Raiders in New Haven

My daughter started school last week, and there was a note on vaccinations and other health stuff, signed by the president of the Board of Education and the Acting Director of Public Health, Dr. Chisara N. Asomugha.

The form's a little dated, because she is now the Community Services Administrator for the City of New Haven.

She's also permanent CLOAK OF IMMORTALITY Man Crush Nnamdi Asomugha's big sister.

I confirmed this when I read this SI profile from last year on Nnamdi, "A Name Worth Knowing."

"Nnamdi struggled at times to fit in among a household of academic achievers. Chisara, the oldest of the children, is a pediatrician with an M.D. from Duke and a master's in public health from North Carolina; she's a finalist for a White House fellowship, to be announced later this month. His younger sister, Udodirim, has a master's in public health from Michigan, and Chijioke received his M.B.A. from Columbia this spring."

That's a serious family right there.

Hater of the Week: Aileen Yoo

Blogger Aileen Yoo from SFGate's blog The Scavenger serves up a boatload of condescension in a piece about Permanent Man Crush Nnamdi Asomugha:

Now, Raiders cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha reveals what he'd do if he weren't playing for godawful Oakland. In ESPN's ongoing "backup plan" feature, Asomugha, the highest-paid defensive back ever and quite the do-gooder, morphed into an ESPN TV sports analyst, going from meeting to meeting, and learning the tricks of the trade.

The comments on this post are pretty funny. Right off the bat, JSpicoli writes, "Hey Aileen. You are Godawful."

In her favor, she also noted that 49ers tight end Vernon Davis wants to be an interior decorator when he's done playing ball. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Nnamdi Dominates ESPN

Look, I don't know why ESPN.com only has two videos (that I can find, maybe I'm just looking wrong or not hard enough; there are a lot of podcasts and radio excerpts though) of Nnamdi Asomugha's two days in and around Bristol, CT. I watched him on the SportCenter Draft Special this afternoon break down the available corners in the draft with Trey Wingo, et. al. But all I kind are these two:





The first one is with Dana Jacobson, and if it featured any other player besides Nmamdi, it might come across as condescending, seeing as they ask him to pronounce other foreign names. But his class overcomes it. He could have gotten indignant, which might have been funny, but he handles himself well and even makes Jacobs look okay.

The second one I found courtesy of Bill Williamson, and it just figures that he would post a video of the Raiders star quarterback opining on whether or not the DENVER BRONCOS should trade up and draft Mark Sanchez. He says they should. Maybe it's reverse psychology? He wants them to waste the draft picks they got along with Kyle Orton on Sanchez, because everyone knows the boy genius develops late round QBs like Matt Cassell.

At least Wingo gives Nmamdi the props he deserves.

Nnamdi Profiled in USA Today

There's a fantastic profile of Nnamdi Asomugha today, written by Jim Corbett, that says everything you need to know about why he's the CLOAK's permanent Man Crush.

Dan will pleased to know that in addition to kindling a bromance with Bill Clinton, Nmamdi learned a lot of his shutdown skills by digging into the Raiders film library to watch Lester Hayes.

Anyway, it's an inspiring story, and everyone who calls himself or herself a Raiders fan should read it.