by Jarrett Carter, Stet Sports Blog
Tony Stewart is donating bulletproof vests to police dogs in five states.
(Insert Michael Vick joke here)
Now to be clear, it wasn't like Stewart woke up and thought to himself, "Damn, a whole lotta police dogs are getting killed out here. Let me do something about it." A formal request was made to his foundation, and now, 30 dogs can patrol the streets with a renewed sense of safety and security.
Cause' you know, most criminals are prone to go after the dog when they are surrounded by 19 cop cars.
Seriously, I don't have a problem with this kind of donation. Police dogs are a valuable part of domestic paramilitary operations. It's just the weirdness of it. Buying armor for battalions over in Iraq? That would be a good one.
Rescuing abused dogs, very cute.
Police dogs are kind of nasty. Not that they don't get shot at, but they might just be better than humans in handling their biz. Humans just don't hold that kind of fear over other humans, you know?
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by Jarrett Carter, Stet Sports Blog
Seriously, who's got more balls than Tony Stewart. Certainly not Barack Obama if you leave it up to Jesse Jackson, but there will probably be no bigger story in sports this year than Stewart jumping from Joe Gibbs Racing to become majority owner for Haas-CNC.
To put it in perspective, it's like Kevin Garnett leaving the Boston Celtics to go play for Sacaramento Kings...and OWN them.
Very few athletes have the clout to do it, and I'm pretty sure there's a rule against competing as an owner in most sports. But what makes this story significant is that Stewart isn't a driver on the downturn of his career. He's just getting started in his driving prime, but this move indicates that Stewart sees far beyond his driving brand.
He sees a brand totally unique to racing, one that can have the same impact as Hendrick, D.E.I, and Petty.
No one knocks him for building his business enterprise, but there is sure to be hate for someone so brash and arrogant making such an unconventional move. And its all the more reason to love it. Stewart has always given the impression that he could care less what anyone thinks, and with his own team, he can stick it to the world as much as the rules will allow.
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by GMoney, The Money Shot
The sporting world seems to be polluted with more bad press than usual this week. You've got Cedric Benson's heart-warming saga. The Lakers and Celtics trying to whine their way to another title. Roger Clemens snorting up all the boner-inducing dust that he can get his hands on. And we all have an opinion regarding Tim Donaghy's "fixed games" allegations. But there is a story that has flown under the radar this week. A story which, has already happened mind you, and gripped the country (kind of). It almost makes you wonder if, under the dark of night, Zeke was hired by this major company to destroy it from within.
NASCAR is being sued by a former employee for pretty much every allegation known to man.
From Yahoo!:
Mauricia Grant filed a $225 million suit against NASCAR on Tuesday, alleging racial discrimination, sexual harassment and retaliatory termination. Grant, who is black, worked as a technical inspector for NASCAR's second-tier Nationwide Series.
Whoa. That's a spicy meatball. I applaud NASCAR for hiring a black woman considering their stereotype of being run by old white men. But this doesn't look good at all. They can't actually fight this. They have to settle, don't they? I'm no Roger Cossack but I'm pretty sure that a league with the kind of squeaky clean image that NASCAR has formed does not want a bunch of dirty laundry coming out in the courts.
Unfortunately, typical people (myself included) are sitting around thinking that this is the norm. This is what people from the South do. They are ignorant. They don't know any better. The sport of racing isn't known as one that transcends to all races and socioeconomic backgrounds anyway. Either way, NASCAR needs to squash this story before it blows up in their faces...
That was not a Dick Trickle metaphor either.
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by Tbone, The Sports Hernia
Over at The Sports Hernia we rarely if ever touch on cars that race unless Jeff Gordon wins a pole and then promptly shoves it up his ass. With that said, it's also unusual that we come across a picture that so perfectly sums up our feelings on a sport, in this case NASCAR.
What we already knew about this picture without any extensive research is that the gentleman on the right, the one caught in that slow-in-the-head but violent-with-the-hands haze, has watched far too many vehicles endlessly circle around a track.
Is this what NASCAR eventually does to humans over time? We've seen people play Pole Position for days on end and still not look this mentally trapped.
Is he partaking in some sort of uninspired thumb wrestling match?
Is it possible he's just repeating "Up-up, down-down, left-right, left-right, B-A, start" over and over in his head, to the point that he looks like Kramer shortly after Tim Whatley gives him Novocaine?
Maybe he's pretending to read something interesting about NASCAR, or maybe he's just in a state of denial after someone told him he looked like Vlade Divac in that Edge shaving cream commercial.
Whatever it is, this picture tugged on that special place in our hearts that reminded us why we usually suplex each other instead of watching NASCAR.
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by Gary Gaffney, MD, Steroid Nation
Imagine the surprise when, as you explore your new house, you jab yourself in the hand with a syringe hidden away in a mysterious hidden box. You suddenly feel your muscles growing larger than Hulk Hogan in a flex-pose. However, your face pops out with huge zits, your breasts grow larger than Paris Hilton's new bosoms, and your family jewels suddenly shrink to the size of sesame seeds. Yes, the house you bought belonged to a WWE pro-wrestler; you just accidentally discovered a left-over cache of growth-enhancing hormones and other novelty items.
Although not that dramatic, last week started out when a Georgia homeowner made the startling discovery of anabolic steroids, HGH, syringes, and needles in a rural George home, once owned by WWE wrestler Mike Knox. The surprised Locust Grove/Atlanta area resident announced later in the week he was going to try out for the Falcons as a lineman. Or maybe the New Orleans Saints, who signed former Cowboy/Falcons lineman Matt Lehr, unless Lehr is on trial for steroid distribution as suggested by a Dallas-area gym-owner.
Dateline: Juiced-lanta. A top Braves minor league prospect -- Jordan Schafer -- will sit down for 50 games after admitting to HGH use. A minor league prospect sits, while every MItchell Report juicer will pay on, we mean 'play on'...even Jose Guillen. Guillen, a Mitchell Report juicer, signed with the Kansas City Royals for 36 million over 3 years. The Royals expressed concern Guillen would serve a 15 day suspension for juicing. The team should be so lucky. Guillen gets about 2 million per hit, as the 'slugger' hits for a .122 average and a .163 slugging average over 12 games now. Maybe Guillen is a 'slow starter'; he needs to 'inject' some growth to earn his salary.
Too bad Guillen doesn't use a great agent like Scott Boras. Boras represents the Cardinal's Troy Glaus who received his gear from California steroid-doctor Ramon Scruggs. An indictment in the golden state says the good doctor supplied the juice to players like Glaus, many of whom may have acted on their agent's advice. Pumps up those billable hours.
Greg LeMond will no longer be billing anything to Trek Bicycles. The Wisconsin firm fired the Minnesota cycling legend's bike line because LeMond's outspoken criticism of dopers (read 'Lance Armstrong') offends the sensibility of Trek bike purchasers (read 'Lance Armstrong'). By the way, a famous cyclist endorses Trek bikes (read 'Lance Armstrong').
At least famous cyclists (read 'Lance Armstrong') generally didn't fire up as much as NASCAR driver Aaron Fike; Fike said he shot up heroin before NASCAR races. Heroin...Rubbin' is racing. Other NASCAR drivers expressed their subtle scientific opinions that it's batshit nuts to be on the same track with a 200 mph opioid user.
Even though he didn't win the Masters, Tiger Woods looked marvelous. Of course, some wag suggested Woods might be 'roided-up to fill out those golf-sweaters. Guess the dose was 3 strokes too light.
The week ended as a startling new track and field scandal burst out of the blocks. BALCO-related steroid distributor Angel Heredia from Mexico -- by way of Texas A and M -- apparently turned for the Feds about 3 years ago. Heredia will be a key witness when legendary track coach Trevor Graham goes up for a California trial on charges of lying to investigators. IRS super-agent and BALCO stud Jeff Novitzky will be on the team as Heredia reportedly will name 12 big name track stars accounting for 29 Olympic medals, and 21 world championships, as juicers. Heredia appears associated with BALCO-steroids coach Trevor Graham (coached Marion Jones, Tim Montgomery, CJ Hunter, Justin Gatlin and a dozen more proven/admitted juicers).
To keep we news-dogs salivating, Heredia rang up this bell -- he supplied legendary Kansas sprinter Maurice Greene with steroids, insulin, and growth hormones (and here). Greene, a world champion, Olympic gold medal winner, and an ex-world record holder denied all charges using an old speech Marion Jones speech.
Remember your morning juice, folks, and see you again next week.
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by Chris Richardson, Intentional Foul
We're all sports fans. If not, why would we be doing this? I mean, it's not like many of us are breaking the bank. So obviously, a love of sports has to prevail. Granted, we have a lot of good times talking about the absurdities in sports, but sometimes, the fans themselves deserve a good looking at.
Take for instance a group of fans residing in the Southeastern Conference. You know the one. They like to wear a lot of blue and identify heavily with Ashley Judd. Well, it seems a noticeable portion of this group doesn't like it when you talk badly (or incorrectly) about the school they support.
Just ask Davidson Head Coach, Bob McKillop.
Coach McKillop was asked about what separates teams like Davidson from the big boys and he responded with something along the lines of: "the Dukes, Carolinas and Kentuckys of the world, well, at least the Kentucky of old. They haven't had the same generation-to-generation success teams like Duke and Carolina have had." Now, his mistaken basketball knowledge aside (Davidson is a North Carolina school), I'm guessing he didn't think the Big Blue Nation would get a hold of his comments.
Well, they did. And boy, they were not happy about them either. And boy, did they respond. Not only did they eviscerate McKillop in the discussion thread, they also posted his email address. Needless to say, some enterprising Kentucky fans decided they'd drop the Davidson coach a line, telling him about error of his ways.
Yep, Kentucky fans emailed the coach of a mid-major to tell him just how great the Cats have been throughout history. And judging by McKillop's canned response, he got a lot of emails:
Kentucky is one of the legendary programs in basketball... NBA or NCAA. To do what they have done while going thru several coaching changes is extraordinary. It was my mistake not to clarify my thought that they have not done it with the same coach year after year after year since Adolph Rupp.
To win 3 titles in the past 30 years with 3 different coaches is incredible.
It shows that Kentucky has great coaching, great players... and... an even greater program. Good luck in the NCAA's... you guys will be there... and advance.
Excessive ellipses aside, you can almost feel the "are you f***ing kidding me" oozing out of McKillop's pores. However, his response wasn't the best one. That little designation was reserved for poster GC-mafia who offered this gem:
This walking colostomy bag should go swallow a shot gun blast,while riding on the Hindienburg over a gasoline refinery next to a nuclear reactor surrounded by toxic shark infested waters protected by gangbangers with flee infested pit bulls that have rocky mtn feaver.
Did anyone tell him Davidson is a nothing nobody cast away school for loser propsects that got a weak schedule and plays it year in and year out. He couldnt snill Rupps underwear or lace Clydes shoes. He would cream his jeans for our rejects like Cory Sears and Caruth. Id rather play for Union College than to play for a 2nd tier program like davidson.
Tell them how you really feel, brother. Just in time for March Madness too.
Of course, these actions are no worse than the brilliance that follows NASCAR around. The fact a Toyota won an actual race seems to have made the good ole boy network quite unhappy.
Don't you just love overzealousness?
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by DMtShooter, Five Tool Tool
11. The Pro Bowl isn't very interesting or meaningful
10. The Westminster Dog Show is this week, and it reminds the blogger of some underperforming team (see Heat, Miami)
9. Valentine's Day is the perfect occasion for various hated athletes to announce their raging homosexuality
8. February is a bad time of the year to be a sports fan
7. NASCAR has begun its season, and the blogger is either dangerously excited or resorts to redneck stereotypes
6. Pitchers and catchers report in (checks watch)
5. Anything that shows the YouTubey wit, warmth and wisdom of Chris Berman
4. The continued delight that is Patriot Fan losing his fudge over the Super Bowl loss
3. Nut shot video
2. Poon
1. Lists
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Does anyone else find the Olympics remarkably anticlimactic? Besides the futbol, there is very little that will hold the attention span for more than a few minutes at a time. Don't get me wrong, those Olympians are extremely human interesting, but I just don't care about these sports.
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