Poland faces Germany in the first round action of the 2008 European Championship. This photo ran in a major Polish newspaper. It shows the Polish manager holding the severed heads of German footballers Michael Ballack and Joachim Loew.
If I didn’t know any better, I’d say somebody in Poland has a score to settle with Germany.
The games will be shown live on ESPN. The schedule can be found here.
Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Marvin Harrison is under investigation in his hometown of Philadelphia in a shooting that took place earlier this week. From ESPN:
The source said the alleged victim came into the bar, Playmakers, around 5 p.m. and engaged in an argument with Harrison, who was at the bar. The victim then left the bar, heading to his car, with Harrison following. Gunfire broke out, the victim was hit in the hand, and a young girl was slightly injured by flying glass from a car that apparently was hit by a bullet.
Police came to scene, but the victim did not identify a shooter. On Wednesday, according to the source, ballistic tests showed that the gun that had fired the shots was a custom-made Belgian weapon, and police determined that Harrison owned such a gun. A source told ESPN.com’s John Clayton that the gun is registered.
Police then went to a Philadelphia car wash owned by Harrison to question him about the gun. Harrison admitted owning such a weapon, but claimed it never left his suburban Philadelphia home.
However, the source said the gun was discovered in a bucket at the car wash, and tests showed that it had fired seven bullets that matched those found at the scene.
What an idiot. I don’t know what’s more dumb - shooting a guy with lots and lots of people around to witness the event or shooting a guy with an expensive and exotic handgun that almost nobody else other then a spoiled professional athlete could afford.
Why does he even feel the need to shoot somebody? Hasn’t he read coach Tony Dungy’s book, “Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, & Priorities of a Winning Life.” I haven’t gotten around to reading it myself, but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t recommend shooting people with your custom-made Belgian handgun.
It turns out that when Miguel Tejada signed his first professional baseball contract in the Dominican Republic, he was 19 and not 17 as he claimed. He’s been lying about his age ever since.
At least to Major League Baseball. According to the Houston Astros — the team he plays for now — his green card, his driver’s license, and everything else that he uses in his personal life shows that he was born in 1974. Everything in baseball shows that he was born in 1976.
The thing I don’t understand is how his correct date of birth appears on his green card, yet none of the teams he has played for knew his correct age. Not only do they have to look at his green card, I believe they have to retain a copy of his green card.
Why didn’t anyone look at it?
If he has been lying about his age, what else could he be lying about? In 2005 Rafael Palmeiro was suspended for ten days after testing positive for steroids. Acording to ESPN, Palmeiro implicated Miguel Tejada to baseball’s arbitration panel saying that Tejada was responsible for his positive test. Palmeiro claimed the only thing he had ever injected himself with was vitamin B12 supplied by Tejada.
Could the B12 have really been the potent anabolic steroid stanozolol?
I’ll be totally honest and admit that I never liked Miguel Tejada. He always seemed too fat to be a shortstop. I thought he swung at the first pitch too much. He had decent numbers. I guess. I don’t think he was worth what the Orioles were paying him, but what else is new? I was glad when they traded him to the Astros.
I normally try not to post too many YouTube videos, but that rule goes out the window if it’s something that makes ESPN’s resident blow hard Chris Berman look like the douche that I know he is.In this clip, we see Chris Berman get kind of creepy with a female named Rebeca on the set for Berman’s Monday Night Football half-time segment. He gave her a bottle of wine for Christmas and he is asking if she enjoyed it. “Did you think of me when you drank it? Did you squirm a little bit?” He asks while gyrating in his chair.
Squirm? I know I winced while watching this video.
I’m not sure, but I think Berman is trying to do an offensive Asian impersonation. Rebeca told Berman that she drank the bottle in a Japanese restaurant. Pay close attention to the video at the 35 second mark. I think that is Berman trying to do an offensive Asian impersonation.
It’s obvious Berman knows just a little too much about wine and it’s a miracle that he has never been the focus of a sexual harassment lawsuit. It’s also obvious with the way these videos are being leaked that someone over at ABC hates Berman more then I do.
I woke up this morning at oh-dark-thirty to find a Borders Rewards 40% off coupon in my email. They routinely email coupons, none are higher then 40%. When I get one, I try to get over to Borders to use it.
I also learned today that Will Leitch, editor of the sports blog Deadspin wrote a book, God Save the Fan.
It came out last week, but I didn’t learn of it until today.
Deadspin is for people that enjoy sports, but despise the ESPNization of sports. People like me. I first learned of Deadspin from reading a blog post written by fellow Hagerstown blogger Jennifer Benningfield at Trapper Jenn DC.
The book retails for $25, but thanks to my coupon I got it for $15 and some change.
While standing in line at Borders, I flipped it open and on the the first page I went to had a photo of ESPN blow hard Chris Berman sitting on a sofa with a bunch of strippers.
ESPN has suspended one of it’s anchors for saying something rude and crude at a roast. Dana Jacobson was at a roast for ESPN Radio personalities Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic. Why these two knuckle heads were getting a roast is beyond me. I like Mike Golic, but Mike Greenberg gets on my nerves and I wish he would just go away.
Jacobson was suspended for making fun of Notre Dame’s Touchdown Jesus. Mike Golic is a former Notre Dame football player. Jacobson went to Michigan where they have a heated rivalry with Notre Dame. She is also Jewish.
This caught the attention of the Catholic League. Overreacting to every little thing is what the Catholic League does best. Bill Donahue, the blow hard in charge of the Catholic League makes sport of getting people fired that say or do anything negative concerning the Catholic church. It’s what he does.
I’m not trying to defend Dana Jacobson. I think what she did was incredibly stupid. Saying You know what else I think is stupid? To allow a religious icon that is cherished by over a billion people to be associated with the word “touchdown”. It was only a matter of time before something stupid like this happened. I’m only surprised it didn’t happen sooner.
I don’t think Bill Donahue would have had a problem if Dana Jacobson said something retarded or insulting about the Syracuse Orangeman mascot or the Maryland Turtle. That’s not to say that Jesus is the mascot for Notre Dame. I think they have a red headed boy dressed like a leprechaun. The thing is, they haven’t done anything to discourage people from referring to the mural as “Touchdown Jesus”.
Maybe they should.
The Notre Dame website even refers to the mural as Touchdown Jesus. It states that artist Millard Sheets was commissioned to create a work large enough to cover the southern face of the tower, visible from the football stadium. The artwork never made much sense to me. If Jesus isn’t signaling a touchdown, what is he doing?
I think it’s meant to look as though Jesus is signaling a touchdown, but it’s meant to be oh so subtle. Why else would they have required it to be seen from the stadium?
Poland faces Germany in the first round action of the 2008 European Championship. This photo ran in a major Polish newspaper. It shows the Polish manager holding the severed heads of German footballers Michael Ballack and Joachim Loew.
I woke up this morning at oh-dark-thirty to find a Borders Rewards 40% off coupon in my email. They routinely email coupons, none are higher then 40%. When I get one, I try to get over to Borders to use it.
ESPN has suspended one of it’s anchors for saying something rude and crude at a roast. Dana Jacobson was at a roast for ESPN Radio personalities Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic. Why these two knuckle heads were getting a roast is beyond me. I like Mike Golic, but Mike Greenberg gets on my nerves and I wish he would just go away.
