• 100% INJURY RATE scratches up some frightening photos of the Lakers’ Sasha Vujacic getting mauled by a California Cougar.
She was probably just enraptured by Sasha’s song.
• In honor of his recent Ron Burgundy episode, THE WORLD OF ISAAC looks back on Charles Barkley’s most memorable TNT moments.
• Michael David Smith of AOL FANHOUSE wonders if mainstream bloggers like MJD of YAHOO SPORTS should be held to the same blogosphere contempt as the mainstream media.
• BABES LOVE BASEBALL break out their Voodoo Sabermetrics again, this time to analyze bungling Barry Zito.
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Joe Henderson of the TAMPA TRIBUNE has a piece today recounting Tony Dungy’s recent visit to Jefferson High School in Tampa - where he met with students and gave a motivational speech.
Henderson first though had the latest on Dungy’s book, “Quiet Strength”, which is now a bonafide bestseller: “The publisher originally figured “Quiet Strength” would sell around 30,000 copies when it was released last July. Within three weeks, though, it was No. 1 on The New York Times bestseller list. Sales have topped 900,000 and co-author Nathan Whitaker said there might be a sequel on the way.”
After shaking hands and signing autographs, Dungy then spoke to the student body. While taking questions, someone brought up the Patriots “cheating scandal” to the Colts Coach. That’s when the fun started. Read more…
DEADSPIN points us to a thrilling video of Shaquille O’Neal making his parents proud - via the Arizona State campus blog TheDirty.com (thank god he was traded to Phoenix!).
Wow. Who knew Shaq had so much in common with Steven Seagal? See what we’re talking about after the jump. Read more…
The GAINESVILLE SUN reports today that “Jamar Hornsby, a University of Florida football player, was released on his own recognizance after turning himself in Friday morning on charges of credit card theft and fraudulent use of a credit card.”
“Hornsby, 21, was allegedly using a credit card issued to Ashley Slonina, a University of Florida student who died in an October 2007 motorcycle accident in which walk-on UF football player, Michael Guilford, also died.” Read more…
Bob Wolfley of the MILWAUKEE JOURNAL-SENTINEL, along with the Marc J. Spears of BOSTON GLOBE, reports today that everyone’s favorite ambush artists, ESPN’s E:60, will air a piece on Tuesday about Ray Allen’s family that reveals, “Flora Allen-Hopson, Allen’s mother, and Derek Hopson, Allen’s stepfather, have spent more than two years in a witness protection program, after the attempted murder of Hopson, a psychologist.
“The husband of the former wife of Hopson, Ernest Garlington, a counselor of at-risk kids, organized the attempted murder of Hopson. Recently, Garlington was sentenced to 33 years in prison on five counts of conspiracy to commit murder.”
The story was widely reported earlier this month when Garlington was sentenced, but the ESPN piece will be the first to give the story national exposure, which calls into question something.
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Keith Olbermann goes Girls-Gone-Wild as he uncovers the new Yankee Stadium with his handy handheld video camera.
Referring to his journey through wet concrete as a “*double-secret* tour“, he records the first public video of the David Ortiz jersey hole, among some of the other previously unknown features of the billion-dollar-plus ballpark. Read more…
FANHOUSE notes the difficulties of working for a student newspaper covering big-time college sports. (See, kids, it’s not just the adults taking crap!) THE DAILY TEXAN sports writers have taken quite a bit of abuse for reporting student-athlete arrests, receiving veiled and really-not-so-veiled threats from the Athletics Department, students, and boosters.
FANHOUSE also adds this isn’t even the first Big 12 school to take abuse from the local teams, citing Bo Pelini’s snit fit against THE DAILY NEBRASKAN.
Another member of the AOL blogging family has the solution and we’re here to get these crazy kids together. FANHOUSE, meet TV SQUAD. They spotted ABC NEWS putting bureaus on five university campuses for graduate students and upperclassmen to participate in, creating stories for ABC NEWS online and for television. Guess which university is on that list?
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O Canada, wait till you hear this: tickets to those Buffalo Bills games in Toronto will run you a pretty loonie. Like, say, a gaggle of them. Toronto has just received a snow job of international proportions.
Unless you scoop up one of the few US$55 seats near the Aurora Borealis in Rogers Centre, start considering which of your children you will miss least when sold to gypsies to afford the tickets. Sideline seats near the end zone will run US$295. Prices for choice seats closer to the 50-yard line will run more, but no one dare mention the price yet.
(How much, ya hoser?)
Better yet! You’re not just buying one seat, lucky hosers. That’s the price for all eight games (three preseason and five regular season) over the next five seasons. Each. And you have to buy tickets for all eight games. No exceptions.
We believe how Toronto fans of the Bills must feel about the deal now that they’ve seen more of the fine print below where the Devil NFL made them sign:
