Update: The Chargers have posted a tribute page on their website – click here to get there – on which you can leave your condolences to the Seau family. Also, Saints OL Eric Olsen has posted a great story about an amazing thing Junior Seau did for him as a kid.

Not much to say here other than this: whether you’re a Bolthead or a member of Raider Nation – whether you’re a Trojan or a Bruin, for that matter – you had to admire the talent and heart of Junior Seau. His death today – potentially a suicide – is <insert your preferred synonym for “hideous beyond hideous” here>. We’re sure you join us in sending heartfelt condolences to his family.

Jimbo toasting with a football legend.

Frankrupt – the worst sports owner in the history of life not named Sterling or Stepien – is history. (Well, unless you count the parking lots he still owns part of.) Lift a glass or ten to celebrate.

That is all.

Yee-freaking-haw – it’s time for the Lakers’ Second Annual Quest To Catch The Beelzebubs of Basketball, er, Boston Celtics In NBA Championships, also known as the playoffs. Yep, it’s now okay to come to after another pointless NBA regular season, conveniently shortened by a couple months thanks to a lockout we’ve all forgotten.

And this go-round, as expected, we have some exciting new guests. Please welcome to the dance floor the professional sporting world’s former answer to The Twelve Stooges, “yourrrrrrr” Los Angeles Clippers!!! (Actually, the Clips have really always been about one Stooge, but since he owns the team, and his buffoonery has been so, uh, buffoonarific, even all-stars like Danny Manning and Dominique Wilkins have staggered under his buffoonishness.)

Going into the season, we told you SoCal’s two NBA entries were more or less evenly matched, and that’s more or less how things played out this season, with the Lakers (thankfully) taking the season series and, by the skin of Kobe Bryant’s shin, the Pacific Division. Okay, so what happens now? Here we go…

Football season is a mere 4+ months away, but you can already smell it, can’t you? Presented for your consideration, here’s the 2012 Chargers schedule.

It’s a pretty funky, but interesting, schedule. Here are a few highlights:

• Sayyy, Raider fan: the season opens and closes with Hate Week. Yep, it’s Chargers vs. Raiders in Week 1 (Oaktown on Monday night) and Week 17 (at the Q).
• With His Royal Peytonness in the AFC West, the Bolts see the Broncos for the first time in ‘Diego on Monday of Week 6 (October 15th). The Silver & Black, by the way, see him two weeks earlier on a Sunday in Denver.
• The Chargers get five – count ‘em, five – night games, with two on Monday, two on Sunday and one on Thursday.
• Oh lookee – they’re playing Stu’s Steelers in Blitzburgh Three interesting road games that would also make for good promotions if we can work something – Pittsburgh (With Stu?) in Week 14 (December 9th).
• Two weeks later, they play the Jets in NYC.
• Oh, and watch out for Dog The Bounty Hunter when they travel to New Orleans in Week 5 (October 7th). Wanna take a roadie to a cool town? Try the Big Easy. Special bonus – The Red Hot Chili Peppers are playing there on Thursday before the game.
• One weird note – After Week 3, the BOlts don’t have a 1pm Sunday kickoff until Week 11. They play only seven 1pm games all season.

Until the NFL Draft in nine days, that is all…

We’d like to present you with evidence that either (1) people have some serious issues with Big – sorry that’s B1G – Ten Commissioner Jim Delany, who was one of the dudes who spearheaded the creation of the college football trainwreck known as the BCS or (2) Big Jim has begun a fascinating new career in which he can express himself in so many different ways.

We’re guessing that (1) is the correct answer, but Jimbo’s praying that it’s (2). If it is, Jimbo’s just learned that his dream job is a reality.

We were going to save this until STJ got back from vacation on Tuesday, but it’s just too freaking funny to not share with you before the weekend hits. So…when the guy starts slurring really bad 18 seconds in, does he sound like Stu on a typical Friday night or what?

Seriously? The Cards are replacing El Hombre with Minor League Guy? You’d think they’d at least have taken a run at Guy Who The Yankees Cut To Make Room On The 40-Man Roster For Andy Pettitte.

Hype songs. If you are a student, or family member of a student, at any of America’s great institutions of higher education, please please please learn this lesson and never forget it: NEVER MAKE A HYPE VIDEO! EVER!!!

Anyway, the wholesome, pastyfaced young men and women of the University of Missourah decided to take their shot at a hype video this week, dropping a series of s-bombs (as in “screw red & blue”, not as in, well, never mind).

Congrats, Mizzou! Welcome to the Hype Song Hall Of Fail. Other glorious members after the jump.

In case you’ve missed it, here’s one of the funniest pictures you’ll see this week. The dude on the left is Oregon’s All-American tailback LaMichael James riding Space Mountain before playing in the Rose Bowl. On the right, by the way, is the I.E.’s own Kenjon Barner, who was clearly having a much better time in the Magic Kingdom.

Here’s the one thing more amazing than that picture. Mr. James is one of the toughest motherscratchers you’ll ever see on a football field. How tough? Watch the video below – warning: extremely unpleasant content – and know that dude popped his elbow back into place on his own. He missed exactly two weeks after turning his wing into a cat o’ one tail.

A couple weeks ago, Jimbo copped to the fact that he cries every time he watches the first part of Finding Nemo. If you were wondering what makes a dude who all but laughs at his arm nearly turning into a maraca cry, you just found out.