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TOP STORIES - MARCH 23, 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!  FANTASY BASEBALL 2006: C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, OF (AL), OF (NL), SP (AL), SP (NL), RP
 2006 FANTASY NASCAR DRIVER PREVIEW: Where does your driver rank???THE 'EDGE' IS COMING: Coming soon to KACSPORTS TONY GWYNN ON HOT SEAT??? That San Diego St. job ain't working so good for Padres legend these days, as the Aztecs have opened the season a cool 6-20, including a current 10-game losing skid (sounds like Larry Bowa circa 1987). When asked about the team, Gwynn says 'I'm still having fun, even though we suck.' There is always his ESPN job if he ever got axed. SORIANO FOLDS HIS HAND: Soriano doesn't go all-in with Frank Robnsin's huge chip stack, plays left field. SLIP OF THE TOUNGE GETS TALK-SHOW HOST FIRED ON AIR: As most in radio and TV would know, no matter how good you are - you are still only one Freudian slip away from being canned. A KTRS talk-show host on the air less than two weeks, tries to say that Condoleezza Rice becoming commissioner would be a big coup for the NFL. Unfortunately he instead says something else that came off as a slur. He immediately apologizes (HITTING THE DELAY INSTEAD OF SAYING TOTALLY NINE TIMES WOULD HAD BEEN A GOOD MOVE HERE), but station manager comes on-air 20 minutes later stating that the host had just been let go. Host is drafting a letter of apology to Condi as I speak. (AUDIO)  'YOU KNOW WHO' SIGNS WITH DALLAS: It makes no sense, but it makes sense. It was kind of a suprise, but was no surprise. It may be brilliant, or YKW may piss on the blue star just like he did when with the opposition.BIG BREAK CONTESTANT WINS ON FUTURES TOUR: Earns $9,800 for winning Tampa tournament. 24 year-old Ashley Prange currently appears on the Golf Channel's wildly successful 'Big Break' reality show. MIKE TYSON SAYS HE'S SORRY: Apologizes for 'violent past' during trip to Britain. Tyson is in England to referee something called the World Cage Fighting Championships. Tyson is also to appear at an amateur boxing show, the venue of which had to be changed after protests from women's rights advocates, among others - who feel that Tyson is not a 'suitable role model'. NO SHOWS IN THE OUTFIELD: Washington Nationals take their positions for top of the first inning, but no one was in left field. Oh wait, it's supposed to be Alfonso Soriano, and has said for the last two months he won't play there. I would had let the first batter rap one down the left field line. Team says they will give Soriano one more chance and Wednesday, then they are going to put him on the suspended list for breach of contract. Any chance at Frank Robinson could be bluffing (NO) - and have I told you yet not to draft Soriano in fantasy baseball??? OU GUARD CHARGED WITH HAVING WACKY TOBACCY: Last seen getting lit up by Boo Davis last Thursday (actually that's RRRRRRRR-ONALD, 'BOO' DAVIS), Oklahoma hoop player Terrell Everett received a marijuana citation last week. In what proved to be his final collegiate game, Everett had 21 points and 11 assists in OU's 82-74 first round loss to Wisconsin-Milwaukee. IOWA STATE PLAYER GETS 37 YEARS IN THE HOLE: Indicted on robbing two local Kwikkie-Mart's last year. Jerry Gair gets 25 years for ongoing criminal conduct, 10 years for second-degree robbery and two years for gun possession. DREAM JOB?? TAGS ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT, CONDY RICE 'NOT INTERESTED': After negotiating the recent labor deal, NFL Commish Paul 'What-Do-I-Do' announces he is stepping down after a 16-year run. So why would this have anything to do with current Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice??? Because Condi in the past has expressed interest in someday becoming NFL Commissioner. In a brief statement late Monday, a spokesman said 'carefully' that Rice is not interested at this time, stating she 'enjoys' being secretary 'at the moment'. VIKES COACH SAYS GOOD RIDDANCE: Brad Childress not broken up by the departure of Daunte Culpepper, the former Eagles assistant saying he just got through dealing with one person who was 'all about me'.  SOUND THE GQ ALARM - PIRATES DUEL WITH NAVY SHIPS!!! Arrrggghhhh. The Pirates normally don't start losing until the baseball season actually begins, but there was this semi-amusing story over the weekend - where suspected pirates on a 30-foot fishing boat fire on the Virginia-based U.S. Navy vessels off the Somalian coast. Not surprisingly the final score read as follows, one pirate dead, five wounded, seven in custody - meanwhile there were no casualties on the U.S. side.GRIM REEPER STRIKES BOXING WORLD AGAIN: And this was after WINNING an eight round split-decision in a bout that was televised on a spanish-language cable channel that reaches 45 million homes. The Indiana Athletic Commission is reviewing the bout and the autopsy results. GRIM REEPER PART II: Not one, but two runners die during Los Angeles Marathon. Both were firefighters and were aged 53 and 60. One was stricken just three miles into the race while the other was felled three miles from the finish. A third competitor also suffered a heart attack just seven blocks in, but he survived.WBC TO BE 'TWEAKED FOR '09??? Inaugural baseball tournament considered a success on many levels despite being held early in Spring Training, in the middle of March Madness, and the early elimination of the U.S. team. One suggestion for the future is to hold the tournament towards the end of spring training while possibly delaying the start of the MLB season (you could eliminate the All-Star game in those years). NCAA PICK DISTRIBUTION: TO WIN TOURNAMENT: UConn (1) 36.3, Duke (1) 26.6, Villanova (1) 8.7, North Carolina (3) 4.1, Texas (2) 3.4, Boston College (4) 3.3, Gonzaga (3) 3.0, Memphis (1) 2.5, Ohio State (2) 2.2 TO MAKE FINAL FOUR: Duke 70.5, UConn 68.2, Villanova 36.3, Boston College 30.8, Gonzaga 28.1, UCLA 25.4, Memphis 19.0, North Carolina 18.5, Ohio State 17.2, Texas 17.0 (SOURCE: YAHOO)BOMB SNIFFING DOG CAUSES COX ARENA EVACUATION: Dog gets a buzz out of something at concession stand, forcing one-hour delay before NCAA first round games were to begin at San Diego State arena. The contents of 'suspicious' package turned out to be items related to the condiment stand, such as plastic eating utensils, napkins and Styrofoam cups. BARRY BONDS HITS THIRD HOMER OF THE SPRING: And has three home runs to boot, looks like he wants to hit 48 home runs this year just to piss everyone off once and for all. BONDS DEAD TO BASEBALL WORLD?? 715th home run to be like Enron throwing party for Tom Skilling's bro???CUBA ADVANCES TO WBC SEMI-FINALS: Potential tying run cut down at the plate to end game. In case anyone on the Cuban squad is wondering, the trolley line is two blocks north and two blocks east of Petco Park. BILL LESTER MAKES CUP RUN: African-American driver on entry list for Golden Corral 500.  THINK IT WAS THE STUFF THEY PUT ON FRENCH TOAST: Someone sent some 'mysterious' white powder to the Canucks front office, inside was a letter and it said something about Todd Bertuzzi - the premisis was determined safe after it was determined that the substance was either something sent by Dwight Gooden or just part of the snow Marty Turco was piling in front of his own net the other night.VIKING UNIFORM CHANGE COMING??? Considering purple pants to go with purple tops??? Teams are allowed to change uniforms once every five years. Also William Henderson may become the latest Packer free agent to cross the border.   CULPEPPER, BREES CHANGE ADDRESSES Daunte dealt to Dolphins while Brees signs six-year contract with Saints, where I'm sure he won't be keeping the chair warm for Matt Leinart. Move Leinart down to #3 (Titans) on your mock drafts while Vince Young becomes a big loser with today's developments. EYEPOKE!!! I just can't wait until Allan Ray and goes up against Ray Allen. Allan is expected to play in the first round of the NCAA tournament, just days after fearing that he lost the vision in his eye after being on the receiving end of an eye poke during the Big East tournament. Here is the graphic video in case you haven't seen it.  FORMER FIRST ROUND PICK FOLLOWS IN TILLMAN'S FOOTSTEPS: Jeremy Staat was a former first round pick of the Steelers who also played for the Rams as well as the Arena League, and was a college teammate of Pat Tillman. Staat graduated from Marine boot camp this past week. Ironically, Staat told Tillman his plans shortly after the 9/11 attacks, but Tillman advised him to stick with football until he qualified for retirement benefits from the league - months later Tillman informed Staat of his plans during his wedding. Weighing 310 pounds during his playing days, Staat slimmed down to 260 before enlisting.IRONHEAD HEYWARD BATTLING BRAIN TUMOR: The theme of people dying/being stricken young continues. The former battering-ram who starred for Pitt and in the NFL is set to undergo surgery for chordoma, a type of tumor that reoccurs and is more aggressive the second time around. Survival rate is 50 percent after five years, 35% after ten years. The 39-year old Heyward is now blind in one eye and needs a wheelchair to get around. FBI, HOMELAND SECURITY ALERT NCAA ON POSSIBLE THREATMLS PRESIDENT/GM DIES ON FLIGHT: Have I said that this has been a bad week to be 40-something??? LA Galaxy GM/President Doug Hamilton slumps in his seat four minutes into a flight from Costa Rica back to Los Angeles. A team doctor tried to resuscitate Hamilton for 45 minutes before he was prounounced dead of an apparent heart attack. Hamilton, 43, was a two-time MLS Executive of the Year. JERSEY SAYS NAME CHANGE IS BULLSH*T: The MLS Metrostars are bought by an energy drink maker, who intends to change the team name to Red Bull New York, which does not sit well with New Jersey officials, who threaten to run the team from the Meadowlands. Says a spokesman for New Jersey's governer, 'Their new name may be Red Bull New York, but striking New Jersey from their name seems to be a different kind of bull altogether'. The Austrian-based company points out that New York is much more identifiable globally than New Jersey, and points out that the Meadowlands two NFL tenants are known as 'New York' teams (the difference is we're talking NFL v. MLS, the Meadowlands can survive without MLS). The team had been known as the New York-New Jersey Metrostars before streamlining to just 'Metrostars' a few years back. 'INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT' AT WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC: People sitting behind home plate usually wave at the camera, then call all their buddies on the cell phone. But one fan at Hiram Bithorn stadium brought a 'Abajo Fidel' sign during Cuba's game with the Netherlands. The message was seen worldwide, including Cuba, although not in the United States because ESPN has been televising nothing but basketball all week. In any event, a top Cuban sports official winds up confronting the sign-bearer. Police intervened and it was the Cuban official who wound up at the police station, and was lectured that there is freedom of speech in Puerto Rico (a U.S commonwealth). Local organizers have agreed to ban signs of 'political nature' at the stadium, but will not enforce the ban. You may recall a Montreal Expos game got interrupted in San Juan a few years back when political protesters ran on the field. Meanwhile if Cuba advances one more round in the tournament they will make it to San Diego, where the trolley runs towards the border just outside Petco Park. '99 FINAL FOUR RUN NEVER HAPPENED!!! The NCAA manages to revise history yet again, punishing the Ohio State University for using the great Boban Savovic during the late-1990's, who they said was ineligible. Among other things, the school has to remove all references of being in the 1999 Final Four. I won a bracket pool that year in part for picking Ohio State to win it's region against strong advise from relatives. Does all this mean I have to give my prizes back??? The good news is that Ohio State, currently ranked #7 in the nation, can play in this year's tournament - at least until they find out in 2012 that a player on this team was not legit.J-WALK'ING OUT OF GREEN BAY: Javon Walker says he would 'retire' rather then return to Packers, team says they are not budging and will not trade the disgruntled receiver. You may recall last year J-Walk threatened to hold out for a reworked contract, but listened to Uncle Brett and reported to camp - and sure enough tore his ACL first game. As is the case with the Vikings and Daunte Culpepper, the Packers will ultimately have no choice but to deal J-Walk for far less than full market value. I'm not calling J-Walk's bluff. PUCKETT/FAVRE COMBO PLATTER: Two for the price of one in one Twin Cities article, which cites 'people close' to Favre (is there such a thing) saying he's leaning towards retiring. Another report earlier in the week had Favre leaning towards returning, I don't think anyone has a clue. Also, Tonya Puckett says she's 'dissapointed' on how she feels people are trying to 'capitalize' on the death of Kirby, saying 'People who care about Kirby, in my opinion, should be mourning; you don't try to capitalize on his death'CLOCKWORK ORANGE - DUTCH PITCHER GETS NO-HITTER AT WBC: If anything, you'd think Clemens in five innings v. South Africa - BUT NO, it's Netherlands pitcher Shairon Martis,, who managed to get all seven innings v. Panama in with the imposed 65-pitch limit. It also helped that Martis didn't strike out anyone, almost sounds like a Brewers pitcher. Now had the Dutch somehow recruited Bert Blyleven (a no-hitter himself during his career) out of retirement they could had made the second round. PUCKETT MERCHANDISE FLYING OFF SHELVES: Sports memorabilia stores say Puckett-related material had been cold for the last five years, but now is red-hot. Collectors point out that autograph items in particular will jump up in value since Kirby is obviously no longer around to sign anything. KIRBY MISTRESS SHOWS UP AT MAKESHIFT MEMORIAL: Joins fiancee and Tonya Puckett in expressing their grief. Also local radio personalities Ian and Margery Punnent 'tiptoe around minefield' regarding Puckett's 'reputation with woman'. |
2003 NFL DRAFT PROFILES
