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TOP STORIES - MARCH 27, 2008  FORMER WRESTLER DEAD AFTER OD: Former WCW wrestler Chase Tatum was found dead over the weekend at his home in the Buckhead section of Atlanta from an apparent accidental drug overdose. Tatum, 34, was recovering from back surgery, and according to his father had been battling painkiller dependence for years. Tatum's primary career was that of a personal trainer, but was encouraged by one of his clients to try out for WCW, where he quickly became a popular jobber. It's said that brief career led to severe back problems, and did not have health insurance from the promotion. FORMER MANAGER GARY HART DEAD AT 66: One of the great heels of his era, playboy manager Gary Hart dies from heart disease over the weekend. Hart is credited with propelling the wrestling industry by establishing a rivalry between the famed Von Erich family and the Fabulous Freebirds during the 1980's.BUM OF THE DAY: This is a fascinating story - if you have ever been to a bobblehead night, you are probably wondering about 'fans' who enter the stadium, get their doll, then walk right back out. One ticket 'scalper' reveals the secrets to his trade. He buys 100 tickets at the cheapest price ($5 last year) - now understand that the team's policy is 'one bobblehead per person not ticket', so instead of going through the turnstile 100 times he hires several people at $20 each to do the bulk of his work. At this point I'm guessing he has invested $600-$700. Now if he is able to sell the dolls on E-Bay for $15 per - he has made a nice little profit. But he also has to rent a storage locker until he sells the dolls - I'm guessing at least $60 per month, likely more. The scalper has also tried to make a profit this year investing in Milwaukee Bucks tickets going on the internet for a fraction of it's original cost - he says he's getting burned there, as he cannot find any takers on the street even for the marked-up, but still hugely discounted price. He's hoping to turn things around with a game v. Cleveland and a Kareem Abdul-Jabbar bobblehead night before the end of the year. Incidentally, it is said the scalper is no stranger to the legal system, he has declared bankuptcy three times. He has also sued and been sued dozens of times and has several money judgments against him, he also says he has never 'knowingly' sold a phony tick. He also prd guiltiy to obstructing an officer in a case unrelated to his ticket trafficking profession, that earned him 18 months probation. Incidentally, I'm not paying $20 for a bobblehead, I don't care if it's Prince Fielder or Jesus Christ himself. SERVICE HELD FOR STEVE FOSSETT: You may recall the adventurer literally disappeared off the face of the earth last September. By November his wife filed papers to have him declared legally dead, that motion was granted last month. It be funny if Steve were to come out of hiding and show up somewhere as quickly as he vanished.  AARON RODGERS FINDS AN EVEN MORE FROZEN TUNDRA: We know he is supposed to be replacing an icon, we just thought it was supposed to be Brett Favre, not Susan Butcher, as Rodgers was a participant in a sled dog race in Fairbanks recently. Rodgers started the race as the 'passenger' with someone else driving the sled - but midway through the two switched places with Rodgers piloting the dogs. Hopefully Aaron managed to make it to the finish line without breaking his foot or straining his groin, and will be probable for mini-camp. Knowing how some animal rights activists feel about dogsled racing, I can just hear someone really going over the top and saying that Rodgers is no better than Michael Vick.GOALKEEPER HIT WITH BOTTLE: Real Betis' Primera Liga match against Athletic Bilbao was abandoned Saturday after the visiting goalkeeper was nailed by a 'liquid-filled' container as he was retrieving the ball before a goal kick. The player was stretchered off and the game was called off with the visitors leading 2-1. PRONGER GETS EIGHT GAME SUSPENSION: Responding to outcry that he should be punished like serial goon Chris Simon, who earned a 30-game ban for a similar act earlier in the year, the NHL has Chris Pronger eight games for stomping on the leg of Vancouver's Ryan Kesler earlier in the week. The suspension is due to end before the start of the NHL playoffs. The ban is the eighth of Pronger's career. GOLF ANALYST INJURED AFTER BEING HIT BY TRUCK: Colorful golf commentator David Feherty injured when the bicycle he was riding was hit by an irrigation truck. Feherty suffered a punctured lung and three broken ribs in the accident - and now says that he is in the only hospital in the U.S. that doesn't have the Golf Channel. Feherty says he has been injured about 'two dozen times' since taking up bike ride, attributing all of the previous accidents to 'pilot error'. INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT - SOLDIERS KEEP DODGERS PLAYER FROM SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS: Korean fans waited outside clubhouse to get Chan Ho Park's autograph after he pitched five innings against the Padres in the first MLB pre-season game played in China, but were restrained by green-clad Chinese soldiers. Park, the soldiers, and the fans refused to budge - with Park insisting to sign for the fans who had traveled to see him pitch. A protective barrier will be placed to separate players and fans before the second and final game of the series.  A-T-L STORM DAMAGES GEORGIA DOME DURING SEC TOURNAMENT: Alabama had just tied Mississippi St. with a three-pointer after inbounding with 2.0 seconds left. Then the real drama started, as in a situation perhaps as scary as the 1989 World Series earthquake, a tornado came through downtown Atlanta, shaking scaffolding, sending debris raining from the roof, and ripping a hole through the side of the 16-year old building. One player hearing the rumbling during play was fearing that a terrorist attack was taking place. According to the radar loop, the small, but powerful cell came in from the northwest and the edge of the storm just skirted past the city. The Alabama/Mississippi St. game did resume and was completed after just over an hour delay. The Atlanta Hawks also had a home game tonight next door at Phillips Arena, with little apparent damage there - but other building and landmarks in the downtown Atlanta area did sustain damage. Look for there to be some upshot from this, including MLB and the NFL delaying games in the future as severe weather approaches even for games in domes. TOURNEY MOVED TO GEORGIA TECH, CLOSED TO PUBLIC: The Georgia/Kentucky nightcap was postponed, And the rest of the tournament is to be played at Georgia Tech's arena. With only 9,000 capacity, there was no way to divvy up tickets, so only players families, bands, cheerleaders, and media will be allowed inside in what is sure to be a surreal scene. The GA/KY game will be played at noon, and the winner will have to play it's semi-final game later that night. The other option would had been to cancel the remainder of the tourney - which would have had possible ramifications for bubble teams such as UK.ATM VACUUM - BASEBALL PRICES JUMP 81-FOLD IN 36 YEARS??? Very interesting article, four box seat season tickets at Stadium in 1972 cost $1,056 - that same price for similar seats today will cover you -- for one game. Just how expensive are good Yankee tickets. It would be cheaper to fly to Kansas City and catch three games of a Yankees/Royals series with comparable seats there, than it would be to see the same teams for three games in the Bronx - and that's with the Royals inflating their usual $29 seats to a premium $44 for the Yankees. Meanwhile comparable tickets for the Mets are a bargain at half the price as the Yankees top tickets. The prices, or the PED fallout, or the old '94 strike fallout - have sure not kept fans from coming - the Mets expect to draw 4 million this year and the Yankees 3.75 million, and both franchises will soak the paying fans even more when they move into new ballparks next year. In all, baseball is expected to improve on the 79.5 million fans who attended games last year. And that includes all the multiple ticket levels, charging extra for weekend games, peak periods and marquee opponents, ticket service fee surcharges, charging extra for buying day of game, makeup day/night doubleheaders because God forbid you can let fans see two games for the price of one, skyrocketing parking charges, concessions, charging to listen to games on the internet, revenue to see the games on cable/internet on the Extra Innings packages, then blacking out multiple teams who happen to be within a few hundred miles of a certain location. Make no mistake, baseball is rolling in money right now.  ORU BIRD DROPS THE GLOVES!!! It is one thing for the Oregon Duck mascot to start trouble, in fact that is par for the course for Oregon. But how about when mascots at schools with high moral values go wrong??? That was the case when the Summit League's basketball championship game was upstaged when Eli the Oral Roberts Eagle who got into it with the IUPUI Jaguar. It started with what was supposed to be a dance contest between the mascots during a timeout. Before it was over, Eli's head had been ripped off twice, revealing that the student was a male (is this like when a pro wrestler gets his mask ripped off??). The ORU cheerleading coach then benched Eli for the night. It is said that three students play the part of Eli, two males and one female. The next question is who is the next challenger for Eli, rumor has it that the UMKC Kangaroo and Cosmo the Cougar want in.MARCH MADNESS SHOCKER - 0-16 BEATS 16-0: The Colorado St. women had been chasing 'perfection' all year, losing all 16 of their regular season conference games and tasting defeat in 20 straight games overall. But just like the New England Patriots - the post-season has proved to be CSU's undoing. First, as the Mountain West's ninth-seeded team, CSU forced to participate in a play-out game, but should had been easily able to was lose to #8 seeded UNLV on it's home court. But not only did CSU win that game, they then shocked #13 ranked and top-seeded Utah in it's next game. Utah came into the game on the heels of going 16-0 in conference play. Again, we're in Vegas - anyone wonder if the fix was in??? How could CSU get so focused, so motivated, when they were this close to the ultimate nightmare season??? They just have one thing left to shoot for, win twice more and become the worst team ever to make the NCAA Tournament. SHOCKER - RICK SUTCLIFFE DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER: Former big league pitcher and current TV analyst diagnosed with 'treatable' form of colon cancer during routine physical. Sutcliffe to take a leave of absence from ESPN job to undergo surgery and chemotherapy.  JOHN DALY DQ'D FROM BAY HILL: There is an upside to this, at least you won't be seeing him shooting a 12 on the 18th hole on Thursday or Friday. The controversial golf legend (shown here receiving CPR) is out of the Arnold Palmer Invitational after missing his tee time for the Wednesday Pro-Am. Because of a new snowball rule instituted on the PGA Tour, Ryuji Imada and Nick O'Hern also wound up being bounced from the tournament because they were alternates in case there was a no-show at the Pro-Am, and they thus wound up being counted as no-shows themselves. Imada is one of the hottest golfers on tour, with three top-tens on the young season, and the DQ likely ends any chance of qualifying for the Masters - Imada is ranked #68 and #50 is the cutoff. Daly's story is that he thought his tee time was 9:47 AM, that was actually his first-round tee time, his Pro-Am time was 8:40 - which would probably cost John a valuable hour's sleep after a night out on the town. It has not been a good week for John (as if any week is actually good), he was axed earlier this week by legendary swing coach Butch Harmon, who said that Daly is more interested in drinking than improving his golf game (that's a shocking statement). That followed a week of antics at the PODS Championship, where he partied during a rain delay in a corporate tent then had Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden be has caddie for seven holes. (Think this might not eventually work out well for coach neither??) Then after missing the cut (as usual) on Saturday, Daly was spotted on the grounds drinking, mingling with fans and signing an autograph on the back of a woman�s pants. That got the attention of Butch Harmon, who says he's way too busy to waste time on a hopeless cause such as Daly.CAREER OF BALLPLAYER IN JEOPARDY: Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Rocco Baldelli diagnosed with a condition that leaves him extremely fatigued even after short workouts. Once considered one of baseball's hottest prospects, Rocco's star-crossed career has seen him play only 127 of 486 games over the past three seasons due to an assortment of injuries. BENCHES CLEAR BETWEEN YANKS/RAYS: This is absolutely no surprise since Yanks manager Joe Girardi got bent after one of his catchers landed on the shelf after being barreled into by a Tampa Bay player in a recent Grapefruit League game. The benches empty after New York�s Shelley Duncan slides into second base with his spikes high. Duncan was tossed, along with Tampa Bay�s Jonny Gomes, who ran in from right field to tackle Duncan. Get used to it, the AL rivals play each other 18 times in the regular season, know your role Tampa, the usual fourth or fifth place. SKIER LOSES LEG AFTER WORLD CUP CRASH: Austrian skier Matthias Lanzinger's lower left leg was amputated due to loss of blood circulation after a horrifying during an event in Norway. Lanzinger's bindings did not release immediately after crashing into the flag near the end of his Super-G run. Lanzinger suffered an open fracture of his fibula and shin bone in the crash. Organizers of the event were criticized for the care given to the skier after the crash. Because no medical chopper was available, Lanzinger was first flown to a hospital in a tourist helicopter before being transported to another facility in Oslo.K-MART SPECIAL??? NBA STAR LET OFF ON SPEEDING TICKETS: A Denver city prosecutor has been suspended amidst reports that Nuggets forward Kenyon Martin was allowed to keep his driver's license despite receiving two tickets for going over 100 MPH, one of the incidents allegedly occuring on a city street!! Martin's plea deals stemmed from tickets written in 2006, one for going 103 in a 55 MPH zone and the other for going a cool 101 in a 30 MPH zone. A prosecutor at the DA's office says that at a minimum there is an appearance that K-Mart indeed received preferential treatment. GOODYEAR TO USE DIFFERENT TIRES AT TEXAS: After a number of complaints at Atlanta Motor Speedway last weekend, the embattled tire maker announces it will use a compound similar to what was used at both races at Texas last season. And bad news for Tony Stewart, Goodyear's exclusive contract with NASCAR lasts through the end of the 2012 season. TONY'S TIR(E)ADES: A whole collection of Tony Stewart bitching for you, as he was on a personal mission to slam Goodyear all weekend at Atlanta. You can hear his widely aired comments on Fox immediately after the race, or his comments which later aired on Speed. And then he also ripped Goodyear in another post-race interview on PRN, as well as in another post-race presser. Tony even spent an interview before even taking the track for Saturday practice blasting Goodyear. And then there's this interview during a race weekend in Texas LAST YEAR where Stewart says that those tires, as well as those used in the 2007 Daytona 500, were ther worst that he has even seen.FAVRE NEARLY DIED IN 1990 ACCIDENT: Mel Kiper Jr. recalls his original projection in the 1991 draft where he had him going 17th overall - Favre stayed on the board until #33 that year. I remember Kiper also talking about Favre on TV that year, he called him a nice prospect and among the best of a lukewarm QB crop in that particular year, about on the lines of the scouting report he reprinted. What was really telling was Kiper's description of the horror car wreck before his senior year at Southern Miss. He says he car went off the road and was heading down an embankment towards a creek, before being intercepted by a tree. Another account of the accident says the car flipped three times before hitting the tree. Kiper says had the car gone into the drink, an unconscious Favre likely would had drowned.  HI-DEF CRICKET HORROR: I don't see any possible upside in anyone doing this - running naked as a jaybird with players with wooden paddles, football helmets, and hard rubber balls in the vicinity. And very unfortunately for this man he was messing with a Nick Swisher look-a-like who is said to work out with a local rugby team in his spare time. Fortunately security stepped in so it stayed as a beating instead of an old-fashioned spanking. And these guys are just as roided up as their baseball brethren, India's version of Roger Clemens just got back from a 12-month suspension - his heater has been clocked at 100 MPH and was last seen getting into a confrontation with a teammate. OK, maybe he's then the Carlos Zambrano of India. If this picture is somehow not enough for you - then check out the entire version of the incident as it aired on TV above. |
