The Wall Street Journal tells the story of Floyd Landis, who rode with Lance Armstrong for the US Postal cycling team during the height of their success at the Tour de France. Landis was later suspended from the sport for 2 years for using performance enhancing drugs.
Here, a more systematic doping process is described, which implicates Armstrong as well as the entire US Postal cycling team, and casts a pretty dark shadow over the success the team accumulated over the years.
Japan will be advancing to the gold medal finals in the 2010 paralympic sledge hockey championship. Japan stunned the Canadian team with a 3-1 victory. Most of the credit seems to be going to the Japanese golatender Mitsuru Nagase who made 19 saves during the game.
Scott Fujita, a Linebacker with the Super Bowl winning New Orleans Saints has signed as a free agent with the Cleveland Browns. Before leaving however, he donated half his Super Bowl earnings to charity. The gift was divided equally going to both Haiti relief efforts and New Orleans restoration projects.
It's nice to see that there are NFL players who make non-football news without shooting, robbing or raping someone.
Essentially, the Northwest Yeshiva Girls Basketball Team forfeited a game because it was on a holiday (Fast of Esther) where they are not allowed to drink water. The coaches decided this was not a safe way to play (dehydrated i guess). The article mentions that some people admired the girls for honoring their faith. it also mentions some people being upset that the game couldn't be rescheduled. No one mentions that this is just another example of a religion getting in the way of things.
Say what you want about atheists. At least we never have some bullshit excuse for why we can't get something done.
The conservative christian group Focus on the Family has purchased an advertising slot for the Superbowl to discuss its anti abortion stance.
The ad will apparently be TimTebow and his mom talking about how she was advised to abort little Timmy on account of her being sick. She refused to have the abortion, as any good person does and tada Tim wins the Heisman (bama still wins the national championship).
Gregg Doyel, a CBS columnist says it best.
"If you're a sports fan, and I am, that's the holiest day of the year," he wrote. "It's not a day to discuss abortion. For it, against it, I don't care what you are. On Super Sunday, I don't care what I am. Feb. 7 is simply not the day to have that discussion."
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Ronnie Brown will be out for the rest of the season with a foot injury. Ricky Williams will take his place as starting running back. In spite of the overall lackluster season the Miami Dolphins are having, Ronnie Brown leading the wildcat offense made them fun to watch again. The rest of the season just isnt going to be the same. =[
Apparently a lot of people were confused and upset when Lyoto Machida won his UFC Light Heavy Weight Title defense against Shogun Rua. I myself, however, thought while the fight was rather boring, Machida was at no point in danger of losing the title.
Here is an excellent write up by Gary Whittaker to explain why Machida won in the eyes of the judges. I like the fact that he reanalyzes the fight after disagreeing with the judges decision. He plays devils advocate well and explains what could have happened on a round by round basis.
I enjoyed the article as I seemed to be the only person at the bar we went to that was confused as to why people thought Machida lost even before the decision came. I was expecting to be proven wrong but the judges agreed with me. Shogun was no doubt aggressive but so far as I can tell 90% of all the encounters he incited ended up as Machida victories.
Did Rua deserve to win? Not at all. Was it close enough to warrant a rematch? Sure, absolutely. Was it entertaining enough to want to see this match-up again? Not even remotely.
Well written article by Charles Robinson at Yahoo Sports that attempts to determine the value of Terrell Owens. The primary variables in play are his talent and his marketing value. Are either worth the commotion caused by his youthful antics. Are too many bridges burned for his career to continue outside Buffalo.
It is an brutally honest piece which unfortunately lead to many anonymous quotes.
The Buffalo Bills are suffering in all aspects of play right now so to try and determine the talent of any one player on the team is impossible.
As one Jets player put it when asked if Owens could still be great in the NLF:
“I don’t know. But definitely not on that offense.”
Limbaugh said that the NFL Players Association and new Executive Director DeMaurice Smith made a scapegoat out of him to gain leverage for future negotiations of the Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Limbaugh during his show: "I don’t know how many players know this, but Mr. Smith has let it be known that if he has to he’ll bring the White House into this. He’ll bring the Congressional Black Caucus into this.
"So Obama’s America is quite possibly going to include the National Football League, and pressure from Obama, the Congressional Black Caucus and other places might be brought to bear on the owners. I can’t imagine that that’s anything they want.It’s designed to intimidate the owners, frighten the owners, and say ’We’re running this league now, gang, not you."’
Dolphins Owner Stephen Ross is turning a staple of South Florida Culture into a Hollywood style dog and pony show by selling pieces of the Miami Dolphins to second rate celebrities.
He says this is an attempt to bring new fans to the table, but at what cost. I watch football to watch football, not to see J-lo lurching around her corporate box in a drunken stupor while crappy music blares between plays. I don't give a give a rats ass about Gloria Estefan, and unless I'm on a wave runner, I hope I never see her.
I understand that football is a business but it is also a tradition and even though I never get a dime, the team is traditionally my Miami Dolphins just as they were my father's Miami Dolphins. Now you are throwing it in my face that its actually Marc Anthony's Miami Dolphins. Next up is Fergie? The only thing I know about Fergie is that she is a singer and that she once pissed herself for a live audience while plastered on stage. What a treat it will be if we can get her to drop a deuce on the 50 yard-line during halftime.
So to the Primary Owner of the team I say this: Before you started doing this embarrassing crap, I had no idea who you were and I think I preferred it that way. Stop devaluing the team by selling out. If money is tight, come up with a plan to sell a portion of the team to us. I bet you could get a buck from a couple million true fans that would appreciate collectively owning a fraction of a percent of the Miami Dolphins a lot more than these pathetic mascots for hire who just want screen time after their mediocre careers have fizzled.
...and you better do it quick before I become a Cleveland Browns fan. They might not win much, but at least their organization understands the value of a loyal fan.
Andrew Das and Greg Bishop have a nice blog format here where they appear to basically blog the entire game in real time sort of like radio commentary in text. I would love to do something like this for fins games but i don't think I have the commitment to work while the game is on.
They even blogged some good quotes from after the game.
My favs:
Calvin Pace on Henne: “Against a second-year clown quarterback, we didn’t affect him enough. I guess you have to give him credit. The defense lost the game today.”
Calvin Pace on the Wildcat: “I can’t respect that stuff, all that Wildcat. We’re in the N.F.L. Don’t come here with that nonsense.”
So Calvin, what you are saying is you are unhappy about the two aspects of the game that you were unable to defend?
"Everybody came to a reachable agreement and it happened," Crabtree said, sporting a red No. 15 practice jersey and charcoal gray sweats. "I'm just glad I'm past that part. I'm very humble right now, man, it's a very humbling experience. Just getting a chance to sit back and better myself as a person, as a player, as a teammate. ... I feel like going through that it made me look at the world in a different way, look at my teammates a different way. Hopefully it will work out for the best."
Are you kidding me, "humble"? Why does all of this drama and his holding out for more money make him a better person, etc.? Rookies in the NFL disgust me. I believe there should be a specific outlined contract only for rookies that state a max salary for each drafted player (which will be the guaranteed earnings) along with bonuses and additional salary increments based on STATS and PRODUCTION. There have been too many drafted players getting paid a ridiculous amount and failing to meet any standards set for them. There is a huge transitional step from college to the NFL, which is why there should be results for residuals.
After a car accident leaves 4 players of a high school football team injured and one player dead, a rival player makes a classy move on the field of play.
Thamail Morgan of Cave City, rather than score on a demoralized Yellville-Summit high school football team grieving over their recent tragedy, took a knee at the 5 yard line before almost scoring a touchdown from a fielded a kick off.
Luke Matheson from ArkansasVarsity.com writes that Morgan had some off the field problems with a program at another highschool and came to Cave City to play in an attempt to continue a promising football career as well as to redeem himself from what ever the unmentioned act was that got him suspended from his previous program.
It sounds to me like the guy has potential to overcome whatever his problems are and if he is as good as the article suggests, i look forward to hearing more about him in future college football news.
Jay Posner of the San Diego Union Tribune, in his analysis of the upcoming NFL week 3 match-up between the San Diego Chargers and the Miami Dolphins, writes
The Dolphins were much better in Week 2, gaining more than 400 yards against Indianapolis and controlling the ball for an astonishing 45 minutes, 7 seconds. But all that got them was a distinction as the only team since 1977 to lose a game after having the ball for that long.
Nothing else I have ever seen written describes the essence of the Dolphins so well nor the pain we dolfans must endure.
Apparently some Hollywood, FL high school football team kicked the ever living beans out of some Pompano team. The final score was 83 to 0. According to the article, by the end of the game fans from both teams were sad.
As a graduate of Miami Sunset Senior High, I am unable to muster up a single tear for this terrible incident.
Its just too cute. Watch the video and notice daddy's reaction in the slow motion replay.
As a scientific side point, watch the reaction of the people around the little girl when she does it and watch her monitor their faces for her own reaction.
Erin Andrews, a sports journalist that I am unfamiliar with apparently was filmed naked by a peeping tom. The film has allegedly been circulating around the web in an outrageous assault on women journalists everywhere. I for one feel that I will be outraged as well if I ever see this video. Luckily for me I cant find the video anywhere on the web. Let me issue a stern warning now. I had better not see a video link posted in a response to this article review. I will be very upset if anyone dares to post it. In fact... I dare you to defy me. I triple dog dare you.
DUI manslaughter only costs you 30 days in prison if you happen to be an NFL football player. At least that's all that its costing Dante Stallworth who, while intoxicated above the Florida legal limit, plowed down a pedestrian last march. From what I can tell from the article this ridiculously light sentence is a combined result of Stallworth paying a boatload of money to the victim's family and Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle's being a complete pussy.
The Wall Street Journal tells the story of Floyd Landis, who rode with Lance Armstrong for the US Postal cycling team during the height of their success at the Tour de France. Landis was later suspended from the sport for 2 years for using performance enhancing drugs.
Japan will be advancing to the gold medal finals in the 2010 paralympic sledge hockey championship. Japan stunned the Canadian team with a 3-1 victory. Most of the credit seems to be going to the Japanese golatender Mitsuru Nagase who made 19 saves during the game.
Scott Fujita, a Linebacker with the Super Bowl winning New Orleans Saints has signed as a free agent with the Cleveland Browns. Before leaving however, he donated half his Super Bowl earnings to charity. The gift was divided equally going to both Haiti relief efforts and New Orleans restoration projects. 
The conservative christian group Focus on the Family has purchased an advertising slot for the Superbowl to discuss its anti abortion stance. 
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Ronnie Brown will be out for the rest of the season with a foot injury. Ricky Williams will take his place as starting running back. In spite of the overall lackluster season the Miami Dolphins are having, Ronnie Brown leading the wildcat offense made them fun to watch again. The rest of the season just isnt going to be the same. =[
