Throwing Knives: The Donaghy Situation Will Get Worse

by BD, Sports Show On Mute


It's interesting really, seeing Anna Faris playing "herself" on Entourage. She's far more attractive playing a regular person than she generally is in her movies. Where her countless goof ball roles, while certainly not unattractive, her idiocy tends to diminish her looks a little bit for this guy. I'll get to Entourage though, but first it'll be sports and Mr. Donaghy has wrangled the headline away from Vick once again. Though Vick should trump him with a plea or superseding indictment sometime today. Anyhow, it's a back to back does of Anna Faris for you all and I know one carnie will be happy about that.

Donaghy To Name As Many As 20 NBA Officials Who Have Gambled
While this is certainly a little petty if it's going to be things like: "Violet Palmer put $5,000 on the Bears in the Super Bowl." Then I personally don't want to hear it. That said, you have to wonder where the NBA will go from here. It's almost impossible for David Stern to not, at the very least, suspend officials who've been putting $20 on red from time to time. As a failure to act would only be seen as a failure in cleaning up the league's game fixing problem. That said, where do you get replacement ref's without a drop off in consistency and "talent." If you can call reffing a talent in the first place. The number of blown calls could go through the roof if the league is forced to replace the majority of it's officiating crew. Let's hope Stern can find a way to spare those who've really done nothing to bad.

What Will Happen First?
Vick reaches a plea deal? Or, a superseding indictment is filed? And he's in even worse shape. What do you think?

Johan Santana Is Your Father
The Twins Ace, and arguably the best pitcher in all of major league baseball racked up 17K's in 8 innings yesterday. Interestingly Santana pulled himself after the eighth rather than going out and taking his shot at tying the record. I'm not sure if I'd read anything into that but given his recent comments after the deadline one could do just that.

Jimmy Clausen Just Wants to Get Wasted
Clausen the "future" of Notre Dame was cited for "transporting alcohol as a minor" on June 23rd. I honestly didn't know transporting alcohol as a minor was even an offense. It was always "minor in possession" that I'd heard of. But, to steal a ridiculous gimmick from a tabloid, Jimmy Clausen is just like US! Wow, I need a shower after typing that.

Weekend Box Office Top 5
1. Superbad
2. Rush Hour 3
3. The Bourne Ultimatum
4. The Simpsons Movie
5. The Invasion

I'm seeing Superbad today so I'll have the recap for that tomorrow. Haven't decided if The Invasion is worth watching just yet. The Simpsons was solid, Rush Hour sucked, and I have not yet seen Borne Ultimatum.

Television
Just Entourage for today as usual. Though I intend to watch Californication again tonight and highly recommend it.

Entourage was once again solid, but not great last night. The whole jealous boyfriend bit with Anna Faris was moderately amusing and Mr. Walsh provided his usual humor. Especially the portion in which he had a gun in the bathroom over his script that he thought Vince didn't like. It looks like things will get even better for Walsh next week as he's going to ask Anna to be apart of the new movie, that includes multiple sex scenes, next week. I can't even imagine how Eric is going to handle that situation. Should be pretty funny.
Rating: 7/10

Scoreboard - August 19th - 2007

NFL Preseason
New York 13, Baltimore 12

MLB
National League
Atlanta 6, Arizona 2 - Smoltz now Atlanta's all-time strikeout leader.
San Francisco 6, Florida 5
New York 8, Washington 2
Pittsburgh 8, Philadelphia 4
Cincinnati 7, Milwaukee 6
San Diego 5, Houston 3
Los Angeles 4, Colorado 3

American League
New York 9, Detroit 3 - Zumaya returns tomorrow.
Toronto 3, Baltimore 2 F/10
Tampa Bay 4 Cleveland 3 F/12
Los Angeles 3, Boston 1
Minnesota 1, Texas 0
Seattle 11, Chicago 5
Oakland 6, Kansas City 1