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TOP STORIES - FEBRUARY 5, 2006 Get your NFL football tickets now at TickCo. They have all team Cardinals tickets, Cowboys tickets, Packers tickets, Colts tickets, Patriots tickets, Titans tickets and more. Get your Super Bowl tickets here!  2006 FANTASY NASCAR DRIVER PREVIEW: Where does your driver rank???KACSPORTS BLOG: In the next several weeks, you may notice some minor changes. Look for the main page to focus more on headlines, while additional commentary will appear in my new blog section, which can be found at www.kacsports.com/blog, or click below the header. QUESTION OF THE DAY: Why does the Steelers logo appear on only one side of the helmet??? In 1963 (about the time most teams got around to slapping decals on helmets), the team was approached by a Steel company (ironically one located in Cleveland) with the idea of putting the U.S. Steelmark on their helmets. In previous years up to the point, the Pittsburgh helmets were gold with the players number appearing on it. The team decided for one year to put the Steelmark on one side only, and see what the fans and others thought of it before moving forward. As fate would have it, the Steelers had one of their best seasons ever, finishing second in the seven-team NFL East. Not wanting to mess with rare good karma, the logo stayed on one side only, although the helmets were switched to black the following year to make the Steelmark more visible. SPLITSVILLE!!! Sheryl Crow, Lance Armstrong call it quits. (Is Sheryl setting up a date with Bode Miller as I speak???)  FAVRE-FIN??? You mean he's going to trade the Frozen Tundra (actually more like cloudy, dreary, depressing Seattle this winter) for the land of hurricanes, sharks, snakes, heat, humidity, and giant flying cockroaches??? But I did tell you in October this is where we were going to eventually be headed. Anyways here's the deal, a highly placed soure (actually a not so highly placed source) has told KACSPORTS that Brett Favre is currently laying his exit strategy from Green Bay, and will be asking the organization for a trade within the next week. Word has it that Miami is the team currently on his wish list. Brett feels he's Favre but through, but doesn't want to languish another year on a Packer team that possibly may not be too much better in 2006. Incidentally, 67 percent in a Milwaukee newspaper would want GM Ted Thompson thrown from the bridge if he pulls the trigger. Doesn't anyone want to see what Miami offers first??? (developing??)MIKE TICE IN TROUBLE WITH NEW JOB ALREADY??? No, he didn't manage to sell off his Super Bowl 40 ducets. Named as an 'assistant Head Coach' with the Jacksonville Jaguars just this week, Mike Tice reveals on radio talk show that he's been in contact with one of the Minnesota Vikings 16 prospective free agents. Tice wont reveal who, saying 'I don't want to get in anymore trouble'. However Tice may be in just that if he's talked to a player not yet a free agent, doesn't matter if he mentions his name publicly. POLAMALU 'TWEAKS' ANKLE: Listed as 'probable', this will probably be the most watched ankle in the history of the world over the next 72 hours.  IS THIS A STORY??? It is now officially late in Super Bowl week. Didn't we just go through this with Matt Leinart??? At worst, Roeth is having a good ol' time and is trying to drink half of Pittsburgh dry, kind of like a young Brett Favre. At best, Roeth's 'imposter' has struck again, or yet someone else with Photoshop with too much time on his hands. At least Roeth wasn't disrupting traffic packing heat with his #7 on, and hopefully he didn't go home helmetless on his chopper. But what the heck happened with him and Gulbis???MORE TROUBLE FOR KENDRA DAVIS: Just in case you thought she was in the right at the Bulls game, Kendra has now been charged with misdemeanor battery after allegedly throwing a cup of Java at a 40-year old woman during a road rage confrontation.  CHRIS HENRY WAS WEARING HIS JERSEY!?!? I had to get this on-line before Bob Reno or Jim Rome steals my thunder, as further details of Bengals receivers weekend arrest is fast becoming a true instant classic - as Henry apparently found a way around using that tired line 'DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM???' A mugshot of Henry reportedly show him in his #15 BENGALS JERSEY. That I have to admit is original, you think the sales of that just shot up on NFL.COM??? (At least until they censor it) Incidentally, the report says that the police were ready to open fire before Henry dumped his weapon into the passing limo, just ask that school kid from a couple weeks back on what happens after brandishing a weapon. Coach Marvin Lewis doesn't sound amused as well, saying 'The incident in Orlando involving Chris Henry is unfortunate, and does not shine a good light on the Bengals organization. We will allow the judicial system to run its course. The NFL will act on this matter according to its player conduct standards, and I will deal with Chris in relation to his standing on our football team.' Translated, receiving depth just became a draft need in Cincinnati. Henry has pleaded not guilty, faces up to 11 years in the hole if convicted. Henry and Sean Taylor could be making for the start of a pretty good prison football team.ANOTHER SCARY HOCKEY INJURY: Just one day after a New York Islander player breaks his neck, a Nashville Predator knocks himself out sliding headfirst into the boards in a game at Dallas. All I know is the EMT on the left is an oversize load and then some. And of course, no conversation on Emergency Medical personnel working Dallas Star games would be complete without mentioning an incident from about 10 years ago. On that night Mark Messier darn near kills Mike Modano with a clean, but devastating hit. Cameras follow Modano as he's removed from the ice, all the way until he's hoisted into the back of a parked ambulance. At that point one of the medic's decides to look at the camera and drops his load - I think there were a couple of write-ups at the firehouse the next morning. AND ANOTHER HARROWING INJURY: The knee of West Virginia women's hoops player Meg Bulger (yes, the sister of the Rams quarterback) goes sideways during game at Madison Square Garden, and about half of Manhattan hears the subsequent screams, people probably thought a mugging was going on. Bulger was leading the Mountaineers in scoring at 20.1 ppg.  PATS DROPKICK FANS DEMANDS: It's know that a small amount of pro ball players can be A-holes, but make no mistake - the fans can be just as bad. Just take whoever managed to catch Doug Flutie's otherwise meaningless drop kick extra point from Week 17. The team wanted the ball because the Hall of Fame thought enough of it to ask for his shoes and jersey. The fan, only known as 'Mr. X' said he would gladly return the ball if he got (a)$100,000, (b) the chance to buy season tickets for eight for the next 25 years, and (c) a Tom Brady jersey SIGNED BY THE ENTIRE TEAM!!! Someone tell this guy that this isn't the ball Flute threw to Phelan way back when, it was A STUPID DROP KICK!!! TIGER GOES FOR TWO IN A ROW: Good reason to watch the Golf Channel for the next four mornings, as Tiger Woods is entered in the Dubai Desert Classic. It took a 20-hour flight from San Diego to get there, but considering TW is getting a cool $3 million just for showing up, I say it's worth it. Of course Tiger just turned 30, is coming off the longest layoff of his career and couldn't find the fairway playing on the 'easy' course at Torrey Pines in the first round, of course he wound up winning the dang tournament.INTERNET TAKES DOWN 'WELL-KNOWN' NASCAR PUBLICIST???. Being charged with a DUI or a drug posesssion charge is one thing, being accused with child sex is an absolute dagger to a career. Such is the case for racing publicist 'Chip' Williams, who was arrested in the parking lot of a church (of all places) after allegedly attempting to 'meet a 14-year old' which of course turned out to be law enforcement. Investigators targeted Williams after receiving information about another relationship between the publicist and a minor. Chip is being held on a cool $1 million bail, and investigators expect additional charges hinting that they have more evidence from 'things they got on the internet'. Williams formerly did PR for the NASCAR Cup Series and now works for a firm that handles media and PR for several drivers, including Bobby LaBonte and Kyle Petty. Ironically, you may remember Kyle's quote towards another driver who ran afoul of the law last year, something like 'He seems so quiet, but then so was Dahmer'. If proven guilty, there'll be no life ring that can save this guy. STEELERS ROLL TO SUPER BOWL VICTORY: Saw it simulated on a PS2 system today, Jerome Bettis punishes the Seahawks to the tune of a 100+ yards in a 16-3 Pittsburgh victory (Is this Super Bowl 40 or Super Bowl 9???). The Steelers defense also did what they do best, and that's knock the opposing quarterback out of the game. I'm guessing Kimo Von Oelhoffen went in high on Matt Hasselbeck while Troy Polamalu dive-bombed at his knees. That forced David Greene into action, who was fine until Seattle got in the Red Zone where he then promptly shot himself in the foot with a pair of picks, so feel free to run to the bookie with Pittsburgh -4.  ROAD TO SUPER BOWL GOES THROUGH OHIO: That would be literally, not figuratively - as Ohio State Patrol steps up enforcement for the thousands of Steeler fans expected to travel through the state in preparation for the big game. A spokesman insists that this isn't a plot of Bengals and Browns supporters looking for revenge, although a $6.55 toll through the Ohio Turnpike each way figures to be enough of a payday for the state.ANNA BENSON CALLS PLAYING POKER BEING AN ATHLETE?? Gold-digger wife of under-achieving pitcher plans to hit it big on the poker circuit this year, says it will be cool to be her own 'type of athlete'. Hopefully she'll make a final table or two, then Chad can tell everyone on television how dumb Kris Benson is for continuing to be married to her. TEXAS A&M FILES RESTRAINING ORDER: Claims '12th Man' was trademarked in 1990 and 1996, and has asked the Seattle Seahawks organization twice to ceast and decist their use of the moniker. If someone for the Seahawks runs the opening kickoff back on Sunday and ABC immediately shows two fans smooching each other for ten minutes, I imagine Texas A&M will cry infringement on that as well. SEAHAWKS WEEK NOT OFF TO GOOD START: Bill Cowher already looking like a genius for keeping his team out of Detroit an extra day, a van carrying five Seattle Pro-Bowl representatives (Including Shaun Alexander and Matt Hasselbeck) was struck by a mechanical fence, 'jostling' the players. The first van, carrying some Seahawk PR people, made it through the gate unscathed. Shades of an incident from some years back when Golden State Warriors Chris Mullen, Mitch Richmond, and Tim Hardaway, narrowly escaped disaster when a falling sign nearly struck their car. CHRIS HENRY ARREST #2!!! The ink hasn't even dried from last month's drug charges, now Bengals receiver is accused of pulling a 9mm pistol at a group of revelers in Florida. An officer directing traffic then pulled his gun on Henry, who then allegedly throws his weapon into a passing limousine. The officer pulled Henry away from the limo and pushed him to the ground, according to the report. Will the Bengals have any receivers not in jail or suspended by the beginning of next year???  MOST HATED ATHLETES??? Since a NASCAR driver and a bass fisherman is involved it should be called the Ten Most Hated Sports Firgures, in any event his is the list as it appeared in GQ magazine - 1. Terrell Owens, 2. Barry Bonds, 3. Kurt Busch, 4. Curt Schilling, 5. Kobe Bryant, 6. Michael Iaconelli (bass fishing), 7. Bonzi Wells, 8. Phil Mickelson, 9. A.J. Pierzynski, 10. Lleyton Hewitt (tennis). 'Honorable Mentions' went out to Jeff Kent, Randy Johnson, Rasheed Wallace, Alex Rodriguez, and Danny Fortson.I have no arguments with #1 or #2, I thought #3 was a little high on Busch, 98 percent of the time he's tolerable, Busch is just one of those where there should be an office pool on when he's going to melt down. The real secret I hear is that Kyle Busch is an even bigger jerk. I love seeing Schilling #4, I thought I was the only one who feels he's nothing but a Wally George, right-winged drama-queen phony. If not for baseball, Schilling would be hosting Hot Seat on an obscure Orange County TV station right now. I've noted some Kobe A-hole moments just in the last few weeks (smashing TV?s, cussing out teammates in the huddle, etc), but after scoring 81 no wonder he wanted Shaq out, he gets at least a two-week pass. They tell me Iaconelli pisses everyone off with his etiquette and will get himself disqualified on purpose just to get attention if things aren't going well - whatever, in that sport I think he only gets noticed if he jumps in his boat and pulls out a machine gun on the competition. Sounds like in another world Iaconelli would be known as Mike Matusow. Bonzi Wells, whatever - there are plenty of NBA players (Tony Parker, Mike Bibby) who could make the list just as easily. Mickelson doesn't really bother me; then again I've never been one of his playing partners on the PGA Tour. I don't mind Tiger getting called out but the family-man shtick gets to me occasionally. And a degenerate like him should know better than to make threats about leaving he U.S. Open if the water breaks on the Mrs., there are enough bad beats for gamblers who bet on golfers without wives going into labor. Pierzynski's an A-hole, and he knows it, and isn't about to apologize for it - all he knows is that a World Series ring is in the mail and he can care less about the rest of you humanoid fans. And I'll let Australia deal with Hewitt. As far as the Honorable Mentions are concerned I would find a place on the top-ten for Kent, and long before putting Milton Bradley on the list. Unit's been kind of surly through the years, just not top-ten surly. Rasheed deserves a break, he's mellowed out a little, although I'm sure being on a 36-5 team has something to do with it. I don't get the Arod inclusion; if he signed up with Antarctica for the WBC I wouldn't have cared. Oh, and somebody on Rome says he's allegedly swapped wives, again, personal life, don't care. Oh, and Schilling hates him - actually that automatically makes A-Rod one of my MOST LIKED players. Now for the exclusions, I don't know how they missed on TruWarier, and I'm also guessing if they could do this article again Bode Miller would be climbing these rankings faster than he crashes down a black diamond sauced. And what about Mike Tyson?? I don' t think he's officially retired yet, he could had been on this list for 20 consecutive years running. I would also give Donovan McNabb consideration, and look for Chad Johnson to shoot up like that rocket headed for Pluto if they do this list again next year.  SOMEONE CALL GLYNNIS MCCANTS: How's this for Jerome Bettis-related numerology - the Steelers left their hotel last Sunday and headed down Route 36 (why didn't the Colorado Highway Patrol shut it down??) and a temperature display on the way to stadium said 36 degrees, also the Super Bowl will be played on February 5th, which just happens to be the 36th day of the year. I could also mention that MLS team being named 1836 this week but that be stretching it. But Bettis himself reminds us that the karma goes only so far, as the Steelers blew a chance to advance to Super Bowl 36 four years ago. That was different, Sheryl Crow halftime entertainment (the Cowboys can also attest to that) plus Kordell Stewart neglects the power of 36.SEAN TAYLOR FACING 46 YEARS!?!? Now facing two additional charges, Taylor now faces three counts of aggravated assault, each of which carries a minimum sentence of three years and a maximum of 15 years in prison. He also faces one misdemeanor battery charge that carries a potential one-year prison term. KICKED OUT OF NBA: For the first time since 1995, a player has been 'disqualified' from the Association. Hornets forward Chris Andersen was 'dismissed' from the NBA on Friday for violating the league's drug policy. According to the league's collective bargaining agreement, a player can only be disqualified for a fourth positive test for performance-enhancing drugs, or a first positive test for 'drugs of abuse', a list that includes amphetamine and its analogs, which include methamphetamine, cocaine; LSD, opiates, heroin, codeine, morphine, and PCP. Since Andersen hadn't been suspended before, it's believed that Andersen fell into the 'drugs of abuse' category. BODE MILLER LINKS BONDS, LANCE WITH ROIDS: As controversial skier stays away from pre-Olympic tune-up to get away from media scrutiny, appears a Rolling Stone article in which he manages to call out both Barry Bonds and Lance Armstrong. First Bode says, 'Right now, if you want to cheat, you can: Barry Bonds and those guys are just knowingly cheating, but there's all sorts of loopholes.' Then Miller sets his sights on the 7-time Tour De France champ, 'If you say it has to be 'knowingly,' you do what Lance and all those guys do, where every morning their doctor gives them a box of pills and they don't ask anything, they just take the pills.' By this time next month this dude is going to be living with Tonya Harding. |
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