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TOP STORIES - NOVEMBER 1, 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! FOOTBALL IS HERE!!!  WEEK 6 FANTASY RANKINGS DEGENERATE CENTRAL WOULD YOU LIKE FRIES WITH THAT??? In a Halloween costume contest in which the winner was to win a car, Lions quarterback Jon Kitna and his wife dress up as a 'naked coach' and a fast food attendent, complete with red-haired wig. Sound familiar??? You may recall in August 2006 defensive line coach Joe Cullen was arrested after ordering at a drive-thru el natural. Still employed by the Lions, Cullen eventually pleaded no contest and was ordered to attend A.A. meetings. When asked if he was bothered by Kitna's choice of costume, Cullen said 'no comment' adding that 'it's in the past' while head coach Rod Marinelli said 'It's Halloween, I'll leave it at that'. Meanwhile long-suffering Detroit fans just hope their team can continue to masquerade as a division title contender for the rest of the year.AND YOU THINK BILL BELICHICK HAS NO MERCY??? Stat piling high school team puts up 72 points - in the first quarter. That might be the Patriots total when they play the Jets in Week 15, if Tom Brady is just breathing you're looking pretty good if you have him for a fantasy playoff game that week. WATER PROBLEM LEADS TO NASCAR DISASTER: NASCAR directer John Darby concedes that water got into the fuel supply of cars during Sunday's race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, apparently leading to a crash that took out several top contenders in the closing laps. Denny Hamlin was leading the event with three laps remaining when his car stalled on a restart. Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr., who had led the most laps, were among those who wrecked in the incident. Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s car also slowed in bizarre fashion during the races opening lap. A post-race inspection revealed levels of water in the gas tanks of Hamlin as well as Dave Blaney, who also had engine problems during the race. Darby noted extensive testing showed no signs of problems in the underground storage tanks at the racetrack, and surmises the problem likely occurred in the piping that runs from the tanks to the pumps, or in the pumps themselves. Darby dismissed possible conspiracy theories, saying too many teams were affected for anyone to have been singled out - and also rules out sabotage unless the fuel was tanted by 'someone who hates NASCAR across the board'.  BRITISH TABLOID NOT IMPRESSED WITH NFL: You may have read the London gossip column, err newspaper - the Sun, particularly it's sports section, where if that were to be your only source for sports you would think that soccer is the only game that actually exists. You know, some 15th place low-budget Premiere League team going absolutely nowhere is about to sell it's one good player to the highest bidder between Arsenal, Liverpool, Man-U, or Chelsea. And you thought the Red Sox and Yankees were out of control at the trade deadline. And you are probably all aware on the U.S. take towards soccer, which I used to think was the roughest sport in the world considering a typical game featured at least seven of the 22 players getting stretchered off at some point during the contest, until I realized they all are back in the game three minutes later. Which leads us to Sunday's Giants/Dolphins tilt at Wembley Stadium, where we quickly found out (much to the chagrin of those with Eli Manning and Plaxico Burress in fantasy leagues) that the long-promised retractable-roof is not yet a reality - Montreal's Olympic Stadium, the exact replica of a toilet bowl, believes that's out of order. Fans also booed when Eli Manning took a knee to end the game, they didn't understand, the Giants went through a thing with Joe Piscarcik one. In any event, unlike last month's NHL appearance, the Sun did actually take notice of the game, and proclaimed that the NFL may one day rival rugby in Britain. The article also featured a quote by Dolphins coach Cam Cameron proclaiming that in the U.S. kids like sports where they 'can hit each other' without getting a red card. Incidentally, to use a British term, at 0-8 Cam is in grave danger of getting 'sacked'. The story also featured a caption of Giants 'star' Tiki Barber. I've got a news flash for the Sun, Tiki's been retired for about nine months now. I suppose if the Packers got selected for a game at Wembley three years from now, the U.K. will be expecting Brett Favre to make the start. Meanwhile I'll save my money for when France's soccer team plays an exhibition in the U.S., I've always wanted to see that Zidane guy play. Or maybe I'll wait for the U.S. women's team, where I can finally see Michelle Akers and Mia Hamm in the flesh. And finally, there was a comment section where at least one Brit was not impressed with the NFL's violence proclaiming 'THEM IDIOTS WEAR MORE PADDING THAN JOAN COLLINS!!!' I'll make a deal, to make up for sending the Dolphins, next year we'll send Wembley a SEC East showdown - I've always wondered how the hooligans singing Rocky Top would sound at a Champions League game...RED SOX SWEEP FOR SECOND WORLD TITLE: Congratulations to long-suffering Red Sox Nation, who can proclaim their team (so far) to be the team of the 21st Century after totally outclassing the Colorado Rockies. But I kind of liked you guys better for losing seven game classics such as in '75 and '86 than enduring these snoozers. Five of the last ten World Series have ended in sweeps (six if Kenny Rogers hadn't brought the sandpaper last year), as well as five of this year's seven playoff series. And for all the manure Bill Buckner continues to take a generation later, The Mets got three hits and a wild pitch with two outs before the Buckner play. Then the Red Sox got an enormous break when Game 7 got rained out the next day, allowing Bruce Hurst instead of combustable Oil Can Boyd to pitch the next night, where Boston held a lead before blowing that game. But it's all Buckner's fault. NEW MIRACLE PLAY OF ALL TIME??? You would think that former embattled Alabama coach Mike DuBose would get away from negative publicity after becoming coach of Division III Millsaps College. Well that was before his team wound up on the receiving end of an all-time highlight reel game-ending play against Trinity College Saturday. On the final play of the game trailing 24-22, the Trinity quarterback completed a pass to a receiver who rumbled for 16 yards, then lateraled to a teammate, who lateraled to another teammate, then another lateral, then another, then another, until the 15th lateral of the 62-second played one-hopped to yet another Trinity player who bolted 36 yards past stunned Millsaps defenders who were standing believing the play had been blown dead and into the end zone. Says DuBose later, 'The worst part about it is we had five or six guys just quit on the play'. No, the worst part is going to be how Paul Finebaum has his best reason yet to lampoon DuBose for the rest of eternity. The miracle play improves Trinity to 7-1 on the season, you can see the video on the top of this page.  HORSE PUT DOWN AT BREEDERS CUP: Curlin outlasts rival Street Sense as well as Kentucky Derby runner-up Hard Spun in the $5 million Breeders Cup classic which lived up to all pre-race hype. But the event was marred as George Washington suffered a gruesome open fracture of his right front leg and had to be put down on the track. As seen in photo at right, a screen was put up in front of the horse to shield fans from the procedure taking place. According to the vet, 'George Washington sustained an open fracture of the cannon bone in the right front fetlock and disarticulated the joint at the same time and had both sesamoids broken'THE PATERNITY WRECK OF LARRY FITZGERALD??? Sound like the opposition may be scoring in more ways than one in Oakland lately. Ater sustaining a career-ending pregnancy, a former Oakland Raiders cheerleader has reportedly filed suit against Arizona Cards receiver Larry Fitzgerald, according to celebrity gossip site TMZ. The story has Fitzgerald asking the cheerleader to 'hide' in a small Arizona town, and also attempting to bribe the cheerleader into ending the pregnancy and quotes him saying 'I don't need this all over the news like Matt Leinart.'  YET ANOTHER LENGTHY SUSPENSION COMING FOR FLYERS PLAYER: In a very scary incident, Boston star Patrice Bergeron takes a header into the boards after being checked from behind by the Flyers' Randy Jones during the first period of Saturday afternoon's game. Haven't seen the video yet, but this might be yet another 25 or even lengthier depending on how bad Bergeron's hurt. (developing...) THIS IS ENGLAND - DOLPHIN FINDS HE WON'T NEED TRANSLATOR: You just have to wonder what this guys Wonderlic score was coming out of Florida - Dolphins linebacker Channing Crowder says that he did not know until this week that the good people in London do in fact speak English!!!!! Says Channing, 'I know London Fletcher. We did a football camp together. So I know him. That’s the closest thing I know to London. He’s black, so I’m sure he’s not from London' Here's a good first grade lesson, the name of the country is England - perhaps one can connect the dots from there. Considering that about two-thirds of the music that's been on MTV over the last 25 years comes from England should be another clue. Give the Beatles, Elton John, and Depeche Mode huge ups for overcoming their language barriers before hitting it big on the U.S. pop charts. Channing's next big shock will be when the team lands at Heathrow on Friday and he finds that not only do the locals speak English, but there are also plenty of brothers in London. There are indeed cultural differences though, for instance if this was the English Premiere League the 0-7 Dolphins would be staring relegation right in the face. This may be the best story since John Kruk looked out the Phillies team bus in Chicago and looked towards Lake Michigan and asked his teammates what ocean that was...AMBULANCE CARRYING DOOMED RUNNER GOT LOST DURING MARATHON: The ambulance crew who picked up a victim who coded during the ill-fated Chicago Marathon apparently got lost on the way to a hospital, according to authorities. The 35-year old runner was supposed to be taken to the UIC Medical Center, but went in the wrong direction. The ambulance driver then flagged down another ambulance for directions, got turned around, but then couldn't find the emergency entrance. The victim was then transported to a nearby VA Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. It sounds like a bad Simpsons episode. The ambulance crew was from a Chicago suburb, and was one of many crews that wound up being called in that day due to the unseasonably warm conditions which felled many of the competitors. CITY OF CHAMPIONS??? SOX ROLL ROX IN GAME 1: What is it with Boston sports teams lately - they're not just winning, they are annihilating the opposition, and even Boston College football is ranked #2 in the nation. The Red Sox make quick work of the Colorado Rockies in Game 1 of the World Series, with everyone but Tom Brady getting a knock in the first five innings. The Red Sox have now outscored the opposition 43-6 in it's last four games, which sounds like the score the Patriots will probably beat the Redskins by on Sunday, they will go for two after their final touchdown only because Belichick can't go for three. HACKSAW HAMILTON DESCRIBES S.D. FIRE SCENE: Using terms such as apocolypse and holocost to describe a situation that threatens to burn America's Finest City (in his words) to the ground, longtime Southern California sportscaster Lee Hamilton describes just one of what will no doubt be tens of thousands of tales describing his early morning escape from his Rancho Bernado home during George Noory's Coast to Coast AM. Hacksaw describes being awoken and 3 AM to howling winds, and soon received a reverse 9-1-1 call. Hacksaw then mentioned opening a bedroom window, all he could feel was what he described as a blast of hot air. Hacksaw then says he went outside to find the bushes and palm trees on his street on fire, where he then proceeded to grab his family and two suitcases of belongings before managing to escape, adding that he could not see more than five feet beyond his windshield due to all the smoke and that he was convinced that he was about to lose all of his life's momentos. Lee said he returned to the property 24 hours later, finding his home as well as the houses on his side of the street intact, but other homes on the cul-de-sac lost. Hacksaw also mentioned the courageous efforts of firefighters in the area, mentioning that they were pounding on residences door-to-door in unbearably hot conditions as his family was making their escape. Hacksaw says that as of Tuesday, nine different fires were raging in San Diego County alone.  SAN DIEGO ST. RESCHEDULES ATHLETIC EVENTS: As you can see from this picture, the SDSU logo had already been painted on in preperation for Saturday's game. But in a no-brainer move, SDSU has scuttled the scheduled home game v. BYU until the end of the season. In a brief statement, the Mountain West Conference stated that moving even just one refugee out of Qualcomm Stadium so a football game could be played would be wrong. Incidentally, BYU didn't have to worry about wildfires postponing last weeks home game, which was played in a freak snowstorm (guess ski season is here). Other athletic events for the week on the SDSU campus have also been canceled, including a conference cross-country meet which has been relocated to Albuquerque, which also happened four years ago. Also canceled was a Los Angeles Lakers pre-season game which was scheduled for the San Diego Sports Arena. WHERE DO CHARGERS PLAY??? Chargers and the league are holding out hope that they will be able to play their home game v. Houston as scheduled on Sunday. But most likely an alternate site will be needed, the most likely locales being the L.A. Coliseum as well as Houston's Reliant Stadium, which would recreate the outcry which occurred when the Saints played a 'home game' v. the Giants at the Meadowlands two years ago. Texas Stadium, Glendale (Cardinals) Stadium, and Sun Devil Stadium (Cardinals old venue) have also been mentioned. Myself I don't know about going back to Tempe, after 60,000 ASU students chose to root for the opposition Dolphins in 2003. I've got a venue the Chargers could play on short notice this week and sell out, Lambeau Field would be my choice.EX-NBA PLAYER FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY: Remember the old Patrick Ewing statement - 'We make a lot of money, but also spend a lot of money' - here's a perfect case in point. Jason Caffey had a fairly brief, but decent NBA career that saw him sign a $34 million contract at one point. Now just a few years out of the leauge, and at age 34, he has filed for bankruptcy. One may ask how someone who was making that kind of money get so broke, so fast. Here's a simple answer, eight kids from seven different women. Turns out that Caffey had to declare bankruptcy simply to keep from going to jail. Yes, there is an entire rest of one's life once professional athletics is through, and it usually isn't nearly as profitable.  QUESTIONS SURROUND MCGEE DEATH: Appearing on a Milwaukee radio show Tuesday, former Packer teammate Jerry Kramer said that Max McGee didn't have to die and questioned what he was doing on the roof of his house blowing leaves. At one point during the segment Kramer asked 'What the hell was he doing up there???' adding that McGee could have easily had hired help. I guess that's easy to say now, I'm perhaps he did that type of home maintenance on a regular basis. If I can find an audio link to that interview I will post it.BRONCO RECEIVER NABBED FOR DUI AFTER GAME: Hasn't this guy learned yet to stay away from the clubs after a game??? New #1 receiver Brandon Marshall cited for DUI in downtown Denver at around 2 AM, that would had been just a mere 4½ hours after the Broncos scored a badly-needed 31-28 win over the Steelers - that might be a record from going from game day to getting drunk and busted. You may recall that Marshall was also involved in the club incident that led to Darrant Williams death. That must be one happening place, I hate to think what happens next Monday if the Broncos win the Packers and the Rockies win the World Series. Now we know the Rox are all good Christians (thanks to a code of conduct straight out of the Fisher DeBerry playbook installed shortly after Denny Neagle's prostitution arrest a few years back) but I'm just not sure all the Broncos players could survive (bad choice of words) such a night - it would be just like New Year's Eve. LATEST JASON WHITLOCK FIRESTORM: Proclaims that all the escapades involving the hip-hop culture are catching up to NFL players, and does a body count on the the New England Patriots and Inidanapolis Colts and notes that just over 50 percent of the roster of both undefeated teams are African-American. I don't know, counting how many white players are on a particular team kind of sounds like bar talk to me. Whitlock's contention is that in a decade the composition of all NFL teams could be similar, as he figures NFL coaches will eventually come to the conclusion that players in the hip-hop culture are not condusive to a consistant winning atmosphere in the locker room. And yes, I could pull up the stat that 48 out of 50 players (or whatever it was) arrested last year were black, but trust me - look hard enough and you'll find more than enough dingbats of all races. Case in point would be one of the Patriots recent additions, notabely fullback Kyle Eckel, who ranked dead last in his class at the Naval Academy and was given an admin discharge out of the service allegedly for his name being involved in a pair of sexual assault cases (one as a witness). And then you throw in talent such as Kevin Curtis who runs something like a 4.35 or Brian Leonard and his insane vertical leap and one realizes that there are Caucasian players out there that are beginning to flash some amazing athleticism. I would think the NFL will continue to be a pretty diverse group.  HELLFIRES AFFECT SAN DIEGO SPORTS SCENE: The majority of San Diego Chargers players, including Philip Rivers, LaDainian Tomlinson, and Antonio Gates, were among tens of thousands forced to evacuate their homes as wildfires raged throughout Southern California and San Diego County. Also among those displaced include San Diego Padre legends Trevor Hoffman and Tony Gwynn. As was the case exactly four years ago, the Qualcomm Stadium parking lot has been turned into an emergency staging area as well as an evacuation center. And as was the case in 2003 the Chargers organization has bolted (pardon the pun) to the Phoenix, AZ area. The team plans to practice at the Arizona Cardinals facility for the rest of the week. Qualcomm Stadium was to host two games this coming weekend - the Chargers v. Houston on Sunday as well as a San Diego St. game on Saturday night. If the Chargers plan on playing in Phoenix, it may not be until Monday night as the Arizona Cardinals stadium is booked with a motorcross this weekend - although I'm guessing Sun Devil Stadium and Los Angeles are among other possible options.AS TAPS THREATEN TO TURN DRY, FIELD HOCKEY TURF WATERED: In the midst of a drought that has reached critical levels, Duke University and the University of North Carolina are watering the Astro-Turf used by their field hockey teams. The schools claim the watering is mandated by the International Hockey Federation, and helps the players get better footing and the ball to bounce higher during practices and games. The city of Durham says that approximately 69 days remain in the cities current water supply. ROCKIES TO TRY AGAIN WITH INTERNET SALE: Will try again to hold an on-line sale for Coors Field World Series tickets at 12 noon MT Tuesday. Tickets originally went on sale Monday, but sales were halted after 90 minutes after virtually no one was able to get onto the system, with a Rockies spokesman claiming they were the victims of a 'malicious attack'. It is said that 8.5 million tried to get on the system, but only several hundred tickets were sold. The sale was handled by Paciolan, contracted the official ticket vendor for Major League Baseball. Paciolan handles orders for more than 700 college and professional sports teams, as well as other live events, accounting for 25 percent of all live event tickets in the United States. Approximatly 18,000 tickets are available for each of the three games, with season ticket holders and guests of MLB accounting for the other 32,000 seats. The Rockies originally planned on selling tickets both on-line as well as in-person, but then decided that an all on-line sale would make for the farest distribution, which was probably a wise move. The presence of the Boston Red Sox as the Rockies opposition is serving to fuel ticket demand much higher, with scalpers prices expected to go hundreds of dollars above the listed face value.  PACKER LEGEND MAX MCGEE DEAD AT 75: Is said to have sustained fatal injuries after falling off the roof of his Minneapolis-area home while blowing leaves. McGee's Packer career spanned 14 years, taking two years off for military service after his 1954 rookie season. Max is perhaps best remembered for starring in Super Bowl I subbing for Boyd Dowler while famously admitting to be hung over from the night before. Max was also a popular color commentator, working alongside Jim Irwin for 20 years on the Packers Radio Network. McGee was also a successful businessman with a worth estimated at over $10 million and was a champion in charity work for juvenile diabetes.CLEVELAND ROCKED WITH DISTRACTION - PITCHER COMES OUT IN HGH STORY: Just in time for Game 7, with the city of Cleveland bracing for it's lastest sporting disaster, comes this potential distraction. A San Francisco paper reports that Game 4 winner Paul Byrd bought nearly $25,000 of HGH between 2002 and 2005. A devout Christian, Byrd has denied being involved in steroid use in the past.  DEANNA FAVRE ALMOST CALLED FOR DIVORCE: Saying that she didn't want 'to go down that road' with her children, Deanna Favre mentions in her just released book that she was ready to call it quits in 1999 over Brett Favre's drinking problem, and said that she only reconsidered after the quarterback checked into rehab. Deanna wrote that she had packed up #4's belongings and wanted him out of their Mississippi home, and had already spoken to an attorney. Deanna says she went as far as saying she would call 9-1-1 if he didn't get out of the house. At that point Brett called agent Bus Cook, and decided to go into rehab. Deanna says that Brett has not had a drink since. This episode would had been three years following Favre undergoing rehab for his Vicodin addition, Favre recently said he took 15 Vicodin at a time and washed it down with beer - that was said to have led to Favre suffering a seizure after undergoing ankle surgery, it was shortly after that time that Brett and Deanna were married. The Favre's youngest daughter was born in 1999, and the couples first child was born in 1989, when the two were attending Southern Mississippi. |
