OK, friends, you know the drill.
We do the 5-at-10, Mondays-through-Fridays, come rain of shine. Come vacation or sickness.
That's how we roll. (And we're closing in on 2,000 consecutive if these things, so it's not like we can stop now.) Well, the 5-at-10 clan is out west - we have moved on from the Grand Tetons (and no Sportsfan, it has nothing to do with Colin Montgomery and his moobs).
So that means we're going to unload a quick 5-at-10 this week. Today, we'll offer five quick one-word queries. Hey, it is a Wednesday. And again, let's give a tip of the visor to Weston Wamp, who is manning the wheel while the regular 5-at-10 hosts are on vacation with their families:. To the One-Word Options, and a few of these are vacation inspired so there's that:
1. The 5-at-10 spending last night in a teepee in Gardiner, Mont., is __________. (We would have started with Griswold-esque when we turned the corner of the gravel road and thought the Mrs. 5-at-10 had scheduled a stay at the grounds Cousin Eddie got in a trade for the RV. In truth, it was awesome. And the free beer and wine by the camp fire - along with S'mores for the kids - certainly did not hurt.)
2. That brings us to this: S'mores are __________. (We'll go undersirable. Not really a big marshmallow fan to begin with, and to tell you the truth graham crackers and chocolate by themselves are fine by us. Side question: Is there a more underrated cracker than the graham cracker? We think no.)
3. For those of you who have seen it up-close and personal, Old Faithful - the famous geyser in Yellowstone National Park is _________. (We're going with stinky. Man, the smells from that joint are awful. Of course, this led out 9-year-old to notice that, "Dad, if you needed to toot, this would be the best place on Earth to do it because no one would ever know." That kid's a thinker. We almost went with "overrated" for Old Faithful, but it's just one of those "I saw it" things that you likely won't do again. On the other side of the spectrum the Grand Prismatic Spring was awesome in its awesomeness.)
4. High school quarterback Brevin White -the No. 193-ranked high school recruit in the country - picking Princeton over Arizona State, Tennessee, Utah and others is ________. (We'll go interesting. According to the above story, White is the first top-300 ESPN recruit to pick an Ivy League school since 2009 when the ESPN 300 started. Yes, Ivy League schools can only offer grants - not full athletic scholarships - but a Princeton education is nothing to sneeze at. Some even call it the Auburn of New Jersey.)
5. The ESPN report with Josina Anderson and Ryan Clark calling for NFL executives to answer to why Colin Kaepernick has not been signed is ___________. (We'll start with sensationalized. Granted the extremes of this case are unlike any other we have seen in pro team sports. It's a business decision more so than a political one or a football one, and that becomes a very rare case study. Still, no team executive every talks about the interworkings of a War Room, a free agency evaluation or any type of personal business. You could make an argument that Tim Tebow was not resigned for reasons of the field but there was not clamor for transparency. The other word we debated was hypocritical, since ESPN's bigwigs cut tens of millions in salary and hundreds from its work roles in recent months and no one is taking to SportsCenter asking the powers that be in Bristol to answer questions about their decision-making.)
We will conclude today offering a couple of pieces of information from the world of sports on TV:
First, the ESPN/ABC college football studio lineups have been announced: Booger McFarland will team up with Mack Brown on ABC, with Kevin Negandhi hosting the three-man network studio coverage. Jesse Palmer shifts to being a regular studio analyst this season after calling ESPN's Thursday night prime time game for nearly a decade and will team up with Joey Galloway and Adnan Virk in the ESPN studio on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays this season. Kelly will join ESPN2's studio coverage on Saturdays, while also appearing on SportsCenter on Fridays and Sundays offering insight to college and NFL games. (All of this is according to Cynopsis Media.)
Secondly, Jordan Spieth is not-Tiger-esque on the course in our view but he's taking strides to get there on the public interest meter. Spieth's win at Royal Birkdale was the highest watched final round of The Open Championship since 2009, when Tom Watson was chasing the improbable dream.
Enjoy the day friends. We'll be chillin' in a TeePee. How? You know.