Stephen Strasburg is a no-doubt star, so far, but it has been one place that has driven all the coverage, MLB Network, the people most responsible for Strasburg's national emergence and their first network-made star.
Diego Forlán is a 31-year-old striker on the Uruguayan National Team who scored two goals in his team's match against the host South Africans. Sig Hansen is a tough-as-nails no-nonsense Norwegian crab fisherman on the Deadliest Catch. They share more than just a passing resemblance.
In baseball, every day is a new opportunity to see something that has never happened before. Throwing the 20th perfect game in MLB history, Roy Halladay's perfection was also 20 days after Dallas Braden's, making this the first season in baseball HISTORY to feature two perfect games. Awesome.
The Vancouver Olympics may be over but that doesn't mean we should forget the hot athletes who participated in them. And just think, London is only 2 years away!
Ndamukong Suh was one of the top college linemen ever for a reason, but in the NFL they believe in protecting the quarterback, and even if you get to him you're supposed to leave him in one piece. Suh decides instead to take Jake Delhomme's head home and mount it on his wall instead like a deer trophy.
The Lingerie Football League takes itself very seriously, the teams aren't just some powder-puff nonsense, this is real honest-to-goodness hard-nosed football for goodness sakes! In order to be the best, you need to practice like the best and the Seattle Mist do just that. So here are some photos of them practicing hard. Enjoy!
Chad Jordan was just an ordinary 14-year-old boy playing in a youth football league, impressing many with his size (5' 11" and 160 lbs) and abilities; there was just one small problem, he was actually 21(!!!) years old and his name was Julious Threatts. Oops!
Playing in the Tamba Bay Youth Football League Jordan/Threatts had signed up with forged documents saying his parents were deceased and he had recently moved from Seattle with his brother. The scam was discovered when Threatts tried to enroll himself at Webb Middle School using his alias. School officials were suspicious and their concerns were validated when among other things, Threatts' mother called him during his attempt and told school administrators who she was.
He was arrested and charged with trespassing, in addition he was found to be violating his probation from a 2009 burglary arrest. Threatts had previously played in a different youth football league last season and in the TBYFL two years previously; apparently no one noticed that he was back.
Ray McCloud, the athletic director for the Town N' Country Packers, Jordan/Threatts' team, heard about the confusion and confronted his player. "I brought him into this room with seven of our board members and coaches and said, 'Come on now, tell us the truth, who are you?' " McCloud said. "He looked me right in the eye and said, 'I swear I am who I say I am. I'm Chad Jordan.'
"This guy had us all fooled. I mean this guy acted just like a little kid. Everything about him was a little kid. He's a total scam artist."
Threatts had also included a copy of an email from a scout who had raved about his abilities on the field and insinuated that he had "offers from USC (University of Southern California), Texas and Florida."
Officials from the league are looking at their enrollment process in an effort to not allow this to ever happen again.
Fans of the Madden game have long seen the sometimes amusing names the game will create for rookies in the franchise mode, this one might just take the cake. A University of Maryland student, hard at work studying I'm sure, found this amusing nom de guerre and I admit, it tickles me.
On Thursday, Jones received an $11 million judgement after she sued thedirty.com for libel and defamation after they posted that she was having affairs with several of the Bengals players and had two venereal diseases. The ruling awarded her $1 million for compensatory damages and another $10 million for punitive damages.
Whether or not she'll ever receive the money is a bigger issue as thedirty's lawyers insist that their disclaimer on the site -- "Postings may contain erroneous or inaccurate information. All images are credited to their original location. The owner of this site does not ensure the accuracy of any content presented on TheDirty.com." -- absolves them of any responsibility. Of course, if that disclaimer DOES absolve them, it means the website, or any similar one, can just post ANY scurrilous rumor, negatively affecting others without any ramification whatsoever, something that seems unlikely.
Jones meanwhile found herself in hot water with the Bengals, who have strict rules about cheerleaders "fraternizing" with the players, not to mention the wives of the players who were supposedly having affairs with her. In addition to her duties as a Ben-Gal, Jones also teaches at a high school and after the allegations came out the school had to shut down access to thedirty from the school's Internet.
The rumors forced Jones to have to explain to all her friends and colleagues that what was said was NOT true but in the meantime it drastically altered her life and made everything more difficult.
"It’s not about the money," said Jones’ mother, Cheryl Jones. "It is about personal and professional reputation totally being tainted by somebody’s nasty hateful comments that were not true."
When you go to the horse track, picking the horse with the best name is always more enjoyable than the one with the best odds. If you were at Monmouth Park in New Jersey last Sunday you had two good options in the 7th race, depending on whether your wife was alongside you or not. If she was, "My Wife Knows Everything" was probably the smart pick, if you were flying solo, "The Wife Doesn't Know" would probably be more apropos. The two finished 1-2 in the race, and led to an enjoyable call from the track's announcer.
I know I've been really bad this summer about posting. Apologies all around. I've been busy. This is generally a good thing. I will hopefully get some posts up tonight, but mayhaps I won't. I'm in the woods and busy, tired and having fun and as much as I love all of you, sometimes there isn't enough of me to go around; hard as that is to believe.
Derrick Rose has some of the sweetest moves in the NBA, now off the court his life is catching up. Courtesy of the fine folks at Chicago-based candy company Wrigley's Rose received a brand-new specially-made Skittles vending machine, promising to keep it fully stocked with every variety of Skittles for the next three years.
Presumably if he resigns in Chicago when his contract is up after those three years they'll continue providing Rose with all the delicious chewable candies he could want.
To ensure that Rose doesn't get too serious with his training and forget about the important things in life the machine will call out to Rose every time he passes by, trying like that mustachioed creepster at the park to entice him with candy. Even stranger, the voice will be Rose's own, so if he turns down the candy he's turning himself down. Talk about creating identity problems, Derrick is going to become his own worst enabler.
On September 11, 1985 Pete Rose lined a single to left-center breaking Ty Cobb's all-time hit record. To honor the accomplishment the Cincinnati Reds have received permission from Commissioner Bud Selig to honor the moment, and Rose, on the field.
"We’ve been green-lighted," said Karen Forgus, the Reds’ vice-president of business operations. "We will be allowed to recognize that moment in history."
This will be the first time since Rose received his lifetime ban from baseball in 1989 that he will be allowed on the field.
Unfortunately, Rose will be unable to attend on the actual 25th anniversary of his accomplishment; Rose has a commitment to the Hollywood Casino in Lawrenceburg, Indiana to be THERE for the anniversary. After all, where would a degenerate gambler who sincerely wants to be reinstated rather be, on the field for the first time in 21 years in the city where he remains a legend or in Lawrenceburg, Indiana?
The Reds expect the ceremony to most likely take place on the 12th.
When I was in 9th grade and playing on the tennis team after one of our matches one of the parents took the entire team out to McDonald's and bought us dinner. It was great! Really brought the team together.
In Redding, California one wrestling mother took team unity to whole other level. Laura Gallegos who used to work as a teacher's aid at the high school has been arrested and accused with a dozen felony charges, including two counts of exhibiting lewd material to a minor, three counts of contacting a minor to commit lewd acts, two counts of arranging meetings with a minor to commit lewd acts, one count of oral copulation, and two counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor with a three year, or more, age difference. Way to go Laura!
It seems that besides her voracious sexting with a 15-year-old student she was interested in a more mature man too, specifically a 17-year-old on the wrestling team that her son was also on. When the 17-year-old's parents looked at his phone and saw sexts and explicit photographs there they confronted him and he revealed all, including that he and Gallego had "sex acts" in a parked car and once, at the state wrestling championships she BLEW HIM IN THE STANDS!
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Chad Jordan was just an ordinary 14-year-old boy playing in a youth football league, impressing many with his size (5' 11" and 160 lbs) and abilities; there was just one small problem, he was actually 21(!!!) years old and his name was Julious Threatts. Oops!
Derrick Rose has some of the sweetest moves in the NBA, now off the court his life is catching up. Courtesy of the fine folks at Chicago-based candy company Wrigley's Rose received a brand-new specially-made Skittles vending machine, promising to keep it fully stocked with every variety of Skittles for the next three years.
On September 11, 1985 Pete Rose lined a single to left-center breaking Ty Cobb's all-time hit record. To honor the accomplishment the Cincinnati Reds have received permission from Commissioner Bud Selig to honor the moment, and Rose, on the field.
When I was in 9th grade and playing on the tennis team after one of our matches one of the parents took the entire team out to McDonald's and bought us dinner. It was great! Really brought the team together.
Bloguin is the revolutionary blog network specifically focused on helping bloggers get the most out of their websites. We're currently working on building a large network of online communities and hope to expand our blogging coverage to include a wide range of topics. 
The Bloguin Network allows advertisers to promote their products and services to our ever-growing number of visitors. We offer both site-specific ad placements as well as the ability to run a network-wide campaign. If you're interested in working with Bloguin to meet your advertising needs, please contact us.
The Bloguin Network is always looking to expand. We're specifically looking for blogs in the sports, entertainment, and video games field, but are open to adding any type of quality site. If you're a blogger and interested in joining our network, please fill out our application form.
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