We’re not big soccer fans; in fact, the only times we report on futbol is when riots break out or some chick rips off her shirt after a goal. But a story about a soccer player kissing a ref caught our eye because the referee decided to give his admirer a yellow card for the smooch. Apparently the ref took offense to the sign of affection and started saying “You can’t kiss me. You can’t kiss me.” You can’t blame the guy for getting upset at the kissing bandit; after all, the least he could have done was take him out to dinner first.
Some people say that all press is good press, but the athletic department over at Colorado State might disagree with you on that. First, there was the incident involving wide receiver George Hill and 4-year-old Caden Thomas over the weekend. The boy was on the sidelines during CSU’s spring youth football festival while an intrasquad game took place on the gridiron. In an attempt to catch a TD pass, Hill smashed into the kid and slammed him against the padded wall. To make a long story short; 30 stitches in the head later, lil’ Caden was sent home from the hospital.
It was kind of scary `cause I got bonked by the football,” the boy said, hugging his own football. “It kind of hurted.
Here’s video of Caden getting walloped.
Now, that’s a tough kid. Kellen Winslow Jr. would have been out of commission for six weeks after a hit like that.
But, hey, accidents happen; at least everything worked out for the little guy. Something that was avoidable and has the Colorado State community hiding their faces in disgust was the actions of Xavier Kilby. Kilby is accused of pointing a gun at the head of Ronnie Aguilar, a teammate on the basketball team, early Sunday morning. According to police, Kilby pulled out a revolver after the two argued inside of Kilby’s apartment. After pointing the gun at Aguilar’s head, Kilby aimed at the couch and fired off a single round.
Luckily, nobody was injured in either of the recent black-eye incidents for CSU. Now it they could just become capable of doing as much damage on the field as they do off of it, then the fans of the sports programs could actually having something to cheer about.
Links:
[1.WHDH.com]: Boy recovering after run-in with Colorado State football player
[MSNBC]: Police: CSU player pointed gun at teammate
The UFC brought Mirko Cro Cop over from Pride for one reason, and that was to be a top contender for the heavyweight title. Well, the hopes of having the newcomer match-up with current champ Randy Couture took a serious step back on Saturday night when Gabriel Gonzaga delivered a wicked right kick to that head that shockingly sent the UFC’s latest investment to the mat for a nice long siesta. In addition to shocking the world, Gonzaga grabbed a title shot against Couture in the process. Now we’ll see if Gonzaga can pull two rabbits out of his hat or if he had just the one trick up his sleeve.
What’s even more impressive about Gonzaga’s KO was that he used Cro Cop’s favorite weapon against him. If you thought Gonzaga had a nice high-kick, check out Cro Cop’s fierce feet of fury. His hands aren’t too bad either. Another video of Cro Cop after the jump.
With the game out of hand on Saturday night, Calgary backup goalie Jamie McLennan went a little nuts and whacked Johan Franzen in the midsection with his stick. As you can see from the video, it’s not a huge slash but the NHL came down hard on McLennan and the Flames for the violation.
McLennan got a five game suspension, his coach got a $25k fine, and the Flames’ organization got a $100,000 fine. The league had warned all teams about any shady business late it the game after a game was out of control.
Franzen, the recipient of the lumber, got the last laugh as he scored the game-winning goal in OT of game 6 on Sunday to send the Flames packing from the playoffs.
Links:
[Canada.com]: NHL suspends Flames goalie 5 games
Everyone knows that Snoop Dog is a Lakers and Trojans fan, and now it looks like he’s starting to jump on the Anaheim Ducks bandwagon. Here’s a clip from Snoopy’s appearance on FSN during intermission of Thursday’s game. Sounds like the Dogfather got dragged down to the game by his son but it seems like Snoop is still enjoying himself. Heck, he’s even rockin’ the foam finger! We’re wondering if that might be one of those jewelry carrying foam fingers, kinda like Michael Vick’s water bottle safe. After all, Snoop does seem like he’s awfully “high” on the Ducks all of a sudden.
Everyone else has tried, maybe the rappers can save hockey.
Bill Simmons (and basically everyone else) believes that the 1985 NBA draft lottery was fixed to give the NY Knicks the first pick in the draft, and thus Patrick Ewing. Well, proof (sorta) comes from YouTube video of the draft (copyright law? what copyright law?). By the way, who is keeping these videos of NBA drafts from 20 years ago?
Here’s what you have to look out for in the following video:
4:50 – The E&Y accountant who, we’ve just been told, has no idea which envelope contains which logos, while putting them in the drum, bangs one (just one) envelope against the side, thus creating a crease.
5:29 – David Stern pretends to randomly select an envelope by throwing around a few. But notice very carefully that the one he chooses has a crease in the corner. Yes folks, the envelope containing the Knicks logo.
Holy crap! It’s not definitive proof but it’s pretty good evidence don’t you think? Now, if only we had some audio of David Stern telling Dick Bavetta to make sure the Lakers beat the Kings in game 6 of the 2002 playoffs…
We were all set to lead off Odds and Ends with a story about Joe Thomas skipping the NFL Draft to go fishing with his dad but then a reader sent us this video of an ESPN Sportscenter spoof that has us peeing our pants. It is almost perfect. You have to watch it twice to read the ticker at the bottom but it’s totally worth it.
[Star-Telegram]: Moose Johnston’s wife is tough as nails
[Big Show Baseball]: A-Rod is off to such a good start that Yankees fans are even including him in their best of all time lists
And finally, our quote of the day comes from Phoenix Coyotes CEO Jeff Shumway:
Players will say they want to be in Phoenix… That means the weather is good, the golf is good … What they mean is they want to retire in Phoenix. What we need are guys who want to play hockey in Phoenix.
Vince Young is one of the hottest young commodities in the NFL and on Wednesday he appeared on Jimmy Kimmel’s show and discussed several important topics.
1. The Madden Jinx
2. The Rose Bowl
3. Getting shafted by Houston
4. Money, money, money
5. Rapping (don’t worry Ron Artest, your side job is safe)
Oddly enough, Pee Wee Herman somehow ended up on the same couch with the Longhorn legend which means that little perv got top billing. Now we see why Kimmel is stuck coming on at 1:00 in the morning.
Last week, we had a little blurb in the Odds and Ends section about Andre Agassi hitting Steffi Graf in the face with his racket on the follow through. Well, here’s the video of it from a person in the stands. A couple of thoughts: 1) It wouldn’t have happened if they weren’t doing something incredibly gay (we’re taking it back!) like holding hands while hitting; and 2) gotta love the enthusiasm of the PA guy “left handed!” as he hits her in the face — followed by silence.
It was kind of scary `cause I got bonked by the football,” the boy said, hugging his own football. “It kind of hurted.
