Yo, Where You At? Blogging Elsewhere, School, Life, Etc.

So it's been a bit quiet around these parts lately. Between school and two internships, a guy has only so much time to do everything else, let alone, keep a blog current. As for those internships, I'm blogging for SportsGrid every other weekend and whenever else I get a chance. Here are a few of my posts so far:

» Giants Reliever Suffers Ridiculous Grilling Mishap, Is Out For Season

» Like Most Of Us, The Son Of Tasing Cowboys Fan Would Like To Know How The Hell His Dad Got A Taser Into MetLife Stadium

» Evil Marlins Pitchers Lock One Of Their Own In The Bathroom (Video)

» Jake Peavy’s Thoughts On Potential Tobacco Ban: “I’m A Grown Man. I’ve Got A Mortgage.”

» Please Refer To The NFL Lockout as “The Period” From Now On

You can also follow the RSS feed for my SportsGrid blog posts set up on the right sidebar, directly below the "Recent Posts" tab. Or, check out every post I've written for the site.

I hope to update the biz and buzz more often, but I won't make any promises.

Conference Realignment Smorgasbord*: TCU Leaves Big East For Big 12 After Never Being In Big East

*Due to the current state of college athletics, this blogger maintains the right to eventually be completely wrong about everything you read below. Stamped: 10/6/11

TCU is set to join the conference that didn't want it when it was first created in the mid-90s, the Big 12. Makes total sense: replace one departing Texas school that played little brother to the mighty Longhorns (Texas A&M) with another that will eventually do the same (the aforementioned Horned Frogs).

TCU technically becomes the Big 12's 10th member, but Missouri clearly wants out and into the SEC, despite actually preferring the Big Ten, but those Midwesterners weren't interested last year and are probably less so today.

Batting Stance Guy Spoofs Every Baseball TV Guy You Know (Video)

Batting Stance Guy has added one more skill to his repertoire: imitating your favorite baseball TV personalities. His Tim Kurkjian impression is by far the best in this riveting multi-reporter story about Cubs second baseman Darwin Barney switching to a heavier bat.

[Awful Announcing]

Miami Football Will Never Be the Same After Latest Allegations from Ponzi-scheming Booster

The allegations jailed Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro leveled against the University of Miami in an exhaustive Yahoo! Sports piece by Charles Robinson have no equal.

Hookers, money for an abortion, bounties for big plays, signing players to become clients for his failed sports agency, providing cash and gifts, and paying a basketball recruit to come to the school are just a few of the dozens upon dozens of infractions Shapiro claims to have committed while a booster for the Hurricanes between 2002 and 2010. All told, 72 athletes were given impermissible benefits while at least seven coaches on Miami's basketball and football staffs were either aware of the situation or took part in the wrongdoing.

NBC Sports Gives Mike Florio, Darren Rovell New TV Show Gigs

Soon to be re-branded NBC Sports Network, a.k.a Versus, will add two new shows to its programming — a weekly NFL roundup show featuring Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio and a sports business program anchored by CNBC's Darren Rovell — according to Variety.

Florio's show ill air Fridays from 6 to 7 p.m., the same time as ESPN's SportsCenter. Rovell's program will follow.

The announcement comes the same week NBC Sports signed a deal to air MLS games. The network will also begin airing a weekly NFL analysis show titled "NFL Turning Point" on Thursdays. The cabler's plans don't end there, though.

"As we start to build out the NBC Sports brand on national cable platforms over the next few weeks, you will see a slate of programming coming for the 6 to 7 p.m. block on NBC Sports Network, a slate of programming that will give us daily relevance," [NBC Sports Group chairman Mark] Lazarus said.

With Versus available in more than 70 million homes, it appears as if ESPN's cable sports monopoly will finally receive a legitimate threat.

[Variety, h/t Awful Announcing, Image via]