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TOP STORIES - MAY 15, 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: C | 1B | 2B | 3B | SS | OF (AL) | OF (NL) | SP (AL) | SP (AL) | RP SIGNIFICANT BLOW TO DALE JR: This will shut up the conspiracy theories of NASCAR trying to protect it's golden boy in a hurry. Earnhardt busted a whopping 100 points and his crew chief suspended for (count them) six races for using an illegal part at Darlington. The penalty drops Junior from 12th to 14th in the point standings - and is now 54 points behind the cutoff for the season-ending Chase for the Championship. NASCAR had warned beforehand that penalties involving the wing or font splitter with the Car of Tomorrow would be dealt with severely.  MARK MARTIN ADDS THREE RACES TO SCHEDULE: Don't know if it will be enough to keep him in contention for the Chase, but Martin has added races at Pocono, Dover, and Richmond to his schedule - two of the three races will be before the end of NASCAR's regular season. Martin, who traditionally excels on road courses, still plans on sitting the event at Sonoma on June 24. SOPRANOS STUNNER: In case you did not watch this weeks episode, or the 5.9 that accompanied it - here is the spoiler, just paste the area between here and the next story: Guess Michael Imperioli has gotten his big sendoff at a New York Italian restaurant as is the custom of main cast characters who have gotten clipped on the show. A stoned Chris Moltisanti drives back to Jersey with TS after a meeting with their New York colleagues over garbage routes. Chris decdies to do his best Kyle Busch impersonation, crossing the center line and eventually barrel-rolling his rig several times before coming to rest in a ditch. The big man escapes serious injury, but Christoph-a is not so lucky, he was not wearing his seat belt and thus sustained serious internal injures. Tony grabs the phone to call 9-1-1, but Chris tries to tell him to call a cab instead, for he would be busted for DUI if taken to the ER. Suddenly sensing a chance to at long last eliminate Christopher, Soprano simply pinches Moltisanti's nostrils while his nephew expires choking on his own blood. Talk about a David Chase 12 to 6 curveball. All indications are that it will now go 'all downhill from here' for Soprano. The question is not if he will get clipped but by who - Carmella?? A.J.??? Paulie??? Melfi!?!?!? The next three weeks could provide TV's biggest cliffhanger since Who Shot J.R...SPORTSTALK HOST OVERCOMES VISION HANDICAP: Tim Allen has quickly become one of the most respected voices in the Milwaukee sportstalk industry with the no-nonsense Brewers post-game show he co-hosts. His work becomes all the more impressive if you know that Allen has been virtually blind over a decade now. To prep for the show during games, Allen simultaneously listens to the Brewers Radio Network call as well as well as FSN Wisconsin's audio feed. Allen also utilizes a software program that converts text to audio, and also calls a service that reads newspaper stories to him. SPONSOR PULLS OUT OF ROYALS BAGEL PROMOTION: Panera bread has signed on for a promotion where 13 bagels would be given away to ticketholders for games in which the Royals won and amassed 13 hits. Panera was expecting 15 to 20 percent (tops) of the paying customers to take advantage. However, 26 percent came in for free bagels after a rare game where the Royals met the criteria. That was a little to much of a financial hit for Panera's liking, so they quickly pulled the plug. In previous years a similar promotion was sponsered by Krispy Kreme. FAVRE BLASTS PACK OVER NOT GETTING MOSS: After seeing his team lose out for Randy's services to the team whose very uniforms look like the damn Super Bowl trophy itself, it sounds like #4 has had about enough. Talking at his annual charity golf event (where #4 tends to speak his mind), Favre said 'I know what we could have signed him for. We could have gotten him for less money than New England did. He wanted to play in Green Bay for the amount of money we could have paid him. It (was) well worth the risk.' It's said that Green Bay thought they had a deal with Oakland for a fifth-round pick, but the Patriots then made their pitch. Quarterback Tom Brady reportedly spent hours on the phone recruiting Moss, which led to Randy heading for Foxboro. FAVRE DEMANDED TRADE!?!? According to a published report that credited anonymous inside sources, from both the Packers and the NFL, #4 is said to have 'stunningly' asked to be traded a few days after the NFL draft. 'THREE PERCENT' WILL NOT WIN WISCONSIN PRIMARY: Here is our Drudge story for the day. While using an analogy at a GOP fundraiser in the state, Senator Sam Brownback (KS) asserted that Peyton Manning was perhaps the greatest quarterback in NFL history. Maybe he is, and it might help his cause in Indiana, Tennessee, and Louisiana - but he can forget about Wisconsin and Mississippi. Maybe it's a good tradeoff, but with the latest poll having him at a measly three percent, I kind of doubt he will even make Iowa and New Hampshire.HARDY'S WALLBANGERS: Can a division title really be won by Mother's Day??? J.J. hits Grand Slam, Tony Gwynn makes case for starting job by running absolutely wild, Brewers rout Mets, stretch NL Central lead to eight games. BREWERS BECOME ITEM IN SOAP OPERA WORLD: In addition to the numerous national sportstalk show players have found themselves on lately, Chris Capuano, Bill Hall and J.J. Hardy are scheduled to appear on 'Young and the Restless' while team is in Los Angeles next week.OTTAWA GOALIE SAYS BUFFALO A BORING TOWN??? Doesn't that line form to the left - I think the bigger question is people perceiving hockey as a boring sport. We can see someone from South Florida (never a huge hotbed for NHL players) like Willis McGahee not caring for the town - but Ray Emery grew up in Hamilton, not only is it a mere 45 minutes away, but the Sabres get some of their fan base from there. Emery is trying to backtrack, saying what he meant to say that there was simply more to do somewhere like New York City than in Buffalo, I guess there are more people to fight in NYC, which is right up Roy's alley. Emery says he plans on spending his off day at the Niagra Falls Casino. BODE MILLER SAYS TOODLE-OO TO SKI TEAM: Didn't he take this year off??? I'm trying to figure out what he's going to do with his spare time besides go to the bar.   SO MUCH FOR THAT RICKY WILLIAMS COMEBACK... Perhaps explaining why the Dolphins selected Lorenzo Booker in the NFL Draft, it now is reported that Ricky tested positive for marijuana in April - and will not be eligible for reinstatement at least until September, and I'm guessing well after that.D-BACKS ROOKIE CHARGED WITH DOMESTIC ASSAULT: For the second time in as many weeks a MLB player has been charged with assaulting his spouse. Infielder Alberto Collapso was taken into custody on suspicion of assault and criminal damage and did not accompany the team as it left on a nine-game road trip. BREWERS RANKED #2: Only trail Red Sox in ESPN rankings, seven-game lead heading into the weekend represents the widest margin the team has EVER been in first place by. PACMAN SHOOTING VICTIM TELLS HIS STORY: His name is Tommy Urbansky, a one-time professional wrestler at 6'6" 400 lbs, he also made a living selling real estate and managing VIP rooms in Las Vegas. Urbansky was also a bouncer who worked the night of the Pacman Jones shooting incident, and wound up getting shot at least three times, with one of the bullets going into his spinal column, paralyzing him from the waist down. Urbansky is only given a six percent chance at walking again, but he has already defied the odds once in just surviving the incident. BUT 283 OTHERS HAVE GOTTEN IN TROUBLE... Yes, that is actually the alibi given by Pacman's attorneys. They note that since January 2000, at least 283 NFL players have been arrested or charged for offenses running the gammit from drunken driving to domestic violence to weapons possession. The lawyers argument is that a one-year suspension would be unprecedented. Somebody give these guys the news release that there is a new sherriff in town.CHAD JOHNSON LEGAL MESS: I turned on WLW on XM for no more than ten seconds when I heard about this one. Bengals wide receiver Chad Johnson and a Kentucky comedy club are defendants in a suit where several people did not receive prizes as promised in a raffle. At the center of the suit is a claim that Johnson offered to raffle a Lexus he once got as a gift. The raffle was said to be held during a regular comedy show Johnson hosted at the club. Other plantiffs say they were supposed to have received trips to the Pro Bowl, Super Bowl and other exotic places. Investigators are trying to determined whether fraud occurred as well as whether the establishment violated state gaming laws. BASEBALL'S BIGGEST LIARS: Pete Rose, Rafeael Palmeiro, Sammy Sosa, and Joey Belle are obviously naturals for this list - but who can forget Vietnam 'war hero' Tim Johnson as well as former USC 'football star' Al Martin. Toronto's GM tried to back Johnson and was going to keep him as manager in 1999 after he got some counseling, but had no choice to fire him in spring training as he had hopelessly lost the trust of his team. AND HOW ABOUT THE HYPOCRITES??? Roger Clemens and Curt Schilling considered to be the anchors of that pitching staff. In fact writer compares Schilling to a wanna-be comic book hero, not only leading his team to victory, but saving the world as well. SOMETHING EVEN WORSE THAN A SHATTERED BAT NAILS STEVE YEAGER: Former Dodger catcher is best remembered for a 1976 incident when he was sitting in the on-deck circle when shrapnel from a shattered bat ended up piercing his throat, resulting in nine pieces of wood having to surgically removed. As bad as that was, Yeager was involved in somthing even more scary this past weekend. While driving back home from a minor league game, another car hit the center divider, went airborne and ended up landing on top of Yeager's car. Although none of his injuries were considered life-threatening, Yeager did need upwards to 300 stitches to close the wounds on his arm. Maybe Yeager should now wear a flap on his arm to protect himself from flying cars. Incidentally, Yeager is now the hitting coach for the Inland Empire 66ers, just being involved with a team with a name like that might be asking for trouble. NFL CONSIDERING 16 FOREIGN GAMES PER YEAR??? In crazy talks considered to be 'extremely preliminary', the NFL is considering adding a 17th game to the league schedule, with every team in the league playing one game per year outside the United States. Just hope they're ready for the players union to ask for a 6% across the board raise. The plan is that four venues would each get four games per year, and possible locations include England, Germany, Mexico, and Canada. Japan and Australia are also possibilities but most likely not feasible. A Packers/Eagles game at Stamford Bridge will make sense just as soon as a Everton v. Manchester United EPL match is scheduled for Lambeau Field. NED'S ATOMIC DUSTBIN - FANS READY FOR BREWERS PLAYOFF PUSH: How much do I have to restrain them??? Yes, it was a 9-1 homestand, but it was against about the least formidable opposition imaginable - including a Cardinals team that was understandably an emotional wreck, the Pirates and Adam LaRoche's ADD induced baserunning blunders, and finally a Washington Nationals team that is already being compared unfavorably to baseball's all-time worst, and in fact already so far south in the standings that they might be renamed the Tidewater Tides by season's end. But don't let any of that stop this week's launch of peeyourpantsforthebrewers.com - where well over 1000 fans are 'pledging' to do just that. Meanwhile the Brewers season starts for real this weekend with 13 of the next 16 games on the road. The team looks good and the pitching incredibly solid, but don't get carried away quite yet. 'MOTHER LODE' OF STEROIDS SEIZED??? The same narcotics agents who led raids on Florida pharmacies and 'anti-aging' clinics in February has now hit a mom-and-pop Brooklyn pharmacy, seizing what one official described as a 'mother lode' of steroids along with HGH. Investigators surprised the owners with a sudden inspection, carrying off about $200,000 worth of performance-enhancing drugs, almost all of which had been shipped from China. Investigators took stacks of clients papers, and it is expected that more names of professional athletes will be found. DEI-VORCE: Dale Earnhardt Jr. will leave the Nextel Cup team his legendary father started, making NASCAR's most popular driver the most coveted free agent in stock-car history. Junior says he will listen to any offers, although he also indicated that he would prefer to remain in a Chevy. STEVE MCNAIR BACK IN NASHVILLE, BACK IN TROUBLE: Arrested early Thursday and charged with having his silver pick-up operated by a drunken driver. While still with the Titans four years ago, McNair was arrested in downtown Nashville and charged with DUI and illegal gun possession. NEW ENTRY MAY 'BLOW' AWAY FIELD AT TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP: Her name is Andrea. The PGA decided to move the Tour Championship from late March to May because it supposedly rains less this time of year - relatively speaking. Guess that plan would work, unless hurricane season starts early.  JUICE NOT SERVED AT LOUISVILLE STEAKHOUSE: Well, sounds like the Kentucky Derby had a field of 20 horses and at least one donkey among the railbirds. But before attending the big race on Saturday, O.J. Simpson along with a dozen buddies walked into a local steakhouse. Enter owner Jeff Ruby, who walked up to Simpson and calmly told him 'I'm not serving you'. Juice and his party then got up and quietly left the establishment, and the owner was given an ovation by the other patrons. They do have that disclaimer that they have the right to refuse service to anyone - as long as it's not racially fueled. Says Ruby afterwards, 'I didn't want to serve him because of my convictions of what he's done. The way he continues to torture the lives of those families (Ron Goldman, Nicole Brown) with his behavior, attitude and conduct' Ruby added that seeing the attention Simpson continues to get makes him 'sick to his stomach' and added 'it was the first time since 1994 he has ever shown any class' by leaving the establishment quietly. Ruby also said and that he once had a picture of him and Simpson on the walls of the restauarant (along with other celebrities) but was removed after the 1994 murder rap. However, Simpson's lawyer said that the incident was very much about race and that he intends to go after Ruby's liquor license adding 'he screwed with the wrong guy' Ruby owns similar restaurants in Cincinnati and Indiana - meanwhile Juice has really been struggling for a good steak since the Sizzler got busted out several years ago.ANOTHER ORIOLES BROADCASTER IN TROUBLE: Former catcher Rick Dempsey usually appears on Orioles pre and post-game programming, but this past Sunday was in the broadcast booth during the game with Gary Thorne. During that telecast, the wife of Baltimore outfielder Jay Gibbons visited the booth, she was there to promote an upcoming fundraiser to help fight domestic violence. During the segment, Dempsey suggested to Mrs. Gibbons that she might want to grab Jay (hitting .213 at the time) by the neck if he didn't get out of his slump. Mrs. Gibbons reaction??? 'Not going there'. Obviously this is not going as well as his Babe Ruth impersonation during a rain delay in his playing days. Dempsey is in full backpedal mode, while Jay Gibbons commented that his wife was a little upset, but considered the incident a case of someone speaking before thinking - and considers it a simple mistake and accepts his apology.  VERNON WELLS SENDS 'MESSAGE' TO HECKLER: In a game in which he was actually well enough to play last week, Blue Jays outfielder Vernon Wells responded to a creative heckler in Cleveland's Jacobs Field with an equally creative response. Wells threw the fan a baseball with the following message - 'Dear Mr. Dork: Here's your ball, now please tell me what gas station you work at so I can come and yell at you when you're working. Please sit down, shut up and enjoy the game. From your favorite center fielder, Vernon Wells' The Blue Jays do not visit Cleveland again this year, but since the fan does not have a life, he says he plans on driving to Detroit for a makeup game in September - where he figures to get another shot at Wells. Now I've got a few questions for Vern. Any second thoughts on signing that long-term contract with a team doomed for perennial third and fourth place finishes for the forseeable future??? Will you finally have that Canadian 'out' accent down by the end of your career??? And will you and Shea Hillenbrand pop champagne corks long-distance next week when your manager gets the axe??? |
