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Snoop Dogg's Son Is a Four Star Football Recruit

Written by: Clay Travis

Ever see Snoop Dogg strutting across the stage and think, "Snoop's got some decent height and if he wasn't so high all the time, he might have pretty good motor skills."

Well, you were right. 

Meet Cordell Broadus, Snoop's son, who is a four-star, ranked #88 overall, in the class of 2015 by 24/7 Sports.

The Doggfather's son already has ten scholarship offers from USC, LSU, Tennessee, Duke, California, and UCLA among others. 

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As we continue to roll out the data from Outkick the Coverage's first year in business, here's a roster of our 25 largest cities for both desktop and mobile. I haven't broken these cities down on a per capita basis so these are just raw visit numbers that all come from Google Analytics. The Google Analytics data isn't flawless, but I think it's accurate enough to give a strong indication of where y'all are reading the site from. 

It's not a suprise that Nashville is our top market since it's my hometown and our 3HL show airs on 104.5 the Zone, which is the nation's highest rated sports talk station. (By the way, I just Tweeted out this link, but if you ever listen to sports talk radio you have to read an oral history from Grantland of the nation's first all sports station -- WFAN. It's truly amazing.)  So Nashville at the top was no surprise, but if you've ever wondered what kind of punch Texas A&M and Missouri will bring to the SEC, just scan the list of OKTC's top markets.

Three of our top ten markets are in Texas and St. Louis and Kansas City are both in our top 17 markets.

Now is that a perfect approximation of fan interest? Of course not, but it does suggest that there's an awful lot of fervent fans that can't wait for SEC football to get rolling. It's also pretty good evidence that the SEC has added a huge number of fans for the foreseeable future. After all, there are 31 million people living in Texas and Missouri, the entire SEC population before expansion was just 50 million.

So OKTC would like to humbly thank the SEC for expanding. Our site traffic eagerly looks forward to your teams in Virginia and North Carolina. Also, to forestall the, "That's just because of expansion emails," the traffic has been pretty consistent from those locations, not just spiking for expansion news alone.   

So let's dive in to the top 25 data here. 

Back on July 20th, 2011 I launched Outkick the Coverage.

It was the first day of SEC Media Days.

Just like anyone who starts any business I was nervous as hell. I had two boys under the age of three and I'd made a gamble that where I worked didn't matter anymore. After seven years at CBS, FanHouse and Deadspin, I'd come to believe that you guys would find me no matter what company I wrote for. So, really, I was gambling on you guys, the readers who have followed me over all these years.

That gamble paid off in the first year. Over four million unique visitors have come through the OKTC doors in our first year and over 60% of that traffic is social media, you guys sharing our content through Twitter and Facebook and online message boards. What's more, we produced over thirty million ad impressions, a massive number for an independent site with no relationship with any major site for linkage.

Those numbers are small compared to the big boys, but they aren't artificial.

They're real and to me they're spectacular.

Better than I could have hoped.

In fact, I had no real idea what to expect at all.   

Which means today is the day when I give y'all a big, sloppy Internet embrace. 

I'm writing this mailbag from Mackinac Island, where the lower peninsula meets the upper peninsula in Michigan. This may be the only place in the continental United States that isn't 80 degrees today. Basically, it's heaven. But I've been up here for a couple of days now and I'll begin the mailbag with a question that I pondered as we were walking around in Mackinac City yesterday, why do all vacation spot restaurants have pancakes and all vacation hotels have jacuzzis?

Neither makes any sense to me because neither is much of a luxury. 

For instance, is there some lack of pancakes? Are there people in America who want pancakes and can't find them anywhere? I mean, I get that pancakes are tasty and all, but go to an American vacation spot -- the Smoky Mountains, Mackinac Island, Destin, Florida -- and every restaurant has pancakes (or waffles). 

Why? 

Most people thought that the last time we'd ever see Jerry Sandusky outside of a jail cell was in the immediate moments after his conviction. As a handcuffed Sandusky walked to a police car, ducked down, and slipped inside the back of the cruiser, he vanished from fresh air, forever banished to a jail cell. But unfortunately for Penn State Sandusky just doesn't disappear. He's a key witness in the upcoming perjury trials against former vice president Gary Shultz and former athletic director Tim Curley. Both of these men have been charged with perjury for providing false information to the grand jury. In light of the emails uncovered by CNN these charges could grow to include conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and additional counts of perjury.

So who is likely to be the key witness to determine exactly what happened in the cover-up?

You guessed it, Jerry Sandusky.

Yes, Sandusky will be back in the courtroom only this time he'll be a key witness for either the state of Pennsylvania or Curley and Schultz. Amazingly, Sandusky holds the fate of both men -- as well as Joe Paterno's legacy -- in his felon hands.

Joe Paterno and Penn State officials conspired to protect Jerry Sandusky from prosecution in 2001 after Mike McQueary reported seeing Sandusky raping a young boy in the football locker room. That's the only conclusion that any reasonable person can draw from CNN"s blockbuster Friday night report uncovering multiple emails discussing the Sandusky incident between Penn State president Graham Spanier, athletic director Tim Curley, and vice president Gary Schultz.

Based on the emails it appears that Joe Paterno was the driving force behind the decision not to report Sandusky to authorities.

According to athletic director Tim Curley the decision not to report Sandusky was made after a meeting with Joe Paterno. "After giving it more thought and talking it over with Joe (Paterno) yesterday, I am uncomfortable with what we agreed were the next steps."

Curley, a former Penn State football player under Paterno, buckled under the wishes of his old coach, calling an audible that led to a conspiracy of silence. A conspiracy, that was he still alive, would probably lead to criminal charges being filed against Joe Paterno.

It's scorching.

It's always hot in the South but an awful lot of y'all reading this mailbag today will be doing so in cities that have never been hotter in recorded history. Think about how crazy this is for a minute. Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, Charlotte, Raleigh, and Louisville -- which are all top 15 markets for OKTC -- could all hit record highs today. How do you think Al Gore reacts to this? Secretly don't you think he's rooting for the craziest weather patterns every year? I mean he went all-in on global warming. If he'd just ignored global warming -- and if Palm Beach didn't have butterfly ballots -- he'd have been elected President.

So he has to secretly celebrate bad weather. Like when the 1972 Dolphins break out the champagne every year.

Our beaver pelt trader of the week is my 20 month old son who came into my office as I was writing this mailbag, picked up the Athlon preseason magazine and said, "I wanna read 'bout football."

It would warm my heart if it wasn't already too hot to warm my hot any more.

Godspeed, heat survivors.

You know how the television networks always claim they aren't involved in conference expansion?

Yeah, they're lying.

How do we know? Because yesterday we finally got our conference expansion smoking gun.

The Oklahoman uncovered memos from Chuck Neinas that specifically name networks, executives, and assess their opinions on Big 12 expansion. The network TV consensus from ESPN and Fox? Only Notre Dame is a positive addition to the Big 12. Quoth the Neinas memo: “Both representatives of ESPN/ABC and Fox Sports indicated that Notre Dame's involvement with the Big 12 Conference would increase the value of the conference relative to future television and also improve the image of the conference nationwide.”

Oh, there's more.

“Our television partners agreed that the only new member that would enhance the Big 12 value for television was Notre Dame,” Neinas wrote.

Old Alabama Fan Does "Call Me Maybe"

Written by: Clay Travis

Damn you Alabama, just when I think your fans can't get any crazier, this video arrives.

Yes, it's really an Alabama fan in a number 14 jersey singing along to "Call Me Maybe."

I mean, there are no words.

The level of diabolical genuis that even leads to this idea percolating inside any mind is just...well... it's downright extraordinary. 

Seriously, you have to watch this. 

Then we have to buy the Alabama van and go pick this guy up.  

This is just a comedy pyramid.

The Boob Draft

Written by: Clay Travis

Kate Upton has no discernible talent.

She can't act, she's not a very good dancer, and she doesn't have the traditional body of a supermodel.

But what she does have is a very specific set of assets.

Namely, two of them.

Her boobs.

And her boobs are enough to probably make her fifty million dollars or more.

God bless those glorious, natural boobs.

Why Not Start the Playoff in 2013, a year early?

Written by: Clay Travis

The BCS is dead.

Long live the BCS.

Yesterday college football's slow revolution came to a predictable close. Back in January SEC commissioner Mike Slive said that he saw a playoff coming. Nearly six months later, it's a reality. We know most of the details -- there will be a selection committee, the semi-finals will be played inside the existing bowl structure, and the top four teams will be chosen. Given the political parameters, I believe that college football's oldest generation got everything right.  

Except for one thing.

The playoff doesn't start until the 2014 season.

Which is confusing the hell out of an awful lot of fans. In this day and age how many industries announce a drastic improvement and then table its implementation for two years?

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