Results tagged “penn”

Yep, it's that time of year again: When Americans here try to explain to everyone else why we place so much importance on college athletics, namely football (the version where you don't use your feet too much). If you'd like to try to understand, or if you would just like to tell college footballs fans how silly you think they are in person, head out to Bubba's today. The first full Saturday of college football games is going on right now in the good ol' US of A. And Bubba's will have a couple selected games playing on tape delay on Sunday. Here's Bubba's email:

We wish we were outside right now. The weather as changed (although it will likely change back again) and so have the leaves (although only just a few). This has us in the mood ... in the mood for college football. Unfortunately, in China, college football is usually a craving that goes unsatisfied. Last year, when our satellite would work, we were overjoyed to find some games (albeit the Mountain West conference) on Sports Plus ... but then upon further review realized the games were around a month old. This year, with the introduction of prime-time televised games, we thought surely ESPN Asia would show these games on Sunday mornings (instead of the usual snooker or cheerleading), but that doesn't seem to be the case.

As much as we hate to start out on a bad note -- and breaking our own rule of dissuading musicians in this town to “find themselves” -- we do feel the need to ask a big, big favor for Screeching Stripy Siren and Mr. Bongos who graced the open-mic stage at Tanghui on Wednesday evening:

You may recall a few days ago we told you about about the female jaywalker who went all Sean Penn on the cop who was ticketing her (but not the camera crew who was filming it all). Well, the Shanghai Daily today offers us a jaywalking-in-Shanghai update. The highlights: