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Tennessee Titans Steve McNair’s Contract Dispute
Posted by Jeff Chan Categories: Athletes, Front Office, NFL, Rumors,
It sure stinks to be Steve McNair these days. After years of sacrificing his body and renegotiating his contract for the better of the team, the Titans have kicked McNair out of team’s facilities. McNair is owed $10 million this season and will take up $24 million against the team’s salary cap this season. The Titans are looking for McNair to once again restructure his contract or he might be released. With offensive coordinator Norm Chow on board, the Titans will most likely select Matt Leinert in the upcoming draft with the third selection, most likely ending the McNair era. Leinert had played under Chow at USC.
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When I first read the headline, I thought Jesse Jackson was talking about getting a good hitter in the order behind Barry Bonds, so he doesn’t get walked all the time. He was referring to Bonds getting a syringe thrown in his direction the other day in San Diego and the police and MLB not doing anything about it. When I first heard news of that, I thought it was a fairly amusing joke, but after some time to digest the situation, it is heading in the wrong direction. Sure it is fun to boo the guy, but when it gets to the point, where Bonds is afraid of his personal safety, that is just wrong. After the Ron Artest/ Auburn Hills melee, we as a society should get our act together. Despite dressing up as Paula Abdul, Bonds has not endeared himself to the fans. Where did it all go wrong for Bonds and baseball fans? Bonds’ life sure has had better days, to top it off it was recently reported that his aunt was severely injured in a car collision. Usually when athletes get older, they learn from their mistakes from their youth. I would say America started officially hating Bonds for good after fighting in the dugout with ex-teammate Jeff Kent. I hope the fans are smart enough not to do something stupid to the Bonds, like pick a fight with him over a foul ball in the left field seats. If such an event should occur, I would like to say now that the media should not throw Bonds under the bus for his behavior, if the situation were to present itself.
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Today is opening day, so Tino might just be rusty getting in front of the camera after a couple months off, but today he sure seems off. With Karl Ravech, John Kruk and Harold Reynolds going over their picks to win the NL East, Tino went off on a long tangent critiquing the entire NL East. I can just imaging the producers just going nuts trying to get Ravech’s attention to cut him off saying “We have five more divisions to cover, shut him up!” Good luck to Tino on the next telecast. Ravech also seems to be slightly more smug than in years past, maybe we need a Peter Gammons appearance to steal his thunder.
The Toronto Raptors lost to the New Orleans Hornets last night in 2 OT, despite a strong game by Charlie Villanueva who had 25 points and 18 rebounds. He was overshadowed by rookie sensation Chris Paul who had a triple double. Mike James, who has been outstanding this year averaging 19.3 PPG clanked from the field going 5-25. Here are James’ thoughts:
“Sometimes me and the rim just don’t agree,” James said. “For 20 of the shots tonight me and the rim weren’t really on good terms. I think I did something to her last night. I normally treat her good, talk to her nice. I don’t ever curse her out, but tonight maybe she was a little mad at me, but that’s all right. I’m going to give her flowers and candy before the next game.”
Hopefully next game, James and the basket have made up by then.
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Congratulations to Jaromir Jagr for etching his name in the Rangers records books, as he breaks Hall of Famer Jean Ratelle for the single-season points record. The front-runner of this year’s Hart Trophy winner (league MVP) so far is the league leader in points and is gunning for his sixth NHL scoring title. He is also tied with with Adam Graves’ team record of goals in a season with 52. The Rangers have eight games remaining and are trying to hold off the Philadelphia Flyers for first place in the Atlantic Division.
Florida Gators Joakim Noah’s Act is Getting Old
Posted by Jeff Chan Categories: Athletes, Editorial, NCAA, College Basketball,
Ever since Florida defeated Villanova to advance to the Final Four, the focus has been on Joakim Noah and his sound-bites. First it started off with the backwards hat wearing, right out of the locker room celebration “The Gator boys are hot right now,” quote. At that moment, he morphed from high-energy, fun to watch basketball player, to condescending, uppity-attitude rich kid who is garnering too much attention. Ever since then, it’s been the you’ve guys only watched us three or four times, you don’t know me, why are you writing stories against us, me against the world attitude. Hey Joakim, who is writing bad things about you and the Gators? Mostly everyone is predicting the Gators to defeat George Mason and win in the title game. This is one rising star where the sudden adoration and attention is definitely going to his head.
After seeing more and more media exposure to Anna Benson recently, people shouldn’t be shocked to see this happen despite being married for seven years. Anna Benson seems poised to be become a huge celebrity and to come out of Kris’ shadow, if she hasn’t done so already. The timing of this seems to be interesting considering her recent cover shoot on FHM magazine. In the featured article, Anna interviews Kris and asks him where does he see the two of them in the future. He replies by saying “probably divorced.” It is not out of the realm of possibilities that the New York Mets traded Kris Benson because they did not want to deal with the media circus this year while they compete for the playoffs. Anna Benson was very outspoken when the trade occurred and probably wanted to cash in the numerous opportunities that would have occurred by being in New York. It looks like she will get her way because she could probably grab headlines wherever she is.
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Reggie Miller was given the highest honor a team can give to one of it’s players, as his number 31 was retired. Miller is the only NBA player of the Pacers organization to have his number retired, as the other Pacers are from the ABA days. The ABA stars are Roger Brown, Mel Daniels and George McGinnis and former coach Bobby “Slick” Leonard. On hand were some of Miller’s old teammates: Antonio Davis, Dale Davis, Derrick McKey, Chuck Person, and Mark Jackson - but sadly no Detlef Schrempf. Miller was booed on drafted day by Pacers fans, but clearly Donnie Walsh made the right selection in the 1987 draft. Want to compare some of the other players that came out of the draft after him? Then G.M. Donnie Walsh and Reggie Miller made a career out of proving the critics wrong since draft day.
In a semi-final match last night Maria Sharapova received boos from the crowd and a tainted victory over Tatiana Golovin. It is not often at tennis matches were the crowd outright boos a competitor, but that is what happened as Golovin made an impressive second set comeback down 5-1 at one point and forced a tie-break. Sharapova eventually won the match because Golovin was unable to continue due to an ankle injury. Golovin was leading in the third set 4-3 at that point. The boos came at the start of the third set, where Sharapova took an extended bathroom timeout which looked more like ploy to regain her composure after squandering a huge lead in the second half, and it appeared she was trying to slow down Golovin’s momentum. Sharapova will face Svetlana Kuznetsova, who defeated Amelie Mauresmo, to reach the finals. Sharapova is going for her second consecutive tournament win, the last even was the Pacific Life Open, where she defeated Elena Dementieva handedly.
Adam Morrison, J.J. Redick Win Co-Players of the Year
Posted by Jeff Chan Categories: Athletes, Kudos, NCAA, College Basketball,
I guess both teams getting knocked out in the third round Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament made the United States Basketball Writers Association unable to decide who deserved the award, as Adam Morrison and J.J. Redick both walked away with the Player of the Year honors. The last time this happened was in 1979 when Larry Bird and Magic Johnson were both named co-player of the year as well. Most fans shouldn’t be up in arms about this, despite the fact Redick fans will argue that Redick and Duke played under tougher competition in the ACC rather than the WCC conference. It won’t be a bad thing that their names will be linked together in history especially in the same sentence as Bird and Magic.
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