8:00 PM CSN Baltimore has video of Marcus Smith, a U.S. soldier who dressed as a minor league umpire to surprise his children at a Bowie Baysox game with a home visit from Afghanistan.
7:45 PM A Japanese Harley-Davidson motorcycle that was swept out to sea during last year's tsunami washed up on a shore in British Columbia last month. The bike's owner asked that the motorcycle be displayed at the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee as a memorial to the tsunami victims.
7:30 PM Buffalo Bills receiver David Clowneytweeted the results of his HIV test which came back negative. And to the critics of his decision to share his results, Clowney added: "Some people are Ridiculously stupid ... And can't see the bigger picture about things that are important in this world."
Is there any way we can pass a law that takes half the money professional athletes picked in the first round earn and hide in escrow for a few years until they prove their complete worth and/or don’t become irreparably harmful to society? Yeah, probably not.
But sometimes it seems like a good idea. Like with Matt Bush, who not only has zero business getting first overall pick money from the San Diego Padres (they passed on Justin Verlander among many others), but who cannot seem to stay away from fights. The SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE punches up his latest bit of trouble and it may involve him getting hurt … but it might not be his fault!
Just got back from the red carpet MLB All Star Game parade down sixth avenue here in New York:
Highlight of the parade for me was the fans mercilessly booing Bosox reliever Jonathan Papelbon. Of course, the Yankee fans were responding to Papelbon’s demand to be the American League’s closer for tonight’s All-Star game - over Yankee relief legend Mariano Rivera. Papelbon tried to have fun with it, as you can see him gesturing to the crowd here:
That reception wasn’t entirely unexpected, but the response to a high profile Yankee player in the same parade was. Read more…
• For those who want to relive Josh Hamilton’s opening round of the Home Run Derby, here’s the edited video of all 28 blasts.
• AOL FANHOUSE cheers up from word that John McCain’s wife Cindy was once a USC Song Girl.
• The ASSOCIATED PRESS learns that it’s not just male basketball players who like to steal, as a Oklahoma women’s player was caught swiping makeup from a Wal-Mart.
• BLACK HEART GOLD PANTS intercepts a letter of love to the Philadelphia Cream Cheese Co. from Purdue coach Joe Tiller.
