Posted by
jason on Jun. 11, 2008, 9:48pm
Brooks can’t wait to enjoy the next two Lakers-Celts games by wireless!
• Glad you liked our Gilbert Arenas quip, ESPN. Thanks for the shout-out!
• Smart ball - The fan who snagged Ken Griffey Jr.’s 600th home run came prepared with a distracting decoy.
• Some New York Giants Super Bowl rings were stolen in a Massachusetts jewel heist - perhaps by a perturbed Patriots coach?
• A minor league den mother keeps the baseball groupies at bay. Gee, thanks a lot.
• A one-armed shark attack survivor has blossomed into quite the surfing sweetie.
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Posted by
PUNTE on Jun. 11, 2008, 12:13pm
The rightful owner of Ken Griffey, Jr.’s 600th home run ball, identified only as “Joe,” survived a series of small trials to come away with the prized souvenir.
In addition to having his story corroborated by instant replay, Joe had to survive a tussle at the park, where he dropped a fake ball that he brought to the game as a decoy to fool his fellow fans. Read more…
Posted by
jason on Jun. 10, 2008, 3:42pm
• THE SCORES REPORT learns how Roger Clemens was able to rise to the occasion so many time on the mound - he was taking Viagra during games.
No wonder the Rocket’s been so randy with Mindy & all those other girls.
• Meanwhile, THE SPORTING BLOG pedals up news that a Belgian cyclist was caught doing cocaine. But since it wasn’t before or during a race, he wasn’t breaking any riding rules.
• Attention, ladies & gentlemen: The BUFFALO NEWS reports that the Bills’ P.A. announcer has been arrested for hosting an underage drinking party.
• EVERY DAY SHOULD BE SATURDAY knows nothing impresses strength & conditioning coaches like killing an alligator with a shovel.
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Posted by
jason on Jun. 10, 2008, 2:06am
• WITH LEATHER keeps abreast of the topless travels of English soccer WAG Abigail Clancy.
(WL’s got the hook-up for more photos of Abby’s freed funbags)
• Michael David Smith of AOL FANHOUSE has the odds on who’ll become DEADSPIN’s next grand poopah.
• In the meantime, the soon-to-be Leitch-less site thinks it’s fabulous that gamblers can now bet on a gay sporting event.
• LAIST spikes up some provocative photos from last weekend’s Lushness X beach volleyball tournament.
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Posted by
jason on Jun. 09, 2008, 4:00pm
• KXAS-TV in Dallas dances up news that Jessica Simpson wants Tony Romo to appear in her new upcoming music video.
• KNUCKLE CURVE tosses along a comedic clip of a hefty Texas Rangers fan falling head over heels for a ballgirl.
• The DAYTON DAILY NEWS is speechless, as Ken Griffey Jr. shuts up a ridiculing mom & her kids by giving them autographed balls.
• CHICAGO BULL cracks a smile at seeing a Google ad for teeth whitening underneath the latest grinning mug shot of Cedric Benson.
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Posted by
jason on Jun. 06, 2008, 9:49pm
One by one, the SbB Girls are slowly taking over the media landscape.
• William “Refrigerator” Perry had to be brought in for maintenance.
• See what happens when you bite & punch kids just to grab a Ken Griffey Jr. home run ball? You wind up on the streets.
• Michael Irvin’s house is a very, very, very fine house.
• Geddy Lee Rushes to Kansas City to give some special autographed gifts to the Negro Leagues Museum.
• One EliteXC fighter wasn’t so impressed with Kimbo Slice’s primetime debut.
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Posted by
jason on May. 30, 2008, 3:21am
Who’d ever thought that categorizing baseball cards could culminate in some clever word & number play?
Darren Rovell of SLATE unseals the story of Tom Geiderman, an employee of Upper Deck who was in charge of assigning numbers to selected cards. It was he who convinced the upper brass to name Ken Griffey Jr. #1 in their 1989 packs - a card that still sells well today among collectors.
Geideman took the task of naming the player for the first card very seriously. Using an issue of Baseball America as his guide, Geideman knew that card No. 1 would belong to Gregg Jefferies, Sandy Alomar Jr., Gary Sheffield, or a long-shot candidate, the phenom they called “The Kid.”
But putting digits to faces can become a monotonous task, so it was inevitable that the college-educated Geiderman would apply his smarts to having fun with some of the names & numbers: Read more…
Posted by
jason on May. 19, 2008, 2:20am
• FRIENDS OF THE PROGRAM knows that nothing personifies the pageantry of the Preakness like running across port-a-potties while dodging beers.
• We earlier served up the story on how Jared Allen’s KC bar would fare with the DE being traded to the Vikings. Now the KANSAS CITY STAR follows up that the ex-Chief’s establishment has closed its doors.
• BABES LOVE BASEBALL conjures up another edition of Voodoo Sabermetrics - this time starring Ken Griffey, Jr. Maybe they’ve discovered what a changed man he is.
• David Warner of AOL FANHOUSE tunes in to see that we’re one step closer to ESPN The Ocho.
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Posted by
jason on May. 15, 2008, 7:40pm
Sir Charles hasn’t paid back that $400,000 he owes? What a dumbass.
• When you lend Ken Griffey Jr. money, it’s quite the changing experience.
• Joe Paterno was rushed to the hospital for dehydration, and we ain’t (Nittany) Lion.
• But it’s a good thing JoePa wasn’t buying bikes at Wal-Mart, otherwise he would have died of thirst.
• Yankee Stadium, Michael Strahan, streakers in robes running the bases - what NYU grad could ask for anything more?
• You’ll fall head over heels for this flipping filly.
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Posted by
jason on May. 15, 2008, 11:30am
In order to pay off a debt he owed to a Reds teammate, Ken Griffey Jr. saved & scrounged every penny he could find - and stuffed 60 boxes of the loose change into the guy’s locker.
Hal McCoy of the DAYTON DAILY NEWS has the funny financial report of Griffey giving pitcher Josh Fogg back the $1,500 he owed him in the most inconvenient way possible. Read more…
