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TOP STORIES - JUNE 29, 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! COUNTDOWN TO COLLEGE FOOTBALL: This is an ongoing countdown of the Top-50 Division I teams heading into the 2007 season: #50 Central Michigan | #49 Kansas St. | #48 Arizona | #47 Cincinnati | #46 Michigan St. | #45 BYU | #44 Texas Tech | #43 Iowa | #42 Georgia Tech | #41 Wake Forest | #40 Purdue | #39 Maryland | #38 Kentucky | #37 Alabama | #36 Missouri | #35 Oklahoma St. | #34 Oregon St. | #33 TCU | #32 Oregon | #31 Notre Dame  OFFICE OF BENOIT DOC RAIDED: Federal drug agents and sheriff's officials have raided the office of Chris Benoit's personal physician in search of records and other items. The raid at Dr. Phil Astin's office began Wednesday night and concluded Thursday. The search warrant had been obtained in connection with the Benoit investigation. In another develoment, the DA says 10 empty beer cans were found in a trash can in the Benoit home, and an empty wine bottle was found a few feet from where Benoit hanged himself. Also a WWE attorney said that in the days leading up to the murder-suicide that Chris Benoit and his wife argued over who should take care of the seven-year old son. It's said the child suffered from a rare medical condition known as Fragile X Syndrome, an inherited form of mental retardation often accompanied by autism. BENOIT 'DELUSIONAL JUICE FREAK'??? Man who started him off in wrestling profession refers to Benoit as a 'delusional juice freak' who chased the dark side and had trouble distinguishing between his fictional character and reality, and added that he was not at all shocked by what happened. Bruce Hart adds if he could see something was wrong with Benoit, then how could WWE not know that something was amiss. Hart adds that he believes steroid use starts effecting wrestlers at around age 40 and that they are a 'deadly cocktail that needs to be further examined'.FORMER ESPN WORKER CITES SEXUAL HARASSMENT: The four-letter network is beginning to get quite a rap sheet with these alligations over the years – Tirico, Harold Reynolds et al. A former makeup artist who worked on the set of Cold Pizza, is suing ESPN saying she was canned after complaining about harassment by host Jay Crawford as well as by Denver columnist Woody Paige. Interesting to note that the Denver Post only ran an AP copy of the story buried in the sports section while the Rocky Mountain News did the story on the home page – can you guess which Denver fishwrap Woody works for??? This would not be the first time Woody has landed in sexual harassment hot water, in 1992 Paige was reassigned after accusations made by a female assistant. That woman later reached a financial settlement with the paper. An ESPN spokesman says the charges against Woody and Crawford are false, declining to discuss the specific charges. ESPN GAMEDAY OPENS AT VA TECH: In what for obvious reasons will be an emotional event, ESPN announces that Virginia Tech will be the first on-site campus pre-game broadcast for the 2007 college football season, the show will air on September 1. Va Tech plays East Carolina that day, but the otherwise run-of-the-mill opener is sure to garner as much media coverage as any game that will be played that day. FINAL RESPECTS PAID TO ROD BECK: Former Giants manager Dusty Baker and current manager Bruce Bochy were among an estimated 200 people who attended the services for former major league pitcher Rod Beck. Family and friends remembered Beck as an intimidating competitor, and as a man who devoted time and money to helping children with AIDS. During the service his widow said 'At his core, he was determination. He never quit. That doesn't mean he never failed. He just kept trying.' The Giants plan to honor Stacey and Rod Beck at the teams annual 'Until There's a Cure Day' event, scheduled for July 27. PADRES TO ACQUIRE MILTON BRADLEY??? If so, just what kind of malakov cocktail is Kevin Towers trying to create in the San Diego clubhouse??? How long before Milt and Michael Barrett turn on each other and another pro wrestling match breaks out??? Towers might as well go all out and pick up Shea Hillenbrand while he's at it, a grouchy part-time pinch hitter just might put that team over the top. NASCAR PARKS CTS DRIVER FOR ONE RACE: In what could serve as a warning to Busch and Cup Series drivers (Kurt Busch), NASCAR has handed down a rare one-race suspension to veteran Truck Series driver Ted Musgrave, who retaliated against another driver while under caution during a race last weekend. The original incident occurred when Musgrave made contact with a lapped truck. Says the other driver 'I don't think there was any need for that. I guess he's a poor loser or something'  BIGGIO WASTES NO TIME REACHING 3,000 HITS: Sat down in two of the Astros three road games this week in part so he would reach milestone during the team's ten-game homestand, Craig Biggio has career night to become 27th member of baseball's 3000 hit club. For good measure Biggio tried to stretch hit no. 3000 (his third of the game) into a double and was thrown out. Biggio wound up with five hits on the night, the last of which helped set up Carlos Lee's game-winning grand slam in the 11th innning. Biggio makes history on the same day Frank Thomas became the 21st player to amass 500 home runs. Thomas ended up driving in four runs on his day and also mixed in a ejection arguing balls and strikes in his final at-bat.MADE IN CHINA, DRAFTED BY MILWAUKEE: Yi Jianlian had made himself into kind of the Scott Boros prospect for the NBA Draft only working out for certain teams and his camp making subtle hints that he would like to play for a California-based team. Unfortunately for Yi, his bluff was called as the Milwaukee Bucks select him #6 overall, and Yi almost looked like someone shot his dog. Meanwhile the Celtics draft Georgtown's Jeff Green at #5, and immediatley trade him to Seattle (which had already selected Kevin Durant at #2) for veteran Ray Allen. WILL YI EVER SUIT UP IN BREWTOWN??? Yi not scheduled to appear in Milwaukee in near future, will work out for Chinese national team before playing in Vegas summer league.BENOIT WIKIPEDIA PAGED ALTERED: Someone got into Wikipedia and changed Chris Benoit's bio to include that he missed a couple of shows in Texas due to the death of his wife. Well that did happen, what was unique is that the information was added Monday morning, before the grisly discovery of the bodies of Benoit, along with his wife and son. A Wikipedia official says that the entry was made by someone using an Internet protocol address registered in Stamford, CT, where the WWE just happens to be located. Either someone had an inside line or someone is a very good remote viewer. It is noted that an IP address does not necessarily have to be broadcast from where it is registered, so it's conceivable that Benoit himself revised his page. KOBAYASHI FORCED TO KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT??? Six-time hot dog eating champion Takeru Kobayashi received a chilling diagnosis about jaw pain which limits how far he can open his mouth. On a blog earlier this week, Kobayashi revealed that he was visiting a specialist for relief of the bum adding 'I can't open my jaws more than just a little bit'. Kobayashi is scheduled to defend the title he has held for most of this decade next week. Myself I was thinking the specialist he really needs to see is an internist considering what happens to his bowels after wolfing down 50+ dogs. WHAT MIGHT REALLY KILL VINCE MCMAHON: WWE boss issues 'non-apology' for three-hour 'tribute' to Chris Benoit which aired Monday night. WWE and USA Network say they were not aware of the circumstances when the tribute was put together to air in place of the scheduled 'Monday Night Raw' program, which was supposed to be an 'investigation' into the faux death of McMahon at the hands of a car bomb while sitting in a stretch limo. Meanwhile, the WWE site posted an article saying that the organization was concerned about 'sensationalistic' reporting on the Benoit story. Let's see, guy kills his wife and kid, and was supposedly giving steroids to the kid - that is pretty sensational. Tuesday night the normal 'ECW' episode was aired on the Sci-Fi network, the open contained a statement by McMahon - stating that the telecast would be the first step towards the 'healing process'. SECURITY TO BE UPGRADED AT LAMBEAU: Following new mandates set in place by the National Football League, the Green Bay Packers are erecting a 2½ foot barrier that will surround the exterior of Lambeau Field. Along with the concrete barriers, planters, benches, and team and stadium logos will be in place - this so fans attending games look at the additions as decorative and not as a security regulation. The company installing the barriers has experienced a surge in business since 9/11, selling it's security perimeter products to more than 40 U.S. stadiums as well as more than 200 military bases. It's projects include New York's Times Square and the Mall of America. Total cost of the Lambeau Field installation is expected to be in the $1 million range. HOUSTON, YOU HAVE A PROBLEM: Former NBA player Byron Houston arrested after witnesses see him choking his chicken in his SUV. Officers found Houston in the driver's seat of his vehicle with his underwear on the floorboard, and was positively identified. Houston pleaded guilty to three counts of indecent exposure in 2003 and is a registered sex offender. SHEA HILLENBRAND WEARS OUT ANOTHER WELCOME: Don't think he got around to calling out Mike Scioscia and writing that the 'ship is sinking' but Angels plan on designating controversial first baseman/DH Shea Hillenbrand for assignment. Says Shea: 'It's a good thing because I'm at the point in my career where I need to play on a daily basis. That's where I've been and why I've had the success I've had'. Shea, here's a clue - when you hit .250 with 22 RBI in 53 games, you aren't going to be starting too many places - although maybe the Nationals can take you and Milton Bradley in a package deal. I also observed Shea not hustling during an early-season game v. Cleveland, there's probably been another occurance or two or three of that. If someone isn't happy on a first-place team, then where are they going to be happy???  ANOTHER DEATH IN WRESTLING INDUSTRY: Sensational Sherri Martel found dead at her mothers house in Alabama at age 49. Police confirm Sherry did not die of natural causes, but foul play is not suspected as the case continues to be investigated. Martel first made a name for herself winning the AWA women's championship belt in 1985, and worked in the WWE, ECW, WCW, and TNA among other circuits in her career. Sherri Martel was NOT related to fellow wrestler Rick Martel, in fact in both cases the surname was in fact a stage name. Check out the O'Reilly Factor segment at the top of the page, where it is said that no less than 60 performers under age 45 have died in the professional wrestling industry in just the last ten years.BENOIT UPDATE - HUNG SELF AFTER STRANGLING WIFE, KID: Guess he did have a family emergency Sunday night - according to the coroner the wife was strangled Friday, the son suffocated late Saturday or early Sunday. Chris Benoit's body was found hung from a pulley of a piece of exercise equipment. Steroids were found on the property, and a determination is being made on weather roid rage played a role in the killings. Nancy Benoit had filed for divorce and filed a restraining order in 2003, saying the couple's three-year marriage was irrevocably broken and also alleged cruel treatment, the proceeding were eventually dropped. In the divorce filing, it was said that Chris Benoit made more than $500,000 a year as a wrestler. JUSTIN MORNEAU RETURNS TO METRODOME: I thought they were going to make him take the Greyhound back from Miami, that would had been even scarier than the Twins first baseman went through a couple days earlier when he wound up spitting blood from a bruised lung after a home plate collision. Now that they know he is OK, Morneau is getting absolutely no mercy from teammates for not bowling the catcher over. Morneau says he still has soreness in his chest, 'but nothing I'm taking any crazy painkiller for.'  THE ULTIMATE WRESTLING SHOOT: WWE scriptwriters thought they had come up with a doozy a couple weeks back when they had Vince McMahon 'whacked' at the hands of a car-bomb at a close of an episode. But real life ends up trumphing fiction as wrestler Chris Benoit, his wife (a long-time wrestling valet), and seven-year old son were found dead in their suburban A-T-L home Monday. Benoit was supposed to appear on a WWE pay-per-view this Sunday night, but it was announced during the telecast that he had been replaced due to a 'family emergency'. It also sounds like this is going to be more than your run of the mill murder-suicide, as the D.A. has already hinted 'The details, when they come out, are going to prove a little bizzare'. The first clue according to the WWE's website is that Benoit sent 'several curious text messages' before taking his family's life - and that it was possible that the wife and child were killed over the weekend. The WWE adds that they have additional details, but that the Sheriff's department had requested that the information not be given out at this time. Chris Benoit, 40, was ironically good friends with Eddie Guerrero, the two were both world championship belt holders a few years back - Guerrero was found dead in a Minneapolis hotel room two years ago. Nancy Benoit, 43, was a well-known valet for many wrestlers, among them Chris Benoit (before the two were an item in real-life) as well as assisting in Sandman's cigarette and booze entrance back in ECW's late 1990's heyday. An episode of WWE RAW which was supposed to center on finding Vince McMahon's possible 'assailant' was pre-empted an a tribute to Benoit was aired instead. The program opened with McMahon in an empty ring, explaining that his 'death' was a work, but that the Benoit tragedy was as real as could posssibly be.RACE 3 IN AMERICA'S CUP DELAYED: Yes, they still hold those once every six years or so - it's just become another one of those events that the Americans do not do well anymore, thus no one cares. You can say however that it's more competitive than the NBA Finals, as challenger New Zealand scored an upset over the Swiss defenders to knot up (there's a pun!!) the best-of-nine series at 1-1. Now it is too windy, or maybe not windy enough, or perhaps the wind is shifting too much - in any event the competition is currently on hold.  INDIANA COACH GETS SENDOFF: Deciding that the service should resemble more of a Saturday game day than a funeral, players dressed up in their practice outfits for the memorial service of Indiana football coach Terry Hoeppner, whose mourners included musician John Mellencamp. After the service (which the widow referred to as 'magical') the players chanted '13' which was Hoeppner's rallying cry in his two years as IU's coach, 13 referring to the number of games he expected his team to play, which would mean the program's first bowl bid since 1993. Expect the team to carry on that fight this year, and maybe even become about the 90th school to win a bowl game since Notre Dame last won one.BEARS SAY TOODLE-OO TO TANK: Saying that they are embarrased as an organization, the Chicago Bears give Tank Johnson his walking papers after his latest run-in with the law. Tank was stopped last week after doing 40 in a 25 zone and was charged with 'DUI impaired to the slightest degree'. Probably not a big deal to most rank-and-file players but not one with Tank's rapsheet.  PAUL LO DUCA AND HIS ITALIAN TEMPER: After an equipment throwing tirade after being ejected in the sixth inning the other night, Mets catcher Paul Lo Duca says 'Good Italian temper in me'. Fortunately we had Paul wired, here is the transcript of what he had to say to the umps...'YOU BLOODSUCKERS, YOU DIRTY BLOODSUCKERS - I THINK YOU KNOW WHAT MY PROBLEM IS - SCREW YOU!!! SCREW YOU!!!' I can see Dr. Melfi in session with Paul right now...'So does throwing your catchers gear all over Shea Stadium make you feel better???'ERIC ALMIROLA ADD: It turns out that Latin America drivers won both NASCAR races this weekend - as Milwaukee Busch Series winner Eric Almirola is said to be Cuban-American, and is part of the diversity program that was set up by Joe Gibbs along with NFL legend Reggie White. Meanwhile Juan Pablo Montoya had just enough gas to finish and win the Save/Mart 350 in Sonoma - surprisingly it was Ganassi's first Cup Series win since Jamie McMurray won pinch-hitting for Sterling Marlin at Charlotte late in the 2002 season. CECIL FIELDER CALLS OUT SON: If you were looking for Prince Fielder to reach out and make up with his dad (or vise versa) as he starts to get widespread national attention with the upcoming All-Star game and home run derby, don't hold your breath. Making a rare public appearance at a Toronto Blue Jays alumni function, Cecil Fielder says he won't try to renew his relationship with his son until he treats him with more respect. Here's what Cecil had to say: 'I just don't think my son knows how to let it go. I don't think he's grown up yet. Until he can move on and talk to me like he's my son, we don't need to talk. He's going to talk to me like he's my son, not like I'm a man out on the street. I let him know, at the end of the day, if you ever talk to me like that again, you're going to see me in front of 40,000 people trying to get after you. That's just not how it's going to go down' The elder Fielder earned almost $47 million during his career. But according to a 2004 story by The Detroit News, Cecil was said to have squandered that fortune through gambling and bad business decisions. Fielder later sued the newspaper saying the story was inaccurate. Shortly after being signed by the Brewers in 2002, Prince was reportedly served court papers regarding his dad after a game with class-A Beloit. It is said that Prince and Cecil have not been on speaking terms for approximately three years. |
