Deep Thoughts By No-Look McFadden: Episode 57

#1

A beer-swilling, ammo-toting, Polish-joke spouting bear by the name of Voytek. Badass of the Week? Nay. Badass of the Forever.

#2

So the hysterical “Veep” (starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus in a role closer to 20-years-later Elaine from “Seinfeld” than anything else she’s ever done) is like “Spin City” on crack. And that’s a good thing.

#3

Three teams in the land won a bowl game, went to the Sweet 16 and advanced to the baseball super regionals. NC State was one of them. Good year for Pack athletics.

#4

The zombie apocalypse won’t look like you think it will look.

#5

The way Roy Williams has “handled” queries into UNC basketball’s role in the pervasive academic scandal and cheating running rampant in Chapel Hill only feeds a widespread perception that local media kowtows to entities like UNC hoops. Until the local media learns that legitimate questions can’t be adequately answered with a lot of grab-ass, aw-shucks non sequiturs punctuated by a lot of “fricking” and “crap,” regional sportswriting will always be viewed as a joke from a national perspective. Maybe when someone gets around to writing the book “Poisoning the ‘Ol Well,” it’ll dispel the image of “press conferences” filled with guffawing, back-slapping and painfully forced laughter.

#6

Just in case you were curious about what a day in the life of the Most Interesting Man in the World looked like ...

#7

The HBO documentary “Breaking the Huddle” offered a no-holds-barred look at the slow integration of football in the South, complete with surprising revelations about Lee Corso’s role, how Hayden Fry led the way and why Michigan State was deemed the “Underground Railroad” of college football More stellar documentary work from the best production company in the business—HBO.

#8

Virginia catcher Nate Irving shares the same name as the former Wolfpack linebacker, but doesn’t possess the epic dreadlocks or bone-crushing intensity or awesome nickname of the latter.

#9

No one covering the NBA will admit it, but officiating has arguably been the deciding factor halfway through the NBA Finals between the Heat and Thunder. If Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook got half the calls that LeBron James and Dwyane Wade do, the Thunder would have closed this thing out already.

#10

That sound you just heard is Shell’s PR guy getting shit-canned.