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Boxing

Floyd Mayweather is favored in big showdown. Oh, and he’s got a fight coming up too.


There are several sports related people participating in this season’s Dancing with the Stars, which kicks off on Monday, but only one of them has a 38-0 record against some of the toughest men on the planet: Mr. Floyd Mayweather. While boxing fans know all about the size and strength of Mayweather’s mouth, on Monday he gave his newly acquired ABC fan base a glimpse of how he rolls when he delivered a soft verbal right cross to WBC welterweight title contender Ricky Hatton.

The local boxer has talked some trash, reportedly labeling his opponent “Vicky Fatten.”

Mayweather said in a news conference Monday at Los Angeles: “Ricky Hatton’s cool for what he does, but fighting Floyd Mayweather is a totally different level. I’m at the pinnacle of my career — this is the creme-de-la-creme.”

Hatton countered by making fun of Mayweather: “He’s currently doing the show ‘Dancing with the Stars’ and that’s how he’s boxing. Floyd always backs up. That’s the woman part.

Not bad guys, but we’re going to have to ask you to step up your game before you December 8th showdown. Calling each other little girls just ain’t gonna cut it. In fact, until you guys get a little more creative, we’re going to be focusing our attention on the big show and try to make some sweet jack with “Mr. Las Vegas” at 8-to-1. Seriously, the odds are out.

ODDS TO WIN DANCING WITH THE STARS
According to sportsbook.com

Melanie Brown 4-1
Floyd Mayweather 5-1
Sabrina Bryan 11-2
Josie Maran 6-1
Cameron Mathison 7-1
Helio Castroneves 15-2
Jennie Garth 8-1
Wayne Newton 8-1
Albert Reed 10-1
Jane Seymour 12-1
Marie Osmond 12-1
Mark Cuban 15-1

Geez, we never would have guessed that Cubes would be the biggest underdog.

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[Freep.com]: Mocked by opponent for being `a woman,’ boxer Floyd Mayweather a favorite to win `Dancing with the Stars’

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General Sports

The real beauty of live TV is that it can go so horribly wrong

We’ve all seen some pretty stupendous blunders while watching the sports segment of the news on the local affiliate. Sometimes the sports guy rips a fart and then uncontrollably laughs about his flatulence. Other times they just freeze up and stammer over every word. But then you’ve got those rare times when the blooper isn’t even the reporter’s fault. Of course, that doesn’t make it any less funny.

One note to all you aspiring TV talents out there: turn your mic off when you’re not on-air because we don’t want to ever hear Bob Sports Guy take a live microphone into the can.

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Olympics

NBC blows their load on the Olympics


We’re exactly one year away from the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and hopefully you can’t wait because in 365 days NBC is going to absolutely bombard you with coverage. How does 3,600 hours in two weeks sound to you? That’s more U.S. air time than all the previous Summer Games received combined!

Most of the coverage will be on the internet (2,200 hours to be exact), but the Olympics will be available for your television viewing pleasure almost anywhere you decide to click: NBC, USA, MSNBC, CNBC and even Telemundo. And despite the half-a-day time difference between the States and China, NBC will still show events like swimming, gymnastics and beach volleyball live.

We’re thrilled about the upcoming games! Hell, once the Olympics roll around, we even get excited about ping pong. Our only hope is that someone put an end to that ridiculous idea of skateboarding becoming an event. Sorry, but we just can’t stomach anymore of the Flying Tomato.

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[AZCentral.com]: NBC eyes 3,600 hours of Olympic coverage

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All Other Sports

Sports anchor wannabe watches his dreams crash and burn

Sometimes you wake up and you can just tell that it is going to be one hell of a day. Those are the mornings that we usually just crawl back in bed and unplug the alarm clock. Unfortunately, the chump in this clip we stumbled across wasn’t so smart and he got completely bulldozed by life.

“And boom goes the dynamite” might be totally lame, but it’s still on par with the SportsCenter crew. And at least he didn’t do this.

Of course, for every sucker that clams up on camera, you have one who just loves to talk and talk and talk…

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[Basketbawful]: Not that there’s anything wrong with that…

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NBA General

Nobody watched the NBA Finals


I felt a little guilty because even though I’m a huge sports fan and I blog about sports, I couldn’t bring myself to watch the NBA Finals. It wasn’t like forgot the games were on, I even checked the scores now and then between checking on baseball scores — I just couldn’t even reach over two feet to get the remote. Instead of watching the television equivalent of Ambien, there were just so many other things to do, like watching the cars go by or defragmenting my PC again.

It turns out I wasn’t the only one who had better things to do. The 2007 NBA Finals were the lowest rated finals in history. The four-game sweep finished with a 6.2 rating and an 11 share, which means only about 7 million people watched the games. Now, this isn’t nearly as abysmal as the paltry 1.6 rating for the NHL Finals but do you really want to compare yourself to the NHL to feel better?

I’m not really sure what the NBA can do to fix this problem. First, the Spurs are just a boring team to watch with absolutely no one with a personality. Even trying to make a villain out of Bruce Bowen didn’t help. I expect that next year, the refs will be “guided” to let more play go so that a running fun team like the Suns or the Warriors will get into the Finals from the West. As for the East, they are completely screwed. The Cavaliers were about the only watchable team in the East and they screwed the pooch in their Finals appearance. Perhaps next year, it’s the Bulls turn as the young guns and perhaps they’ll be able to represent the JV conference a little better.

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[AP]: NBA finals suffer record-low TV ratings

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All Other Sports

$15k for Turtle’s Air Force 1s


Remember when Vince forked over an envelope full of cash so that Turtle could get his pair of Fukiyamas in season 3 of Entourage? Well, you’re going to have to fork over just as much money if you want to get that actual pair of sneakers on ebay.


This Specific Pair was the actual shoe that received the coveted prime-time airtime on the episode also known as the prop shoe (no size tag). The shoe designed by Fukiyama in the episode but was actually designed and lasered by Nike designer Mark Smith. The wood box is a 1 of 1 lasered creation by Mark Smith and is different from the box in the episode specifically because that box is sitting on display at HBO offices on 6th Ave. in Manhattan, NY. I assure you this is a genuine article and to prove it the item can be autographed by the starring cast of Entourage (Vince/E/Drama/Turtle as well as Fukiyama!) with a certificate of authenticity and photographs of them signing the winning bidders choice of box and/or shoes.

I’m not sure that 15k for a pair of sneakers is reasonable unless they were worn by Michael Jordan as he hit his game winning shot over Cleveland or Utah. Entourage is a great show but it’s not going into the television hall of fame or anything. But if you have Vinny Chase money, what’s 15 grand? Ain’t shit. You can pay straight cash, homey.

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[ebay]: NIKE AIR FORCE 1 FUKIJAMA X TURTLE X ENTOURAGE X MARK

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General Sports

Odds and Ends: Amanda Beard on Letterman

The Amanda Beard publicity blitz is in full swing with her appearance on Letterman last night. I can’t tell whether it’s the quality of Youtube or she isn’t looking that great but… she isn’t looking that great. Flash Warner claims that it’s because “you can’t airbrush TV.” Ouch. Anyway, decide for yourself. She’s relatively funny and didn’t do anything to make us hate her or anything. Her publicist is probably angry at her for mentioning the boyfriend though. Men like their illusions.

In other news…

[India eNews]: Pretty soon the Tour de France won’t have any champions because of doping

[SA.com]: Spurs will give away free T-shirts to all fans at the game tonight. Wonder why no one has come up with this before.

[Sports By Brooks]: What’s the point of this Fast Cars and Superstars thing if they don’t race each other?

[Our Book of Scrap]: Danica Patrick And The “Real” Media Annoy Me

[The Vancouver Sun]: The Business of Don Cherry

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NHL General

If the NHL Finals were a TV show…


No no, don’t worry, this isn’t one of those really tedious blog posts that attempt to make some connection between, say, the lineup of the Ducks to the cast of Growing Pains or anything. But if the NHL Finals were a TV show, it’d be the equivalent of “Emily’s Reasons Why Not”, that Heather Graham sitcom that was canceled after one episode. The bottom line is that the ratings for the NHL are horrendous.

Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Finals got a 1.1 rating, down 31 percent from last year’s final. It was NBC’s lowest ever rating for a prime-time program. (Although it was tied for last all-time with a rerun of West Wing…) There were probably more bored housewives and stoners watching a Ron Popeil informercial than there were sports fans tuned into a pivotal game 3 of a major sport’s championship.

Despite Jes Golbez over at NHL Fanhouse’s assertion that hockey fans don’t need the NHL to be like any other league, it doesn’t mean that the NHL can get away with terrible ratings like these. Call it a herd mentality if you want but watching hockey is a little more fun if more than just one of your friends is actually watching it.

I like hockey. I want to watch the NHL Finals. I even get hockey on HD. It just takes away from the enjoyment if there isn’t a “wow! did you see that game?” factor. And I actually like talking about sports with real people in real situations as opposed to just logging onto some message board. So if the lack of marquee value makes me a bad hockey fan, then so be it. But that also means there are a lot less “bad hockey fans” and the next thing you know, you “real hockey fans” will be forced to watch the NHL Finals on OLN, which nobody seems to be able to find.

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[SI]: Turned off

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General Sports

Who knew Rich Eisen was such a stud?


We’ve always liked Rich Eisen — he’s funny, goofy, and compared to his counterparts over at ESPN, he’s actually enjoyable. But we never really thought of Eisen as a ladies man. Still, when you’re getting emails from one of the hottest anchorwomen in Philly, you’re doing ok for yourself.

According to the NY Post, Alycia Lane sent a bunch of emails to Rich Eisen including some with photos of herself in a bikini. Unfortunately, she sent it to an email account that Rich shares with his wife. Doh! Eisen’s wife, Suzy Shuster, was not pleased and fired off a response to Lane:


Boy, do you look amazing in a bikini . . . congrats! Whatever you’re doing, (Pilates? yoga?) keep doing it – it’s working for you. Anyway, sorry but those seven e-mails you sent to my husband, Rich, well, oops, they came to the e-mail address we both use from time to time, but no worries, I’ll forward the beach shots as well as the ones of you dancing with your friends on to his main address. Do you have it?

Good for you Suzy! But remember, next time Suzy, don’t just reply to the email, cc us at [email protected]. We need to verify that Alycia Lane does in fact look amazing in a bikini.

We imagine Rich couldn’t have come out of it unscathed. Maybe he can interview various NY Giants for marital tips.

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[Page Six]: BIKIN-E-MAILS RATTLE TV WIFE

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General Sports

Sam Malone: "I" on Sports

This clip has been missing from the blogosphere for way too long. It’s time to rap about a g-g-g-groin injury.


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