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TOP STORIES - JUNE 19, 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 PROFILESEDMONTON POLICE WARN FANS: After no less than 400 fans were arrested the other night, police are asking hockey fans not to converge on Whyte Avenue after Monday night’s Game 7 between the Edmonton Oilers and the Carolina Hurricanes. And for those who do flock to the popular post-game hang out, a spokesman warns authorites are taking a 'very low-tolerance' approach with they call yahoos. There have been complaints of 'hooligism' on the strip since the Oilers defeated the Anaheim Ducks to win the Western Conference title. One car dealer reports having to put some of his merchandise inside after some tires were slashed, while many say they were arrested Saturday night for doing nothing other than celebrating the Oilers win.  BREWERS JERRY-RIG VICTORY??? Does this sound like a Metrodome ploy or what??? On a stormy afternoon in Milwaukee, the roof at Miller Park is closed. However the outfield panels were closed in right field, but left open for 'ventilation' in left. You're welcome to believe that it was a coincidence that left-hander Zach Jackson was pitching for Milwaukee against Cleveland right-hander Paul Byrd. Lefties Corey Koskie and Prince Fielder go deep early in the game, while a drive by right-hander Carlos Lee dies on the track. However in the ninth, Lee goes the other way - and the jet stream carries the ball over the right centerfield fence for a game-winning three-run homer. At right is a tornado that was in the area that caused the EBS system alarm to sound in the ballpark during the game.NFL URGING TEAMS TO 'BAN' GARY GLITTER??? In case you don't know, Gary Glitter is the rock star who produced Rock and Roll Part II back in 1972, also known as the 'Hey' song. Yes, that number you've been hearing for about the last 15 years or so. The problem is that the 62-year old Glitter has just had child molestation charges against him upheld in Vietnam. At one time the death penalty was thought to be a possibility, but Glitter was instead sentenced to three years in prison, with parole and time already served - Glitter could be out by Christmas. However, the NFL is reportedly asking it's teams not to play Rock and Roll Part II at games this coming season, and other North American sports leagues could very well follow suit. Among other things, the Glitter song was featured last year in an Allstate commercial, which was inspired by a tailgate fire which occurred in a Qualcomm Stadium parking lot before a Chargers pre-season game last year. TOGO DECIDES NOT TO CARRY OUT: African based soccer team was threatening to boycott it's remaining World Cup group games over a pay dispute. Facing a huge embarrassment if the players had carried out their threat, FIFA stepped in to the long running dispute at the 11th hour, telling Togo that a boycott would result in 'heavy sanctions'. During ESPN's telecast on Monday, Dave O'Brien reported that the team was asking for $200,000 per player plus a $40,000 bonus per win. The average per capita income in Togo is just over $1,000. Know-it-all analyst Marcelo Balboa says Togo's demands were way out of hand, and that the bonus issue should had been taken care of months ago. EX BIG-LEAGUER SAYS HE TOOK HGH LEGALLY: 15 year MLB veteran David Segui becomes the first to step forward as being one of the players mentioned in Jason Grimsley's affidavit. But here's the hook, Segui says he used the drug with a doctor's prescription because of a growth hormone deficiency. Segui said he first started using the hormone after the deficiency was found when he went for blood work before surgery during his playing career. The 39-year-old Segui said Jason Grimsley came to him this past offseason, seeking advice about HGH and how it might help him recover from arm surgery. UPDATE: After getting swept in Texas, the Diamondbacks are now 1-11 since the Grimsley raid, being outscored 97-35 in the process. This is turning into the biggest season-ruining scandal since the Zeke Mowatt debacle with reporter Lisa Olson sent the New England Patriots into a 14-game tailspin in 1990.'I BASICALLY SUCKED TODAY...' Tigers take batting practice in Mark Prior's season debut.  WHO WILL BE NEXT 'THREE LION' TO KNOCK UP PAGE THREE GIRL??? I thought the degenerates in London were nuts enough, placing bets on who will score for England in the World Cup. Now it turns out you can also place a bet on who will be the next 'significant other' of an England player to get knocked up. Victoria Beckham, already a mother of two, goes off as a slight favorite at 7-4, closely followed by Wayne Rooney girlfriend Coleen McLoughlin (won some American Idol-type contest) at 3-1. Ashley Cole fiancee Cheryl Tweedy (who has a couple 'drunken altercations' on her resume) is also in the mix at 9-2. The girlfriend of reserve Theo Walcott is a longshot at 20-1, it's interesting to note that both Walcottt and his girl are 17. Meanwhile people are still trying to figure out if Peter Crouch even has a lady. Actually a more important subject is who will be the next spouse of a U.S. Soccer player to go preggers - oh wait, no one on that team ever scores. Another hypothetical question, if David Beckham had an affair and knocked some other Page Three girl up, would that be an own goal???WHEN WILL GOLF ADDRESS STEROIDS??? Of course all the golf afficiados will tell you that it's simply advances in equipment that has players driving for un-godly distances. Yeah, that and... Yeah, baseball hasn't been the only sport that has turned a blind eye - a VERY well written article. LUIS GONZALEZ UPSET AT WHISPERS: You may have read Ben Maller's site last week, when he made note of Gonzalez going more than 170 AB's without a home run - and wondered what was up with someone who hit 57 just five years ago. Now, in a unsolicited, 'rambling interview', a Diamondbacks front office executive talks candidly about steroids. In the article, Ken Kendrick talks about how the team the team has 'quietly' gotten rid of players that it believed were violating the steroid policy, and about whispers concerning Luis Gonzalez. Meanwhile the Diamondbacks are now 1-8 since the Jason Grimsley episode, being outscored 74-21 in the process. ONE NIGHT NEAR BANGKOK LEAVES TWO FANS DEAD: Two football fans have been shot dead in Thailand for cheering too loud after Italy scored v. Ghana. The victims, ages 30 and 41, were watching the game at a restaurant in the resort of Pattaya, and cheered after Italy scored it's first goal. A man at a nearby table asked them to quiet down, after which an argument ensued before the man pulled out a handgun and shot the fans at point blank range. Police know the identity of the gunman, who fled after the shooting. Pattaya, about 70 miles southeast of Bangkok, is known for it's beaches, it's thriving sex industry, and it's high crime rate. God - pythons, crocodiles, and you could be capped before ever making the massage parlor, let me take Thailand off my places to visit list.  ITALY UPSET ABOUT U.S. 'WAR' COMMENT: Azzurri believes statements made by 22 year-old U.S. forward Eddie 'Jarhead' Johnson comparing the teams upcoming World Cup clash to war were a little over the top. While staying at the Ramstein Air Base, Johnson said he hoped the spirit of the U.S. troops would carry over to it's soccer team, saying 'It's like us in the World Cup. We're here for a war. We came here to battle, we came here to represent our country.' WHAT PART OF 'PLUNK' DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND: White Sox rookie Sean Tracey comes into a game in Texas with his team losing 8-0 in the seventh inning, gets the first batter out - but then is immediately pulled, then screamed at by manager Ozzie Guillen, then sent back to AAA after the game. What is wrong with this picture. You see, Rangers starter Vicente Padilla was in the middle of twirling a three-hit shutout, but had somehow managed to hit White Sox catcher Jack A. Pierzynski, not once - but twice. You think the evidence points to Ozzie wanting the rook to retaliate, especially since he had another pitcher warming up??? Guillen tried to insist afterwards that he just brought the wrong guy in, saying 'I tried to get Montero ready and wasn’t able to. It was a little late. It was my mistake. I didn’t get him up quick enough. I didn’t want Tracey in that situation.' Yeah, right. Rookie pitcher making minimum salary is supposed to dot someone and risk a hefty fine and lenghty suspension. Maybe Jack Pierzynski likes crapstorms but perhaps a rook pitcher doesn't want any part of being on the receiving end of a bench clearing brawl. If Oz wants a goon to plunk someone I'm sure John Rocker's available.ESTABAN LOAIZA CLOCKED AT 120!!! Speaking of former White Sox pitchers, who says Loaiza has lost velocity - well, at least he hasn't lost velocity driving his Ferrari, which he did a cool 120 on. Now the bad news, Loaiza didn't even beat the A's franchise record (125 MPH, Jose Cansceco/1989) - and not surprisingly Loaiza also failed the ol' field sobriety test. Says A's manager Ken Macha 'This is a very serious situation'. So is having your ERA barley under seven. Doing 125 on a quiet freeway at 3:30 in the morning, and you know there are never cops hiding in the weeds then. FLYING TWO MILES HIGH: Ecuador advances to second round for first time ever, has outscored opponents 5-0. CASEY MEARS MOVE TO HENDRICK OFFICIAL: Is good friends with Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson, but what about that Kyle Busch guy??? CINCINNATI BENGAL ARRESTED: And I bet you wouldn't guess who. Actually, I was just thinking the other night - it had been at least 11, 12 days since we had heard anything out of Chris Henry. Well, he has now broken that 'dry' spell - now he's charged with serving alcohol to three underage women under 21. So let's see, in just over six months we have a speeding charge w/no valid license with pot hidden in his shoes, a gun charge in which he was wearing HIS JERSEY at the time, and a speeding/DUI from just two weeks ago. That's four busts in just six months - talk about hitting for the cycle. And that's not even counting something else he was investigated for in late April. This has to be the greatest crime spree in professional sports history. GERMAN, POLISH SUPPORTERS CLASH: On the field, Germany finally gets a goal past a short-handed Polish squad in the waning minutes to improve to 2-0 at the World Cup. Outside the stadium, 120 German hooligans, along with 60 Polish supporters - were arrested during the pre-game festivities. 1 THRU 156: U.S. Open field ranked... (My Take: You really think Tiger isn't going to win on Father's Day???) BECKHAM FAMILY INSULTED??? With England on a collision course to face Germany in the knockout stages of the World Cup, a 'sleazy' German tabloid is said to have launched a 'vicious' attack towards Sir (you know the knighthood is coming) David Beckham. Among other things, the tabloid called Beckham's sister 'fat' and that his mum has 'the smile of a peasant'. Supposedly both of Beckham's children were also referred to as 'dwarfs'. It sounds like the German fishwrap has indeed succeeded to getting the English captain to fly off the handle, as Beckham is said to be 'furious'. Let's get serious now, Thierry Henry gets banana peels thrown at him everywhere he goes in the Premiere League and Beckham's going nuts over third-grade style name calling. And it shouldn't matter if ol' sis was 400 lbs., last time I checked she was not on England's roster. If he really wants to see himself get insulted, I'm sure there are plenty of places on the internet where Beckham can get offended some more. KNIGHTHOOD ADD: If they can give Geoff Hurst, who ended his career playing in the Seattle Kingdome with the Seattle Sounders - knighthood, they might as well give it to Beckham, Michael Owen, and Wayne Rooney right now. Stooping to playing NASL trumps three goals in a World Cup Final any day. RETRACTABLE ROOF ORDERED CLOSED: What in the name of Enron Field is going on here, is Bud Selig running FIFA now??? After an outcry over shadows that appeared during the England/Paraguay game a few days back, the retractable roof at Frankfurt Stadium was ordered closed for the South Korea/Togo clash on a warm, sunny day. It's said that strong 'irregular and distracting' shadows from beams supporting a video board ruined the TV images of the England game for fans around the world. All I know is that if it was Beckham bellyaching I am slamming him. Actually, it would have helped to have the cameras and the press box on the shady side of the field. What I was more worried about was having that scoreboard crash on some unsuspecting midfielder - I worry a bit about German architecture.JJR DUI: Already being blown out of proportion and being called the latest incident to rock the Duke athletic department. Please, dude's already graduated (or at least used up his eligibility. JUICED UP BALLS AT WORLD CUP??? Goalkeepers having a fit over new balls that are slippery and supposedly curve more - and observers are fearing that it may lead to MORE SCORING (oh my God). NOW THAT IS GRIM: He just got done throwing some of his ex-teammates under a bus, but it turns out his house once got plowed into by a Cessna. In January, 2005 a twin-engine aircraft was reduced to 'bits and pieces' after crashing into a house in a 'well-to-do' Kansas City suburb, it's wreckage and five victims coming to rest on the back porch of a home after clipping a street lamp, several trees, and a couple vehicles. Yes, it landed on Jason Grimsley's property, and I guess being a situational middle-releiever and an alleged partner in a pharmaceutical company would qualify as well-to-do. The pitcher wasn't home at the time, but Grimsley's wife and daughter was. At the time Dana Grimsley was quoted as saying 'I heard it coming down. I looked to my right and saw it come down. It was in a different room of the house, so I didn't see it hit. I ran upstairs from the basement with (daughter) Rayne. We called 911 and ran out.' Amazing stuff. DID GRIMSLEY NAME PUJOLS??? Yeah, that would be a blockbuster. A personal trainer denies his name was redacted from Grimsley's 20-page affidavit. Chris Mihlfeld also says there is no way that Albert Pujols, who works with Mihlfeld, was one of the names given by Grimsley or that he is using performance-enhancing substances. Mihlfield adds 'You can guarantee that one' and also says that Pujols won't even drink his protein shakes during the season under the fear that someone might contaminated them.  BIG BEN INJURED IN BIKE WRECK: Listed in serious, but stable condition after SEVEN hours of surgery. No, he was not wearing a helmet - you may remember this being talked about last year at this time. Early reports said the accident occurred on Second Avenue near the 10th street bridge in Pittsburgh. According to witnesses, Roethlisberger flew over his handlebars, hit the windshield of another vehicle - then hit the ground. Roethlisberger reportedly tried to get up, but was bleeding profusely from the head. UPDATE: Looks like Roeth's endorsement deal with Chunky Soup couldn't have come at a better time, for that's all he's going to be eating for a while. It's said that Roeth has lost 'most of his teeth' in the accident, along with a broken nose and broken jaw and a nine-inch laceration on the back of his head. There were also unconfirmed reports that Ben had badly injured both of his knees, which would be much more serious from a football perspective. Although Jerome Bettis is among those who said later that Ben should be good to go by the time the regular season starts. 2005: Ben Roethlisberger lectured by coach Bill Cowher on the dangers of riding a motorcycle without a helmet, but the quarterback said he wasn't ready to get off his $20,000 cycle. Roeth said at the time 'I'll just continue to be careful. I told him we don't ever ride alone, we always ride in a group of people, and I think it makes it even more safe.' (sounds like he was riding alone on Monday) AND YOU KNOW THIS IS COMING: The first question is going to be whether Roeth was at fault and whether he was doing any wheelies/showboating before the accident. You also know people are also going to speculating on whether Ben was hung over - especially with those 'Drink Like a Champion' photos from the internet still fresh in everyone's mind. Considering Steeler Nation speculated for six years on whether Kordell Stewart was gay you know this is going to be in play as well. I'm sure plenty on those angles of the story will come out in the next 48 hours or so.LIKE BANGING ON A WIDOW AT A FUNERAL??? Tommy Maddox's agent gives the Steelers a call. What, Tommy wants his front yard ripped apart again after a 3-INT outing??? |
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