Archive for June, 2009

2009 Father’s Day Lifetime Achievement Award: Marv Marinovich (FanSided) Song About The Two A-Rods: Alex Rodriguez & Andy Roddick (Sports Rubbish) Transformers – Revenge of the MLB Fallen (My Sports Rumors) William & Mary to Change Mascot…Considering Certain Vegetable Side Dishes (Steady Burn) Stan Van Gundy Has No Problem Stealing Your Offense (No Guts, No Glory) Glover From Another Mother (Josh Q. Public) Enter the Bacon, Bacon Salami Fighting (Homework 4 Dummies) NFL Shop Fail: Ryan Leaf Jersey (Zoner Sports) Does  Yahoo Know Something We Don’t? (Major League Jerk) Is Rashard Mendenhall A Good Dancer? (PSAMP) Bellator XII Video: Guimareas [...]

The Mets have placed Carlos Beltran on the DL with a bruised bone, adding to a roster of injured stars that already includes Jose Reyes and Carlos Delgado. The bruised bone – described as “aching” and “painful” – first gave Beltran trouble in late May, and has since doubled in size according to his doctor.  The bruise, not the bone. Beltran realizes the trouble his bruised bone represents for the Mets.  “It’s difficult because of the situation where we are. I think right now basically David Wright is the only guy that is out there playing every day,” Beltran said. [...]

America finally rid itself of Dick Cheney after 8 years, and now it’s about to lose another of its greatest villains, MLBPA chief Donald Fehr, who announced on Monday that he is retiring after 25 years of smugly helping to trash the national pastime.  AP reports (via SI.com): Donald Fehr’s quarter century in charge of the players’ association was marked by a strike that canceled the World Series, record salaries and eventually 14 years of labor peace. And to his detractors, it was marred by a go-slow approach to steroids. Fehr, who turns 61 next month, said Monday he will [...]

Terrell Owens is participating in a new reality show called Superstars, which teams up various people from the worlds of athletics and entertainment so they can make fools of themselves.  Owens drew model Joanna Krupa as his partner…a fact Ms. Krupa quickly comes to regret, as we see from the above video, which is riddled with more profanities than a Bobby Knight tirade.  Owens, clearly realizing he is in a no-win situation – you can’t yell back at a girl – simply stands there and takes the abuse.

Michael Jackson vs Michael Jordan (NESW Sports) Danica Patrick Hits Crew Member (Sports Rubbish) Six Great Umpire Ejections (No Guts, No Glory) John Daly Wrecks Bus Into Tunnel (FanHouse) Fire Joe Morgan Already (Major League Jerk) Enter The John Smoltz Era (Josh Q. Public) Kelly Pavlik Defends Youngstown, I Defend Kelly Pavlik (Paneech.com)

Rooting for Phil Mickelson to win the U.S. Open has become a lot like pulling for Nicolas Cage to make a good movie:  we love the guy, and we want to see him prevail, but we’re getting a little tired of the disappointment. Mickelson did it to us again today at Bethpage Black:  after roaring back from huge deficit and even grabbing the lead for a time, Phil threw up bogeys on two of his last four holes, and ended up losing to qualifier Lucas Glover.  The pressure seemed to get to Phil again, the same way it did a [...]

Alex Rodriguez has been benched by the Yankees so he can overcome his exhaustion.  And what, you ask, could a young, fit man like A-Rod be doing to tire himself out so much?  The New York Post offers an answer: Kate Hudson may be wearing A-Rod out. The slumping Yankee slugger missed most of last night’s game against the Florida Marlins after riding the bench the night before as well with a case of “fatigue.” The rest hasn’t seemed to do much good: In his pinch-hit cameo last night, he merely drew a walk. And that R&R is expensive; Rodriguez [...]

Tony La Russa achieved a career milestone this weekend, becoming just the third man in major league history to record 2,500 managerial wins.  To give you an idea how rare an accomplishment this is:  in the whole 7,000-year history of MLB, only two other people have gone over that mark, and both did it so long ago, even Peter Gammons can’t remember having a drink with them. The other guys with 2500+ wins are Connie Mack, who called himself Connie Mack because his real name was Cornelius McGillicuddy, and John McGraw, who called himself John McGraw because he knew that [...]