Archive for October, 2009
• If you watched any of ESPN’s pregame coverage for college football this past weekend, you got an eyeful of Jenn Brown. And it was good. [Busted Coverage]
• Shakey presents the best (or worst) of athlete tweeting yesterday. [Style Points]
• Donovan McNabb proves once again he has no understanding of the most basic, fundamental rules of football. [Shutdown Corner]
• Jeff Kent and Brady Anderson participated in an old-timey game of baseball over the weekend. [Walkoff Walk]
• Gourmet Spud reviews the new film, Paranormal Activity. [Food Court Lunch]
• Three people died while competing in the Detroit Marathon. [Rumors & Rants]
For what seems to be for the 25,000th time, Mike Lupica has made the mistake of believing that the New York Daily News pays him to write columns regarding politics and not piss-poor columns about sports, when he chose to, in his infinite wisdom, point out that sports have the power to lift a city’s spirits far more than any mayoral campaign ever could.
Stop the presses! Is he implying that the ups and downs of a sports team have a greater bearing on the average citizen’s daily life than what occurs in the world of politics? If that’s the case, then why does C-SPAN consistently get higher ratings than ESPN? It doesn’t? Oh.
He also neglects to realize, in his sniveling arrogance, that nobody gives two shits what he thinks about New York’s mayoral campaign.
Referring to Monday Night Football talking head John Gruden as the “football broadcasting rookie of the year,” Denver Post columnist Dusty Saunders ascribed - or a at least whoever was responsible for the headline of his column – a trait to a broadcaster that is usually reserved for nonathletic, awkward, white basketball players or 40-year-old gunslingin’ quarterbacks: grit.
I guess we should just be thankful that Saunders didn’t say that John Gruden is just having fun up there.
And there are people still alive named Dusty?
Jon Gruden’s grit an asset in “Monday Night Football” broadcast booth [The Denver Post]
Jeff Reed Keeps On Keeping It Real
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Jeff Reed, an inebriated hero among men, was once-again busted by police for his hard-partying ways. This time for public intoxication and disorderly conduct stemming from incident outside McFadden’s Bar on the North Shore.
Police said Reed was leaving McFadden’s Bar on the North Shore when he got into an argument with a police officer at about 9 p.m. Sunday. Police said he will be mailed a summons to appear in city court.
Steelers spokesman Dave Lockett said in a statement, “We’re still gathering information at this time and feel it’s inappropriate to comment until we have all the facts.”
Why can’t people just let Jeff Reed be Jeff Reed? Sometimes Jeff Reed being drunk and acting like an asshole is the only thing that makes sense in this crazy world. He’s wasn’t hurting anyone, and most importantly, no towel dispensers were assaulted during this most recent incident.
Steelers’ Kicker Jeff Reed Cited For Public Intoxication [WPXI.com]
The Real Reason For Jeff Reed’s Towel Tantrum [Deadspin]
• MLB Playoffs. Philadelphia Phillies 11, Los Angeles Dodgers 0. Cliff Lee pitched eight shutout innings and the Phillies hammered the Dodgers pitching staff to take a 2-1 series lead. [MLB.com]
• National Football League. Atlanta Falcons 21, Chicago Bears 14. Michael Turner’s 5-yard touchdown run with 3:06 remaining proved to be the winning score as the Bears repeatedly proved to be error-prone in the endzone. [Yahoo!]
• PGA. Martin Laird won his first PGA Tour title, winning the Justin Timberlake Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas. [PGATour.com]
• Bear gets shot with tranquilizer gun while taking a rest in beer cooler – now the bear and I have something in common. A 125-pound black bear entered the Marketplace Foods in Hayward, Wisconsin, headed straight for the beer cooler, climbed up twelve feet on a shelf and took a rest before getting shot by wildlife authorities. Perhaps one of the female employees was mensturating. [MSNBC/AP]
It’s 4:19, You Gotta Minute? (October 16th)
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• One of George Foreman’s sons is reportedly involved with Amy Winehouse. I’d rather stick my pecker in a heated up Foreman Grill than that cooze. [Style Points]
• Chad Ochocinco (along with Motorola) saves the day: the Bengals game this weekend will not be blacked out in Cincinnati. [Shutdown Corner]
• One day, Dick Jauron will have his revenge on the internet. As soon as he figures out what the internet is. [Rumors & Rants]
• Some FSU football players read at the 2nd grade level. So that makes them more intelligent than the average Floridan, right? [Bootlegger Sports]
• Once again, Hal Gill is ruining everything. Dick. [Melt Your Face Off]
• Holy Oklahoma fan asscrack, Batman! [Busted Coverage]
• Seriously. Don’t believe me? Check it out. Chilling. [The Sports Hernia Blog]
• Butter Chicken takes a trip to the gym. [Food Court Lunch]
• You know that irritating prick who sings “God Bless America” at Yankees games. Yeah, he’s been fired for making Jew jokes. [Deadspin]
• Rex Plock: number one college football fan. [Hugging Harold Reynolds]
• The graphics department at TBS doesn’t know how to spell ‘World’. [Awful Announcing]
• Samer studiously breaks down the upcoming slate of games this weekend in the NFL. [Second-String Fullback]
• Maj once again makes it his mission to enlighten those of you with gambling problems. [Kissing Suzy Kolber]
Still adjusting to head coach Bruce Boudreau’s line-shuffling, Alexander Ovechkin still has seven goals in seven games, which I guess is a pretty good scoring clip. Add on seven assists and you could say that Ovie is on a friggin’ tear, which shouldn’t be surprising to anyone, since the guy has been on a tear for four years.
Two of those goals came last night in a span of 27 seconds, as the Capitals took it to the Sharks and throttled them 4-1, snapping a four-game losing skid. Ovie was pleased with the effort but understands much more work is needed, including getting acclimated to his new linemates.
“It’s different, yeah, but we continue to work and everybody understands right now it doesn’t matter who you play with,” Ovechkin said. “You have to work hard and try to win the games.”
Indeed, Ovie, indeed. But two scores in 27 seconds? That is pretty impressive and like I mentioned, beat my personal scoring record.
Of course, I’m not referring to scoring in hockey. I can barely stand up on skates. Nevertheless, a piece of advice: if you ever discover the whereabouts of a weekend retreat for sex addicts, pitch a tent somewhere nearby. You won’t be sorry.
Oh, and bring some ice.
Where was I? Oh yeah, video of Ovie’s goals after the jump.
• MLB Playoffs. Philadelphia Phillies 8, Los Angeles Dodgers 6. The Dodgers held an early 1-0 lead, the Phillies scored five in the fifth, the Dodgers answered with three in the bottom of the 5th to make it 5-4, then Philadelphia scored three runs and L.A. scored two in the eighth, but Brad Lidge came in for Philly and closed the door as the Phillies took a 1-0 lead in the NLCS. [MLB.com]
• National Hockey League. Washington Capitals 4, San Jose Sharks 1. Alexander Ovechkin scored twice in the span of 28 seconds in the second period to help the Capitals break a four-game losing streak. Ottawa Senators 7, Tampa Bay Lightning 1. Milan Michalek, who came to Ottawa via the Dany Heatley trade with San Jose, notched his first career hat trick to lead the way. [NHL.com]
• College Football. Cincinnati Bearcats 34, University of South Florida Bulls 17. Cincinnati remained unbeaten as quarterback Tony Pike threw two touchdown passes before getting injured and sidelined with a sprained left wrist. [Yahoo!]
• I’ve heard of having weed on the brain but this is ridiculous. 29-year-old Cesar Lopez was not aware that he was walking around a convenience store in Lebanon, Pennsylvania with a bag of weed stuck to his forehead, which was originally being stored in his hat. Of course, the good “pothead” joke was already stolen by the AP headline writers. Jerks. [AOL/AP]
• SITE NEWS: Once again, yours truly will have too many irons in the fire today as I will be handling a portion of the writing duties over at With Leather while Punte lives it up in Vegas at Blogs With Balls. Do stop by and see me. I will do my very best to ensure that the Sportress doesn’t get too neglected.
• MLB Playoffs. Game 1, NLCS: Philadelphia Phillies at Los Angeles Dodgers. How can we think about baseball when the owner of the Dodgers is getting divorced??? [TBS, 8:00 ET]
• College Football. Cincinnati at South Florida. I’ve got nothing sarcastic or interesting today. Um, it should be a good game? [ESPN, 7:30 ET]
• Must-See TV. All new episodes of Community, Parks & Recreation, The Office and…drum roll please…the season premiere of 30 Rock. Hurrah! [NBC, 8:00 ET]
• It’s Always Awesome When There’s A New It’s Always Sunny. Tonight: The Waitress Is Getting Married. Poor Charlie!! [FX, 10:00 ET]
It’s 4:19, You Gotta Minute? (October 15th)
Posted by:• Hextall454 with with one of my favorite bits: making fun of lazy headline writers. [Melt Your Face Off]
• An entertaining and informative piece on blogs that focus on single sports by the brilliant First Derivative. Top notch, sir. [The Phoenix Pub]
• Today’s Chick-A-Click is even sexier than usual. [Busted Coverage]
• Another enlightening edition of KSK’s Sex/Fantasy Football Mailbag. Good stuff. [Kissing Suzy Kolber]
• Samer gets you prepared for setting your fantasy football lineups. [Second-String Fullback]
Whatever that means.
I’m fairly confident we have not come across a more attractive Cheerleader of the Week since the Sportress began documenting them. Meet Vanessa Marrero, a transplanted New Yorker attending Florida International University. Vanessa is a senior majoring in advertising at FIU, but clearly she also has an undeclared minor in Spankbankology.
Need further evidence? Jump on through, friend.
In a strange departure from his usual behavior and demeanor during his widely listened to radio program, Rush Limbaugh, instead of calmly discussing the issues that are facing our country and intelligently discussing the most beneficial solutions as he normally does, used his radio program as a bully pulpit of sorts to take shots at enemies and provide delusional reasons behind why he has been dumped as a member of a group that would like to purchase the St. Louis Rams. Of course, we can blame it on Obama.
During a 15-minute counterattack at the start of his show, Limbaugh said he believes he’s been made an example by a players’ union seeking leverage in talks over a new collective bargaining agreement. And he believed what happened to him was an illustration of “Obama’s America on full display.”
Limbaugh also accused the NFL Players Association is taking advantage of his controversial ownership bid in their negotiations of the collective bargaining agreement with NFL owners.
“It’s designed to intimidate the owners, frighten the owners, and say ‘We’re running this league now, gang, not you,”‘ Limbaugh said. “This little warning shot fired across the bow to the owners, to say ‘Get ready, here we come for the next collective bargaining agreement,’ so we’ll see how it all unfolds.”
You know, I have no real problem with Rush Limbaugh wanting to become a small part of a potential NFL ownership group. If he can make it through (which I’m not sure he would) all the other hoops potential owners are forced to jump through, why not?
But when he portrays himself as a unwitting, innocent pawn in a potentially contentious negotiation between two powerful organizations is the moment he has elected to take himself far too seriously and allow his massive ego to get in the way. As usual.
Limbaugh lashes out after Rams bid debacle [Fox Sports]
• Former Broncos wide receiver Rod Smith predicted that the Broncos would be 5-0. Did I mention he played for the Broncos? [Bootlegger Sports]
• All JaMarcus Russell wants to do is play Tetris. Why can’t you people understand that? [Style Points]
• lowercase updates us on what’s going on in football on the fringe. [The Phoenix Pub]
• So, uh, David Carr met Mickey Rourke. Odd. [Kissing Suzy Kolber]
• An update on Nicole Howell, the ex-cheerleading coach accused of banging a student. Quite the looker to boot. [Busted Coverage]
• More photoshop phun with the Phillies. [More Hardball]
Celebrities: they’re just like us! I would never have realized that wealthy people with way too much time on their hands would like to golf. You know, with golf being the sport of the common person and all.
But I guess the rich and famous are beginning to take notice of the fringe sport of golf. Case in point: celebrities, as well as people who actually play the game professionally, turned out in droves to take part in Justin Timberlake’s charity golf tournament.
Instead of hitting the red carpet, celebrities stepped onto the golf course today for the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospital for Children Pro-Am competition.
The event was broken into morning and afternoon tee-offs with 36 groups participating, including professional golfers, amateurs and celebrities.
And the stars! Oh, the stars! Featured celebrities that joined pros Anthony Kim, Davis Love III and Rich Beem included Alice Cooper (!), Oscar De La Hoya (!!), Alfonso Ribiero (!!!), George Lopez (!!!!) and last but not least, “television personality” Sal Masekela (?).
Who?
