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D-BACK PLAYERS NOT EXCITED ABOUT NEW BOSS??? Doug Davis and new 35-year old manager A.J. Hinch get into it in the dugout, and later on towards the clubhouse, the other night after Davis gets pulled from a game. The team's pitching coach then adds fuel to the fire by calling Hinch's hiring a poor decision, noting that Hinch has no credibility from his team from what he does between the lines. Hinch was hired to replace Bob Melvin a couple weeks back, and was in his fourth year working in the team's player-development department, and holds a degree in psychology from Stanford. The team's GM championed Hinch's hiring - saying that he will bring 'organization advocacy' to the job. That would be a nice catchy phrase to put on a cover letter.


CAGE MATCH - WWE V. NBA: Someone once told me that the NBA Playoffs are getting 'a lot like 'rasslin' - I guess it's official now. The NBA vows that Game 4 of Lakers v. Nuggets will be played in the Pepsi Center Monday night. Only one problem - the weekly WWE Raw show is also supposed to be aired, from Denver's Pepsi Center - on Monday night. The event has been booked since last August and over 10,000 tickets have been sold. WWE Chairman Vince McMahon says (and correctly) that it shouldn't be his problem that the Nuggets thought so little of their chances of advancing this far in the NBA Playoffs to allow for other events to be booked for that particular day. And one would think considering the Avalanche have gone the distance a couple times in the NHL world that it is always possible that the NBA and NHL franchises may need dates in May and June. Even if the Packers went 4-12 the year before - no one would dare schedule a snowmobile race inside Lambeau for the third weekend in January. WWE could always give in - you can stick a wrestling ring in any arena in North America and short notice, and does anyone watching RAW really care where it is taking place??? Or WWE could even tape RAW at the Pepsi Center on Sunday and air the next day (not the wrestling expert, but I believe Smackdown is played on a one-two day delay). ORRRRR - Monday IS a holiday - you could play the NBA game during the day and do the wrestling show at night, with enough manpower it shouldn't take to long to break up the basketball floor and stick the ring in - although WWE also wants to install their entrance ramp and all their pyrotechnics. ORRRRR - there is the best idea of all, kill both birds with one stone and do Game 4 AND RAW with the talent currently on the Nuggets and Lakers rosters. Kenyon Martin and Kobe Bryant get tied up under the basket and K-Mart gives Kobe a nasty elbow and the two are in each other's faces - suddenly Mark Cuban shows up at courtside with fans throwing beer on him. Cuban eventually gets jumped from behind by Chris Andersen, with J.R. Smith and Carmelo Anthony joining in the beatdown. And the game??? That ends when a freak collision leaves referee Joey Crawford out cold, allowing Andrew Bynum to commit a Flagrant 2 foul on Carmelo that goes uncalled - by the time Crawford comes to, the Lakers are on their way back to L.A. with a commanding 3-1 series lead. Oh, and Patrick Roy is rumored to be the next coach of the Avalanche, that guy's act is every bit as good as a WWE show.


CARRIE PREJEAN SIGHTING!!! That would be the Miss California from the Miss USA pageant who made herself a news story for a couple days a few weeks back. Obviously her 15 minutes are up, as Carrie went back to her day job last weekend - chances are I may have already bumped into girlfriend in the past. She works Padres games as part of the 'Pad Squad', throwing T-shirts into the crowd and what not. Sad thing may be that Carrie may be the most marketable face in uniform for that franchise right now. Meanwhile Michael Phelps was back in the pool for a meet in Charlotte where he got beat a couple times, so obviously nothing much came out of that rumor.


CABLE V. NFL NETWORK WAR FINALLY WINDING DOWN??? Good morning news if you are a Comcast subscriber, the cable operator has reached an agreement to carry the NFL Network permanently (10 year deal) on a package they call 'digital classic', said to be the carriers second-most most popular digital package. It's said the deal was brokered after the NFL Network finally decided to lower it's asking price. The move could very well pave the way for Time Warner and other major operators to follow suit. Also Comcast has also reached a deal to carry ESPNU on it's system as well.


SAD NEWS OUT OF SOONER NATION - WAYMAN LOSES CANCER BATTLE: Wayman Tisdale, a three-time All-American at Oklahoma who played 12 seasons in the NBA, died this morning at age 44 in Tulsa after a two-year battle with bone cancer - his passing first being announced on the Oklahoma Senate floor. In addition to his basketball exploits, Tisdale also became an award-winning jazz musician, with several albums making top-10 on the Billboard charts. Incredibly upbeat during his ordeal, Tisdale discovered he had a cancerous cyst in his right knee after breaking his leg in a fall in April 2007, and the leg was amputated last August. Just weeks later Tisdale appeared in a scoreboard message during a OU football game vowing his full recovery. Tisdale's passing marks the second significant loss in as many years in the OU sports community, last year former quarterback Jack Mildren, who went on to a successful career in business and politics after starring at quarterback from 1969-1971, also lost a battle to cancer.


LAKERS EXPECTED TO CLOSE OUT ROCKETS TONIGHT: Coming off a 40-point annihilation at the Staples Center the other night, LA a nine point favorite to win Game 6 in Houston tonight - setting the stage for a Nuggets/Lakers Conference Final to begin over the weekend. Meanwhile look forward to the epic Magic/Celtics series to be extended to a Game 7 - the Magic goes off as seven point favorites at home.

KENYON MARTIN SAYS NO THANKS TO DINNER W/CUBAN: Talking some great smack after the Nuggets closed out Dallas in Game 5, Kenyon Martin turned down Mark Cuban's offer to have dinner with the Martin family, saying he can cook his own dinner. Cuban was not in Denver for the final game, he was in Las Vegas, receiving an honorary award for his contributions to the advertising industry. During a morning shoot-a-round, Carmelo Anthony said that he was not going to miss Cuban not being at the game. Cuban deciding to pick up an award rather that be there for his team at an elimination game - man has his priorities straight.


SHOCKING NEWS - ALL-AMERICAN LINEBACKER HAS THE BIG C: Boston College senior linebacker Mark Herzlich reveals that he has a form of bone and tissue cancer known as Ewing's Sarcoma. Last season Herzlich was the ACC defensive player of the year and a finalist for the Butkus Award, recording 110 tackles and six interceptions. Experts say that had he declared for the NFL Draft he may had easily joined teammate B.J. Raji as a top-ten overall pick. It is said that the five-year survival rate for those with the disease if detected early enough can be as high as 80 percent.


SOCCER COMMENTATOR IN LA SAYS SOMETHING - IT ACTUALLY MAKES A SOUND IN ENGLAND: Steve Cohen hosts a show on Sirius/XM radio - last month he made a comment about a disaster that occurred in a FA Cup semi-final game involving Liverpool 20 years ago. Overcrowding in a standing-room section that also had a fence that prevented fans from going onto the field led to a crush resulting in the deaths of 96 fans, and also a scene where other fans supposedly attacked would-be rescuers. A subsequent investigation that became known as the Taylor Report eventually resulted in all areas of stadiums having seats and tearing down the fencing and just having security surround the field. Cohen said on his show recalling the incident that Liverpool supporters should also share some of the blame for the disaster, noting that bad things can happen when hoards of liquored-up fans try to get into a stadium without tickets. Now for the shocker, a soccer website reported what Cohen said, twisting what he said around to indicate that he was solely blaming Liverpool fans - and in an even bigger shocker all of this reached England - and Liverpool fan was not happy. The result - Cohen has received 3,500 angry e-mails, including numerous death threats and someone even threatening to kidnap his kids. Says Cohen, 'I've seen the Taliban less defensive.' and adding that most of the e-malis are from 'cowards hiding behind computers'. Unfortunately, there may be ramifications regarding the future of Cohen's show - as his sponsors are also concerned over what he said and a couple have already pulled their advertising. Ah don't worry - they can just run an endless string of credit card debt solution advertisers like every other show on satellite radio.


MLB RUNS PROPAGANDA PIECE ABOUT RECEIVING PATENT: MLB makes major announcement that that MLB's Advanced Media department being granted a United States Patent for it's system and method for verifying a user's access to games on MLB.TV based on a determined geographic location of the subscriber via a computer network. The article goes on to explain that all MLB franchises have local TV broadcast rights, and their contracts specify where viewers inside a defined geographical radius can view their broadcasts, which are then blacked out from live online viewing. That fine and dandy, now explain how Iowa is somehow the home markets for the Brewers, Cubs, White Sox, Twins, Cardinals AND Royals - and are prevented from watching games of all six of those teams on-line. Or how living in Vegas means getting blacked out from all five west coast teams as well as the D-Backs. Or those in Arkansas/Oklahoma being blacked out from the Royals, Cardinals, Rangers, and Astros - last time I checked Houston to Tulsa is quite a drive. That and denying access of showing anything that ever happened on a MLB broadcast to appear on Youtube - nice work cutting off your own noses MLB...


EXTRA CONDIMENT ON THE SIDE?? YAHOO WRITERS CONTINUE TO HAUNT USC ATHLETICS: Charles Robinson and Jason Cole, who usually cover the NFL - released an exclusive story this week saying USC hoops coach Tim Floyd made a direct cash payment to a man who helped get O.J. Mayo to sign on to the Trojans program. These are the same writers who have spent the last three years telling the tale of illegal perks supposedly given to the family of Reggie Bush while he was still a member of the Trojan's football program - I'm still waiting for the sanctions to come down on that one, which could possibly lead to Pete Carroll exploring either retirement or NFL opportunities.


SPORTS BETTING APPEARS HEADED FOR DELAWARE: You never thought of Delaware as a tourist attraction before?? If you want legal sports betting you will now. Delaware's Senate has approved a bill by a 17-2 margain that would authorize sports betting, and the Governor says he will sign the bill. Because of a brief experiment with a sports lottery in the 1970s, Delaware, along with Nevada, Montana, and Oregon, is exempted from a 1992 federal law banning sports gambling. As you might expect, the NFL and NCAA and other professional leagues are not particularly happy with this development - and the NFL plans to file papers with the state Supreme Court to block the measure. Those in support of the measure say sports betting would raise $50 million towards the state's $800 million deficit in it's first year alone.


BLOUNT'S BLUNTS COST HIM ONE YEAR: Former NBA player Corie Blount was arrested by authorities last year who intercepted 11 pounds of weed sent to him at a relative's house - and also found an additional 18 pounds in Blount's home. Blount was sentenced to one year in prison for two felony counts of drug possession in which Blount plead guilty to (possible traffiking charges were dropped) - the maximum sentence would had been ten years. Rejecting the claim that Blount only had the weed for his own personal use and for his friends - the judge noted that the quantity was more than even Cheech and Chong would know what to do with. Somebody cue Sister Mary Elephant - CLASS, CLASS, CLASS ---- SHUUUUDDDDUPPPPP!!!!! Thank you.


THE COST OF RUNNING ONTO THE FIELD: Weigh this out next time you get the urge to run onto the playing surface during a game and gain about 45 seconds of fame while security guards make out like NFL linebackers trying to take you down. A fan who streaked onto the field during a New York Mets game last night has pleaded not guilty, saying that his boss put him up to it and promised a week's pay to him if he made good on the prop bet. Let's hope he has a VERY good job, maximum punishment is $5,000 and a year in jail. Another fan plead guilty to trespassing for a similar violation in 2004, he was fined $2,000, spent eight weekends in jail, and was on probation for three years during which he was also barred from attending Mets games. Oh, and most employers these days tend to do background checks - they don't look at getting busted for running onto the field during games quite as fondly as the streaker's boss. Pitch invasion = red flag in most of those cases.


MARK CUBAN V. KENYON MARTIN V. KENYON MARTIN FAMILY V. MAVERICK FANS: On the court, it was everything NBA Playoff basketball was supposed to be, as Carmelo Anthony and Dirk Nowitzki both score 40+ points as the Mavericks kept their season alive by winning a come-from-behind high-scoring shootout. That despite a number of ridiculous flagrant foul and technical foul calls - and a open-handed punch to an opponent's face by Anthony that deserved an ejection and possibly even a one-game suspension (which could actually still happen). And their was also a near-riot in the stands - as Mavericks fans took dead aim at the family of Carmelo Anthony, at one point Mavs play-by-play announcer Chuck Cooperstein reported that beer was being dumped on the Martin's - all this a continuation of an incident between the family and Mavericks owner Mark Cuban at the end of Game 3, where Cuban reportedly told the Martin's that the Nuggets and their son were 'thugs'. After Monday's game Martin mouthed off in an expletive-laden tirade on Cuban and the Mavericks fan base and announced that the series won't be coming back to Dallas. The Nuggets better win Game 5, because I don't know if there's enough security in Dallas to handle a Game 6, unless David Stern can find a way to keep both Cuban and the Martin family at home.


ORLANDO FAN DEMANDS APOLOGY FROM BIG BABY: Glen Davis hits dramatic buzzer-beater (I'm still waiting for that shot to clank iron) to give Celtics a 96-95 victory and square their series with Orlando at 2-2. But a developing story involves a couple fans sitting in the front row as Davis celebrated - when watching the replay you may notice Davis shoving a young man away after falling out of bounds and sprinting towards the exit. Now the father is demanding an apology, noting that Davis was running like a 'raging animal with no regard for fans personal safety' while bumping his 12-year old son with such force that his hat came flying off. Yeah, a 6'9" 290 lb forward v. a 12-year old is a bit of a mismatch. It's also called some of the perks and hazards of sitting in the front row - not every day someone gets to be brushed by a visiting player who just hit a game-winning shot in a playoff series. I just wonder how long until the hockey-like boards come to the NBA...


MORE HATE SPEWED TOWARDS F1 DRIVER LEWIS HAMILTON: If you can call one fan out of 92,000 taunting him as a news story. Formula One's governing body is investigating claims that a fan at the Spanish Grand Prix over the weekend wore dark makeup to mock Lewis Hamilton. TV images showed a man wearing a shirt represntating Hamilton's team carrying a steering wheeling and wearing make-up to try to make him look like a brother. The incident occurred at the same venue where a group of spectators jeered and insulted Hamilton during a testing session last year. That group wore wigs, dark makeup and T-shirts with the words 'Hamilton's Family' on them. Lewis and Danica both need to defect to NASCAR already - if Lewis is lucky he will have twenty percent of the hate currently spewed towards Kyle Busch.


GRIFFEY WILL NOT BE COLLECTING 25K: Many people have seen the old school signs in ball parks where a player wins a suit or something if they hit a ball off a certain sign. Well yesterday Ken Griffey Jr. blasts a home run over the right field baggie in Minnesota sparking the Mariners to come-from-behind win. But it was where the ball landed that's causing the fresh buzz - the ball ended up going through a hole (see picture) in a sign for Subway restaurants claiming a $25,000 prize for any player who hits the target. There is a catch however - small print says the HR going through that hole has to be hit by one of the good guys. Guess Griffey should have signed for the Twins. But I still see a promotional deal coming out of this - Subway currently has Ryan Howard amongst other sports figures for a spokemsan, perhaps they could add Griffey to it's stable.


DODGERS/GIANTS JUST GOT A BIT UGLIER: Brian Wilson just might want to re-open his Twitter account to tell us what he REALLY feels about this one. LA's Casey Blake hits a game-tying HR in the 12th inning against Wilson, only for the Giants to score two runs in the 13th to score the win. But that's not the story - a TV image going into commercial after the end of the 12th inning shows Blake sitting in the dugout and mocking the cross-armed gesture that Wilson would make after recording the last out - it's said that Wilson makes the gesture in honor of (a) his Christian faith, and (b) his late father. By the time the game had ended a friend had sent a message to Wilson's cellphone showing the image of Blake in the dugout - and word is that Wilson was BEYOND PISSED. Now we see pitchers pause in prayer before making the first pitch and pitchers point to the sky after recording final outs - but what's construed as a tribute or a religious message to one might be regarded as showboating by the opposition...


TAG-TEAM CLIMBS TO THE TOP ROPE: Teammates Tony Stewart and Ryan Newman, along with Southern 500 winner Mark Martin, continue their ascent towards the top in the latest exclusive KACSPORTS.COM rankings of the top-20 NASCAR drivers/teams.


AN IDIOT FOR THIS SEASON - GOLF COMMENTATOR IN HOT WATER: There has been a long line of CBS commentators, golf commentators, and golfers themselves who have wound up paying the piper for off-color comments during the years (see Jimmy the Greek, Ben Wright, Fuzzy Zoeller, Kelly Tilghman) - David Feherty fits all three categories, and is now the latest who may pay dearly for making an ill-advised comment, and this one comes in print as opposed to something said on-air. Writing an article for a Dallas magazine - Feherty suggested that if a U.S. soldier found himself in an elevator with Osama Bin Laden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and the soldier had two bullets in the chamber, that there would be a 'good chance' that Pelosi would be shot twice and Reid and Bin Laden would be strangled. The Irish-born Feherty (who now lives in Dallas) has put in much of his time in recent years visiting with U.S. troops and has created a foundation to help wounded soldiers. However CBS Sports and the PGA Tour are not happy with this attempt at a 'joke' gone horribly bad. CBS has distanced itself from what they termed Feherty's 'unacceptable attempt at humor' while the PGA Tour released a statement that Feherty went 'over the line'. Feherty himself has released a statement of apology to Pelosi and Reid. CBS is to air the next three events on the PGA Tour schedule, all in the state of Texas. No word on if or when Feherty will appear again on the network but when he does the telecast will probably open with Feherty making an on-air apology - David may want to save his humor for talking about golf going forward.


DRUG BOMBSHELL IN NASCAR: It appears that for the first time ever an active Cup Series driver has been susspended for failing a drug test. Reports out of Darlington say that driver/owner Jeremy Mayfield are among three that have been suspended 'immediately and indefinitely' for failing NASCAR's new strenghthened drug policy. Mayfield was found guilty of violating sections 12-1 (actions detrimental to stock car racing) and 7-5 (violation of NASCAR'S substance abuse policy. Also suspended is a crew member for the John Andretti/Tony Raines #34 Cup team along with a Nationwide Series crew member. Mayfield becomes the fourth recent driver to be suspended for apparent substance abuse causes, and by far the highest profile driver, Mayfield was a participant in the 2004 and 2005 Chase for the Cup. Other drivers who have been banished from the sport for drugs include Aaron Fike (arrested and later admitted to heroin and painkiller use on race days - reinstatement pending), Shane Hmiel (suspended for life after three violations) and Kevin Grubb (found dead earlier this week in an apparent suicide - see story below). It is unlikely that NASCAR itself will reveal the drugs Mayfield and the two crewman tested positive for.






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