Archive for July, 2009

“Friends” of former Nets star Richard Jefferson turned up at Manhattan’s posh (I love that word) Mandarin Oriental Saturday to celebrate his wedding to former Nets dancer Kesha Ni’Cole Nichols.  Only problem:  Richard broke the engagement off literally just a day before, but didn’t bother telling anyone beyond his family and closest buds, leaving all those members of his outer circle wondering what the hell just happened. The story has a happy ending for Jefferson’s fake friends though:  according to the New York Post, Jefferson sent someone over with his Black Amex, and the party went on without him or [...]

Sports Metaphors During the Sotomayor Hearings (Video & Text) (Hugging Harold Reynolds) Chronicling My 3 Hours Of Hell at The Home Run Derby (No Guts, No Glory) Top Ten Reasons Why Tony Romo Split With Jessica Simpson (Gunaxin) Conan O’Brien Found the LeBron Nike Tape (NESW Sports) Tapout Shirts Suck, LaMarr Woodley (PSAMP) MLB All Star Game: Making Memories (Josh Q. Public) The Future For Ric Bucher? (Zoner Sports) Will the 80th Annual All-Star game be the NL’s #13? (Babes Love Baseball) Man Drives Off Grand Canyon, Plunges to Dramatic Death (Travelin’ Light) Bob Gibson Would’ve Done Steroids (Sharapova’s Thigh) [...]

Christian Bale slummed it up this summer in the by-all-accounts dreadful Terminator Salvation (I say “by all accounts” because I didn’t bother seeing it), then gave a nondescript performance as a G-Man in Public Enemies. These parts may not have satisfied Christian’s need to go completely balls-to-the-wall in transforming himself,  but that shouldn’t be a problem with his new role, that of a crackhead former boxer in The Fighter, which is set to hit movie screens in 2011.  For that part, Christian has shed a bunch of weight, and had most of the hair apparently pulled out of his scalp. [...]

Erin Andrews returned to the battlefield Monday night, a week after taking a foul ball to the face while covering a Mets game.  Setting feminine vanity aside, Andrews worked the Home Run Derby without heavy covering make-up, giving everyone a good peek at the bruise she still sports in the wake of the beaning.  Okay, that had to hurt.  Big ups to Erin for soldiering on, and double-ups for not pansying out and having someone trowel on the pancake make-up, like Joe Buck would’ve.

One-time NBA star Antoine Walker reportedly owes over $800,000 after passing bad checks in Vegas.  TMZ says Walker bounced the checks at three casinos while obtaining over $1 million in gambling markers.  He has paid 200 grand on it but, obviously, still has a long slog ahead of him before the debt is settled (Walker’s friends will not be returning his calls until it is). Antoine is lucky this isn’t the old days of Vegas, otherwise someone would’ve already knee-capped him with a shovel, or perhaps popped him and buried him out in the desert.  Yeah I’ve seen too many [...]

The annual MLB All-Star festivities get underway Monday with that beloved summertime favorite, the Home Run Derby.  Eight juiced-up combatants, four from each league, will compete to see who can hit the most juiced-up balls over the Busch Stadium fence, and in the process ruin their swings for the rest of the season. Oh, you don’t believe that bit about ruining the swings?  You think it’s an Old Wives’ Tale?  Tell that to Bobby Abreu, who tore it up like few before him at the Derby a few years ago, and still hasn’t gotten his stroke back. Experiences like Abreu’s [...]

Chad Johnson is ready to go to war with the NFL over his right to tweet during games.  At least that’s the impression he’s giving with some of his comments in response to the league’s proclamation that any one caught using Twitter from the sidelines will meet with severe punishment. “Damn NFL and these rules,” Johnson tweeted after finding out the league’s position on Twitter.  “I am going by my own set of rules, I ain’t hurting nobody or getting in trouble, I am putting my foot down!!” Two exclamation points means he’s serious. Unfortunately so is the NFL, which [...]

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