Everyone who works in sports right now is blaming the alarming drop in NBA, MLB, NASCAR and NHL attendance on the economy.
(Sorry, no ‘plz support your team!’ piece by your local cheerleading columnist)
But look at other entertainment options, like movies, video games, and concerts. Those businesses are doing quite well, and in many cases […]
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• Sexy soccer WAG Danielle Lloyd gets laid out in a bloody nightclub brawl.
• The real big racing news from this weekend: Danica Patrick’s new GoDaddy commercial, complete with a cop who keeps losing her clothes.
• Quite a memorable Memorial Day - Jose Canseco gets mauled in his MMA debut, while Mr. T mauls “Take […]
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I’ve lost touch with some of my high school basketball teammates, but I’m pretty sure that none of them are up to what Aleksander Radjenovic has been doing the last few years. Radjenovic was a standout hoopster at Burnaby South secondary school in Vancouver, B.C., after moving there from the former Yugoslavia as a teenager. […]
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We’re all familiar with the Denver Debacle by now - how the WWE was kicked out of the Pepsi Center for Monday, May 25, because the Nuggets were facing the Lakers in Game 4 of their NBA Western Conference Finals series. Well, Vince McMahon vowed he would get his revenge on Stan Kroenke, the owner […]
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Sad news out of Toronto today. Ex-NHL star Peter Zezel has been taken off of life support, as he will apparently succumb to a rare blood disorder that has plagued him for years. Zezel, only 44 years old, nearly died of hemolytic anemia in 2001 but recovered. This time, he’s not going to be so […]
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College football fans don’t agree on much. You’ve got your Michigans versus your Ohio States, your Floridas versus your Georgias, and your Notre Dames versus, well, everyone. One thing pretty much everybody agrees on, though, is that the BCS in its current format is a woefully corrupt system that needs revamping in some way shape […]
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Jenn Sterger’s plans for world domination are proceeding smoothly, according to her. Over the weekend she attended an Indianapolis 500 party where she promoted a new sports drink, before that taking time to brag on an Indianapolis radio show about her proficiency with Twitter.
Sterger, of course, is the former USF bandwagon hopper Florida State Cowgirl, […]
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It’s understandable if you spent the Indianapolis 500 cheering for Helio Castroneves or leering at Danica Patrick. The former overcame significant personal obstacles to win the race and the latter ended up with the highest finish ever by a woman (and got frisky with a stripper). Two great stories, sure, we suppose.
(Vitor Meira wishes this […]
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WITH LEATHER races up video of the new motorsport that’s destined to take America by storm - bus demolition derby!
(Ralph Kramden is The Highlander - there can be only one, Norton!)
It’s 1000 times way more better than “Speed” - and no Keanu Reeves! Unless he was in the bus that got belted into the concrete […]
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The choice of Sonia Sotomayor by President Obama as our next Supreme Court justice was not unexpected, to be sure, but there may be a few Red Sox fans cursing into their corn flakes this morning. Sotomayer, you see, is a Yankees fan; somewhat unavoidable if you grow up in the Bronx.
This was a wise […]
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