The Roundup: Pudge, the NBA, and Old Athletes
Baseball, Cheerleaders, College Football, Courts, Legal, Golf, NBA, NFL, Soccer, Track & Field, Video July 31st. 2008, 8:00am
Just poking around the web, there are treasure chests full of Sofia Vergara photos; should we dedicate a week to her? … here’s a bizarre foreclosure where a woman can pay her mortgage, but she’s walking away anyway because the house went down in value so much … so yes, it’s still ugly out there … don’t fall asleep on public transportation – you could lose your head … in college, the ultimate F, Marry, Kill was Pam Anderson, Jenny McCarthy or Carmen, and it appears as if the latter held up best …
Tyson Gay’s Myspace Page. (Joe Sports Fan)
Great screengrab of a reporter talking … but a cheerleader nearby is where your eyes will venture to. (Slanch Report)
A-Rod’s lawyers: He never cheated. (NY Daily News)
Salary cap, the mid-level exception, and “fixing” the NBA – so they don’t lose another player like they lost Josh Childress!. (Stop Mike Lupica)
Some women golfers are not thrilled with Michelle Wie’s obsession of playing with the men. (Deadspin)
Some Pudge Rodriguez info Yanks fans may be unaware of. (Was Watching)
Indifference, followed by acceptance, of Kyle Farnsworth. (Mack Avenue Tigers)
Would you want to be described as more Ned Flanders than Woody Hayes? (NY Times)
Revolution defeat feisty, punchy Mexicans to capture Super Liga. (Yankee Hooligan)
Getting sick of all the hype heaped on Clemson. (College Game Balls)
Some neat NFL-themed movie posters. (NE Patriots Draft)
Mack Brown vows to lock it down so the Longhorns don’t suck this year. (Statesman)
Translating NBA players’ names into Chinese. (Flickr)
Old athletes are hot again. (Legend of Cecilio Guante)
John Lynch appears ready to call it quits on a solid NFL career. (Rocky Mountain News)
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July 31st, 2008 at 8:03 am
TBL – your first link is haywire
July 31st, 2008 at 8:05 am
Anyone watching the USA game? LeBron bucket, Melo three, and a huge Dwight Howard swat.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:06 am
i hate my job. I want to watch basketball.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:08 am
first link fixed
July 31st, 2008 at 8:08 am
The NBA is already “fixed”
/Tim Donaghy
July 31st, 2008 at 8:08 am
Nope, not watching basketball. Watching my Board of County Commissioners try and cut another $20M on top of the $60M we already cut. It’s going to get much worse sooner than better.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:09 am
That beheading story has to be among the most horrifying things I’ve ever read. Cripes.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:10 am
I’ll never ride a bus again.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:10 am
Less creepy, but perhaps sad
Starbucks is hurting. Bad.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:12 am
hey at least your county commissioners home and offices weren’t raided by 200 FBI and IRS agents in a public corruption sting like there were in cleveland on monday
July 31st, 2008 at 8:12 am
I’ll say this about Turkey: They can score.
18-15. USA is hitting all its shots – even Jason Kidd hit a three!
July 31st, 2008 at 8:17 am
@mmonast – that blows
July 31st, 2008 at 8:18 am
Im watching, but its also making me late for work. Im trying to stretch it out as long as I can, but I should go soon
July 31st, 2008 at 8:18 am
sand–it needed to happen these guys have been in office forever and have all been disasters
July 31st, 2008 at 8:19 am
D Wade with a sweet, sweet move for a baseline reverse. Vintage D Wade.
24-19.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:19 am
Great bucket by Wade. Whats the over/under on games played this season?
July 31st, 2008 at 8:20 am
As a Yankee fan, i can’t wait to release the laughter if the Sux actually trade Manny!
Pam Anderson is a cum-dumpster and a walking caricature of herself, we aren’t living in 1991. Plus Sofia Vergara is vastly overrated so move on to Bar Rafaeli or someone as hot.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:20 am
Someday cortes is going to bring home a Mermaid. I’ll be so proud.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:22 am
This could be a long Olympics for the hoops team. They aren’t playing any defense at all.
A kobe layup cuts the TURKEY LEAD to 27-26.
Another Kobe layup, USA 28-27.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:23 am
I agree with what the LPGA players are saying. She thinks she is better than the women, period. C’mon, if I tried to play from the back tees like my husband, it is no contest. I understand that. Love how she also picked to play against one of the weakest fields of men, versus playing against the top women. Oh, and A-Rod’s wife is a typical money hungry bitch who thinks because she had kids the world owes her. If my husband lived in NY most of the time, wouldn’t I want to be near him?
July 31st, 2008 at 8:24 am
Griffey traded to White Sox
July 31st, 2008 at 8:25 am
for a sleeve of golf balls
July 31st, 2008 at 8:26 am
@TBL- Just imagine if Hedo was playing
July 31st, 2008 at 8:26 am
TBL – I think you mean D Wade, not Kobe.
USA needs to take it to the basket more on offense and not settle for jumpers and maybe even show a little off the ball movement.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:27 am
link?
July 31st, 2008 at 8:28 am
i’m never going to canada or getting on a bus unless i’m fully rested and well armed. thanks for that compelling read.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:29 am
Griffey traded for sleeve of golf balls. (Rick Roll)
July 31st, 2008 at 8:30 am
Griffey to Sox link, Ken Rosenthal is getting warmed up.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:30 am
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/8398348/Reds,-ChiSox-agree-on-Griffey-trade,-await-approval
July 31st, 2008 at 8:31 am
July 31st, 2008 at 8:31 am
For those watching the game, is Engin Atsur (formerly of NC State) still with the Turkish team? If so, is he playing?
July 31st, 2008 at 8:32 am
wow. im phenomonal at posting links
July 31st, 2008 at 8:32 am
33-32 USA. close game
July 31st, 2008 at 8:32 am
Q2 GDP up 1.9%. Liberals will have to wait another quarter for their recession.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:33 am
Jimmy – They keep mentioning his name (or a name that sounds like him) but I have not actually seen him playing since I have been watching 15min.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:33 am
I will look for Atsur … it’s on mute because I’m listening to a riveting Hulk Hogan interview on Stern.
USA looks awesome on the break – Lebron touch pass to Kobe for a layup put them up 7. But pesky Turkey just keeps coming back.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:39 am
Glenda seems like a grandmas name. but that cheerleader is really hot.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:40 am
Where are you guys seeing the game? Anyone got a link or something to a gamecast?
July 31st, 2008 at 8:40 am
Are those the fudged numbers? Like when Burell wanted serious street level arrests reduced?
Outside of my company, I dont think anybody in West Lagayette is making money.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:41 am
http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/summer08/basketball/men/boxscore?gameId=726&refresh=30
This is a link to the box score on ESPN. Its also on ESPN 360, which I can’t get while working.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:41 am
cool im using this site…just click on fiba usa vs turkey
July 31st, 2008 at 8:42 am
funny clip of Andrew Dice Clay cussing up a storm on CNN
July 31st, 2008 at 8:42 am
stupid work has Cablevision, no 360 with it. i hate Dolan.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:43 am
kobe with a sweet alley-oop to Lebron for a sick one-handed jam
Kobe playing a real, real nice half
July 31st, 2008 at 8:44 am
monster dunk from Dwight Howard – 52-37 USA
less than a minute in the half
July 31st, 2008 at 8:44 am
what a dunk by Dwight
July 31st, 2008 at 8:44 am
Is Okur not playing for Turkey?
July 31st, 2008 at 8:46 am
Okur took the summer off since the Turks didn’t make the Olympics.
Atsur isn’t playing, at least according to the box score.
@TBL. I assume the US ratcheted up the D in the 2nd quarter?
July 31st, 2008 at 8:46 am
@sean jean- Okur and Hedo are not playing
July 31st, 2008 at 8:46 am
The Turks didn’t make the Olympics? Wow.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:47 am
oh my. Another put down by Howard. that was nasty
July 31st, 2008 at 8:47 am
I actually thought Hedo was supposed to be playing. I thought I read that yesterday. Must have misread, or the article was wrong…
July 31st, 2008 at 8:48 am
I wonder how this Griffey trade will work out. he can’t really play RF anymore, let alone center. They’ll need to move Dye to first. Someone is going to SOL on the south side.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:50 am
apparently the idea is Swisher will play first, Konerko will lose time, and Griff will go back to center. i don’t get it.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:51 am
This team will roll to gold, all the haters are morons. This is not Bron/Melo of 4 years ago when they were 19. This is not AI/Duncan, this is Kobe/Dwight. CP3 running the show with those guys to pass to, forget about it.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:51 am
54-37 USA at the half
July 31st, 2008 at 8:52 am
Why is it that people think liberals want a recession? Nobody WANTS a recession, just some people don’t have thier head in the sand about this whole run of great economic growth lately…
July 31st, 2008 at 8:53 am
coop –
It’s still going to be about playing defense. I agree that the team is immensely more talented and mature than 2 years ago at the Worlds or 4 years ago in Athens. However, one game of indifferent defense and a hot Spain or Argentina could make the US go down.
I still think that they will roll, because they seem angry and embarrassed about their performances in tournaments past. We’ll see if that is enough benefit to keep them rolling through the Olympics.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:57 am
actually, all these little band-aids are a waste and delaying the inevitable
July 31st, 2008 at 8:57 am
@ Magglio – Liberals may not want a recession, but it’s definitely in their political best interests if voters think there’s a recession. No doubt about that.
July 31st, 2008 at 8:58 am
Exxon PROFITS rise to 11.68 Billion, thats Billion, with a B.
Things are wonderful.
/PurdueMatt lights his cigar with a $100 bill.
July 31st, 2008 at 9:00 am
Your point? Do we have to go over profit margins again?
July 31st, 2008 at 9:02 am
Why is this bizarre? That’s the rational decision to make.
July 31st, 2008 at 9:03 am
Ding ding ding!
Along similar lines: “I believe … that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything, as is shown by the extreme violence in Iraq this week.” Dingy Harry Reid, 4/19/07.
July 31st, 2008 at 9:04 am
No one gets pissy about MSFT making like triple that PER DOLLAR OF SALES.
July 31st, 2008 at 9:07 am
The stupid twat and her dumb husband that let the bank foreclose on their co-op are the two dumbest assholes in America. First, you wreck your credit for at least 5 years so you can’t do anything including possibly getting an apartment. Then you let go of a place because it decreased in value? If you can afford it stick it out. The place will come back up to a respectable level in the same 5 years that you ruined your whole financial life. It may be rough times…but that is just truly the asinine…they did nothing to help themselves…nothing…Fuck them in teh fucking ass.
July 31st, 2008 at 9:07 am
I could not agree more about Clemson, this hype has 9-3 or 8-4 written all over it. They have no experience at OL and are weak at LB. I still think Bama surprises them in the 1st week of the season and the title hopes go down the drain.
July 31st, 2008 at 9:08 am
You mean like how Republicans might not want a terrorist attack, but an attack would greatly benefit their political interests. Terrorists!!!
July 31st, 2008 at 9:09 am
I agree, political grandstanding is the worst.
July 31st, 2008 at 9:10 am
SuperVisor…but clemson has 2 AWESOME RUNNING BACKS!!!11!!1!
/skill players suck without good lines
July 31st, 2008 at 9:11 am
Color me nieve, but I believe both of these statements to be at least partially true.
July 31st, 2008 at 9:14 am
I would have thought for sure that the Sox would have traded for Duchererererererer, but Griffey? That most likely means that one of the following pitchers have been traded: Aaron Poreda, Jack Egbert, or Lance Broadway. Kenny most be sold on that old ass Contreras’ off the mound work. Fuckin’ Konerko will be riding the pine the rest of the season.
July 31st, 2008 at 9:15 am
Now I’m wholly on board with each of these sentiments.
July 31st, 2008 at 9:18 am
Being the victim of a terrorist attack has about the same percentages as being struck by lightning, it is time to stop being afraid.
July 31st, 2008 at 9:19 am
/Sweater vest
July 31st, 2008 at 9:35 am
@Nick P
-1, back to zero for you…
July 31st, 2008 at 9:45 am
A-Rod’s lawyers: He never cheated.
Thats right. Blowjobs don’t count.
July 31st, 2008 at 9:52 am
Nick…+1. Michigan sucks.
July 31st, 2008 at 9:55 am
Nick…+1 for use of Sweater Vest… I LIKE IT!
July 31st, 2008 at 10:04 am
That’s right mikey… pay no attention to the oil man behind the curtain… they’re just trying to feed their families just like everyone else…
July 31st, 2008 at 10:06 am
Nick, +1 for comparing Tressel to a terrorist, so very very true.
July 31st, 2008 at 10:26 am
What’s an “acceptable” profit margin for oil companies, August? Give me a number that’s alright with you, dictating to companies how much money they’re allowed to make.
Five percent? Six? I want a number.
July 31st, 2008 at 10:35 am
Imig, I’m not your biggest fan, but dammit those myspace pages are ALWAYS hilarious!
July 31st, 2008 at 10:35 am
Just because I’m not privy to their books, or an international commodities expert, doesn’t mean it’s not fucking insanely obvious that there’s price gouging going on here…
Are you going to seriously contend that oil companies don’t take advantage of how ubiquitous and vital their product is, even to the level that it puts undue stress on the lower 10% (economically speaking)?
July 31st, 2008 at 10:43 am
Auggie, they’re making 9% profit.
I want a number. Come on, what’s okay with you, to calm you down? Really. Three percent?
Or should we just nationalize the oil industry too?
July 31st, 2008 at 10:49 am
I answer questions with questions.
/Mike NYC
July 31st, 2008 at 10:52 am
I believe I asked the first question, but thanks Maggs.
I suppose you don’t have an answer either? Nah, too easy to feign outrage.
July 31st, 2008 at 10:54 am
Auggie, they’re making 9% profit.
I’m gonna need a link.
I don’t have a number because I’m not going to pretend to be an expert on the nuances of the industry, but it’s plainly obvious that he special nature of oil’s place in our society, massive government breaks and subsidies and decades of having congress in their back pocket have removed free market pressures from it. The development of alternative resources has been crushed (read up on Brazilian ethanol tariffs, which have been blamed on corn lobbyists, but funded by oil lobbyists) and there’s no check or balance…
Record profits each quarter are what result when the game is rigged in your favor, otherwise you’d see this in almost every other major industry.
July 31st, 2008 at 10:56 am
You do regularly ask aggressive questions to get around having to actually understand/expound upon what the fuck you’re talking about Mike.
It’s OK though, I’ll play that game.
July 31st, 2008 at 10:59 am
Here’s a link for income statements for Exxon for year ending 2007.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=XOM&annual
Really simple here, compare Net Income to Total Revenue. For FY 2007, Exxon had about 10% profit.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:02 am
Here’s a start:
All I’m asking is for you to define your outrage in more explicit terms than a snide “they’re just trying to feed their families.” I’m trying to get to the point. You think oil companies make “too much” money. Well, tell me how much is too much.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:13 am
I’ve already told you I’m not going to nail down a number because I’m not an expert here, but you don’t have to be T. Boone Pickens to see a problem here.
I never for one second endorsed a windfall tax. I don’t endorse those dumbass ‘gas tax holidays’, but there’s a solution out there and we should be trying to find it. Relying on the free market to fix this is childish and greedy because the game is rigged in their favor.
The government can do tons of things to encourage competition and reduce the cartel-style stranglehold a few companies have on the entire energy sector, but we’ve got 2 oil men in the white house and a congress that can be bought and sold, so guess what? Nothing is happening to make this situation better, and I’m not very happy about it.
That clear enough for you?
July 31st, 2008 at 11:18 am
Mike, the fact that you automatically try to pigeon-hole anyone who disagrees with you as being Sean Penn’s personal secretary is very contradictory to how smart you obviously are. Issues aren’t really about who wins the pissing contest, it’s about trying to find a palatable solution, or at least come to an understanding of the problem.
So please, just stop assuming that Nancy Pelosi and George Soros powder my balls every morning, and I’ll afford you the same consideration.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:24 am
I’m not sure I pigeon-holed you (at least not in this thread, anyway). If any pissing contest started, it was here. From the mocking tone of your comment, I thought you agreed with IU Grad, that oil companies make “too much” money.
So I asked you how much was too much, that’s it. Finding alternative energy sources (which I agree with you on) and discussing Exxon’s profit margins, while intertwined, are really not the same conversation.
If you think Exxon makes too much money, then fine. Just say it.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:30 am
yeah I didn’t have my coffee before that first comment, so I apologize for the dickish tone, but the later assumptions about nationalizing and windfall taxes annoyed me…
I do think they make too much money, because when you reduce the profit margin down to percentages it strips away the sheer volume of money… 8% of a billion dollars is a lot more than 8% of a million. But saying that doesn’t mean I’m for nationalization or a ‘fuck you, you have too much money’ tax. It’s just pathetic how everything has been stacked in their favor, legislatively, and the American people only get to choose the gas station with $3.99 gas or the one with $4.02 gas.
July 31st, 2008 at 12:02 pm
This might be the most asinine statement ever uttered on this site.
July 31st, 2008 at 12:13 pm
He’s had worse.
July 31st, 2008 at 12:53 pm
See… Canada hates Gun Violence.