I know exactly one person from Alabama, and he happens to be a fellow sports blogger. So hopefully he’ll comment on this post an let me know interchangeable the term Roll Tide truly is.

Today, ESPN rolled out yet another hilarious commercial and the Worldwide Leader was gracious enough to put it on YouTube and Facebook before it premieres on the network tonight.

According to ESPN’s YouTube description, “Roll Tide” is a universal expression among ‘Bama Nation, versatile and applicable in nearly every situation as a greeting, farewell or standard cheer or praise.”

After seeing this, I think it clearly works best in drunken best man speeches

Props to the ad firm that cooked this up for ESPN. And check out this ESPN Facebook thread of college rally cries.

‪ESPN Alabama Roll Tide Commercial‬

Michigan State football players, does a $420 shopping spree at your local Best Buy make up for not going to the Rose Bowl?

This week, SportsBusiness Journal released the slate of swag that each player on participating teams will receive at each bowl game. Remember to TwitPic a photo of yourself doing the duggie in a Fossil watch and Ogio Cooper backpack in Glendale, Cam Newton.

Mostly, the rewarded will receive cool electronics (iPod touch, XBox 360, noise canceling headphones), watches, sunglasses, and then random stuff – like a Christmas ornament if you’re playing in the New Mexico bowl.

The most intriguing to me are the vaguely listed ‘gift suites,’ which Sporting News’ Chris Littmann informed me on Twitter means a bunch of vendors set-up shop and it’s a shopping spree. However, the NCAA sets a monetary limit for each player, which Littmann believes to be $500, so it’s not an all-you-can-grab buffet, apparently.

Head over to SBJ to see the complete list, here’s my Top-5 pieces of booty:

1. Sony Gift Suite (Insight Bowl, Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl, Udrove Humanitarian Bowl)
2. $420 shopping spree at a local Best Buy Gift Suite (Capital One Bowl)
3. Apple iPod touch (Texas Bowl, R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl)
4. Nikon S70 touchscreen camera (GoDaddy.com Bowl)
5. Tourneau watch (Discover Orange Bowl)

(photo via)

2010-11 Bowl Swag (Sox & Dawgs)

Link Bombast!

And be sure to check out the Bombastic Scooter Club of Tri-Cities Washington. Their rides include “a little caffeine, beer, or wine – and of course, two-stroke smoke.”

Regardless if Favre Returns or Not, Jets are Screwed (Moondog Sports)
Let’s call those science people (This is Illuminati)
Bar Refaeli in a bikini on the beach (on205th Magazine)
AskMen.com asks you to rate the top 99 women of 2009 (Banned in Hollywood)
MLB Network Launches Today (Sharapova’s Thigh)
Colt McCoy’s Girlfriend Rachel Glandorf Gives Out High-Fives At Fiesta Bowl (Busted Coverage)
Chris Clemons Destroys Tarvais Jackson (Intentional Foul)
Dead Baby Thrown Out in Hospital Trash (Gothamist)
Antoine Walker Busted For A DUI (Barstool Sports)
Ghostface Killah: GhostDeini the Great (Pitchfork Media)
Texas Wins An NCAA Playoff Semifinal Game! Unimportant Fiesta Bowl (Awful Announcing)

Hurling doesn’t fool around when it comes to discipline. This makes Roger Goodell’s dealing with Pacman Jones look like permissive parenting…

A LENGTHY 96-week ban has been handed down to [John Cussen] following an incident in the west Limerick team’s county junior A hurling championship semi-final win over St. Patrick’s.

Cussen was charged with “bringing the game to disrepute” after he joined in a brawl that broke out in the final quarter of a game between Monagea and St. Patrick’s. Order was eventually restored, and the game finished with Monagea prevailing.

Kenneth Dawson, of St. Patrick’s, was also banned for 12-weeks for abusive treatment of a match official.

The Competition Control Committees of Irish Hurling do not take these incidents lightly. Last May, eight players from teams in Cork and Clare were suspended for a match following a brawl. Cussen’s ban of nearly two years was pinned on him by the Limerick Competition Control Committee. No mention if an appeal to Hurling’s Central Competition Control Committee will be sought.

New York: MTA’s planned cuts include everything from station agents to entire train lines (NY Daily News)
BCS Extension Really Stinks (The Sports Lounge)
Top-10 Eagles That Have to Go (Epic Carnival)
He’s Back: Stephen Curry Picks Up Where He Left Off in March, Scores 44 in Loss to Oklahoma (The Big Lead)
TNT Employs Current Players To Insult Barkley In New Commercial (Awful Announcing)

The people have spoken, and an overwhelming majority (45%) believe that Johnny Depp would be best served portraying Al Davis if he chose to delve into the sports biopic genre of cinema. (good call by Isaac on the submission)

Goodman as Madden. The dude whose playing Biggie Smalls in Notorious as Art Shell. Let’s get this thing greenlit!

Feel free to make other casting suggestions in the comments. Thanks to everyone who submitted and voted in the poll, be on the lookout for another on Friday!

Hollywood’s Top Up and Coming Actresses (Gunaxin)
If Sports Blogs were Chicks… (The Sports Dollar)
Holtz Quits ESPN, Replaces Col. Klink at Stalag 13 (Moondog Sports)
The Roots To Be Jimmy Fallon’s Band; We Are Old And Sad (via Pop Candy)
Obama Declares War on the BCS (Intentional Foul)

I don’t like it anymore than you do, but let’s be honest, cold, blustery, wintery weather is imminent. Taking the bad with the good, Metro printed a round-up this morning of exotic ski locations for winter sport enthusiasts to check out this winter. Making the list, Lecht Ski Resort in the Eastern Cairngorms of Scotland – where people apparently snowboard in kilts…

If this is what you’re looking for (you crazy kook), I suggest you check out sportkilt.com – your one stop shop for the kilt to fit whatever athletic pursuit you desire to perform while skirting it up. Here are a few of the styles available…

The classic Sport Kilt (or the MacVersatile)

The Commando (it’s Khaki!)

The hiking kilt (might get you goosed)

The Women’s Sport Kilt (popular amongst fem-ruggers across the Isle of Haggis!)

The Ballad Of Kerry Collins (Tirico Suave)
THE TOP 10 REASONS WHY BALL STATE DESERVES TO BE IN THE BCS (The World of Isaac)
The NBA Hierarchy (The Sports Lounge)
T-Roc’s Week 12 College Football picks (Cuzoogle)
Spin.com Exclusive Stream: 16-Song Cure Tribute Album (via Pop Candy)

Unlike this guy, Natalie Gulbis doesn’t have five career hole-in-ones (she has two), but, to borrow a line from the incomparable Mitch Hedberg, she did “hit a guy.”

(via Fandome)

Gulbis showing her vindictive side with that whole, “five bucks if I hit him?” line. Hot.

Champions Tour wins Three-Tour Challenge (Times of the Internet)
TV On The Radio Visit Jay Leno (Stereogum)
BCS Doesn’t Suck For SEC, Big 12 (Moondog Sports)
Falcons thriving after extreme makeover (Fox Sports)
Anthony Kiedis’ rock memoir heading to HBO (via Pop Candy)
You’re With Me, Double-Breasted Suit (Mister Irrelevant)