Notes: Gang Signin’ in the NFL; Camby was a Chess Piece; More Goods on Roger the Rapin’ Roider; Jennings Signs with Italian Team

Crip signin'… right? The NFL is concerned about its image - again. The league has hired "experts" to review and identify "hand signals" thrown up by NFL players during games: "There have been some suspected things we've seen," said Milt Ahlerich, the league's vice president of security. "When we see it, we quietly jump on it immediately, directly with the team and [read more...]

World Gone Mad

It's a baaaad day for white athletes everywhere. Matt Jones (mug shot, right), Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver - busted for coke and pot. Dude was caught chopping yay-yo with a credit card, had a bag of yay on him and a bag of chronic. Hmmm, snort some yay to get up, puff puff a J to take the edge off, [read more...]

The Brain Leak

(Week of 6/9/08 - 6/15/08) As summer switches into high gear and temperatures across the country begin to rise, The Leak is creating new and innovative ways to keep you indoors and save you from those nasty CO2 emissions, twilight dinners with the in-laws and the neighborhood Cougar who simply should not be wearing that skimpy of a bathing suit. Finally, a [read more...]

Mauricia Grant and the Disdainful Sound of One Hand Clapping

Mauricia Grant. I'll type her name again so you remember it. Mauricia Grant. She is why race and sports and racism in sports are the hot-button topics that almost always get pushed to the fore by white-owned mainstream media and its white-owned sports blogosphere mirror image. The operative word here is ------- almost. Because of its Internet "reach" when it comes to any "important" sports [read more...]

Prince Fielder Is Nibbling On My Ear

I'm not saying you're not a vegetarian Prince Fielder, but I just don't know a lot of 5'11", 260 pound non-carnivores. I've been eating mostly vegetarian fare for the last couple of years, and I think you're trying to pull the lima beans over my eyes. I saw you play against the Cubs earlier this season, and I think you [read more...]

Roger Clemens is Barry Bonds, except he’s…

As much as it pains me to do this, I am going to have to acknowledge the blatant racial discrimination in the treatment of Barry Bonds during the whole steroids, BALCO, Victor Conte saga. At the time, I thought that Barry was just getting the treatment he deserved as a cheater and an all around poor human being. [read more...]

Estrogen alert

First, I would like to thank everyone that read my first blog (all 20 of you, wow). I would also like to that the only person that left a comment, thanks Dad. Unfortunately, he was wrong about the Blue Jays being good, but he did get me on watching NASCAR - though only the highlights. Who can pass [read more...]

Master of my joystick

It's the bottom of the ninth, two strikes, the game is on the line, and you are one step away from becoming immortal -- a king even. In a few short seconds -- with the sweat dripping from your brow like Roger Clemens at a karaoke bar -- you will join the elite and celebrated few who have played a near-perfect [read more...]

IMHO: I’m a cranky, old bastard

First of all, let me start by saying that I am not LMAO right now. In fact, I want to kick you in your chuckling ass every time I get a reply via e-mail with Internet slang, jargon, shorthand, Tech-talk, Netspeak, Nu English, computer language or any other cutesy phrase that has been promulgated to describe this form of [read more...]

Hall of fame drama: Will someone please impeach Clemens already?

I don't know how much longer the Roger Clemens career-reducing drama can go on, but I'm asking Congress to give this another try---and to get it right this time. Clemens' homemade version of The Surreal Life is in episode 14 where the former seven-time Cy Young Award winner admits to helping Mindy McCready with performance-enhancing vocal tracks when she was 15! It [read more...]

Another Day with Roger Clemens: Let’s Hope It’s the Last

For Roger Clemens, first it was Mindy McCready, then it was private plane indiscretions, now it's the ex-wife of John Daly, the former Paulette Dean Daly. The traditional NY Daily News performance-enhancing bust 'em crew of Teri Thompson, Michael O'Keefe, Nathaniel Vinton, and Christian Red has their hooks into Clemens and they are not about to let go of the former [read more...]

The Roger Clemens-Mindy McCready Affair: Just another Meaningless Incident, Right?

Wallace Matthews of Newsday spoke loud and proud for what was and is white, Anglo, racist, misogynist, debauched Western culture, especially that of America. Not all white people - men and the women who abide by its precepts - but the vast majority that applauds Matthews, defends Matthews, produces work that furthers the illness, or has been brainwashed and marches [read more...]

Clemens Goes Country?

Roger Clemens, steroids and HGH. Okay. Roger Clemens statutory rape? Oh no!. According to Teri Thompson, Nathaniel Vinton, and Christian Red of the New York Daily News "sources" say Clemens had a 10-year affair with country singer Mindy McCready. Philandering is bad enough, but seemingly par for the course for professional athletes, but with a 15-year old? Roger Clemens carried on a [read more...]

“Playing Ball” Major League Baseball’s Way

With all that was going on last summer it was difficult to deal with some of the larger issues of and problems with Major League Baseball. This spring and summer it is time to make time to dig in an explore MLB and baseball, in general, much more deeply. The following is the first of many articles and commentaries to [read more...]

Race and Sports: Maybe If the Cards are Laid Out on the Table…?

Racism, the 21st century version, is as insidious as it has been at any point in U.S. history. Gone are the days of knowing which side of the tracks to live to distinguish white and black. Gone are the days of knowing that for a black person, to cross those tracks is to cross at one's own peril. Though those [read more...]

Of Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds and Falls from Grace

On Feb. 13 Roger Clemens walked out of the Capitol in trouble. In one key moment that day, he testified that he was never at Jose Canseco's home on June 9, 1998 and even produced a receipt from a public golf course from that date. Clemens' attendance at this party was an important point of contention between the pitcher and [read more...]

Pettitte, Clemens, Bonds, McNamee, Congress - We Have Ourselves a Fine Mess Here

So, Andy Pettitte gets the kid gloves treatment: my gaaawd, he's a veritable hero because he kinda, sorta came clean-over time... we think. Roger the 'Roid Dodger Clemens might not even be indicted. Dang it, there's just not enough evidence. Oh really? Well, there's that little thing of the physical evidence turned over by Brian McNamee to BALCO superhero Jeff [read more...]

The Mighty Wurlitzer Says… Roger Clemens Out, Barry Bonds In

Damn it! Here we go again. The battle lines have been drawn and image will be a central issue with race as a backdrop-and Mike Greenberg made those lines clear last week:"I feel sorry for Roger Clemens..." Greenberg feels sorry for Clemens because last Wednesday for nearly five hours in front of Congress and a television national audience, the once shoe-in [read more...]

From Bonds to Clemens to Ankiel to Taylor to Tilghman: Context Lost

Months ago, when the Rick Ankiel-HGH news broke, I wrote that his being outed represented - potentially - a watershed moment in sports and sportswriting. It was the moment when the subjects of race and racism, of PEDs in football, and constructive criticisms of all sports, especially the NFL, could be broached by a large enough portion of the U.S. [read more...]

Kobe, Barry, Adam and Tank: The Black Villains Club

On ESPN radio and television simulcast show Mike and Mike in the Morning, baseball guy Buster Olney, sitting in for Mike Golic, called Kobe Bryant, "the biggest baby in sports." Further, he implied that Bryant is a cancer with the rhetorical question: "Is Kobe Bryant a cancer?"Olney's question comes on the heels of word from Bryant's camp (whatever that means) [read more...]

Hart Surgery: Pour Some Out For…

My friend Goetz and I spend nearly all of our time on-line. I suppose you could say we both do it for work-related purposes, but regardless, the "Internet" has kept us in touch about 99.99999% more than we would otherwise. When we aren't sending each other disgusting links to Pat O'Brien sexual harassment phone calls or some random dude singing into [read more...]

Hart Surgery: The Silver Anniversary

Numbers play a huge role in sports. Salaries, milestones, averages: we are constantly trying to figure these figures and place them in a context that will give them meaning. Numbers are significant in our everyday lives as well, and this week I am confronted with a big number of my own. Tuesday I turned a quarter-century, the big 2-5. I'm not sure what to [read more...]

Hart Surgery: The postseason, in nine parts

Sitting here watching the World Series, there are so many things I start to wonder about. Maybe it's because it takes like seven minutes for a guy to make one pitch, I'm not sure, but either way, this postseason has raised a ton of questions. So, I thought I would try to answer some of them, one for each inning of a baseball game. [read more...]

Hart Surgery: Back to the Pastime

It is mid-June, and somehow I have neglected to write anything about the baseball season. I'd like to rectify that right now, with a new feature on Hart Surgery. I like to call it: 3 Things That Piss Me Off About Baseball… 1. LaRussa is LaWorst. Oh, I could go on forever about this one. The Cards have, [read more...]

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