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Introducing Anna from BU.   There are potato sack girls and then there are potato sack girls.  This my friends is a potato sack girl.   In fact she may be the first ever double potato sack girl in the history of the Stool.  Up to this point many people said double potato sack girls didn’t even exist.  It’s like spotting a unicorn or Bigfoot.    But I think Anna is so cute/hot that you’d need to double bag her just to make sure you got her home safely.

Just in case people don’t remember what a Potato Sack Girl is here is the official definition

Potato Sack Girl – Girl who is so impossibly hot and cute at the same time that you just want to throw her in a potato sack and marry the shit out of her.

Do you know any Potato Sack Girls?   Send them our way to randomthoughts@barstoolsports.com

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In his first comments since a tabloid linked him to extramarital affairs last week, Roger Clemens on Sunday acknowledged making "mistakes" in his personal life. For those mistakes he apologized to his family and the public, but the seven-time Cy Young Award winner remained steadfast in his denials that he has used steroids or human growth hormone. "I know that many people want to know what I have to say about the recent articles in the media," Clemens, who has raised his four children with his wife, Debbie, in the Katy and Memorial areas, said in a statement to the Houston Chronicle. "Even though these articles contain many false accusations and mistakes, I need to say that I have made mistakes in my personal life for which I am sorry. I have apologized to my family and apologize to my fans. Like everyone, I have flaws. I have sometimes made choices which have not been right."

Roger Clemens is the gift that keeps on giving. He's a bottomless well of blogging fodder. After spending the last week indignantly denying he'd done anything wrong, Clemens apologizes for his wrongdoing. No, I take that back. He apologizes for his "mistakes." This is my favorite kind of apology: the non-apology apology. Where you don't admit you've done something, but you're sorry anyway. Sorry for what? Well that's none of the public's business. What's important now is to turn the page, move forward and please respect my family's privacy in these difficult times.

Like I've said before, I don't give a tinker's damn that Clemens juiced. That he was tomcattin' around behind Debbie's back with teenage yokels and drunken golfers wives means nothing to me. Believe me, I've got 150 gripes with Roger that are far more egregious. Things that have me praying somehow in all this he not only gets kept out of Cooperstown, he gets lead away in handcuffs and eventually gets the Eight Belles treatment in prison. Which is why I love the non-specific apology. Because as long as he's not actually admitting anything, I feel like I can apply the "I'm sorry for my mistakes" to any wrong Rocket has done to me personally. Here's how I'm interpretting this latest one:

• "Jerry, it was a mistake for me to ask out of Game 6 of the '86 World Series then lie about it for the rest of my life. I apologize."
• "I am truly sorry for all those times I crapped my pants in the postseason, especially that Game 2 in 1990 when I was so intimidated by Dave Stewart and the A's lineup that I purposely got myself throw out by Terry Cooney."
• "I am full of remores for coming back from the strike year looking like Chris Farley."
• "I deeply regret mailing it in my last four years in Boston, wracking up a record of 40-39 and always blaming it on the bullpen."
• "Please forgive me for putting 10 MPH back on my fastball as soon as I got to Toronto."
• "I feel bad for making you listen to me drone on and on about my bizarre fixation on my rotten kids."
• "I shouldn't have chucked that broken bat at Piazza, then made up stupid excuses for my behavior.  My bad."
• "Sorry for always signing with whatever team paid me the most money but always pretending it was about loyalty or Andy Pettite or winning a ring or Joe Torre or somesuch crap."
• "I apologize for being a big, fat, stupid, bloated, self-important, philandering, money-grubbing phoney."

A couple months ago we mentioned that Quinn Kingston would not be suiting up for the Pats Cheerleaders this year. I went into depression for a couple weeks upon hearing the news. Well I finally figured out what happened to her. She apparently now works for Boston.TV which must have shit load of money because everybody and their grandmother seems to work for them now. Anyway, while the above segment literally bored me to tears I will watch ANYTHING that Quinn does. Granted she had way too much clothing on, but beggars can't be choosers. Hey have I ever mentioned that I judged a lingerie contest with her in it and she had one of the two best asses I've ever seen in person? In case you forgot here is the other one....

The Celtics walked into the Hawks series like Lex Steele walks onto a set:  fully expecting everyone there to bend over and take it however we give it.  But the Hawks weren't the fluffers we thought they'd be.  Powered by the real bandwagon fans, the Hawks used their athleticism and emotion to band together and give us a fight.  Yes... in the end they took it right in the eye... but they earned our respect... and maybe knocked the mighty Celtics down a much-needed peg. 

Enter LBJ and his band of merry men.   They are not the high-flying, athletic, shot-blocking Hawks.  They are the slower, plodding, wait for LeBron to make his move and nail the open three when he decides to pass kind of team.  They use more power, and less finesse (They're the top offensive rebounding team in the NBA).  And if you think the fact that the C's went to 7 against Atlanta has any bearing at all on this series... forget it.

NBA players have very short memories.  This is a new team and a new challenge.  Atlanta is already a distant memory.  The fact that they didn't win in Atlanta has no bearing on whether they'll win in Cleveland.  The reasons they didn't win in Atlanta don't apply to a new series, against a new team, in a new arena.  The situation may not be the same in Cleveland.  Maybe the Celtics will be the ones making a furious comeback.  Maybe they'll use the Atlanta series as a lesson on how to hold a lead.  Maybe LeBron will get cold at the wrong time.  Get my point?  Losing in Atlanta doesn't mean they'll lose in Cleveland.

Another by-product of this Atlanta series has people saying "if they couldn't stop Joe Johnson... what's going to happen against LeBron?"  Again... it doesn't translate.  They play different positions... and thus there will be a different matchup (one idea I presented on Red's Army:  Start James Posey instead of Ray Allen so he can check LeBron).  The approach will be different... and the C's will know what to expect.  Obviously... LeBron is LeBron... but when you're fighting Kimbo Slice... you know what you're up against.  When some guy you know is good starts fighting like Kimbo Slice... you duck and cover and think "where the fuck is THIS coming from???"  Either way... you're up against a bad motherfucker... but at least with LeBron you know you're facing the baddest of them all... and you can prepare yourself.

In the end... the matchups favor the Celtics.  The defense is just way too much.  LeBron is good for a win by himself.  Their shooters can get hot and win another one.  But I don't see it happening here.  But then again... I'm an arrogant Boston fan that never thinks we're going to lose... the blogger version of the Black Knight, if you will.

Celtics in 6. 

John - Red's Army

Collegeotr.com -If you needed more incentive to use condoms, here it is. Find out if your school is a festering pool of gonorrhea and herpes - or a safe haven from sexually-transmitted diseases. For the past two years, Trojan Brand Condoms has provided the collegiate community with rankings based on sexual health.  The Trojan Sexual Health Report Card, the most recent includes 139 schools, surveys colleges and then scores them by a "grading system" that resembles a GPA. In honor of the Trojan Evolve Tour, we are listing the best and worst campuses on the list. 

The Best:

1. University of Minnesota (a thunderous round of applause for being the least STI-riddled)

2. University of Wyoming 

3. University of Washington

4. Rutgers University

5. Purdue University

Honorable Mentions:
Columbia University, Harvard University, University of Oregon, University of Michigan, and Duke University

The Ickiest:

135. Villanova University

136. University of Arkansas at Little Rock

137. Arkansas State University

138. University of Louisiana at Monroe

139. Louisiana Tech University (Congrats for being dirtier than Paris Hilton's thongs)

Dishonorable Mentions:
St. John's University, Vanderbilt, Baylor University, Georgetown and Boston College.


At least BC is in the top 5 in the Nation in something right?  (Hockey doesn’t count since there are only 5 teams to begin with)  I mean if you can’t compete for the National Championship in Football then you might as well go for the National Title in shittiest sexual prevention and awareness programs. I just hope the campus is equipped to deal with what happens when football players rape chicks like last week.

- Thanks to Dan for the tip

NASHUA, N.H. -- A 43-year-old Nashua (New Hampshire) woman now faces murder charges after a man she's accused of running down during the weekend died.  Witnesses say the incident was sparked by an argument between Red Sox and Yankees fans at a Nashua bar early Friday morning.  Ivonne Hernandez is accused of killing 29-year-old Matthew Beaudoin, and injuring his friend, 21-year-old Maria Hughes, by running them down with her car. She's also charged with drunken driving.  Police say the incident followed an argument. They haven't released details, but witness are saying an argument broke out in Slade's Food & Spirits after Hernandez said she was a Yankees fan. They said Beaudoin was among a group of people who began chanting at Hernandez.

Nothing funny about this one. Let this be a lesson to all the kids out there.   The Red Sox vs. Yankees rivalry is all fun and games till a Yankees fan runs you down in her car.   Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Beaudoin family.   And the bigger message here is that you can't joke around with chicks because they take everything way too seriously and end up freaking out and trying to kill you.

TMZ.com - With the NFL season inching closer, New England Patriots stallion Randy Moss got a late-night work out with one helluva tight end at a Kentucky Derby party over the weekend. But the chick bending over and taking a hike isn't just some random skeezer -- that's Miss Kentucky USA he's playin' with!

Do it Randy! Do it! If there was ever a time to buy a Straight Cash Homey shirt now is the time! Sure some players may settle for banging any hot slut at the Kentucky Derby, but not Randy Moss. He goes right after the best chick in the state and makes it look easy. Is there anything this guy can't do? The reigning Miss Kentucky Alysha Harris never stood a chance. God Bless the Pats!

Vs.

I got to go with the riot cop who gets nailed by the drum. I just hate when that happens.

Vote 1 for soccer player and 10 for drum

It was a "secret love" within the confines of North Penn High School in Lansdale. She told him she wanted to have sex with him this summer, according to the affidavit of probable cause. He already began making his moves on her in a darkened classroom while a movie played for students, the document read.But Michelle Zulkowsky, 28, a teacher's aide with the North Penn School District, grew fearful of her "emotional connection" with a 16-year-old student in the English as a Second Language program. Zulkowsky's internal alarm prompted her to blow the whistle - on herself, authorities said. Zulkowsky, of North Wales, was arrested Wednesday and charged with corruption of minors and endangering the welfare of children, each crime a misdemeanor.

It pains me to say this, but I'm getting increasingly worried about the state of education in America. Particularly with respect to our standards, which seem to get lower by the day. I mean, could there be a better example than Michelle Zulkowski's English as a Second Language class? Here she's got a classroom full of kids fluent in Spanish, the Language of Love, and the best she can do is a misdemeanor charge of "fondling" a kid? What kind of Teacher Sex Scandal is that? And how can you claim to have an "emotional connection" if all you're going to do is play a little grabass with the lad? I think if you're serious about corruption of minors... truly dedicated to connecting with the boys in your class in a positive way... as soon as you tell a kid you'll have sex with him this summer ("Quiero tener sexo con usted este verano," in case you were wondering), it should be off to the back seat of you car for some steamy tutoring.

The Grades:
Looks: We could use more pictures of her, but I kind of like what I see. Not a superstar, but solid. Grade: B-.
Moral Compass/Bad Judgement: Unless you're willing to do it with the kid right there in the classroom, don't be talking about next summer. I mean, the lights were out and the other kids are focused on a movie... what's the worry? Grade: F.
Intangibles: I love the turning yourself in. It's exactly the kind of irrational behavior that deserves a good grade. But only if you've done something worth reporting yourself for. Grade: F.
Overall: D. (Thanks to Chris S. for the story)

I was totally going to boycott this video if I didn't see a screen shot of Barstool Sports pop up on the screen.

----- Original Message -----

From: Casey Connelly

Subject:This is Casey Connelly...

This is Casey Connelly... Those images that you are spreading around the internet are me and Sam's personal photos and were obtained by a hacker from my myspace account.  I'm asking you nicely to please remove all those images.  This is unfair and I do not derserve this.  I'm writing you this e-mail in tears as I have never been so embarassed and violated ever in my life.  Please just be a good person and remove them or this will get very ugly.

Those were photos I sent to him during one of our several long distant stints.  Please, it's been hard enough for us due to the previous weekend and please just leave us alone...

From: randomthoughts@barstoolsports.com

Obviously with any email like this we have no way to know who we are talking to.   Having said that we are nice guys.  But we turn not nice very fast when people include things like "this will get very ugly" in their emails.  We take this as a threat and as a result feel like our hands our tied since we are 100% legally in the right and can't run our business motivated by baseless threats. 

The pictures were NOT hacked into as you claim.   A reader of ours sent us a link of them.   It was a PUBLIC gallery that actually has built in codes to embed and share photos.    This is as clear cut as it gets.     You have NO legal ground to tell us to take those down.

So like I said the last thing I'd be doing is threatening us.     We really could care less about you or the photos.   But you're all over the Internet.    We didn't go looking for you or the photos.  They found us.    And now with you threatening us it almost leaves us no choice but to leave them up.

Dave

From: Casey Connelly

Dave,
 
I can assure that those photos were never public and wish you would share with me this supposed public link.  I am coming to you as a person and asking you to simply remove the compromising nude images.  You may pick through my words and deem what you will as threatening but this is an issue to which you have no understanding.  All I am asking is for you to please remove a few images from your site and we can forget all about this.  I am flattered that you have taken such an interest in myself and my personal life, but please, these have gone too far.

From: randomthoughts@barstoolsports.com

Here is the email that was sent to us.  It appears as if many of the photos were removed from the public gallery.  Regardless there are still naked photos in it and it is clearly public.   And this is where we got all of them from.   So if this isn't yours than you have bigger issues than us.   But I find it odd that if this isn't your gallery those photos have been removed.

Hey guys,
  Came across that myspace page and I thought I'd check to see if she had a Photobucket account.  Sure enough, aside from some which apparently violated their T&S, the girl has got some seriously NSFW pics in there.  Been a long time reader and I hope this works out for you.  If you need any other info, let me know.  Thanks!
 
Brett
 
http://s34.photobucket.com/albums/d102/casey128/?start=all

And again we really don't care either way.  But we just can't set a precedent where we allow people to send us emails saying "it will get ugly" if we don't take something down.  So now we have to do it the legal way.    Please send us all the info needed in our "disclaimer" section and our legal team will look it over.    If you don't think you have any legal right to make us take them down then please send another email to this address stating you realize we are within our rights posting them and that we can use the photos at our discretion, but would appreciate we take them down without threats and we will consider taking immediate action.

http://www.barstoolsports.com/copyright/

From: Casey Connelly

Dave,
 
I have stated that the photos were not unrightfuly obtained, although making them public was never my intent.  I would appreciate that all compromising images of myself including nudity, implied nudity, or any compromising poses,(such as the one of my area bent over) as well as any other photos that are obviously person (i.e. bedroom photos) please be removed immedately.  I have been patient with you on this issue.  Thank you for the flattery but it just went too far.  I appreciate all the things you have said, you have been extremely complementing, however please respect my privacy. Thank you
 
Erin Casey Connelly
 
Ps. I would be more than happy to provide you with some of my professional photos, just please do not post any more of my private and intimate photos for my boyfriend.

From: randomthoughts@barstoolsports.com

As a favor to you we took the pictures down.   We reserve the right to put them back up if we think the situation calls for it.   I'd consider yourself lucky since it is my guess that 99.9% of the blogs of our size would not have done so.     Especially in light of the fact that many websites continue to release new photos of you almost everyday which makes you newsworthy and how we heard about you in the first place.    But it's not our goal to ruin people's lives.   

Just another day in the life of El Pres.    This is where it gets hairy running a blog like Barstool Sports.    I’m always faced with bullshit decisions like these. The bottom-line is that anytime we post anything even remotely interesting there is going to be somebody who is pissed and want to sue my ass.     So what would you do if you were me?     I don’t want to be responsible for making some chick cry her eyes out because we posted naked pictures of her on the internet.   But at the same time should I really feel guilty about it?  I mean it’s 100% her fault.  Not only does Casey Connelly date Sam Keller (pseudo college QB) but she already has a billion slutty pictures of herself floating around on the web.    She’s modeled for an Arizona State website called Tempe 12 and Busted Coverage does a new feature on her every freaking week.   Therefore, you have to be a total moron to post naked pictures of yourself on the web and not think they are going to be discovered.   So should the Stool be penalized because our readers are better at finding good photos of her?   I mean that’s the lifeblood of our company.  We need our readers to send us shit like this to survive.  It ends up being a fine line to walk.  Do I be the good guy and take them down or do I say tough shit to chicks like this.  In this case I decided to take them down because Casey Connelly isn’t newsworthy enough for me to justify keeping them up.   I mean I don’t think our readers care either way.   If I refused to take them down I’d be doing so just for the sake of being a hard ass.   But if Sam Keller becomes the next Tom Brady or Casey Connelly somehow becomes a movie star then all bets are off.    Still I kind of feel like Casey took advantage of my good naturedness.

So now it’s time for you to play the role of El Pres.  Vote 1 for you’d take them down and 10 for you’d keep em up.   

More Lindsay here...

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