Long way to go to clean up sport

Isuppose all we need now is Jack Warner denouncing an article in The Onion about Will Ferrell being named the new president of FIFA, given the actor’s tight grasp of soccer’s intricate facets from his work in “Kicking & Screaming.”

Maybe the two Italian kids can become vice presidents, given no one from their country has been indicted.

The gift that is the corrupt and disgraced governing body of soccer just keeps on giving. Sepp Blatter, the smug and defiant president who on Friday was elected to an unprecedented fifth term, resigned Tuesday amid the worst scandal in FIFA’s 111year history.

It took four days for the empire to begin crumbling, which I suppose gives us all hope the NCAA eventually might be dismantled piece by piece from its current inequitable state.

Why is Blatter out? Follow the money

No image more perfectly captured Blatter’s surprising exit than those who tweeted a picture of Richard Nixon giving the victory sign while boarding the White House helicopter shortly after resigning the presidency in 1974. Question is, will Sepp need a pardon? Who will be his Gerald Ford? “I have thoroughly considered my presidency and thought about my presidency,” Blatter said when announcing his decision to turn and run as fast as his 79-year-old legs allow. “The challenges that FIFA is facing have not come to an end. FIFA needs profound restructuring. Although the members of FIFA have given me the mandate and re-elected me president, this mandate doesn’t seem to be supported by everyone in the world of football.”

Translation: Everyone who isn’t from those small, poor, starving countries of which Blatter secured votes for so many years wanted the guy out. So why his sudden change of heart? Why just a few days after promising “I do not forget,” a direct threat at those who opposed his candidacy and requested he not run again, did Blatter resign?