This Week In Blog

by Phillips, Rumors and Rants

The time between July 25 and August 25 is typically really slow when you're a sports blogger. In fact, it kinda sucks. Luckily the douchebag that is Brady Quinn made this week fun. Yes Brady's holdout continued this week and Cleveland fans couldn't be happier. ESPN's John Clayton reported that the problem is that Quinn wants to be paid like a top 10 draft pick, there's just one problem, he went 22. Do you think Brady knows how much people really don't like him? I mean other than his family and some insane myopic garden gnome-worshiping freaks (aka Notre Dame fans) does anyone like the kid? The day he signs he might be the most hated player in the NFL. I mean at least Pacman Jones' antics are entertaining. Quinn is just annoying, overrated and maybe a little gay. OK, a lot gay. Thank God he didn't end up on the Colts.

Baseball's non-waiver trade deadline came and went with only one major deal. The Braves picked up Mark Teixeira but gave up a lot of talent to get him. I think they're fine with that right now, as Teixeira has hit .333 with 3 HRs, 7 RBIs and has a 1.000 slugging percentage. Decent deal, since they'll have him through next year and he's only 27. Just to let you know how good the Braves lineup is right now, they have Jeff Francoeur (.303, 12 HRs, 72 RBIs) hitting seventh and Kelly Johnson (.299, 12 HRs, 56 RBIs) hitting 8th. That's pretty damn impressive. Not as impressive as the level to which Britney's meltdown has now escalated, but close.

The Tour de France finished with just the thing cycling needed, a young, fresh-faced winner to take the sport into a new era (wooohooo!). Then, less than three days later, he was accused of doping (D'OH!). Yes that's right, apparently some new documents show that the 24-year-old Alberto Contador cheated his way to the championship in yet another black-eye for cycling. It's funny, we in America have made a lot of fun of cycling and its addiction to doping. Yet ESPN has spent hundreds of hours covering Barry Bonds' chase of Hank Aaron's home run record. And if you say "well Bonds has never tested positive and therefore we can't say he's guilty" or "baseball is clean now that there is testing" you're naive, read "Game of Shadows" and then talk to me. The drug makers have always been ahead of the drug testers, so as long as these guys have the money, they can get the latest, undetectable drugs. So though we laugh at cycling fans, they could very well be laughing at us.

The Astros pitchers had a bit of a rough week. Not rough like when the Vick family's Irish Setter has a bad week, but rough nonetheless.

Evander Holyfield will finally get what he asked for, a chance to fight for and win his fifth heavyweight title. And the world will finally get what it wanted, someone to stop Holyfield from pursuing this ludicrous dream. That of course will come because Sultan Ibragimov could very well kill him in the ring. Would that be sad? Sure, but at least it would put him out of our misery. Plus it's going to be in Russia and will like be a heavyweight pay-per-view fight, so it's not like anyone will be watching.