If there’s no NFL season ill come and play flag football with your kids in all my followers backyardsless than a minute ago via Twitter for BlackBerry® 
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Shawne Merriman
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Be sure to put an extra burger or two on the grill. Flag football can work up a heck of an appetite.
Clearly, the talk around baseball is Manny’s forced retirement resulting from a failed spring drug test. Unfortunate as it is, it would seem that the Tampa Bay Rays should have seen the warning signs. Didn’t he say he put on 25 lbs. of muscle during the off-season? At his age, is that possible? Former ESPN and MSNBC host Keith Olbermann thinks there was something else in those drugs.
Drug for which Manny Ramirez tested positive, prompting his retirement, is either formaldehyde, botox, or the preservative in cookie doughless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Reply
Keith Olbermann
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Cookie dough. Good one!
In his first outing of 2011, he allowed 11 batters to reach base while getting 13 batters out. That’s not good.
That’s actually very bad. But, don’t tweet him with your negitive comments. Just give him positive thoughts…
I will block anything negative from here on out. Only positive this year. Don’t have time for assholes
Brad Penny
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48-year-old Herschel Walker is ready for a comeback. As he prepares for his next mixed-martial arts fight, he told the San Francisco Chronicle that he’s ready for some football.
“I don’t know if I could play every snap, but there’s no doubt in my mind that I could help a team right now.”
In 1982, he won the Heisman. In 1992, he participated in the Olympics on the U.S. Bobsled team. Who’s to say he can’t carry the ball a few times for the Arizona Cardinals in 2012?
“I want to show people, especially kids, that you can do anything if you’re willing to work.”
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Padraig Harrington committed a golf faux pas during the first round of the HBSC Championship in Abu Dhabi. An astute television viewer noticed that he had illegally moved his ball during the round. The TV viewer e-mailed European Tour officials to let them know what he saw. And, as a result, Harrington was disqualified after scoring a 65 and finishing the round in second place.
For the PGA, this is the second time this month that a television viewer has cost a top golfer a disqualification. In Hawaii, Camilo Villegas was kicked out of the Hyundai Tournament of Champions at Kapalua, technically for signing an incorrect scorecard. The error occurred when a TV viewer observed him batting away a clump of grass caused by his chip shot. The problem was, his shot was still rolling at the time. That action results in a 2-stroke penalty, which he did not take. Thus, his scorecard was wrong.
Said golfer Dustin Johnson:
“TV viewers are important to us, and High Definition and 3D and slow-mo add to the experience of watching golf on TV.
“But I think we need to take a serious look at the rules of golf and make sure that, yeah, they are protecting people. Some of these fiddly little pernickety, stupid little rules, you know, we need to have a look at them.”
Would you pay to stand outside Cowboys Stadium just to say you went to the Super Bowl? The NFL is banking on the idea that you would.
According to a story on yahoo.com blog Shutdown Corner, the NFL thinks you might want to buy standing-room only tickets to stand outside the stadium. You will be able to watch the game on a jumbotron screen, of course. But seriously. Would you be that desperate to attend a Super Bowl?
Just think. You’d be within shouting distance of a touchdown pass. The only thing missing will be view of the field. I can hardly wait to see what the price of those tickets might be.
It’s hard to fault the NFL for this idea. If fans are silly enough to pay money for this opportunity, why knock it? For me, I’m just happy that the NFL is giving this a try. I figure it’s only a matter of time before they try to make events like the Super Bowl pay-per-view at about 50 bux a pop. I’ll take my Super Bowl free from my living room, thank you very much.
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It’s been a little over 24 hours since LeBron James sent the Tweet that has rumbled through the NBA-world. The one that states “karma” led to the Cavs 55 point loss against the Lakers Tuesday night.
Well, LeBron is back-tracking big time. But, his excuse has a problem. He told the Sun-Sentinel
“It was just how I was feeling at the time. It wasn’t even a comment from me. It was someone who sent it to me and I sent it out.”
Here’s the problem with that. For any of us who use Twitter, we know that resending somebody else’s comments shows a RT before the message, followed by the original poster of the Tweet. As you can see below, there’s nothing like that here.
Crazy. Karma is a b****.. Gets you every time. Its not good to wish bad on anybody. God sees everything!
LeBron James
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LeBron continues to attempt to play us all for fools. At what point will he just be quiet and just play basketball?
Crazy. Karma is a b****.. Gets you every time. Its not good to wish bad on anybody. God sees everything!LeBron James
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LeBron James is laughing at you, Cleveland. After your Cavs got blasted by the Los Angeles Lakers 112-57, he figures you’re getting what you deserve. How dare you run him out of town the way you did!
But, he’s not alone. There’s other reactions around the NBA via Twitter. Here’s this from Hornets guard Chris Paul tweeted during the game…
Who knows? Maybe it is karma. The Cavs are a bad basketball team right now.
Don’t get me wrong. This isn’t about whether Bert Blyleven deserves to be in baseball’s Hall of Fame. To me, his statistics were argument enough.
Bert Blyleven hasn’t pitched since 1992. He’s done nothing to improve or discredit his baseball career. Yet, on the 14th try, enough baseball writers now feel he’s worthy for enshrinement. In the end, does it really make sense that only 83 sportswriters felt he was hall of fame worthy on his first try in 1998, while 463 voted for him today?
I get that there’s an unwritten rule that only the best of the best should be first-ballot honorees. But, is there some sliding scale of the amount of years a player should wait before becoming worthy? Roberto Alomar didn’t get in on his first try, but made it in round two. Blyleven stair-stepped his way to the honor, generating more and more votes each year to get where he is today.
Bert Blyleven deserves this honor. But, since 1992, he did nothing to better himself. It seems like cruel and unusual punishment to make a player of his history agonize year after year over whether he will make it or not.
Plagiarism and sexual harassment issues, all in the same week. It’s been a rough start of the 2011 year for ESPN.
Last week, anchor Will Selva copied the opening paragraphs from Orange County Register sports writer Kevin Ding’s preview of an upcoming Lakers/Spurs game and used it on-air.
“I made a horrible mistake and I’m deeply sorry. I did not live up to my high standards or ESPN’s.
“In this case, I cut and pasted the story with every intention of writing my own. I simply forgot and I completely understand why this is a major problem. I sincerely apologize for my sloppiness, especially to Kevin Ding, viewers and colleagues.”
This “sloppiness” has led to an indefinite suspension for Selva.
That leads us to football play-by-play guy Ron Franklin. Leading up to his calling of the Fiesta Bowl, Franklin was apparently engaged in a conversation on the field with two other male sportscasters. ESPN sideline reporter Jeannine Edwards apparently tried to join the conversation, only to receive a “sweet baby” crack from Franklin.
For this incident, and a history that he has created for himself including a reference in 2005 when he called sideline reporter Holly Rowe “sweetheart” on-air, Franklin has been fired.
And so it goes, at the world-wide leader. Being in the news, as opposed to reporting it is certainly not the way they want it.
