Monthly Archives: June 2008

Monday Morning Hangover

June 30th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized

The weekend sucked. Nothing of intrinsic sports value went down. Yeah, you had Spain beating Germany, and that’s significant from a socio-cultural perspective, but the game itself was pretty vanilla — the German defense looked like they were sleepwalking through most of the match, and the Spanish (or as Tommy Smith would call them, “Spaniards”) [...]

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Well, it’s official: Justin Gimelstob isn’t getting any from a woman ever again

June 27th, 2008 | Posted in other pro, random

Thermocaster found this and, man, is it a good one.
If you don’t know him, we recap: Justin Gimelstob was a mediocre-to-poor tennis player who made a career out of acting stupid, goofy, and generally making a fool out of himself (in a mid-90’s US Open, he went on USA during a rain delay to ask [...]

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Is Kobe Bryant a prototypical striker?

June 26th, 2008 | Posted in NBA

Poor Kobe. We’ve seen a mountain of material over the last few years describing him in rather unflattering terms. From Phil Jackson’s book on the Lakers to Shaq’s freestyle slam on Bryant, and everything in between, Kobe’s public image has been irreparably tarnished in America. As an athlete, Bryant now represents the ultimate in selfishness [...]

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Once again, only the best people at World Series of Poker

June 26th, 2008 | Posted in world series of poker

We didn’t think the WSOP could top Ernie Scherer III.
Remember him? Dude whose parents were brutally murdered near San Jose. Dude who police called a “person of interest”, and seized his car. Dude who said “Screw it! I’m going to Vegas for the World Series!”
Boy, were we wrong.
According to our new favorite website Gambling911.com, another [...]

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Serena and Venus: No, we can’t vote for you, Barack

June 25th, 2008 | Posted in tennis

Serena Williams says she’s excited about Democratic party presumptive nominee Barack Obama. Thinks it’s grand. Wacky cool. Good for the country, good for the world. So would she vote for him?
Not a chance in hell.
“I’m a Jehovah’s Witness, so I don’t get involved in politics. We stay neutral. We don’t vote,” Serena said. “I (would [...]

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Don’t worry Mr. Ricciardi, it could be worse ..

June 25th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized

You could be this guy.
This was a public access show from NYC in 1990. And, well, whoever you are, Ken Sander, we salute you for taking the greatest litany of crank calls in world history. What follows is, well, I’ve never seen anything like it.

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The sneakiest goal you’ve ever seen

June 25th, 2008 | Posted in soccer

Or will ever see. This is just flat awesome.

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“Unforgettable” Woods now a head man

June 25th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized

If not for Christian Laettner, Sean Woods might have the greatest highlight of the 1992 NCAA tournament. And possibly a national title.
Sixteen years ago in the East Regional Finals, Woods hit a running back shot to give Kentucky a 102-101 lead over Duke. Only 2.1 seconds remained. What could go wrong?
Um ….
Anyhow, life turned out [...]

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Are Howard Stern’s minions calling the Toronto Blue Jays?

June 25th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized

This one’s too good to pass up.
So the story goes like this: Last week on his radio show, Toronto general manager JP Ricciardi trashed Reds slugger Adam Dunn, saying he “doesn’t really like baseball much” and “We’ve done our homework on guys like Adam Dunn and there’s a reason why we don’t want Adam Dunn”.
Whoa.
Then, [...]

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Euro 2008 Semi-Final Preview

June 24th, 2008 | Posted in soccer

My sincere condolences to anyone unfortunate enough to have witnessed Spain’s penalty win over Italy this past Sunday.  In what was billed as the premier matchup of the Quarter-Finals, a showdown between two traditional powerhouses,  22 world-class players slogged through 120 minutes of impossibly dour, scoreless soccer and bored even die-hard fans of the game to tears.  Those [...]

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