morning Page 5 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Holy Cow, Did Dwight Howard Really Just Do That?
• What's that smell?: Live and love at the Bassmaster Classic. Never have so many waited in line for so long to watch people weigh dead fish. [Friends of the Program]...
Hugo Chavez Loves His Dawgs?
• Better Red than dead: Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez celebrates his favorite sports team. (No, it's not Georgia, but I hear that Athens does hate America too.) [Get The Picture]...
Alexander Ovechkin Doesn't Need Your Fancy Skates
• Go team!: So you're saying it's not a good idea to pull major league pitchers out of spring training to pretend they care about their country for a couple weeks? Who could have seen that coming?[I'm Writing Sports]...
Mascots Play H-O-R-S-E Differently Than You And I
• I'll just take the H: From half court, back to the basket, over the head, off the mascot's crotch, no rim. Perfect. [YouTube]...
Michael Strahan: Master Thespian
• With Jay Glazer as "The Glaze": Michael Strahan may get his own sitcom on Fox. Great idea. Just thinking about him trying to act is pretty hilarious. [Big Picture]...
Shaquille O'Neal Steals The Very Ridiculous Show
• Who needs wins?: Hey, if Texas says they're the Big 12 Champs, then I guess they're the Big 12 Champs. [Red Dirt Kings]...
English Soccer Players Accused Of Meat Beating
• A victimless crime?: Two Southampton strikers are accused of attacking a man with their kebabs. No, I'm talking about the food. What are you talking about? [Sports Rubbish]...
Join The Mile High Club With Bar Refaeli
• Stop trying to look out the window: Southwest Airlines—which usually bans scantily-clad women on its rides—unveiled its bikini girl plane. There were no survivors. [Lewp]...
The Breakfast Of World F#@*ing Champions
• What's this green stuff in my cereal?: Why isn't there a Philadelphia Phillies Wheaties Box? Because it's not a complete breakfast without Whiz. [Home Run Derby]...
Welcome To Thailand. Here's Your Kick To The Face
• Good to be back: Ah, Bangkok. Worldwide home of cheap, illicit sex and barely legal bloodsports. [Empty The Bench]...
Cal Ripken Jr. Gets Nailed To Wall
Heads you lose, tails I win: Rutgers' top football recruit chose his school based on a coin toss. And who says college recruiting is not a serious enterprise? [Bootlegger Sports]...
You Can Almost Smell The LA Looks In This Photograph
• The Evolution of Pro Bowl cheerleaders: The 90's were not a great period for pom-pom ladies. [FanIQ]...
Is That Edinson Volquez Riding Around With A Gun In His Car?
No. 2 with a smile: Eric Devendorf likes to smell what? [Troy Nunes]...
If You Build It, Hot Dogs Will Be $3.50
• Is that James Earl Jones in the bleachers?: Kevin Costner is setting up a minor league baseball team in Illinois. But I don't see any players. [Sun-Times]...
Is That What You're Going To Wear?
• The stripes are not slimming: The worst hockey sweaters of all time. Did you know the Montreal Canadiens were originally a prison team? [Fan IQ]...
Let's Find Someone To Blame For This
• And what about that block in back!: No matter how many times you watch this replay the Cardinals still don't PUSH HIM OUT OF BOUNDS! Gaahhhh!!!! [Black Sports Online]...
Aaron Rodgers Says Brett Favre Is Tearing Him Apart
• But did he hit you?: Rodgers says Brett was chilly all year. [Midwest Sports Fans]...
Mario Chalmers Still Learning This Whole "Tee Vee" Thing
Awwww: Ahh, the Puppy Bowl... keeping moms interested in Super Bowl Sunday since 2005. [Hot Dog and Friends]...
Soccer Players Are Bad Athletic Supporters
• Yes ... "training buddies": Just because Ian Thorpe has been living and traveling the world for three years with a hot Brazilian swimmer who also happens to be a dude, that doesn't make him gay or anything. [Outsports]...
Lego Giambi Is Ready For His Check Up
• Injection molding?: Leggo my Lego baseball players. Where do you stick the needle anyway? [Red Sox Monster]...