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General Sports

Sportscolumn.com Weekly Sports Roundup Podcast for March 7 2006

Welcome to the first podcast of Sportscolumn’s Weekly Sports roundup. Each week, we’ll take you through the latest sports news and issues. On board are Trevor Freeman, Ryan McGowan, and Vin Diec. We also want to hear what you have to say so if you’d like to be a guest on the podcast (which is recorded Tuesday nights) drop me a line to editor (at) sportscolumn.com.

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This week’s topics include:

  • Barry Bonds on the juice
  • Kirby Puckett and the Twins
  • Duke and Coach K’s whining
  • Hansborough’s mom
  • NFL labor talks
  • March Madness
  • Bucknell vs Holy Cross
  • Ridiculous Boston holidays
  • Andre Kirilenko’s annual pass
  • Women we love nominees
  • Vince Young vs David Beckham

Hope you guys enjoy the podcast and let us know what you think.

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San Francisco Giants

Obituaries for Barry Bonds’ career



Tainted

It didn’t take long for all the sportswriters out there to pile on and denounce Barry Bonds. It’s as if they hate Barry so much they already had these stories filed away and just were waiting to update and unleash them.

Here are some reactions from around the web:

[SFGate]: Ray Ratto: Oh, it’s superficially entertaining to demand that he quit, for the good of the game, for the good of society, for the good of goodness, but it’s posturing because Bonds isn’t going to quit merely because some pundit with a cable-ready stalking horse says he should. Peter Magowan isn’t going to ask him to quit because his financial soul long ago was sold to Bonds. Commissioner Bud Selig no more wants a piece of this story than he wants to find a piece of anthrax in his shoe.

[SI]: Phil Taylor: Even Bonds, who we knew was no angel, disappoints us further now that the nature of his dishonesty has been laid out in such detail. Anyone who defended him in the past has to feel betrayed today.

[MSNBC]: Mike Celizic: To even imagine Bonds surpassing Hank Aaron is enough to make any decent person vomit. And if Bonds insists on playing and does break the most sacred record in sports, there won’t be a thing baseball can do.

[ESPN]: Gene Wojciechowski: Bonds is finished. He might play again, but there is only a chalk outline left around his integrity and home run totals. And the only way he gets into Cooperstown is if he spends the $14.50 for a Hall of Fame admission ticket.

[Thetafarm.blogspot]: I believed him so much that I would argue with my friends and family for hours about it. All of that is over. These kinds of things happen to just about every avid sports fan. If you’ve never been let down or dissapointed in an athlete, you aren’t a true fan.

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NHL General

Theo Fleury’s got problems


If there was ever a cautionary tale about the ills of drugs and alcohol, look no further than Theo Fleury. After winning the Stanley Cup just two years into his career, everything has since fallen apart. We find Theoren playing hockey in Britain (they have hockey?) for the Belfast Giants. Well, we did. His career in that league is over too.

You’d think having to play ice hockey in a country of field hockey would mellow Theo out a bit but recently, he tried to climb out of the penalty box to reach a fan who had been taunting him all game. And last Saturday, he refused to go to the penalty box after being called for elbowing (maybe there was a fan there he didn’t want to fight) and got a 10 minute misconduct. After getting back on the ice, he fired a puck at the referee and missed him by inches.

Theo was thrown out of the game, went apeshit and threatened the officials so he got another game misconduct. Theo has vowed never to play in the league again. I guess there’s always the South African Ice Hockey Association.

[Calgary Sun]: Theo on thin ice after meltdown

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San Francisco Giants

Barry Bonds started on the juice in 1998

The two reporters who covered the BALCO scandal for the San Francisco chronicle have alleged in a book that Bonds began using steroids in 1998.

According to the book, Bonds was using two designer steroids, known as the cream and the clear, plus insulin, human growth hormone and other performance enhancers by 2001, when he hit 73 home runs to break Mark McGwire’s single-season record.

You mean when he hit 73 home runs*? I’ve always thought that Bonds was on the juice. Just look at the size of his melon. It looks like the device Mr. Burns used to block the sun from Springfield. No one wanted him to break Hank Aaron’s home run record and as far as I’m concerned, he might not even have broken Roger Maris’ record.

Is there anyone in the world still naive enough to think that Bonds didn’t use steroids?

[Yahoo]:
Report: Bonds began using steroids, vast array of other drugs, in 1998

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College Basketball

More reason to hate Duke



Waaaaaaaaahhhhh

Mike Krzyzewski thinks that the media has it in for his team and that they are trying to sway officials to call the game unfairly against Duke. And by unfairly, I mean correctly. Coach K blames “whoever puts up the graphics, whoever puts up the footage” for fostering resentment against Duke.

This is so absurd that I had to doublecheck to make sure I wasn’t reading an Onion article. Coach K didn’t mention any news organizations except for ESPN. Last I checked, Dick Vitale is so biased for Duke that doctors had to surgically remove his nose from Krzyzewski’s rectum.

I don’t even know what to make of this. It’s like Paris Hilton criticizing the media for making her out to be a whore. Look Coach K, think of it this way, the media finally shining a spotlight on the “no fouls against Duke” clause in the ref’s contracts just gives you a convenient excuse to blow it in the NCAA tourney again.

[Winston-Salem Journal]: Conspiracy Theory: Krzyzewski angry with media

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All Other Sports

The Iditarod has begun


Just in time to boost ticket sales to 8 Below, the “Last Great Race on Earth” has begun. Started to celebrate the sport of mushing and then modified to commemorate the run of life saving serum to Nome in 1925, the Iditarod is now the premiere dog race in the world. The winner gets $795,000.

The race is so dangerous that one musher already punctured the center of an eye during a training run. Emergency surgery will save the eye but she is racing anyway.

We’re in Day 2 of the race and Lance Mackey is in first place. OLN is covering the race but their TV schedule has the first broadcast almost two weeks away so we’ll keep you up to date here. We’re happy to report that no dogs have died yet on the trail though this happens every year. We don’t wish harm on any dog unless it’s one that Tim Allen turns into so that we, as a civilization, don’t have to be subjected to another of his movies.

Everything you wanted to know about the Iditarod:

[Wikipedia]: Iditarod entry
[Iditarod.com]: Learn About the Iditarod

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Washington Redskins

LaVar Arrington pays to get out of Washington



2nd overall pick in 2000

Arrington hated the situation in DC so much that he essentially gave up $4M to get out of his contract so he could be a free agent. Seems there are athletes who are still willing to trade money for a decent job. Most of the folks in Redskins land aren’t happy about this. LaVar Arrington is a crowd favorite in D.C. and the fact that he pays to become a free agent doesn’t say much for the Front Office.

This was all part of a move for the Redskins to get under the cap by the time the CBA extension is done. I would actually like to see what would happen in a capless situation where Daniel Snyder overpays for every single over-the-hill player in the league and the Redskins still can’t get to the Super Bowl.

[Yahoo ]: Arrington buys his freedom from the Redskins

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General Sports

Odds and Ends for Monday March 6 2006: Another Grrrroin injury

I’ve played a lot of sports but I’ve never ever ever wanted to punch anyone in the groin. But in final minute of a game, George Mason guard Tony Skinn decided he should deliver a low blow to Hofstra’s Loren Stokes. I don’t know. Maybe he just punched him in an optical illusion.

[AZ Central]: Arizona guard Hassan Adams arrested for DUI. BAC of .124 doesn’t even get him into top 15.

[New Mexican]: Girl gives birth to baby 2 hours after basketball game. Had no idea she was pregnant. (via Badjocks.com)

[Detroit Free Press]: Kenny Rogers settles with cameraman he punched; is a weird hand holder.

[WBC ]: I think the WBC has begun but so far, only the bitching continues.

[AP]: Tennessee basketball players Tony Passley and Jordan Smith arrested for possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute. What? 15.2 grams? That’s just a regular Saturday night.

[Sportshooligan.com]: Yankees protest WBC but can’t spell own team name.

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NFL General

The NFL is pissing me off



I will eat your young

Listen NFL and NFLPA, we don’t want to hear the propaganda spewing from your mouths about the latest negotiation and how far apart you are. We love football but this whole extension of the CBA is making us ill.

The worst clip I saw had Gene Upshaw complaining that the proposal the owners gave was worse than the deal they currently have. I’m going to go ahead and say that probably wasn’t true. Then, you have the weasely Jeffrey Kessler chiming in with ‘you know the villain in the movies you think is dead but he rises up and you have to shoot him again and then he’s really dead? Well, now he’s dead but we didn’t pull the trigger.’

Oh, surprise, suprise, they extended the deadline again so he’s not really dead. In the words of Homer Simpson, BORRRRRRRRRRRRRING!


Here are the rules for NFL labor negotiations:

  1. Posture in the press
  2. Warn of dire consequences as deadline approaches
  3. Extend deadline
  4. Repeat
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NFL General

Vince Young calls Wonderlic reports disrespectful

When asked to spell disrespectful, Young said, “d-i-s-…respectful.”