Spanish guitarist Pablo Sáinz Villegas will perform at a benefit for Haiti tonight at the University of San Diego’s Joan B. Kroc Institute of Peace & Justice.

Jacques Cesaire, defensive end for the San Diego Chargers, will open the concert. Cesaire, who is of Haitian descent and has relatives who were affected by the devastating Jan. 12 quake there, will talk about the importance of supporting the relief effort. A $50 donation at the door is suggested for the 7 p.m. event.

All proceeds go to Partners in Health, a global nonprofit that has worked in Haiti for more than 20 years. The group’s founder, Paul Farmer, the U.N. deputy special envoy to Haiti, was a keynote speaker at a USD event last fall.

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It really helps put the man and his life in perspective.

Hold on…the Chargers let Eli Manning go? When did that happen? Lol.

Is the QB the only player on a team? Why is it that everyone is acting like the Chargers would have won a Super Bowl already if they had kept Brees, or apparently letting Eli “slip away” is an issue, even though he would have refused to join the team.

Last I checked there were 44 other players active on a football team contributing to the success and failure of any team.

Quite frankly, all this talk of Brees and the Chargers is beginning to piss me off. It’d be one thing if Rivers were the second coming of Ryan Leaf, but GOD DAMMIT do the Chargers have an excellent quarterback in Rivers.

Oh wait, I’m forgetting, we would have won 4 Super Bowls by now had we fired AJ, kept Marty (14-2 after all) and apparently also kept Brees.

This is getting ridiculous.

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He is and was at the time he was let go. It was just that the Chargers were blessed at the time with two good quaterbacks and they deserved that kind of problem after the Ryan Leaf debaucle. The powers that be in San Diego at the time saw a young Phillip Rivers as having more of an upside and went with it. They were right then and I think they are still right now. They gave Rivers the chance to grow at just the right time and Rivers took the opportunity and ran, er, passed with it. Nobody in his right mind can argue that he has become one of the top five quarterbacks in the league. Anybody that argues otherwise is just wasting our time.

I seriously hate all this Eli Manning-Great Quarterback talk.. and trust me i get it from all angles because I have alot of Giants fans friends.

But how can anyone in their right minds think hes EVEN a top 10 quarterback.. he is definitely the most overrated QB in the league.
- He won the Superbowl, not because of him, but because of their lights out defense.
- He had an alright game because the Patriots respected the Giants rushing game.
- He won the Superbowl MVP, not because he outplayed Tom Brady or anyone else, but because their defense kept Brady in check and under pressure (and David Tyree made that monster catch)

If the MVP should have been given to anyone it should have been Justin Tuck, as i said earlier, that defense, led by him, won them the Superbowl. Eli just got lucky to be put under center for that game. Dont get me wrong, he made some good passes, but he IS NOT an elite NFL quarterback.. maybe one day he will, but that day is not today.

Oh, and for the record, I make that Philip Rivers, Shawne Merriman, Nate Kaeding trade for Eli Manning every day of the week. Even if it means them winning one superbowl.

i am sorry

does that mean it’s now in bad taste to say Merriman played like a man on fire?