nashville's latest claim of mass transit plans

c2e.

i've heard it all before, splashville. good luck, though.

derek dooley's tacky ass house of broken dreams is on the market

Our loser former football coach doesn't need his ugly 5 bedroom/ 8 bathroom mansion anymore because he is going to work for the Dallas Cowgirls. If you have 2.9 millions of dollars, you don't mind living in Knoxville, and the smell of failure doesn't offend your nose, then check out the rest of the details here.

Ooooh! While you're traveling down the boulevard of broken promises that is former Tennessee coach houses, check out Bruce Pearl's home that is also for sale and is also tacky as fuck. Painted sky dome? via

what are you doing tomorrow?

joel, starla, and thomas wilhelm and i are having a 2Pz correspondent retreat at the BEACH!
(spoiler alert: we're meeting to discuss DJV's future with 2Pz...)

i'm not sure what i'm supposed to feel.

LOS ANGELES -- Renaldo Woolridge, a son of former NBA player Orlando Woolridge, will play for Southern California next season.

The forward is set to graduate from Tennessee this summer with a degree in sociology, but was granted one more season of eligibility after being limited to eight games because of an ankle injury during his junior year.

Woolridge averaged 4.3 points and 3.3 rebounds playing in 25 games last season for the Volunteers. In three years at Tennessee, he started 20 of 93 games. The 6-foot-9, 215-pounder is from Sherman Oaks, Calif. His father played 13 years in the NBA, including with the Los Angeles Lakers.

USC coach Kevin O'Neill says Woolridge can play multiple positions and will make an impact in the one year that he's eligible. (via)

is swiperboy a traitor or what? rob? aren't you supposed to be on top of this kind of thing?

joel's reaction: "swiperboy wtf #smh"

always support starla

hey y'all! jic you don't remember, i will formally announce that our very own starla is going to run her second half-marathon in san diago this summer. she's doing so in support of fellow 2Pz correspondent, bun-bun, who's been cancer-free (and fancy free) for 22 months and counting!

starla's fundraising site is up and running, so start your 2012 tax year off right by donating to this ponzi scheme noble cause.

DONATE HERE!

for the right amount of generosity, you might get a 2Pz t-shirt out of it.

jic you missed it.

look what happened to my mom

on new years eve, can you believe it.

congrats mom. thanks for being a dedicated reader.

your t shirt is on the way!

da'id you know...

...that the vols' beloved reciever da'rick rogers was almost a smelly bulldog?

Da'Rick Rogers, who leads the SEC with six touchdown receptions, was committed to Georgia for seven months before changing his mind and choosing Tennessee at the last minute.

Former Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin laid the groundwork for Rogers’ flip-flop, and then current Tennessee coach Derek Dooley came in and finished the job.

“Everybody’s making a big story out of that,” Dooley said. “But for every one of those guys we get in Georgia, we lose about five others that we want. That’s just part of recruiting.” Rogers, who’s from Calhoun, Ga., said earlier this week that the reason he switched to Tennessee was to “build a new face of a program.”

His best friend in high school, Nash Nance, was a big reason the Vols were able to steal Rogers away from the Bulldogs. Nance was originally committed to Vanderbilt, but after getting an offer from Tennessee in late January, he changed his commitment to the Vols.

Nance and Rogers visited Tennessee together the last weekend in January, and a few days later, Rogers wound up signing with the Vols. (via)

really da'odged a bullet there, amiright?

'SGO VOLS!!!!!!!!!

have y'all seen it?

the race to a quarter-million?

send us a screen-shot of you with the 250,000th hit, and we'll promise you a prize!

Prom 2011 What the kids are wearing...

Some were Dapper and Coordinated.

















Girl's dresses had to have straps and be floor length

















Some boys went well tailored
















Others didn't put as much time and thought into cut and fit.

















But almost everyone had a good time.















And the food wasn't half bad.















chaperoning prom= 7.5 biscuits.

uh oh.

look what barack said when he was running for prezzy:

"And understand this: If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I'm in the White House, I'll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself, I'll walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States of America. Because workers deserve to know that somebody is standing in their corner." (via)

doomsday, again.

well, yesterday was another MTA doomsday, and they voted on some really great stuff. for examps...

- do you like the W and Z subway lines? well, don't. because they're over, ok?
- and the G and M lines are getting shorter. fingers crossed, long island city!!
- used to be, kids got free metrocards to go to school. let's hope they get to keep them. david paterson promised.
- 700 workers will be unemployed now. don't worry though, they'll still have COBRA.
- 10% paycut for those state-run-service-management fat cats (aka MTA administration)

Elected officials and outraged straphangers lambasted the MTA for choosing that combinatiom of cuts, and asked transit officials to find the cost savings elsewhere.

"You respond to people's needs slower than the C train and G train on the weekends," said Councilman Charles Barron. (via)

zzzzzzzzzZZZING! but as nymag says, it could be worse. they could've raised fares!!!

side note: i had the pleasure of riding on a new future-bus the other day. it was like a robot took me home.