JESUS JOLTS COLTS’ COMEBACK: Armando Salguero of the MIAMI HERALD reports that Colts coach Tony Dungy and Indy team owner Jim Irsay both credited God for the 38-34 win over the Patriots yesterday.
I don’t know what’s a bigger upset, the Colts comeback in the game or that Dungy and Irsay finally convinced the Almighty to […]
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Football on January 22nd, 2007
GLASS GUFFAW: The KANSAS CITY STAR reports on a joke attempt by Royals Owner David Glass last Friday at a team-sponsored luncheon.
The so-called funny boner was about three elderly women (Wal-Mart Greeters?) who smuggled a bottle of booze into a ballgame.
During the game, one of the ladies noticed that her two friends had passed […]
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REPORT: ESPN THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH! OUTSPORTS.com reports that ESPN has “developed a history of visible gay-friendly actions that have separated it from much of the rest of the sports world.“
The website notes numerous ESPN reports covering gay athletes dating back to a 1998 “Outside The Lines” episode called “The World of the Gay […]
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Media on January 22nd, 2007
The NEW YORK POST reports a that a recent, confidential audit by KPMG “projects the (NBA’s New Jersey) Nets will charge a $4,500 [PSL] fee for each of the best 4,500 seats” at the team’s soon-to-be-built Brooklyn arena.
A PSL (personal seat license) only guarantees a fan the right to purchase tickets at that seat location. […]
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The Los Angeles Sports Council this week released its 2nd annual Greatest Moments in Sports Awards.
Ten “moments” are listed, with top honors going to Kobe Bryant’s 81-point game last season against the sad-sack Toronto Raptors.
Rounding out the Top 10:
9. “Lisa Leslie scores 5,000th career point (June 24): Leslie became the first WNBA player to total […]
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Baseball on January 22nd, 2007
THREE CHEERS FOR REPORTER’S RUSE: Michael Ozanian is a Senior Editor for FORBES Magazine. He covers sports business for the mag, and thanks to this new-fangled thing called the internet, is now doing online reports and interviews via Forbes.com.
Ozanian recently scored an *exclusive* interview with three Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders - as he reported on the […]
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Media on January 22nd, 2007
Fark TV is a new concept from Fark.com founder Drew Curtis which features comedic video vignettes centered on the offbeat stories that the website covers.
One of the latest vids is called “Name Game”, and is based on an idiot couple who played a miniature golf game to determine what last name would be used in […]
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Website on January 22nd, 2007
MIAMI ISSUES OPPORTUNIST ALERT: Thousands of sports groupies will soon descend on Miami for the upcoming Super Bowl between Indianapolis and Chicago - which for the first time features two black head coaches: Lovie Smith of the Bears and Tony Dungy of the Colts.
It should be a real challenge for those parasitical partisans trying […]
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Football on January 22nd, 2007
MONDAY MORNING PAT-DOWN: Sour grapes-plagued Patriots fans are now surely grasping for anything that will soothe the pain of losing to Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts in the AFC title game.
With that in mind, here’s a web page that might just be worth their cubicle-based attention (and mass email function) Monday morning.
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Football on January 22nd, 2007
In the wake of the Super Bowl coaching matchup between Indy’s Tony Dungy and Chicago’s Lovie Smith, there’s even more great news for the cause of African-American football coaches, as the Pittsburgh Steelers have tabbed Mike Tomlin as their new sideline sentry.
Being black will be a handy thing for Tomlin around town in more ways […]
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Football on January 22nd, 2007