Beijing Olympics: Trap

The Onion's, "In The Know" video series is quickly becoming one of my favorite video series... here's their latest offering, The Beijing Olympics: Are They A Trap?

2008 Olympic Opening Ceremonies Video Leak

The 2008 Olympics will be starting up soon and I am mostly indifferent about the Olympics... I do enjoy watching the 'real' sports - basketball, tennis, water polo, cycling, track and field events, etc... but of course their are the non-athletic competitions that oftentimes get the most coverage (ie: gymnastics and any other sport involving judging) or are just heavily promoted and a person just gets tired of hearing about it...

2 of my most hated parts of the Olympics are the opening and closing ceremonies which are just mega-glorified Super Bowl halftime shows ... and really the reason I probably hate them the most is because each and every Summer Olympics the ceremonies are brought up constantly, whether good or bad, as if that is the defining moment of the entire Olympics....

As luck would have it, a video has been leaked showing what the 2008 opening ceremonies have in store and I can see I won't be missing much this year by not watching them...and no, I have no idea what the people are saying...

Huge Surprise: Favre Not Retiring

A surprise to no one... Brett Favre is going to report to Packers training camp and it sounds like the Jets and Buccaneers are interested in trading for Favre. Oh am I hoping he sucks total ass because I am so sick and tired of Brett Favre I want him to be hated on as much as possible, whenever possible.

Charger Camp Opens

Time to get back into NFL mode...

The Charger preseason training camp opened yesterday and, like most of the time, the Chargers first round pick, Antoine Cason, is not signed and will not make the start of training camp, but that is a typical Charger tradition to not have their first round pick signed for training camp.

Antonio Gates worked out yesterday as well, testing his big toe that he injured during the playoffs last year...he said it is sore, but tolerable - unclear as to whether or not he will be able to play in the opener against Carolina, but this guy played 2 playoff games with a busted toe, so I'm thinking he is a 'tough guy' and will be playing when the season kicks off barring any setbacks.

New iPhone 3G

Here's a great new commercial for the new iPhone 3G... the new iPhone incorporates so many great features that are helpful to the impoverished...because that's what you will be if you continue to buy iPhones!

More Roids For Clemens

Not that anyone really needs too much more proof that Roger Clemens was a roid user while he played professional baseball, convicted steroids dealer Kirk Radomnski found 2 shipping slips that he said were from packages of steroids he shipped to Clemens' home. Of course Rog will simply say they were for his wife, but I didn't believe that his wife is the steroid user in the house so I won't believe this lie either...

Favre: Attention Whore Part II

Why am I the only one on the planet that thinks Brett Favre is just an attention seeking whore? It was just last year that I noted how every offseason is just a Brett Favre soap-opera. 2 years of the "Am I going to retire?" game, last year was the Randy Moss/hold-out pout drama and apparently Brett didn't like the way that played... so this year he is really ratcheting it up...texting the GM of the Packers...the Packers GM brushes Brett off, because I am sure he has just got to be about the most fed up with Brett's little games, and then all of a sudden a television station finds out that Brett Favre text message the GM of the Packers and was brushed off...gee, how would a television station find something like that out? Oh, I don't know... maybe because Brett Favre probably told them! I mean Jesus Christ this guy is a complete freakin' media whore... if he doesn't see a highlight of him playing on ESPN every night he has to make a phone call to get them right back talking about him... and of course since most Packer fans are blindly loyal to their god Brett, he is infalliable, they don't see that his yearly song and dance show is so transparently a cry for attention they are more than happen to engage in the story and prop Favre up anyway they can. Of course, I have ran into a few, very few, other Packer fans that are tired of Favre's little games...so I know my sentiment isn't exclusive to myself, but at the same time, I have yet to hear of any national sports talker that has really tasked Favre's yearly drama he likes to put on...

What is he going to do next year after he plays for the Packers this year? I think retire say you are going to become a professional bullrider, unretire because the competitiveness is such an intoxicating personal drive but then retire before training camp and then unretire for the final preseason game and come running out of the tunnel just after the halftime because he was 4 hours away not expecting to play but a Packer friend called him from the bus on the way to the stadium and it was just an overwhelming, almost epiphonic rush that told him, Brett, you need to get to that game and help your team this season and the roars we would hear from the crowd would echo to the moon...oh, the made for television movie will be such a tear-jerker when you add that in with all the other Favre moments that will envoke tears from anyone without any embellshment needed...excuse me while I supress my own vomit....

Foley Settles, Case Over

And just like that the Steve Foley case is over with a settlement. It's probably pretty clear that the police officer was in the wrong and the city and his attorneys probably wanted to settle for the least amount of money that they could get away with, but I would guess that several million dollars will be paid to Foley with this victory.

Branded Ball Ends Up At The HOF

How quickly things change...less than 24 hours ago the MLB Hall of Fame stated that it was not getting Barry Bonds' steroid-powered 756th homerun ball and now this morning the ball is in Cooperstown...

The best part...if Barry Bonds is a man of his word...which being a liar and a cheater I doubt that he is...has stated that he will boycott the HOF if the ball was displayed with the branded asterisk, which it will be...so we got that to hope for...

Record HR Ball Not Going To The HOF

Marc Ecko, purchased Barry Bonds' 756th homerun ball and held a contest asking the public what he should do with the ball. The results from the poll had the ball being branded and sent to the Hall Of Fame. But now the MLB Hall Of Fame has stated, "The owner’s previous commitment to unconditionally donate the baseball has changed to a loan. As a result, the Hall of Fame will not be able to accept the baseball." Not sure why Ecko would go back on his committment to unconditionally donate the baseball, especially if it is donated with the branded asterisk... I think everyone in the future will know fully well how tainted that record is.