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Remember Chris Dudley?
Neither did I until I watched the clip below. You won’t be disappointed.
After completely dominating his life on the rim, Shaq adds insult to injury by pushing Chris Dudley to the floor like he’s playing around in the basement with his little brother.
Cam Newton: Master of Sexual Innuendo?
So I was watching the SEC Championship game, where Auburn’s Cam Newton pretty much asserted his manhood for 60 minutes all over the South Carolina defense. Yes, Cam locked up the Heisman with a virtuoso performance (335 yards passing, 4 pass TDs, 2 rush TDs), but as you can tell by the heading of this post, I’m not here to write about that.
I’m here to talk about what happened at the end of the game.
That’s right, the Cammy Cam Juice incident.
Quick question: If I were to tell you that after 60 minutes of putting in work, the star quarterback would squirt his “juice” in the mouth of a relatively attractive white female, what would you call that? I bet your answers fall into 1 of 2 categories: a) a weak-plotted pornography (which is kind of redundant) or b) Saturday night on Auburn’s campus.
I know what you might be thinking, “but shoot1st, he’s just an innocent college kid having some fun with a Gatorade mixture and a sideline reporter, there’s no innuendo there!”. C’MON SON!
Watch the video again, this time, don’t pay attention to Cam Newton. Look at the GROWN MEN standing next to Cam (not to mention the equipment manager right next to the reporter). You can’t tell me that they’re laughing like that just because a sideline reporter is drinking an orange and lemon-lime mixture of Gatorade. Grown men don’t laugh at stuff like that. Trust me, I know.
Now the subliminal wordplay. Cam told the sideline reporter that it was the “ingredients of champions”, like, oh I don’t know, DNA? And, tell me, where do you find DNA? That’s right folks, in sperm. We just witnessed the “money shot”.
So to summarize, Cam puts in work for 60 minutes, then squirts his “juice” in a woman’s mouth, then laughs like crazy with other grown men. Ummm, yeah, Cam Newton’s innuendo game is sick!
P.S. Tracy Wolfson (the sideline reporter), you need to get some better people around you. I’ll be damned if my friends, acquaintances, or coworkers let me put myself out there like that on national TV.
Pee Wee Football Coaches Melee
We’ve all seen it happen before, a parent or coach gets too out of hand at their kids’ game and gets into it with a ref, opposing parent or coach. These altercations usually result in the ejection of the disorderly fan from the game. Sometimes it may take a few parents to calm the disgruntled fan down. What most of us have never seen is a battle royal between coaching staffs of a pee wee football game. Until now…
The coach in the orange shirt who completely blindsided the opposing coach has apparently been suspended from the league for the year. He should never be allowed to coach anything ever again and thrown in jail to think about what he did. He could have done some serious damage with that hit. Instead he ended up on his back after the guy he knocked down tripped him and started going to work. Have you all ever seen anything like this?
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- Coaches Brawl at Pee-Wee Football Game [Video] (thebiglead.com)
Rory McIlroy Talks Trash to Tiger Woods
Flex on that fool!
A good friend of mine and avid golfer made me aware of an article the other night about a small spat between a young golfer and Tiger woods. Instead of writing about it myself I will post his thoughts on the situation. From BK:
Now, for those of you who don’t know who Rory is (i.e. 99.999999999% of you), Rory McIlroy is a 21 year-old golfer on tour. His career includes one PGA tour win and one European Tour win. He’s had a very good year, including a win at Quail Hollow and ending up in the top 10. He also looks like a 16 year old kid, and apparently he talks a hell of a lot of trash.
“I would love to face him [at the Ryder Cup],” McIlroy said in an interview with the BBC on Monday. “Unless his game rapidly improves in the next month or so, I think anyone in the European team would fancy his chances against him.”
Rory, Rory, Rory… Where do I start? Who is Rory to talk about Tiger? Do you honestly think RORY MCILROY has standing to compare himself to TIGER WOODS, greatest of all time? This is akin to when Raja Bell talked trash about Kobe, except replace Raja Bell with a kid from the JV team of a public high school in Utah. Let’s compare careers:
Tiger won 3 consecutive U.S. Amateurs. Rory won 0.
Tiger won his first major at age 21 by dominating the Master’s. (He did it against Rory’s current Ryder Cup coach who choked all over the course.) Rory has a couple of Top 5s this year, after choking in the British Open and PGA Championship.
Tiger has 3 grand slams. Rory has 0.
Tiger has won 128 tournaments worldwide. Rory has won 2.
Tiger has 14 majors. Rory has 0.
Tiger’s name is Tiger. Rory’s name is Rory.
Tiger won the 2008 US Open with a broken leg. Rory didn’t make the cut this year.
Tiger is a 6’1″ black man with fitness articles in men’s health and is known for extreme sports in his free time (rally car racing, shark diving, etc.). Rory is a 5’9″ Irish pre-teen.
Tiger won the first 2 FedEx Cups he played in. Rory did not.
Tiger was beatable for one season. Rory McIlroy is beatable.
Tiger’s crisis was that he had too many porn stars throwing themselves at him to stay faithful to his Swedish model wife. Rory probably hasn’t lost his virginity.
Tiger is a billionaire global icon. Rory McIlroy is… Rory McIlroy.
So what happened here? Why does this kid think he has the right to say anything? He had a good year. Top 5’s in the 2 majors Tiger didn’t play well in. Had a better year than Tiger in almost every category. Seriously, though? Seriously? Tiger has a long history of carrying grudges and beating the pulp out of trashtalkers out on the golf course.
Tiger’s year was average for the PGA Tour. In Tiger’s worst career year, he was average. On his worst day, he is the average PROFESSIONAL GOLFER capable of beating you on any given day. The PGA players have benefited from his life-crisis by actually getting a chance to win when he’s not on the course. Most of them have kept their mouths shut and just went ahead winning some money for once.
Rory, on the other hand, has now opened his big mouth. He’s given Tiger the will to win. He’s given the most dangerous player ever to play the game some extra motivation. Rory McIlroy would love to face Tiger Woods. Tiger has one thing to say:
“Me too.”
BK
Dez Bryant’s $54,896 Dinner
Most professional sports teams greet their rookies by hazing them in one form or another during their first training camp with the team. Some rookies get ridiculous haircuts, others carry shoulder pads and some sing or get tied to goalposts. Out of these, carrying shoulder pads isn’t the worst thing in the world and definitely beats picking up a $55k dinner tab for veterans on the team. Maybe Dez Bryant came to this realization after he got stuck with the bill from a dinner with his teammates at a Dallas steakhouse on Monday night.
Dallas rookies are supposed to carry veterans’ shoulder pads after practices during training camp. One could consider this an exercise in team building. During camp, Roy Williams told asked Dez Bryant to carry his pads off field. Dez refused. When asked about it by the media he said:
I’m not doing it… I feel like I was drafted to play football, not carry another player’s pads.
Roy Williams didn’t take this too lightly stating that he would take the hazing to “stage two” and that every rookie in the league has to go through something like this regardless of their stock. Well apparently Williams’ stage two is leaving the rookie with a $55k tab from dinner.
Tebow
I wish someone had caught this scene on camera. Apparently guys were ordering anything and everything on the menu leaving the restaurant with bags of food. Of course the steakhouse’s wine cellar was raided by the group who reportedly purchased multiple bottles of PlumpJack Reserve at $600 a pop and even a $9000 bottle of Chateau Latour. Now that NBA training camps have started, let this be a lesson to you rookies out there. Better to take the small hit on the chin than get caught with a $55k tab unless you’ve already locked that endorsement money up. You might be good to go in that case.
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- Dez Bryant: Roy Williams Shouldn’t Be Mad about Training Camp Incident (bleacherreport.com)
Gilbert Arenas’ New Look and Number
See how serious I am!?
On Monday he showed up to his first public appearance since the guns and the conviction and the Washington Wizards pulled his face off the Verizon Center. He wore a new number, 9, a heavy beard and scowl. And here was yet another new Gilbert. Serious Gilbert. Brooding Gilbert. Maybe even angry Gilbert, bitter at the way everyone ran from his comedy act when a gun joke went wrong.
This quote from Les Carpenter’s article at Yahoo Sports sums up the New Gilbert Arenas. He is not longer Agent Zero. He has grown a beard and changed his number. This must mean that he has completely changed from the pistol toting, costume wearing knuckle head who could never be taken seriously as a winner, competitor or professional and could not be relied on. I seriously doubt that. Like everything else he has done in his career this just seems like another stunt.
Arenas did not smile for a single picture and acted like the last place in the world he wanted to be was at the Wizards media day yesterday.
The only place I want to smile is on the court… That’s where my job is, that’s where my love is
This guy is just such an unbelievable joke and his latest antics just prove it. Come one man. You should be happy that you still have a job. There is no need to force yourself not to smile, grow a beard out and go through all this other nonsense. Worry about staying healthy and playing more than 25 games for once since 2005 instead of all this garbage.
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- Gilbert Arenas of Washington Wizards subdued at media day, talks of growth (sports.espn.go.com)
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Are the Jets Imploding?
There has been a lot off talk around the league and in the media about how great the New York Jets were going to be this season and some even went so far as to label them favorites to win it all including their coach. These same folks have been quickly dropping off the radar some even reporting that the Jets may not have a winning season. The way things have looked so far they might want to quit worrying about winning the super bowl and worry about winning on Sundays during the regular season.
The Jets found themselves matched up against the Baltimore Ravens on Monday night in their first game of the season. Ray Lewis and his team did not appreciate the loads of praise that had been heaped on their undeserving opponent and made this quite clear in their interviews leading up to the game. Ray Lewis called them out:
We’re talking about the Jets like we’re talking about the Saints. They [the Saints] are the defending Superbowl Champions… They’re talking like they are the Miami Heat of football. If Y’all are the Miami Heat, we gotta be the Lakers because we have multiple rings… My name should not come out of Rex’s mouth unless he’s telling someone to come block me which is gonna be a very damn hard task on Monday night.
Big Ray wasn’t lying. Blocking him during week one proved to be a nearly impossible task for the Jets. Even though he only had 4 tackles, Ray was all over the field and completely disrupted the Jet’s offense which put up only 9 points on their way to a 10-9 loss.
Matt Diaz Versus Random Fan
The Figure
Diaz wins this one. He and the braves were playing against the Phillies in Philadelphia when the figure you see pictured here ran onto the field. Diaz was just watching all of this unfold from his post in left until the security guard slipped and Diaz had flashbacks to 2007 when a security guard at Turner field in Atlanta suffered a head injury in a similar situation. This guy is really lucky. Diaz could have completely destroyed him from his blind side but he took it easy and for good reason.
When [the fan] came back — I didn’t want to get hurt and I didn’t want to hurt him — I just stuck out my foot
Check out the video. I really hope the commentators are pronouncing Diaz’s name properly. If not they need to pick up some basic Spanish Rosetta Stone lessons ASAP.
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- Atlanta Braves LF Matt Diaz helps tackle fan in Philly (sports.espn.go.com)
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Fake Togo National Team Plays Match
Togo's actual team
The small West African nation of Togo has a soccer federation and fields a team for international matches. Although they have only made one World Cup appearance (2006), they have played a number of friendly matches around the world. This Togo team is not the team that showed up to play against Bahrain in a friendly match a couple of weeks ago.
This team was completely unsanctioned by the Togo Soccer Federation and people are still trying to piece the story together. This group of guys somehow scheduled a friendly match with Bahrain, acquired enough jerseys and equipment to make themselves look like the Togo national team, made their way to Bahrain and most remarkably of all lost by only three goals against an actual national team (3-0).
The identity of the mastermind behind all of this has been discovered by the Togo Soccer Federation. The AFP reports:
An inquiry was launched last Thursday into the affair by the Togolese football authorities who on Monday identified former national coach Bana Tchanile as the man behind one of the most embarrassing episodes in the country’s sporting history.
“After investigations it’s clear that the organisation, the preparation and the follow-up was planned by Bana Tchanile without permission, nor agreement from the authorities,” a statement announced.
Who is Tchanile you may ask. He is no stranger to the Togolese National Team or taking them to matches without any authorization. The AP reports that he was currently on suspension for taking a team to a match in Egypt this July without any official authorization:
Bana was Togo’s national team coach on two occasions, in 2000 and 2004, and had already been suspended from his position on the team’s technical staff for two years for taking a group of players to a tournament in Egypt in July without permission.
I have a strong feeling this won’t be the last time Bana coaches and organizes an unsanctioned match.
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- Togo says ex-coach Tchanile Bana to blame for fake national team (usatoday.com)
- Fake mastermind behind fake Togo team revealed! (sports.yahoo.com)
- Who Is Pretending To Be The Togo Soccer Team? [Soccer] (deadspin.com)
Ines Sainz and the NFL
Her outfit that day
In case you haven’t heard, the New York Jets have come under fire for acting up when a reporter from a Mexican TV station named Ines Sainz was covering one of their practices and interviewing players in their locker room. During practice, Jets coaches allegedly threw the ball towards Sainz on purpose and players would howl at her when they ran past. The antics continued in the locker room as players continued howling and approaching Sainz inappropriately. This incident has sparked a debate about allowing reporters especially females into male locker rooms and Clinton Portis‘ comments did not help. During his debut on the Mike Wise radio show he stated:
You know man, I think you put women reporters in the locker room in positions to see guys walking around naked, and you sit in the locker room with 53 guys, and all of the sudden you see a nice woman in the locker room, I think men are gonna tend to turn and look and want to say something to that woman. For the woman, I think they make it so much that you can’t interact and you can’t be involved with athletes, you can’t talk to these guys, you can’t interact with these guys.
And I mean, you put a woman and you give her a choice of 53 athletes, somebody got to be appealing to her. You know, somebody got to spark her interest, or she’s gonna want somebody. I don’t know what kind of woman won’t, if you get to go and look at 53 men’s packages. And you’re just sitting here, saying ‘Oh, none of this is attractive to me.’ I know you’re doing a job, but at the same time, the same way I’m gonna cut my eye if I see somebody worth talking to, I’m sure they do the same thing.
Having been in these situations as a player I can definitely see where Clinton is coming from. Some guys and a number of women are always “on” no matter what the situation and won’t let any opportunity pass them by especially when they are half naked on a testosterone high in many cases after having won a game. Why not look twice? On the other hand, there are a number of people who are able to control themselves in these types of situations. This interview is part of my responsibilities as a professional athlete and I’m going to take it seriously even though my rippling pecs and abs are in this beautiful reporter’s face. Probably not the easiest thing to do but everyone should be able to exercise at least some restraint.
Darnell Docket of the Arizona Cardinals also weighed in on the situation via tweeter:
All I can do is LOL at the jets Female Reporter! She walks into a locker room full of men and think some one not gonna say nothing LMFAO. I don’t know what was said to her or whatever but u just have to know u going into a TEAM LOCKEROOM, and if its that serious WOMEN STAY OUT!
He also commented on her outfit
Now why would u wear this!!! IM DONE!!
Put the tape measure away
Darnell might have a different view on this reporter because of her actions when she interviewed one of his teammates during the week of Superbowl XLIII as this picture shows. When is it appropriate to pull out a tape measure in the course of a legitimate interview and use it to measure someone’s body part? NEVER!!! This is pretty unbelievable. At this point all professionalism is out the window and the whole tone of the interview would change. Want to measure anything else??
Not everyone has come out in favor of the Jets. No matter what the situation, people need to be treated with respect and there was clearly none here. Dan Steinberg from the Washington Post wrote an article clearing the air about some of the myths surrounding locker room interviews and makes some interesting points most notably that no one has to be undressed in front of reporters if they don’t want to be. There are multiple rooms in professional and collegiate locker rooms that are off limits to reporters. If they choose players can get dressed in there, shower and dress immediately after games, or shower and dress after the reporters leave. I found the fact that male reporters are allowed into WNBA locker rooms pretty interesting too. You never hear about this kind of stuff happening in those situations but maybe it does. Who knows?
At the bottom of this entire debate is professionalism. As a female reporter covering a male professional sport and interacting with these men in personal settings, it would be wise to keep everything on the up and up. These guys all talk and tweet and any unprofessional actions you take will linger with you throughout your career until something like this happens. Ines should have probably left her tape measure at home when she was interviewing the Cardinals player and stopped herself from sitting on the shoulders of Indianapolis’ offensive line. This applies to male reporters too. If you don’t act professionally you will not be respected in that way. If you’d rather act buddy buddy and shoot the breeze with guys they will probably view you differently from someone who is there to do their job.
Attire is critical in this situation as well. Men and women alike can appreciate well sculpted bodies and judging by the pictures below it looks like Ines was blessed. Unlike many of the on air personalities on the American networks, she is a very curvaceous woman. It seems like these guys were not prepared for her and just completely lost control of themselves. This should have never happened but it all could have been avoided by some simple steps on both ends. Check out the photo gallery of Ines and come to your own conclusion.
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- Darnell Dockett Mocks Ines Sainz After Alleged Harassment (huffingtonpost.com)
- Clinton Portis Comments on Ines Sainz: ‘She’s Gonna Want Somebody’ (blippitt.com)
- Jets-Sainz mess brings ugly locker room misogyny to light (cbssports.com)
- Ines Sainz Isn’t Upset. So Why Is Everyone Else? (blogs.forbes.com)
Sideline Slander 