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TOP STORIES - MAY 17, 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!  2006 NFL DRAFT PROFILESFIRST QUARTER GRADES ARE IN: 41 DRIVERS INCLUDED, DOES YOUR FAVORITE DRIVER PASS OR FAIL??? FIND OUT IN KAC RACING.  BONDS THROWN AT!!! Houston pitcher Russ Springer throws at Bonds on five consecutive pitches before getting thrown out. Springer receives standing ovation upon leaving.DEGENERATE GOALKEEPER MAKES WORLD CUP ROSTER: Gianluigi Buffon included on Italy's World Cup squad despite reports that the Juventus goalkeeper bet on soccer games. The allegations surfaced last week amid a wide-ranging scandal engulfing the Italian League's most well known team. Buffon has acknowledged he bet large sums on various sports events but said he stopped when rules were put in place at the beginning of this season banning players from such activity. In case you're playing the CDM soccer team, Italy is in the Group of Death with the U.S., Ghana, and the Czech Republic. WILD-CATS: Northwestern women's soccer program suspended after allegations of hazing. A Web site (SEE BADJOCKS) displayed pictures of players clad only in T-shirts and underwear, some with blindfolds on and others with their hands tied behind their backs. Other women had words or pictures scrawled on their bodies and clothes, and it appeared some were drinking alcohol. Meanwhile I was watching Penn St. and Stanford in women's rugby on CSTV the other day - can you imagine a Saturday night in the dorm with those gals??? Hazing on campus, I never would of thought.  D-BOW WAS ONCE CAUGHT WITH D-ROIDS: Yes, rockstar/relief ace Derrick Turnbow is the answer to a trivia question. As an Angels farmhand in 2003, Turnbow became the first major league player publicly identified as testing positive for a banned steroid. It occurred as Turnbow was trying out for the U.S. Olympic team, and the banned substance was said to be something in an over-the-counter substance, known in gyms as '19-nor'. As a result, Turnow was banned from international competition for two years, which was irrelevant since the U.S. did not qualify for the Olympics - since this was before MLB's drug testing program, it also had no impact on Turnbow's major league career. Another interesting fact, Turnbow 'badly broke' his arm throwing a pitch while in the minors in 2001. That put Turnbow out of action for 15 months, and he has a pin permanently in his elbow to hold the fracture site together. You wonder if the Brewers might possibly think out the possibility of a recurrence before shelling out a big-money multi-year contract, but then again closers are often disposable. You may recall that Jose Canseco alleged in his book that it was possibly steroids that caused a similar injury to then Devil Rays pitcher Tony Saunders.CANADIAN ANTHEM BOOED 'LOUDLY': The vociferous booing started from the opening notes of O Canada before NHL playoff game in San Jose. While other fans attempted to drown it out by singing along, the boos were audible until the final notes. REACT: That crap is unfortunate, I would like to say that the Edmonton fans will show a little more class before the next game, but things there got a little ugly with the Star Spangled Banner during a series a few years back. ALLIGATORS AFTER THE LADIES IN FLORIDA: THREE deaths in less than a week in separate incidents in separate parts of the state, all of the victims are females. There had only been 17 previous confirmed fatalites in the state in the last 58 years. NFL PLAYER ARRESTED OUTSIDE NIGHTCLUB: At 2:30 in the morning, wow - that's never happened before. Like how FOX was counting how many drivers got a Darlington stripe on NASCAR over the weekend, I should keep a tally on how many NFL players get arrested at clubs. In this case Colts defensive end Sweet Pea Burns was reported tasered by authorities, which probably stopped him better than a hand punch by a 350 lb offensive lineman. The police report says Burns was in a crowd of about 100 people and was to leave several times after allegedly being involved in disorders. It is said at one point the 6-2, 250-pound Burns pulled off his shirt and pulled his arm back in a striking position. PAC-MAN JONES GETS OUT OF DODGE: Speaking of NFL players and clubs, Pac-Man decides to leave the Nashville area for Arizona until training camp. Says Jones, 'I can't even breathe in Tennessee. Everybody acts like I killed somebody or something. Everything that's happened, it's either been a rumor or I wasn't involved. But I've been a target ever since I've been there. I'm used to it. I just hope it gets better.' Adam, I think it's those little ghost things that are after you, throw away the Oijua board. So now Phoenix bouncers have Mike Tyson, Joey Belle, and PacMan Jones to contend with.LONGHORNS PLAYER CAUGHT WITH FIVE POUNDS OF WEED: Texas running back Ramonce Taylor, who scored in UT's Rose Bowl win over USC, was arrested Sunday by deputies who said they found about 5 pounds of marijuana in a backpack in his car. Sherriff also says a live 40-caliber round of ammunition was found in the console of the vehicle. Taylor's future with the UT program appears in serious jeopardy, but he may be a future candidate to challenge Onterrio Smith or Ricky Williams for the CFL rushing title. HEADLINE OF THE WEEK: DOLPHINS NEGOTIATING WITH 'NEW' MEXICO??? I did a triple-take on this Rotoworld headline - is it possible that Albuquerque city officials have a state-of-the-art 75,000 seat stadium drawn up in hopes of luring one of the NFL's more storied franchises out west??? Actually, that would be a Ricky Williams pipe dream. This is actually about the Dolphins lukewarm interest over undrafted QB Marcus Vick - get it, 'New' Mexico??? TIMING OF JIMMY SMITH RETIREMENT RAISES EYEBROWS: NFL veterans legacy includes overcoming a broken leg, a near-fatal emergency appendectomy, and more recently a substance abuse suspension. It is the latter that has Jacksonville fans scratching their heads, wondering why Smith would retire abruptly with the Jaguars emerging as a possible Super Bowl contender in 2006. The popular theory is that Smith learned of a positive drug test and would be facing a one-year suspension. All I know is that if Smith were playing for the Bills, I wouldn't ask GM Marv Levy if that was possibly true. Even at age 36, Smith was very productive in 2005, catching 70 passing and scoring six times.  PINK PANTHER: Rekindling memories of the Easter Sunday rally neary 20 years ago, Bill Hall wins Mother's Day game with 10th inning homer. I'm guessing the pink bat will be auctioned off for a pretty nice donation. The special bats were authorized for use only for Sunday as part of a breast cancer awareness campaign. Many of the players who were chosen to use the bats throughout baseball discarded them after one or two AB's because they weren't comfortable with breaking in the new lumber. Unfortunately, Cliff Floyd did not have a pink bat - if he had and homered we could of said all in all it's just another hanging slider going over the wall. ADAM LAROCHE BLUNDER: Braves first baseman just about booed out of Turner Field after half-assed effort leads to huge inning by the opposition. A little background, LaRoche suffers from A.D.D. - he often takes naps before games and teammates often have to remind him when his turn at bat is coming up. The fans may have been harsh, but most of them suffer from the disorder of being physically unable to throw or hit a 90+ MPH fastball. As the case in most professions, everyone gets treated the same - Manager Bobby Cox has already announced that LaRoche will not be in the lineup on Monday. DUSTY BAKER ON THE HOT SEAT: Yeah, yeah, I know - he lost his two best pitchers and his best hitter, his second best hitter is in a horrendus slump and his other top pitcher is a head case. Still, you have to play the hand you're dealt. Just watch a tape of the fifth inning from Friday and you'll see why Dusty needs to go, it was like watching the eighth inning of Game 6 all over again - it's like seeing nine Adam LaRoche's on the field. HIDEKI MATSUI APOLOGIZES FOR GETTING HURT: Consecutive game streak ends at 1,768 games, but not before his fractured wrist had swollen to twice it's size. The good news was that Pascual Perez had nothing to do with the injury. Matsui apologizes for letting his team, fans, and fantasy owners down. Apologize?? I missed work last week to get my Prozac prescription refilled.BLUE BOMBED - ONTERRIO WHIZZES OFF TO MANITOBA: Former Viking goes even farther north to Winterpeg, where the landscape for most of the year is about as white as the stuff Onterrio snorts. Guess CFL is the place if you like drugged out ex-NFL players. JIMMIE JOHNSON WANTS YATES TO BACK UP HIS WORDS: When Johnson Crew Chief Chad Knaus was busted at Daytona, rival NASCAR owner Robert Yates suggested that future offenders should face a lifetime ban. Well, Dale Jarrett Crew Chief Slugger Labber was busted for putting an illegal 'sway bar' on Jarrett's #88 last weekend. Says Johnson on his satellite radio show, 'I just hope Mr. Yates lives up to what he said he would do - when he was down there throwing stones out of his glass house saying if anybody in his organization was ever caught cheating that he would fire them.' Labbe did offer his resignation this week, but Yates did not accept. Meanwhile Slugger maintains that he was not cheating, that he merely thought that he had found the dreaded 'gray area' in the rules. LOADED SUTCLIFFE ASKS LOADED QUESTION: An old friend of mine in San Diego named Mike Leary would be busting a total gut over the following story. Be sure to check out the YouTube link at the top of this page of Rick Sutcliffe's shoot interview with former collegues Mark Grant and Matt Vasgersian during a Padres telecast this week. While Vasgersian was trying to tell Sutcliffe that he was the answer to a trivia question, Rick slurred on and asked V why he was still at San Diego Channel 4 when the Dodgers, WGN, and ESPN are supposedly pounding at his door. Sutcliffe also slurred about playing golf with Bill Murray (I'm guessing that's where he may have had a few beverages), his daughter being accepted into Harvard medical school, and that's she's about to leave for Africa on 'a mission' (isn't that the Padres slogan this year??), adding that George Clooney is there too and has 'been up with Congress trying to solve 'that thing'', a reference to Clooney advocating a resolution of the Darfur conflict, a recent episode of ER was dedicated to that issue. First off, Vasgersian should be left alone, he's on FOX's #7 NFL team, does the Heads Up Poker Championships, and did ski-jumping play-by-play during the Winter Olympics, I'd say that's a career going places. Actually, I think it's that XFL experience he keeps trying to omit from his resume that keeps holding him back. And funny Rick be asking people what they're still doing in San Diego. People there are still screaming for Dave Campbell to come back. In fact I overheard a conversation on the San Diego Trolley a few years back when a man tells his son how awful the TV announcers were, saying something like 'Rick Sutcliffe??? He never pitched for the Padres, he just started fights against the Padres...' (Andre Dawson v. Eric Show/1987) I say there should be a new rule, get all interviews with Sutcliffe in before the end of the seventh inning.  PICTURE OF THE DAY: Looking for some new blood coming to the LPGA Tour??? I'm mean new blood that just hasn't turned 15??? This is top collegiate golfer Paige Mackenzie throwing out the first pitch before a Seattle Mariners game. Paige is listed as the #1 amateur golfer by Golfweek magazine, and is making the final appearances of her collegiate career in the NCAA West Regionals this week. By the way, the chick in the gold wetsuit who dived in to get Blaine the other night, she ain't bad neither. GREAT CZABAN BLOG: Talks about the endless hype (without trophies) regarding Danica Patrick, Michelle Wie, LeBron James, and Peyton Manning. On Danica and Wie I couldn't agree more, they've been hopelessly shoved down our throats. And It's obvious that Manning is a big-game choker, so I can't disagree too much there. As far as LeBron is concerned, the hype is justified - in fact I thought Steve Nash winning MVP over him was B.S. As was the case with Michael Jordan, it will only be a matter of time (provided he gets his supporting cast) before LBJ wins a title.BEN SHEETS DL STINT: After being questioned after getting shelled last week, Brewers pitcher asked reporters 'do I have to jump through hoops to prove I'm healthy???' Rotoworld came up with a hilarious take saying that the Brewers were being very Cub-like in not disclosing Sheets injury. For the record, this time it is not the lat muscle, or the muscle attached to the lat muscle, but indeed the shoulder. Hopefully you got my advice back in March to steer clear as far as fantasy baseball is concerned, and indeed Sheets career is on the very same path as Kerry Wood/Mark Prior. And no matter what the team says, look for it to be a few weeks before they dare send Ben on a rehab assignment. MONEY HUNGRY NHL: Carolina Hurricanes charging $85 for second round playoff tickets, they will be $125 for the conference finals and $180 for the Stanley Cup Finals. Also the Florida Panthers are planning on erecting a fence around their arena, and will charge $5 for fans who 'walk in' past the fence. The team hopes that will curtail the practice of fans parking for free at an adjacent shopping center, rather than paying $15 for arena parking. But it isn't like the fans are boycotting, a USA Today poll this week suggested that Calgary Flames fans that tickets for the teams first round playoff series were being re-sold at an average of $330 U.S., that's Lambeau Field like scalping rates. ENGLAND WORLD CUP SELECTEE IN NIGHTCLUB BRAWL!!! Imagine an incident at the Pro Bowl involving a who's-who of NFL players along with some sleezy women - that's about what happened at a season-ending party in Central London over the weekend, featuring a number of Premiere League stars along with 'Page Three' girls. For those of you in Rio Linda Page Three Girls are 'barebreasted models' who appear in a popular London tabloid. During the closing-time melee, it was said that Chelsea star Wayne Bridge was punched in the face. Bridge would be named to England's World Cup game later on in the day. And you thought nightclub brawls involving players only happened in Seattle... TABLOID REPORTS OF JUICE 'CONFESSION' DURING O.D.: Enquirer cover story tells tale of O.J. Simpson overdosing on a dangerous mixture of cocaine and Ecstacy while partying with a couple of woman in a Miami apartment. It is said that the Juice clutched his chest, and although he was scared of dying that he was even more fearful of going to the hospital - knowing that the media would have a field day. The article said that while freaked out, that Simpson told one of the ladies 'Maybe I did kill Nicole and Ron', the tabloids have reported in the past that Juice tends to 'confess' when he is drugged up. Enquirer also had a story on Prince William's 'secret honeymoon'. No such thing, trust me - when Bill pops the question you will know, Kate Middleton probably can't wait to get hitched so the Diplomatic Protection Department can keep her away from the paparazzi. I will tell you what however, Kate is one hot number - can we finally put that Diana tramp in the past???  DAVID BLAINE NEEDS SOME DISH SOAP: You are looking live at David Blaine's hands, which they say are peeling away. And these are the hands that Blaine is going to need to uncuff himself Monday night. Blaine says his skin is causing him pain 'like constant pins and needles' after five days immersed in the acrylic sphere. It is said prolonged submersion poses a number of hazards, including nerve damage, blackouts, sleep deprivation and skin problems. Get a feeling that nine-minute breath hold might not end so well??? UPDATE - BLAINE IN 'PRETTY BAD SHAPE': But vows to carry out his nine minute breath-hold finale tonight, and medics are already on standby. Link includes video showing what has happened to his organs.PRIZE RECRUIT ARRESTED: Highly recruited LSU linebacker Al Jones arrested after 're-starting' a fight that had been broken up during a three-on-three basketball tournament. Jones and two other LSU students were arrested on charges of 'disturbing the peace by fistic encounter'. Jones was considered one of the best defensive ends coming out of high school a year ago. |
2003 NFL DRAFT PROFILES
