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2008 NBA DRAFT: Nathan Jawai, Serge Ibaka, O.J. Mayo, Kevin Love, DeAndre Jordan, Alexis Ajinca, Derrick Rose, Nikola Pekovic, Donte Greene, Jerryd Bayliss, Kosta Koufas, Eric Gordon, JaVale McGee, J.J. Hickson, Bill Walker, Marreese Speights, Robin Lopez, D.J. Augustin, Brook Lopez, Ryan Anderson, Russell Westbrook, Joe Alexander, Michael Beasley, Jamont Gordon, Brandon Rush, Mario Chalmers, Chris Douglas-Roberts, Courtney Lee, Jason Thompson, D.J. White, DeVon Hardin, Joey Dorsey, Kyle Weaver, Roy Hibbert, Trent Plaisted, Shan Foster.....


VIDEOS: Check out Favre's appearance on Greta Van Susteren, along with some ESPN reports from last weekend here.


2008 FANTASY FOOTBALL STARTS NOW: 50 quarterbacks (and all 32 teams) ranked for your reading pleasure...


MAYBE HE'S JUST LIKE HIS FATHER... Dig if you will this picture, Prince Fielder engaged with his starting pitcher in anything but a kiss, while his clueless manager (at left in this photo) is just a spectator, Brewer fans can very much picture this. Now the big question - if the Carolina Panthers could suspend Steve Smith internally for two regular season games for beating up on a teammate, then do the Brewers have the balls to discipline Prince properly in the middle of a playoff race??? Why does Prince keep screaming at everyone - is this what it's like, when the Brewers slide???

CURT SCHILLING AND MANNY FOUGHT THREE YEARS AGO??? Those two??? Never would have guessed...


FEELING THE HEAT??? Rodgers goes 7-20 for 84 yards in Packers scrimmage.


FAVRE DONE IN GB AFTER ALL??? Favre, McCarthy meet for five hours last night - latest report is that BF doesn't want to disrupt the chemistry and McCarthy told him that Aaron Rodgers IS the starter. The story adds that the two may have agreed to part ways - but Favre is still adamant about staying in the division.


UGA FOOTBALL BLOTTER LIST GROWS: Not only are they #1 in the pre-season polls, the Georgia Bulldogs are proving they can line-up with anyone in the SEC in the arrest department as well. Junior linebacker caught on a surveillance camera smashing stuff around in a hospital parking lot during the middle of the night - that player was on the hospital grounds because two of his teammates were being checked out in the ER after being in a bar fight earlier in the night. A little inside info there, lots of cameras and security at the hospitals during the night, they do have to enforce that no smoking rule anywhere (including inside cars) on the campus (which results in employees, visitors, and even patients to physically leave the grounds to fire up a heater - sometimes illegal, even on break time, in the employees case). Oh, and there's more trouble for Mark Richt, another player was also busted over the weekend for public drunkenness and pissing in public, that player had been in trouble before. In all five players will be suspended for the Bulldogs season opener (against Georgia Southern, I think they'll survive) while a sixth has been booted out of the program altogether.


SHOCKER - BROADCASTING ICON SKIP CARAY PASSES AWAY: Died in his sleep at age 68 during the day on Sunday. Known nationally as the voice of Atlanta Braves baseball since the 1970's, Caray had been limited to broadcasting home games this season due to a myriad of health problems including diabetes, congestive heart failure, an irregular heartbeat and reduced kidney and liver functions. Caray started feeling ill towards the end of last season, and was given last rites while basically in a coma for three weeks after - not long after expressing his disappointment towards TBS not letting him broadcast that network's first run at airing post-season baseball games. Featuring a style that varied greatly from bombastic father Harry Caray, Skip was a TBS fixture from the teams lean years of the 1970's-80's to the teams run of 14 straight division titles (actually 14 of 15 - someone please award the Expos SOMETHING from that '94 season). Skip had been relegated to working home games only this season, what would turn out to be his final broadcast was last Thursday - Caray had been absent from the broadcasts this weekend as his play-by-play partners announced that he was dealing with bronchitis, although his voice was still heard on various advertisements.



HE'S BACK???

Statement from Packers president Mark Murphy:

'Sixteen years after Brett Favre came to the Packers, he is returning for a seventeenth season. He has had a great career with our organization and although we built this year around the assumption that Brett meant what he said about retiring, Brett is coming back. We will welcome him back and turn this situation to our advantage.'


DUI HORROR - FORMER NASCAR CREW CHIEF CHARGED WITH MURDER: A former crew chief in the NASCAR Truck Series has his flatbed tow truck go out of control, hit a mailbox, then a culvert before careening over the center line and onto the path of an oncoming SUV, killing that vehicle's driver and injuring his wife. The suspects BAC in the case was a whopping .43, and video footage has him buying a 24 ounce beer moments before. An officer was pursuing the suspect at the time of the accident, the tow truck had already crossed the center line, running a deputy off the road, who then turned around. Over the past three years, the suspect had two other DUI convictions with BAC readings of .20 and .24, the bail in this case has been risen from $500,000 to $1 million dollars, a request by the prosecutors that was granted. The suspect was able to get his license reinstated earlier this year on the condition that his car be equipped with an ignition interlock, the tow truck he was driving did not have that device. Meno to the world - down 50 beers if you must, just don't get behind the wheel afterwards...


NASCAR THREATENING TO BUST OUT THE RAIN TIRES??? In case NASCAR hasn't noticed, Goodyear hasn't been doing very well with the normal tires lately. Today, a Nationwide Series race is scheduled for a road course in Montreal - rain is in the forecast, and NASCAR does have rain ties on standby in case of that event. NASCAR has had rain tires as an option for road course events for years, although the possibility only really existed at Watkins Glen since Sonoma usually doesn't get rain. Still, the possibility makes one shudder - would rain tires mean a competition yellow every three laps - or would they just run behind the safety car for the entire race.

MEXICO CITY RACE DROPPED: NASCAR quietly ends it's four-year experiment of running Nationwide Series races in Mexico City. And there doesn't seem to be much complaining about it, attendance dropped like a stone this year and it was an awfully long haul for many of the lower-budgeted teams to get there. I would hate to see Morgan Shepherd's 3:16 race team or the hauler carrying the Boudreux's Butt Paste Chevy get stranded in the Mexican outback...


#4 ON YOUR PROGRAM, #4 ON YOUR DEPTH CHART: Way too much news out there - take your choice on the various angles: Commissioner Goodell has put off Favre's reinstatement at least for one more day. Meanwhile Favre has had an on-again, off-again flight scheduled from Mississippi to Green Bay. There's also now a report that the Jets are in 'serious discussions' regarding trading for Favre. And then there's John McCain during a campaign stop, he wouldn't touch the Favre issue with a ten foot pole. And the Packers have a special place for Favre in case he does report for camp - far away from everyone. It's said that Favre would be limited to 'individual drills' if he showed up. I also would say don't look for him to see any action in GBP's upcoming scrimmage, or in any exhibition games. Yes, Favre would be behind Aaron Rodgers, Brian Brohm, and Matt Flynn on the depth chart - Ted Thompson isn't about to let Favre get an opportunity of proving he's still the best QB on the roster. You and I would probably have a better chance being pulled out of the stands and getting behind center than #4, actually would the Pack even give Favre his #4 if he showed up??? Just for one more insult they just might give him David Whitehurst's old jersey...


GBP OFFERING $20 MILLION TO FAVRE TO STAY AWAY??? In a move (if true) that could 'cripple' the Packers in the court of public opinion, a Milwaukee TV station, citing two sources, reports that Packers president Mark Murphy 'floated' the idea to Favre of paying him upwards of $20 million over 10 years to remain retired. Float??? That one probably sunk like a lead weight.

WILL PACK BE FORCED TO TRADE WITHIN THE DIVISION??? A source said to be close to the situation says that the Packers were considering doing the unthinkable, seeking a deal with the Minnesota Vikings or Chicago Bears, if backed into a corner by the National Football League and public sentiment.

MANNY RAMIREZ DRAGS FAVRE'S NAME INTO CONVERSATION: Now here's someone who truly knows how to napalm bridges - Manny's been talking like Ted Thompson is running the Red Sox - and just in case Manny was still not going to get his wish, he holds a sign in the dugout during Boston's loss saying that he had been traded to Green Bay for Favre 'straight up'. What's next - Barack Obama running a TV ad saying that John McCain flip-flops more than Favre???


CUBS BEATING BREWERS IN FAN FIGHTS TOO: 24 year-old Brewers fan throws beer can at bus full of Cub fans stuck in traffic, three of them (ages 25, 26, and 34) get out and beat Brewer fan, knocking out a tooth in the process. Brewer fans gets a disorderly conduct ticket and a trip to the ER. Cub fans get to spend the night in jail and are charged with 'substantial battery', and I don't mean Carlos Zambrano and Geovanny Soto.


PIC OF THE DAY!!! Unheralded Chez Reavie (no, I never heard of him before this weekend neither) scores his first PGA Tour win at the Canadian Open - Chez's personal trainer brings out a bottle of champagne to celebrate, but is tackled from behind by a police officer - the officer then sees that the man was indeed credentialed, and was then able to continue his dousing.


RYAN GRANT AGENT 'INSULTED' OVER CONTRACT OFFER: As I hinted a few days ago, this has fast become a bigger development than the saga regarding that 'retired' quarterback. A representative for Ryan Grant says his camp was insulted by a contract offer they finally got from the Packers over the weekend. It's said the contract only contained a $1.75 million signing bonus. They pointed out that by comparison linebacker Brady Poppinga received a $3 million bonus on a contract extension last week and that Devin Hester got a cool $10 million bonus on a 4 year/$40 million pact over the weekend. It should be noted that the Hester negotiations got contentious less than a week ago before those two sides quickly came to terms. Nonetheless, Grant and the GBP sound miles apart right now - are the Packers going to end up relying on Noah Herron by mid-season???

MAYBE HE JUST DOESN'T LIKE MEQUON: In the final year of his contract (5 years/$7 million), Steven Jackson is a no-show at Rams training camp - the team responds by cutting off contract negotiations entirely. Jackson will be fined $15,000 per day until he shows up so the team has the leverage at this point - another training camp poker game to watch.


TONY STEWART SHOVES RACE OFFICIAL: Smoke didn't even wait until the end of a disappointing finish to the Brickyard 400 to get mad at anyone this year - wait, did they even have a 'race' at the Brickyard??? In any event, Smoke blew up earlier in the weekend when a car that he owns wasn't allowed back on the track during a USAC race at Indianapolis Raceway Park, shoving a race official in the process. Stewart apologized later and said that he is still trying to be perfect 'like 99 percent of the public is right now' Now go back to bitching about Goodyear, he's got a lot of company in that one.


'COMPROMISE' REACHED IN FAVRE SAGA: At the request of Ted Thompson, Favre will not report to training camp this weekend, as Thompson has asked for a few days to seek a resolution.


RYAN GRANT TALKS AT A STANDSTILL??? Now this might be something to worry about, as Ryan Grant's agent says he has not heard from the Packers in the last 72 hours, and is now NOT optimistic that a deal will get done in the foreseeable future.


HUGE MINOR LEAGUE BRAWL!!! I think this one trumps whatever happened in the WNBA the other night. Initially 15 players and both managers ejected after first inning beanball war between the Peoria Chiefs (Cubs affiliate) and Dayton Dragons. After a bottom of the first inning that saw two batters hit by pitches and an infielder suffering a broken leg on a hard slide in apparent retaliation, acting Peoria manager Carmelo Martinez (yes, the one-time Padres and Cubs outfielder) and his Dayton counterpart got in an argument which soon turned physical. During the ensuing melee, the Peoria pitcher fired a ball at someone in the area of the Dayton dugout, he missed, the ball ended up hitting a fan, sending him to the hospital. The game resumed an hour later with the player ejections reversed by the league president via conference call, so both teams would have enough players to finish the game. Ryne Sandberg is normally Peoria's manager, he's away from the team this week so he can attend the Hall of Fame inductions in Cooperstown.

UPDATE - PEORIA PITCHER ARRESTED: Yup, getting into a brawl and throwing punches at the opposition is one thing, but when a fan gets hurt, that's when the cops get involved. Peoria pitcher Julio Castillo arrested and charged with felonious assault for throwing the baseball and dotting the fan.


EIGHT IS GREAT... As in eight wins in a row and eight hits in a row. Braun goes deep in ninth, Brewers sweep Cards.


WELTERWEIGHT IN A COMA - BOXER LOOKING AT POTENTIAL $1M MEDICAL BILL: Oscar Diaz needed emergency brain surgery after collapsing in his corner after fighting gamely for ten rounds in a nationally televised fight last week. Doctors remain optimistic that Diaz will ultimately pull through, but add that Diaz may remain in a coma for upwards of a month and his long-term prognosis is uncertain. Meanwhile it is being estimated that Diaz's medical bills could skyrocket upwards to seven figures. It's said Diaz has a $50,000 policy out, the minimum required to be licensed in the state of Texas - where the fight took place. I'm sure Gerald McClellan's family has expereience dealing with that. Meanwhile the industry fears that there will be renewed calls to ban the sport - and some are questioning whether the Diaz fight should had been called much sooner. Will never happen, boxing will go on, and boxers will continue to get hurt. And boxing takes just as much criticism when fights are called early, fans will always cheer for the fighter who may not win, but guts it out and goes the distance.


SHOCK - WOMEN'S HOOP LEGEND BACK IN THE GAME: Off the heels of negative attention received by a brawl in the closing seconds of a game earlier this week, the Detroit Shock sign 50 year-old Nancy Lieberman to a seven-day contract. Lieberman was already the oldest player in the history of the league, she was 39 when she played in the WNBA's inaugural season. Between the Shock and Los Angeles Sparks, ten players along with coach Rick Mahorn were suspended in the aftermath. Lieberman takes the roster spot of another player who suffered a knee injury trying to restrain a teammate from the melee.






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