Remember the day when our fleet footed Desean "THA1" Jackson signed with Cal over U$C?  Immediately, all the $C fans started talking about how DJ was a liar for telling Carroll he was coming to $C.  And how DJ was afraid of competition.  And how they really didn’t want DJ anyways because he just wasn’t $C material.  Blah blah blah. 

Well, it turns out that our latex Trojan friends to the south still secretly want THA1 (I mean, who doesn’t?  He’s THA1!)

Please direct your web browsers to U$C’s football website.  

If everything works out correctly, a small ad should slide up from the bottom left corner of your screen.  In case the ad didn’t pop up (you never can expect too much from anything the Trojans make), I have provided a picture (seen below) of what you should see.  In my case, I got really lucky because the advertisement banner at the top also was of the same advertisement that slides up on your screen too.

Notice anything?

I know it’s hard to see anything when your eyes are being assaulted with the awful cardinal red of their website.  But you should take notice to the pop up ad that advertises their jerseys for sale.   Specifically, the fuzzy silhouette football player in the background. 

It’s DESEAN "THA1" JACKSON!

Take another look at this picture that I blew up.

Oh yeah.  That’s him for sure.  I can’t distinguish the difference between a massacre and last year’s BCS National Championship Game, but I can definitely recognize a picture of Desean Jackson despite him being blurred, and overlayed with a sickening cardinal red color. 

Here’s the original picture that they took it from.  

Our Trojan friends down south just cropped the image, Photoshopped white paint over the Pac-10 and Nike logo, fuzzied it up, tilted it, and gave the entire image a cardinal tint. 

Yup.  $C really does have a man-crush on Desean Jackson.  I bet Pete Carroll secretly fantasizes about Desean’s feet between practices, wishing he had a 4.29 wide receiver.  Or somebody who can actually return a punt for a touchdown now that Reggie Bush is gone (U$C failed to return a punt for a touchdown last year). 

Keep dreamin Petey.  At least in your dreams he’ll always be yours. 

Mad props to George for throwing this our way.  Good lookin’ G.  

This isn’t quite the usual weekly roundup, but I do have two points I want to hit here.  First we have this report from ESPN.com:

Tennessee running back LaMarcus Coker, the team’s leading rusher last season, has been suspended indefinitely.

Coach Phillip Fulmer did not specify Tuesday what Coker had done to earn the penalty.

"He must fulfill some obligations to the program and to me before he can return," Fulmer read from a prepared statement after practice. "I have tried, as has the administration, to work with him, but at this time he must help himself."

As for what those obligations might be, I have no idea.  I’m guessing they’re academic or behavioral issues, but what you should take away from this is that the Vols are totally going to crush us.  I mean, even with their leading rusher from last year having been suspended and their leading receiver having been drafted into the NFL, SEC teams are so far superior to teams in all other conferences that even their third-stringers could crush us.  At home.  (that was 100% sarcasm)

Go Bears.

In other news, here we have a positively mindblowing interview with the man they call Marshawn.  I mean…wow.  In it, you’ll learn

• Marshawn’s favorite subject was P.E., he was the king of kickball, and he loved baby bounces.
• Marshawn’s pregame ritual is to run onto the field with his headphones on to give him one last bit of juice.
• The best bit of advice Marshawn ever received was to STAY.  IN.  SCHOOL.  And DON’T.  DO.  DRUGS.
• Marshawn started playing Pop Warner around 12, but played football in the streets even before that.
• Marshawn’s most memorable moment in college is when he got accepted.  (That’s not IN college!)
• If Marshawn could have gone to a different college, he would have gone to the University of Marshawn Lynch.  (Hey, now there’s a blog title.  What does that even mean?  This answer totally blows the kid’s minds.  There is a noticeable pause.)
• Marshawn doesn’t really pay attention to what the sports media is saying about him because the fact remains he still has to play.
• Marshawn is looking forward to playing against Ray Lewis.
• Marshawn loves to play Atari (wait a minute, he’s younger than I am, and I was too young for Atari!) and wants to serve you at Mario Kart.  With Toad.  Discuss.
• Marshawn started playing contact football because he was tired of running into the back of buses.  Also, he started off as a guard.  That’s somewhat surprising.
• If he were not a football player, Marshawn would swim the butterfly.  Okay…
• Marshawn used to play just about every other sport under the sun.  Everything but golf.
• Marshawn’s favorite thing about Buffalo is the buffalo wings he had at the airport.  Best buffalo wings he ever had!
• His favorite team growing up was the Oakland Raiders.  Shocking absolutely no one.
• Marshawn’s favorite thing about training camp is getting to stretch his tight groins.  How does stretching it feel so good when it hurts so BAD?  That’s a good question, Marshawn.  A great question.  Also, just being around his teammates.
• Marshawn never gets scared knowing that thousands of fans are watching him during games.
• No veterans have pranked Marshawn yet, though Robert Royal caught him and made him perform some rookie duties and deliver hats to each player, causing him to run all over the dorms.
• Marshawn’s special pregame meal is PBJ.  OH HELL YEAH!
• Marshawn listens to rap.  Big surprise.
• The funniest thing that ever happened in the locker room was a freestyle rap session that Marshawn was totally not expecting.
• Marshawn wears 23 because of Jordan!  Also, because he couldn’t wear his old high school number.  Mysteries solved.