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The Flip Side - Aug. 3

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By MICK ELLIOTT | The Tampa Tribune

Published: August 2, 2008

Thinking 'out loud until it started to hurt...

The Princeton Review 'named the University of Florida the nation's No..1 party school. I'm thinking, what a great idea if Gators football players were recognized for exceptional performance this year by being awarded little lampshade stickers to place on their helmets.

The Bloomingdale High Bulls' 400-pound bronze mascot was located by police one day after teenagers took the statue. That's a relief. Were you like me and feared illegal recruiting charges against USF?

After being guaranteed uncensored Internet access, reporters arriving in Beijing for the Summer Olympics found Web sites for Amnesty International and others dealing with Tibet blocked by the Chinese government. Now, here's the punch line: IOC officials expressed shock.

Disgraced NBA referee Tim Donaghy was sentenced to a much-lighter-than expected 15 months in prison for his role in the league's gambling scandal. Even better, he had bet the under.

Conservative radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh is expressing interest in buying the St. Louis Rams. Not that I know a lot about NFL X's and O's, but I feel confident that the offense would be designed to run to the right.

I want to be sure I have this right. Johnny's New York Pizza, based outside Denver, will give away free pies if the Tampa Bay Rays win the World Series? And guaranteed delivery. All you have to do is pay postage and shipping.

The Buccaneers are again holding training camp at Walt Disney World. And the line to ride Bruce Allen's hair is really long.

Georgia was picked No..1 and Florida No..5 in the preseason USA Today coaches' poll released Friday, a week after Florida was picked first and Georgia second in the SEC Eastern Division by league coaches. I'm thinking that despite efforts by both schools' administrations, this is not going to be the year the "World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party" title is put away.

An arbitrator ruled that Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban owes his former coach, Don Nelson, nearly $6.3 million in disputed deferred payments. There's really nothing humorous about that, so why are so many people laughing?

Former football coach Barry Switzer will guest star as himself in an upcoming episode of television's "Saving Grace." When the door of Grace's Porsche is knocked off by a drunk driver, the impact lets loose a large amount of cash that had been hidden by a previous owner. Police question Switzer as one of the car's previous owners. Just a guess, but I'm figuring they wanted to know what Texas high school kid he had been recruiting.

Arizona Cardinals quarterback Matt Leinart says he wants to shake the public's perception of him as a party boy. Yeah, and old friend Paris Hilton is going to be a serious actress.

The Green Bay Packers reportedly offered Brett Favre $20 million to stay retired. Sure, that sounds like a good deal, but you try to sit home in Mississippi and spend that money on nothing but dingy T-shirts.

Seventy-four-year-old Howard Schnellenberger agreed to a contract extension with Florida International that will keep the football coach on the Owls' sidelines through 2010. Schnellenberger will then become a likely candidate to replace Joe Paterno at Penn State.

Typically sour golfer Colin Montgomery really had a bad time during second-round play at this week's WGC Bridgestone Invitational. He was short of the cup all day, and that was just with the PGA Tour's new drug test.

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