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TOP STORIES - AUGUST 23, 2008 VIDEOS: Check out Favre's appearance on Greta Van Susteren, along with some ESPN reports from last weekend here.  2008 FANTASY FOOTBALL (EXPANDED!!!): QUARTERBACKS | RUNNING BACKS | WIDE RECEIVERS | TIGHT ENDS/KICKERS/TEAM DEFENSES HOPE BECOMES DESTINY - U.S. WOMEN WINS GOLD: Overcoming the loss of team leader Abby Wambach in the team's final exhibition, and overcoming an opening 2-nil loss to Norway, U.S. Women's Soccer rights the ship and downs Brazil 1-nil in extra time in the final. Once-embattled keeper Hope Solo made several key saves and Carli Lloyd scores the gold-winning goal in the 96th minute. GYM RATS - JUST HOW YOUNG ARE THEY??? The minimum age is supposed to be 14 - it is being said that three of the Chinese gymnasts who participated in the Beijing Games may be as young as 14. IOC PRES CALLS OUT USAIN BOLT: IOC head Jacques Rogge not happy with how the Jamacian flaunted before crossing the finish line after his record-breaking 100 meter performance, or his celebration and not shaking his competitors hands. Didn't look like too much that was out of order to me - have a feeling he doesn't watch much NFL on Sunday's...NFL UNION HEAD GENE UPSHAW IS DEAD: Dies after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer just this past weekend. Before heading the NFLPA, Upshaw was a Hall of Fame lineman for the Raiders for 15 years. Upshaw's passing comes as relations between the NFLPA and the owners becomes more contemptuous. The owners this past off-season opted out on extending the Collective Bargaining Agreement, meaning 2010 looms as an uncapped season, with a possible work stoppage after that. Upshaw has been on record saying that if the salary cap ever goes away, that the players would never agree to it again.  RED ALERT - BECKY GETS HER SHOT AT TEAM USA: From Russia, with love - big time, as Becky Hammon gets her chance to exact revenge against the U.S. in a Thursday semi-final game. Word out of the Hammon camp has been that playing for Russia is no big deal, it's not like back in the day. I guess - maybe....except for this deal about Russia rolling in the tanks on Georgia in a bloody attempted takeover which just happened to occur on the eve of the Opening Ceremonies. Who knows what the long-term geopolitical ramifications of that will be - other than that Cold War's just a thing of the past!!! Guess it will be an awkward moment during the pre-game when the Star Spangled Banner is played, or maybe after Russia wins the bronze and she has to hear it again for the first-place team on the medal stand. But you're a great patriot Becky - we assume you knew what you were potentially getting into. MICHAEL PHELPS EARNS HIS STRIPES WITH FROSTED FLAKES DEAL: Already legendary for his junk food prowess, the octo-Gold Medal winner inks deal with Kellogg's to be on Frosted Flakes and Corn Flakes boxes, instead of the tradition Wheaties box. Nutrionists already concerned about runaway childhood obesity in the United States are already sounding the alarm, with one saying 'I would not consider Frosted Flakes as the food of an Olympian'. According to the lables, Frosted Flakes have 3X the sugar and 1/3 the fiber of Wheaties. Cool down people, there is Frosted Flakes Gold, the official sponsor of the Little League World Series...CG SABATHIA: Allows 11 hits, two walks, throws 130 pitches - and he laces a two-run bases loaded single to the opposite field like he ought to be hitting third every night. In fact, TV immediately shows footage of Astros manager Cecil Cooper's game-winning hit from the 1982 ALCS, it was the SAME SWING!!! Meanwhile there is crazy talk, actually it becomes less crazy every fifth day, that Sabathia could win the NATIONAL LEAGUE Cy Young. That would be for three months worth of work, what he did in Cleveland wouldn't count. Let's see - seven more starts, if he finished something crazy like 13-0 or 14-0...with all respect to Brandon Webb, I would put Carston Charles in the mix. BIG-TIME PENALTIES EXPECTED AT JOE GIBBS RACING: NASCAR says they were caught red-handed putting MAGNETS under the GAS PEDALS on the #18 and #20 cars after the Nationwide Series race to alter the results of a post-race Dyno inspection. Says the coach himself - 'If this alleged incident proves true, it goes against everything we stand for as an organization. We will take full responsibility and accept any penalties NASCAR levies against us' And they will be HUGE, perhaps unprecedented penalties. And now for the bigger question - is the thoery now in play that the the Gibbs crews have been doing something fishy on the Cup side - maybe the #18 car in particular - hmmmm.... ANOTHER U.S. PLAYER PLUNKED IN OLYMPIC BASEBALL COMPETITION: Memo to the IOC, do you REALLY want to drop baseball??? Former Brewers-now-Indians prospect sent to the hospital after getting beaned in the U.S.'s hostility-filled 9-1 win over China. The plunking comes just a few days after Jayson Nix needed microsurgery near his eye after he saw the ball headed straight for his face on a bunt attempt. Hostilities began earlier in the game when LaPorta knocked China's starting catcher out of the game in a home plate collision. Another U.S. player then slid hard into China's backup catcher the following inning, he wanted to throw right there and had to be restrained by teammates. U.S. players said later that if this game had been back in the U.S. the benches may have cleared - wise idea there, back away from a brawl on their turf - they could wind up getting detained until Election Day. Someone tell these guys that A.J. Pierzynski did NOT declare Chinese citizenship and is not on their roster!!! AARON RODGERS DOES NOT PLAY TO RAVE REVIEWS: Says one personnel man at halftime of the Packers 34-6 loss at Frisco, 'It's pretty bad when J.T. O'Sullivan is outdoing you...'  FAY AND THE RAYS: As the Lemonheads would say, 'It's a Shame about the Rays'....or maybe Bud Selig could call Fay Vincent for advice on this one. The Tampa Bay Rays are scheduled to host the Angels for a huge three-game series starting Monday. One problem with that, as you can see here current projections have Tampa as Ground Zero with Tropical Storm (or maybe Hurricane) Fay, with the storm hitting landfall at around gametime Tuesday night. The Angels are already in town, and Rays officials are hoping to get at least two of the three games in. I don't see any of the games being played, Monday's for getting the hell out of dodge, Tuesday's the storm itself, and Wednesday's the clean-up, and the stadiums usually wind up as the command posts. Or the storm could veer west, pick up strength, and gas prices could soar 50 cents per gallon by Wednesday. So it's either the oil platforms getting flattened, or Tropicana Field getting flattened - some might prefer the latter...JEFF KENT BLASTS VIN SCULLY!!! Kent going after people is anything but new, if you believe his Wikipedia write-up, it's supposedly been happening since high school. But to say smack towards the dean of baseball broadcasters is almost akin to taking on Christ himself. And what is the controversy over??? Well, Scully has been mentioning on-air that Kent has hit .500 since Manny Ramirez has come on board, actually it was probably something like this...'It's interesting to note that Jeff Kent is 22 for 46 since the acquisition of Manny Ramirez, now talk about picking up the pace...' Yup, Kent will go down in history as someone who didn't to squat unless Manny or Barry Bonds was hitting behind him. Actully, all Kent said is that 'Vin talks too much' and that in his four years with the Dodgers he has never seen Vin in the clubhouse. Kent should really cut the man some slack, the dude's 80, kind of hard to get from the press box to the clubhouse, not to mention I'm guessing he spends 12 hours per day researching the bios of all the opposition players. FANTASTIC LINE!!! You want an announcer to really VENT on Kent??? Brewers announcer Jim Powell blogs that Kent will have a very difficult time hitting for the rest of the year with a spiked shoe inserted in his mouth. Holy crap, not even Charley Steiner is capable of cutting that deep. I know Kent, he's not quite as big a fish as Scully, I'll introduce you to him before the Dodgers-Brewers NLCS...WINE 'EM, DINE 'EM, 9.69 'EM: 100-meter mark shattered at Olympics, and it wasn't Tyson Gay, in fact Tyson Gay didn't even qualify for the final. And the sickest thing about Bolt, his time SHOULD had been down at least in the low 9.6's, he slowed in celebration before the end. JAMAICA SWEEPS MEDALS IN WOMEN'S 100: They have some well-publicized challenges in bobsledding, but I think they have that 100-meter dash thing down - take ice and sleds out of the equation and they're good to go... U.S. BASEBALL COACH ACCUSES CUBANS OF INTENTIONAL BEANING: Davey Johnson accuses his Cuban counterpart of foul play after Colorado Rockies prospect Jayson Nix landed in the hospital with an eye injury sustained in the 11th inning of the Americans 5-4 loss. The incident in question occurred during a new tie-breaker format being used for the first time in these Games. After the tenth inning, each team gets to start the following inning with runners on first and second base and with each team getting it's choice to pick up the batting order at any point - please no one pass this idea on to Bud Selig. After Cuba capitalized for two runs in the top half of the inning, Nix opened up the bottom half of the inning and attempted a bunt - only to find the pitch heading straight for his head, the pitch deflected off Nix's bat and landed just above his eye. ANOTHER PICTURE SURFACES OF SPANISH ATHLETES MAKING 'SLIT-EYE' GESTURE: A photograph emerges of the Spanish women's tennis team along with it's support staff making the gesture before a Federation Cup match against China earlier this year. That 2016 Olympic bid ain't looking too good right now. WRESTLER JETTISONS BRONZE MEDAL BEFORE CEREMONY: Upset with the judges after losing his semi-final match in the Greco-Roman competition, Swedish wrestler throws down his flowers then drops his bronze medal in the middle of the mat in protest. The ceremony then goes on with gold, silver, and the flowers of the bronze medalist on the deck next to the other bronze medalists. (no third-place match for semi-final losers) FORBES DUMB RANKINGS FOR THIS WEEK: Fresh off last weeks feature where Austin, TX upset Milwaukee for the title of America's drunkest city, Forbes ranks the ten most loyal fan bases in Major League Baseball, here it goes... 10. San Diego (maybe), 9. Baltimore (huh??), 8. St. Louis (way too low), 7. Milwaukee (agree there), 6. Toronto (myself I'm trying to find a U.S. market for them to move to), 5. Pittsburgh (huh??), 4. Cubs (at least some sanity there), 3. Atlanta (the franchise that can't sell out playoff games), 2. Boston (you're close there), and finally 1. (drumroll please...) Texas!?!?!? I understand fans turning out thick AND thin is supposed to be factored in, but that list is beyond stupid - now for MY list... 1. Boston (they are MLB's answer to the Packers, paying insane amounts for home games and taking over road venues), 2. Cubs (like their fan base or not), 3. St. Louis, 4. NY Yankees (drawing 4 million+ per year has to be worth something), 5. LA Dodgers (packing in 55,000+ on the weekends has to be worth something), 6. NY Mets (their new stadium will also be a boost), 7. Milwaukee (will draw 3 million+ this year, they're approaching the lofty standard set by the Packers), 8. Seattle (tough to gauge when team is awful this year - but tremendous interest when team is competitive), 9. San Francisco, and 10. Cleveland (has dropped somewhat from a decade ago). Just missing my cut is Detroit, San Diego, Houston, Philadelphia, and the Angels.  I-M LEGEND - STEPH RICE TAKES SECOND GOLD: Stephanie Rice breaks her own record in the 200 individual medley, adding to her earlier win in the 400 I-M. SWIM LIKE A BUTTERFLY, WATER IN THE GOGGLES STING LIKE A BEE: Sorry Tiger Woods, there may be a new leader in the clubhouse for sports figure of the year - with his arms churning furiously through the water, so much so that it led to a goggle malfunction, Michael Phelps wins the 200 butterfly for his fifth gold medal and fifth world record of the 2008 Games. YEAR OF THE CAT??? Cat Osterman outdeuls Tanya Harding en route to hurling the second no-hitter in Olympic history as the U.S. blanks the Aussies 3-0. Harding is participating in her fourth Olympics and actually has pinned tow of the four losses on the U.S. All-time. She also attended UCLA just long enough to lead the Bruins to a national championship before she was ruled ineligible and the Bruins were busted by the NCAA. SPAIN BASKETBALL LANDS IN HOT WATER: In a oair of bizarre team photos, members Spains men's and women's basketball teams pull the skin from the sides of their eyes to make a 'slit eye gesture'. Most of the players (including NBA player Jose Calderon) did not look at it as a big deal but others in the Asian world may think otherwise - and some go as far as to say that the incident could hurt Spain when bidding for the 2016 and 2020 Summer Games rolls around. Recent ethnic/racial abuse from the Spainards in recent times include chants directed at black soccer players representing England and similar insults hurled at Formula 1 star Lewis Hamilton.GANG-BANGERS BARRED FROM WEARING CHARGERS/PADRES GEAR IN SAN MARCOS: A turf war that would be more expected somewhere along El Cajon Boulevard has wandered all the way up to the Suburban North County community of San Marcos - according to an article that appeared over the weekend in the North County Times, where some 90+ known gang members have been told not to wear material representing the San Diego Chargers or San Diego Padres. Problem is, one of the warring gangs wear Chargers/Padres while the rival gang 'representing' Los Angeles wears Raiders and L.A. Dodgers gear. Yet another gang in the area known as the Diablos was told a few years back to quit wearing Detroit Tigers hats ('D' - get it), it's also been said they also wear Duke Blue Devils material but I'd say their blue and white scheme might get them confused with the Dodger gang. The civilian world got caught in the crossfire a year ago when a person out for a stroll was shot at by a passing vehicle full of gang-bangers, before being jumped on and stabbed - the man had made the mistake of wearing a LaDainian Tomlinson jersey on what was considered the Raiders/Dodgers gang's turf. There are other angles to the story - such as complaints made to the NFL and Major League Baseball - particularly the production of teams hats in different colors (i.e. Yankees caps in powder blue or red) that can match the colors of certain gangs. The article went on to say that representatives for the Padres baseball and Chargers football organizations offered no comment while an NFL representative said that law enforcement is responsible for stopping the gang activity of those wearing NFL merchandise. IN-LAW OF OLYMPIC COACH MURDERED IN BEIJING: In a brutal, shocking attack, a knife-wielding man attacked a tour guide and two relatives of a coach for the U.S. Olympic men's volleyball team in Beijing, killing one and injuring the other two - during the first day of the Olympics. The double-stabbing occurred inside the 13th century constructed Drum Tower landmark, after the act the suspect committed suicide by jumping 130 feet from the tower. Dead is Todd Bachman, the father of former Olympian Elisabeth Bachman, who is married to the volleyball coach. The wife of Todd Bachman was also wounded in the attack along with the tour guide.ACTOR BERNIE MAC DEAD AT AGE 50: stemming from an inflammatory lung disease. Among his many movies and projects was his starring role in the baseball film 'Mr. 3000' a few years back. Mac is also remembered in the baseball world for proclaiming the Chicago Cubs as 'champs' during a rendition of 'Take Me Out to the Ballgame' at Game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series - one inning before the infamous Steve Bartman incident. Mac also landed in hot water very recently doing a routing during a Barack Obama appearance, drawing a rebuke from the Obama campaign.  B - R - E - T - T, IT'S BRETT AND THE JETS... It's finally over, we think - at least you can say Favre is still in green, Pack confirms Favre has been traded to New York Jets for a conditional draft pick. The New York papers are hailing the acquisition as the Jets boldest move since outbidding the old NFL for Joe Namath. Myself I don't even know if I want to rank this with acquiring Boomer Esiason yet, and wouldn't it be something if BF 're-retired' and stiffed a second orginization???EVEN BF SUPPORTERS SEE THE END: So what does a doctor do after the patient dies??? As recently as last night, the Bringbackbrettfavre site was proclaiming that 'we are winning', but after the divorce between Favre and the GBP apparently became final today, that site is now focusing their efforts on running GM Ted Thompson out of town, and has announced a rally to call for Thompson's head before the Packers' nationally televised pre-season game Monday night... |
