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Last August, Angel Stadium suffered a little bit of PR ugliness when it was revealed that the facility left rotting garbage in the stands overnight after games, leading to 118 vermin violations over the span of two years. Right on the heels of this investigation (nine months later), Condé Nast Portfolio looked at health violations in 11 major league stadiums -- all 32 would have ...
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Carlos Delgado's agent, David Sloane, took a bit of an issue with some information about Delgado's contract in a notebook item that appeared Sunday by Dan Graziano of The Star-Ledger of New Jersey. The issue being, well, known only to Sloane. The writer and agent had a tense e-mail back-and-forth that only kept confirming what Graziano originally wrote was accurate: that Delgado is being ...
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This is Cowboys WR Terrell Owens on the
upcoming episode of Flavor Flav's Under One Roof .
I could share information like what channel it's on and what date and time it will air, but my priorities are to my readers, to my fellow Americans, ...
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes went out to support their buddy David Beckham as his LA Galaxy lost to the New York Red Bulls 2-1 over the weekend, making the soccer match the second-most irrelevant thing in the stadium. The Hollywood actor arrived with wife KATIE HOLMES and kids Isabella, 15, Connor, 13 and Suri, 2 in tow... Tom and Katie also did a bit of babysitting for POSH and Becks, ...
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New York Red Bulls
As noted elsewhere this weekend, former NBA player and lone Dream Team scrub Christian Laettner was elected to the prestigious National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame. The induction banquet is in Troy, Michigan on June 12th, where attendees will be served pierogies and copious amounts of Old Style. "Laettner" might not seem like a Polish name, but the board decided that ...
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Mike Krzyzewski
Duke Blue Devils
Awful Announcing picks up on some comments that the most surprising Super Bowl-winning coach ever, Barry Switzer, made to Scouts.com that supports the rumors that FOX is in contract talks with the recently maybe-retired-until-he's-not quarterback Brett Favre. That’s why FOX included Switzer on its studio show last year, pairing him as a “Grumpy Old Man’’ with ...
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Jennifer Mally, a 27-year-old teacher and cheerleading coach
in Arizona, has been sentenced to six months in
prison after being convicted of having sex with a minor. The "victim," a 16-year-old male student, must now try to go on ...
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I don't know how steeplechase got to be
an actual track event. It looks more like an
equestrian event without horses. And that's fine with me, because I've never seen a horse try to jump over an obstacle then slip and hit its balls on ...
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What better way for second-tier athletes and second-tier sports to help each other's causes by ginning up a little pointless spectacle? Over the weekend, wizzenedtits Pamela Anderson and Dallas Cowboys shitferbrains Tony Romo, who boasts the ability to be both horrible at gambling and choosing a future wife, got involved in some senior circuit hollow formality funtime. Pamela ...
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The Baltimore Ravens are enjoying off-season workouts free from the incompetent reign of deposed egomaniac Brian Billick, and you know what that means: 80-player brawls ! Nearly everyone at the Ravens' minicamp joined the fray after linemen Oniel Cousins and Amon Gordon came to blows; later, defensive backs Corey Ivy and Frank Walker tussled during a blocking drill. This all, of course, ...
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Indy Car racing star Danica Patrick is a woman, and women are notoriously inattentive drivers. That's what makes her hitting crew member Chuck Buckman on Friday afternoon during practice for the Indy 500 so hilarious. She was probably using the rearview mirrow to check her lipstick! Because women often do that, you see. Buckman stumbled and his left leg was clipped by ...
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NBA -- The mother of the San Antonio Coyote was obviously a single mother, as the stress of of raising her flopping spawn has ravaged her with age and disappointment and a bad weave. It's a good thing Detroit bothered to win Saturday afternoon, otherwise the hopes of road teams in these playoffs can be parked with the team plane on the runway. The Spurs and the Jazz knotted up series that ...
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"Saint Andrew's Net" is With Leather's daily link
dump, written by the bane of respectable journos and
scrupulous primates alike, Michael Tunison. Expect sports and tits. The Angry T has a retrospective of the 25 worst athlete ads ever. I ...
What to watch for in this weekend's match-ups. One team or another in ALL CAPS. PENGUINS over Flyers -- Because Pittsburgh has never, to my knowledge, ever been given any credit on this site whatsoever. Here ya go. Mother's Day over FLAG DAY -- Mom, I didn't mail your gift until today. But at least I sent it Priority. Hope you don't mind celebrating your day on ...
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Willie Bloomquist
Richie Sexson
Power rankings are stupid. That goes for college football polls, too. If you get worked up about power rankings, stick your head in an oven. 1. Scarlett. She's kinda persona non grata around here now, but she dressed up this week, so here ya go. Thanks to the many readers who offered their condolences to me about her engagement. 2. Eight Belles . We ...
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Last August, some enterprising young baseball fan created
a map of the United Countries of Baseball (
WL post on it w/ missing image here ), and now, just a mere nine months later, One Droo Hill finally provides us with an updated map. Some of ...
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We linked to this video from B&C in
this morning's Saint Andrew's Net , but -- like
the tape in The Ring or the horse humpers video -- it's far too troubling not to share on the largest scale possible. This is Myron Cope, inventor of the ...
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Florida safety Jamar Hornsby turned himself in for
credit card theft and credit card fraud after police
learned he was using the credit card of a deceased Florida student for the last six months. Hey, how is it theft is she was already ...
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Busted Coverage returns from its latest voyage from the briny depths of the tubes with this undated photo of Kyle Orton getting blitzed in the best way he can deal with while posing with a busty young lass from a Chicago radio station. Okay, Orton may not be any more inebriated in this photo than he is at any other time, but he's always good for looking the part. And the fact that we don't ...
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Kyle Orton
Cedric Benson
Brian Urlacher
Michael Jordan
Lance Briggs
Remember Papa John's's (so many possessives!) thing with the 23-cent pizza to apologize to LeBron and Cavalier fans? Yeah, that went down yesterday. How'd it go? Well, the good news is that there weren't quite reports of rioting. The bad news is that, dude, it's just fucking 23-cent pizza. Highlights from WKYC's day of breathless reporting : 12:15 p.m. WKYC.com's Kim ...
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