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TOP STORIES - MARCH 6, 2008 HELLO NEWMAN: Ryan may have won the 500, but how high do I rank him - find out on the KAC RACING PAGE. PGA TOUR PRO CHARGED WITH KILLING HAWK: PGA Tour player Tripp Isenhour has been charged with purposely killing a hawk with a golf shot because it was making noise while he was videotaping a TV show. My first question is who would watch a show featuring Tripp Isenhour - would that be on Channel 9700 on DirecTV?? According to court documents, Tripp got upset when the red-shouldered hawk began making noise, interrupting his tak. Tripp began hitting balls at the hawk, which was about 300 yards away - but that proved a little too far for Tripp's range. Then the bird made the mistake of getting much closer, to 75 yards in fact. Even though that was close enough for the 58 degree wedge Tripp chooses driver (and I don't mean Donald) and takes some more venomous runs at the hawk (and I don't mean A.J). Tripp came close to bagging the bird with his sixth shot - and was said to be very excited. Tripp hit the jackpot a few shots later, and the bird dropped bleeding from both nostrils. Hope he was able to finish the segment with the bird shut up for good. Tripp is charged with cruelty to animals and killing a migratory bird. The charge carries a possible sentence of 14 months in jail and a $1,5000 fine - that would be long enough to lose your Tour Card.  FOUR-EVER - FAVRE RETIRES: Even Matt Drudge is reporting it - and I thought Tom Brady was the only quarterback in his world. Quoting a paragraph from the Fox Sports story - 'This time, Favre has made his decision and will likely make it publicly known soon. However, like in the past, Favre could wake up any day now and decide to change his mind, although that doesn't seem likely at this point.' You can check out the latest here. DID PACK WANT BRETT BACK?? Agent Bus Cook tells Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he believes Favre wants to play another year, but didn't get the impression that the organization especially wanted him back. When asked whether he thought Favre could be talked into returning Cook responded 'I don't know'. FINAL THROW IN RIGHT HANDS: The 9,479th and for now, last pass of Brett Favre's career, as we know was picked off by the Giants Corey Webster in overtime of the NFL Championship, leading to the game-winning field goal. Webster immediately gave the ball to U.S. Army lieutenant colonel Greg Gadson, who became a motivational speaker for the Giants during the season. Coach Tom Coughlin first became acquainted with Gadson before the Giants Week 3 game at Washington. The 42-year old Gadson lost his legs due to a roadside bomb while serving in Iraq last May. Coughlin invited Gadson to the September game, where he delivered a powerful message to the team - and was again invited by the team to be on the sidelines for the game in Green Bay. BRETT V. BART: Favre 61,655 yards, Starr 24,718, Favre 5,377 completions, Starr 1,808, Favre 442 TD's, Starr 152 - What Starr does have is a few more chmpionships in his day. MICHIGAN WOMEN'S HOOPS COACH SAYS HE'S SORRY: After his team got blasted by Minnesota, a calmer Kevin Borseth says he was out of line in his post-game rant after blowing a 20-point lead in his teams previous game. When asked by a player if her folks in St. Ignace had heard the tirade yet - she responded 'I don't think people in the U.P. have much TV access'. They probably don't even have wi-fi or even internet access.FAVRE SEEKING MOSS AGAIN??? A couple of reports late Sunday night linking Brett Favre and Randy Moss possibly getting together this year. A ESPN report says that Favre would be more likely to put off retirement if the Packers were to sign Moss or someone along the lines of Jeremy Shockey. Meanwhile a NFL.com report says that the Packers themselves might take the initiative to possibly sign Moss. And there's more, yet another report (per ESPN scroll) has Moss and Daunte Culpepper going together in a package deal to a team desperate enough to sign both of them while yet another report says to forget all of the above - the Patriots are about to ink Moss to a multi-year deal. Of course, during Super Bowl week Moss called out Packers management for being disrespectful in trying to acquire him last year. PRINCE FIELDER GETTING LOWBALLED??? 50 home run man gets renewed for a measly $670,000 by the Brewers - not making Fielder a happy camper at all. Here's what Prince had to say - I'm not happy about it at all. The fact I’ve had to be renewed two years in a row, I'm not happy about it because there's a lot of guys who have the same amount of time that I do who have done a lot less and are getting paid a lot more. But my time is going to come. It's going to come quick, too.' Fielder becomes arbitration eligible after this year, is it possible he's ALREADY plotting his path out of Milwaukee??? COLE HAMELS ALSO NOT HAPPY: Just to prove that this just doesn't only happen to Prince - Cole Hamels gets renewed for $500,000, which Hamels calls a 'low blow'. Writer in this article makes a great point noting that the Yankees (yes, the Yankees) renewed Chien-Ming Wang a year ago for a mere $489,500 last year.DIFFERENT KIND OF HAT TRICK: Everyone knows that scoring two goals and getting into a fight is referred to as a Gordie Howe hat trick. And then there is scoring a double then getting a red card in soccer, that would be a Wayne Rooney hat trick. So then does that make Ryan Smyth make scoring two goals then sustaining a concussion after being flattened by Jack 'Banana Pancakes' Johnson. I guess that would be the Eric Lindros hat trick. SPEAKING OF RED CARDS: Pablo Osvaldo scores in the waning minutes to give Fiorentina a 3-2 away win at Juventus in a battle of Serie A contenders. In celebration Pablo gets a meaningless red card (since the game was effectively over) for throwing off his jersey and simulating firing a machine gun at the opposing fans - like enough Juve fans have never been killed at games for real (see Champions Leauge tie v. Liverpool - 1985). What would Roger Goodell think of an act like that in his league, Brandon Jacobs firing the football at the play clock and doing fake Lambeau Leaps after scoring thinks that was out of control. Well at least he didn't resort to fascist salutes like someone else in the Italian soccer world a few years back. PA ANNOUNCER LEGEND NOT LIKELY TO RETURN: Next possibly only to the 60-year tenure of Indianapolis Motor Speedway voice Tom Carnegie (THAT IS A NEW....TRACK...REC--OOORD...), Yankees PA announcer Bob Sheppard is perhaps the most iconic 'voice of God' in the world of PA announcers - but at age 97 it appears that his time might finally have been passed. A Yankees spokesman says that he is 'struggling to regain his health' and is unlikely to return for the Yankees final season and All-Star season at the Stadium and that Sheppard's son are among those being considered as successors. In the past, Derek Jeter has suggested that a recording of Sheppard be used for his at-bats if the master were not available. Perhaps the Yankees went even farther and had him in a studio recording everyone at least with a somewhat common name for future use (not unlike announcers heard in video games). Or you they could go like NFL Films with John Facenda and just go with people very much in the same tradition and tone. Impressed with his work with an All-American Football Conference team in the late 1940's, Sheppard has been the Yankees PA man since 1951 and also had a tenure with the football Giants lasting from 1956-2006. BOWA 'COSTRICTED' BY NEW RULE: Is that a fantastic headline or what!!! Not happy with baseball's new 'Mike Coolbaugh rule', Dodgers third base coach Larry Bowa vows not to wear a batting helmet while in the coaches box. Bowa goes as far as to say that if baseball really wants him to wear a skullcap, that he might just go all the way and show up in the box in full catchers gear. Never mind that Coolbaugh was killed coaching first base in the minors last year after getting hit in the side of the neck, bursting a major artery - the skullcap wouldn't have saved him. And I can name a few more people more likely to be hurt by a batted ball or bat, the pitcher, the on-deck batter (ask Juan Encarncion), players/coaches/managers/trainers in the dugout, and most notably, a few thousand paying customers ranging from toddlers to senior citizens in the stands in new ballparks where they are closer to the action. Have to back Bowa on this one - and mark my words, the extended netting is coming as soon as the next fan gets seriously injured or worse.  FAVRE RETIRES DUMMY PAGE PULLED FROM PACKERS SITE: It's hard to believe it has been 71 months since KACSPORTS made the first Favre retires report - on April 1, 2002...and I'm proud to say a few of you even fell for it. This leads us to PACKERS.COM who very briefly put on their home page the breaking news that Brett Favre indeed was retiring. The page was quickly pulled in mere minutes, but by then plenty of viewers had already taken screen shots. The 'breaking news' page was merely a dummy page that has probably been cued up for years when #4 finally does decide to call it quits. A few years back CNN erroneously uploaded the obituaries of several world leader dead pool candidates including Ronald Reagan (since deceased for real), Pope John Paul II (also deceased since as well) and Dick Cheney (still very much alive - we think).I BEG YOUR PARDON!!! The FBI is now investigating possible perjury charges, but is it possible that disgraced baseball legend and F.O.B (Friend Of Bush) Roger Clemens be headed for a presidential pardon??? I can almost see Rog and W together at Bohemian Grove now. It is said that Bush could even write a pre-emptive pardon, should he leave office before a possible sentence were to go down. I would imagine pardons for Barry Bonds and Marion Jones would also be waiting in that case - at least they better be. MMA HEADS FOR NETWORK TV: This would be the sport John McCain once referred to as 'human cockfighting'. CBS plans to air four Elite XC cards this year. Unless it's Clemens and McNamee climbing into the octagon I'm not interested. UFC STAR BILLED AS 'NEXT MIKE TYSON': UFC president says he said 'Holy Sh*t' as Anderson Silva finished off an opponent with a 15-1 record in 49 seconds flat.NAMING RIGHTS COMING FOR WRIGLEY STADIUM??? Bad news for Sarah Fisher and everyone else who have named their pets Wrigley. Considering how the Cubs like to soak their own customers (see rooftop bleachers, wanting to charge simply to hang out on Waveland Avenue during games, scalping their own tickets, etc), perhaps AIG Field would be a good fit. Incidentally, hordes of new advertising signs that will go down the left and right field lines are being planned to be ready for the March 31st home opener.  ARE COLLEGE SPORTS CROWDS THE NEW SOCCER HOOLIGANS??? Some of the creative signs and chants against opposing players and coaches are relatively harmless, such as liking Mike Krzyewski to Sesame Street's Count Von Count or an oversized pair of briefs saying that it might belong to Kansas football coach Mark Mangino. But other treatment has gone way over the line, particularly the recent treatment of UCLA hoops star Kevin Love, who decided against playing college ball in his home state of Oregeon. During the teams charter to Eugene, Love says he received 30 voice-mail messages and listened to the first two - the first threatened to go to his house and 'kill his family' if the Bruins win while the second vowed that someone was going to come to his hotel room and 'blow your head off'. Love's father, an Oregon alum and former star player himself for the Ducks, was so angry by the treatment from the student section that he vows never to step foot on the campus of his alma mater again. In another embarrassing incident, a near riot occurred between University of Memphis basketball players and UAB fans after the #1 ranked Tigers narrowly avoided an upset bid. U.S. sports fans used to laugh at the incidents have occurred in the soccer world over the years - question now is whether everyone is now laughing at us.ANOTHER MLB STAR FACING COCKFIGHTING RAP!!! Aramis Ramirez was recently featured in a New York Times article about his involvement in cockfighting in the Dominican Republic. When asked about his cockfighting hobby at Cubs camp, Aramis refused to comment saying, 'I'm not going to talk about that. That's personal, that's a different culture down there. I'm from (the) Dominican, so let's talk about baseball' In other words, what happens on the island, stays on the island.  CECIL FIELDER BACK IN A.C.: Art Schlichter playing in the Arena League for a team in Las Vegas thinks this might not be a good idea. Just blocks away from the casinos where it's been said he's lost a few bucks over the years, Cecil Fielder is set to manage the independent Atlantic City Surf. In his most recent interview Cecil says he would like to someday reconcile with son Prince, the two have been estranged over bitterness resulting in Cecil Fielder's divorce a few years back. Is it possible that Cecil wants to 'make up' by the time Prince really starts raking in the big bucks??CAN TIGER GET TO 11 STRAIGHT??? Tiger Woods has now won his last four 'official' PGA events. But if you count Dubai a few weeks back (and that was a strong field) the streak is five, and six if you count the silly season event that Tiger hosts. Another long PGA Tour winning streak Tiger had a couple of years back TW declared over after crashing out of a non-PGA match play event. Writer in this article dares to think ahead, Tiger's next event would be Bay Hill (#5), followed by Doral (#6), the Masters (#7), Wachovia (#8), the Players Championship (#9), and the Memorial (#10) - meaning Tiger could possibly be going for 11 straight at the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, where he just got done winning convincingly in the regular season. For the record Tiger won four straight times at Bay Hill, but not since 2003, Woods is three-time defending champ at Doral and is always in the mix at Augusta, but not as dominant as earlier in his career. Wachovia is a big-ticket event, Tiger could skip but he is the defending champ while Sawgrass figures to be the biggest hurdle, the bum has only won there once in 12 tries - and the Memorial is in Ohio and we know Tiger always wins in Ohio. FIVE SIEVES OF SPONGE - FORDHAM WOMEN TEAM LOSE 32ND STRAIGHT: Not to be outdone by the 0-29 record posted by the NJIT men, Fordham's women's matches the Division One record for futility in a season with a 24-point loss at Charlotte. Fordham had come close on a few occasions of ruining it's dream season, losing two-point decisions at George Mason, at Umass, and v. Rhode Island. Now 0-32 dating back to last year, Fordham goes for the 0-29 regular season when they face #15 George Washington this weekend. HEAVY METAL CHARGES GET SCOTT SPIEZIO RELEASED: Utilityman Scott Spiezio was cut by the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday after being charged in a six-count complaint involving DUI, hit and run, and assault in a December car crash. Cards management says they had heard reports that he might be in some legal trouble, but could confirm nothing to the level that the warrant suggests. The organization noted that the warrant changed the landscape of what they were actually dealing with, leading to the quick action. Spiezio missed some of the 2007 season to undergo substance abuse counseling. Spiezio's career is best remember for a three-run homer during Anaheim's rally from a five-run deficit in Game 6 of the 2002 World Series. Off the field, Spiezio plays in a heavy metal band called SandFrog. DIVISION ONE PERFECTION!!! The 1972 Dolphins and 1976 Indiana Hoosiers both dodged another bullet this weekend as the latest bid for an undefeated wayside as the Memphis Tigers threw up enough bricks to build an expansion on Graceland in the waning minutes of their showdown with soon-to-be #1 Tennessee. The good news is that John Calipari can now once again use his New England Patriot analogies to his troops because at least they chose a non-conference regular season game to get their first loss. But the dream of a perfect season in Division One Men's basketball did get achieved over the weekend. The New Jersey Institute of Technology completed their first season of D-1 play with a perfect 0-29 slate, as Utah Valley offered little resistance in a 76-50 win. NJIT opened the season with a 70-28 home loss to Manhattan, and came no closer to within nine points in any of their games this season. No word on whether former Tampa Bay Buc Lee Roy Selmon was serving champagne at his rib joint late Saturday when the NJIT score went final. MICHELLE WIE STINKS IT UP IN FINAL ROUND: The good news was that Wie actually made the cut in her first LPGA appearance of the season, the bad news is that she got another round to turn up the wick, which she does by firing a final-round 78 - leaving her in a tie for last place. One woman shouted 'Watch Out!!! after a tee-shot on a Par 3 bounced off a cart path near some recycling bins, that led to double bogey. Then came the climatic 18th - tee shot driven into the trees, then tried an aggressive shot that got wet - after taking the drop the next shot barely got over the water leading to triple bogey. Earlier in the week, Wie told the media that she has now accepted the fact that her injured wrists 'will never be the same'. The girl's talking like she slashed the things or something...  TIGER RUNNING AWAY W/MATCH PLAY TITLE: You might wan't to catch the Golf Channel coverage now, because TW may have the thing clinched by the time coverage moves to NBC for the second 18. Tiger is already up four after a mere eight holes. If Tiger is going to be had in Match Play, getting him in 18 holes is much more possible - over 36 the cream rises to the top. The win would be Tiger's sixth straight worldwide - and do you really think he is going to lose in Orlando or Augusta??? |
