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TOP STORIES - FEBRUARY 7, 2008 Get your NFL football tickets now at TickCo. They have all team Cardinals tickets, Cowboys tickets, Packers tickets, Colts tickets, Patriots tickets, Titans tickets and more. Get your Super Bowl tickets here!  EPL WANTS TO GO GLOBAL??? I joked that England might repay getting a Miami Dolphins home game by giving the U.S. a Reading v. Portsmouth feature, now it sounds like it might be reality. Buoyed by a significant increase in broadcast fees in foreign markets, the English Premiere League is considering starting playing regular season fixtures outside of England as soon as 2010. Sites being considered include Hong Kong, Dubai, and New York. Ten games in all would be held outside of England, with each of the 20 teams being involved in one match on foreign soil. So much for the cozy rivalries where fans of one team could be in driving distance of seeing virtually every regular season road game.A DUEL BETWEEN PEDRO MARTINEZ AND JUAN MARICHAL: It's a dream matchup, one of the pitching greats of the 1960's against perhaps the best from about the last decade. It's something that prior to this week probably happened only in a game of Strat-O-Matic. But the two were shown squaring off against each other this week in a different venue. The pair served as honorary 'soltadores' in a cockfighting arena in the Dominican Republic in a video that briefly appeared on Youtube. They say Marichal's rooster was dealing, but Pedro's bird was roughed up and gave up six earned runs in an inning and a third. As you might suspect, the video has been pulled but let your imagination run wild on that one. I'm sure PETA is ready to respond at any moment. FOOTBALL'S POPULARITY SOARS, BASEBALL, HOOPS PLUMMET: Since 1985 Harris Poll has asked Americans what their favorite sport is. That year pro football ranked #1 at 24 percent, followed very closely by baseball at 23%. NBA basketball was only six percent at that time, but improved to 13 percent by 1998. The most recent poll tells a much different story, NFL is now up to 30 percent, baseball has plummeted to 15 percent while the NBA is as about as dead as Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, it's now the favorite of a mere four percent. Other sports on the upswing include college football, from six percent in 1989 to 12 percent today - and auto racing (including NASCAR), from four percent in '89 to 10% now. The NFL remains demographically strong across the board, college football is most popular in the south, baseball remains strong in the east, and auto racing (NASCAR) not surprisingly is strong amongst conservative southerners and not among minorities.  HE MIGHT NOT BE A GIANT... After finding out firsthand that they were even better without him than they were without Tiki Barber, it's being said that the New York Giants may be looking to unload Jeremy Shockey, who was last seen with a couple of pops in hand in a Skybox during last Sunday's Super Bowl. Shockey was also a no-show while his teammates were being paraded through the Canyon of Heroes on Tuesday.CAL LANDS BIG RECRUIT - KIND OF... You have probably seen these increasingly tiring charades every signing day - a highly touted prospect holds a presser with the caps of the four or five schools he is considering. He reaches for one cap before ultimately putting on another, like 'I'm going to Tech, no, I'm going to State, PSYCH - I'M GOING TO THE U!!!'. That leads us to 6'4" 305 lb lineman Kevin Hart - who at a pep rally last week announced he had chosen the University of California as the lucky winner in his 'recruiting sweepstakes'. Only one problem, Cal said they never recruited him, or even considered him. Ditto for the University of Oregon, whose cap also appeared at the presser. Other schools also supposedly in the running for Hart, also said WHO???? With the heat being turned up by the NCAA, administrators, and even law enforecment - Hart was forced to finally tell the truth on National Signing Day - he got recruited by no one, HE SUCKS!!! I'm sure though some publication bumped Cal's recruiting class into the top-five nationally afer he signed Friday. Meanwhile my kid is ranked as the #8 prep outside linebacker for 2008, does Nick Saban have my number on his cell yet??? GRIM SOCCER ANNIVERSARY MARKED: In what an American newsreel likened to the then World Champion Milwaukee Braves plane going down, a plane carrying Manchester United's soccer team went down trying to take off from a slush-filled runway in Munich on February 6, 1958. The team was returning from a European Cup (Champions League) game in Belgrade and the coach wanted to get his team back to England to get more practice in before their regular schedule resumed. Eight players were among the 23 (including journalists and supporters) who died in the wreck. The crash ended what was known as the 'Busby Babes' dynasty, although the team would rebuild and become European Cup champions just ten years later and remain perhaps the world's best-known soccer squad to this day. Torino FC, another perennial soccer power of the past, lost it's entire team (except for a goalkeeper who didn't make the trip) in a 1949 plane crash. Services were held (in two 45-minute halves) at Old Trafford Stadium on Wednesday and members of the current squad viewed a documentary of the 1958 disaster before last weekend's game. This weekend Man-U is to wear sponsorless throwback kits, along with opponent Manchester City. A moment of silence is supposed to occur before the match, although officials were considering changing it to a 'moment of applause' out of worry that the rival Man City hooligans might try to interrupt a moment of silence. GRAND PRIX DRIVER TAUNTED BY RACIST TAUNTS: Formula One's governing body is considering stripping Spain of both of it's Grand Prix races for the upcoming system for alleged racial abuse aimed at Lewis Hamilton during a testing session in Barcelona over the weekend. Spectators aimed and shouted abusive gestures when Hamilton tried to get from his motorhome to the garage. One group of spectators wore wigs, makeup and T-shirts with the words 'Hamilton's Family' scrawled on them. Imagine what happens if this dude ever goes to NASCAR...  YOU MEAN BELICHICK IS IN THIS SPORT TOO??? F1 President says that any team caught in espionage or spying could be expelled from the sport. This comes after McLaren was fined a record $100 million and kicked out of the 2007 manufacturers' championship after being accused of using leaked information from rival Ferrari. 18-1!!! Plaxico proves to be a prophet, in fact it turns out to be giving the Patriots too much credit saying they would score 17 points. The good news is Patriots 19-0/perfect season gear (and lots of it - you know more than normal was printed up) will soon be available in Uganda. BIGGEST LOSER??? DENVER MAN HAD TRADEMARKED '19-0': A former Denver Broncos staffer had originally trademarked the phrases '19-0' and 'perfect season' as the Broncos were undefeated late into the 1998 season. He let the trademark lapse, but reapplied for it this past fall for a mere $400. Had the Patriots won today, it is said that the league would have had to pony up millions to the man for the right to use either phrase on championship merchandise. If you want to trademark '18-1', you are too late for that as well, the New York Post trademarked 18-1 while mocking the Patriots in the paper yesterday. PLAXICO HURT IN SHOWER EARLY IN THE WEEK??? Add this to the legend if true - besides the other assorted injuries he was playing with, Burress said he sprained his MCL slipping in the shower early in the week, and thought he wasn't going to play. I mean wasn't that a little too much for LaDainian Tomlinson. TUCK RULE: Recently given a $30 million contract extension ($16 million guaranteed), Justin Tuck comes up huge with six tackles, two sacks, and a critical forced fumble on Tom Brady in the closing moments of the first half. BELICHICK SORE LOSER??? This just in, not the classiest man of all time. But it was impressive that he even beat Randy Moss to the end zone with :01 left. That said, not the first time a NFL team left the table early with his team drawing dead in the closing seconds. ELI'S GREAT ESCAPE: Greatest play in Super Bowl history??? Greatest play in NFL history period??? '72 DOLPHINS POUR THE CHAMPAGNE: They admit it - they're happy with the outcome.SUPER BOWL BOX POOL ODDS: As you might imagine, only the numbers 0, 3, 4, 6, and 7 have ever been represented in first-quarter scores. 0 (or 10) has been the last digit in 37 of 82 occasions. Last year's first quarter score was 14-6, four has been done six times, the number six only twice. All ten digits have been represented as far as halftime, third quarter, and final scores. 0 (or 10, 20 etc.) leads halftime scores with 25 occurrences. The number seven is the most frequent third-quarter and final score digits, occurring 18 and 16 times respectively. Interestingly enough the number 8 (28, 38, etc.) has been the final digit the least, happening only three times. Of the total 328 combinations, 0 has been the most frequent (90 times), the numbers 2 (9 times), 5 (9), and 8 (8) have been seen the least. Of course the 2-point conversion the last 14 years have given even the bad numbers more of a fighting chance - and as those who may have had 2 and 0 for halftime score of Super Bowl 9 can attest, any combo can win.  TIGER BITCHES OUT CAMERAMAN: I double, triple, quadruple dare anyone to yell Noonan while this guy is trying to make a putt, I guess that's why he doesn't do Phoenix anymore. TV commentators suggested that it may had been one of the locals who shuttered and caused Tiger to hit one into the boonies during the third round at the Dubai Desert Classic. But the photo credit went to an AP photographer who evidently made the trip, and TW is staring right at him after letting out a GD blast. The sick part is Tiger saved par from the sand behind a bunch of palm trees. A struggling Woods finds himself in a fight with the likes of Ernie Els and defending champion Henrik Stenson. Incidentally, you might be able to recognize Stenson's caddie these days - especially if you're a Nick Faldo fan - Fannie Sunesson, Henrik jokes the she gets more cheers than he does.MOST WATCHED TV SPORTING EVENT OF THE WEEKEND??? It's not what you think – It's Yao v. Yi II as the Houston Rockets take on what's left of the Milwaukee Bucks this weekend. It doesn't hold a lot of interest locally but I hear a few people will be watching in China. It will be the teams final meeting this season unless they meet in the NBA Finals – which as Chick Hearn used to say, is highly unlikely. MOST ATTENDED SPORTING EVENT IN PHOENIX THIS WEEKEND??? No, it’s not what you think neither, although those in town for that football game are expected to give an additional boost to what has become traditionally monster numbers at the PGA Tour's Phoenix Open, with Saturday’s turnstile count expected to push a record 200,000. Memorable moments at the event in recent years include Tiger Woods hole-in-one, Andrew Magee's hole-in-one on a PAR 4 (deflecting off the putter of another player on the 17th green), and Justin Leonard and Chris DiMarco fending off fully-kreusened ASU boozers yelling 'Noonan!!!' while addressing putts. MIKE CAREY GETS SUPER BOWL ASSIGNMENT: The 58-year old Carey becomes the first African-American to officiate the big game (the retired Johnny Grier never got the assignment). This season there were 26 black officials amongst the 17 NFL crews. Carey is also the co-owner of Serius Innovation, a ski apparel company in which he has a hand in owning eight patents, perhaps one of them came into use when he officiated the Seahawks/Packers playoff game a few weeks back. One of Carey’s more memorable games was the Redskins/Buccaneers playoff game two years ago when the Sean Taylor spitting incident on Michael Pittman occurred. GB'S RED RIGHT 88 – 'TWO JET WINSTON': Former GM Ron Wolf still laments most haunting loss in Packers history (at least until 4th and 26 and two weeks ago) which he used to coin his team as a 'one-year wonder' and a 'fart in the wind'. Wolf and Mark Chmura blame Mike Holmgren for not adjusting to Denver’s blitz schemes during Super Bowl 32 while safety LeRoy Butler was imploring DC Fritz Shurmur to make adjustments to keep Terrell Davis in check. Butler adds that no adjustments were made at halftime, that the team just 'drank Kool-Aid' while 'being bitched at'. Chmura (who’s blasted Holmgren for his game plan that day in the past) refers to the final play (Two Jet Winston) the 'dumbest call ever' because there were no adjustments available and that the play was never rehearsed in practice. Chmura says he broke off his route to give Favre (being blitzed) a prayer, but his pass attempt was broken up.  BIG MAC HAS DOUBTS ON CLEMENS: In a video that appears on Yahoo Sports, GOP Presidential front-runner John McCain expresses 'as a sports fan only' that he has doubts on Roger Clemens' claims that he didn't use PED's, adding that he can't see how he could accomplish the records he achieved late in his career. Most of the other candidates took a pass on commenting on the Clemens situation, Mitt Romney did say 'innocent until proven guilty' but added that he hopes Clemens 'hasn't let us down'STORM CLOUDS ON NFL LABOR FRONT??? Warning 'We are not hockey players, and they are not hockey owners', NFL head Gene Upshaw warns that a work stoppage is very possible if owners decide to opt out of the league's CBA later this year., the 2009 season would be the last season played with a salary cap. The 2010 season would be uncapped, and Upshaw warns that once the cap goes away, the players will never accept it again - and will not cave in like the NHLPA did after a one-year work stoppage. Some owners have complained about being cash-strapped, with non-shared revenue such as parking, merchandise sales, and concessions being among the issues. K-STATE CAGE ASSISTANT ARRESTED: There was a ton of partying in Manhattan last night after Kansas State beat rival Kansas at home for the first time in 25 years. Perhaps too much - assistant coach Dalonte Hill was busted on DUI suspicion hours after K-State's 84-75 win over the #2 ranked Jayhawks. K-State has announced that Hill will not be behind the bench when the Wildcats play again Saturday. 'DEPRESSINGLY SIMPLE': That's what one TV commentator said today as Tiger Woods is already building a lead at the Dubai Desert Classic. After his round of 65, Tiger said he was going to 'take it easy' and work out some more. Bad news for the rest of the field. By the way, when Tiger first started playing this tournament Dubai was a small town, by the time his career is finished the golf course is going to be surrounded by skyscrapers. No one gets paid diddly for building them but that's another news story. Also, someone got a hole in one, and just got a bottle of wine and a cigar for his efforts - last week in San Diego he could had gotten a Buick. IAN POULTER SAYS HE WILL WIN U.S. OPEN: Saying that he is the only player in the world capable of catching Tiger Woods when he 'reaches his potential', Ian Poulter tells magazine that 'you can put him down' for winning the U.S. Open this year. Don't know if he realizes that it is on the same course where he just got done winning by eight shots. Plexico Burress thinks this guy's out of control. Poulter is already backtracking and claiming he was taken out of context.JESSE JACKSON CALLS OUT MLB: Jesse Jackson criticizes Major League Baseball on for sending investigators to ask neighbors questions about the umpires including whether the ump belongs to the KKK, and we're not talking pitchers racking up strikeouts due to umpire head John Hirschbeck's strike zone over the years. In a prepared statement, Jackson said that MLB has done a disservice to its progressive social history by equating southern whites with white supremacists. Other questions asked to the neighbors by the investigators include whether they use illegal drugs, host wild parties, or show signs of living a lifestyle (expensive cars, etc.) out of their means - suggesting that they might be making some supplemental income on the side. YOU HAD YOUR CHANCE, YOU BLEW IT: So we did hear something newsworthy on media day – Randy Moss talks about the Packers interest in him last off-season, saying that while Brett Favre was definitely interested, that he got signals that the organization was not. Moss revealed that Green Bay was only interested in him if he cut his salary to $3 million for 2007, and that he would have to come into camp realizing that Donald Driver was still the #1 and not to step on his shoes. BREWERS ACCUSED OF BEING 'BLIND TO STEROIDS': When the Mitchell report came out, there were accusations that the Brewers were omitted from most of the allegations because they were Bud Selig’s boys. Now the organization is being ripped for signing three players during the off-season with PED histories, including Eric Gagne (you do have to think some punishment is coming with hard evidence of shipments made to Dodger Stadium), Guillermo Mota (served 50-game suspension last year) and Mike Cameron (to serve 25-game suspension this year). Danged if you do and danged if you don’t – and this just in, the Selig family no longer owns the team. |
