Category: General Sports

I guess the “I was doing something else illegal” defense worked for Daunte as the judge in the case has thrown out all charges against him.

In other news…

[Balls, Sticks & Stuff]: Everything you could possibly want to know about Jimmy Rollins’ hitting streak.

[Surviving Grady]: 4 Things Not To Say After A Red Sox Loss (or how to piss off a Red Sox fan)

[Detroit Bad Boys]: The NBA playoff seeding makese no sense sometimes. For example, here’s why you would lose on purpose to get home court advantage.

[Yahoo]: Jesse Jackson says MLB and police didn’t do enough to protect Bonds and his huge melon in San Diego.

Here’s an oldie but goodie: Jim Everett attacks Jim Rome for calling him “Chris”.

ThinkGeek.com had an april fools joke product that we wish were really available. Anyone who has ever spent hours on Super Mario Brothers would love one of these things on their desk. “The packet claims that eating the 1up Mushroom will grant “immortal life beyond dreams of man.” It also has the warning: Do not put in face.” Brilliant.

In other news…

[Phillyville]: Tony LaRussa has class, decides to pitch to Rollins.

[SI]: Well, that didn’t take long. LSU coach Brady wants a raise.

[Vinny and the Hornless Rhino]: Amazon jumps the gun and offers to sell UCLA Champions gear. Of course, Florida ends up winning.

[The Hater Nation]: One Choking Moment. The top 10 chokes in this year’s NCAA tournament.

We’re so glad April Fools is over. Now we don’t have to worry whether every story we see come across the wire is an April Fools joke or not. We have to give credit though to The Best Damn Sports Show Period for pulling off a pretty good prank.

The setup was that Tom Arnold (former host) was back as a guest and Michael Strahan confronted him about stuff Arnold said about him in his book. Here’s the video.

Giants fans must have crapped themselves seeing Strahan writhing in pain on the ground.
It’s good stuff and had at least this blogger fooled. (Sorry buddy, we’re just glad it wasn’t us.)

By the way, damn good acting by Strahan.

At this point, people are just going back and forth with opinions and posturing. We’re going to wait for major developments to give the story another full blog entry. However, if you do need your fix, here’s a good roundup of the latest stories out of the Duke Chronicle.

In other news…

[The 700 Level]: Jimmy Rollins goes 0-3… but it’s ok, it was still preseason. J-Roll chases Dimaggio’s record for real starting tonight.

[Grace and Wayne]: Ahhhh.. opening day. When even Cubs fans can be hopeful.

[Dan Stake]: Ummm… April Fools is over right? Dominoes on ESPN? What next, watching old people eat?

[Ichiro Fan]: Ichiro is going old school this year, wearing his socks high

Everyone’s favorite crazy baseball wife has decided that she’s beyond just being a baseball wife and has filed for divorce. I wonder if the Mets will try to get Kris Benson back now. He’s always claimed that they traded him to the Orioles because of his “impulsive” wife. No statement from Anna on her website about the divorce.

In other news…

[Chicago Tribune]: NFL could get more than $300 for the rights to broadcast games on the internet.

[Off Wing Opinion]: U.S. Soccer Player Assaulted In Belgium

[Philly.com]: Sometimes I don’t think Florida deserves a baseball team.

[Raiders.MVN]: Rumor: the Raiders are looking to make a deal with the ravens that would involve swapping number one picks, the Raiders giving up Jerry porter and recieving Suggs a second and a third next year.

[the700level.com]: Umm.. not all Eagles fans are like this. (video)

We have two great videos for you. The first video is of a player pulling the soccer equivalent of the “pretend to give the ball back to the pitcher” play. We have no idea what they’re saying but the video is amusing. The second video is a classic – Randy Johnson absolutely obliterating a bird that happened to pick the wrong flight pattern.

In other news…

[Click 2Houston]: Coach refuses to stop a team bus and forces student to defecate in a bag and urinate into a cup. I asked you if you needed to go before we left the house! (via badjocks.com)

[Railbird Central]: Green Bay Packers head coach Mike McCarthy confirmed that quarterback Brett Favre is under no deadline to decide his future with the Packers.

[flashwarner.com]: Julian Tavarez Punches like a bitch.

[Kevin Nye]: Cavs make it to the postseason in 8 years. The first step in the LeBron era.

Here’s the latest Sportscolumn podcast.  This week, we have DJ Gallo of Sports Pickle joining us as the special guest.  If you’d like to be a guest on the podcast (which is recorded Tuesday nights) drop me a line at [email protected].

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This week’s topics include:

• March Madness discussion
• DJ Gallo talks about writing sports pickle and for ESPN
• Our favorite Sports Pickle stories
• Top hockey players in video games of all time
• The best off field fights
• Ryan’s Jeopardy test… which of course leads to a discussion on Cheers episodes
• Women We Love nominees
• Fez on Howard Stern talking about starlets he’s slept with

Hope you guys enjoy the podcast.  If you did enjoy it, please go to this page on Yahoo and give us a good rating.   We’d appreciate it. Thanks.

In a stunning victory, Sportscolumn users selected Lois Griffin as the new Woman We Love. And really, who doesn’t love the long suffering Lois for being married to a retard like Peter. Here are some facts on Lois:

• She’s about 40 years old.
• She dated J. Geils, a member of Whitesnake, and Gene Simmons.
• She made a plaster cast of Hall’s equipment but refused to do Oates’.
• “Women are such teases, that’s why I went back to men.”
• She’s a great lounge singer and a model.
• She know taijitsu and can kick some ass.
• She once asked Brian to spank her.

Did we really just pick an animated woman? Man you guys need to get out of the house.

Bud Selig spent last weekend reading “Game of Shadows” and is on the verge of announcing a steroid investigation. Selig is expected to ask George Mitchell, a former senate majority leader from Maine, to lead the investigation. It’s about time.

In other news…

[Steve Straiger]: SC has no opinions on Kelvin Sampson so we’ll let this hoosier tell us what he thinks.

[The Journal News]: Road to the Stanley Cup is paved with whiskers. (via Kuklas Korner)

[ABC7 Chicago]: Maguire University, a fake college, duped the NCAA and scored tickets to the Final Four for two years. Now they just have to buy them along with us schmoes.

[Reuters]: Theaters will begin showing live 3D sporting events in 2007. I don’t get it.

Last week, Lois Griffin won by a narrow margin over Vanessa Marcil. This week, we have six new candidates and it’s going to be a tough decision for you. (On the podcast, we mentioned Scarlett Johannson but since she’s so damn hot, I’m going to automatically make her a WWL. Plus, it wouldn’t have been fair to the others on this list.)

Rachel Bilson

Maria Sharapova

Heather Graham

Mandy Moore

Portia di Rossi

Halle Berry

Voting will end next Tuesday before the podcast. Vote Now.