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A 100 years of disappointment and no title apparently led the Chicago Cubs preparing for the future while violating a couple of baseball rules.
Those rules include failing to report a signing to MLB’s New York offices and putting the player on the field before receiving approval for the signing from MLB offices.
The Cubs’ fine for these violations is around $500,000. (snicker)
Apparently the MLB higherups apparently didn’t believe Cubs people were completely forthcoming regarding their actions in the case when questioned about them.
Baseball disallows teams from making pre-draft deals, but it isn’t known whether such an early deal is related to this case. However, the amount of the fine makes it clear how displeased pissed off MLB”s powers are about the situation.
The WNBA has been struggling for television viewers and reverence since its inception, finally has a good old cat fight, thus giving me a reason to write about it.
Tennessee Goddess Candace Parker and the Los Angeles Sparks score a win over the Detroit Shock. Unfortunately, it will be the final five seconds that everyone else is going to remember.
Goddess Parker was one of three players ejected along with Detroit assistant coach Rick “Bad Boy” Mahorn after a somewhat entertaining melee with 4.6 seconds left.
“To be honest, I don’t recall exactly what happened,” said Goddess Parker, who led Los Angeles with 21 points. “I’ll have to watch the tape.”
The cat fight started moments after Goddess Parker and Detroit’s Cheryl Ford had to be separated after Ford fouled Parker.
On the next possession, Goddess Parker got tangled up with Detroit’s Plenette Pierson and fell to the ground. As she was getting up, Pierson in bitch mode & intentionally ran into her, setting off the melee.
Goddess Parker threw a punch at Pierson before being tackled by Detroit’s Deanna Nolan. Players and coaches from both teams joined in, and Mahorn knocked Lisa Leslie to the court at one point.
“I was trying to protect the whole game, the integrity of the game,” he said. “The WNBA is very special to me because I have four daughters. I don’t even raise my hand to them, and I would never push a woman. This game, I love this game too much.”
“Rick Mahorn is known as a peacemaker, from even the brawl we had here with Indiana,” Detroit coach Bill Laimbeer said. “He went out there to get people off the pile and to get people to stop the confrontation. That’s who he is, that’s what he does.”
All in all I like Mahorn but I don’t think he was playing piece maker I think his emotions got the better of him. The last thing Mahorn was known for when he was playing the game was a piece maker.
Keeping the piece…nothing to see here folks
However Los Angeles coach Michael Cooper feels Mahorn was trying to stop the fight.
“I think Rick was trying to play peacemaker, but he’s just too big,” Sparks coach Michael Cooper said. “I was only trying to grab my players, and I didn’t see exactly what happened, but he apparently gently tried to push Lisa away.”
DeLisha Milton-Jones shoved and punched Mahorn after the incident with Leslie and was ejected, along with Mahorn, Goddess Parker and Pierson. Nolan and Shannon Bobbitt each received technical fouls.
“That was unfortunate, but things like that happen in basketball sometimes,” Milton-Jones said. “The league is going to have to decide what kind of action to take.”
Ford sprained her right knee while trying to restrain Pierson and left the floor in a wheelchair. Her status is unknown.
“I’m glad that none of our players got hurt, and I hope that Cheryl is OK,” Cooper said.
The brawl marred a key victory for Los Angeles, which came in having lost four of five.
Ladies you know that QB in Green Bay that is acting like a Richard-Head his name is Brett F**re? (I’m still not typing out his name.)
Well, although many of you would kill your hubbies and first born to touch him, he might not be the brightest bulb on the Packer Christmas tree.
The Packers are claiming they have some rather incriminating evidence that backs their claims of tampering by inappropriate dialogue” against the Vikings. You know little things like say phone records.
“Favre had continued to use a Packers-issued cell phone and that when the team checked the phone records it found “repeated calls to coach Brad Childress and offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell.”
The possibility of Favre having used a phone issued by the Packers had been speculated on last week after the Associated Press reported that Green Bay informed the NFL it felt “an investigation of the phone records would show more than ‘normal contact’ between the Vikings and Favre, even before he formally asked for his release to play for another team.”
If this turns out to be true it’s important because Childress and Favre have no prior relationship, so discussions between the two of them would be suspicious, to say the least. Especially if the communications occurred after multiple days of multiple discussions between Favre and Bevell.
With all the money he makes he has to use a cell phone paid for by the team. What a dumb ass!
If this is true, F**re is going to come out looking terrible. He just better not try to explain it away with his “I’m a straight-shooter good guy” victim routine and think he’ll still have public opinion on his side. If so, he’ll find out, just like Roger Clemens did, that no matter how much you think the fans love you, they can smell BS from miles away. Try and feed it to them and they’ll turn on you fast.
This is just getting uglier and sloppier as we go.
It appears that SI.com has been tipped by someone of our meager existence here. They have propelled us into the infamous “Certain Blogs” status while linking to us.
“Don’t judge.” That’s what my mom always used to say, which is like when 50 Cent raps, “You shouldn’t throw stones if you live in a glass house.” That’s just amazing, Fifty and my mom never agree on anything! Vanderbilt running back Jermaine Doster probably concurs as well. Doster was arrested early Friday morning after he refused to leave The Honey-Pot Bar in Tampa Bay. The feisty redshirt freshman then kicked out the back windows of the police car in which he was “relaxing”. Here’s the kicker : According to certain blogs and nightlife Web sites, The Honey-Pot Bar is a gay club. But, before you jump to conclusions, keep this in mind, The Honey-Pot Bar also serves great French fries and has a lovely interior design.”
(Sarcastic ‘Woo Hoo’) Jackass next time say the blog name.
According to the Daily Mississippian Online the rivalry between Ole Miss and LSU has been dubbed the “Magnolia Bowl.” Thanks to this I will no longer think of Magnolia has four hours of torturous cinema that starred Tom Cruise but instead I will think of four hours of LSU whipping the ass of Ole Miss.
This rivalry will have its own golden trophy in the shape of a magnolia, I’m sure that’s a piece of hardware any team can be proud of.
Interim ASB President Elizabeth Yerger says:
“The trophy should be ready by the Nov. 22nd game between Ole Miss and LSU. We want to get t-shirts, stickers, cups and water bottles for the event. We hope we can get it officially down on paper very soon. The name has been chosen, but as of right now, it’s not ratified. We had our first game with LSU in 1894. We as students have defined this rivalry and we think that we should honor it.”
I’m sure everyone wants a t-shirt proudly showing their affections for magnolias and football, all rolled up in one.
Does President Yerger realize that Ole Miss has lost seven of the last eight games and about 60% of all games against LSU? Probably not.
Andrew Remson, director of athletics at LSU, said:
“The rivalry between LSU and Ole Miss has been going on for a very long time. Both universities look forward to it every year. I am a third generation student. It’s a tradition for both schools. This trophy just gives us more of an opportunity to demonstrate our respective school spirits.”
Just add this to an ever growing collection of trophy games that have been invented the past. Except most of those trophies are cool and not some golden flower.
This is definitely the slow season. Since the Red Sox weren’t on last night and there was nothing on TV, I decided to surf around various sports sites and find something to read. That’s when I came across this interview with Ohio State’s Marcus Freeman on the evil empire that is known as ESPN.
Sometimes these interviews are insightful sometimes they aren’t. This one was so-so. But something did catch my eye, and that was the fact Marcus and other players make life choices while in the shower…together.
“I hate to make you describe a shower scene, but take me back to after the LSU loss when you and the other juniors talked about coming back for this season.
MF: Just a lot of emotion. Sitting on that bench and thinking, ‘Hey, I don’t think I’m going to come back and have this feeling again.’ But we got in the shower, everybody’s disappointed. I forget who was the first person to say something, but it was weird that all of us that had major decisions about coming back were all in the shower at the same time. (Alex) Boone or Malcolm (Jenkins) or someone said, ‘Hey, I’m coming back. I’m not leaving college football like this.’ And then James (Laurinaitis) said, ‘I’m coming back, too,’ and I said, ‘I’m coming back, too.’ We all knew we really had to go home and think about it, but that was the first feeling of, ‘Hey, let’s come back and do it one more time. Let’s go out with a bang our senior year.’”
Generally men in the shower area don’t say much while keeping their eyes facing forward. If you’re a male and are showering with other males, the last word you want to hear in that environment is “bang”. It tends to bring up to many thoughts of prison or a Wham concert.
I applaud the players returning to finish obtaining their degrees, not enough players in college football do that, however I could have done with out the knowledge that this choice was made in a shower area.
It’s that time of the week again, time for the Big Orange Roundtable to meet. This week Joel at Rocky Top Talk is the host site. This time the questions are fun and difficult. I would have had my answers posted sooner but I was to busy throwing full jars of baby food at homeless people who were wearing Alabama t-shirts and time just kinda got away from me. but I did nail Latrell Sprewell in the head.
1. For some inexplicable reason, Phillip Fulmer invites Urban Meyer, Mark Richt, Steve Spurrier, Nick Saban, Les Miles, and Tommy Tuberville over to his palatial estate for a dinner party. At 2:00 a.m. the next morning, The Papa discovers that Smokey IX has been murdered. Who did it, with what, and where? Think Clue. You know, Mr. Mustard in the parlor with the candlestick?
This one is obvious. It was Mark Richt. You see the great Battle Captain as a title, so does Meyer and Miles. Even Tuberville is the people’s champion of 2004. But Richt has nothing…except being leader of the “Third Richt.”
He saw innocent Smokey, curled up and sleeping in the media room with his “98 National Champs” collar on and lost it. He gave Smokey poisoned dog food from China, but that was only small measure of cruelty Richt dished out. During Smokey’s final moments on earth, he was forced to endure videos of Herschel Walker performing crunches over and over again. (picture credit goes to LWS)
2. Who between Eric Berry for the defense and Gerald Jones for the Clawfense will have the biggest impact for the Vols in 2008?
Eric Berry. You think last year was something? This year he is seasoned and has even gained weight while gaining speed. Quarterbacks will tremble at the sight of him on the field.
3. You devise a way to harness the Lost island’s temporal displacement properties. The island will allow you to change one thing, but one thing only, in the history of the Tennessee Volunteer football program. What do you change? By the way, Ben warns that if you try to say “2005″ or any other entire season, the mysterious clicking black smoke will sound its wailing siren, shoot from the earth, grab you by the ankles, and pound you to a pulp against a palm tree. So change only one thing. Unless, of course, you like that sort of thing.
Well I do like that sort of thing but I will not change a complete season. However I will change the 2002 Alabama game. You know the where Brodie Croyle was being tackled and was down (which instant replay shows) but somehow wasn’t called down. That was the turning point of the game.
That game snapped a seven game win streak against the Tide, plus with wins in 03 & 04 it would have been an even 10 in a row.
I hate Lost by the way.
4. What about the future? What is your worst fear for this upcoming season, the turn of events that would send you into a blind rage?
The appearance of lack of trying. Look I don’t mind losing, I don’t like it, but I don’t mind it, as long as they tried. There were several instances in which the beloved Vols didn’t appear to even try. If I see that junk this year, my blood will boil.
Look for the other Roundtable members and their answers here:
Did you know there’s another female Indy Car Driver? I didn’t. Her name is Milka Duno who I now dub as the Venezuelan Vixen.
Apparently Indy car driver and formally the hottest chick in racing, Danica Patrick, didn’t like the Venezuelan Vixen’s driving at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, which led to an heated cat fight in pit row.
On a video shot by a friend of Duno’s she told Patrick on several occasions to “go away.” When Patrick didn’t leave immediately, Duno threw a towel in Patrick’s direction. (Oh no she didn’t!) That prompted Patrick to “talk dirty” in the Vixen’s direction before the minute-long incident ended.
“She came to my team and our pit box in a very bad way with bad words,” Duno said. “If you come in a nice way, perfect, we can talk. If you come in a bad way, you are going to find my bad side.
“I don’t like drama, and I told her ‘go away, you are not welcome.’.”
Of course being the bitch she is, Patrick doesn’t regret the incident:
“Unfortunately, things involving me tend to evolve. I’m on the hot seat when I do something and when others do something (connected to me). It’s kind of the line that I walk because I’m popular.”
The Venezuelan Vixen issued a clear warning to Patrick:
“I don’t like the show she likes in every race weekend,” Duno said. “She can push the guys because they cannot do anything to her, but she cannot push me. We meet on equal condition (as women), and I know what kind of character I have.
“I know if somebody pushes me and finds my bad side they are going to get a problem.”
Carson Palmer, the former Heisman winning QB for SoCal and current Cincinnati Bengals QB, has a clear message for Ohio State fans. He can’t stand them at least that’s what he said Los Angeles radio show.
“I cannot stand the Buckeyes. It’s amazing to hear what those guys think about that university and what they think about that football program and Tressel and all the crap I gotta put up with being back there.
I just can’t wait for two years from now when SC comes to the ‘Shoe and hopefully we’ll have a home game that weekend and I can go up there and watch us pound on them in their own turf
I’m really getting sick of it and I just can’t wait for this game to get here so they can come out to the Coliseum and experience LA and get an old-fashioned Pac-10 butt-whoopin’ and go back to the Big Ten.”
Yes, Carson is certainly making new fans everyday. If this keeps up I’m sure the rumor mill will start turning to a certain quarterback named Brett F**re (I refuse to type his name) coming to the Bengals.
Ran across this video and it is a classic: “highlights” from the Egg Bowl last year between Ole Miss & Miss. St. Yup, this video pretty much sums up Coach O’s coaching career. I will miss him. If you will miss him like I will, as you watch this video recite these words in your head as Elvis sings: Yaw Yaw Yaw, Footbaw, & Wild Boyz…
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This is definitely the slow season. Since the Red Sox weren’t on last night and there was nothing on TV, I decided to surf around various sports sites and find something to read. That’s when I came across 
This one is obvious. It was Mark Richt. You see the great Battle Captain as a title, so does Meyer and Miles. Even Tuberville is the 
