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Yes. He'd Be Just Like Donnie Brasco
"Shaq's interest in police work is very real," says Miami Beach Police Chief Don De Lucca. "I've always said law enforcement is a calling, and I believe Shaquille has been called. He'd be a great undercover guy."...
Tampa Does What It Can To Please Bill Simmons
In a surprise announcement yesterday, the city of Tampa was awarded the Super Bowl in 2009. In a nod to the constant, insufferable bitching by everybody's favorite Interweb columnist, SportsFrog.com points out a key factor in the decision:...
Bonds Finally Pees In The Damn Cup
For all the suspicions and assumptions made over the years, they finally did something to Barry Bonds yesterday they've never done before: They tested him for steroids. ESPN's Bonds Groupie Pedro Gomez — realize that this guy has done nothing but follow Bonds around for months — reports that sever...
About Last Night ...
Things you missed after being cast adrift by the mutineers ... Heat evens series with Pistons 1-all: All you've been able to talk about at work today is Dwayne Wade, which is odd, since you were fired from that job in March. Liverpool wins Euro Club Championship. AC Milan loses when Scott Norwood pe...
The Colin Ferguson Of Soccer
Well, it's not quite as bad as defending yourself for murder — though also not quite as entertaining — but it'll do for now. Soccer "star" El-Hadji Diouf has been taking some real heat for using a public defender to represent him against charges of spitting on an 11-year-old last November. (They c...
To Watch Tonight ...
She left me! How can I go on? How can I ... oh, I remember: TV sports. Game 2: Detroit Pistons at Miami Heat. In the time it takes Shaq to run the length of the court, six million pounds of cocaine have been smuggled into the U.S by boat. Houston Astros at Chicago Cubs. Damn you, Red Sox! We were su...
Leftovers: Oh, Put a Cork in it, Sammy.
Sammy Sosa swings at critics who say he dodged White Sox. Makes case by using frantic hand gestures. [Chicago Sun-Times] Your French Open update: Davenport, Venus survive. Now, take a breath and go on with your day. [Tennis-X.com] Mall magnate vows to keep team in Minnesota after Vikings sale approv...
Hire Stuart Scott!
Your career going nowhere? Relationship on the rocks? Feeling generally unmotivated? We know you're all nodding your heads, morose, defeated. Well, cheer up! Stuart Scott is here to motivate you! According to HireSportsSpeakers.com, you can have Stu come speak for a price that's "over $20,000." (...
Some Helpful Advice For Jerry Rice
The official word is in: Jerry Rice will play for the Denver Broncos next season. To help Jerry get around in his new digs, knowing his past proclivities, we helpfully provide him a sampling of area businesses....
Who Knew Olympians Even Understood Money?
According to the Athens (Ga.) Daily Herald (link via WSJ.com's Daily Fix), Olympian shot putter Adam Nelson is selling himself on eBay. For 6,000 clams — the current price, anyway — you can have your name/business/Web site/plea for love plastered across Nelson's jersey at the upcoming World Track...
Sports Illustrated Keeps Finger On The Web Pulse
Featured Web site in Sports Illustrated's "SI Players" section this week: ManuGinobili.com....
AI Gets Gays All Hot And Bothered
From OutSports.com's Daily Blog today:...
McEwing Still Stalking Wright
One of the more amusing subplots of spring training this year was the strange, moderately disturbing friendship that developed between Mets third baseman David Wright and then-Mets-now-Royals utilityman Joe "Gritty, Gutty, Spunky, Fiesty" McEwing. Wright was reportedly in tears when McEwing, tota...
Blogdom's Best
Stuff That Our RSS Reader Didn't Reject This Morning Why is it that people keep signing up to sign the seventh-inning stretch at Wrigley Field? Jeff Gordon's just the latest example of someone making an idiot out of themselves. [Ivy Chat] Why do Red Sox fans keep jeering Edgar Renteria? Try Kevin Mi...
Blogger's Stockholm Syndrome
One of our favorite unheralded blogs is The Yankee Despiser. Essentially, some guy who can't stand the Yankees writes just about everything you'd ever need to know about the Yankees. Frankly, we find more information and commentary about the Yankees there than we do at most fan blogs. Anyway, TYD — ...
In Manhattan, This Could Get Him A One-Bedroom With A Working Toilet
Mike Tyson, whose debt is larger than most third-world nations' GDPs, has bought a $2.1 million home in Arizona. He is scheduled to fight another stiff white guy in June in Washington, D.C. So that's fun. We're still waiting for Little Mac to challenge him again....
How To Become Famous? Retire
SportsBusiness Journal — which we actually subscribe to, even though it pretty much requires a second mortgage — gives its yearly Q ratings of the popularity of top athletes. (The rating measures how the general public recognizes people. And athletes are people too, apparently.) The site's subscr...
Today in MLB Blogs
We see a time in the future when independent baseball blogs will be hunted down and persecuted — forced to assimilate with the all-mighty MLB Blogs.com corporate giant (motto: $4.95 per month; it is futile to resist!). But a handlful of brave resistance fighters will carry on the fight for blogging ...
The Sad Tale Of Alex Rodriguez
Fun story in the New York Daily News today. At a benefit for a mental health clinic in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, Alex Rodriguez admitted that he receives therapy to deal with his "issues." He told TV's "Extra" that "therapy is an incredible thing and you might get to know ...
Barry Bonds' Email Of The Month
One of the great parts of BarryBonds.com — the portal with which Mssrg. Bonds chooses to communicate with the groundlings — is the "contests." One of the contests is the "Fan of the Month," an award given to the best email Bonds' site receives. This month's winner, announced yesterday, was Michae...