Pat Forde is a sports journalist who currently serves as a national columnist for Yahoo Sports.
Forde is currently a writer for Yahoo Sports. Forde left ESPN on November 1, 2011 to pursue a career with more journalistic freedom. Prior to leaving ESPN, Forde was a staple on radio and television for his college Football and Basketball coverage. Forde's column "Forde-Yard-Dash" drew acclaim for its intense focus on college football.
Prior to joining ESPN, Forde worked for 17 years as a journalist for The Louisville Courier-Journal, where his writing won numerous awards.
Besides his columns on ESPN's front page, Forde also writes a weekly "Forde Yard Dash" during the NCAA football regular season, featuring 40 mentions of college football from the previous week, as well as a weekly "Dashette", a female model or celebrity. During the NCAA basketball regular season, Forde writes a column called, "Forde Minutes," following the same premise as his "Forde Yard Dash" column. In 2008, Forde served as the co-author for the University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino's Rebound Rules: The Art of Success 2.0.
Daniel Patrick Pugh (born May 15, 1956), professionally known as Dan Patrick, is an American Sports Emmy-winning sportscaster, radio personality, and actor from Mason, Ohio. He currently hosts The Dan Patrick Show which is broadcast on radio on Premiere Radio Networks, and on television on The Audience Network for DIRECTV subscribers, co-hosts NBC's Football Night in America, and serves as a senior writer for Sports Illustrated. He previously worked at ESPN for 18 years, where he often anchored the weeknight and Sunday 11 PM edition of SportsCenter.
Patrick attended the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio. His brother, Bill Pugh, is a longtime sports radio executive, and is currently the head of programming at Clear Channel San Diego. Patrick was a basketball player in high school at William Mason High School, becoming an Ohio all-state selection his senior year. He attended Eastern Kentucky University on a basketball scholarship for two years before transferring to the University of Dayton, where he majored in broadcast journalism. Patrick is also an alumnus of the Eta Hexaton Chapter of the Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity at Dayton.
Rushing towards oblivion
Like lemmings to the sea
We stumble through this life time
And call it being free
yeah but knowing where you're going
And who you're meant to be
That's what freedom means to me
We're all born with a hunger
We just can't seem to feed
Yet all the things we struggle fore
Are not the things we need
But the man who seeks the Lord of life
Will find his life indeed
Satisfaction guaranteed
Don't eat of that bad fruit
Don't drink of that sweet wine
It may look great from a distance
But it gets you every time
Don't wait for tomorrow
Grab hold of that life line
There's Someone dying to love you
And He sings the sweetest song
And that's where you belong
History repeats itself
Our troubles never end
And each new generation
Just fouls it up again
Well you'd think that we'd get awful tired
Of going where we've been
What a shabby state we're in
Love can fill the hole in your soul
Watch your life begin again
Come and let the Master take control
Open your heart you've found a Friend
Don't eat of that bad fruit
Don't drink of that sweet wine
It may look great from a distance
But it gets you every time
Don't wait for tomorrow
Grab hold of that life line
There's Someone dying to love you
Eek-A-Mouse in a the latest style
nothing good happened on that Friday
everything was really, really bad
really, really bad
a no good Friday, bad Friday
a no good Friday, bad Friday
a no good Friday, bad Friday
a no good Friday, so they say
Them mock him
they beat him
put a spear in a him side
him mother Mary she cry
she say that her one son die, EHH
Look how hard him really try
to really really survive
she just a holler EHH
she just a bawl say her one son die
EHH, EHH, EHH
a no good Friday, bad Friday
a no good Friday, bad Friday
a no good Friday, bad Friday
a no good Friday, bad Friday
Him carry a cross from Bethlehem
down in a Jerusalem
Woy woy, ehh ehh
Them mock him
them stone him
they spit in his eye
him mother Mary she cry
she holler she a bawl eh eh eh
dem dem dem dem ehh
a no good Friday, bad Friday
a no good Friday, bad Friday
a no good Friday, bad Friday eh eh
nothing really good happened on that day
Them mock him
they beat him
put a spear in a him side
him mother Mary she cry
she say her one son die, EHH
Look how hard him really try
to really really survive, EHH
Them mock him
them stone him
some of them spit in his eye
ehh ehh ehh
a no good Friday, bad Friday
a no good Friday, nothing good happened on that day
a no good Friday, bad Friday