• GUTTY LITTLE BRUINS gets a little animated in presenting the Final Four coaches in South Park form.
We guess that’s John Calipari on the left, and what he’ll turn into after UCLA beats Memphis with a last-second behind-the-backboard non-called charge.
• YOU BEEN BLINDED feels Pampered by watching Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith compete in a diaper-changing contest.
• Now that European pro basketball is rising to NBA-skill levels, 100% INJURY RATE wonders if the cheerleaders are doing the same.
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Los Angeles will play host tonight to the latest attempt by Major League Baseball to draw attention to itself through “stunt casting”. Much like Sammy Davis, Jr., on “All in the Family”, Joe Namath on “The Brady Bunch”, or Britney Spears anywhere on television, it’s an attempt to goose the viewing numbers through one-time events.
Bud Selig and Co. have become quite the pros at the technique. In previous years, MLB has dabbled in Mexico City and San Juan recently. This year alone, baseball has been to Beijing, Taipei, and Tokyo.
However, Bud likes to make splashes at home, too. Therefore, Memphis has a Second Annual Civil Rights Game exhibition between the Mets and White Sox today, followed by a celebration of the Dodgers’ escape from New York 50 years ago by invading their temporary home that first season in L.A.: the L.A. Coliseum.
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What hath Erin Andrews wrought?
LOG’S BLOG picks up this tidbit from THE LONDON SUN about efforts in the Isles to attract more sports viewers. And the solution - show more attractive sports reporters. Or as the Sun put it, “The women presenters on Sky Sports News have been told to sex-up their looks to beat off competition from a rival channel.”
“Beat off competition“? Knowing the Sun, this quip was likely intentional.
The reason for Sky’s risque request is the appearance of new girls on Setanta Sports Channel. In fact, fans are already falling in love with the ladies. As a Sky Sports insider commented, “Setanta now have good-looking girls of their own, and we want our female hosts to stay ahead of the competition.”
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Some Cowboys fans are already perturbed with Tony Romo spending precious playoff preparation time in Cabo. So, don’t tell them that the QB also found time to do an interview with Cosmo.
TSD MAGAZINE leafs through the pases, and finds Tony lucky to enough to make the mag’s list of their Fun Fearless Males of 2008. Apparently, Romo’s career is “something akin to a jet plane taking off — it’s gone up, up, up, at an incredibly fast speed.” And like a plane, he’s crashed & burned just as quickly in his last two playoff games.
But that’s not stopping the ladies to want to learn all about the Dallas dreamboat. And in their upcoming February issue, Cosmo’s not afraid to ask the hard-hitting questions.
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