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By popular demand, we have the All-Hottest Olympians
Team. Usually they have the all-tournament teams and stuff,
but athletic prowess is not exactly what concerns us in this instance. After all, what else are the Summer Games good for? Anyway, Jimmy ...
I already told you about the excellent segment on Double X Sports Radio that featured Pete Rose, Tony Gwynn, Randy Jones, and Darren Smith. In another part of the segment, Tony Gwynn was talking about getting his first major league hit — a double against the Phillies. Apparently Rose was playing first base and trailing the play, and bid Gwynn congratulations on the hit after the play. ...
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MLB
Tony Gwynn
Pete Rose
Criticizing the Bengals for their off-field problems? Check . Criticizing Marvin Lewis for having no control of the team? Check . Calling coach Marvin Lewis and Owner Mike Brown for going back on their words and being full of crap? Here to come. In April the Bengals released Chris Henry , deciding they had enough of his shenanigans. Last month Marvin Lewis reinforced this notion to the ...
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NFL
Marvin Lewis
Cincinnati Bengals
Chris Henry
First Barry Bonds shows interest in managing minor leaguers , now Tony Gwynn ? I was on my way to Dodger Stadium early last Friday to get some interviews, listening to Double X Sports 1090 — the Padres’ station. They were running the Padres BP show (you can listen here ), and they had quite the star-studded cast: hit king Pete Rose, Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn, Cy Younger Randy ...
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MLB
Tony Gwynn
San Diego Padres
Pete Rose
Randy Johnson
This is easily one of my favorite stories of the year. Normally I take a pretty harsh stance on DUIs, but I think I can overlook Kevin Grady’s drunk driving charge in the interest of impregnable humor. Deadspin shared Grady’s comedic story , and boy, is this a good one :
Grady was given a breathalyzer test, which showed a blood-alcohol level of 0.281 — more than three ...
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MLB
Grady Sizemore
Michigan Wolverines
Honestly, admit you thought this was something straight out of Dean Wermer’s book. Not so. It’s been a while since we had any new introductions to the elite LBS Golden Sombrero Club . Aaron Rowand, don’t think I didn’t notice yours a few weeks back. I let you off easy on. Anyway, LBS reader Adam is a Cubs fan and made sure I didn’t miss the fact that the ...
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MLB
Mike Jacobs
Dan Uggla
I love Ocho Cinco. He’s my favorite player in the NFL. But he definitely is a whack job, and he did hurt his shoulder on Sunday. And in other news, Ocho Cinco was creating some odd headlines last week. Here are some stories I didn’t get a chance to touch on because of the server-attack but still wanted to share with you. Chad Johnson said he legally wanted to change his name to ...
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NFL
Chad Johnson
Chris Russo
Michael Phelps
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As far as I had always heard things,
the relationship between Rams running back Steven Jackson ,
and the man he eventually replaced at the same position, Marshall Faulk , was a good one. I remember hearing stuff about Faulk serving as a mentor to ...
Credit HG at You Been Blinded with the incredible find of Charles Barkley slamming this bottle of Patron tequila. Apparently the video was taken at the Harrah’s in Lake Tahoe, where Chuck was not long ago for a celeb golf tournament . Like so many things in life, Chuck attacked the bottle of tequila with full zeal. Check it:
Between this video and the MJ calling out Kobe video ...
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NBA
Charles Barkley
Jennie Finch is pretty busy these days pitching shutouts for Team USA in Beijing. Even though she’s been bringing the country lots of pride through her play on the field, it’s her looks off of it that brings the country all its joy. Unfortunately if you were hoping Finch were going to go the way of Ashley Harkleroad and Amanda Beard , it ain’t happening. In a recent ...
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Olympics
LeBron James so often talks about his goal of becoming a “global icon.” Having a top selling jersey in China — a country of 1.3 billion — would probably be a good starting point. Maybe he’s jealous of Kobe Bryant because come to find out, 24 has the top selling jersey in China for the second year in a row. It’s pretty funny that Yao has slid to the 10th ...
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NBA
Kobe Bryant
China
Yao Ming
LeBron James
Kevin Garnett
And here I was, thinking that Joey Chestnut was some sort of a badass. At a time when America was losing ground in athletic competitions to the rest of the world, at least we had Joey Chestnut to step up and show everyone that there is something America can still do well — pig out. He beat Kobayashi in the hot dog eating competition and brought back respectability to our nation. Anyway, ...
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Joey Chestnut
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A few days ago (seems like weeks to
me), I presented Mark Spitz’s comments about not being
invited to Beijing while Michael Phelps was trying to break his record of 7 gold medals. I called Spitz a bitter man in that post because, let’s ...
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Apparently the Olympics are good for something, contrary
to my previous beliefs . Generally I like to
avoid gymnasts because their hormones are suppressed to slow their physical development, making them look like little kids (if they aren’t ...
This is just absurd. First they faked the skyline in the Opening Ceremonies with digitally enhanced graphics. Next up they had a cuter 9-year-old girl stand in as the face for the real girl who sung the actual anthem at the Opening Ceremony because the real girl wasn’t cute enough . Then we find out that Bela Karolyi suspected the Chinese were using 10-year-old ringers on their ...
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Olympics
China
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I had heard a few things about Mark
Spitz ’s negative attitude towards Michael Phelps and his
quest for 8 golds. What I heard however, was nothing compared to the story commenter Gene passes along. 36 years after his day in the spotlight at ...
Now this wouldn’t exactly be the first time an athlete got caught up with a gay website recently, so it seems to be somewhat of a trend. Anyway, far be it from me to think that athletics are full of nothing but heterosexuals. As masculine as the likes of football and wrestling are, we know there certainly a fair amount of homosexuals in the sports. Well, we knew that was the case for ...
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NCAA Football
Nebraska Cornhuskers
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I don’t know what it is about pre-season
games and players losing helmets, but it sure seems
to happen a lot . Maybe it’s because it’s guys who are doing everything they can to make the team, or maybe it’s because the ...
I knew that Joe Torre got a ton of press because, well, let’s face it — he was the manager of the Yankees during their superb run from ‘96-’03. But I didn’t know he was much of a pitchman, unlike say, Greg Oden . Even though the last time Torre appeared in a commercial was 1985, he was immediately cast in a State Farm Insurance commercial upon arriving in LA. ...
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MLB
Joe Torre
Every couple years when the Olympics roll around, I find myself in the minority as one of the few people who really couldn’t care less about the events. Heck, over 34 million people in the country supposedly watched the opening ceremonies on Friday evening. I was not one of them. I was a little too busy watching the opener of a three game set between the Angels and Yankees — ...
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All-Hottest Olympians at Beijing Team