Proof that Jean Girard isn't the only dillhole in auto racing

Posted on Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 09:45:45 AM EST in Other Sports
More on: jerk, kid, crying, video, funny, racing (all tags)

"Listen, kid, I said `No autographs!!'"

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It's true, everybody in MLB is doping

Posted on Tue Jun 24, 2008 at 10:29:40 AM EST in MLB
More on: MLB, drugs, steroids, kid, video (all tags)

The use of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs has virtually marred the game of Major League Baseball unrecognizable. Nobody can jack a dinger or throw a 100-mph heater anymore without some level of scrutiny and doubt being cast upon their true abilities. And rightfully so. But one place we never ever thought would be tainted by the corruption of drug use was the the ball kids' clubhouse. We were wrong.

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Kid goes for a ride after trying to imitate Kobe's car jump

Posted on Fri Apr 18, 2008 at 07:37:38 AM EST in Other Sports
More on: kid, stupid, video, Kobe Bryant, commercial, funny, ouch (all tags)

Lots of kids look up to Kobe Bryant. They want to talk like him, dribble like him, dunk like him and attempt to force trades like him. But what most kids don't have that Bryant does is some serious hops and a crew of special effects guys.

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12-year-old kid gets denied dream job as W.V. football coach

Posted on Fri Mar 07, 2008 at 11:45:55 AM EST in College
More on: West Virginia, Joshua Irizarry, coach, football, kid (all tags)

When Rich Rodriguez bolted from West Virginia in order to get his grubby little paws on his dream job at Michigan there was an obvious void left to be filled by the Mountaineers. It didn't take long before coaches from around the country started sending in applications in an attempt to get their grubby little paws on the likes of Pat White. Well, they weren't all coaches.

Joshua Irizarry is a 12-year-old who loves him some West Virginia football, so when he saw there was an opening; he slapped together a resume and fired it off to WV President Michael Garrison. Last month, Irizarry finally got a response saying: sorry, but the position has been filled by an "equally qualified candidate."

Garrison said in an e-mail that Irizarry's letter was one of the best he received, including details of his football experience, love of the game and an offer to coach under conditions determined by the university.

The letter also uses humor that university employees found entertaining: "I understand this would be a move more suited for a team like Temple, but I am just asking for your consideration.

Nice burn on Temple, kid. You know who probably would have snatched him up quicker than a hiccup is the Atlanta Falcons. After being stuck with backstabbing Bobby Petrino, the players would have loved the upgrade.

Links:
[MyRecordJournal.com]: Boy, 12, gets response to W. Va. Coaching inquiry

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12-year-old boy has one helluva whale shark of a tale

Posted on Fri Jan 04, 2008 at 09:50:36 AM EST in Other Sports
More on: fishing, Florida, record, shark, kid (all tags)

When man and wild animals cross paths, the results can often be tragic for the humans. However, sometimes the odds are simply stacked against the beasts and that's when amazing things can happen for man, or should we say boy.

On New Year's Day, 12-year-old Aidan Murray Medley was fishing off the coast of Florida with his family when he snagged a 551-pound bull shark. After a 45-minute battle with the nine-foot-long behemoth, Medley finally reeled in the monster that weighed a full 431 pounds more than he did.

When you have a shark on the line, it's completely painful," said Aidan, who said he lost feeling in his body after about 20 minutes of having the shark on his line.

The shark's size set a new state record for the largest fish ever caught in Florida with the old record being set by a 517-pound shark that was hauled in back in 1981.

So what's a 12-year-old to do with a shark that weighs 300 pounds more than him? Medley says he plans on having the shark stuffed and mounted on the wall of his boarding school in Greenwich.

Links:
[WCBSTV.com]: Conn. Boy, 12, Catches 551-Pound Bull Shark
[SPTimes.com]: Boy's shark tale weighs 551 pounds

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Fenway Park relocates to Portland, but for a good reason

Posted on Fri Oct 26, 2007 at 12:17:57 PM EST in MLB
More on: Make A Wish Foundation, kid, Fenway Park, Red Sox (all tags)

Just when we start believing that the world is full of nothing but greedy cut-throats, we get pleasantly surprised to come across a story about a kid, his dreams and the people who bring `em to life.

An 8-year-old boy from Portland just got his field of dreams. The Make A Wish Foundation of Maine and the Portland Sea Dogs made Ben Hanna his very own version of Fenway Park in his backyard on Thursday.

Ben suffers from a rare blood disease called Histiocytosis. It causes his white blood cells to attack his lungs. Ben was diagnosed in June, but has been doing much better recently, thanks to chemotherapy.

He loves the Red Sox, especially Coco Crisp, and his wish was to have Fenway at home. The Portland Sea Dogs front office staff and grounds crew spent the day creating the ballpark while Ben was at school. The pitcher's mound and home plate used to set at Hadlock Field, as did the scoreboard on Ben's mini-green monster in left field.

Ben was just about speechless when he came home, saying the ballpark was "amazing."

The Make A Wish Foundation really is one of the greatest organizations on the planet, hands down. But we have to give our gold star of the day to Ben's neighbor.

Then he got another surprise. A neighbor got him and his father 2 tickets to Thursday's World Series game at Fenway. After playing ball at home for about an hour, Ben and his dad got in a limo to go to Fenway Park.

Anybody who now trades their tickets for Mexican food or Playboy magazines should be completely ashamed of themselves.

Links:
[WKYC.com]: Sick boy gets his field of dreams

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Pow! Right in the kisser! Pow! Right in the kisser! Pow! Right in the kisser!...

Posted on Thu Oct 18, 2007 at 03:48:55 PM EST in Other Sports
More on: dodgeball, kid, video, funny (all tags)

We told you about the unbelievable dangers subtly hidden within the childhood game of tug-of-war. Despite the fact that it's played in school gymnasiums across this great nation of ours, nobody would ever expect their hands to get sliced off from participating. Well, dodgeball is another seemingly ordinary game in which people assume that the worst thing that can happen is a nerdy little kid gets whacked in the face causing his glasses to break and sending the room into hysterics. Well, that is the worst thing that can happen...for the nerdy little kid. We think it's pretty darn funny.

Hey kid; they're not checking on you, they're hoping you're bleeding.

Links:
[Our Book of Scrap]: Dodgeball Is A Great Character Builder

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If you thought that Bobby Knight was a sore loser...

Posted on Mon Oct 01, 2007 at 01:06:34 PM EST in College
More on: Florida, Gators, kid, mad, Auburn, Tigers, video, funny (all tags)

There were a ton of upsets in the world of college football this weekend, but we're guessing by this clip that nobody had a worse Saturday (or Friday in the case of Mountaineers fans) than the Florida die-hard. Wait, let me rephrase that: nobody had a worse Saturday than this Florida die-hard.

One word of advice before you hit the play button: Earmuffs.

Links:
[Our Book of Scrap]: So Gators Fans, How Do You REALLY Feel?

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Apparently, Bobby Knight is coaching peewee football

Posted on Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 10:41:09 PM EST in Other Sports
More on: football, kid, coach, jerk, underwear (all tags)

We know that people are in an uproar over the way Michael Vick treated murdered dogs, but about when some coach gets his kicks out of humiliating little kids. Sure, it's not the same as electrocuting `em or having them rip off each other noses for his own personal amusement, but this guy should still probably get a good ferret leggin' for his actions.

Curt McKinney is the whack job in question and he's the `responsible' adult in charge of coaching a little kid's football team in Cincinnati. Well, McKinney got pissed off at 10-year-old Aucherae Washington during practice on Friday because the little guy didn't adhere to the specifics of running up and down a hill. Oh, but kicking off the squad didn't satisfy Coach Curt; nope, he made the kid strip down to his underwear and walk home.

I chose to walk down the hill," Aucherae said. "I ran to the middle of it then started walking down so I don't bump into anybody, because if I do that I'm going to knock them probably a couple feet back."

The boy said his coach berated him in front of the other players.

"'You're too slow for the team, you're no good for the team,'" Aucherae said the coach told him. "He told me to take off my stuff and give it back to him, and he said, 'While you're at it, take off my pants.'

Boy, if we had a dollar for every time someone has told us that. But seriously, like the sickos who attend dogfights there were plenty of idiotic spectators who just sat around and watched this all go down. In fact, there were parents looking on who apparently never kicked this guy's ass or even bothered to say a word. Don't worry; we got enough ferrets to go around. What's makes matters even worse is that the coach denies doing anything wrong and the football league won't suspend him because he hasn't been charged with a crime. Pathetic.

As for the kid-o, he eventually walked to a neighbor's house to get some pants because "he didn't want cheerleaders to see him in his underwear." Boy, if we had a dollar for every time that's happened to us.

Links:
[WAVE3.com]: Coach cuts 10 year old, forces him to walk home in underwear

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Another little kid gets labeled as the next big thing

Posted on Thu Aug 02, 2007 at 04:51:09 PM EST in Other Sports
More on: Rhain Davis, soccer, Manchester United, kid (all tags)

Not too long ago, we brought you the story of Cody Paul who had been dubbed by The Commission as a "white Reggie Bush" at the tender age of 8 (though there is speculation that he could be much older). Well, Manchester United was sent a DVD of 9-year-old Rhain Davis by the boy's grandfather and after they witnessed the little boy's mad soccer skills they immediately snatched up the kid that's being labeled as the next Wayne Rooney (and being Wayne Rooney is a very good thing from what we can tell).

While it's a little odd that they would actively pursue someone based strictly on a video, apparently it's a common practice to recruit kids this young in an attempt to develop their skills. In fact, United claims to get a hold of about 40 kids a year who are Davis' age. Who knew?

Manchester United is proud of its history of developing talented young players, and invests considerable time and resources into trying to find the best young players of the future," the club said in a statement.

So, here's the video that landed Davis the opportunity of a lifetime.

Sorry, Cody, we'd like to say that the Miami Dolphins are calling you up to minicamp, but you gotta stay on top of your game and avoid injury for at least another ten to twelve years before your big break might come a knockin'. Damn, those bratty little soccer kids really do get all the perks.

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[TheStar.com]: Man U recruits 9-year-old after YouTube audition

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