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• Even though the Olympics are over, gymnast Alicia Sacramone is still going for the gold by trying to land a TV gig.
• Gilbert Arenas shows his support for President-Elect Barack Obama by tattooing his fingers.
• A Buffalo sportswriter leaves a high school football game early - by falling down the press box stairs.
• No wonder Texas A&M has been going through a crappy season - their stadium is filled with bat poop.
The BOSTON HERALD reports that “Olympic gymnast Alicia Sacramone is doing back-flips trying to land a TV gig to showcase her love of fashion and design.”
The Herald has the intimate details of Sacramone’s quest to land a reality show, which include a “sort of test reel - for Bravo, A & E, Style and MTV.”
You thinking what I’m thinking? I think we have potential for a serious trainwreck reality show on our hands, considering the famewhore that Sacramone has turned out to be. But I doubt we’ll ever see Alicia back on the little screen, if her “reel” is any indication. Read more…
• Chris Cooley is sorry for accidentally posting pics of his penis online - but not as sorry as we are for seeing it.
(OK, last shot we’ll show of Chris Cooley in short shorts - we promise)
• Turns out DeSean Jackson’s penchant for celebrating TDs prematurely is nothing new.
• Meanwhile, Tony Kornheiser celebrates NFL Hispanic Heritage Month in his own special linguistic way.
• Lane Kiffin is still the Raiders’ coach (as of this writing). But if Al Davis does ditch him, Lane could secure employment in Syracuse.
• Maybe Charger fans can take some small consolation knowing that ref Ed Hochuli has been downgraded by the NFL.
Life’s pretty good for Jed Lowrie right now. He’s gone from the minors to full-time starting shortstop for the Boston Red Sox in a matter of weeks, and now he is making the moves on everyone’s favorite silver-medal-toting gymnast.
Alicia Sacramone will apparently attend the September 24th Sox-Indians game as Lowrie’s special guest. But Lowrie maintains that his intentions are purely innocent (Sacramone has a boyfriend). Alicia already made one stop in the Fenway dugout a couple of weeks ago when she threw out the first pitch. And, as you can see in the above photos, the Sox players were happy to, uh, check out her medal.
• Chill out, ‘Canes fans - Gator alum Erin Andrews knows better than to fawn over Florida while she’s working for the Worldwide Leader.
• It’s bad enough LeBron James wore a Yankees cap at an Indians playoff game last season, but to go to a Browns game and pal around with the Cowboys instead?
• Rudy Giuliani’s kid can throw all the apples he wants, he’s still not getting back on the Duke golf team.
• Maybe NASCAR Craftsman Truck racer Roy Hornaday mistook HGH for Preparation H. After all, he does do an awful lot of sitting.
• If Lance Armstrong can return to the Tour de France, why not Floyd Landis?
What Olympian isn’t really proud of winning a medal? Most show it off proudly on the podium and then maybe walk around with it for a couple of days when they get home, at which time they put it in, like, a display case or something, and move on to the next phase of their life.
But that’s not how Alicia Sacramone rolls. While fellow gymnast Nastia Liukin was hanging out with Maria Sharapova at New York runway shows last week sans-medals (and she does have a couple of gold ones), Sacramone was toting her team silver around with her at Fashion Week, making sure everyone saw it whether they wanted to or not. Now, it appears she’s carrying it around in her purse to dinner in L.A.
• The WALTHAM DAILY NEWS TRIBUNE vaults up news of Olympic gymnast Alicia Sacramone receiving a hero’s welcome from the proud citizens of her Massachusetts hometown.
• WITH LEATHER wants Redskins TE Chris Cooley to explain what he was doing at a Backstreet Boys concert.
• CAT CRAVE claws up a nice chat with Panthers RB Stephen Davis.
• YOU BEEN BLINDED knows not many tennis players have their own theme song, but Venus Williams now does, thanks to Wyclef Jean.
Nastia Luikin might be the golden girl of the US Olympics gymnastics team, but the breakout star might be Alicia Sacramone. In ways that the mainstream media is unable to comprehend, Sacramone has become one of the most talked about & searched-for athletes (or even celebrities of any kind) in the past few weeks. BANNED IN HOLLYWOOD offers some visual proof of why Sacramone might be a bigger hit than Luikin with the online crowd despite her lack of Olympic success:
That’s Sacramone in the middle, with Liukin directly to her right. I have no idea who the other girls are. They might be other members of the Olympic gymnastics team for all I know: I defy anyone to remember any member of the team besides those two and Shawn Johnson. All I know is that in the All-Around Hotness race, Sacramone has crushed Liukin in the Bikini portion, a fact not even Bela Karolyi can argue.
Alicia Sacramone has become one of the most popular athletes on the US Olympics team - a fact that the mainstream media seems to find puzzling.
THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE wrote about how Sacramone was ranked ahead of teammates Nastia Luikin and Shawn Johnson for Google searches, and was No. 4 overall in Google’s Hot Trends. Meanwhile, during the broadcast of the first day of individual event finals, lead gymnastics announcer Al Trautwig was seemingly flabbergasted that Sacramone was the second-most searched for athlete on NBCOlympics.com, behind only Michael Phelps.
These are just two examples of what happens when the mainstream media decides to ignore what is happening in the blog world - they wind up looking like complete idiots in the process. Because anyone who had paid even a cursory glance at any blogs over the past week would have a pretty solid understanding of why people are searching for her online:
How desperate were the folks at Rogers Centre to fill seats for tonight’s Buffalo Bills exhibition game? Mike Zeisberger of the TORONTO SUN reports free tickets to tonight’s game “have been handed out to organizations such as The Hospital for Sick Children and The United Way, an act the naysayers claim is a desperate effort to make the 53,000-seat stadium appear full.”
Rogers Media Senior Director of Marketing Anthony Antonelli denied the claim, saying “We have sponsorship agreements or relationships with Sick Kids and The United Way.”
But Zeisberger then asked, “at one point, it was alleged that there were 180,000 names on the waiting list … If that is the case, why can fans suddenly buy single-game tickets for tonight?”
Garth Woolsey of the TORONTO STAR takes a wild guess: “No doubt there are NFL fans in our midst. Plenty of them. But it is still worth noting that only the cheapest seats are sold out (for tonight’s game, and) at $70 a pop ‘cheapest’ is relative.”
The average ticket price for the game was reportedly into the triple digits. If those tickets could’ve be sold, do you think all those sick kids would’ve been gifted?
*Note to self: don’t hire Vincent Askew as a lifeguard*
Paul Farhi of the WASHINGTON POST reports Tony Kornheiser’s talk radio contract will not be renewed by DC’s WWWT-AM “after his program’s ratings declined substantially this spring.”
That leaves Kornheiser as a free agent in the DC radio marketplace, and causes Mike Stern of MEDIAWEEK to speculate that Kornheiser’s talk host services “may be very appealing” to Redskins Owner Daniel Snyder.
(Will Tony K. saddle up Snyder’s Red Zebra?)
Why Snyder? Well the NFL’s very own Napoleon also runs something called Red Zebra Broadcasting, which recently acquired DC sports talker WTEM-AM and owns a “portfolio of [DC] area stations.”
That would be rather interesting, Snyder signing Tony K.’s checks - especially with Kornheiser’s on-air role on “Monday Night Football.” Though it could be considered a conflict of interest, Kornheiser would surely bend over backwards to call off viewer thoughts of impropriety.
STUFF in New Zealand reports on Rachel Hunter’s latest shining knight. Make that (Los Angeles) King. 26-year-old Jarrett Stoll is engaged to the 38-year-old Hunter, who calls him “my first love since Rod.”
(She looks great! And so does Rachel)
I assume she means her former husband, Stewart.
Mary Schmitt Boyer of the CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER has my favorite story of the day (see buried lead). NBAer Damon Jones guested on ESPN’s “First Take” this morning and talked about the Cleveland Cavaliers’ lack of offseason player moves with co-host Skip Bayless.
Jones was a member of the Cavaliers at the time of the discussion. Moments later, he was being chaffeured to the airport when his limo driver informed him he’d been traded to the Milwaukee Bucks.
Boyer’s note end there, but it turns out the limo driver was the father of an ESPN producer, who called his dad to inform him of the deal.
As a Laker fan, I’d like to lodge a personal request that someone in Bristol fly in Vlad Rad for some astute offseason Lakers analysis.
Sad news about ESPN’s once-mainstay Bill Pidto.
