handle leads too well.

    -UC loyalists v. Bengals loyalists.  We mock one, we celebrate the other.  Why?

    -Some are actually saying it's not a big deal if the Cats win or not?  Really?

    -I will share with you the text message I got from another man at 3:50am from Miami that makes me question whether I even want to make the trip.

    -And we have emial foibles to share as well.  What happens when you accidentally send an email with a picture of a woman you think is smoking hot, claiming she's smoking hot, to the woman who's smoking hot, when it was intended for someone else?

    -These Stacy Keibler pictures aren't new, but I'm not sure anybody really cares.

    -Is there a better peer pressure day than today?  No one really wants to go out tonight, but when you're asked what you're doing, you'll make something up or force yourself to overpay to do something you don't want to do.  Seriously, $40 to go to a party?

    -Someone forgot to tell Charles Barkley that tonight is the night to get hammered and go for a spin.

    -Yeah, this will get me interested in the Pro Bowl.

    Blog has been kinda weak this week.  Filling in down the dial and getting ready for the Orange Bowl broadcast has takes away precious blogging time.  C. Trent and I will both be blogging from the Orange Bowl, then I'm looking forward to getting back to normal.

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