Category: General Sports

Two big items coming out of Toronto today. First, Chris Bosh re-signs with the Raptors, which is great news for the basketball fans in Toronto because he’s the only decent player on a team that desperately needs a franchise player. Second, the Leafs fire Pat Quinn just 2 days after the end of the season. Chris Bosh’s signing is more important to the Raptors than the Leafs firing Quinn but you’d never know it from fan reaction.

In other news…

[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]: Chris Shelton makes Pirates GM look like an idiot.

[BFLOBLOG]: A walk down misery lane: Top-Five Worst Bills Draft Classes

[BrandWeek]: OLN isn’t giving up despite their hockey coverage only averageing 165,000 views.

[The Bleacher Bums]: Ruben Sierra is trying to pull a Rickey Henderson.

[Yahoo]: Moe Williams guilty of disorderly conduct in Vikings Love Boat trial.

And finally, the too-ovious-a-joke photo of the day.

Is that a mini Daunte playing dice in the back?

Is there anything better (er… worse) than being a sports gambling junkie? You can basically bet on anything you want. The latest proposition bet from the folks at WagerWeb is which player Terrell Owens will get into a fight with first, either verbally or physically. The runaway “favorite” is Drew Bledsoe at -400, followed by Bill Parcells at +100 and Jerry Jones at +300. The least likely? Roy Williams at +2000, which is surprising considering that Roy was the guy who broke TO’s ankle and started the whole Philly fiasco in the first place. Or Maybe the bookmakers think that Roy did him a favor by indirectly getting him a huge contract.

In other news…

[Mr. Irrelevan]: Minor League baseball team to give out Vikings Love Boat Collectible

[YAY Sports]: Adam Morrison and Rudy Gay are coming out

[Ben Maller]: Tiger wins more at the casino than at the Masters. Which is something you have in common with Tiger.

[Covers.com]: Finally, someone who agrees with us that Coach K is overrated and sucks.

Welcome to another episode of the Sportscolumn podcast. This week we have Eric McErlain from Off Wing Opinion on to discuss the NHL playoffs. If you’d like to be a guest on the podcast (which is recorded Tuesday nights) or you want to suggest a topic, drop me a line at [email protected].

You can download this week’s podcast directly (running time 46 mins) or subscribe to the feed.  

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This week’s topics include:

• RBI Baseball simulation of 1986 World Series Game 6
• NHL Playoffs
• Latest on the Duke lacrosse scandal
• NFL Draft
• Hating on ESPN

Hope you guys enjoy the podcast.  If you did enjoy it, please go to this page on Yahoo and give us a good rating so we can rise up in the rankings. If you didn’t, send us an email ([email protected]) or add a comment below. Thanks for listening.

Should’ve said Hustler Club

In the latest issue of Stuff magazine, they ask athletes where the hottest places to hang out are. Of course, most players mention the hottest strip clubs in their city. Meanwhile, Troy Murphy comes out with what you see to your left. Either Troy is taking this San Francisco nightlife thing to heart or he’s the got his priorities all wrong.

In other news…

[CNN]: The Kelly Osbourne Olympics

[Tennessean.com]: Chris Mason becomes only the 9th goalie in history to score a goal.

[Yahoo]: Darren Daulton thinks the world will end on Dec 12 2012.

[Detroit News]: Two kids injuried during Cash Drop promotion at Minor League game.

[George Sports Blog]: UGA is the most profitable sports program in the country. They can even start paying their players now.

Saying that the Seattle Supersonics have the worst lease in the NBA, Stern criticized city officials for not being interested in having an NBA team there. Stern said that he would support the owners move to another city when the current lease expires in 2010 unless the State helps them get a new stadium. Stern is angry that the city and state won’t at least renovate Key Arena. Check out SonicsCentral’s take on this.

In other news…

[Forgetfoo]: FIFA says it won’t do anything to stop the hookers during the World Cup. We wonder if they’ll build in prostitution into the FIFA 2007.

[360thePitch]: Talk about punching outside your weight class. Some hoops podcaster tries pick up a Raptor dancer and crashes and burns. Good stuff.

[Denver Post]: Police are trying to ID the person who shot the Nuggets’ Hodges by their tire rims.

[Cincinnati Enquirer]: NASCAR to reprimand Biffle’s girlfriend

[TSN]: King’s Sean Avery gets Keyshawned.

[Fox Sports]: Sports’ top 10 blowups.

Here’s an interesting article from Sports Law Blog about why Joakim Noah can afford to pass up a chance to be a lottery pick in the NBA draft to play one more year in college. His father is a rock star in France (which apparently is quite lucrative) so Joakim doesn’t feel the pressure to support his whole family or help them get out of the ghetto.

Despite Charles Barkley’s quote (“I hope a lot of these young kids look at [Dwayne Wade], who went to college. Everybody is in such a hurry. Hey, the money is not going anywhere… and if you go to the right college, you can get paid there… Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee.”), it’s hard to resist the guaranteed multimillions if you grew up in the projects. College is fun, but so is getting paid.

In other news…

[USA Today]: Leinart already has fired his agent, just three weeks before the draft.

[MSNBC]: Mooch defends Brett Favre’s feet dragging

[MySA.com]: 10 year old bowls perfect game. Damn overachievers.

[You Tube]: (video) Fine, we’ll make the obvious joke: Dick Cheney throws out the first pitch for the Nationals – hits 80 year old guy in the face.

So many great Carmen Electra pics out there and so few that we can actually use on SC. For example, this photo is completely PG yet is the most X rated pic we’ve ever seen.

Carmen is actually one of those people who are famous for being famous… but who cares? She’s just smoking hot. I think she was on Baywatch and has made a few movies or something but mostly we know her from just being on Howard Stern and looking good in public.

We’ll even forgive her for her misguided early music career (girl rap group?), especially since she’s teaching women all over how to strip their way to fitness.

Good choice, Sportscolumn readers, good choice.

The Official Carmen Electra site

Here’s the latest Sportscolumn podcast. If you’d like to be a guest on the podcast (which is recorded Tuesday nights) or you want to suggest a topic, drop me a line at [email protected].

You can download this week’s podcast directly (running time 36 mins) or subscribe to the feed.  

If you use iTunes, just click here and then click subscribe and iTunes will take care of the rest.

This week’s topics include:

• Latest on the Duke lacrosse scandal
• The Masters
• Brett Favre can’t make up his mind
• The Dateline sting of NASCAR
• Greg Biffle’s girlfriend vs Kurt Busch’s fiance
• Trevor doesn’t like the CU Buffs’ choice of SF strip clubs.
• Benchwarmers
• Women We Love nominees
• Rock Paper Scissors championship
• Cowboy Bear Ninja
• World Series of Flip Cup

Hope you guys enjoy the podcast.  If you did enjoy it, please go to this page on Yahoo and give us a good rating.   If you didn’t send us an email ([email protected]) or add a comment below. Thanks for listening.

Last week, Carmen Electra beat out Ali Larter by a small margin so Trevor is nominating her again this week. If you have a woman you’d like to nominate, post it here.

Here are this week’s nominees:

Ali Larter aka whipped cream bikini girl from Varsity Blues

Amanda Beard

Giselle Bundchen

Jennie Finch

Katherine Heigl

Naomi Watts

Vote now.