College Football Week One: Cheerleader Edition

As of Friday afternoon, everyone is at 0-0 (almost, sorry Baylor, you got hammered). With the openning day kick-off less than 24 hours away, let us put Obama/McCain on hold and turn our attention to young men being given free educations in exchange for engaging in the controlled violence that we in the U.S. call NCAA College Football.

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35,000 Plant, $700 Million Marijuana Bust in Newport, TN

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Are you sitting down? Ok. Apparently, a Tennessee Highway Patrol helicopter spotted a massive marijuana-growing operation in Cherokee National Forest, just miles from the Tennessee/North Carolina border. The officers seized 35,000 plants, equaling $700 million in “street value” prices.

Authorities found a campsite near the harvest, which is suspected to have been occupied by the illicit farmers. Though no one was found at the camp, arrests are expected soon, says KnoxNews.com.

Let’s just get something straight: That…is a f**kload of pot. We don’t know what they did with it, but probably the plants were destroyed. For a country that loves money (and smoking weed) as much as we do, that seems like an idiotic waste of product.

(Image source: KnoxNews.com)

COED Interview: 10 Years

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Matt Wantland, guitarist/songwriter for 10 Years, dialed me up to inform me of how much better the weather was in Tennessee than New York. He mentioned a thing or two about his band, too.

The band, 10 Years, has not been together 10 Years…they’ve um…been together nine….But they’ve done a sh*tload more than most bands in the last nine years. The guys are from Knoxville, and they’ve toured all over. They just finished up the Family Values Tour with the freakin’ Deftones, among other bands, of course, and they’ve also toured with other big name acts like Hatebreed, Disturbed, Korn, Linkin Park…etc. Needless to say, they’ve been busting their asses and it’s finally starting to pay off.

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