Are you targeting T.J. Houshmandzadeh in the third round of your fantasy draft? You might be out of luck. With questions surrounding receivers like Roy Williams and Larry Fitzgerald, Housh’s rising draft position is just one of the seven draft day trends that I outline in my latest column.
Category: General Sports (Page 84 of 112)
SPORTSbyBROOKS.com found an interesting clip of two players from a losing team at the Little League World Series, who spit in their hands before congratulating the winners. Check out the clip here, which was originally shot by ESPN cameras.
Pat Freese, vice president of Coon Rapids (MN) Little League where the boys were from: “The [spitting players’] coaches looked at [the video replay] and they were disgusted. They were beside themselves.”
Little sh!ts.
Team USA beat Brazil, 113-76, and is in the midst of a 4-0 run in the Olympic qualifying tournament in Las Vegas. Brazil was considered to be the toughest test thus far for the U.S., as they had three NBA-caliber players in Leandro Barbosa, Nene and Tiago Splitter. Kobe Bryant was responsible for shutting down the lightning quick Barbosa, who was limited to just four points on 1 of 7 shooting.
Splitter, who was drafted in the first round by the Spurs, led the Brazilians with 13 points and looked like a legitimate NBA player. Since his current buyout is so high, San Antonio is planning to leave him in Spain for another season, but it looks like he’d be an immediate upgrade over Fabricio Oberto and Francisco Elson, and should be a nice frontcourt mate for Tim Duncan.
In recent years, Team USA has been plagued by the ol’ back-it-down offense while everyone else stands around, but for the most part they played good, unselfish offense and tough, aggressive defense. It’s clear that Coach K is getting through to these guys.
LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony led Team USA with 21 points each, while Bryant chipped in with 20.
The next real test comes on Thursday, when they face Argentina.
In the aftermath of the Rangers’ 30-3 thrashing of the Orioles Wednesday night, ESPN.com columnist David Schoenfield listed the “100 greatest beatdowns in history”.
Some were pretty humorous:
44. The playoffs versus Marty Schottenheimer.
50. Bo Jackson over Brian Bosworth, Monday Night Football, 1987.
51. The Ice Age over the dinosaurs.
77. The NFL versus Ryan Leaf.
85. Angelina Jolie versus Jennifer Aniston.
The playoffs versus Marty Schottenheimer had me rolling.
Paul Costanzo and the boys at The Daily Forecast did an interesting blog back in March entitled, “Comparing athletes and porn stars”. The gist of the blog (if it isn’t already obvious by the title) is to take a porn star and compare him or her to an athlete based on their social standing in their profession.
The Forecast’s most obvious example was Jordan and Jameson:
Michael Jordan = Jenna Jameson
This is an easy one, the greatest basketball player ever, and probably most popular athlete ever is the equivalent of the one name in porn you can say and not have a single person think you’re a pervert for knowing. Tiger Woods could also be considered here.
The rest of the list is pretty interesting and humorous, you know, if you’re into that kind of stuff. I for one, had no idea who any of the porn stars were until I clicked on the Wikipedia links provided. Jenna Jameson? No idea who that is, but apparently she’s a big deal in the porn world – who knew?
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