http://www.sportsbybrooks.com Celebrity sports gossip since 2001 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:24:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm in the left field bleachers tonight for Manny's return in San Diego. Already pregaming with a couple-six Coronas on Mission Beach. You can follow me here on Twitter. (Lasorda always forgets to lock his box o' porn) I'll be tweeting throughout the day on Manny and Tommy Lasorda's legendary lesbian ... http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/im-in-sd-tweeting-mannys-return-lasordas-porn-24860 • Romanian teen tennis player Simona Halep goes through on her threat to get a breast reduction. We'll never look at her the same way again. • Chiefs RB Larry Johnson spends his offseason in Las Vegas, where he's buying large champagne bottles for some thirsty ladies. • The Ultimate Warrior shares ... http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/week-in-review-so-long-simona-haleps-hooters-24854 While this isn't quite on the level of earlier stories about the marathon runner who ran down her assailant or the elderly ex-boxer who beat up a burglar, let it be known that high school custodians can be heroes, too. A 39-year-old Fountain Valley (Calif.) man was arrested Tuesday after ... http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/hero-janitor-thwarts-girls-x-country-masturbater-24859 The knock on former Hawaii quarterback Timmy Chang coming out of college was that he lacked the arm strength to be an NFL quarterback, which explains why he's out of football after bouncing through the NFL and CFL after leaving the Warriors as the NCAA's all-time passing leader. But perhaps a ... http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/book-em-danno-ex-hawaii-qb-chang-arrested-24858 After flirting with the idea of only coaching home games (Mitch Kupchak: "Not bloody likely!"), then mulling retirement, Phil Jackson announced today that he's returning as coach of the Lakers, full time. Apparently finished with a battery of medical tests more thorough than the ones administered to Linda Blair in ... http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/and-now-your-moment-of-zen-phil-officially-back-24857 In this morning's Speed Read, we briefly covered the curious case of the heroic female marathon runner in San Diego who fought off and helped capture a would-be assailant, Thomas Parker, when he accosted her in her garage. It was one of those wonderful empowering stories, the second in two days actually. It ... http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/marathon-runners-attacker-kills-self-in-jail-24856 I lived in the Pacific Northwest for several years, and I can tell you that it takes a lot to drum up any enthusiasm for a sports rivalry between teams from Washington and Oregon. Such rivalries do exist, but on a more tepid level than you'd see in other areas ... http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/ok-this-is-wrong-even-by-soccer-fan-standards-24855 It was about a year ago when video emerged of "Rowdy" Roddy Piper hitting the bong. ("That's funny tasting tobacco, man.") But, as he was battling Hodgkin's lymphoma, everyone pretty much gave him a free pass. This time, I'm not sure though; is alcohol commonly prescribed in California to counteract ... http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/scotsman-rowdy-roddy-piper-likes-the-scotch-24853 So you're 13 years old, you're Alex Rodriguez's nephew, you play for the same youth baseball team that A-Rod did, and you look pretty much exactly like him. Oh, and the NEW YORK DAILY NEWS just did a big story on you. Hey, no pressure kid. Meet Joe Dunand Jr., ... http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/a-rod-clone-looks-like-his-uncle-but-can-he-hit-24852 Former basketball player Latrell Sprewell had a pretty decent career during his 13 years in the NBA as he averaged 18.7 points a game, but I'll only remember him for two things he did during it.  There was the time he choked out P.J. Carlesimo in practice with the Golden ... http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/sprewell-fed-his-kids-but-forgot-his-mortgage-24850