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All Other Sports

Rufus wins Westminster Dog Show


I don’t know the first thing about dog breeding and dog shows so I’ll just post some links to some people who actually do and had comments on Rufus winning Best in Show. I just wanted an excuse to post my favorite quotes from the movie. (I do hear that there’s a huge uproar at the show cause Bill Leavy was the head judge.)

Sherri Ann Cabot: We have so much in common, we both love soup and snow peas, we love the outdoors, and talking and not talking.We could not talk or talk forever and still find things to not talk about.

Hotel Manager: We have you down for a queen.
Scott Donlan: What are you suggesting… my dear man.

Buck Laughlin: And to think that in some countries these dogs are eaten.

Hamilton Swan: We met at Starbucks. Not at the same Starbucks. We saw each other at different Starbucks across the street from each other.

[Happydog]: Rufus Wins, or Happydog’s Annual Westminster Report
[Jademyst]: Rufus wins!
[Woof Woof]: “It’s like having Lance Armstrong for a son”

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All Other Sports

Hazing isn’t gay at all



Being the catcher sucks.

I guess like celebrity deaths, homoerotic hazing rituals come in threes. First, there were these two incidents, and now Limestone College in South Carolina has disciplined 34 players on their baseball team for a hazing incident. The Saints also had to forfeit three games.


Reports described players wearing boxers or jock straps, then being covered with chocolate, molasses and flour. Some players also were given hair cuts.

Jockstraps, chocolate, molasses and flour? I believe that’s called Halloween in the Castro. And I don’t even want to know what kind of haircuts they were given.

I assume that jocks are sports fans. And I assume that some of you will read this entry. For the love of Peter Griffin, please stop this hazing. Unless you’re gay. Then by all means, carry on.

Sorry I don’t have the actual photos for you. But you know what? I’m not gonna look that hard for them either.


[Myrtle Beach Online]: Players disciplined over hazing

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College Football

The worst coaching hire of all time: Ryan Leaf



This will turn our franchise
around!

Someone really must have called in a favor or have compromising photos because West Texas A&M just hired Ryan Leaf as their quarterbacks coach. Who in their right mind would listen to Ryan Leaf?

This is a guy whose name is synonymous with “first round bust”, who had problems with teammates, who had problems with the media, who had a poor work ethic and a terrible attitude. Sounds like someone I want to be working with my QB. Your mentor is Ryan Leaf? Good luck, kid. Unless West Texas A&M plays flag football, perhaps they should reconsider this decision.

And yes, I realize that coaching hires include Rich Kotite.

[Yahoo]: Leaf takes coaching job at West Texas A&M
[SI.com]: NFL Pre-Draft: Leaf vs Manning (hah!)

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NHL General

NHL Power Rankings Roundup Feb 15 2005

Well it looks like the Yahoo folks are on vacation again so there’s no update on their power rankings. Here are the NHL Power Rankings by top sites this week.

Rank TSN.ca ESPN FoxSports Sportsline SI Yahoo
1 Red Wings Hurricanes Red Wings Red Wings Red Wings Hurricanes
2 Senators Red Wings Hurricanes Hurricanes Hurricanes Senators
3 Rangers Stars Senators Rangers Senators Red Wings
4 Hurricanes Senators Sabres Sabres Stars Stars
5 Stars Flyers Stars Senators Sabres Flyers
6 Flames Sabres Rangers Stars Rangers Sabres
7 Sabres Rangers Flyers Flames Predators Predators
8 Ducks Flames Flames Predators Flyers Avalance
9 Lightning Kings Predators Canucks Flames Devils
10 Lightning Predators Canucks Devils Canucks Flames
11-30 more more more more more more

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General Sports

Odds and Ends for Feb 14 2006: Who has $100,000 in jewelry?

[WIStv]: Duce Staley loses $100,000 in jewelry at a night club.

[Las Vegas Review Journal]: Janet Jones usually plays $1000 a hand blackjack.

[Washington Post]: NFL may play regular season game in Europe

[ESPN]: Student in Elway jersey fiasco transfers to another school

[Philly.com]: The Phillie Phanatic will be in the new Rocky movie

[WrestlingPod.com]: Fighting Spirit: Armless/Legless Ohio HS Wrestler Dustin Carter

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General Sports

Sports Illustrated 2006 Swimsuit issue is out today



Sharapova in a bikini? Sold!

Finally some good news in sports. The most widely read single issue of a magazine is hitting the newstands today. Did you know that 60 Million people read the swimsuit issue every year? And about 5 Million actually pay for it. At 6 bucks a pop, that’s almost enough to cover the paychecks some NBA players are stealing! And I tell you, it is worth every penny.

This year, in addition to the glossy, you can get content from the swimsuit issue on your cell phone. Or even better, you can download one of eight videos via iTunes to your ipod. Hot supermodels in bikinis beats hockey highlights any day. If you buy the magazine, you’ll even get a code to download one video for free. I knew the internet was making our lives better.

[NY Times]: So Many Models in Bikinis, So Many Ways to See Them

[SI]: Swimsuit Home

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Olympics

Joey Cheek is a good guy


Maybe it’s the spirit of the Olympics. Maybe it’s all those NBA Cares commercials drilled into my brain. But it’s time SC blog didn’t just blog about athletes holding up people outside bars and McDonalds. And this story is as good as they come.

Joey Cheek, right after winning the 500-meter speed skating sprint, said that he would donate the $25k prize money to an organization called Right To Play which funds projects to help disadvantaged kids throughout the world develop via sports. He also asked his sponsors to match his donation for a specific project in Chad.

Cheek understood that this was his one moment in the spotlight and he chose the opportunity to help disadvantaged youth. You can email him kudos at [email protected]

I bet Shaun White is feeling pretty bad about using his to ask Sasha Cohen out.

[SFGate]: Heart of gold to go with medal

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Olympics

What the US Olympic team needs: More Cowbell



I got a fever…

Yes, everything can be improved with more cowbell, even the Olympics. Can’t clap with gloves on? No problem, you can bang away at your $20 official Olympic licensed souvenir cowbell. I think this would be a great way to pick up chicks in the Olympic village. Just bang the cowbell once for yes and two for no.

[Cowbell.com]: Official cowbell supplier for the olympics

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College Basketball

0-242? and you thought the Knicks stunk



4.0 GPA + 47ppg = 0 wins

The Div III Caltech basketball team hasn’t won a conference game in 21 years. 242 games! You’d think some point, they’d have accidentally won a game when the opposing team’s bus broke down or got hit by a meteor. Hell, even the Temple football wins a game every couple of years or so.

They are improving though.

In 2003-04, zero games were closer than 30 points; opponents scored over 80 points 19 times. Last season, the deficit was less than 20 in 11 games with Caltech holding 9 opponents to 65 points or less.

Man, those math geeks sure love their stats.

To be fair to the Techers, they did beat a non-conference team at the beginning of last year — Life Pacific College, a Christian Bible college with about 350 students. Hey a W is a W right?

[KC Star]: Brainy players can’t solve 0-242 puzzler
[Caltech]: Caltech Men’s Basketball page

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MLB General

Oh for fuck’s sake, retire already



Figure it out!

Remember when athletes used to retire with dignity? They’d realize their skills had deteriorated and hold a tearful press conference to announce they were done. I could do without the waterworks but damn do I miss those days. Now, athletes threaten to retire. They don’t come out and do it of course, they find one of their cronies to “leak” the story to some idiot sportswriter and the next thing you know, the fans who are living 10 years in the past get all panicky. Please.

Yesterday, it was Sammy Sosa, begging for a spot on a team by saying he wouldn’t beg for a spot on a team. Today comes news from his agent that Roger Clemens is leaning towards retirement. Is he just trying to hold up the Red Sox and the Rangers for more cash? (By the way, how desperate are the Red Sox. They made a DVD that included Boston fans pleading for the Rocket to go back there. Have some pride, man.) Or maybe he just needs the spotlight for a couple more months.

Of course, no day can go by without retirement talk about John Madden’s personal Jesus Brett Favre. According to his agent, a couple of days ago, Brett said, “If you ask me today, I’d say I’m leaning toward retirement.” I don’t care if Favre leans towards being a a gay cowboy, just make up your damn mind or shut up. Actually, anyone who isn’t firmly planted on Favre’s ass knows that he should have retired 2 years ago after throwing a duck to Brian Dawkins in the playoffs.

[Railbird Central]: Brett Favre’s agent James “Bus” Cook confirms retirement thoughts
[MSNBC]: Agent says Clemens most likely will retire