Baseball’s top-rated prospect hits the big leagues today when slugging catcher Matt Wieters joins the Baltimore Orioles. Wieters, often referred to as “Joe Mauer with power”, is being tagged as the man to turn the struggling Orioles around and end their streak of 12 losing seasons. Just a few of Orioles fans quotes: “Matt Wieters [...]
Man from China, Sun Mingming, is too tall for the NBA, league officials are saying. At 7-foot-9, Sun is officially the tallest Chinese basketball player. He can dunk a basketball without leaving the ground – which has caused an uproar in the land of basketball. Mr. Mingming has on several occasions been accused of doping, [...]
Can’t stop
JockJoose wants to know what you baseball fans think about this one: http://voteformanny.blogspot.com/ We’re somewhat torn over Manny at Team JJ. He provides a fun side to sports, but he is an overall big dumbass.
The NCAA has charged the University of Memphis with committing major violations during the 2007-08 basketball season under former head coach John Calipari, according to a report by The Memphis Commercial Appeal on Wednesday. The NCAA’s notice of allegations stated that the school was guilty of “knowing fraudulence or misconduct” on an SAT exam by [...]
Barcelona outclassed Manchester United 2-0 in the Champions League final at the Stadio Olimpico on Wednesday. Striker Samuel Eto’o struck the opener on 10 minutes when he cut in from the right past Nemanja Vidic and his low shot beat United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar at his near post. Xavi cracked a free kick [...]
Warning: Crazy Cubs pitcher on the loose. It is has been reported he has a bat and hates Gatorade. Apparently this machine is having a bad, bad week.
Jock Joose proudly presents: Cheese-Rolling. Cheese-Rolling, a traditional English Sport that dates back at least 200 years, possibly much longer, groups of fearless competitors chase an 8 pound round of Double Gloucester Cheese down an extremely steep and uneven hill, with a 1:1 gradient in some parts. Thousands of spectators gather to watch the five [...]
Tom Brady practiced with the New England Patriots for the first time Tuesday since suffering a season-ending knee injury in last year’s opening game. Simultaneously, women all over New England began to feel pleasureful sensations in their hoo-ha’s. Brady, who is married to Victoria’s Secret super-super model Gisele Bundchen, is a favorite among Earth women, especially [...]
Last week, an appeals court in Washington upheld a lower court’s decision in favor of the football team over a group of American Indians who contended the club’s trademark is racially offensive. The ruling did not address the racial aspects of the case; the U.S. Court of Appeals issued its decision on a technicality, that [...]
Oldie but goodie. Dude got cornhusked bad.
Hong Man Choi – Jose Canseco MMA Fight! No way Jose.. The best part of the defeat is, without a doubt, the fact that he didn’t even really lose because of his inability to fight (although that was pretty clearly an issue, too). No, he went down because he was essentially unable to defend himself [...]
The backyard sensation known as ‘Chuck-O’ (aka ‘ghetto cornhole’) is sweeping the nation so fiercely that the IOC is considering adding it to the Summer Games of ’12 in London, committee spokesperson Lee Adley said yesterday. ‘Even though it’s retardedly hard to score points, especially in windy conditions, the committee feels that the difficulties would [...]
Chicago Cubs right fielder Milton Bradley lashed out at Major League Baseball’s umpires Sunday, saying they are forcing him to swing at bad pitches by widening his strike zone. [espn] “What am I supposed to do?” he said, according to the Tribune. “You lead the American League in OPS [in 2008], and two years in [...]