Barbequed Links

(Thanks to Larry Brown Sports for the image)

Another loss and an early exit for the most overrated athlete in individual sports history. (ESPN)

As we said a couple of weeks ago, the obsession with this pole vaulting chick has GOT to stop! (Washington Post)


Shawn, the son of Ed “guns” Hochuli, is an official in NFL Europe! A chip off the old (incredibly chiseled) block! In all seriousness, finding out little news tidbits like this is exactly why we love blogs (the FanHouse)

Non sports: Lindsay Lohan - who has been through rehab, and Alcoholics Anonymous, and was picked up for a DUI over the weekend, and was photographed drunk and puking her guts out a couple of days after her DUI arrest – had a vodka company sponsoring her birthday party, but the company pulled out after her recent transgressions. I don’t have a joke here. (Signal to Noise)

Maria Sharapova, cussin’ at a chair umpire. Is that what they’re called? “Chair umpires?" (YouTube via the Hater Nation)



(quick aside: we have heard from more than one Russian-speaker that her last name should be pronounced sha-ROP-ova, not SHARA-pova.)


Evidently Ashley Judd’s husband races cars (who knew she was even married?). Not only that, he apparently won the Indy 500! We were more interested in the fact that former OSU Buckeyes and native Indianapolisians Indianapolans people from Indanapolis Mike Conley and Greg Oden were on hand. (Automotive Blogger via the Big Lead)

Linkin' Like its Our Job

Now that the formality of the NBA Lottery is out of the way, we can get to the real fun: The mock drafts! Chad Ford is sure that the Blazers will take Oden number 1, while the Big Lead is certain that they will take Durant. We're having fun already. (ESPN Insider, the Big Lead)

Andy Katz has the Celtics taking somebody named Yi Jianlian with the fifth pick. They went from intentionally tanking games to get a chance at Oden or Durant, to ending up with Yi Jianlian. That is a precipitous fall. Serves 'em right. (ESPN)

They used to award Super Bowls to cities. Now they award them to vague regions of states. “South Florida” has the big game in 2010, and now “North Texas” has it in 2011. “ Eastern North America” is the leading candidate to be awarded the game in 2012. (dallascowboys.com)

If you were a rich teenager and your dad was the greatest basketball player of all time, what would you do on vacation? Don’t lie, you would do stuff like this. And so would we. Don’t hate. (Media Take Out via Our Book of Scrap)

If Kenny Mayne really is using SportsCenter to promote Barack Obama and piss off Right-Wingers, then maybe we were all wrong about him. But this story is still pretty far-fetched. (SPORTSbyBROOKS)

Jason Giambi failed an amphetamines test last year. Wait, Giambi takes drugs? (New York Daily News)

You may have read earlier this week about the NFL Assistant Coach who was forwarding porn around, well, we have found the culprit ladies and gentlemen. The streets are safe once again. (The Fanhouse)

Please, for the love of all that is holy, stop sticking microphones in front of the mouth of Clinton Portis. (The Fanhouse)

Was A-rod’s take-out slide in the eighth inning last night a cheap shot? We think probably not, but it did raise our eyebrows when we saw it live. (The Boston Hearald)

A.J. Nicholson’s Girlfriend now says that the recently-released Bengal’s LB didn’t hit her, SHE HIT HERSELF. That’s a new one. (WCPO.com)

Hot n' Fresh Links

We used to think that Ken Griffey, jr. was a miserable jerk who took himself too seriously, but this whole heckler/jockstrap incident is making us do a complete 180 on him. Junior is still having fun with the whole thing too.(Cincinnati Enquirer)

Another athlete is in trouble over lyrics on a record. First it was Greg Olsen and Miami’s 7th floor crew, now its Mets super-prospect Lastings Milledge, AKA L-Milz. (Deadspin, The New York Post via SPORTSbyBROOKS)

Carson Palmer should fire his agent for signing him up for this ad! Or who knows, maybe he is just preparing himself for a career in gay porn after football is over. (Awful Announcing)

Is Tony Romo turning into the new NFL Golden Boy? (The Big Lead)

We think that Olympic swimmer Amanda Beard is a bit of a “butter-face,” Perhaps you thinks she is do-able. Weigh in on this important topic here. (The Big Picture)

That high school (!!!) pole vaulter that everyone in the blogosphere is obsessed with…remember her?

Good. Anyways, there is a YouTube video of her, and she actually doesn’t look that hot in her interview. So lets stop obsessing. (YouTube via With Leather)

Who do the K.C. Royals have in charge as they try to turn around their culture of losing? Why, the losingest man in baseball history of course (the Fanhouse)

A college women’s golf coach is in hot water for, among other things, showing his team the Paris Hilton sex tape. Classy. (NewsChannel 32 via The Big Lead)

This has nothing to do with sports: Speaking of Ms. Hilton, her license is still suspended, but in an act of civil disobedience, she continues to drive anyway. (WWTDD)

This also has nothing to do with sports: Jared, the annoying guy from the Subway commercials apparently was at one time, the porn king of Indiana University (TMZ via Joe Sports Fan)

Hittin' The Links

New York Post Columnist Mike Vaccaro (whom we love reading by the way) gives you a quiz to prepare for the return of the Rocket. (New York Post)

Oscar De La Hoya prepared for his fight with Floyd Mayweather by sparring with….A.C. Slater?? No wonder he lost! (The Feed)

No one has the balls to say this, because she is a woman in a male-dominated industry, but Suzyn Waldman is an absolute disgrace. We have never come across anyone, Yankee fan or not, that thinks she is even an average broadcaster, and this audio takes the cake. (Newsday, Awful Announcing)

Jon Heyman’s column on SI.com is a must read. In this edition he discusses the Clemens sweepstakes and how it effects Carlos Zambrano’s contract negotiations. (si.com)

LA Angels right-handed tub-of-goo Bartolo Colon might be hurt. Again. (LA Times)

The theater of the absurd that is, the Mike and Mike show, announced that Mark Schlereth will be appearing on a soap opera. (Kissing Suzy Kolber)

It is becoming a weekly occurance to see videos of Red Sox fans acting like idiots. First they were throwing Pizza, then they were fighting with Blue Jays fans at SkyDome, now this. (Red Sox Monster)

Clips of people cursing on TV!(Joe Sports Fan)

Brad Penny strikes out 14 Florida Marlins. With his fly open. (Our Book of Scrap)

Delicious Links

We are feeling lazy today, so we have decided to do our very first links post.

Enjoy the delicious links!

If you watched any of the 6,234 hours of draft coverage last weekend, you probably saw the hilarious Madden '08 commercial where Reggie Bush basically says “suck it” to the Houston Texans for passing on him in the ’06 draft. Well, EA Sports has apologized for the ad. (The FanHouse)

Isaiah Thomas appears to be significantly more successful with women than he is as a basketball executive, but The Hater Nation isn't impressed.

One woman appears to be throwing herself at former ESPN gasbag, and current NFL Network gasbag Rich Eisen. (Page Six)

When I saw NASCAR fans throwing debris at Jeff Gordon last weekend, I thought to myself, they sell beer CANS at NASCAR races? I wasn't the only one who thought this. (Our book of Scrap)

This Jim Rome-Eric Wynalda (who?) feud is getting ugly. (Sports by Brooks, Awful Announcing)

This morning on Mike & Mike, Joe Theisman, ripped Brady Quinn for chewing gum. We guess he has to find new outlets for his special brand of dick-iness now that he was fired from his MNF gig, (the FanHouse)

First the Browns have the best draft in the NFL, then the Indians end the first month of the season in 1st place, now the Cavs sweep their way into the second round. Next, we expect to see four horsemen with flaming skulls for heads fly through the sky. (the Plain Dealer)

This has nothing to do with sports: We have never been big fans of “Fergie,” and to all of those that we have argued with about her hotness, we rest our case. (The Don and Mike Show website)