Notes: ESPN’s and the Press’ Silence Following Greenberg’s “Martin Luther Coon King” Statement Can Now Be Understood (and more)

Danica Patrick's #7 car after her crash in Las Vegas. First up a couple of more acrcane sporting mentions… The Danica Patrick-NASCAR experiment is over for the next four months. After three NASCAR Nationwide Series races, Ms. Patrick is headed back to Indy cars for the next four months. How did she do in her first foray into the 21st century version [read more...]

Notes: Tony K. Suspended Over Hannah; WADA (& the USADA) – Presaging a Surveillance State, Tomlinson for Westbrook?

Hannah and her sausage casing. The hardest working man in sports business, Tony Kornheiser, was suspended by ESPN Monday for two weeks his remarks about an outfit worn by ESPN SportsCenter anchor, Hannah Storm. Pardon the Interruption co-host, Washington Post columnist, WaPo podcaster, and radio show host, Kornheiser made his remarks on his radio show last week. Of Storm’s red knee-high [read more...]

Short Notes: Tiger (with more info), MLB, Olympics, 2 New NBA Trades (more to come)

Lindsey Vonn after her Gold Medal run in the Women's Downhill. Tiger Woods is holding a press conference Friday at 11 A.M.: “While Tiger feels that what happened is fundamentally a matter between he and his wife, he also recognizes that he has hurt and let down a lot of other people who were close to him,” Mark Steinberg said in an [read more...]

Short Note: Usain Bolts to 200M World Record

Usain Bolt just after wetting yet another world sprinting record. He did it again. Just four days after shattering the 100 meter world record, Jamaica’s superstar sprinter Usain Bolt slashed .11 off his previous world record time in the 200 meter, running the distance in 19.19 at the Track and Filed World Championships in Berlin:   The Jamaican sprinting great captured the 200-meter [read more...]

Olympic Gold Medalist Angle Arrested for HGH

Olympic gold medalist and pro wrestler Kurt Angle was busted with HGH: Pro wrestler and Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle has been arrested on charges of possessing a human growth hormone and violating an order of protection in suburban Pittsburgh. Angle was arrested about 7:50 a.m. Saturday in a Robinson Township strip mall parking lot. His girlfriend, who said she obtained a [read more...]

The Top 50 Head Coaches Continued: Major League Baseball Managers

It is time to move one step closer to finishing the revised list of the Sporting News Top 50 head coaches. Today we look at MLB managers. Tomorrow I’ll deal with NHL coaches and Monday I will reveal the revised list. Here is TSN’s list: 1. John Wooden, college basketball 2. Vince Lombardi, NFL  3. Bear Bryant, college football  4. Phil Jackson, NBA  5. Don Shula, [read more...]

The Milk Carton Women: Diana, Nicole, Martina, and Jenny

Martina turned out to be a little snow bunny. Former U.S. champion and Olympic ice skater Nicole Bobek, was recently busted for distribution of methamphetamine. But at 17 and near the height of her skating career, Bobek was also arrested for first degree home invasion, for which she received probation. Diana Taurasi, of the Phoenix Mercury and Olympic gold medalist, was cited [read more...]

SOMM on the Political Tip: Steelers Harrison to Skip White House Visit; The Well-Connected Hill Family

Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison says he’ll skip his team’s Thursday visit to the White House. Harrison also skipped the Steelers 2006 post-Super Bowl XLIII win White House visit. Is it politics that keeps Harrison from the traditional visit? Could it be possible that Harrison is so enlightened that he sees Republicans and Democrats as one in the same? Ummmmm, no: “This is [read more...]

March Madness 2009: The Theme for the Big Dance Is A Wide-Open Field

Villanova is up 10 on Louisville at halftime in the Big East Tournament. According to former Dukie and now ESPN analyst Jason Williams Rick Pitino must challenged his players at halftime to come out in the first five minutes of the second half and establish their dominance on the court.The Cardinal won by 14. This is bullshit. It is also a [read more...]

NCAA Hoops: Packaging Self-Hate through “Package Deals”

I was writing something  long and winding but needed to take a break because of an Outside the Lines (OTL) piece I watched Sunday morning… ———————————- Sunday OTL and its impressario, Bob Ley, gave us a report about an NCAA basketball practice called, “package deals.” A package deal is one where a high school - or younger - recruit is further wooed [read more...]

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