Friday Sports Notes: Gregg Williams Gets His Cheap Shot and “Warrior” On While ESPN’s Mike Golic Defends the Saints D-Coordinator; Kudos to 1st-Time NBA All-Stars

Gregg Williams wants his "warriors" to take out Peyton Manning out of Super Bowl XLIV.. Thursday on the Nashville, Tennessee radio show, 104.5, The Zone’s “Three Hour Lunch,” New Orleans Saints defensive coordinator, Gregg Williams said on the air waves aloud what is normally kept in the confines of the NFL locker room: “If you kill the head, the body’ll die.” After these [read more...]

Carlton Fisk Hates on Big Mac

Carlton Fisk hates on Mark McGwire and other players who he feels have cheated the game of baseball. Carlton Fisk is the latest former baseball player to come out and blast Mark McGwire after he admitted to using steroids and HGH. The Hall of Fame catcher, who played with the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago White Sox, was angry with [read more...]

Mark McGwire: A Peek Behind the Veil of Former Slugger’s “Admission” of PED Guilt

A not-quite tearful Mark McGwire during his interview with Bob Costas. So Mark McGwire is trying to throw ca-ca in the game. He didn’t use steroids to get stronger or hit more home runs, he, like Andy Pettitte used them the drug “only” to heal. But he, as did Pettitte, used HGH, too. Now, ESPN’s John Kruk reamed McGwire, saying the slugger cheated [read more...]

*Breaking* Mark McGwire Admits Steroid Use, Slugger to Talk with Bob Costas Tonight

In an Associated Press interview Mark McGwire finally admitted he used steroids. McGwire indicated that he used the drug for about a decade: Text of the statement Mark McGwire issued today, admitting he used steroids during his career: “Now that I have become the hitting coach for the St. Louis Cardinals, I have the chance to do something that I wish I [read more...]

The Mike Leach Affair: Lessons in the Nature of Power

I bring you recognition and money and you bring me a pink slip... A wildfire has touched off in Lubbock, Texas. And the incendiary device is power. By now, football fans and most sports watchers know about Texas Tech wideout Adam James, his alleged concussion, and the firing of Mike Leach by Tech chancellor, Kent Hance, who just last year, resigned Leach [read more...]

*Breaking* George Michael, Sports Television Pioneer, Dies

George Michaels, 1939-2009. George Michael, whose Sunday evening Washington, D.C. sports show, “The George Michael Sports Machine” was the model for ESPN’s SportsCenter, died of cancer today: George Michael, a high-rated and hyperanimated Washington sportscaster whose use of game highlights on his syndicated sports program became the model for successful broadcasters such as ESPN, died Thursday morning at Sibley Memorial Hospital, according [read more...]

Quick Announcement of FBI Investigation Into Galea Is Clue that Something Nefarious Is At Hand

Anthony Galea at work in Toronto in 1999. I‘m pursuing a long and detailed story beginning today so there isn’t much time to follow the myriad story lines circulating in the sports world, like Kobe going over 40 in MJ’s house, John Wall and the University of Kentucky’s basketball team which is undeniably the most talented in the country, like the [read more...]

*Breaking* Peter Gammons to Leave ESPN

Gammons is also a very good strummer of the axe. This just came in from Michael Rand of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune: Baseball Hall of Fame journalist Peter Gammons has decided to pursue new endeavors and will no longer be a contributor to ESPN after this week’s winter meetings. Said Norby Williamson, ESPN executive vice president, production: “As a print journalist moving to television, [read more...]

Notes on the Weekend: Big-Time NCAA Rivalries; “Riggo” Goes Off; N.Y. vs. N.O. in the NFL

All the reports around the country mentioned Hall of Fame running back and former Washington Redskins great, John Riggins, You Tube video crushing of JIm Zorn. “Riggo,” as he was called, said Zorn better served coaching high school players, like Riggins’ son. However, what was missed is in the reports is that Riggins spent the first half of his video crushing [read more...]

Welcome to, The Daily Skip Bayless…

Everyday ESPN morning show fixture, Skip Bayless, says something that makes me want to choke him, beat him senseless, or strap him down in a chair and force-feed him LSD until his mind explodes. The jury is still out on exactly what purpose this man serves. Is he a has-been hack who is blacklisted from writing for any sports news [read more...]

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