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!
You were probably already excited for the upcoming NFL season but if you needed a little extra boost the NFL and NBC put together the perfect commercial. I can't believe the stars all aligned in such a manner to get the man who epitomizes hard-nosed American football, a man who is synonymous with bone-crunching power, Harry Connick Jr.
At last!!! To add to the power-packed lineup for the opening night concert the NFL managed to corral Dave Matthews and, wait for it, TAYLOR SWIFT!!!! AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I feel like a light-headed teenage girl at the Beatles' Ed Sullivan taping. Oh what a great day for America. What a day for entertainment!
In 2007, along the side of a road high schoolers Tyler Carron and his friend Nikko Landeros were changing a flat tire when one of their classmates hit them with his car, causing them to both lose their legs. Last month Carron was informed he had made the US National Sled Hockey team, joining Landeros.
In addition to the hockey team, the former wrestling star decided to participate in his first ever bodybuilding competition after some encouragement from his trainer. So that is how on Saturday Carron found himself up on the stage flexing his muscles for the Warrior Classic competition in Loveland, Colorado.
Coming out to the song "Super Beast," Carron showed off his newly honed muscles, and while he finished 5th out of 5, a big part of the judging includes leg muscles so he was at a disadvantage from the get-go. However, Carron did win the "Heart of a Warrior" award.
Initially he had entered the gym to train for hockey but after some time working with trainer Mike Alexander, who was one of the organizers of the Warrior Classic he decided to enter. A few months later and there he was out on the stage showing off his body. For someone who after the accident was scared to wear shorts, it was quite the turnaround.
It would have been easy for Carron to wallow in misery and allow his accident to ruin his life but he's worked hard to conquer his challenges.
"I like being an inspiration for other people by doing what normal people do," he said. "There are a lot of people out there who don't have a positive mind-set. . . . It's all mental toughness. Being confident with yourself. I don't have legs, but whatever. I do the same things I did. I'm (even) still confident getting ladies."
It's amazing, when it comes to sports brilliant businessmen, men who made billions of dollars relying on their intelligence and hiring the best and the brightest, continue to just make the same mistakes over and over again. Is it just their adoration of the athletes makes them weak at the knees and unable to make rational choices?
The NBA, in an example of trying to protect a team from its own stupidity, has stepped in and very likely will in the next 24 hours void Isiah Thomas' new consulting deal with the Knicks. James Dolan owes the NBA big-time. Of course, he's so moronic he probably doesn't even realize it.
It seems the NBA is not so keen on a professional team employing a college coach, even as a "consultant," especially when the college coach is supposed to be scouting for the professional team. Then again, Thomas isn't so committed to his current college gig, tiring of it after just one year it seems. Thomas spoke on Dan LeBatard's radio show saying that "If I was to leave FIU, the only positions that I would be interested in looking at would be a general manager for a team or consulting or advising with a team," Thomas said. "I don't see myself coaching in the NBA."
That's good because even when he WAS coaching no one could see him coaching. Hence his abysmal track record.
Seriously, someone take the Knicks away from James Dolan, he clearly is absolutely retarded. I am just so incredibly thankful that he and his brother didn't win the bidding to buy the Red Sox. I think I'd be far far more depressed.
Indiana University got a big-time addition to their 2012 basketball team when 7 foot 200-pound Sudanese center Peter Jurkin made a verbal commitment to the school.
"I have decided to commit to Indiana University. It’s a good college. Good coach. I like it," Jurkin said.
Jurkin. Hehehehehe. Peter. Hehehehehehehehe. Peter Jurkin. Hehehehehehehehehehehe.
I get it! It's a masturbation reference!!!!!11!111!
When he was playing Cris Collinsworth lost out on two Super Bowl rings when the San Francisco 49'ers beat his Bengals twice in the big game. A major key to the Niners' victories was Jerry Rice who stopped by NBC's broadcast booth during the Hall of Fame game after getting inducted earlier.
As Collinsworth joked with Jerry about the rings he lost out on, Rice took the opportunity to show off one of his championship rings to the broadcaster, opting for the middle finger "accidentally."
If I were to care about NASCAR the only thing I'd root for would be epic crashes. These two clips though give me pause, I can't decide which is better, having the engine fall out of the bottom or an 11-car pileup where the cars end up on top of one another.
How can I decide??!?!? Worst of all? No one was hurt. Sigh.
In recent years, thanks in part to the economy -- and more importantly their new stringent alcohol and tailgating rules -- the University of Central Florida has seen season ticket sales for their football team go down 30 percent. A recent photoshoot may raise the profile of the team. Shanna Marie McLaughlin is a graduate student at the university, she also was Playboy's Miss July 2010 and she recently did a saucy photoshoot with that bastion of journalistic mastery, Olando's Axis Magazine.
Axis then posted a video of the photoshoot on their website which led to the University's dander getting up when they realized it all took place in the football team's locker room. McLaughlin wearing UCF logoed clothing was NOT the family friendly image the school has tried to show off recently.
The school has subsequently released a statement apologizing for the photos, saying an employee erroneously let the photoshoot happen and that the school was sorry if anyone was offended.
Meanwhile, a school no one EVER pays attention to just got some publicity. Oh yeah, and Playmate photo shoot!
The Indianapolis Colts took the day off on Sunday from training camp and one defensive lineman took full advantage. John Gill, 23, woke up in jail Sunday morning after police found him passed out on the street around 4 am.
Oops!
When police found him he was laying on the ground in front of a parked car, had soiled himself and when awakened he reeked of alcohol, couldn't stand and was slurring his words.
Sounds like someone had a fun night out!
According to the police it looked like Gill "partied too hard." I'd say that's a minor understatement. It's a good thing Tony Dungy isn't still the coach of the Colts, Gill would be subject to about 15 hours of sermons of proselytizing, now he'll probably just get released. The second-year pro has 2 career tackles in 2 games played, not really a position of strength for when he gets hauled into the coach's office.
What does it take to get fired and STAY fired these days. Isiah Thomas' tenure as the Knicks' GM was littered with abject awfulness. He dealt off approximately 35 years worth of first round picks, outspent the rest of the league and finished with the worst record almost every season. That's what we call bang for your buck!
Then considering the sexual harassment suit against him cost the team another $11 million and that he "coached" the team to a absolutely pathetic 56 wins in two seasons in 2006-2008 there is simply no reason the Knicks would EVER EVER EVER want anything to do with Isiah again.
That is until Friday's announcement that the team has HIRED HIM BACK! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!!?!?!?!?!??! $#354534523l4rkw;lrkjserkjgdgdsfgndfslgkndfs!!!! If I were a Knicks fan I think I'd light the Madison Square Garden on fire.
Despite currently having a job at Florida International University as the head basketball coach, Isiah will double-dip and serve as a consultant for the Knicks, "assist[ing] the team's senior management in various capacities, including player recruitment."
So, we're all agreed, Isiah has some photos of Knicks owner James Dolan getting anally penetrated by an entire menagerie of animals while midgets holding candles drip hot wax on his testicles right? I mean, that's got to be the ONLY way that James Dolan can consider giving Isiah another cent a worthwhile investment. Otherwise it's just bat shit insanity.
"I'm excited to once again be a part of the New York Knicks organization," Thomas said in a statement. "I was honored to have been asked to help during the recent free agent recruiting process, and believe that this new role takes full advantage of my skill set as an evaluator of basketball talent."
Isn't being a GM a time where you need to use your skill set to evaluate talent? How'd that work out before? What can he POSSIBLY add? Unless of course they plan on asking him what he would do in a given situation and then immediately do the exact OPPOSITE of that this is going to only continue the disaster that is the New York Knicks.
PATHETIC! No wonder the NBA teams are going bankrupt they waste their money on continual FAILURES.
I've never gone surfing, solely because if I can't do it at night while being well-lit it simply isn't worth it. Finally, someone has heard my call for help and answered. Bill Stewart, who is credited as the inventor of the modern longboard put together a special one-of-a-kind board featuring headlights and LED side fins to make it safe for night surfs.
The board will be offered at auction for Billabong's Art of Shaping charity event with all the money going to the SIMA Humanitarian fund.
Don't worry about batteries either, the lights are all powered by rechargeable batteries.
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The Slanch Report has started an online petition asking the MLB Network to air the Dock Ellis no-hitter he threw on June 12, 1970 against the San Diego Padres. The moment was a seminal piece of baseball history and is certainly worthy of being rerun.
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It's amazing, when it comes to sports brilliant businessmen, men who made billions of dollars relying on their intelligence and hiring the best and the brightest, continue to just make the same mistakes over and over again. Is it just their adoration of the athletes makes them weak at the knees and unable to make rational choices?
Indiana University got a big-time addition to their 2012 basketball team when 7 foot 200-pound Sudanese center Peter Jurkin made a verbal commitment to the school.
The Indianapolis Colts took the day off on Sunday from training camp and one defensive lineman took full advantage. John Gill, 23, woke up in jail Sunday morning after police found him passed out on the street around 4 am.
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. 
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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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