Author: Vin

Vin is a Philly boy who shouldn't be invited into your house because he'll judge you on your book and music collection. He owns Dawkins, Utley, Iverson, and Lindros jerseys, which is all you really need to know about him. He can be reached at [email protected].

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Golden State Warriors

Ghetto Prom in Oaktown!

What is going on with the Bay Area and racial insensitivity. First, the San Francisco 49ers had an in-house training video that featured racist jokes. Then 20 SFPD officers were suspended for a racist video that made fun of, well, basically everyone. Now, the PR manager for the Golden State Warriors, Eric Govan, has been fired for sending out an email titled “Ghetto Prom”.

The email contained photos of black people in formal attire and commentary. He didn’t just violate Warriors policy by sending it to other employees or friends, oh no, he sent it a distribution list that included newspaper reporters, columnists, editors, and television and radio stations. Now, we’ve all sent out emails we didn’t mean to send out, but can you imagine the dread you must feel when you realize you just basically wrecked your career?

I’m trying to track down his actual email but for now you can check out the photos he was commenting on here.

[CBS5]: Warriors Fire PR Manager Over ‘Ghetto Prom’ E-Mail

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Satire

Sports Satire roundup Feb 2 2006

Here are the best sports satire stories for this week.

[Sports Pickle]: Isiah Thomas to Use Mental Retardation Defense in Sexual Harassment Case
“It’s going to be impossible for any jury to look at Isiah’s body of work since his playing career ended and conclude anything other than the obvious: Isiah Thomas suffers from severe mental retardation,” said Philip Walters, Thomas’s lawyer.”

[The Brushback]: Brown Accuses Thomas Of Sexual Harassment In Attempt To Get Fired
“I have never sexually harassed Larry. If I was going to sexually harass a man, it wouldn’t be Larry Brown.”

[Onion Sports]: All-Time Greatest Super Bowl Moments
1994: Bills quarterback Jim Kelly, who two years earlier pumped up his team with a “We’ve Got the Experience We Need to Win” talk and the previous year instilled hope with his “Third Time’s the Charm” speech, gathers his teammates to tell them not to bother trying this year and resign themselves to their horrible fate.

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Philadelphia Eagles

McNabb: Black on black crime on the rise

In case you haven’t seen or read Donovan McNabb’s interview with Michael Smith on ESPN, let me break it down for you.


  • Donovan claims the deterioration of his relationship with TO started as early as week 12 of the 2004 season.
  • TO never challenged McNabb during Owen’s altercation with Hugh Douglas in the locker room.
  • This season “everybody turned into superstars…Some guys don’t work hard.”
  • Donovan doth protest too much: “I think the team was divided,” McNabb said. “As far as him taking the team from me, no, I don’t think so. I never felt that way. … I didn’t feel like I lost the team. I did feel like, ‘I am the leader of the team,’ and I am the leader of the team. But when you see guys talk in little cliques and guys not all being together, and you hear guys talk about somebody else, that bothers you a little bit.”
  • He still holds a grudge, even if he says he doesn’t: “That nobody really came to my defense, that showed me a lot. That nobody came out to say he’s wrong in the media when somebody asks you a question, it was like, ‘That’s his situation, that’s been them, his contract, I think Donovan has handled it well…’ Come out and say, ‘It should not have happened. That was wrong. This is Donovan’s team.’ Again, I’ll always remember what happened.”

The most draw-dropping quote however is when Donovan compared TO saying that the Eagles would be undefeated with Favre at the helm as “black on black crime”.


It was definitely a slap in the face to me. Because as deep as people won’t go into it, it was [a] black-on-black crime. I mean, you have a guy that has been criticized just about all his career and now the last criticism is that I’m selling out because I don’t run anymore.

Now, TO’s comment about Favre was idiotic but certainly not racially motivated. TO was merely responding to a comment made by Michael Irvin, he did not bring up Brett Favre as an example. For a self proclaimed leader, McNabb certainly is very thin skinned. McNabb keeps talking about how he kept his mouth shut during the whole TO fiasco. Perhaps he should have kept it shut a little longer.

[ESPN]: McNabb: T.O. situation was about money, power

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Seattle Seahawks

12th man trademark dispute in court today


Sure it’s not as exciting as Joey Porter vs Jerramy Stevens but in a Super Bowl week with not much in terms of storylines, the battle between Texas A&M and the Seattle Seahawks over the “12th Man” moniker is heating up. A judge in Brazos County, Texas, will review the case today. Now, I’m sure he’s a fine judge but this seems to me a little biased. Meanwhile, a Seattle sports radio personality suggested that Seahawks fans send 12 cents to the athletic director as Texas A&M as payment for using the trademark.

[Kansas City Star]:Court to decide who has 12th man
[SeattlePI]: Send 12 Pennies to Texas

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Pittsburgh Steelers

Joey Porter is either retarded or a genius part 2

Joey Porter was lying in wait and Jerramy Stevens stepped right into his lair. You knew Joey couldn’t keep his mouth shut for long and Stevens finally gave him an excuse to take the muzzle off. After Stevens did his best Doc Holliday impression (“I’ll be your huckleberry”) and said that it’d be sad when Bettis leaves without a trophy, Porter went ape shit and called Stevens “a first-round bust who barely made some plays this season”. Porter then removed his cubic zirconias and assumed the fighting position.

Stevens probably shouldn’t have said what he said but if Joey needs this kind of stuff to get himself pumped for the big game, the Steelers are in trouble. This is great for the media, but in the end, will have no bearing on the game. The Seahawks will still win Super Bowl XL.

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High School Sports

Kobe haters, what do you think about 113 points?

When Kobe scored 81, everyone who hated Kobe took it as an opportunity to bash him some more for being selfish, nevermind that he scored within the flow of the game.  Bill Simmons took the opportunity to say that by scoring 81, Kobe inadvertently proved his point from a previous column where he criticized Kobe for taking himself out of the game after the 3rd quarter with 62 points.  Huh?  I suppose Simmons always got two cakes on his birthday.

Well, now a high school girl named Epiphanny Prince has scored 113 points in a game.  A game where her team won by over 100 points (137-32).  Will anyone bash this girl for being selfish and hogging the glory?  No.  Well, maybe Vince Carter.

I’m not blaming Prince for scoring 113 points but perhaps the coach should have considered the impact on sportsmanship.  When Lisa Leslie scored 101 points in a half in high school, the opposing team refused to play the second half.  Maybe Prince’s opponent on Wednesday, Brandeis HS, should have done the same thing.

Congratulations to Prince, over 100 at any level is something to be proud of.  But I’m waiting for the hyprocrites to come out and laud this girl when last week they censured Kobe.

[NY Post]: BRANDEIS COACH THINKS IT STINKS!

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General Sports

Nightly Sports roundup for Feb 1: Joey Porter goes off

[AP]: Porter: Stevens “a first-round bust who barely made some plays this season.”

[Pittsburgh Post Gazette]: Teacher in jersey flap won’t be disciplined

[Fredericksburg.com]: “Wrestling is more real than baseball.”

[Philly.com]: Sixers fans surveyed on trading Iverson

[Random]: 3 minutes of the hardest and toughest hits in the NFL. (terrible music)

[Cybersportsblog.com]: Jennifer Love Hewitt nude in playboy odds: 1 to 1.

[Graham Davis]: “Colonel Sanders is the greatest white man that ever lived.”

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NFL General

Super Bowl ads sneak preview



Got our attention

ABC News this morning had a sneak peek of some of this year’s Super Bowl ads. Who knows which will be this year’s most memorable commercial but I can tell you one thing, it certainly won’t be the ridiculous Diet Pepsi commercial with P Diddy and Jay Mohr. I guess Pepsi is expanding upon its inanimate Pepsi objects doing cool things. This time, the Diet Pepsi Can goes into the studio to cut a track with P Diddy. Considering everyone hates P Diddy, I don’t see how this well sell more Diet Pepsi.

Burger King has a commercial featuring the Whopperettes that can be downloaded to your phone immediately after it shows on Sunday. This is the worst idea since ESPN decided to charge $2 to download their commercials on itunes. All I want to know is if the Burger King is going to score a touchdown before either team on the field. There’s big money on this prop bet.

Nationwide is trying to show their lighter side with a Fabio Shampoo Nationwide commercial (yeah it doesn’t make sense to us either,) but it’s just not very funny. Neither is the Bud commercial with the revolving wall.

Last year, everyone took a breather from the racy ads (except Go Daddy, which scored the most memorable ad) but this year, Pizza Hut is sexing it up with Jessica Simpson hawking Pizza Bites. Now, people probably won’t be scrambling to order Pizza Hut after seeing this commercial but, who knows, we’re all suckers for hot blondes.

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NBA General

NBA Power Rankings roundup Feb 1 2006

Basically everyone agrees that the Pistons, Mavericks, Spurs, and Suns are the top 4 teams. Should be a hell of a western conference playoffs. There were a couple of new entrants as the Sixers and Bucks made it to #10 on a couple of polls. Here are this weeks power rankings by major sites.

Rank NBA.com ESPN FoxSports Sportsline SI Yahoo
1 Pistons Pistons Pistons Pistons Pistons Pistons
2 Mavericks Mavericks Mavericks Mavericks Mavericks Mavericks
3 Spurs Spurs Spurs Spurs Spurs Spurs
4 Suns Suns Heat Suns Suns Suns
5 Heat Heat Suns Heat Nuggets Clippers
6 Cavaliers Cavaliers Cavaliers Grizzlies Heat Heat
7 Clippers Clippers Nuggets Clippers Grizzlies Cavaliers
8 Lakers Nuggets Clippers Cavaliers Clippers Grizzlies
9 Grizzlies Grizzlies Grizzlies Nuggets Lakers Nuggets
10 Nuggets Lakers Sixers Nets Cavaliers Bucks
11-30 more more more more more more

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Golf

Golf isn’t better than sex



Solution: Golf and sex

Sometimes I wonder about this, I mean it’s kind of a close call. Sure, golf can be frustrating as hell and it takes up about 5 hours but golf never laughs at you, or mockingly tells you that it happens to everyone, or compares you to previous golfers who have played the course, or… oh sorry, got off on a tangent there.

Anyway… Golf Digest conducted a survey and only 8% of men and 18% of women said golf was better than sex. Thank god. We’d be doomed as a species if everyone was out playing golf. (Although in Brave New World, the two biggest leisure activies were golf and sex, so I guess you can do both, and run a well oiled dystopian society. But maybe that’s not what you wanted to read about on a sports blog.)

Interestlingly, more than 30% of men and women said they’d give up sex for a year in exchange for a round of golf at Augusta. Maybe they should have phrased the question, “Would you sleep with Hootie Johnson in exchange for a round of golf at Augusta.”

[Golfblogger]: Golf or sex?
[Golf Digest]: Gender Survey (pdf)