Red Raiders
The mess in Lubbock is unfortunate. Mike Leach was always a guy who was accountable to no one. That’s never a good idea when you’re dealing with college athletics. There are, I’m sure, two sides to every story. I grew up during a time when coaches grabbed face masks, gave swats, kicked desks and threw chalkboard erasers at sleeping players. If you want mistreatment of college athletes read “Meat on the Hoof” sometime. That said , there just isn’t room for the kind of antics Leach employed at Tech. They are antiquated and kids today don’t respond to that kind of approach. This was good fodder for a sports cartoon.

Just a side note. Today’s cartoon was drawn completely on computer on a tablet called the Cintiq. It’s amazing what technology can do.

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Boom!
Couldn’t McDaniels leave well enough alone until the off season. Geez. Now look at the mess he’s made.

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2009: Unforgettable
For me, 2009 will always be remembered as the year a great newspaper died. The Rocky Mountain News had been a part of the Colorado landscape for 150 years until it’s closing in February. It set my life and career onto a new path, drawing cartoons for this blog and for places like 9News, the Chicago Tribune, United Media syndicate and The great Guadalupe County Communicator in Santa Rosa, New Mexico. I hope you enjoy this year in review piece I put together. It will be featured in the January issue of Mile High Sports Magazine on news stands next week.

I’ll have a new cartoon on Saturday.

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Snubs
Those Pro Bowl snubs are downright insulting, not to mention costly.
The Broncos got 5 guys named to the Pro Bowl this year. I’m not sure how they feel about it. I mean, it used to be a pretty cool trip to Hawaii. Now it’s Miami. Now that’s known as a letdown.

Got plans for New Years Eve? Let me know what your doing. It’s always fun to hear what everybody has planned for the big night. I’m looking forward to 2010. Are you?

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Bowling? Not me.

Put me down for the 1 to 5 category. Which actually will amount to maybe 1: Texas vs. Alabama (and only then because I’m not a fan of Nick Saban). Other than that I’ll be watching anything but a worthless, meaningless bowl game named after a corporate sponsor that probably laid off 1000 people this year so they could hold on to their stupid bowl sponsorship.
Yep. That bowl system really is something. Riveting isn’t it?

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