Check out this video of driver Alberto Valerio in Valencia, Spain as he speeds out of the pits with the rear jack still beneath his car and then takes out a camera during the race when the jack dislodges.
“Thanks, a**hole! Now I have to pay for that.”
Amazingly, we’re only 10 days away from the All-Star break. That means teams will re-charge and start to make a serious run at a playoff spot from mid-July on. And the power rankings haven’t changed much, other than most of the California teams dropping off the list. So without further adieu…..
1. New York Yankees (48-31)—The Bombers continue to ride their stars to victory, and survived a recent team hitting slump. There’s no reason to believe they won’t win the division again and contend for the title.
2. Texas Rangers (47-32)—Seriously, how scary has this team become? This past week Vlad gave his former team a taste of what they might be missing this year
3. Boston Red Sox (48-32)—Barely hanging on to second place in the tough AL East, but only two games separate the Yanks, Sox and Rays.
4. San Diego Padres (47-33)—Sure, the Rangers are a big surprise. But no team has been as surprising as the Padres, who just keep winning. And here’s a frightening thing for other National League teams—the Pads are now believing in themselves too.
5. Tampa Bay Rays (46-33)—Thankfully the Rays got off to a hot start, because everyone knows how much talent resides in the AL East. And has Carlos Pena become Dave Kingman? Yikes….he’s batting .196 with 16 homers and 50 RBI.
6. Atlanta Braves (47-33)—The Braves are a major league best 29-9 at home this year (.763 winning percentage). Too bad no one goes to their home games.
7. New York Mets (45-35)—With two more games against the suddenly slumping Nationals, the Mets still have a chance to close the gap with Atlanta this weekend.
8. Cincinnati Reds (46-35)—I’m getting closer to believing, and so are the Reds.
9. Minnesota Twins (44-36)—They haven’t been playing great baseball, which has allowed the mediocre Tigers and White Sox back into the AL Central race. But there is too much talent in Minnesota to keep the Twins out of the postseason hunt.
10. St. Louis Cardinals (44-36)—I’m now ready to put the Reds above the Cardinals, and Tony LaRussa’s boys had better start playing better away from home (18-22) if they want to keep pace.
Joe Johnson gets it. He has a max offer from the Hawks on the table, but hasn’t agreed to sign it just yet. He wants to see which big-name free agents land where, to see if there’s a secondary or tertiary role for him on a championship contender.
Sources said Johnson was still considering whether it would be a better career move to play in New York or Chicago, and his ultimate decision would hinge upon which of the top free agents make commitments to those teams.
Johnson’s decision is this — would he rather be the best player on a good-but-not-great Atlanta team or the second- or third-best player on a Finals-caliber team?
Maybe he’s reading the LeBron/Wade tea leaves and realizes that LeBron’s ego may not accept the perception that he needed Wade to win a title. Johnson is the next-best shooting guard on the market, and would be a decent fit alongside LeBron in New York, New Jersey or Chicago.
Writers like to throw around the phrase “leaving $30 million on the table” when referring to home/away max contracts, but that number is misleading. Through the first five years of the deal, the difference is ‘only’ $4 million. It’s that (extra) sixth year that makes up most of the difference in the total value of the contract, but players would presumably still be able to re-sign for a good amount of money. So really, the difference in the home/away contracts is this:
Diff = $4 million + $25.3 million – E
where:
E = expected value of first year of next contract
For a player like Johnson, who would be 33 after the final year of a five-year contract, the value of E would be quite a bit less than someone like LeBron, who would be 30 after the final year of a five-year deal. Assuming both players stay healthy, Johnson would be leaving more money on the table than LeBron would by signing a max deal with an away team.
Before free agency started, Stephen A. Smith reported that a LeBron/Wade/Bosh combo in Miami was pretty much a done deal.
As everyone knows, I reported last week on my morning drive show on Fox Sports Radio that LeBron James would join Dwayne Wade in Miami and take Chris Bosh with him to join the Heat.
Now, of course, that trio joining forces in Miami doesn’t seem to have legs, and Bill Simmons had some fun at Smith’s expense on his Twitter feed:
Stephen A. Smith is reporting that Stephen A. Smith’s report was incorrect. http://stephena.com/?p=953
Oldest trick in book: Report something is done, and if you’re wrong, claim it WAS done but something last minute derailed it. Child please.
What is Simmons talking about? Here’s what Smith said ‘derailed’ the deal:
At the moment, that is still very possible, but there’s been a potentially huge monkey wrench thrown into the equation — with (understandable) greed on the part of Bosh being the main culprit.
It was shocking news at the time, so it’s not a huge surprise that the report seems to have fallen apart at the seams.
What’s interesting is that Simmons has been silent on Dan Le Batard’s report that there was a trade in place bringing Chris Bosh to Miami.
When the athletic director of a major university gets arrested for DUI, it’s embarrassing for all parties involved.
When the athletic director of a major university gets arrested for DUI, bargains with the police officer to let him go, is riding with a younger women who isn’t his wife in the car and also has her underwear on his lap at the top of being pulled over, it’s really, really embarrassing.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has the details of Georgia athletic director Damon Evans’ June 30th DUI arrest:
Evans, who admitted to drinking three Vodka cocktails, began bargaining with the trooper as soon as he realized he might be placed under arrest. “I am not trying to bribe you but I’m the athletic director of the University of Georgia,” Evans said.
The arrest report, released at 4:55 p.m. Friday of a holiday weekend, reveals several embarrassing details for the 40-year-old Evans, whose lucrative new 5-year contract went into effect Thursday.
The passenger in Evans’ car, 28-year-old Courtney Fuhrmann, was being “very loud and obnoxious and was obviously intoxicated,” Cabe wrote. She repeatedly got out of the car, ignoring the trooper’s instructions, before she was handcuffed and charged with disorderly conduct, according to the incident report.
“I apologize and don’t want to use my influence but she is trying to protect me,” Evans told Cabe. Furmann remained “combative,” the trooper wrote, and after Evans refused to take a breath test he was arrested.
Wait, the story gets better.
The trooper, who noted that Evans had a pair of red panties between his legs, asked the athletic director “what her panties were doing in his side of the seat. He stated, ‘She took them off and I held them because I was just trying to get her home.’ ”
Evans told the trooper “there was nothing there” between him and the Buckhead woman “because he had a wife and family.”
Evans appeared relaxed when first stopped by the trooper. “I feel pretty good,” he told the trooper, then “smiled and laughed for no apparent reason.” Cabe said Evans had “red, bloodshot, watery eyes and droopy eyelids” and he detected “a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage.”
The Nebraska native asked the trooper to let him off with a warning.
“I told him I don’t issue warnings for DUI,” Cabe replied.
Evans tried again: “I don’t want you to use who I am but I would just ask that you take me to a motel.”
After he was arrested, the father of two — who refused a Breathalyzer — told the trooper, “We go through life and we all drink and jump in a car.”
As if things weren’t bad enough for Evans, he was the one who also did a DUI prevention public service announcement video that ran throughout Sanford Stadium during Georgia home football games last year.
Everyone makes mistakes, but I don’t see how Evans can keep his job after this. Georgia showed video of this guy telling thousands of students last year not to drink and drive and then he gets busted for the same crime. He looks like a giant hypocrite and I wonder what would happen if a student athlete were to be arrested for the same thing. What kind of punishment would he face? Would he be allowed to stay on the team?
Maybe UGA will stand by Evans and set an example that people deserve second chances. But the details of this situation might be too embarrassing for the university to allow him to keep his job. Not only was he driving drunk, but he was also riding around with a chick’s panties between his legs. Oh, and he’s married with two children and the women he was traveling with wasn’t his wife.
Yiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiikes.
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