NFL: Defensive Rookies Making an Impact

Buffalo Bills’ Leodis McKelvin (Troy) – Former Troy defensive back Leodis McKelvin nabbed the first interceptions of his NFL career on Sunday. He intercepted the Kansas City Chiefs Tyler Thigpen twice in the Buffalo Bills 51-31 win. McKelvin had two interceptions in his senior year at Troy. The Tampa Bay Bucs picked up his former teammate Elbert Mack. He has played sparingly for the Bucs after grabbing a league leading 10 interceptions his seniors year at Troy.

His biggest contribution this season to the greater Buffalo area, however, has definitely been this commercial for Dave and Adams Card World. Wait until the end of the video.

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Missing Links: Beer with Thanksgiving?

Yes. According to Bob Townsend with Southern Brew News there are three great imports that pair well with Thanksgiving dinner.

1. St-Sylvestre Brewery’s 3 Monts – “A wonderful return to nature, with its flavour of yesteryear, this is a beer that was drawn from the wooden metal-circled barrels to fill so many mugs in our Flanders bars! Its bitterness comes from our hop fields scattered throughout the region. Brewed by infusions, it is an old-fashioned rising beer made with strong and hearty Flemish hops. Fermented using top yeasts, like the barrel brewers of yore and clamped like bonderise ...

Missing Links: Calipari Meets His Former Pupil

Okay, Okay. I understand no one watches college basketball until Jan. 1 except for the diehards. Really, I think it’s the most exciting part of the year next to March Madness. You have the opportunity to see upsets like VMI over Kentucky. (VMI has one of the most innovative offenses in the game. If I have time later today, I’ll post my interview with coach Duggar Baucome from last year. He explains his philosophy for building VMI’s program.) Anyway, this is the first college basketball post of the season and it’s about Memphis’ John Calipari facing his former assistant Derek Kellogg.

Missing Links: Fair Grounds Season Starts Early

I started reading Ernest Hemingway’s “A Moveable Feast” this week for the second or third time. I read it in college for a seminar on the author and in high school. I had forgotten there is a chapter devoted entirely to horse racing in Paris. His enthusiasm makes you want to drive to New Orleans for the opening of the racing season at the Fair Grounds.

Horsemen happy with early Fair Grounds start [Times-Picayune]

Missing Links: Is Beer Recession Proof?

Beer distributor Bob Mack says maybe.

Quote of the Day: Vonnegut on Veterans Day

Before anything else, I’d like to say happy birthday to my mother. She shares a birthday with the late Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut famously wrote about Veterans' Day in his book “Breakfast of Champions.”

“I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

Missing Links: The Presidential Physical Fitness Challenge

When I was younger, I couldn’t do a pull up to save my life. It was pretty embarrassing. I haven’t tried in a while, but I bet I’m still not very good.

I thought you all might find this chart disconcerting, but perhaps a little inspiring.

Tennis: The Masters Not in Augusta

The tennis season is finally coming to a close. It is, by far, the longest of any sport. Only the Shell World of Golf series is harder to follow.

Before we say goodbye for a few months, I guess most of you said goodbye after the US Open, the top eight in the world, minus Rafael Nadal, play one last tournament to decide it all: the Masters Cup. The round-robin event divides the top eight into two groups, gold and red, and then each player must play the other three in the group.

The Red Group is Roger Federer, Andy Murray, Andy Roddick and Giles Simon. The Gold Group is Novak Djokovic, Nikolay Davydenko, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Juan Martin del Potro.

Djokovic is usually pretty good at oddly formatted events like the Masters Cup, so I’l ...

Missing Links: Terrapin on CNN

Terrapin, the best small brewery in the Southeast, was featured on CNN last week as a small business success. Here is a link to the video.

(HT: Dustin)

Missing Links: Yuengling in Georgia

Two days ago I was in Kroger and nearly bumped into a high stack of 12 packs in the middle of the beer aisle. To my astonishment this tower of beer was Yuengling. I have always thought it was odd that you could find Yuengling, the tastiest cheap lager on the market, in all the states surrounding Georgia but not in the Peach State. According to bringyuenglingtogeorgia.com, nearly 2000 people petitioned Yuengling Brewing to distribute their delicious beer in Georgia. The campaign was successful and the first 12 packs hit stores in the Atlanta area last week. Yes!

Petition to Bring the Best Beer in America to Georgia [Bring Yuengling to Georgia]
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