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TOP STORIES - FEBRUARY 28, 2007 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! 2007 FANTASY BASEBALL RANKINGS ARE HERE: CATCHERS | FIRST BASE | SECOND BASE | THIRD BASE | SHORTSTOP | AL OUTFIELD | NL OUTFIELD DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR DRIVERS ARE??? Top 50 drivers ranked in KACSPORTS exclusive 2007 Fantasy NASCAR Preview.  RANDY READY TO JOIN PACK??? Packers said to be definitely interested if the former all-pro receiver would agree to a restructured contact in order to escape Oakland and return to the NFC North. The two teams have had dialogue but at this point the Packers do not consider Moss to be an economically unfeasible solution to bolster their receiving corps.NHL TRADING FRENZY: Did last weeks NBA trading deadline somehow underwhelm you??? Well at least you can say the NHL delivers at the deadline, 25 trades involving 44 players go down in the space of six hours. My condolences to any players who were on contending teams who wake up tomorrow as a member of the Chicago Blackhawks...  A NEW STEROID MESS FOR SPORTS??? This story has a chance to be big with it's reprucssions being felt from the major leagues to the amateur ranks going all the way down to high school programs. A number of pharmacies have been raided by law enforcement task forces on Tuesday, apparently as a result of a large grand jury investigation into Internet drug sales, and could uncover widespread illicit drug use among athletes as well as thousands of Americans. It is said that investigators in the year-old case, which remained quiet until now, has uncovered evidence that testosterone and other performance-enhancing drugs may have been fraudulently prescribed over the Internet to current and former Major League Baseball players, NFL players, college athletes, high school coaches, and a former Mr. Olympia champion as well as another top contender in the bodybuilding world. Sources with knowledge of the investigation also say that Angels outfielder Gary Matthews Jr. is said to be one of the customers, along with retired boxing champ Evander Holyfield and slugger-turned-rat Jose Canseco and even the host of a popular cable-television program. A physician for the Pittsburgh Steelers is also being questioned on why he allegedly used a personal credit card to purchase roughly $150,000 in testosterone and human growth hormone last year. The dragnet is one of a number going on right now targeting the internet-pharmacy industry, bringing down outfits which sell everything from performance enhancing drugs as well as Viagra and painkillers/anti-depressents such as Oxycodone and Xanax.IS DICK VITALE HALL-OF-FAME WORTHY??? Bobby Knight supposedly on the bandwagon to get the ESPN broadcaster nominated. Unlike the football or baseball Hall of Fames, broadcasters can be nominated into the main wing, Chick Hearn along with two other broadcasters are members. Many forget that Vitale was once a coach, and a darn good one, compiling a 78-30 record for the University of Detroit during the 1970's (as well as being an absolute thorn in Marquette's side every season). After an ill-fated 1 1/2 year stint as coach of the Detroit Pistons, Vitale was asked if he could fill in on commentary for some college games for a then-fledging cable TV network. The rest they say was history. THANKS TO TIGER, DC GETS NEW PGA EVENT: Weeks after being blamed for the demise of the International event in Colorado, Tiger Woods gets behind a new event that will replace the International on the new schedule. The tournament will be sponsored by the Tiger Woods Foundation, which will be the primary beneficiary of charitable proceeds. Tiger himself is questionable for this year's event due to his wife expecting around that time, but it is believed that Woods will indeed play in future years. INDOOR FOOTBALL PLAYER DIES DURING GAME: A defensive back for the Daytona Beach Thunder has died after a helmet-to-helmet block late in a game, police and the team said. Javan Camon, a 6-1, 180-pound defender for the World Indoor Football League franchise, tried to tackle the ball carrier in the fourth quarter Monday. A Columbus Lions receiver blocked Camon on the play, sending him to the turf. Camon, 25, went into cardiac arrest, and paramedics and doctors tried to revive him for 10 minutes before taking him to a hospital, where he was pronounced DOA. The Thunder lost the game 45-42 despoite Camon's two interceptions earlier in the game. Police are not planning an investigation, noting that all evidence points to the tragedy occuring in the normal course of a game. COTTON BOWL MOVING FROM COTTON BOWL: In a move that could spell the end for the outdated but iconic facility located inside the Texas State Fair, Cotton Bowl officials announce the New Year's Day game will be moving to the Dallas Cowboys new stadium in 2010, which will feature a retractable roof. The Cotton Bowl hopes the move will help the game regain elite status, and eventually be included in the Bowl Championship Series.  SHEFFIELD: 'THIS IS JUST A WITCH HUNT...' Gary Sheffield joins Barry Bonds among players who do not plan to cooperate with former Senator George Mitchell's steroid investigation. Sheffield says 'The (players) association told us this is just a witch hunt. They don't want us to talk to them. This is all about getting (Bonds). If this was legitimate and they did it the right way, it would be different. But this a witch hunt. They're just trying to collect a lot of stuff that doesn't make any sense and throw the sh*t against the wall.' Sheffield then adds 'Come on, it's baseball season. Nobody's got time for this stuff now.' Meanwhile Bonds attorney says that Barry will not cooperate because he still faces possible indictment.HE SAID IT: 'Almost a cripple-double...' - Amare Stoudamire after a 23 point, 11 rebound, seven turnover night. DAMIEN NASH DEATH REMAINS MYSTERY: Describing the tragedy as 'surreal', agent discloses that according to Damien's wife, the player had been in a good mood during the short limo drive home from the charity basketball event, held in honor of older brother Darris, who recently received a heart transplant. It's said that Nash collapsed in front of his wife and seven-month old daughter shortly after arriving home. Meanwhile the mother of Darris and Damien Nash says that she is taking her daughter to see a cardiologist next week. BLACK PREP SWIMMER MAKES WAVES: Marquette University High School swimmer William Colbert recently became just the second African-American to win an individual state title in swimming. The son of a Miller Brewing Company executive, Colbert says he has spent much of his childhood enjoying 'country club' sports such as sailing, golf, and skiing. But at 6'3", many tell Colbert that he ought to be either on the basketball court or the gridiron. HIGH SCHOOL HOOP TEAM PLAYS 5X IN SIX DAYS, FLIES X-COUNTRY: Most high school teams play a conference schedule involving a bunch of bus rides, if they're really good their season could end at a university arena for the state finals. Then there is Artesia High School in California, who had the following schedule recently - Day 1 home game, Day 2 road game 70 miles away, Day 3 off, Day four home game, Day 5 game at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, NC following a red-eye flight, Day 6 flight back home, and yet another game that night. The Durham game was a TV contest against O.J. Mayo's Huntington (WV) squad, and was nearly played without O.J. and five teammates. This was right after Mayo's 'ref bumping' incident, and a court order was needed to prevent the suspensions of Mayo along with the five teammates who were going to busted for leaving the bench area. Huntington also played a recent game at Rupp Arena in Kentucky, Mayo then withdrew his appeal and accepted a three-game suspension. NBA SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH YOUTUBE: Agreement comes months after a similar deal with the NHL, similar deals with MLB and the NFL could be forthcoming, although it's said that MLB regularly demands that YouTube and other online video sites remove its video content. The NBA will retain control over what is posted on Youtube, and will most likely delete videos that contain questionable content or X-rated song lyrics. SHAQ - NASH'S MVP'S 'TAINTED': Last week O'Neal was engaged in an MVP discussion as it related to Dirk Nowitzki. Shaq questioned how the media picks MVP's and said repeatedly that the award has been 'tainted' the past two seasons. O'Neal was the runner-up for Nash's first MVP in 2005.  RULON CHEATS DEATH AGAIN!!! I thought they were talking about the last time he got stranded in the backwoods when they showed his face on CNN last night. The same man who won an Olympic wrestling medal in 2000 and survived a night stranded after wrecking his snowmobile a few years back has actually done it again. The single-engine plane Rulon was flying in crashed into a Utah lake over the weekend, as the plane was said to had gone from '150 MPH to zero' - yeah, hitting a lake would do that do you. The first occupant reached shore in an hour, the second 15 minutes after that, and finally big Rulon 15 minutes after that - a full hour and a half after the accident. 90 minutes in 44 degree water?? They tell me you should be dead at that point. Oh, then the three had to spend the night in the elements before being rescued. Rulon and Jim Marshall ought to get together sometime, those two have cheated death now about 20 times between the two of them, and actually it finally caught up to Marshall. Rulon - spend some time at home on the internet or in the poker room or something...GRILLED BRATS BIG HIT AT TWINS GAMES: Despite raising the price from $4.25 to $4.75, brat sales at the Metrodome nearly doubled last year after management made the decision to sell the brats straight off the grill as opposed to having them pre-cooked. Just think how many they'd sell if they had the secret stadium sauce. In all concession sales jumped 35 percent from the previous season, as opposed to the 23 percent increase in total attendance Surprisingly though, beer sales lag in comparision to other ballparks, basically because the dome means fans are not as thirsty as they'd be outside on a hot summer day. Ice cream and shakes/malts historically draw better than in any ballpark, if you want a cone, get one within the first three innings.  FIRED TRAINER SAYS HE HELPED CALLAHAN GET JOB: Ever help someone you know get a job only to have it bite you right in the rear end??? Former Nebraska trainer Doak Ostergard contends Bill Callahan might not be at Nebraska if it weren't for a message he delivered to the school's athletic administration three years ago. Now Ostergard is out of a job after Callahan asked for his resignation. Ostergard said he still doesn't know for sure why Callahan decided to dump him, but says he has his suspicions, adding 'It's ironic the way it turned out'.TICKETMASTER TO RE-SELL NBA TICKETS: The National Basketball Association to announce that it's designated Ticketmaster as its official ticket reseller in what the agency believes is the first exclusive such deal with a sports league. The NBA hopes that giving its blessing to the reselling process will reassure fans that they can resell tickets online if they can't attend a game, boosting season-ticket sales. Ticket resales are a lucrative market that's given rise to such online agencies as StubHub and TicketsNow in a domain where the only option was just scalping. MICKEY MEYER MOONING STILL TALK OF UTAH: Considering the tragic atrocity the occurred in a downtown Salt Lake shopping mall a couple weeks back this might not be such a bad thing. In any event the actions of USC hockey goaltender Mickey Meyer in a club game v. BYU is still being talked about in the Salt Lake fishwrap. Explaining his PG-13 showing which may not be totally suitable for LDS audiences, Meyer explained that he is a theatre student and that he was just trying to make people laugh. Perhaps we will see Mick accepting an Oscar 10 years from now. A trainer for Utah State (playing in the same tourney) explained the deal as a lighthearted situation and that most people were laughing, although BYU supporters (and I don't mean jock straps) sounded a little less amused. USC has already written a letter of apology to BYU. And one last thing to add insult to injury, the second-string goaltender who replaced Meyer was named Matt Buttweiler. I'm not making it up.  SLAPSHOT CELEBRATES 30TH ANNIVERSARY Undoubtably the best hockey movie of all-time, the now iconic film premiered in Johnstown, PA 30 years ago this week. What you may not know that it was a woman who wrote the book in which the movie wound up being based on. Nancy Dowd's story was based in part on her brother's experiences playing minor league hockey during that era, where violence was one of the main the selling points of the game. Ned Dowd himself played a goon for the opposition Syracuse Bulldogs, that role would later launch a career as a Hollywood character actor and producer. Maxine Nightengale's 'Right Back Where We Started From' was featured prominently in the film, although the hit song was replaced in some versions of the film which appearred on television later.SERBIAN SOCCER VIOLENCE: Soccer fans and riot police fought after a game between Belgrade rivals, leaving at least 13 people injured and 27 arrested. Red Star fans were angered by their team's 4-2 loss (what, six goals scored and they still didn't get enough entertainment value??) to Partizan on Saturday. They built barricades with garbage bins downtown as police on horseback charged them. One lucky supporter got a Moe Greene special in the form of a flare straight to the eyes. THREAT TO STRIP CLUB OWNER, 'LEAVE PACMAN ALONE': The strip club at the center of a shooting involving Pacman Jones received multiple death threats last week. The owner says that someone called the club two days after the shooting and threatened the general manager with his life. PACMAN JERSEY SALES NOT GOING WELL: Owners of apparel stores quickly cancel orders as soon as Adam's most recent trouble hits tha fan. Indicating that the fan base is simply fed up with him, another retailer adds that he wouldn't be able to give his jersey away if he were cut tomorrow. I guess could throw him in with the Bronco #20 Maurice Clarett jerseys. TRAGEDY STUNS BRONCOS AGAIN: Running back Damien Nash, 24, collapsed and died shortly after a charity basketball game he was hosting in the St. Louis area. Signed as a free agent in August, Nash appeared in three games this past season. Nash was originally a fifth round draft choice by Tennessee in 2005 out of the University of Missouri. Nash's death comes less than two months after cornerback Darrent Williams was slain in a New Year's Eve incident. SABRES COACH DOCKED 10K: Lindy Ruff fined for taking advantage of the home team having the last line change and bringing out the goon squad against Ottawa's first-line Thursday night. Ruff and Ottawa coach Bryan Murray (supposedly friends) also had an already-memorable shouting match from the end of each teams benches with former Sabres enforcer Rob Ray (a TV commentator these days) an interested spectator in the middle. Incidentally, the two teams play tonight in Ottawa, and the Senators plan to dress some enforcers that normally don't see much playing time. You can be sure though the league will be warning the teams during the pre-game.SOSA QUICKLY DOGGED BY OLD QUESTIONS: My question is how many days before Sosa gets his unconditional release - don't be surprised if that happens. When the inevitable question about steroids was asked, Sosa responded 'I don't want to talk about that. Let's talk about baseball. Let's talk about 2007, and the talent we have in Texas, and what we can do this year.' SHELL GAME - SUNOCO NOT HAPPY WITH HARVICK: As the official fuel supplier of NASCAR, the logos of other oil companies are not supposed to be prominantly displayed on the cars or the firesuits of the drivers. Thus, Sunoco called out Kevin Harvick for the giant Shell logo which got plenty of air-time after his last-lap Daytona win. RCR has been told to reduce the Shell markings, which can be no larger (and more preferably smaller) than the Pennzoil images, which is a motor oil sold at Shell. Sunoco also voiced displeasure to the heavy promotion of Harvick and his car at Shell stations (I can speak to seeing that promotion) and are worried that the stations would beging to market Harvick products connected to the #29's Daytona win. HARVICK/SHELL PAGE: Notice plenty of Shell, not a whole lot of PennzoilSPREWELL BARRED FROM SEEING CHILDREN: Latrell has a lot of mouths to feed, mouths that I guess he can't see now. Because he is accused of assaulting his girlfriend in front of their children, a judge has now ruled that Sprewell may communicate with his children only by phone, e-mail or text message. The Town Judge extended an order of protection keeping Sprewell, best known for choking Golden State Warriors coach P.J. Carlesimo at a practice nearly ten years ago now, away from girlfriend Candace Cabbil and their four children. Just last month Cabbil filed a $200 million lawsuit against Sprewell last month, claiming Sprewell broke his promise to 'share his life and his fortune with her'. Sprewell flew in from the Milwaukee area for the court session. Inside, Sprewell told the judge he had avoided contact with Cabbil, saying, 'We don't talk.' |
