The Back Alley Archives

Somebody in the media, finally, gets it. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college-football/news/20130805/johnny-manziel-ncaa/?sct=cf_bf4_a8 Also, there is the small matter of Johnny Football saying some delusional things lately. On one evening this summer, he tweeted that (s---) "like tonight i...

No time for shoes either. We're not positive when this photo was taken, but so what? Photos of Steve Spurrier shirtless (and barefoot!) and again giving zero fucks are bouncing around the internet. Which can only mean one thing: Football season is at last upon us. http://deadspin.com/football-must-b...

Interestingly enough, the Vegas sports books are no longer taking bets on any of Texas A&M's games. Sounds like they're waiting to see if Manziel is going to be suspended before they're willing to take wagers.

Top 20 Party Schools (via Princeton Review): 1. Iowa 2. California, Santa Barbara 3. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 4. West Virginia 5. Syracuse 6. University of Florida 7. Ohio University 8. Wisconsin 9. Penn State 10. Lehigh 11. Georgia 12. FSU 13. DePauw 14. Ole Miss 15. Texas 16. Miami of Ohio 17. M...

Manziel was scheduled to meet with the media today after practice. Now, not so much. A prominent autograph broker on eBay, based in the Southeast, said that Nate Fitch -- Johnny Manziel's friend and personal assistant -- approached him last season to let him know that Manziel would no longer be sign...

Yep, the fact that the memorabilia was sequentially numbered seems to be the give away here. I've seen other people commenting elsewhere that it doesn't make any sense he'd do this for the money, since his family is rich, but that seems to me to miss the pattern of JFF's behavior. There was an artic...

Ruh roh. MIAMI -- The NCAA is investigating whether Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel was paid for signing hundreds of autographs on photos and sports memorabilia in January, "Outside the Lines" has learned. Two sources tell "Outside the Lines" that the Texas A&M quarterba...

They spell gud at Bama.

There's a point in that video where you can see just how pleased that bear is with herself over the decision to take the dumpster. I got a good laugh out of it.

Did PDQ for lunch today. Four tender meal with the Sweet Heat sauce. They give you so much food. It was great stuff. Going inside instead of going through the drive thru is definitely a good choice, because of both the Coke machines and the face that you can get malt vinegar for your fries.

You can see the video of Muschamp discussing woodpeckers here: http://deadspin.com/woodpeckers-cant-get-concussions-will-muschamp-says-996097665 If you go to the very end, someone asks about being ranked 10th in the coaches pre-season poll and Muschamp hits him with a sarcastic, "And that's rea...

I tend to be of the view that they shouldn't do any polls until after the third week of the season. So while this poll is mildly interesting, I was much more interested to learn via Coach Muschamp that woodpeckers are physically unable to be concussed. I never knew that before.

Not everyone may be familiar with PDQ as they haven't been around very long. I had to go back and confirm it, but they've only been around less than two years. They opened their first store in Tampa in 2011 and they've grown pretty fast since then. They don't advertise much, but they promote themsel...

I've been a longtime Chik-Fil-A fan, but ate at PDQ recently on a friend's recommendation. I had the Buffalo Chicken Tenders sandwich with fries and a drink and holy shit, was it ever good! I want to try their tenders with the Sweet Heat sauce next time I go.

As to what set Cooper off, he'd been drinking all day and tried to go backstage at the concert. He was told he could not by a security guard, because Cooper did not have backstage passes. Make your own educated guess as to what race that security guard was.

No surprise here, actual picture of Riley Cooper's truck.

He's from Clearwater originally and he's making NFL money. Yet his hair and outfit scream dumb racist hillbilly.

Deadspin does a good job deconstructing that ESPN article.

http://deadspin.com/the-trouble-with-es ... -968777922

BACK IN COLLEGE STATION, Johnny's world had turned toxic and weird. The pressure had been building -- is still building -- and the latest in an endless loop of public ventings happened when he left his car parked the wrong way in front of his house. He and some teammates had gone down to the Corpus...

ESPN's Outside the Lines has a piece about how put upon Johnny and his family feel because of his sudden fame. I couldn't read it, to be honest, because it was just too douche. The gist seemed to be, "Why can't Johnny enjoy all the upside of fame without being criticized?" but that's just ...

It's a good reminder of what a joke the FBS system is becoming. I've sort of seen this up close because I have a good friend who is a USF grad and he's been pretty pissed over how the Big East got cannibalized, then had to go recruit a bunch of West Coast teams to still justify calling itself a conf...

Meanwhile, at Ravens training camp...

radbag really is immortal over there.

Wasn't he originally an Auburn commit, then switched? Auburn must not be paying what they used to.

He's turning full delta bravo.