Monday - October 02, 2006
NFL Hall Of Shame
As my momma always said, “stupid is as stupid does.” This one takes the cake though. I was watching the Rams/Lions game when they cut in and showed the incident described below, along with replays. I was dumbstruck at the sheer idiocy of Haynesworth’s act.
This is what happens when you mix a big young kid who barely made it through college and who probably now bulks up on mind-destroying steroids and painkillers. I don’t fault Haynesworth as much as I blame the rotten professional football system that gave him every opportunity to ruin his life and encourages the mindless violence that was the root cause of this incident.
Fine him, suspend him without pay for the season. What have you accomplished? Nothing much. Haynesworth’s act was the symptom, not the disease itself. Both Haynesworth and the NFL get a “thumbs down.”
Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant!
NFL Tackele Ejected
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (SI.com)—Tennessee defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth was ejected early in the third quarter Sunday after he kicked Dallas center Andre Gurode in the face. Now the tackle expects to be punished and knows he deserves it.
Julius Jones had just scored on a 5-yard run, putting Dallas up 20-6 in what wound up as a 45-14 victory. Gurode’s helmet came off, and Haynesworth, standing over him, used his right foot to kick Gurode in the head.
Gurode said they hadn’t been talking or having any exchanges that led to Haynesworth kicking him twice. He received stitches above his forehead and beneath his eye. A flag was thrown, and Haynesworth followed an official toward the Titans’ sideline, protesting.
Haynesworth pulled off his helmet and slammed it to the ground, prompting another flag. Referee Jerome Boger disqualified Haynesworth, and the player walked off the field after talking briefly with Titans coach Jeff Fisher.
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Permalink • Wednesday - September 27, 2006
Whazzup Wid Dat?
You got the whole worldi n yer hands. Yer making millions of dollars a year. Why not cmmmit suicide? I don’t get it ....
A female companion of the athlete told officers that Owens last week filled a prescription for 40 pain pills, but had only taken five of the pills up to yesterday. Owens told police that he had taken the balance of the pills last night. The woman, who has been identified as Kim Etheredge, Owens’s publicist, also told responding officers (RO/S) that she observed Owens (identified in the report as “comp,” or complainant) put two pills in his mouth, which she tried to retrieve by placing her fingers in his mouth.
He was treated at Baylor University Medical Center for a drug overdose. While the police document does not name Owens, Dallas media reports (including one from WFAA-TV, which broke the Owens story) have identified him as the “victim” referred to in the report. Early this morning, ESPN reported that Owens had been taken to a hospital emergency room after suffering an adverse reaction to painkillers, which had been prescribed as a result of broken hand suffered during a September 17 game against the Washington Redskins.
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Permalink • Sunday - September 24, 2006
Monday Night Party
As Hank Junior sings, “Are you ready for some football?” Get ready for Super Bowl XLI-½. It’s all happening this Monday Night at 8:30pm ET on ESPN. It will be the first time the Saints have played a regular season game in the dome since the 2004 season. Even better, the Saints are 2-0 this season and Monday night’s game will be against the Atlanta Falcons, also undefeated at 2-0.
In addition to the sellout crowd of 68,000, there will be over 1,100 media representatives from around the world. Yes, even Al-Jazeera is going to be there. The NFL is promising quite a show with a few surprises. Hopefully Janet Jackson will be absent. It’s all hype and hoopla but I intend to watch at least part of the extravaganza just for the pure entertainment. GEAUX SAINTS!
Superdome Ready For Glamorous Return To NFL
NEW ORLEANS (SPORTS ILLUSTRATED) - Saturday September 23, 2006 12:30PM
The Louisiana Superdome is back in business, more than a year after Hurricane Katrina’s devastation. On Monday night, the iconic symbol of New Orleans will put the newsreels of storm-inspired misery behind it and get back to what it was built for—big-time events.
Unlike its relatively low-key dedication ceremony in 1975, Monday’s coming-out party promises to be a star-studded, media-heavy event. On the field, it’s a matchup of unbeaten archrivals, the Saints and the Atlanta Falcons. Off the field, it’s an opportunity to exorcise some of the demons in the soul of a city that suffered through one of the nation’s worst natural disasters.
The glitz began long before the game. Television networks began broadcasting from the city days in advance. The national anthem Monday night will be sung by local favorites Irma Thomas and Allen Toussaint, with Kermit Ruffins on trumpet. The Goo Goo Dolls, Green Day and U2 will perform before the game, and the Southern University marching band will provide the halftime show.
The pregame coin toss will be handled by former President George H.W. Bush, who was nominated for the presidency in the building at the 1988 Republican convention. A cadre of 150 Katrina first responders will stand with Bush. Blanco, former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue and his successor, Roger Goodell, and Mayor Ray Nagin—a Saints fan since the team first took the field in 1967 also are expected. “It’s certainly a lot bigger than the normal Week 3 Monday night game,” said NFL director of corporate communications Brian McCarthy. “In terms of production, scope and interest it resembles a Super Bowl production a lot.”
That’s a shocking difference from Aug. 29, 2005, when Katrina’s winds ripped the roof from the stadium. Some 30,000 hurricane refugees eventually were sheltered there. By the time the last of those survivors left the Superdome almost a week later, it was a wreck—and an enduring vision of chaos and depravity. Seventy percent of the roof had failed, and 3.8 million gallons of water had to be pumped out of the Dome and its garages. With no air conditioning, mold and mildew grew quickly.
There were those who felt the Superdome should be demolished after the hurricane. But building a new arena would have cost about $600 million, and in a cash-strapped state that was not likely. The Federal Emergency Management Agency paid for $115 million worth of repairs. The state put up $13 million, as required by FEMA. The Louisiana Stadium & Expedition District refinanced a bond package used for other sports facilities in the area to secure $41 million, and the NFL contributed a $15 million grant. Total: $184 million.
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Permalink • Saturday - September 09, 2006
Guy Heaven
It’s Fall finally and the part of the planet where I live is finally starting to cool down. Temps outside here in St. Louis at midday are in the high 70’s and a cool breeze is blowing out of the West. Pretty soon the leaves will start to turn all kind of colors and fall down to make a mess in the yard.
The season of fun is upon us as Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years are not far off. Everyone is back from summer vacation and the engine of America is chugging along at full speed again.
WAIT! Something is missing! Hmmmmm. I got it ...
FOOTBALL! YAY!
Naw, I’m not talking about that overpaid, over-drugged crap in the NFL. College football is where all the fun is and you won’t find a more splintered audience anywhere. For instance, I always spend every college football season rooting for two teams: The University Of Alabama (my alma mater - ROLL TIDE!) and whoever is playing Auburn (BOO-HISS!). I have had to add Troy State University to the list since I received my Masters Degree (Computer Science) there in 1994 and TSU just moved up to Division 1-A a few years ago. Now they’re playing the big schools too. GO TROJANS! (a condom for a mascot?)
So I started ticking off my football checklist today: (1) 55-inch Hitachi big screen TV in good condition? Check! (2) Homemade beer aged to perfection in large quantities (at least four kegs) and ready to pop open? Check! (3) No women around to distract me from the games? Check! (DARN!) (4) Ample supply of nacho chips and HOT salsa (3 bags and 6 jars)? Check! All in place. Ready! Set! Hut 1! Hut 2! .... HOLD THE PHONE! Something is still missing!
Yes, I have finally decided to subscribe to ESPN GamePlan so I can catch ALL the games every week. YAY! At $129.00 for the full 12-week season, it’s a bargain. Now I can safely sink into the recliner on Saturdays and drown in football all afternoon and into the evening. You gals need to find something to occupy yourselves for a while. Us guys are in Guy Heaven for now .... pass the chips and get me another beer ....
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Permalink • Wednesday - August 02, 2006
Frog Nuts
Mike Lester - Rome News-Tribune (GA)
Landis Had Synthetic Testosterone
(WASHINGTON POST) - Monday, July 31, 2006 9:47 PM
NEW YORK—Tests show that some of the testosterone in Floyd Landis’ system at the Tour de France was synthetic and not naturally produced by his body as he claimed, according to a newspaper report.
The French antidoping lab testing the American cyclist’s samples determined that some of the hormone came from an external source, The New York Times reported on its Web site Monday night, citing a person at the International Cycling Union with knowledge of the result.
The finding undermines the defense that Landis has stood behind since he tested positive for an elevated ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone following the 17th stage of the Tour de France, where he staged a stirring comeback in the Alps to make up for a poor performance the day before.
Looking and sounding defiant, Landis said Friday that his body’s natural metabolism _ not doping of any kind _ caused the result, and that he would undergo tests to prove it.
“We will explain to the world why this is not a doping case but a natural occurrence,” Landis said at a news conference in Madrid, Spain.
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Permalink • Monday - July 24, 2006
Tour De America
This really isn’t fair. Do you suppose we should let the Frogs win one of their silly little bicycle races once in a while or should we continue to show them how real men get things done? If we don’t they will continue to whine and cry that our athletes are doped on steroids or some such drivel. They’re still harassing Lance Armstrong even though he’s retired. I’m waiting to see what their excuse will be this year. Merde!
As Hushovd Bags Brace
(AFP) - Jul 23 12:24 PM US/Eastern
American Floyd Landis won the Tour de France here following the 20th and final stage to succeed compatriot Lance Armstrong. Landis came over the finish line of the race’s final stage, held over 154km between Antony and the Champs Elysees, after the victory of Norwegian Thor Hushovd.
Hushovd, of Credit Agricole, surged to his second stage win of the race Sunday, after his prologue victory, after outsprinting Australian Robbie McEwen 100 metres before the finish line.
Another Australian, Stuart O’Grady of CSC, finished third on the stage just ahead of the bunch. Landis, 30, becomes the third winner of the race from the United States. Greg LeMond was the first American to win the yellow jersey in 1986 and the first American to win it three times having also triumphed in 1989 and 1990.
Armstrong’s seven-year reign as the race champion came to an end last year when he retired from the sport. Landis won the race with a lead of 59sec on Spaniard Oscar Pereiro of Caisse d’Epargne. Pereiro had been leading the Tour with a 30sec lead on Landis on the penultimate stage time trial.
However the American produced a convincing performance over 57km of the race’s second and final race against the clock on Saturday to take the yellow jersey for the third time in the race.
Landis’s bid to succeed his former US Postal teammate Armstrong looked dead and buried when he lost the yellow jersey after tumbling to 11th place overall at 8min 08sec behind Pereiro on a disastrous stage 16.
However, the next day the American capped a daring solo raid over five cols to claim his first ever stage victory on the Tour and move to within 30sec of the yellow jersey.
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Permalink • Sunday - July 09, 2006
World Cup Final
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Permalink • Saturday - July 01, 2006
World Cup Update
Good show anyway, chaps!
After the English lost David Beckham to an injury and Wayne Rooney to a red card, Portugal won a shootout 3-1 Saturday night following 120 minutes of scoreless soccer. Portugal, which also beat England on penalty kicks in the European Championship quarterfinals two years ago, meets Brazil or France on Wednesday in its first World Cup semifinal since 1966.
Neither of these sides could find a way through during 120 minutes of entertaining and closely-contested action, with Portugal unable to translate into goals a numerical advantage they had held for almost an hour thanks to Wayne Rooney’s 62nd-minute dismissal.
The match therefore became the second 2006 FIFA World Cup™ quarter-final to be settled on penalty kicks and, just as Jens Lehmann was Germany’s hero yesterday, so Ricardo was Portugal’s today, saving from Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher to leave Cristiano Ronaldo to stroke home the decisive kick.
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Permalink • Wednesday - June 28, 2006
World Cup Update
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Permalink • Sunday - June 25, 2006
HEY, BULLDOG!
ADVANCE TO QUARTERFINALS AGAINST PORTUGAL!
JOLLY GOOD SHOW!
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Permalink • Saturday - June 24, 2006
World (War) Cup
It’s a good thing the Americans have bowed out of World Cup competition and left the continent. The Brits and Krauts are at it again, banging heads in Stuttgart today. If this keeps up, somebody better start planning to send a lot of boats to Dunkirk. Eh, wot?
In other World War Cup news, the Fwench have a good defense planned out but no offense to speak of. Perhaps the Frogs should just go ahead and surrender to Spain? C’est la Guerre!
I’m betting the finals come down to Germany vs. Spain. Ask not for whom the ball rolls, it rolls for thee.
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Permalink • Chess Boxing is a sport?
Believe it or not, and I didn’t when I first read this on Fark.com, Chess boxing is an actual sport in Europe. There’s even a World Chess Boxing Organization.
The rules are simple enough:
The basic idea in chessboxing is to combine the no.1 thinking sport and the no.1 fighting sport into a hybrid that demands the most of its competitors – both mentally and physically.
In a chessboxing fight two opponents play alternating rounds of chess and boxing. The contest starts with a round of chess, followed by a boxing round, followed by another round of chess and so on. In every round of chess the FIDE rules for a ´Blitz game´ apply, in every boxing round the AIBA rules apply with the following extensions and modifications: In a contest there shall be 11 rounds, 6 rounds of chess, 5 rounds of boxing. A round of chess takes 4 minutes. Each competitor has 12 minutes on the chess timer. As soon as the time runs out the game is over.
A round of boxing takes 2 minutes. Between rounds there is a 1 minute pause, during which competitors change their gear. The contest is decided by: checkmate (chess round), exceeding the time limit (chess round), retirement of an opponent (chess or boxing round), KO (boxing round), or referee decision (boxing round). If the chess game ends in a stalement, the opponent with the higher score in boxing wins. If there is an equal score, the opponent with the black pieces wins.
I’ve been thinking of how many World Chess Champions would survive a round of boxing for the title. My guess is that most would win the first round of chess and never have to box.
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Permalink • Thursday - June 22, 2006
Eliminated!
The USA soccer team will have to wait until 2010 and try again.
U.S. Eliminated After Loss to Ghana
Ghana 2, United States 1
Thursday, June 22, 2006
NUREMBERG, Germany—Amid controversy, the U.S. national soccer team was bumped from the World Cup on Thursday when it lost to Ghana, 2-1, before 41,000 at Franken Stadium.
The Americans (0-2-1) had tied the match 1-1 late in the first half on Clint Dempsey’s goal and seemed poised to overwhelm the Black Stars after the break. Just before intermission, however, Ghana was awarded a penalty kick when U.S. defender Oguchi Onyewu was called for bumping down an attacker in the box.
Stephen Appiah converted the kick, giving the Black Stars (2-1-0) all they needed to set up a likely round-of-16 match with defending champion Brazil on Tuesday in Dortmund. The Americans had needed to win and, although they didn’t score again, the call turned the match dramatically and affected the tone of the second half.
What made it more agonizing was the fact that Italy (2-0-1) had defeated the Czech Republic (1-2-0) in a game played at the same time in Hamburg, clearing the way for the Americans to advance.
Photo By; Roberto Schmidt - AFP/Getty Images
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Permalink • Saturday - June 17, 2006
World Cup Update
Today is “WHUP THE WOPS” Day in World Cup play. The United States goes up against the Eye-ties who are heavy favorites. If the US loses, they’re out and Italy goes on to the next round. Ain’t going to happen, I says.
If you’re planning on winning in this heathen game the Euro-Peons play then you gotta play it like they play it - down and dirty, mean and nasty. Spain’s Luis Garcia (below right) demonstrates his famous “Nutcracker” move against some Ukraine player who is obviously in a great deal of pain and is probably screaming in agony, “Take the ball! No, not that ball!”. Now, that’s what I’m talking about, Team USA! Get out there and crack some dago nuts this afternoon. ABC coverage begins at 2:30pm ET.
Update I: Ghana beat the crap out of the Czechs so Group E is still in play even if the USA loses today.
Update II: The wops scored two goals in the first half. One for them and one for us. Stoopid wops! Halftime score: 1-1.
Update III: Tie .... 1-1. The worst referee in the world cut the US to nine men but they held on. Next stop: Ghana, on Thursday.
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