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Indianapolis Colts

Peyton Manning tries to fill Brett Favre’s shoes both on and off the field

Unless you’re talking about the new Madden cover, Brett Favre is long gone from the NFL…for now. Who knows what will come in the months leading up to the season’s kickoff, but No. 4 has not walked through the Packers’ locker room doors yet, meaning the league needs a new, loveable, ol’ dog to talk about the good old days and how the youngsters make him feel like he’s still just kicking up dirt on the playground. As of now it looks like 32-year-old Peyton Manning is that man.

The veteran QB says the rookies sometimes make him feel old.

“It’s hard for me to realize why some of these guys are nervous. As one of them, I can’t remember who it was, they were saying how they like watching me on ESPN Classic. I don’t consider myself to be an ESPN Classic type but when I was a 22-year-old senior at Tennessee these guys were I guess 11 years old. But I do enjoy being around these young guys cause it still is very much a young man’s game and it does kind of keep you feeling young,” said Manning.

You know what else keeps you feeling young at heart? Creepy, licking contests with Eli.

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[WISHTV.com]: Veteran QB Manning says rookies can make him feel old

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Boston Red Sox

Red Sox and black eyes

The Red Sox and the Rays played a ho-hum game for about an inning and a half before the good times really began to roll as Coco Crisp charged the mound with ferocity causing the benches to clear in an all-out WWE-style brawl. And, of course, at the end of the clip is footage of Manny being Manny.

Links:

[TheSoxReport.com]: Video of the Red Sox Rays brawl and Youkilis Manny Ramirez argument in the dugout

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Seattle Mariners

Odds and Ends: John McLaren is (bleeped) off, ready to bust (bleep)

John McLaren exploded in the Mariners post game press conference and by now you’ve probably already heard or seen the clip on your favorite local television station, but the profanity is so much more impressive in print.

“We’re playing our (bleep) off every day and got nothing to show for it. I’m tired of (bleeping) losing, I’m tired of getting my (bleep) beat, and so have those guys. We gotta change this (bleeping bleep) around and get after it. And only we can do it. The fans are (bleeped) off, and I’m (bleeped) off, and the players are (bleeped) off. And that’s the way it is. There’s no (bleeping) easy way out of this, can’t feel sorry for ourself, we gotta (bleeping) buckle it up and get after it. I’m tired of (bleep) losing this, (bleeping) every night we bust our (bleep). It’s gotta be a total team (bleeping) effort to turn this thing around, and that’s it.”

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[Your Face is a Sports Blog]: RBI Baseball – possibly the greatest video game of all time – is coming back, back, back!

[BasRutten.com]: The Bas gives his two cents about the Kimbo Slice/James Thompson controversy

[phillyBurbs.com]: The Donald gets into the fight game

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[Eric Wilbur’s Sports Blog]: More Lakers/Celtics videos than you can stomach

And finally, what could be better than a nice relaxing day at the waterpark?

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General Sports

Arnold Swarchenegger sings the story of steroids

So, you think that steroids, human growth hormone and other performance enhancing drugs are a relatively new phenomenon, huh? Well, then you have yet to be educated on the subject by the Governator.

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General Sports

Nikki Ziering to star in Celebrity Championship Wrestling



Mmmmmm, Nikki Ziering

Talk about a small, small world. On the same day we reminisce about Celebrity Boxing, we get smacked in the face with Celebrity Championship Wrestling. Oh, it’s true. It’s damn true. But like any show that features “celebrities,” the term is used extremely loosely. Don’t be expecting to see Brad Pitt or Jennifer Lopez or George Clooney donning spandex for the reality show, but Nikki Ziering is participating, meaning every male in America will be tuning in.

The new series will feature 10 celebrity contestants, male and female, in tag teams, performing moves like the Pile Driver, the Running Power Slam, Dragon Sleeper and the Triple Power Bomb as they compete against one another in for the CCW title! Two former pro wrestlers will train the contestants, with Hulk, former World Championship Wrestling president Eric Bischoff, and a surprise celebrity guest serving as judges.

Contestants include Dustin Diamond (Screech from Saved by the Bell), Tiffany, Todd Bridges (Different Strokes), Trishelle (Real World), Butterbean (boxer/ Jackass 2), Nikki Ziering (Playboy), Frank Stallone (musician), Erin Murphy (Tabitha from Bewitched), and two surprise contestants!

The show will run on CMT starting this summer and we are literally counting the minutes to the first three-way (in or out of the ring) involving Trishelle, Ziering and Kim Kardashian, who is our dream vote for mystery guest No. 1.

Links:

[OCATV.com]: Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Championship Wrestling
[The Big Lead]: Hulk Hogan to Teach Screech Powers How to Wrestle – Son Still a Bad Person

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Pittsburgh Steelers

Hey, Vegas, what did Big Ben ever do to you?

Las Vegas is a city of loose morals and low class, but we’ve always known that. They simply reassured us all of that the other day when the LVPD put on a demonstration showing the deadly dangers of car/pedestrian collisions. Uh, duh! But the sheer stupidity of the story isn’t what got us riled up, it was the fact that the crash test dummy was wearing a Ben Roethlisberger jersey!

This has Peabody written all over it.

Then to show the dangers of illegal drugs, the Vegas cops set up a table with white powder all over it and had a dummy wearing a Len Bias jersey slumped over in a chair.

Links:

[MoveTheNeedle.net]: Ben Roethlisberger Made into a Crash Test Dummy. Classless!

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General Sports

Jose, are you ready? Curt, are you ready? Let’s get it on!


When Celebrity Boxing first appeared on FOX, we were stoked. But that was before we were forced to endure horrible, horrible fights like Manute Bol vs. Refrigerator Perry and Joey Buttafuoco vs. Chyna. Of course, the final straw for us came when Screech pulverized Horshack. Talk about disheartening! However, it appears we final have reason to root for FOX to throw the show back on the air.

Retired steroid slugger Jose Canseco challenged Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling to a fight while appearing this morning on Angelo Cataldi’s morning show on WIP in Philadelphia. Canseco also claimed the bloody sock that helped make Schilling famous was actually ketchup.

Damn, is there anything Canseco won’t do for a wad of cash?! Talk about desperate! But we gotta give him points for being creative because a lot of people would love to see Shill get his ass handed to him on a plate. Of course, regardless of what goes down in the ring, the highlight of the night will be when they show the gratuitous clip of Canseco using his noggin as a baseball trampoline. That never gets old.

Links:

[Larry Brown Sports]: Canseco vs. Schilling, Celebrity Boxing?

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College Football

Odds and Ends: Wisconsin students must prepare for sober football


Bad news for drunken Badger fans; the University of Wisconsin-Madison decided to continue their 2007 “Show and Blow” campaign which requires students who were previously busted for getting tanked at a home football game to blow into a Breathalyzer unit to get in. Of course, you gotta pass the test to enter (blowing .00 for underage students and under .08 for those over 21).

When asked for reaction to the renewal of the program, almost every student on campus responded, “This blows!”

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[UnCoached.com]: Hilarious/Inappropriate Entrance Songs in the MLB

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[SportsByBrooks]: What former NFL player hasn’t stolen manhole covers before?

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All Other Sports

Damn, Kimbo!! You gonna take that?

Apparently the great action from EliteXC’s Saturday Night Fights didn’t end with the now infamous exploding ear. Turns out that Brett Rogers, who was also victorious at the event, called out Kimbo Slice during the post fight press conference, setting up a mini Mike Tyson episode and a possible almost definite brawl between the two in the near future.

Kimbo got exposed big time during his fight with James Thompson, but we still don’t know how smart it was for Rogers to do that. Sure, it will elevate his name from a nobody in the fight game, but at what cost? While we all know Slice’s brawling style won’t be successful forever inside the cage, for now, his punching power is unmatched and when he starts throwing combos then it is nighty-night for his opponents.

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[phillyBurbs.com]: Kimbo Slice gets punked out

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NHL General

Fire and ice: The 10 Hottest Hockey Player Celebrity Girlfriends


It wasn’t all that long ago that we stumbled across a list of The 50 Sexiest WAGs of World Soccer and our lives changed forever. Our tongues are still dragging on the ground and our eyeballs still haven’t gone back fully into their sockets. But for some of you out there, soccer babes just don’t do it for you. Well, what about hockey hotties? Thanks to All Balls, there is now an official list of The 10 Hottest Hockey Player Celebrity Girlfriends for us to drool over.

Another hockey season is almost over and it’s time to reflect on the best part about hockey. All the hot celebrities chicks that hockey players score with! Is it the hockey hair that drives the ladies wild? Is the the rugged sexiness of missing teeth? Perhaps it’s those irresistible Canadian and Russian accents? For whatever reason, female celebrities can’t resist the allure of the hockey player. Personally, I think it’s because every little girl want to be a figure skater when she grows up and hockey players are pretty much professional figure skaters minus the sequence outfits and the face glitter. And no, as a matter of fact I’m not going to make any five-hole jokes today. How dare all of you.

10. Rachel Hunter (girlfriend of Jarret Stoll)
9. Kellie Pickler (girlfriend of Jordin Tootoo)
8. Paris Hilton (girlfriend of Jose Theodore)
7. Madonna (girlfriend of Mark Messier)
6. Hillary Duff (girlfriend of Mike Comrie)
5. Izabella Scorupco (girlfriend of Mariusz Czerkawski)
4. Anna Kournikova (girlfriend of Pavel Bure and Sergei Fedorov)
3. Alyssa Milano (girlfriend of Wayne Bean)
2. Gena Lee Nolin (girlfriend of Cale Hulse)
1. Elisha Cuthbert (girlfriend of Sean Avery)

SCHWING!!

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[All Balls]: The 10 Hottest Hockey Player Celebrity Girlfriends