Archive for March, 2009

NFL defenders who lunge at the quarterback’s knees from the ground will now be hit with a penalty, say the powers-that-be within the nation’s richest and formerly toughest professional league.  The Tom Brady Rule – so named because it stems directly from Brady’s knee injury in Week 1 of 2008 – is just the latest in a series of rule changes that are threatening to turn the NFL from the National Football League into the No Football League.  Maybe the NFL should just change its name to “Major League Baseball” and be done with it. Naturally, the NFL powers are [...]

Kobe Bryant and his blinged-out wife Vanessa are being sued by a former maid who alleges that, among other things, Vanessa once forced her to stick her hand into a bag full of dog feces to retrieve the tag off a blouse.  The maid, Maria Jimenez, also accuses Vanessa of verbally abusing her in front of Kobe and the kids, claiming Vanessa called her lots of colorful names like “lazy,” “slow,” “dumb,” “a f***ing liar” and “f***ing s**t.”  Jimenez also says in her suit that Mrs. Bryant once wrongfully accused her of stealing a retainer.  And in her account of [...]

Amalia Tabata Pereira, the wife of Pirates prospect Jose Tabata, is being held by police as a suspect in the brief kidnapping of a 2-month-old baby in Tampa.  Accounts of the kidnapping read like something from a really awful TV movie:  According to authorities, Pereira posed as an immigration worker to fool the baby’s Mexican parents into thinking they were going to be deported, then had them hand over the child to her.  Just one day later, however, Pereira was arrested by police after they received an anonymous tip, and the child has now been returned safe-and-sound to the mother. [...]

Michael Jackson is trying to make a comeback.  He recently signed to play a bunch of shows in London – cause he was way too freaky for Vegas – plus he’s been spending a lot of time at a Beverly Hills medical center getting some work done on his work.  So, things are looking up in his life.  The former King of Pop is feeling so happy these days that he’s even reportedly mulling adding to his wacko family…not by hiring another woman to receive his seed, but by adopting. I don’t know what’s sadder:  that Michael Jackson thinks he [...]

There are deadbeat dads and then there are major league deadbeat dads:  A lawsuit filed in Maryland claims Raptors center and sometime Shaquille O’Neal punching bag Chris Bosh is one of the latter. In the suit, Bosh’s ex-girlfriend Allison Mathis accuses the NBA star of dumping her while she was seven months pregnant – but this was no normal Travis Henry-style impregnate-and-dash; this was truly dastardly.  Mathis says Bosh got her pregnant on purpose, even buying her fertility drugs, then gave every impression of wanting to settle down with her…in a new $1.6 million Texas home that was in both [...]

I don’t know why there’s always so much controversy about fighting in hockey.  Fighting is frankly the only reason to watch hockey…especially when the fights involve coaches running onto the ice without skates and falling on their asses.  This is great pub for the USHL (whatever the hell that is).  The NHL should also encourage such slapstick buffoonery.

Oh chuckle chuckle, the girl’s shirt says “I Heart B-Jays.”  God, how immature are we?  (Heehee…B-Jays.). By the way, I didn’t know Monica Lewinsky had gone back to college.

Twitter is not only for raving about your favorite Ramen noodle flavors and complaining about your neighbors’ loud love-making…it’s also got a feature, called Twitpic, that allows you to share photographic moments as frivolous and uninteresting as any regular text Tweet.  Of course, if you’re a celeb, there’s no such thing as a frivolous and uninteresting picture.  And if you’re Ashton Kutcher and the picture you posted is of your wife Demi Moore in her underwear?  Internet gold.