ajd Page 148 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights

Saints caught doping: "Fox 31 television in Denver, citing an unnamed source, reported Friday there are between six and 10 positive tests in the NFL for a weight-loss diuretic. The only names the station mentioned were the two Saints, who are in London for Sunday’s game with the San Diego Chargers. ...

Isiah Thomas Overdosed On Sleeping Pills...
Details are sketchy at this point but according to reports from both the New York Post and the Lower Hudson Valley News, police responded to to and overdose call at the purchase home of Isiah Thomas early this morning: ...

Everybody Talks to Barack Obama Except Bill Simmons
Remember last spring when America's Sports Fella, Bill Simmons, staged a passive-aggressive mutiny on his employer over "promises not kept" stemming from when Sen. Barack Obama was dropped from his podcast? Maybe you do. So, those of you who do remember that were probably thinking to yourselves, "He...

OneSeason seems completely awesome: "Players are bought and sold under four-letter identifiers (Manny Ramirez, for example, is "MANY," Sidney Crosby is "CROS") known as synthetic ownership interests, or SOIs. Their prices are determined by supply and demand. If someone wishes to buy and sell SOIs, i...

Terrell Suggs Should Really Handle All Media Relations for The Ravens
Terrell Suggs caused a firestorm when he bragged about the Ravens D putting Rashard Mendenhall on IR for the rest of the season and then confidently said that Hines Ward was next. Some argued that Suggs was just a little confused about what a bounty actually is; he didn't mean anything by it, he's j...

World Series Diaryland: Everybody Wants to Reach Out And Touch Cole Hamels
Each day after the World Series, this space will serve as a reason to rundown all that happened in the Fall Classic the night before. Since nobody's watching it, this seems like a fine idea. Plus, the Phillies are involved, and you know, I'm quite fond of those guys. Historians are quick to point ou...

Somebody help out Charlie: From the inbox: Hi Pal. I'm hoping you can help me with something. My fiance agreed to let me ask the organist at our wedding to play "Brass Bonanza" the theme song of the former Hartford Whalers at our wedding. The thing is, our wedding is this saturday and I need the she...

In defense of Lamar Odom: "Odom is the Lakers' great enigma, perhaps the most perplexing, confounding, frustrating player in the NBA. One moment he's brilliant and daring (Lakers vs. Utah, second-round playoffs, 2008, with an 18.2 scoring average). Next moment he's, well, he's out there on the hardw...

Larry Johnson Makes a Solemn Vow to Not Become Ike Turner
Chiefs running back Larry Johnson was deactivated again this week and addressed his latest lady-pestering incident with the media yesterday and seemed surprisingly contrite. We're so used to seeing troubled athletes mumble through scripted apologies for the sake of their career, it's a little jarrin...

Where My Team Stands: Philadelphia Phillies
I haven't eaten all day, just quietly sitting here watching the time go by, reveling in the moment before something inevitably goes wrong. This is the great unknown portion of the program, where you can sit back, take it all in, and just marinate in the reality that your team is inevitably part of a...


Now, This Is How You Heckle a Member of the Opposing Team
Who knew Swedes got so ornery? But this is the treatment you get if you're an opposing member of a Swedish hockey team and were involved in a salacious sex scandal. Gentlemen...unleash the dildos! ...

And This Is How "Why Can't Us?" Came To Be...
Why Can't Us? by dano609...

So Rick Telander Meets Jay Mariotti Sweaty and Nude...
The long-standing feud between former Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti and current CST columnist Rick Telander has been well-publicized and generated notoriety given its potential for violence. Once Jay quit, the yelps of joy from inside the Sun-Times' newsroom could pretty much be heard (or...

Scoop Jackson should've written this story: "For all the millions baseball has poured into reviving its sport in the inner cities of America, into trying to reclaim a place alongside football and basketball in popularity among young African Americans, the World Series has sent an entirely different ...

Brett Favre, ESPN, Jay Glazer and You
Brett Favre finally addressed the issues surrounding the Jay Glazer report about whether or not he shared offensive secrets with the Lions prior to the Packers game. As you may have heard: Glazer broke the story, ESPN sends out standard memo instructing its Bristol army NOT TO REPORT THAT STORY, and...

Columnist reminds Chicagoans that this is still Kyle Orton: "The team is looking at Orton exactly the same way the public is, which isn't necessarily a good thing. The Bears haven't been this excited about a quarterback since, well, Grossman during his early years in Chicago. But they don't see a ca...

The Phillies Put One In the Win Column Already
Home Run Derby kicks off its World Series coverage in the classiest way possible, by pitting the Ball Girls of the Philadelphia against those people that jump on top of the dugout for the Tampa Bay Rays. So far, the Ball Girls are trouncing the Rays in online voting poll, which will hopefully be eno...


LA Times Sports Writer Chooses Not to Lop Off Penis; Paper is Thrilled
LA Times sports writer Mike Penner made national news last year when he wrote his "Old Mike, New Christine" column about his life as a transsexual and his decision to undergo surgery so he could become "Christine Daniels" for the rest of his journalism career. Well, just like a fickle woman, Mike ch...