DALY’S CHANCES IN ASHES THANKS TO CAMERA CLICK: The ASSOCIATED PRESS reports John Daly was forced “pull out of PGA Tour’s Honda Classic on Thursday with an injury suffered when he tried to stop his backswing after a fan snapped a picture.”

Daly was teeing off on the 12th hole when a fan snapped a picture […]

SAM SMITH MEMORIAL SPORTS BLOGGER TOP 20 TOUTED: AOL’s Jamie Mottram and former ESPNer Dan Shanoff, in response to SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL’s Top 20 most influential online sports figures list, have created a list of the Top 20 most influential sports bloggers, excluding themselves.

Top Five:
1. Will Leitch, Deadspin: Simply put, he has more influence on mainstream […]

SI HANDS ANOTHER JOB TO SOFTCORE PORN’S STERGER: The sports blog OurBookOfScrap reports that internet nudie model Jenn Sterger is back servicing SI Editors with her latest piece of sports journalism.

She’s now reporting from college campuses, and after reading some of her entries, I’m a little perplexed on what the assignment is all about (besides […]

SPORTING NEWS HOST - LASORDA PROBABLY PAID FOR SEX: Dave Smith of SPORTING NEWS radio said today that it appears Tommy Lasorda indeed utilized the services of “Secrets of a Hollywood SuperMadam” author Jody “Babydol” Gibson.

Smith: “You would have to think he did (use a prostitute supplied by Gibson). Did you read the LOS ANGELES […]

MLB DOCUMENT: SELIG NOW SUBJECT TO STEROID TESTING: Maury Brown of bizofbaseball.com exhumes a hilariously absurd document recently drawn up by MLB that specifically details the league’s steriod testing policy.

The absurd part? Brown reports “all personnel — players, non-players, Umpires, executives, and the Office of the Commissioner — will fall under the testing program as […]

First there was the SPORTS ILLUSTRATED Cover Jinx:

Then the EA video game Cover Curse:

And now, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the Gatorade Plague - which features a recent TV spot with NBAers Dwyane Wade and Shaun Livingston (who appeared in a Gatorade commercial together, and shortly thereafter suffered season-ending injuries):

ESPN’S TUNDRA TV INSPIRES MOM TO ATTEMPT FIELD GOAL: Fake press conferences, misguided branding decisions and monopoly-born arrogance aside, there are times when ESPN really hits a home run. And this online piece on Barrow (AK) High School’s first year fielding of a football team was impossible to stop watching.

The trials and tribulations of the […]

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