Shaq claims that he and Kobe have a good relationship, yet he got up on stage and ripped Kobe a new one. He said in a statement after the video broke that it shouldn’t be taken the wrong way, but I don’t know how a line like – “Kobe, tell me how my ass tastes” – could be taken the wrong way.
Month: June 2008 (Page 12 of 40)
It is crazy that search firms are being used to hire athletic directors. It is absolutely nuts that search firms are being used to hire coaches. But it is outrageously absurd that new Stanford head coach Johnny Dawkins used a search firm to hire his coaching staff.
Why are college administrators allowed to waste money on search firms to do the job they are hired to do. And come on, Coach Dawkins, if you don’t know 5 people well enough who you think could be good assistants you have no business being a head coach. It is not like you were hiring someone to coach at NJIT for a cup of coffee. You were hiring a staff for Stanford with an unlimited budget. What’s next? Hire a search firm to decide what type of defense and offense to run.
Two former Duquesne basketball players are looking to hit the lotteryKojo Mensah and Shawn James left school a year early to put their names in the NBA draft. Seems they were poorly advised by their mentors back in Brooklyn. Neither player will be drafted this week. Now they want to earn the same type of money by suing the school that gave them an opportunity to get a college degree. Another bad idea by their mentors back in Brooklyn. Two wrongs don’t make a right…
In other Court news: Kansas guard Sheron Collins was charged with assault on a woman that stems from an incident that occurred in May 2007. That’s the correct date. I guess the wheels of justice run slow in Kansas.
Johnette Howard of Newsday writes about what could have been for Ken Griffey Jr. had he stayed healthy his entire career.
Griffey could’ve gone on to stress how injuries turned his own career into a cautionary tale, or how a lot of so-called “sure things” can go wrong on the way to Cooperstown. He eventually had so many physical problems that some wise-guy comedian came out one year and said he was looking forward to the start of another major-league season, “especially the traditional National League opener featuring the Cincinnati Reds and Ken Griffey Jr. throwing out the first hamstring.”
It was sarcastic. But it also was true. In four of his first five seasons with the Reds, Griffey missed 331 games – an average of 83 in those four years. Entering this season, he was averaging a home run every 14.9 at-bats. If you do the math, he really might have passed Aaron before Bonds did.
But Griffey won’t go there. He seemed determined this weekend to fight off even the slightest suggestions of sentimentality or what-ifs, even on the day when Babe Ruth’s 91-year-old daughter was in the house to give A-Rod a home run award.
You can ask him, all right. But Griffey doesn’t do serious or traffic in regrets.
Though he’s never been accused of using steroids, Griffey won’t even confess to sharing the pride that Mets pitcher Pedro Martinez expressed earlier this season about having the ability to dominate during baseball’s steroid era despite being clean himself.
Griffey just laughed yesterday and said: “Nah. Pitchers have five days to sit around thinking about things like that. I play every day. I hit my 600th on a Sunday. Had a flight back to Cincinnati that night, got in at 3:30 a.m. And it was back to work on Monday.”
Ken Griffey Jr. is everything baseball players should be. Yeah he was injury-prone, but he was often injured playing the game hard. He played the game the right way and is one of the classiest ballplayers of this, or any other generation. Too bad he couldn’t ever stay healthy, because he would have been baseball’s superhero to Barry Bonds villain. Or maybe Griffey is still our superhero.
– The Nuggets suspended forward Camelo Anthony for the first two games of the 2008-09 season. The suspension is due to Anthony’s arrest for suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol on April 14.
– Starter Ben Sheets threw a complete game four-hitter in the Brewers’ 4-1 victory over the Braves. Sheets struck out seven in route to his ninth win of the season. The problem with Sheets has never been his stuff – it’s been his injury history. Knock on wood – he’s been able to stay injury-free all season and is off to a great first half.
– Dan Haren threw seven strong innings in Arizona’s 2-1 win over the Red Sox. Haren limited Boston to only two hits and struck out five to earn his eighth victory of the year.
– Matt Holliday went 2 for 3 at the plate and homered, but the Rockies fell to the red-hot Royals 8-4 as Mark Teahen hit his eighth dinger of the year. KC has now won three in a row and is 8-2 in its last 10 games.
– Pitcher Felix Hernandez hit a grand slam in the Mariners’ 5-2 win over the Mets, but then was diagnosed with a left ankle sprain after Carlos Beltran slid into him. King Felix joined C.C. Sabathia in AL pitchers who obviously don’t mind hitting during interleague play. Both pitchers have gone yard in the past couple days. (Sabathia hit a 440-foot shot that still hasn’t landed yet.)
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