Ole Miss pulled away from Memphis Saturday night in Oxford, improving to 4-0 for the first time since 1970 and setting up one of the biggest --- if not the biggest --- games in Vaught-Hemingway Stadium next weekend. ESPN's College GameDay will be in the Grove, making Ole Miss the center of the college football world on one of the most intriguing weekends of the season so far. I stumbled into a conversation I'll never forget, the Major League Baseball playoffs are set to begin and I was encouraged by science to drink red wine (as If I needed the push). My thoughts on those topics and more follow here, thanks to Oxford-based RE/MAX Legacy Realty agent Harry Alexander.
1. It wasn't pretty, no, but Ole Miss got it done Saturday night, beating Memphis, 24-3. Bo Wallace was 22-for-37 passing for 248 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions. The turnovers kept Memphis in the game. Throw them out --- and yes, I know it doesn't work that way --- and the Rebels would have been comfortable in the third quarter.
Jaylen Walton and I'Tavius Mathers combined for 135 yards and a touchdown on 24 carries, a very positive sign. A long Mark Dodson touchdown was called back on a holding penalty on Laquon Treadwell. The call --- away from the play and borderline at best --- was par for the course Saturday. The American Conference officiating crew was awful.
Andrew Fletcher missed a pair of field goals, Derrick Jones dropped a deep ball and an unsportsmanlike penalty on the Ole Miss bench killed a red zone chance.
Memphis, meanwhile, was held to 23 yards rushing and just 104 yards of total offense. Ole Miss' defense was dominant. It was stifling. It was intimidating. One never got the impression that the Tigers were capable of mounting a long scoring drive.
"They kicked our tail," Memphis coach Justin Fuente said of the Rebels' defense. "They didn't do anything new. They're just pretty darn good."
"We played a great game," Ole Miss defensive tackle Robert Nkemdiche said. "We've been really focused on defense for the past two weeks. We came out and played sound football, and it helped us win the game."
Don't forget this reality: Ole Miss was focused on Alabama. Sure, Hugh Freeze and his coaching staff begged the Rebels to not overlook Memphis, but kids are subject to the same temptations we all are. They knew what loomed on the horizon.
"I'm so glad this is over and everyone can do whatever talking they want to do about next week," Freeze said. "It was distracting at times."
2. I happened to stumble into Brad Gaines late Friday morning in my neighborhood. Gaines was in town for the weekend, one that Ole Miss dedicated to the late Chucky Mullins. We had a conversation, though it was more just a couple of guys talking than anything else. I told Gaines I was in the end zone bleachers at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium that day in 1989 when Mullins hit Gaines and crumpled to the ground with a spinal injury. I remember more about the next week than I do that Vanderbilt-Ole Miss game.
A week later, Ole Miss entertained LSU. I actually had a date that day (I know; I'm still as shocked as you are) and the game was a classic in which LSU held off a furious Ole Miss rally, but what I remember vividly are the fried chicken buckets being passed through the stadium during the contest. Fans of both teams, of all ages and backgrounds, emptied their wallets and purses into those buckets in an effort to help Mullins. It remains one of the coolest things I've ever witnessed in person.
Ole Miss did everything it could to take care of Mullins, even building him a house in Oxford when he returned to school to resume his education. On Friday, Ole Miss renamed Coliseum Drive "Chucky Mullins Drive." On Saturday, Mullins' No. 38 was a big part of the game-day experience. The university should be proud of how it has honored Mullins over the past 25 years. It has made the very best out of a tragic accident.
I don't think Gaines will mind my relaying portions of our conversation Friday. I watched the SEC Storied documentary on Gaines and Mullins earlier this month and felt overwhelming sympathy for Gaines, who makes three pilgrimages each year from his home near Nashville to Mullins' grave in Russellville, Ala.
I told Gaines I was there that day, and I wanted to take an opportunity to tell him what so many others have told him over the past quarter-century: The accident wasn't his fault. It was a tragic outcome to a part of the game. I also told him I had the utmost respect for his desire to honor Mullins over the past 25 years and that I had incredible respect for his attendance in Oxford over the weekend.
Gaines was appreciative, I'm sure, but he said something profound. He said everyone has to grieve in his or her own way, and the way he had chosen was his way. It gave him peace.
I'm glad. It was an honor to spend a few minutes with him.
3. My RebelGrove.com colleagues and I have been having a debate of sorts for the past few weeks. We've worked on putting together a list of the 10 most significant games in the history of Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. No. 1 is easy: LSU-Ole Miss, 2003. It was Eli Manning's final home game, and the Rebels could have clinched a trip to the SEC Championship Game with a win. I'm not an Ole Miss historian, but finding nine more games to round out the list requires a deep dig --- so deep that Chase Parham has said it's condescending to put it together. Chase, I believe, is worried that it'll look like we're making fun of Ole Miss. That's most certainly not my intention. Rather, I view the process as a way of putting this weekend's game between Alabama and Ole Miss in perspective.
In 1955, a 10-1 Ole Miss team beat Arkansas in Oxford, 17-7. I'm guessing that was significant. In 1960, Ole Miss' national title team beat Mississippi State in Oxford, 35-9, to finish the regular season and lock up a Sugar Bowl berth. In 1962, another national title team beat the Bulldogs in Oxford, 13-6, to wrap up that season and another trip to the Sugar Bowl.
In 1992, an 7-3 Ole Miss team defeated Mississippi State, 17-10, in Oxford to earn a trip to the Liberty Bowl, but that game didn't have the nation's attention. In 2001, a 6-1 Ole Miss team had a chance to take control of the SEC West with Houston Nutt and Arkansas coming to town a week after the Rebels had pounded LSU in Baton Rouge. The Hogs won in seven overtimes, 58-56, the first of three straight losses.
In 2003, Ole Miss lost at Memphis and at home to Texas Tech early in the season, so home wins against Alabama, Arkansas and South Carolina really flew under the proverbial radar. Ole Miss didn't really become a national story until Nov. 8 when the Rebels beat Auburn at Jordan-Hare Stadium.
In 2009, Ole Miss beat LSU in Oxford, 25-23, to all but clinch a trip to the Capital One Bowl. A week later, of course, the Rebels lost in Starkville and lost that trip to Orlando to the aforementioned Tigers.
So, yeah, this weekend's game is one of the biggest --- Jeffrey Wright argues THE biggest --- in Vaught-Hemingway Stadium history.
"I haven't really thought about it yet," Ole Miss safety Cody Prewitt said. "We're really excited. We're hoping to rise to the occasion."
Ole Miss linebacker D.T. Shackelford grew up in Decatur, Ala. He knows all about the aura of the Crimson Tide program.
"We know they're a very good team and we know we're going to have to play for 60 minutes," Shackelford said. "(A win) would mean a lot. I'm not going to downplay it like it wouldn't be a big win. I feel like we have to make sure we take it one play at a time, one day at a time while we prepare."
Within minutes of Ole Miss' win over Memphis, ESPN announced it would be bringing its wildly popular College GameDay program to the Grove Saturday morning, ensuring that an already crazy Oxford will turn into a zoo. It's awesome news for Ole Miss. The SEC has a phenomenal tripleheader on tap Saturday --- Texas A&M at Mississippi State, Alabama at Ole Miss, LSU at Auburn --- and Oxford will be the epicenter of it all.
It will be tremendous exposure for the program. It should serve as a recruiting tool of sorts, both athletically and academically. It's a sign that Ole Miss football is officially back on the college football map. It's a big deal.
All that's left for Ole Miss to truly take advantage of the opportunity is beating an undefeated Alabama team that is vying for yet another national title under Nick Saban. That task, of course, is just a wee bit difficult. Ole Miss hasn't beaten Alabama since that 2003 win I referenced earlier in this thought. Then again, this Ole Miss team is full of kids who came to Ole Miss despite of its history, ready to make some history of their own.
Saturday represents their first real chance to do just that.
4. My friend Mark Schlabach of ESPN.com led a recent assessment of life in the grueling SEC West by talking about Ole Miss. Schlabach pointed out that despite the Rebels' success on the recruiting trail in the past two years, bowl wins in each of the past two seasons and an upset of then-No. 6 LSU, the Rebels were still staring up at three SEC West foes in the polls.
"I'm probably the only coach that speaks the truth about that," Freeze told Schlabach. "I don't know if our fans like it or not, but there are times you feel like it's insurmountable. The confidence you have is that you know in your heart that you've closed the gap from what it was, and that on a given day, you're good enough to beat them."
"I can't remember a time when there were that many good teams in one division," former Alabama coach Gene Stallings, who guided the Crimson Tide to the 1992 national championship, told ESPN.com. "Texas A&M probably wishes it was on the other side. It's a really strong division right now."
As Schlabach pointed out, the SEC West has a 99.3 rating on a 0-100 scale in ESPN's division power rankings, which is 33 points higher than any other division in college football. Further, each of the SEC West teams rank in the top 20 of ESPN's Football Power Index, which is more teams than the Big 12, Big Ten and ACC have combined. The top three teams in the FPI are from the SEC West: No. 1 Alabama, No. 2 Texas A&M and No. 3 Auburn.
Five SEC West teams (Alabama, Auburn, Ole Miss, Mississippi State and Texas A&M) rank in the Top 25 among FBS teams in both scoring offense and scoring defense.
"I think these things kind of run in cycles," Alabama coach Nick Saban told ESPN.com. "They run in cycles from team to team and they run in cycles from division to division. I just think this happens to be one of those years where it seems like the West has a lot of really good teams. I think our league is just really, really strong from top to bottom. There's a lot of balance, and I just think our side of it seems to be especially strong this year."
"We've made progress," Arkansas coach Bret Bielema added. "We've done certain things better. I think, without a doubt, our guys have a lot more confidence than they maybe had a year ago. But until you've done it on a big stage and against a quality opponent like we're going to see Saturday, it's really just talk."
With that as a backdrop, here's my weekly ranking of the SEC:
1. Alabama --- The Tide was off last weekend, but they've looked to be the most balanced club in the league so far. We'll learn more Saturday when Blake Sims faces his first road test.
2. Mississippi State --- I'm ducking. However, the Bulldogs have an impressive win at LSU on their resume. We'll learn a lot more Saturday.
3. Auburn --- The Tigers can score seemingly at will, but I'm far from sold on their defense. We'll learn more Saturday (yeah, there's a theme).
4. Ole Miss --- The Rebels' defense is just nasty. The offense will go as far as Wallace can take it. Saturday will be a serious test.
5. Texas A&M --- The Aggies' defense has major issues. Can they stop Dak Prescott and Co. on Saturday?
6. LSU --- One has to believe Les Miles will turn to freshman Brandon Harris as his starting quarterback. Making that first start on the road at Jordan-Hare Stadium will be, shall we say, interesting.
7. Arkansas --- Yeah, the whole West is in front of the whole East. Shoot me. The Hogs almost won Saturday in Jerry World. Bielema is doing one hell of a good job.
8. Georgia --- Todd Gurley is a monster. Why he doesn't get the ball more is beyond me, but the Bulldogs have problems at quarterback and on defense.
9. Missouri --- The Tigers lose at home to Indiana and then win at South Carolina. Go figure.
10. South Carolina --- I'm just guessing now. Steve Spurrier seems eager to disown this team.
11. Tennessee - Much like Bielema at Arkansas, Butch Jones has the Volunteers excited about the future. The Vols should have won in Athens.
12. Kentucky --- The Wildcats would win at Florida if they got another shot.
13. Florida --- If the Gators don't win in Knoxville on Saturday (I bet they won't), things are going to get uglier in Gainesville.
14. Vanderbilt --- It is what it is.
5. Here are my weekly much-too-early bowl projections for SEC teams. If you take this seriously, especially before one game is played in October, have a glass of wine (more on that later).
AllState Sugar Bowl --- Alabama
Capital One Orange Bowl --- Auburn
Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl --- Mississippi State
Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus Bowl --- Ole Miss
TaxSlayer.com Bowl --- Georgia
Outback Bowl --- Texas A&M
Belk Bowl --- Missouri
Franklin American Mortgage City Music Bowl --- LSU
AutoZone Liberty Bowl --- South Carolina
Advocare V100 Texas Bowl --- Arkansas
Duck Commander Independence Bowl --- Tennessee
6. The Orlando Sentinel's Mike Bianchi took Florida fans to task a bit last week, writing that it's "no wonder Urban Meyer went on HBO the other night and essentially talked about having a mental breakdown when he coached the Gators. Urban said the pressure to win reached such a point that he had to medicate himself with Ambien and beer just to fall asleep. And this is a coach who won two national titles in six years at UF. (Will) Muschamp is coming off a 4-8 season. What's he need to sleep at night: Quaaludes, Jack Daniel's and three body guards outside his bedroom door?"
Muschamp's seat is hot. It might be scorching hot as the calendar turns to October. However, many Florida fans are clamoring for change now. As Bianchi wrote, and I agree, why --- or at least, why now? It serves absolutely no purpose.
"You never judge or evaluate a program based on one game or one season," Foley told Bianchi. "That's just not how we do things here. We're going to evaluate where we're headed --- where the players are, how is recruiting going, what type of staff we have --- are we better? That's going to be plain for all of us to see, but it's also going to be played out over the course of 11 games and we'll see where we are when we get to the end of the season."
As Bianchi wrote, there's another underlying reason to give Muschamp a lot of time: There's no one clamoring for the Gators' gig. Charlie Strong, who would have made a ton of sense, is in Year One at Texas. Former Florida assistant Bob Stoops isn't leaving Oklahoma to rebuild in Gainesville. Landing an established, proven, winning head coach might be tougher now than ever before.
Other thoughts from around the college football world:
A. For the longest time, it was assumed that offense sold tickets while defense won championships. The SEC, however, has abandoned that premise. Entering last weekend, with three of the top four scoring teams in the country this season, SEC teams lead all conferences with an average of 39.7 points per game. "I think it's what football is right now," Freeze said. "The fans like it. It's exciting ... It's just kind of where we are right now. I don't know what else the defenses can do. Trust me; it's a chore to try to figure it out." Nationally, college football teams averaged 27.1 points per game nationally in 2009. It's a number that's steadily risen since, to 29.5 points per game last year and 31.6 so far this season. Pac-12 teams led all conferences with an average of 33.4 points per game last season, and the conference has seen that number rise to 37.9 this season. South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier called the rise "misleading" while pointing to overmatched nonconference opponents. Arkansas' Bielema said, much to his chagrin, the days of 17-10 football games are likely finished for good. "Yeah, those are," Bielema told the Associated Press. "You know, everybody gets bored. You guys get mad; that's so boring. To me, it's awesome ... I don't like high scoring, but it makes everybody happy, so it's probably good."
B. There are seven teams in the SEC West that would win the SEC East. There's much to be made regarding Georgia's play-calling, but Georgia isn't good enough on defense for it to really matter. Tennessee is much improved, granted, but the Vols are still a year away from mattering. South Carolina and Missouri are average clubs. The rest of the division isn't worth discussing. Watch the East champ win the title game and throw the playoff picture into chaos.
C. Speaking of, there might not be a clear-cut No. 1 in college football, but I know who shouldn't be atop the polls --- Florida State. The Seminoles should have lost at home to Clemson last weekend and were severely tested at North Carolina State on Saturday. They'd lose multiple games in the SEC, at least in my opinion.
D. After a loss at home to Texas, Charlie Weis has been fired at Kansas. He was 6-22 with the Jayhawks. Paging Houston Nutt? I'm kidding. Nutt couldn't get that job. However, it's a horrible gig. It will be fascinating to see who Kansas can attract.
E. Michigan lost to Minnesota, 30-14, Saturday, putting another nail in Brady Hoke's coaching coffin in Ann Arbor. There is some scuttlebutt that the Wolverines will go after LSU's Miles, but he's 61 years old and apparently happy in Baton Rouge. Yahoo.com's Dan Wetzel wrote late Saturday, "There is one, and only one prime candidate for this job --- Jim Harbaugh, who grew up in Ann Arbor as the son of a Michigan assistant, was a star quarterback for Bo Schembechler and is now head coach of the San Francisco 49ers. Wetzel writes that Michigan is hoping Harbaugh can be its Nick Saban, who left the NFL for Alabama and returned the Crimson Tide to glory. My opinion? Harbaugh might leave San Francisco, but he'll stay in the NFL.
F. From ESPN.com: "The Big 12 has cried foul on Kansas State coach Bill Snyder's game-day wardrobe. Snyder typically wears purple windbreakers on the sideline that have logos of past bowl games on them, some of which are several years old. But Snyder received a note from the league office this week respectfully asking that he retire some of the outdated ones. The reason? The Big 12 no longer has contracts with some of those bowl games anymore, and others have changed names. That includes the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl, now called the Cactus Bowl, which Snyder wore on his jacket during last week's nationally televised game against Auburn. To steer clear of trouble, Snyder opted for a rare white windbreaker, sans bowl logo, for Saturday's 58-28 blowout of UTEP."
7. All of a sudden, the New York Giants' offense is explosive, and quarterback Eli Manning is playing better than he has in years. The reason, per the Giants, isn't complicated. Instead, it's a product of Big Blue's offensive line finally playing well.
"We know (Manning) can pass the ball," Giants left tackle Will Beatty told the New York Daily News. "We give him a pocket, he's going to show off. So it's our job as an O-line to give him that space to work and he's going make the plays."
"I think there are a couple of factors," Giants coach Tom Coughlin told the Daily News. "We played this (offensive line) together for a couple of weeks, and they experienced a little bit of success a week ago. That really did a lot for them. Once that starts to develop, that helps an awful lot."
In the first two games --- both losses --- Manning took 11 hits and four sacks. His completion percentage was 61.1 (44 of 72), he threw four interceptions and had a passer rating of 69.2. In the last two games, though, Manning has been virtually untouched. He's been hit and sacked just twice. Given plenty of time to throw, he completed an astounding 73.1 percent of his passes (49 of 67) for 531 yards, with six touchdowns and one interception. His passer rating in those two wins rose to 119.9.
"Our offensive line is definitely our most unheralded group," Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz told the Daily News. "It's huge. The key obviously to getting everything going is keeping Eli upright and keeping him in a position where he can deliver the ball to his playmakers and have us do the rest."
"I mean, you know what he can do," Beatty added. "He's going to go out there and make you look good. He's going to complete passes. And as an offensive line we know that. So we have that confidence that no matter who they put in front of us, if we block them Eli's going to make us look good."
Other thoughts from the week that was in the NFL:
A. Now-retired New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter heard about the scrutiny being placed on Manning after the first two weeks of the Giants' season. Asked what he would tell the Giants' quarterback, Jeter gave his advice. "Don't read the papers, don't listen to it. That's the bottom line. Stay positive," Jeter told NFL.com. "That's the only way you can deal with it. It's tough. It's tough to avoid it, because you're constantly asked questions about it. So you know the angle, you know what's being written. But you've got to stay positive, regardless." It's advice Manning has taken to heart. "Between the first two (Super Bowls), there was four years," Manning told NFL.com. "I know, having gone through it, (it's not) easy to win championships. I understand what has to happen, how many breaks you have to get, how you have to win games, how much of a grind it is. We're going to keep working. I think that's what makes it special when you do it -- because you've earned the right to be champions." Jeter knows that better than most. "You have to realize, it's not easy," Jeter said. "At times, certain guys make things look easy. Even when it looks easy, it doesn't come easy. There's a lot of work behind (winning a championship). Hey, it's sports, but like anything in life, you're going to have good years, you're going to have bad years. But you want to be consistent. Your personality needs to be consistent, your work ethic needs to be consistent. Everything you do needs to remain consistent. What's the saying --- tough times don't last, tough people do? I think you can look at the history of professional athletes, and they've all had tough periods."
B. Aaron Rodgers threw four touchdown passes to destroy Chicago at Soldier Field. Jay Cutler is now 1-9 in starts against the Packers, not exactly the way to endear yourself to Bears fans.
C. Andrew Luck threw for 393 yards and four touchdowns in the Colts' rout of Tennessee. Get used to it, in my opinion. I know my man-crush on Luck is obnoxious, but the guy is on his way to a multi-title career.
D. Detroit won on the road over the Jets, dropping Rex Ryan and Co. to 1-3. It will be fascinating to see which direction the Jets go after this season, for it appears the Jets aren't going to be a playoff contender.
E. Mike Glennon led Tampa Bay to an upset win at Pittsburgh Sunday, throwing for 302 yards and a pair of touchdowns. Glennon was in for Josh McCown, who tore a ligament in his thumb last week. Don't be surprised if Glennon makes a run at the permanent gig.
F. Teddy Bridgewater threw for 317 yards to beat the Falcons in his first professional start. Go figure. For Atlanta, meanwhile, the loss is another sign that the Falcons simply aren't strong enough to make any kind of run in the NFC South.
G. San Francisco's 26-21 win over Philadelphia was not only the best game of the day in the NFL, but it was the kind of win that should silence some of the noise in the Bay Area. Philadelphia is 3-1 after the first quarter of the season, and the Eagles should be thrilled. However, the people writing off the NFC East as open and shut in Philly's favor might want to slow their roll a bit.
8. Jeter's legendary career came to an end on Sunday in Boston. There might never be another like him. It's funny; the final day of my Chicago Cubs' baseball season has always been sort of a melancholy day for me. Another year has come to an end, all but six years of my life without a postseason berth. The last several years, the season has ended without much hope for the future. That's not the case this September. For Cubs fans like me, there's hope. Anthony Rizzo had a special season. Starlin Castro bounced back. Javy Baez was called up. So was Jorge Soler and Arismendy Alcantara. Kris Bryant was the Minor League Player of the Year. Jake Arrieta and Kyle Hendricks were stalwarts on the mound. Hector Rondon appears to be the closer of the present and future. There's money to spend. There is reason to believe.
I'm reminded of a line in Shawshank Redemption, where Andy writes to Red, saying, "Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies." Call me cheesy if you'd like; it's OK. But that's true, whether it's about the Cubs or most anything else. Hope is indeed a very good thing, maybe the best of things.
For Cubs fans like me, however, patience will once again have to be a virtue, as the North Siders just barely missed the playoffs. Speaking of, here are my Major League Baseball playoff predictions:
I'll take the Royals over the Athletics in the American League Wildcard game and I'll take Pittsburgh over San Francisco in the National League's version of the ill-advised one-game series.
I'll take the Angels over either the Royals or A's in a five-game series and Detroit over Baltimore on the other side of the bracket. For some reason, I'll go with the Tigers in the American League.
In the National League, I'll take Washington over either NL wildcard team and the Dodgers over the Cardinals on the other side. I'll go with the Dodgers, on the strength of their pitching, to claim the NL pennant and, ultimately, a World Series title.
9. Negative recruiting has been, is and always will be a part of college football. To think otherwise is naïve.
Still, I think Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin might have gone a bit too in his not-so-thinly-veiled comments recently. Perhaps it was a coincidence (yeah, right), but shortly after four-star wide receiver DaMarkus Lodge decommitted from the Aggies, Sumlin had some pointed words.
"When you play in a system like we play, you've got eight guys that will rotate," Sumlin said, according to Yahoo.com. "A lot of things are being said out there in recruiting like, 'Why would you go there and play receiver, they are loaded.' That isn't the case. But if you're scared, you don't need to play here."
Sumlin didn't mention Lodge by name; to do so would represent a recruiting violation. Still, it's difficult to believe his words were random.
When Lodge decommitted last week, he said he wasn't afraid of the competition at receiver in College Station. However, the Aggies have 17 receivers on the roster, and only Malcolme Kennedy is a senior.
Currently, the Aggies have just one receiving commit on its 2015 recruiting list, but, according to Rivals.com, five-star receivers Christian Kirk and Tyron Johnson are leans toward the Aggies.
Lodge, after all, is a kid. He will take a visit to Ole Miss next weekend for the Rebels' date with Alabama, has multiple offers and every right in the world to change his mind as many times as he'd like between now and the first Wednesday in February.
Sumlin, a multimillionaire, was out of line in calling him out, even though he didn't use Lodge's name. Something tells me Sumlin wouldn't appreciate having his character called into question if he ever decided to leave Texas A&M for the NFL.
10. Bad news and good news, at least for me, here for the final thought of the weekend.
First, from Esquire.com, there's word that the Food and Drug Administration recently approved the iGrow Hair Growth System. In case you're wondering (I was), that's not an Apple product. Anyway, the system is a goofy looking helmet that uses low-level laser therapy to strengthen follicles and regenerate cells, reportedly with no side effects. It also has headphones. The bad news: the iGrow system only works on hair loss that falls in the 2A-5 categories on the Hamilton Norwood Hair Loss Scale, meaning it should help fellows with receding hairlines all the way to mid-sized bald spots. In other words, I'm screwed. One day…
I did get some good news last week; specifically, an item from EliteDaily.com which cites a study on the health benefits of red wine. According to the study, your body could receive the same benefits from drinking wine as hitting the gym for an hour of sweat-inducing exercise.
The Latin Times reported that researchers at Canada's University of Alberta "found that the magic ingredient in red wine is resveratol which is also found in nuts and grapes. This complex boosts the function of the heart, muscles and bones as much as a trip to the gym does. Scientists tested the effectiveness of resveratol on rodents and will be looking at its effect on diabetics next."
Hallelujah.
This post was edited on 9/28 9:14 PM by Neal McCready
