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Rumor around town is that Ryan Mallet was seen attending classes in Fayetteville today. If true, that is a big win early in Bobby Petrino’s Razorback career.
related link in case you’re wondering who Ryan Mallett is
Update:
Rivals is reporting it as a done deal.
Luckily for Stefan, the Stars managed to win in Overtime.
Apparently hiting women for fun and profit isn’t enough for Mike Tyson. Great move for someone known for rape and domestic abuse, by the way. He’d also like to be a manwhore:
If we were making a list of people most likely to strike a blow for women’s sexual equality, Mike Tyson, convicted rapist, and Heidi Fleiss, convicted tax evader (a consequence of her time as the “Hollywood Madamâ€), probably wouldn’t rank too high. But as the Los Angeles Times’ Las Vegas Blog, Movable Buffet, reported yesterday, Tyson is apparently in talks with Fleiss to be one of the first hired for her groundbreaking “stud farm,†which, if approved, would be the first Nevada brothel to sell the sexual services of men instead of women.
Fleiss tells blogger Richard Abowitz she thinks Tyson “definitely would†be one of her employees, and that the former champ told her “it’s every man’s dream to please every woman no matter how old, how young, how fat, how pretty, how ugly, it’s every man’s dream to please every woman and especially get paid for it … Hell yeah, I’ll be your number one stud.†That’s funny. I sort of thought it was the dream of most old, young, fat, pretty and ugly women to avoid sleeping with convicted rapists.
There is even an application online for anyone interested in turning tricks with Mr. Tyson.
This is from yesterday’s Dallas-Tennessee game. You can’t see what happens until they show the replay about 3/4s of the way in. But it clearly shows Albert Hayneworth reach down and loosen Andre Gurode’s chinstrap, kick off his helmet, and then stomp on his face. Defensive linemen wear huge cleats when they play on grass. It took 30 stitches to heal wounds all around his eye. As of the last I heard his vision is still blurry. Haynesworth had this to say after the game:
“What I’d like to say is that I’m very sorry. I apologize to Andre. What I did was disgusting. It’s something that should never happen. I mean, I’m not a dirty player. I don’t play dirty. I have respect for the game. What I feel like is I disgraced the game, disgraced my team and disgraced my last name. … When I was sitting here in the locker room when the game was going on, I was looking at my phone, which has my kids on it. I don’t want them to have my last name and to think their dad is a dirty player, because I don’t play that way. … What I did was disgusting. It doesn’t matter what the league does to me.”
Given the benefit of the doubt that he is sorry, he is still a dirty player. You don’t stomp on someone’s face and then claim after the game that you are not a dirty player. To me, this is a criminal act. You accept a certain level of violence when you step onto a football field. But this goes over and beyond and risk that anyone could have reasonably expected. And according to Sports Illustrated’s Peter King, Haynesworth is probably only going to get a $25,000 fine and no suspension from the league. Talk about hypocritical. You automatically get a four game suspension if they catch you with pot in your system twice (it’s a year if they catch you again).
UPDATE Sports Illustrated is now reporting this:
In what likely will be an unprecedented punishment in terms of size and scope, a league source told SI.com Monday that the NFL is preparing to swiftly hand down both a multigame suspension and a hefty fine against Tennessee defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth, who stomped on the head of Dallas offensive lineman Andre Gurode in the second quarter of the Cowboys’ 45-14 win Sunday. Gurode required 30 stitches to close a gash above his left eye and suffered partially blurred vision.
2nd Update Haynesworth received a 5 game suspension per ESPN. I still think he is getting off easy.
You may actually want to run out and buy a printed copy of today’s Post: There are two full spreads dedicated to mocking the suicide attempt of Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens. Apart from a column suggesting that the Giants need to take full advantage of the troubled star’s effort to end his own life, perhaps the central gem is the graphic reproduced above, which is a “comical” list of reasons that Owens might have wanted to die. We’re of the opinion that no subject is off-limits when it comes to humor, but if you’re going to cross the line you’d damn well better be funny. We’re not sure who thought “He’s upset Jeremy Shockey has an exclusive column in The Post and he doesn’t,” might induce a giggle as a rationale for a man’s attempt at self-destruction (“Tried reading Jeremy Shockey’s Post column” might have worked better), but even by Post standards this is lame. If we were Col Allan we’d be so full of shame right now that, well, we’d want to kill ourselves.
This after publically mocking Keith Olbermann for receiving an anthrax letter yesterday. Which, by the way, was interfering with a federal investigation. I’m beginning to wonder if journalistic integrity matters to Rupert Murdoch at all.
from gawker.com
For over a century club bosses stubbornly resisted the march of time and capitalism to keep their team strip sponsor-free, at a time when every other club from football’s upper echelons right down to your average Sunday League side had given in to financial expediency. To be fair this may have profited them, with their logo-free red-and-blue-striped tops taking on something of an iconic status worldwide, and it was always assumed that when they did eventually sell out they would be all set to command unparalleled sums for the taking of their sponsorship virginity
Instead, quite without warning, Barcelona’s top brass have gone in a very different direction. Last Thursday, president Joan Laporta signed up to a five-year collaborative agreement with Unicef that will see Barcelona not only sport the children’s charity’s banner on its shirts, which they did for the first time yesterday night against Levski Sofia, but also contribute just over £1m to its humanitarian projects each year. Obviously that sort of money is barely going to register a dent in the club’s finances, but if you take into account how much they could have made from selling to a conventional sponsor [surely even more than Juventus's £15m-a-year deal with Tamoil], the decision is staggering.
bravo. Maybe some American sports teams will follow suit. How cool would it be to have you team play at RAINN Stadium?
