Morning Paper

Baltimore Ravens: Air McNair Gets Outta There....Retires

Little note for all of our Football fans, a long overdue decision has been made by one of footballs finest athletes Steve McNair.   The 35 year-old QB has announced his retirement.

I say long overdue only because the 13 year veteran has been beating to a pulp by defenses across the league.  First with the  Tennessee Titans, then with the Baltimore Ravens, McNair's  "O-line" could never seem to keep him from taking the vicious hits. 

His last two seasons have been have been seasons that a one time great QB would not want to be remembered for.

Let's hope he got out in time enough to take care of his body.

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Top Ten Unsportsman Like Plays!

Caught this heads up on Digg.  Great little piece from ESPN listing what they deem is the top ten unsportsmanlike plays.

As far as I am concerned, they left out a ton of more aggregious plays from players in many different sports.  But really, unsportsmanlike covers a lot of ground.  How about when The referees stole a game winning field goal from the Cleveland Browns?  The ball was kicked, it was.  Then they stopped the game looked at a replay and called a penalty which negated the goal and the Browns lost.  Once the ball is snapped, the refs cannot go back and look at the play.  A major rule that was blatantly broken on national TV.  And Yes!  I'm still "Bitter".

That's the height of unsportsmanship.

TENNIS PLAYER BEATS HIMSELF WITH HIS OWN RACKET!

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I heard of tennis players getting pissed off and yelling and crap like John McEnroe did, but John never went to the extent that this guy did, he is just a complete idiot!

Billy Crystal is the Jack Nicholson of the N.Y. Yankees!!

Who said the "Make A Wish Foundation" couldn't work for senior citizens? With his 60th birthday quickly approaching, my New York Yankees have awarded a one-day contract to a home game regular and pretty nice guy, Billy Crystal. Crystal, who is known more for his acting/directing is an avid/rabid Yankees fan, not to mention he directed and produced "61" the movie about Roger Maris. He will wear number sixty, work out with the team, and have to channel his high school baseball experience as he will face the Pittsburgh Pirates in an TBD role. All I can say is, "you lucky bastard!" I am eagerly awaiting my call from the N.Y. Giants, they had better hurry up because although I am maintaining my sexy quite impeccably, my ass is getting a tad bit old. But with my luck, they would put me on kickoff return, a plot orchestrated by my wife no doubt to get the insurance money, oh well. Swing for the fences Billy and don't throw out your back! Read

AllSmackTalk.com Let's Sport Fans Bring Bar Smack to Facebook

Hey you know what we need? Another social networking site! Or how about one that pulls in some of the already wildly popular ones in to one place so beer bellied guys can call each other names for liking other teams. Yeah that's it, It's gold Jerry!

AllSmackTalk.com(TM), the premier
communication tool for sports enthusiasts to log on with fellow fans or
rivals and "Tell It Like It Is," has launched several new social networking
features and a Facebook application that provides sports fans with more
ways than ever to connect.

"Sports are first and foremost social activities best experienced with
friends or rivals," said Michael Quiroz, Co-Founder and Creative Director
of AllSmackTalk.com. "The new tools and features from AllSmackTalk -- and
especially the new Facebook application -- make it easier than ever for
fans to share their passion and excitement with not only established
friends, but with rivals and fellow fans as well."

Yep, soon enough Sports fans won't even need to go to a game. Fantasy Football, Facebook and the Internet will provide all of the excitement one could hope for.

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Brett Favre "Packs" It In!

Well it seems the saga and the great career of the Green Bay Packers QuarterBack Brett Favre has come to an end. After 17 years, the last three spinning with tales retirement and coming back for another season, it looks like football fans won't have to listen to will he or won't he all season long.

Favre made a great run of it last season making it into the playoffs and into the Championship game only to lose to the Super champs New York Giants (why is that still hard to write?)

The 38 year old Favre told his agent Monday night of his decision.

This will be a strange season without him there.

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Sports Illustrated 2008 Issue...see it here!

Blog site randomhot.com has the entire spread of the 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition available for viewing (uh..ehm reading).  Not only do they have the SI spread, but many other great photos :D   

Check it out.

British Olympians to stay mum on China's human rights violations, or else they will stay home!!

With the upcoming Summer Olympics to be held in China, every country takes the proper steps to prepare it's athletes impeccably, however since China is known for human rights violations, Britain doesn't want their athletes to lose focus. All members of the Olympic team have to sign a contract promising not to comment on China's human rights violations, and from the outside it most definitely smells of censorship by the BOA. But, with different organizations wanting the athletes to champion their causes, these athletes should be protected and primarily focused on the task at hand. Presently, China is a country that is outgrowing it's secrecy as it looks to be formidable world power and it's biggest boon, technology, is responsible for exposing the chinks in its armor. From its constant mining dangers to pollution issues, regulation and safety is not very high on their priority list. The BOA head honcho, Simon Clegg has done some nifty footwork by distancing themselves from impression of censorship, looking to reword the contract so that isn't so heavyhanded. This will be a very INTERESTING Olympics. Read

Eli Manning Is A Better QB Than Peyton Manning.

It was strange, I never went into this game with the secure feeling that the Patriots were going to win. I wasn't confident, but the Patriots really weren't confident. I told my friends who I watched the game with we would know the outcome by watching which Patriots Defense takes the field in the first Giants possession. Would it be the beginning of the 07 regular season defense, or would it be the last five regular season games defense.

It was the latter. Even though they held them to a field Goal, the writing was on the wall in that first possession. There was little doubt that Brady and company was going to have some trouble with the Giants pass rush, so the defense would have to control the game, and outside of red zone, they couldn't. This will always, always lead to a 4th quarter loss because you can't defend the red zone indefinitely.

But there were two things that foretold this loss. 1. The Pats didn't take the field nor play the game with that swagger they had all season long. They were tight and angry throughout, on both sides of the ball. 2. Tom Brady's girlfriend was at the game. This was the big one. He knows better than that. So much so that he called Tony Romo to tell him so after the whole Jessica Simpson debacle. As soon as I saw her, I turned to my friends and said "the Patriots are going to lose".

Of course I'm not trying to say that they didn't play the worst game I've seen them play in a few years, because outside of Wes Welker and Lawrence Mulroney, they looked absolutely horrible out there. But sports superstitions are a serious matter. You don't break one in the most important game.

But all credit to the Giants who played a game with all heart. And the one thing I as a Patriot fan can take away from this is Eli Manning. I'm not a fan of his, but he just did what "the Great" (and I say that sarcastically) Peyton Manning couldn't do for nine years in the league. Now finally, even though it will be another Manning, maybe the NFL and announcers will stop kissing the butt of Peyton all year long. He's an average QB with a great set of receivers and route runners that could make Billy Volek look good. His younger brother just proved it, Eli IS better QB than Peyton, even if the numbers don't bare that out.

Congratulations Giants fans!

The Giants Win The SuperBowl

I'm posting this from my Treo so I will do a more indepth post later. But I can sum it up with this. Tom Brady's girlfriend was in the stands, the very thing he warned Tony Romo about.