Vote Manny! (Josh Q. Public)
Maybe Someone Will Trade Him to Me (Sharapova’s Thigh)
Omaha Royals New Ballpark (Kings of Kauffman)
Busy Day at Halas Hall (Bear Goggles On)
Are the Oakland Raiders the New Knicks of the NFL? (Just Blog Baby)
Lakers Trounce Nuggets, Repeat as Western Conference Champs (Lake Show Life)

Why would Charles Barkley say “numbnuts” and “pussy” on the air at the end of Saturday night’s TNT broadcast?  Was he drunk?  Is he trying to get himself fired?  Is he part of some insanely complicated economic stimulus plan that involves incurring FCC fines, then somehow dispersing that to troubled financial institutions?  Or is he just a big-mouthed sociopathic idiot?  I think we know the answer.  It’s the stimulus plan thing.

Pretty disturbing expose of Broncos receiver Brandon Marshall’s abusive history from ESPN’s Outside the Lines, revolving around his tumultuous relationship with childhood sweetheart Rasheedah Watley.  Marshall was given the opportunity to respond, and denied all the terrifying allegations.

Marshall’s denials look pretty feeble against the body of evidence accumulated by ESPN, including photos and 911 calls.  The guy is evidently seriously disturbed.  And the Broncos…well, we know teams will do anything to protect a player as long as they’re producing.  Despicable.

You would’ve thought LeBron James was some kind of living saint, the way the media kowtow to him, and speak of his every move in the most effusively complimentary terms.  But that Mr. Perfect image cracked somewhat Saturday night, in the wake of the Cavs playoff ouster, when LeBron went low-rent, and blew off the very same media members that have spent that last several years carefully maintaining his pedestal.  Now, for perhaps the first time in his career, LeBron is getting ripped.  The lesson for The Chosen One: those media guys only suck up to you and act like [...]

Unlike her sister Venus, Serena Williams was able to defeat her 3rd round French Open opponent, but not without controversy, as outlined in the above video.  A rough summary of the issue:  Serena hit a ball directly at opponent Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez – mean, maybe, but legal.  Said shot struck Martinez Sanchez in the arm, which, according to the rules of tennis, means Martinez Sanchez should’ve lost the point.  Unfortunately, the chair referee did not see the ball hit Martinez Sanchez in the arm, and Martinez Sanchez elected not to do the honorable thing and call the penalty on [...]

Exhibit A in making the case for morning TV to be banned and all morning TV hosts to be shipped to someplace that makes Gitmo look like Chuck E. Cheese’s.  And I’m not even talking about the “awkward slip” that host Steve Edwards commits at 3:57, when he asks the married John Salley about his girlfriends.  I mean the whole thing.  The disgusting shameless whorishness of it.  Patti Blagojevich?  Her husband is a crook so she gets to be on TV now?  And why is John Salley sticking up for “Blago?”  What does he have to gain by that?  Blago [...]

It’s impossible to look at a picture of Bill Clinton smoking a cigar without thinking of him and Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office…doing stuff none of us should’ve had to know about.
I thought Bill was taking better care of his health after the heart attack?  The cigar and the gut would testify to the contrary.  At least he’s getting exercise, if you want to call riding around a golf course exercise.  Does he still get to take his extra presidential mulligans?
TMZ

The tennis world has begun taking notice of 16-year-old Michelle Larcher De Brito – and how could it not notice her, given how loudly she shrieks during her matches.  This girl’s noises make Maria Sharapova’s famous “grunts” sound like the gentle waves of sound that lull tiny kittens to sleep in heaven.  Some of Ms. Larcher De Brito’s opponents have found themselves unnerved by her screeches.  Aravane Rezai, who just knocked Larcher De Brito out of the French Open, said of playing the 16-year-old after a match earlier this year in Miami, “She shouts really loud. It was really unpleasant.”  [...]