Manziel’s sis unloads on a Duke fan
Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel was an absolute stud for the Aggies on Tuesday night. He threw for nearly 400 yards, ran for another 73 yards, and accumulated five touchdowns against Duke in the Chick-fil-A Bowl to help Texas A&M win 52-48 in what was likely the final college football game of Manziel’s career. But Johnny’s sister Meri got her share of the attention on Wednesday.
Meri Manziel came very close to getting into a fight during the game. Apparently, she sat near a Duke fan who talked trash about Johnny Football all night long. And she took to her Twitter account to tell the world about him:
“I’m sitting by the biggest [dirtbag] duke fan and if he says one more thing about Johnny … your messing with the wrong sister,” Meri tweeted.
Meri deleted that tweet shortly after posting it to Twitter, and, to the best of anyone’s knowledge, did not attack any Blue Devils fans during the game. But she did get the last laugh at the end of the night when she retweeted this:
“Take that, … Duke fan!”
Father figure
Seven-time Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher remains in a Grenoble, France, hospital and one journalist reportedly dressed as a priest and tried to get into Schumacher’s room. Schumacher remains in a medically induced coma, though doctors on Wednesday said that he was doing slightly better.
Had the man’s ridiculously deceptive plan worked, he would have gotten some interesting access, though he wouldn’t have exactly been able to conduct official interviews without revealing his profession. And anyway, had anything been published with information gained from the deception, it wouldn’t be too hard to trace it.
With a star like Schumacher, there aren’t too many people going in and out.
Schumacher hit his head while skiing on Sunday and suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. He was wearing a helmet and doctors have said that the helmet kept him alive.
Cupcake alert
From Janice Hough of leftcoastsportsbabe.com: “In D-1 men’s basketball, Southern University started with an 44-0 lead, and ending up beating Champion Baptist College 116-12. Down in the SEC, teams immediately started phoning Champion Baptist to see if they have a football team.”
No Close Encounter Filmmaker and Southern Calalum Steven Spielberg, when a USC student asked him to name his favorite disaster movie: “The Washington State game.” Washington State beat USC 10-7 earlier this season, when Lane Kiffin was still the coach.
Quote of the day
“My wife said when I won, ‘We can go to Kapalua.’ I said, ‘We can go to Augusta.’ That was the discrepancy.” Ken Duke, upon his entries into this weekend’s Tournament of Champions in Hawaii and the Masters after winning the Travelers Championship in June
Sports, Pages 14 on 01/02/2014