The Roundup: The Jim Nantz-Tiger Woods Tiff
Baseball, Boxing, College Basketball, Courts, Legal, Drugs, Golf, Media Gossip/Musings, NBA, NFL, Tennis April 4th. 2008, 8:21am
Isn’t the little sister of Penelope Cruz a cross between Rachel Bilson and Penelope Cruz? … please stop sending links of the pregnant man on Oprah – that’s the grossest story ever, and we can’t move ourselves to even look at photos of it … the economic slump hitting the US? It’s having an impact on the entire world … the bacon bra, anyone? … sorry for the tardy start …
Second best Tiger Woods story, ever: Eldrick kind of snubs Jim Nantz, a golfer points out to Nantz that the two “have some issues” and then Nantz proceeds to not mention Tiger’s name once on TV the next day. Awesome. (USA Today)
Roy Williams gives Jason King pretty awesome access, and then spends the entire time talking about how Kansas fans loathe him. (Yahoo Sports)
Michael Kay is the clown you thought he was. (Why Don’t We Get Drunk and Blog)
Kevin Love. Read it. (LA Times)
Shane Battier for Defensive Player of the Year? Sure. (Dreamshake)
For the first time since triceratops roamed the earth, Andy Roddick beats Roger Federer. (Svelte Sports)
We really hope Kosta Koufos returns for his sophomore year – he was incredible and Ohio State held off a pesky UMass bunch in the NIT title game. (Forest City Fanatics)
Several years ago, a married woman allegedly bragged about her breasts to announcer Steve Lyons. Then, in an alcove, he asked to see them. And she sued him for $175k. (Deadspin)
Buy Brian McNamee’s crap off eBay! (Steroid Nation)
Mushnick rails against Stephen A. and Michael Kay for their lack of info about the Yankees’ opener being delayed. (NY Post)
We actually did something like this at Sportsline a few years back – the hottest sports wife tournament. (Armchair GM)
Kenny Wright of the Browns is a fool – police started to question him in a police parking lot and then he tried to run away. He was caught, and arrested for many things, including possessing weed. (AP)
Bernard Hopkins: “I would never let a white boy beat me.” (USA Today)
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April 4th, 2008 at 8:25 AM
Bernard Hopkins: racist.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:26 AM
those 3 chins make a nice accessory to that bacon bra
April 4th, 2008 at 8:29 AM
TBL, maybe you missed the memo, but this morning while making my coffee and hoping to get updates on all the huge sporting events this week, Final Four, baseball season, end of the NBA season, Ovechkin scoring 2 more goals last night and a possible Caps v Penguins first round matchup, the 4 letter LEADS OFF both sportscenter and 4letter news with David Beckhams first goal in the MLS!
April 4th, 2008 at 8:35 AM
Oh, we’re posting the Beckham goal. It was sweet.
But ESPN has a stake in the Beckham goal – they televise the MLS.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:37 AM
@TBL
That’s a shame.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:39 AM
I dont know much about soccer, other than it bores me to tears, but I think I could have kicked a ball in a open net.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:41 AM
I like soccer
April 4th, 2008 at 8:48 AM
if Calzaghe said that about hopkins TBL would have given it a post by itself. but i guess that’s the world we live in, a black person can say whatever they want about a white guy, but if not vice versa. i.e Irvin on Romo
April 4th, 2008 at 8:48 AM
Great link on Kevin Love.
@CRM….seriously, soccer. That’s not even funny.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:53 AM
It’s too early in the morning for the soccer-phobic folks to start their campaign to eliminate the game from the universe. Let’s talk about topics that keep everyone here calmer, like race and politics.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:54 AM
kenny wright is an idiot for trying to outrun cops?
um…isn’t he a professional athlete playing a position reliant on speed? his best chance was to outrun a bunch of fat texas cops.
his mugshot is priceless tho.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:55 AM
sandibalz – I don’t believe it’ll ever be popular in America and I wouldn’t watch it on television if there was an alternative, but soccer is cool in my book.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:56 AM
EPL: acceptable
MLS: unacceptable
that is my opinion on soccer
April 4th, 2008 at 8:57 AM
id love to see the executioner take down butterbean. he said white boy, never specified weight class.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:59 AM
Merk – That’s business at that level. Same reason you get too much Kobe/LeBron and Yanks/Red Sox … it sells, and ultimately, ESPN is a business trying to make $$$.
Just be happy ABC doesn’t have the Olympics, or ESPN would be forcing that on you.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:00 AM
soccer has potential to be cool…..if they made the field smaller and these guys spent more time scoring instead of just roaming around the field getting tired and flopping…not hate coming from me though…no way my fat ass could make it up and down the field.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:02 AM
soccer would be cool if they played it on ice and with sticks.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:08 AM
the beckham goal was pretty good; he went 5 hole on the keeper…
finally starting to earn some of that outrageous contract.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:11 AM
I wonder why Americans think soccer is boring, when 2 of your major sports are pitch wait 2 minutes for the next pitch, or one throw or run and then wait 45 seconds to another play. That’s the common argument of Europeans against baseball and american football.
The problem it’s that the same way Europeans don’t like anything shoved in their throats (american sports), Americans don’t like that soccer is imposed like it is.
I’m European, i enjoy baseball, american football, basketball and soccer. And i can see why Europeans (like me) think baseball and american football are boring and why Americans think soccer is boring, but the main reason is that they don’t understand the sport and they don’t want to understand either.
BTW, don’t forget that the main sporting event all around the world is the World Cup, so eliminate the game is going to be tough…
April 4th, 2008 at 9:12 AM
soccer would be more popular is people here had better access to EPL and the better European leagues IMO
April 4th, 2008 at 9:14 AM
I would love it if Koufos comes back. Adding Mullen (#1 C), Buford (#5 SG), and a solid PG prospect (Crater) to a core of Turner, Lighty, Koufos, Diebler, and Lauderdale would make the Bucks a team to keep an eye on.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:15 AM
exactly mmonast, the mls has some good guys, but a majority of them are scurbs. you can’t expect the public to buy into soccer when inferior talent plays in america.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:16 AM
EPL games are pretty exciting, not to mention i love how they can kick you out and relegate you if you have a bad season, then you have to earn your way back to the top
April 4th, 2008 at 9:18 AM
*scrubs
i can’t type
April 4th, 2008 at 9:18 AM
CH4OS…i understand your point of view, and have tried to give soccer a chance, but it just doesnt do it for me. there’s nothing exciting about the game other than a few leo messi crazy goals and some other infrequent events, and that’s not even the real issue. baseball, while slow, has stuff actually going on, not a bunch of guys dribbling around and exchanging posessions. and while there is action in soccer, it just doesnt have that tension-build-then-release that baseball has. i dont know what im missing in the sport, and ive been more than willing to find out.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:19 AM
“that’s the grossest story ever, and we can’t move ourselves to even look at photos of it ”
Agree eleventy million percent.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:27 AM
spencer096, i was not knocking on Americans because they don’t like soccer. I understand why Americans don’t like it, but from your argument i can say you really don’t understand soccer.
If you debate baseball with most Europeans, i bet you are going to hear the argument “that is too boring, pitch and hit, big deal, where’s the strategy?”, fortunately i like both games and i can see the strategy and the fundamentals in both games.
Just don’t say soccer doesn’t have any tension, because that can’t be more wrong. If you are not into the game why can you say there’s not tension? Europeans sleep watching American Football, so that does mean that American Football is boring? I think not…
April 4th, 2008 at 9:29 AM
Of course Cuz likes soccer. Florida Marlins fans are always at soccer games when the Marlins play at home.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:31 AM
I love watching Champions League games, and I spend my Saturday and Sunday mornings watching Premiership games on FSC. I think the Premiership is riveting to keep track of, and the level of play is light-years beyond MLS.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:31 AM
EPL is amazing to watch. I understand why people here don’t like it because the teams are not constantly attacking on offense. They always pass it backwards. It is like hockey though in that respect. The guys passing have to have another guy racing down the field and hit them with a pass. If it isn’t there they back it up and try it again. Soccer is very much like hockey in the aspect of spacing and hitting guys who are flashing down the side of the field.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:33 AM
CH4OS…i mean it basically just boils down to people liking it or not. i usually watch most of the World Cup (especially last year, 20 of my family were crouched around this small HD TV watching Italy take care of bidness and it was pretty fuckin sweet) but ill usually end up watching some EPL on Fox Sports World (or whatever that channel is called) and i just don’t enjoy it.
there’s tension, i just picked a bad word to use in my first comment. close matches at the end are pretty sweet, but i guess i cant really explain it.
basically, i have the attention span of a coked up 3 year old. if there isnt scoring at least once every 3 or 4 minutes or someone getting knocked the fuck out, i lose inteterst.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:34 AM
@Mags: I make the soccer/hockey comparison to friends all the time and they all think I’m insane, apparently because they can’t get past the differences in playing fields. Thank God someone else sees it that way.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:54 AM
Some of the soccer moms are nice to look at.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:56 AM
Soccer is like hockey that is does not always translate well on the tv. In terms of the energy of the game and the tension/ drama of the event.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:56 AM
it just doesnt have that tension-build-then-release that porn has.
Much better
April 4th, 2008 at 10:00 AM
@ Roeth- good pt.
April 4th, 2008 at 10:26 AM
What I take away from the Roy Williams article is that he really, really guilty. He knows he ditched Kansas for about the only place where it’s actually even easier to win.
April 4th, 2008 at 10:27 AM
TBL you really need to do a full Roy/KU post today.
April 4th, 2008 at 10:28 AM
Why the heck should he feel guilty? He took a different job, Kansas has been fine since he has left, Kansas fans get the fuck over it!
April 4th, 2008 at 10:29 AM
Right. ‘Cause he had nothing to do with Kansas now being an “easy” place to live.
Ha. Full post, TBL!
April 4th, 2008 at 10:30 AM
Yikes. Where “live” = “win”
April 4th, 2008 at 10:30 AM
Oh and what did Kansas do when Roy left? They took Bill Self away from Illinois, so Kansas fans bitch about it happenign to them, but when they do it to another team it’s fine?
April 4th, 2008 at 10:45 AM
Kansas also got put on probation. Not the Death Penalty, mind you. But Kansas faces sanctions while “The nicest guy in college basketball finally wins the national championship.”
He was also the front and center figure in the Lester Earl incident. And Lester Earl has now said that the NCAA told him that he if he made up shit about Dale Brown, he would not lose any eligibility if he played for Roy.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:13 PM
Big time fan of Monica. Well done, sir.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:43 PM
Penelope’s little sister kind of looks like Kim K, with only 1 ass cheek.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:55 PM
Although several are you arguing that Roy Williams shouldn’t feel guilty, doesn’t it seem clear that he does? I wonder why that is?
btw, I can’t stand Kansas, so I’ve got no axe to grind.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:58 PM
@CH4OS–Please don’t use the old “you don’t like soccer because you don’t understand it” line. That comes off as arrogant and elitist. I don’t like soccer because I think it’s boring. I understand what’s happening but I would rather set my hair on fire than watch a soccer match. Just doesn’t do it for me. Different strokes for different folks.