Odds and Ends: The luckiest SOB in all of sports

Posted on Mon Jun 23, 2008 at 01:27:22 PM EST in NBA
More on: Marko Jaric, NBA, lucky, Javon Kearse, Pele, movies, MLB, George Carlin, Wimbledon, college, video, Lou Pinella, Cubs, White Sox, ouch, Odds and Ends (all tags)

The guys over at Rumors and Rants are still stewing over the fact that a virtual-nobody in the NBA like Marko Jaric can be engaged to megamodel Adrianna Lima. Hey, aren't we all? But Jaric isn't the only lucky bastard in the world of sports. So, here's their list of "The Luckiest Guys In Sports History."

Marko Jaric - Engaged to Adrianna Lima

Jim Sorgi - Peyton Manning's Backup

Sam Cassell - 2008 Celtics

Eric Gagne - 2007 Boston Red Sox

Scott Podsednik - Married to Lisa Dergan

Christian Laettner - The Dream Team

Tony Romo - The Tail He Pulls

Jud Buechler - Three Titles With The Bulls

Jeremy Shockey - Giants Super Bowl Win

And speaking of lucky, there's no way we can forget about this lucky dog.

In other news...

[Undrafted Free Agent]: Javon Kearse does his best Cedric Benson impersonation

[SI.com]: Pele gets no respect from the younger generation

[Pyle of List]: Sports movie coaches nominated for the HOF

[CNN.com]: 8-year-old knows more about baseball than most beat reporters

[Tirico Suave]: George Carlin, you will be missed greatly

[Mondesishouse.com]: A day of indulgence

[COEDMagazine.com]: The Babes of Wimbledon 2008

[CollegeOTR.com]: Celebrities' kid's colleges revealed

[JoshQPublic.com]: Worst. Strip club. Ever.

[Can't Stop The Bleeding]: Worst. Rap battle. Ever.

And finally, here's a guy dropping a subtle hint that he really, really wants a pool.

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Odds and Ends: Michael Vick loves animals

Posted on Thu Apr 26, 2007 at 05:36:43 PM EST in NFL
More on: Michael Vick, Falcons, Eagles, soccer, weird, Odds and Ends, movies (all tags)

Vick has a message for dog lovers

Michael Vick's publicist might just jump off a bridge. The latest incident involves a search of a property in Virginia owned by Vick because authorities believed that dogs were being trained there for illegal fights. Vick doesn't live at the house but his nephew does.

Early reports indicate as many as 70 dogs on the property, including 60 pit bulls with wounds that appear to be consistent with dog-fighting. Authorities have allegedly uncovered extensive dog-fighting paraphernalia, including rape stands (used to allow fighting dogs to breed while preventing them from attacking each other), equipment used to build strength and endurance in fighting dogs, and controlled substances frequently used in dog-fighting.

Now, we shouldn't jump to conclusions about the extent that Vick was involved... oh what the hell, let's just jump to conclusions. How the hell do you now know what your nephew is doing on a property that you own? This is just another example of Vick's ability to win friends and influence people. Let's just hope that nobody was pumping the dogs with steroids.

In other news...

[SC]: The Falcons now lead the league in animal cruelty

[Philly.com]: Meet Brian Westbrook's brother, Byron. No, that's not confusing at all.

[The Offside]: Croatian Footballer Given a Sheep for Every Goal he Scores. What he does with it is up to him.

[The Big Picture]: What movie sporting event would you have liked to attend in person?

[Our Book of Scrap]: Tony Stewart says NASCAR is fixed

And finally, if you have a lot of time to waste, you can watch cheddar as it ripens. Seriously. Or like us, you can sit around and wonder, "hey whatever happened to Bridget Fonda?" and "why does Nic Cage suck so much?"

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Nov 30 in Sports History: Brian's Song

Posted on Thu Nov 30, 2006 at 12:13:16 PM EST in Other Sports
More on: movies, Bears, Bulls, Bruins, sports history (all tags)

In 1971: ABC-TV aired “Brian’s Song,“ one of the most famous sports movies ever. The movie was a tearjerker about Brian Piccolo (played by James Caan) and Gayle Sayers (Billy Dee Williams), two Chicago Bears teammates who, despite their differences, became best friends, blah, blah, blah. Piccolo ends up dying of cancer, and we didn’t cry, there was just a lot of dust everywhere that day. (imdb.com)

In 1996: In a win over the Spurs, Michael Jordan of the Bulls scored 35 points and recorded his 25,000th career point. Jordan finished his 15-year career with over 32,000 points and a 30.1 average. Jordan was only the tenth player in NBA history to hit the quarter-century mark in points scored. (basketball-reference.com)

In 2005: The Boston Bruins made one of the worst trades in sports history, as they jettisoned captain, former top draft pick and franchise player Joe Thornton to the San Jose Sharks for Marco Sturm, Wayne Primeau (not Keith, the better of the two brothers) and Brad Stuart. The Bruins immediately went into the tank, missed the playoffs and GM Mike O’Connell was fired, while Thornton flourished with the Sharks. He teamed up with Jonathan Cheechoo to lead the league in scoring and also won the Hart Trophy as the league’s MVP. (nhl.com)

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Rocky looks terrible

Posted on Mon Oct 23, 2006 at 02:08:12 PM EST in Other Sports
More on: soccer, boxing, movies (all tags)

This is only marginally related to sports but the new part-owner of Everton is friends with Sylvester Stallone from his Planet Hollywood days and has promised to bring him to some games in the future. Maybe England is like Japan where washed up actors go to make commercials and die but does the appearance of Sly make an event better? This is a guy who has had all his recent movies go straight to video.

In any case, we wanted to just point out that Rocky, hero of our youth, looks like crap. And the movie doesn't look much better either... which of course isn't going to stop us from seeing it in the theater anyway.

Links:
[The Sun UK]: Rocky times ahead for Blues

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Odds and Ends: Invincible #1 at the box office

Posted on Mon Aug 28, 2006 at 04:56:30 PM EST in NFL
More on: Odds and Ends, Eagles, movies (all tags)

Coach? I can do it again if you need a close-up

The Disney sports formula works again as Invincible takes in $17M at the box office on its opening weekend. Undoubtedly a majority of tickets were sold to Eagles fans. Snakes on a Plane, which got more internet hype than any movie not named Star Wars or Lord of the Rings only took in $15M in its opening weekend proving that a feel good movie will do better than a geeky internet phenomenon. Here's a review of Invincible. (Self serving? Us? No...)

In other news...

[Indystar.com]: Remember the autistic kid who scored 20 points in a game? He's now got a better job than you do.

[Snopes.com]: Snopes' take on the Madden curse

[Sportsline]: Vikings player... sex in stairwell... insert your own joke here

[Cincinnati Enquirer]: What to watch for in Palmer's return tonight

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