12:15 PM A man who was arrested for streaking across Busch Stadium during a St. Louis Cardinals game Thursday night said he did it because he lost a bet.
11:30 AM Amid rumors that he bought Lawrence Taylor's Super Bowl XXV ring in an auction, Charlie Sheen tweeted Friday: "As much as I would be honored to own such an important artifact ... I had nothing to do with the acquisition."
How ironic is it that the giant nail in the coffin of John McCain’s Presidential hopes last night came when the networks declared Ohio for Barack Obama. After all, McCain appeared to run his campaign like Jim Tressel cluelessly bumbling his way through coaching Ohio State to another BCS Title Game meltdown. In this analogy, Obama really was LSU or Florida: faster, hungrier and ready to deliver a hellacious beatdown.
(Does this make Sarah Palin the Maurice Clarett of the ticket - initially exciting but eventually a total disaster? I’ll leave that up to you to decide.)
But while the Maverick of the Senate might have suffered an historic thumping on Tuesday night, the Mavericks of Dallas were taking a venerable but aging institution out to the woodshed, beating the Spurs 98-81 to drop San Antonio to 0-3 for the first time in the team’s NBA history. They can’t possibly be missing Manu Ginobli this much, could they?
And what about Matt Lindland, the MMA fighter who was the Republician candidate for a State House seat? Unfortunately for him, he was about as competitive as Kimbo Slice, as he fell to a double digit defeat at the hands of his Democratic opponent. I would have said that having a campaign manager named Tootie Smith was a bad sign, but then again…Scooter Libby.
On to the other, slightly less significant news:
Don’t tase him, bro! The TRI-CITY HERALD says that an Arena Football player was zapped by airport security after busting through a window at the terminal and getting on the tarmac trying to get to his flight. That’s called dedication.
The CHICAGO TRIBUNE breaks down the news that Illinois WR Jeff Cumberlandis going to play this week despite breaking teammate Mikel LeShoure’s jaw in a fight last Saturday night.
Do they have any decent sushi places in Atlanta? The ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION notes that the Braves have made an offer to 22-year-old Japanese pitching phenom Junichi Tazawa.
How far has the Tennesee football program fallen? The WINSTON SALEM JOURAL says that David Cutcliffe would rather stay at Duke than consider taking the Vols’ head coaching job.
The MOSCOW-PULLMAN DAILY NEWS reports that three Idaho football players have been suspended after being charged with battery after a fight at a house party this weekend. What do you expect from the players when you call the team the “Vandals?”
According to the LOS ANGELES TIMES, Oaks Christian High School - the school that has the sons of Joe Montana, Wayne Gretzky and Will Smith - might be in trouble for advertising its athletic department on local TV. The ads were OK, but still better than Hancock.
BYU quarterback Max Hall tells the SALT LAKE TRIBUNE that he’ll be missing Thursday night’s huge Mountain West Conference game between Utah and TCU because he can’t miss The Office. And I thought Dwight Schrute was Amish and not Mormon.
Hey, it’s another politics post! If this offends your sensibilities, we suggest you go here or here instead. Especially if you’re a Republican. UPDATE: Video after the jump.
(I’m so happy to be here at Auburn! Roll Tide!)
In the waning days before the Presidential election, most pundits agee that John McCain’s election strategy necessarily depends on winning Pennsylvania’s electoral votes. The McCain camp is spending most of its time and resources in the state, even though they have less than a week to make up a, let’s say, 7-10% deficit. McCain and his VP nominee, Sarah Palin, need to be absolutely perfect in their efforts in Pennsylvania between now and Tuesday, as any failure would be disastrous.
Over the last few months sports and politics have crossed paths many times as Barack Obama and John McCain continue to do everything humanly possible to get votes, and realize that sporting events are a great way to reach the male demographic. That’s why Obama was in Pennsylvania a few weeks ago saying he was rooting for the Phillies, and that’s why John McCain and Sarah Palin have been dropping pucks at hockey games.
Well just because the election is this Tuesday, that doesn’t mean either candidate is ready to sit back and let the votes fall where they may. No, they realize they only have one more shot to get to us sports fans, and they’re going to take it. Which is why both Presidential hopefuls will be showing up on Monday Night Football this, you guessed it, Monday night.
The Sarah Palin SbB tour continues! Hey, don’t blame us, we’ve only got about a week left of her schtick before she’s never heard from again. Wait, she is doing schtick, right? She’s not really like that, right?
Recall, if you will (and how could you forget), last night’s total disaster during VP candidate Sarah Palin’s appearance at the St. Louis Blues game. While Manny Legace sits out and lets his hip heal, the NHL might not taking any chances with the saucy, sharp-tongued hockey mom. Sure, she can pal around with hockey types, but it’ll have to be on a much smaller stage. Also worth noting: We’re totally inventing the notion that the NHL has in any way demoted Palin.
(Believe it or not, we did not make this image.)
Anyway, Palin is being presented with an honorary jersey today, but it’s in Des Moines, Iowa, with the unfortunately named Iowa Chops. Yeah, the ones with the really angry pig on their jersey. There’s probably a lipstick joke there somewhere, but we’re far, far too lazy to make it.
If you listen to a certain half of the country, Sarah Palin is a menace and must be stopped. Well, she’s already claimed her first victim: St. Louis Blues goalie Manny Legace.
(Down goes Legace!)
The Vice Presidential Nominee was in St. Louis last night to drop the puck for the Blues-Kings game. Yes, another puck drop. We get it, she’s a hockey mom. If this were the WWE, they’d have dropped that gimmick by now and made her a zombie or something.
As their poll numbers look worse and worse by the day, the Republican presidential ticket has been going after the “Joe Six-Pack” vote incredibly aggressively in recent weeks, even making a pseudo-celebrity of a plumber from Ohio. But apparently they should have been going after the “Joe 24-Pack Then Vomiting Into a Cooler at the Tailgate” crowd, otherwise known as hardcore college football fans.
If you see Sarah Palin suddenly become the No. 1 Ohio State fan over the next few weeks, here’s why: Researchers at Auburn University studied randomly selected homes in Alabama, and compared the 2006 voting records of residents whose houses had Auburn flags, signs and other stuff on them with those who didn’t. The results, as TIME notes, were surprising: college football fans are twice as likely to vote as non-fans. Of course, this being Auburn, half of the votes were write-ins for “TOMMY TUBERVILLE IS GOD!” while the other half were for “FIRE TOMMY TUBERVILLE NOW!”
The move comes hot on the heels of an incident in last Tuesday’s France-Tunisia tilt, during which many of the Tunisians in the crowd booed or “whistled” - which is apparently bad overseas - during “La Marseillaise”, the French national anthem. The intention of the threat is to calm the racial tensions that have plagued the sport recently.
BIG LEAGUE STEW has video of Barack Obama letting everyone know that he’s a White Sox fan …
… make that whatever town he happens to be in that’s still alive in the playoffs. Isn’t that what Sarah Palin has been accused of doing 400,000 times over the past week?
So the Republican Party though that having Vice-Presidential Candidate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin drop the first puck at a hockey game in a key swing state would be a good idea. After all, she is a self-proclaimed “hockey mom” and a former sportscaster to boot.
The problem? The game they decided to send Palin to was a Flyers’ home game. Philly fans booed Santa Claus, for crying out loud. And if you are wondering if they were any kinder to Palin, check out the video after the jump:
