Posted by
Brooks on Oct. 20, 2008, 4:43pm
I’m happy to report that we have our first Super Bowl attention whore sighting. USA TODAY inexplicably reports that a female comedian is trying to use a website to raise $3M so she can run a personal ad during the Super Bowl telecast. (She’s raised $500 so far.)
(If you’re keeping score, here’s the last Super Bowl attention whore)
USAT notes someone named Amy Borkowsky hopes to ignite her non-existent show business career by getting national publications to pick up her lame p.r. ploy “hopes to land Mr. Right with a personal ad” during the Super Bowl XLIII broadcast.
A photo of Ms. Borkowsky, whose entertainment credits include … um, after the jump.
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The Bolton Wanderers have seen attendance dip in recent years as they have languished in the relegation zone of the English Premier League. So the DAILY NEWS reports that the team had a novel concept to get people to Saturday’s game against Blackburn: give the fans free beer. Let’s see, free beer plus English soccer fans? Nope, I can’t see how that could end up poorly at all.
The first 1,000 fans will have the ability to enter the “Fan Zone” at the team’s Reebok Stadium and get a free beer or cider and deeply discounted food. For the rest of the game, drinks will be just £1.75 (roughly $3.00) for the rest of the match. No word if they will let you into the stadium if you are wearing a Dodgers hat, though.
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Posted by
Brooks on Oct. 17, 2008, 3:25pm
VARIETY and FIRST SHOWING both report this week that Brad Pitt is set to star as A’s GM Billy Beane in a big screen adaptation of the book “Moneyball.”
Moneyball is a project setup at Sony that we first mentioned way back in March. Oscar winning screenwriter Steve Zaillian (Schindler’s List, Mission: Impossible, American Gangster) has signed on to adapt the screenplay for David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada, Marley & Me) to direct.
(OBVIOUS: Spacey a better fit than Pitt as Beane)
STRIKE ONE: OK, so the same guy who wrote the screenplay for Schindler’s List is going to do the same for a book about the Oakland A’s?
I think he might be a little better suited to an interpretation of the Royals’ last 15 seasons.
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Posted by
Brooks on Sep. 23, 2008, 3:03pm
Discovered today on the indispensable Totalfark.com Sports - Mike Leach gives dating advice to a Texas Tech freshman:
Leach recommends a Lubbock restaurant as a locale for a first date and adds, “There’s very little salad at Cagle’s (steakhouse), so the girl will be forced to eat in front of you, which is something that women hate. But if you can make them do it, the earlier the better. The more they’ll conversate and show their true self.
More hookup nuggets from the coach after the jump. Read more…
Most of us watching the U.S. Open endurance test between Tiger Woods and Rocco Mediate last weekend caught some off-hand comments from NBC golf analyst Johnny Miller regarding Mediate’s chances of the David vs. Goliath-style upset, particularly with regard to something about Rocco looking “like the guy who cleans Tiger’s swimming pool.”
That gaffe just happened to rile a few people, as most of us predicted when we heard it, and the NEW YORK TIMES’ sports media reporter Richard Sandomir writes that Miller has officially issued an apology for the wisecrack.
I’m still waiting for both him and his partner Dan Hicks to apologize for the sloppy mess they made slobbering over Woods from late last Saturday on, but at least it’s a start, y’know?
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Posted by
jason on May. 22, 2008, 3:30pm
Vince Carter is attempting to succeed where Vin Baker, George Brett & Jared Allen have failed - by starting up his own self-named restaurant.
The DAYTONA BEACH NEWS-JOURNAL serves up news that the New Jersey Nets star is working on establishing a local upscale eatery. Well, actually, it’s his mom that’s doing all the work: Read more…
Posted by
Brooks on Mar. 10, 2008, 2:00pm
John Ryan of the SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS reports that wide receiver Isaac Bruce, recently acquired by the 49ers, is considering wearing Jerry Rice’s offically retired #80 when he takes the field next season.
Rice has ok’d the possibility though a final decision has yet to be made. We’re surprised Rice signed off on Bruce wearing his number, considering the Hall of Famer’s own experience wearing a hallowed numeral. Read more…
Posted by
Brooks on Jan. 30, 2008, 1:23pm
One of our current favorite features in online newspaper sports sections is the longtime reporter guy trying to do video standups.
(Schmuck’s Myspace photo must be killer, too)
Peter Schmuck, who has covered just about everything for the BALTIMORE SUN over the years, does his best at Super Bowl media day. We just hope to hell he’s getting paid to ask Saskatchewan-based media members: “Hey dude, can you hold onto this and aim it at me while I talk?”
The best part of Schmuck’s report from Arizona yesterday though came in print. Read more…
Posted by
Brooks on Jan. 29, 2008, 2:55pm
If you received a “Randy Moss Search Engine” press release via email, you’d think it was a gag - right? We’re right there with you, but apparently something called searchwithrandymoss.com is a legitimate enterprise - with approval from Moss himself.
From the press release: “The site, which features photos and dynamic news updates related to the mercurial wide receiver, is sure to become a favorite destination for Randy’s fans.”
We’re no expert on making money on the Internet, but “dynamic news updates” on any site featuring Randy Moss might not be such a good idea.
