Warning: Out of fairness (in an article about fairness) it should be noted that I loathe the USC Trojans and all things Southern California (LA, Hollywood, tourists, etc.).
The USC Trojans are in the news again, but not for dominating the football field or basketball court like they’d hoped.
The owner of the SUV that USC Trojans running back Joe McKnight has been seen driving says it was bought for the junior’s girlfriend as a favor.
In e-mails to the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Daily News, Scott Schenter, a Santa Monica, Calif., businessman, said the car is driven by Johana Michelle Beltran — McKnight’s girlfriend — and that he helped purchase the Land Rover because Beltran’s family had trouble qualifying for a loan.
That reminds me, what ever happened to that whole Reggie Bush thing? The NCAA says they’re still investigating it, but I believe that for about 0.42 seconds. USC is USC and that’s that. They have an enormous fan base and are a great television market. The NCAA doesn’t want to touch that beast. Continue Reading »
I’m sure there are at least a few huge Rodman fans out there who would want this doll. It’s got interchangeable heads and clothes, including…jean shorts? Really? Did Rodman used to walk around in jean shorts a lot? I know that he wore wedding dresses, but what’s the association with jean shorts? Oh, well.
I’d like to see a whole line of dolls for different NBA players, each packaged with appropriate accessories. A Magic Johnson doll could come with stacks of cash and a vial of AIDS Miracle Cure. Or how about a Stephen Jackson doll complete with gang bandanna and cap gun? What child wouldn’t want to play with a Vince Carter doll – you could apply the tampon accessory after driving through the lane and taking a hard foul.
This isn’t an interesting article. It is put forth specifically to shine Peyton Manning. I am making today the Official shine Peyton Manning Day. Partly because of his 300 yard, 4 Touchdown performance this week against the Jags, but mostly because he is the freekin’ man. Let’s face it, if Peyton Manning looked like Cristiano Ronaldo one could argue he is preternatural.
Peyton Manning (god I hope I don’t eat these words) is a role model. He is quietly married, and to date has not had any damaging extracurricular activites as a professional. He has a foundation that helps underprivileged kids. There is even a Children’s Hospital named after him for an undisclosed donation he and his wife made. On top of that, the guy is pretty funny. He uses his awkward, goofy persona to an advantage and pokes fun at himself. His commercials aren’t too bad.
I could spend the rest of the day listing his achievements as a quarterback. He currently owns many NFL records with more to come. He’s won a Super Bowl, and been an MVP 3 times! One more, (maybe this year) and he’ll have the most MVPs. When it’s all said and done he could go down as the greatest quaterback that ever lived. But he works at his trade. He studies playbook and film like none other, almost to a point of annoyance for teammates. Now imagine if he was playing in a big market. Everyone knows Peyton Manning, everyone knows he’s just steadily great, but he’s in Indy. How many times have you been out and had someone say, “I’m a Colts fan!”?
Peyton Manning meets my pre-requisites for a professional athlete. If only more guys would follow his example. The NFL’s reputation may change for the better. Ironically, I find more people dislike him because he comes off squeaky clean. Maybe if Peyton shot himself in the leg at a night club he’d have more fans.
Look I understand that a league and a sponsor need to make money but come on, isn’t this kind of weird?
Firestone is the first-ever Official Tire of Major League Baseball. The multi-year agreement between parent-firm Bridgestone and the league marks Firestone’s largest sports sponsorship outside of racing.
“This relationship with MLB brings together two iconic American brands,” says John Baratta, Bridgestone’s president of consumer tire replacement sales. “Aligning the 109-year-old Firestone brand with America’s National Pastime is a great combination,” he notes.
The tire maker is to be the exclusive sponsor of in-stadium All-Star balloting, the biggest program of its kind in professional sports
Sure, I mean I can understand this kind of. Baseball is a male thing. Males like to drive and thus marketing tires to the MLB audience makes sense but shouldn’t it kind of stop there? I mean where the hell do you see wheels in baseball?
Are they all of a sudden going to make huge announcements that dugout cars are sporting firestone tires? Shouldn’t official tire of anything pertain to a sport where I don’t know TIRES are involved?
They should just stick to sponsoring and advertising but as far as baseball having an official anything they might want to stick with bats, gloves, hats, jerseys, even cleats.
But I’m gonna have to say no on tires.
[Via Motorage]
Aikman’s “MNF graphic” analogy is admittedly pretty good here. I didn’t know Troy had it in him. Personally, I would have gone with Lone Star and Dark Helmet’s schwartzes being tangled.
Notice that I avoided making a lame pun about diets. That should count for something. Anywho, this is a terrible signing for Baltimore. It would be a terrible signing for anyone:
[Atkins'] defense at third base is closer to horrible than average at this point and his OPS has gone from .965 to .853 to .780 to .650 since a career-year in 2006. He’ll bounce back from last season’s putrid .226/.308/.342 mark, but Atkins was also a below-average hitter in 2008 and has batted just .252/.324/.411 away from Coors Field during his entire seven-year career. Toss in the league switch and I’d certainly take the “under” on an .800 OPS.
The downward spiral of Atkins’ career is apparent in the numbers. A .735 road OPS for your career gets you $4.5 million guaranteed? Wow.
Baltimore is actually one of the teams that’s willing to spend some serious money now and again, but they hardly ever compete because of stupid signings like this one. I really don’t understand the point of signing a guy who has pretty much gotten worse every single year (and in an inferior league), but there are a lot of things about baseball I don’t understand. Like how Placido Polanco’s head stays upright on his neck. I’ll never solve that one.
Not much else to say about this awful signing, but now may be a good time to point out that Garrett Atkins had just one fewer home run than David Wright. That fact always makes me smile a little.
I’m not a big twitterer dude. I understand the concept. I think it’s a decent way of going about updating the public on some stuff. However, I’m just not quite sure about the appeal of twitter for a normal person who decides to write stuff like “just took a shit” 25 times a day.
Like seeing what a celebrity is up to is one thing (if you’re into that). Even using the service for marketing is another. But in general I can’t quite pinpoint any other reason to be on twitter that wouldn’t be a waste of time.
That said, when it comes to celebrity , Twitter can be very entertaining. And when we are talking sports, there are certainly some NBA players worth following. For the most part, NBA twitter accounts are like most and kind of suck. But I managed to find some that are quite interesting.
Here are 6 that I think you should add immediately
Thanks to Coach Turner Gill’s jump from head coach of Buffalo to Kansas, Cincinnati will be losing yet another coach. This time, it’s not until the end of the season.
Jeff Quinn’s will be Buffalo’s new football coach following the departure of Turner Gill.
Quinn’s hiring was announced by the school Sunday, but he will remain as Cincinnati’s interim coach until after the Bearcats play Florida in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1.
Good Lord! What a couple of weeks for the undefeated Bearcats, who have now lost their head coach and will be losing their interim coach. I wonder how many undefeated teams in the history of NCAA football have lost their head coach, let alone the interim coach put in place to replace the departing head coach.
Part of me wonders if Cincinnati is letting Quinn stay the interim coach simply because it looks absolutely ridiculous to change coaches twice before a bowl game OR if it’s because they don’t know who to turn to should they bar Quinn from coaching. Continue Reading »
