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DAILY RAYS OF SUNSHINE

May 20, 2008

GOOD LEBRON DEBATE .. ANTHONY V. BAYLESS

VECSEY JUMPS ON THE BASH LEBRON BANDWAGON, DOES HE HAVE A POINT?

You may disagree with Peter but it is refreshing to see him simply state his opinion and not make up stories as he did twice in a week, two weeks ago.

After years of being targeted by defensive gameplans you’d think LeBron (i.e. coach Mike Brown) would understand (insist) that by giving up the ball sooner on each possession (and continuing to move), the greater difficulty opponents have surrounding James when he gets it back in better scoring position.

 

WHY DOES HORSE RACING’S DUTROW GET A FREE PASS?

Big Brown’s trainer is the equivalent of Dave Bliss taking Cincinnati to the Final Four in 2011. How is this guy still working in the racing industry?

Dutrow’s ARCI rap sheet contains 72 entries, including fines and suspensions in Maryland, California, New York, Florida, Delaware and New Jersey.

Several of those are for his own personal conduct; many involve marijuana. Others include: an alleged attempt to pass forged checks in Maryland; an attempt to provide a false urine sample “by means of an apparatus concealed on his person”; and a failure to report on a New York license application a 1991 criminal conviction in Nevada.

And he’s been fined or suspended at least once every year since 2000 for doping issues. In 2000, a barn search in New York produced “an injectible vitamin which is forbidden.” In ’01, a horse had excessive Lasix — an anti-bleeding medication — in its system. In ’02, Dutrow “failed to follow Lasix procedures.” In ’03, a horse tested positive for Mepivacaine. From ’04 through an ’08 fine in Florida, there were citations regarding Lasix, Clenbuterol, Phenylbutazone and Oxyphenbutazone.

COME ON, YOU KNOW IT’S WRONG…TISK, TISK WEBSTER!!

PREAKNESS INFIELD LOOKS LIKE GOOD WHOLESOME, FAMILY FUN

COUGAR V. BRITNEY…COUGAR WINS AGAIN

The other day, we faced-off 39-year old Jennifer Aniston v. 26 y.o. Britney…no contest.

Here is 38-year old Mariah Carey and more Britney at the beach in Costa Rica.

HOOPS RECRUITING UPDATE

UNLV looked to have it’s pick of the litter a few weeks back with Kentucky’s Derrick Jasper and Pepperdine’s Malcolm Thomas looking at Vegas as a transfer destination. Things have gotten really quiet.

Thomas is apparently an academic mess. Reports are that UNLV is clearly behind UCLA and San Diego State in the race.

Jasper is now being courted by Minnesota (former KY coach Tubby Smith) and Cal along with the Rebels. There is also some buzz in Lexington that he may just stay at Kentucky. Stay tuned.

UNLV is also being mentioned in the race for another transfer. Curtis Kelly, a 6-foot-9 sophomore, is leaving UConn.

Jeff Goodman of FoxSports.com is reporting that Kelly is looked at K-State this weekend. He told Goodman that he’s also considering  UNLV, Kentucky, Xavier, Rhode Island, Virginia and Miami.

Kelly, ranked ahead of …Wayne Chism (Tenn), Taj Gibson (USC), Ryan Anderson (Cal)…was the 11th-rated PF in 2006 coming out of Rice (Manhattan). He chose UConn over L’Ville, Pitt and Syracuse. 

DAILY RAYS OF SUNSHINE

May 18, 2008

The Sports Pig has the weekend wrap-up

Chris Byrd got KO’d and had a real scare after the fight

Hollywood Babylon: It’s Back — the sickest book of all-time!!

Vegas is courting the world most famous “alleged” pedophile

Britney is “healthy” again…check out the pictures

 

 

I DON’T KNOW WHO LILLY ALLEN IS, BUT SHE SEEMS CLASSY

DAILY RAYS OF SUNSHINE

May 16, 2008

WHO WAS THE WORLD’S SEXIEST, FAT MAN?

Heidi Fleiss says it was Marlon Brando…

Marlon (Brando) was without doubt the sexiest, fattest man I ever slept with. I went to his house a week before I was jailed and had the most exhausting but satisfying eight hours of my life. We did it in every position imaginable.

“As soon as I walked in he stripped me and devoured me like an animal. For the next eight hours we did it in every room of the house and even in the shower.

“He was old then but Marlon knew exactly how to please a woman and despite his size had incredible stamina. He just kept going.

Marlon he could go for hours and loved sex every which way. He gave me 20 orgasms that night.”

From thesportspig.com….

Fleiss says she’s loves having sex with fat men because “they try harder.”

PATRIOTS’ BALLS GET BIGGER BY THE DAY

New England, the media and it’s fans are on the warpath. Apparently, the Boston Herald’s mistake about the Rams Super Bowl walkthrough has erased everything Bill Belicheat was penalized for by the NFL.

Owner Robert Kraft is now lashing out at ESPN.com, saying they need to up their journalistic standard. Isn’t an ethics lecture great coming from a guy who extended Belichick’s contract just days after Spygate began to explode back in September.  Jon Kraft fed by the homers at WEEI blasted ESPN (CLICK HERE FOR THE AUDIO).

SPORTSBOOKS ARE RUINED BY CORPORATE VEGAS

Jeff Haney of the Las Vegas Sun tells the story of the Stratosphere refusing to pay off a medium-sized bet because it was turned in six days “too late.”

Haney says his harsh words for local books has gained some attention at Gaming Control.

LIGHTEN UP DOLLY

Howard Stern - Dolly Parton Audio Book (NSFW)

Parton is irate with the “joke” audio played on Stern’s show…

I have never been so shocked, hurt and humiliated in all my life,” Parton said in a statement on Wednesday. “I cannot believe what Howard Stern has done to me. In a blue million years, I would never have such vulgar things come out of my mouth. They have done editing or some sort of trickery to make this horrible, horrible thing. Please accept my apology for them and certainly know I had nothing to do with this.”

She concluded: “If there was ever going to be a lawsuit, it’s going to be over this. Just wanted you to know that I am completely devastated by this.”

 WHY DIDN’T I WATCH THE HILLS?

That’s Audrina Patridge, who got internet infamy when her nude photos were unearthed (NSFW).

DAILY RAYS OF SUNSHINE

May 14, 2008

IS N.Y. ANCHOR FOUL-MOUTHED OR A DRUNK? BOTH!

WNBC legend Sue Simmons is a laughing-stock for her f-bomb during a Monday news tease. WATCH THE VIDEO HERE.

She must be a sweetheart as former co-workers are lining up to rip her to shreds.

Sue Simmons likes the sauce and she can be cranky about it,” a former WNBC employee told The Post. “She was sometimes a little tipsy [on the air] to the point where colleagues would take notice.”

Simmons anchors Channel 4′s 5 p.m. newscast, and then has time to pass until 11 p.m.

Those hours are regularly spent at Midtown watering holes like Gallagher’s steakhouse and Jean Georges, witnesses said.

“I wouldn’t say she gets sloshed – sloshed, that wouldn’t be the right word,” a Gallagher’s employee said, gesturing to the back booths where Simmons typically takes her between-show breaks.

“I would say she gets happy. She gets very happy.”

An employee at Jean Georges at Columbus Circle said Simmons isn’t shy about drinking with her meals – and then heading back to work.

“She’s been here and she’s had drinks with her dinner,” a Jean Georges employee said. “She’s had a cocktail or two, yes, between shows, with dinner.”

WAIT A SECOND…HOW ARE THE PATRIOTS THE GOOD GUYS NOW?

So Matt Walsh didn’t have video of the Super Bowl walkthrough by the Rams. The Boston Herald got it wrong. There’s a huge apology in the paper…

On Feb. 2, 2008, the Boston Herald reported that a member of the New England Patriots’ video staff taped the St. Louis Rams’ walkthrough on the day before Super Bowl XXXVI. While the Boston Herald based its Feb. 2, 2008, report on sources that it believed to be credible, we now know that this report was false, and that no tape of the walkthrough ever existed.

Prior to the publication of its Feb. 2, 2008, article, the Boston Herald neither possessed nor viewed a tape of the Rams’ walkthrough before Super Bowl XXXVI, nor did we speak to anyone who had. We should not have published the allegation in the absence of firmer verification.

The Boston Herald regrets the damage done to the team by publication of the allegation, and sincerely apologizes to its readers and to the New England Patriots’ owners, players, employees and fans for our error

Now Bob Kraft is threatening a lawsuit. If we want to go down this road how about…

1. Fans in various cities suing New England and the NFL for fraud

2. Athletes can sue the Pats & NFL because of lost wages due to “poor play.”  Afterall, there had to be a few guys sent packing or who got less dollars on their next contract due to the fact that the Pats through cheating knew how to attack their D.

Bottomline, the Patriots did cheat.

So what if Walsh didn’t have a video? He claims he did watch the Rams walkthrough and report the info to Bill Belichick.

Former players/ESPN analysts who saw the videos for the first time yesterday were blown away. They stated it would’ve have a huge impact on an offense attacking the defense. Plus you had Rick Telander (Chicago Sun Times) and Terence Moore (Atlanta Journal Constitution) saying the Patriots SB victories are even more sullied after viewing these tapes.

So cut the crap with the righteous indignation from someone, completely and totally in the wrong!!

GREATEST SPORT ON EARTH GETS A VIDEO GAME!!!!

Created by Mastiff Games, Major League Eating: The Game allows you to play as all your favorite stars of the shoving-food-down-your-throat-leagues, such as Joey Chestnut, Takeru Kobayashi, Patrick Bertoletti, Tim “Eater X” Janus, “Crazy Legs” Conti, Sonya Thomas and Juliet Lee.

Puking, although beautifully graphic and vibrantly colored, signals your premature departure from the game. This Wii game also contains offensive and defensive strategy through the use of belches and ‘mustard gas’ to slow down your opponent.

It looks a lot like an old school Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat game, I guess the only difference is instead of trying to kill your opponent, you’re trying to kill yourself through unhealthy eating habits and an increased likelihood of obesity.

For a great MLE quote you must talk to a Shea..

“If you want to be a rock star, there’s ‘Guitar Hero’ and you want to be an Italian plumber, there’s ‘Super Mario Brothers,’” said MLE president Rich Shea. “But if you want to be a pro athlete, there’s ‘MLE: The Game.”

“Eater X” Tim Janus loves the game…

 Janus, who went out to San Francisco a couple months ago to promote his appearance in the game at a Nintendo conference. Janus played the game after setting a new record for sushi (he ate an amazing 141 pieces in six minutes).

“The game is good,” said Janus, who while not eating is actually a trader. “You can chose how you want to flip the food into your mouth, but you have to monitor how you chew, how many pieces you can fit in your mouth and how full your stomach is.”

WHO GIVES A SH*T, WHAT WEST VIRGINIA VOTES FOR?

What a media driven sham!

I don’t care who gets the nomination, but when has the national media ever given a rat’s ass about what West Virginia thinks?

Plus didn’t West Virgnia withdraw from the process when it decided to revolt against a DJ, who pulled an on-air stunt?

A Charleston radio personality was suspended from his job for refusing to tone down his on-air excitement over former WVU head football coach Rich Rodriguez’s decision to take the head job at the University of Michigan.

Coach Kidd, a Michigan native, co-hosts the morning talk show on Electric 102.7 FM. For the past couple days, he’s dominated the show’s content with his feelings on how Rodriguez’s job change will be a boon to the Wolverines football program — much to the dismay of listeners.

After playing the Wolverines’ fight song for a fourth time this morning, Coach Kidd was yanked off the air.

GOD DAMN KIDS THESE DAYS…WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF THIS??

A 13-year-old from Texas who stole his Dad’s credit card and ordered two hookers from an escort agency, has today been convicted of fraud and given a three year community order.

Ralph Hardy, a 13-year-old from Newark, Texas confessed to ordering an extra credit card from his father’s existing credit card company, and took his friends on a $30,000 spending spree, culminating in playing “Halo” on an Xbox with a couple of hookers in a Texas motel.

The escort girls who were released without charge, told the arresting officers something was up when the kids said they would rather play Xbox than get down to business.

Police said they were alerted to the motel by a concerned delivery clerk, whom after delivering supplies of Dr Pepper, Fritos and Oreos had been asked by the kids where they could score some chicks and were willing to pay. They explained they had just made a big score at a “World of Warcraft” tournament and wanted to get some relaxation. On noting the boys age the delivery clerk informed the authorities.

DAILY RAYS OF SUNSHINE

May 13, 2008

NIAGARA WOMEN’S HOOPS RULES!!!

Talk about Candace Parker all you want as the newest “sex symbol” in WNBA.

Screw that I’ll take Niagara flunky Danie Mosca.

She’s handy with a razor!!

PHOTOS 1000% NOT SAFE FOR WORK (must sign in to see completely uncensored. I advise doing so without hesitation)

Thanks to DonChavez.com

BILL O’REILLY TOPS CHRIS BERMAN VIDEO?

NEVER SAW THIS COMING..Bill O’Reilly vs Geraldo Rivera

UCLA LOOKS LIKE NEW HOME FOR BIG MAN

USC MAY LOSE TOP RECRUIT BECAUSE OF MAYO NONSENSE

 

THIS MAN CLEARLY HAS A DEATH WISH

Who has the balls to fight Suge Knight? Better yet, who is dumb enough to let TMZ post his pictures? 

Nice right hand buddy, now you have to look over your shoulder for the rest of your life.  

DAILY RAYS OF SUNSHINE

May 12, 2008

TUBBO PUTS HIS FAT FOOT IN HIS MOUTH

Andruw Jones committed the cardinal sin when it comes to pro athletes. He ripped the fans in Los Angeles.

Read The Sports Pig’s account of T.J. Simers v. Jones and how “tubbo” put a nail in his own coffin.

DAN LE BATARD SHOCKS THE SPORTS WORLD!!!

Miami Herald columnist did something in his final story that I thought I’d never see in the history of the media.

LeBatard is taking a sabbatical and actually admits his work was sub-standard.

I’ve always been driven nuts by the hypocrisy in the sports media.

For example….writers will kill someone like Shaq for rapping and acting in addition to his NBA career. The thought is that the athlete is spreading himself too thin to be 100% effective at his craft. Yet there are a load of sportswriters who have added radio and television shows to their job responsibilities. There’s rarely a word that their job performance will be substandard because they’re spread too thin. Unless they get fired for that reason like Stephen A. Smith was by ESPN1050 and the Philly Daily News.  

LeBatard actually admitted on Sunday that he’s not doing good work for the Herald…

Besides, I’m doing you, the reader, a disservice when I go to write from an NFL Draft that could not possibly bore me more at this point in my life. And I don’t deserve to be paid for a diluted version of a column that I value too much to cheapen with a lack of passion. My column has lacked life for a while now because I’m stretched too thin with other obligations.

I wonder if Peter Vecsey is spread too thin? Or is he just lazy and incompetent? Last week, he got nabbed twice making up stories in the N.Y. Post.

DUMBEST COMMERCIAL EVER

Why would the WNBA compare itself to men’s rec leagues? How does insulting 35-year old men drive them to the TV to watch women’s pro ball? 

OJ MAYO SCANDAL…WRITERS CALLED IT YEARS AGO

CBSSports.com’s Gregg Doyel warned USC….Burned by Bush, USC should be wary of Mayo 

Yahoo’s Dan Wetzel blames NCAA president Miles Brand

Good example of the problem with college hoops recruitng. Yahoo’s story on the Pump Brothers

IS JENNIFER ANISTON REALLY A COUGAR?

I think it’s too early to call Aniston a cougar. She is hanging with 30-year old John Mayer but the 39-year old is far from being in the cougar category. This from the Everything2.com….

A woman over the age of 35 who is single or divorced (the more times, the better) who seeks out younger males for sex. Cougars can be tacky women with big hair and loud mouths or they can be graceful and eloquent. Either way, their attraction to younger men is always apparent in their social habits and body language.

Calling Aniston a cougar suggests that young men like her for her money and that’s she’s on her last legs looks-wise. I don’t think that’s the case with Jen. Do you?

Check out the rest of the Aniston-Mayer pictures.

BRITS ARE OUT-BOOBING US

The U.S. has clearly fallen in status in terms of international competition. Our basketball and baseball teams are middle of the pack now after years of dominance. That said, we could always hang our hats on our success in the Battle of the Breasts. Pam Anderson, Dolly Parton, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jane Russell, Jayne Mansfield, Anna Nicole Smith, Scarlett Johannson, Jenna Jameson, Kim Kardashian, Mariah Carey, Tara Reid, etc. teamed up to secure American domination. 

The Brits have stepped up with two competitors who are turning the BOTB world on its ears. We’ve already chronicled the Keeley Hazell (NSFW) explosion. She’s got some BIG competition coming from a fellow Brit, Gemma Atkinson. Wow!!

 

DAILY RAYS OF SUNSHINE

May 9, 2008

WE DEMAND THAT CLEVELANDERS ARE OUT OF THE ELECTION PROCESS!!!!

The state of Ohio has ruined at least one election with it’s buffoonery. Now comes word that its qualified voters are dumb enough to wait in line for three hours to save $12 on a pizza (WATCH NEWS VIDEO HERE).

We’re certainly a bit surprised about how darn popular this is,” said Tim North, vice president of Papa John’s Northeast region.

The company announced its apology deal Sunday in response to six shirts that a Washington, D.C., franchisee made. They referred to James’ complaints about hard fouls and Wizards center Brendan Haywood’s response in labeling him a crybaby.

They also highlighted James’ No. 23.

Hence, the 23-cent deal.

“You can’t beat the price,” said Blanche Price, a Euclid senior who arrived at the University Heights store at 9 a.m., armed with a lawn chair.

By 10 a.m., when unruffled, flour-dusted employees flipped on the “Now Baking” neon light and opened the doors, hundreds of pizza-hungry people — including a woman with a walker — had swarmed the parking lot. Inside, cardboard boxes covered every surface, and thin circles of dough towered on metal racks.

Pizza insanity reigned at each of the chain’s 41 Northeast Ohio franchises.

There were 600 people in line in Euclid, said police, who arrested one customer for public intoxication and another for resisting after he got out of the line and got back in, and they also cited a woman for disorderly conduct – all before the customers got their pies.

PINK AND PIVEN, REALLY?

Another odd pairing may have surfaced in Tinsel Town this week. This from the N.Y. Post’s Page Six…..

Jeremy Piven and Hollywood punk Pink were spotted at Green Door in LA Tuesday night getting hot and heavy on the dance floor. Piven hit the club after leaving a party for Victoria’s Secret fragrance Heavenly Kiss at Beso. Pink split from her husband, Motocross racer Carey Hart, in February. “Pink and Jer emy were all over each other and dancing really close,” said a witness. A rep for Pink con firmed she was at the Green Door, but said, “She was not with Jeremy Piven, dancing or otherwise.” Piven’s rep said, “He was there but didn’t hang out with Pink. Jeremy says she is a friend, a good woman.”

DON’T GET LOADED AT A BREWERS GAME

TWO SIDES STILL EMERGING AROUND BENSON DUI ARREST 

We told you on Monday how the “responsible” writers at the Chicago Tribune already had Benson convicted. Each day this week, another nugget came out about the ordeal down on Lake Travis.

This story has witnesses saying the police treatment of Benson was overkill.

“It was uncalled for, it was ludicrous, no point for it,” said Toby Patch.

Patch said what he saw at the Emerald Point Marina Saturday makes him distrust law enforcement. 

“It seemed to me they were manhandling him a little bit,” Patch said. “As they were taking him up the dock, they stopped, he said, ‘I am fine, I can continue walking,’ and they put their legs behind his knees and knocked him over his knees and started hog-carrying him.”

Then he said when the officers got Benson to the parking area, things really got out of hand.

“They ended up — I don’t know why — but laid him on his back, I heard him say, ‘Please don’t pepper spray me, please don’t pepper spray me,’” Patch said.

It seems like the police are getting nervous. Is the department grasping at straws or just trying to embarass Benson? This useless video of Benson being walked into the station has surfaced.

BARKLEY GETS RON BURGUNDY’D

EVA MENDES NOT AS HOT AS WE THOUGHT?

Sometimes hot chicks are better left with their clothes on. That’s right!!! Call me crazy!!!

Don’t get me wrong Mendes is awesone. But be honest, isn’t the bod a little disappointing?

Here’s an NSFW artsy pictorial done for an Italian mag.

HOW ABOUT A LITTLE OIL WRESTLING?

When I tell you guys to show up for an event, you’d better show up!!!

Ha-Ha.

Adam’s Ribs on Maryland between Flamingo & Tropicana (old Moose McGillicuddy’s) had a fund raising oil wrestling soire on Thursday.

The Vegas Slots, a female rugby team, fought their asses off. CLICK ON THE PHOTO FOR 50+ SHOTS OF THE ACTION 

CHICKS AND WIENERS!!!

You know that I love the Hot Dog eating contests!! Until last year Kobayashi was without debate, the greatest athlete in the history of the world. Then out of nowhere emerged Ali’s, Frazier.

Joey Chestnut took down Kobayashi at the 2007 national championship. Ali – Frazier II is right around the corner on the 4th of July at Coney Island.

There was a local qualifier contest at New York New York on Thursday. Cofield & Cokin were out there for 4+ hours. What a great time. Rich LeFevre blew away the field with 32 dogs in 10 minutes.

CLICK ON THE PHOTO FOR ALL THE GREAT SHOTS.

DAILY RAYS OF SUNSHINE

May 7, 2008

SHOOT ME NOW

Now the White Sox are in the crosshairs. Chicago players brought blow-up dolls into the clubhouse as a some sort of ritual to snap a losing streak. 

The slumpbuster offended some and Ozzie Guillen was actually asked to address the situation.

Association for Women in Sports Media is outraged….

The presence of those dolls creates an uncomfortable situation for any female journalist who enters the White Sox locker room simply trying to do her job,” said Jenni Carlson, the group’s president, in an e-mail.

OBJECTIVE MEDIA TAKE OF THE DAY: SUZYN WALDMAN THINKS CLEMENS IS BEING TREATED UNFAIRLY

Gotta love Suzyn, she just doesn’t know when to stop. She says that all of her experiences with Clemens have been positive so she doesn’t believe the stories of the last six months.

WHO HATES STEPHEN A & SKIP MORE, EACH OTHER OR THE AUDIENCE?

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GENIUS FRANCESA, SAYS RADIO CONTROLLED BY THE GOVERNMENT AND BLOGS SHOULD BE THE SAME WAY

Watch the clip as WFAN’s “star” says all blogs are vile and need to be controlled.

  

SAD NEWS, WORLD’S CREEPIEST SHOW ABOUT TO GO OFF THE AIR

The Sports Pig found this item. The modern day Dr. Ruth, Sue Johanson, is going bye-bye.

The entry features an absolute laugh-out-loud photo at the bottom!!!

DAILY RAYS OF SUNSHINE

May 2, 2008

WHY DWYANE? WORLD IS TURNED UPSIDE DOWN BY WADE’S APPEARANCE ON TNT

Dwyane Wade and Star Jones Are What?????

DID INDIANA TRANSFER WANT TO BEAT TOM CREAN’S ASS?

Crean had to call local police when 6-foot-9 Eli Holman got angry after announcing his intent to transfer.

ESPN WRITER CALLS KIMBO SLICE A SLAVE

LZ Granderson can sure get people worked up. Granderson was a loud voice during the John Ameachi, “coming out of the closet” saga. Now he’s disturbed by the image he feels is being put forth by MMA star Slice.

I don’t know if he’s necessarily stupid, because I’ve never met the man, but he certainly seems to be misguided. Why else would Slice disregard all sense of honor, pride and history to project an image that can best be described as a cross between Lil’ Wayne and Kunta Kinte — a runaway slave with a mouth full of gold teeth playing up every single stereotype of an African-American male in exchange for short-lived adoration from a soulless media with ADD.

In a recent photo shoot with ESPN The Magazine, a shirtless Slice makes a variety of menacing/coonish facial expressions that are uncomfortably close to those of a caged animal, which he is routinely referred to online. Fortunately, the Mag opted not to run most of the shots, but there are still various clips on the Internet that refer to Slice being from the wild jungle, including photos of a gorilla instead of his headshot. And the YouTube clip mentioned earlier is pretty close to a lynch mob environment. All of which he seems to be playing up as part of his act.

ARIZONA STATE NOW CHANGING ITS TUNE ON CHEERLEADERS

What a crazy coincidence…pictures pop up on the net with some ASU cheerleaders in underwear, then two days later the squad is being “reassigned.” But ASU officials say its just an odd coincidence…

There are reports the pictured women have caused Arizona State to cut cheerleading from its athletic program.

Absolutely not so, school offcials say.

All that’s happening, school officials say, is that overseeing the squad is being assigned to the director of the marching band, in an effort to better coordinate all sideline activities on game days.

“We just can’t emphasize enough that those two things are unrelated,” ASU sports information director Mark Brand told Game On! today.

Initially, ASU officials said the photos all were of former ASU cheerleaders.  But Steve Hank, the school’s associate athletic director for marketing and revenue generation, said he has since learned two of the six women pictured are current cheerleaders.

No punitive action is being pursued, the school officials said.

The Internet chatter about ASU’s cheerleaders picked up momentum last night when Phoenix’ FOX affiliate reported ASU’s athletic department would eliminate cheerleading because of the photos.

Brand and Hank said the timing of the photos appearing on the Internet and reassigning oversight of the cheerleaders was “a total coincidence.”

JASON WHITLOCK CHIMES IN ON COSTASNOW BLOG/SPORTSRADIO PIECES

This is a funny column by Whitlock on FoxSports.com. Here are some of the best lines….

  • I used to be a more regular reader of deadspin until the site published a post suggesting that a prominent sportscaster was spotted at a Super Bowl party texting a woman late at night for a hookup. Allegedly one of Leitch’s correspondents looked over the married sportscaster’s shoulder and read the text message.
  • Bloggers might be inspired by their loathing of traditional media, but they are not the cause of our growing irrelevance. We did that with our refusal to adapt to new technology, our clutching of political correctness and the transparency of our agenda-driven “objective journalism.”
  • The segment on sports-talk radio was superior. Costas had a perfect storm of panelists for that segment. In Michael Strahan, Mitch Albom and Chris “Mad Dog” Russo, the show had a world-class athlete, a world-class writer and a world-class @$$. That trio overshadowed the fact that HBO producers put together a taped setup piece that featured the original sports blogger, afraid-of-the-locker-room coward Jay Mariotti as the voice of reason preaching to talk-radio hosts about ethics. Next week I’ll be hosting a show blasting Oprah for putting on weight.

DAILY RAYS OF SUNSHINE

April 29, 2008

MINDY CONFIRMS CLEMENS WAS HER ROCKET MAN

The N.Y. Daily News continues to pound away at the Clemens story….McCready confirmed the relationship from her Nashville home last night.

McCready says this about the former Boston pitcher…

“I cannot refute anything in the story,” a tearful but resolute McCready told the Daily News, which broke the story at midnight Sunday.

The News reported that the two met in a Florida karaoke bar when McCready was a 15-year-old aspiring singer and Clemens was a 28-year-old ace for the Red Sox and a married father of two.

“Yes, I have known Roger Clemens for a long time,” McCready said, reading from a prepared statement. “He’s a kind and caring man. He’s also a legendary athlete. The central topic in the debate, however, regards his professional life, not his personal life.

“There are legal matters working their way through the system that have nothing to do with me. From my point of view, that is where the focus should remain.”

After the teenage McCready met Clemens at a Fort Myers bar called The Hired Hand, she returned with the Rocket to his hotel room, but there was no sex that night, sources told The News.

It wasn’t until later, after McCready had moved to Nashville and become a country singing star, that the relationship turned intimate.

N.Y. WRITER SAYS CLEMENS IS BAD, BUT HE’S NO MILEY CYRUS

Wally Matthews is the ultimate knee jerk reaction guy. Whatever sells papers in New York is right up Wally’s alley. And if he can go against the grain to get people worked up, he’ll do it.

Somehow Matthews has found a way to defend the Rocket while bashing Cyrus and even worse McCready

I’m going to have a much tougher time explaining that one to my 7-year-old daughter, who worships at the altar of Hannah Montana

After all, if McCready is the one who leaked this story, how different is she, really, from Clemens?

The same way Clemens (allegedly) turned to steroids and HGH to restart a dead career, McCready might now be turning to Clemens for precisely the same reason.

When does it end for Matthews? It’s good to see that he’s back solely in print where there is little accountability. He was an absolute flop in radio on ESPN 1050 in NYC. His nonsensical ramblings were shredded by New York sports fans on the phones. Matthews also got daily ass whipping from Jim Rome when they did The Last Word on FoxSportsNet in 1998-99

HANNAH MONTANA LATEST CHILD TO BE USED BY GREEDY ADULTS

This Miley Cyrus photo scandal comes as no shocker. And it’s not like adults haven’t taken advantage of a child to make a buck in the past. Check 13-year old Brooke Shields in the 1978 movie, Pretty Baby.

I also had a weird vibe as many did back in early April when watching American Idol.

On 4/10 I went on the air and said I felt like a dirty old man after watching Hannah Montana on Idol. She was acting way too seductive for a 15 y.o. and the outfit she had on was ridiculous. Watch the performance below.

Miley Cyrus – See You Again – American Idol

Sports Pig had a great entry yesterday about Vanity Fair and photographer Annie Leibovitz.

VECSEY MAKES UP STORY AND THEN GLOSSES OVER APOLOGY

Again, another “tenured” sportswriter who opines with no accountability. NBA “insider” Pete Vecsey is one of the most combative and hostile writers in the country. He was recently nabbed as a guy who is making up his nuggets.

He tried to embarass Raptor coach Sam Mitchell with this gem on Sunday….

 A few months ago, before the Raptors were to play the Lakers, he addressed the team by telling them, “We’ll worry about the guy who got 81 in a second, but first I want to talk about Andrew Bynum and how he killed us last time.” A hush engulfed the locker room. “Hey, coach,” Chris Bosh interrupted. “Bynum’s been out for weeks with an injury.”  

Vecsey admitted he made up the Mitchell anecdote with this “apology…”

ONLY one thing is worse than getting something dead wrong, and that’s not correcting the mistake immediately. A story in Sunday’s column regarding the readiness of the Raptors for a Laker game portrayed Toronto coach Sam Mitchell as being unrehearsed and unaware Andrew Bynum was hurt.

After speaking at length to the aggrieved coach and broadening my investigation, I’m convinced I turned in an improperly researched project.

I’m trying to regain some misplaced credibility by making amends.

This may be my second favorite Vecsey story. He lost his cool in print over the Ernie Grunfeld firing during the 1998-99 season. Grunfeld was a Vecsey guy, while N.Y. Times writer Mike Wise was tight with coach Jeff Van Gundy. JVG won the power struggle to which Vecsey responded in the N.Y. Post by writing, “Wise and Van Gundy will get theirs.”

Check that, the best Vecsey story of all time was his fight in a Seattle-area Toys-R Us.  

Some couple was walking past him, and the wife thought she recognized Peter Vecsey, and the husband said no, and “besides, he’s an idiot.”brought to light by Bench Ronaldo:

It was Vecsey. Someone who Vecsey was with took exception to the comment, shoved the husband into a display rack–then both Vecsey and the companion took turns hitting the hubby in the face. Or so the alleged victims said at the time.

This apparently spooked Vecsey so much he’s avoided Seattle ever since. As he said in a recent New York Post column,

“I got into a skirmish in a Seattle toy store in 1996 and I never went back – to that toy store or that city.”

 THE BEST BRITISH IMPORT SINCE THE BEATLES

For those of you who are attracted to photos of grown women (exclude Clemens and Vanity Fair readers), Keeley Hazell’s upcoming appearance in British FHM — photo NSFW has sent American internet viewers into a tizzy.

The 21 y.o. Hazell is very talented with a “developing” singing career. Most importantly she sports 32 D 32 E bombs (shortchanged her) and likes to show them off Pic 1 NSFW and Pic 2 NSFW. In the video shoot also makes multiple references to the fact that there is no silicone in her body.

Keeley Hazell singing ‘Voyeur’

Keeley video shoot (1000% NSFW) enjoy

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