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Sox reach deal for CF Crisp Team also ready to sign shortstop Gonzalez, while giving up Marte, Mota.
posted by dyams at 07:44 AM on January 23
How far can taunting go before it's too far? Former NHLer Theo Fleury, a recovering alcoholic and drug abuser, was tossed from a British Elite Ice Hockey League game this week after trying to get at hecklers in the crowd. Most of the taunts centered on his checkered past, which begs the question -- what's fair game for fans and what's off-limits?
posted by wfrazerjr at 11:08 AM on January 11
I hate that kind of personal taunting. It's pointlessly nasty and it can ruin the actual game happening for other people there. I saw an ESPN special on Albert Belle that recounted how a bunch of racist jerks followed him around in his college playing days and shouted slurs at him. It gave me a context for his ridiculous temper, though it doesn't excuse it, of course. Later fans taunted him because of his alcoholism. That, to me, is pure assholery.
posted at 12:26 PM on January 11
NHL’s Fedorov Won’t Play for Russia at Turin Olympics Hockey player Sergei Fedorov said he will not play for Russia at the Turin Olympics. Fedorov, a forward for the Columbus Blue Jackets and six-time NHL All-Star, was quoted by AP as saying he needed time to recuperate from a nagging injury and to adapt to his new team. He joined the Jackets in a Nov. 16 trade with Anaheim.
posted by jennifer at 03:10 AM on December 14
Interesting. The NHL is taking a break during the Olympics, right? How long will it be? I was just reading in the Columbus paper today that Fedorov has been a huge help to the the Jackets' young Russian player Nikolai Zherdev. Fedorov said that he translates the coaches' instructions for Zherdev.
posted at 09:06 AM on December 14
Hal Lebovitz passes away A Cleveland sportswriter for over 60 years.
posted by roycedawg at 10:10 AM on October 18
What'd Jew say? The Washington Nationals have suspended their chapel leader after he nodded in the affirmative when asked whether Jews were doomed. No information was given about on his feelings about the Nationals being doomed.
posted by wfrazerjr at 09:01 PM on September 21
I've never heard of this Baseball Chapel thing. I hate the idea of proselytizing in my sport. Yuck. Bad mix. I grew up Catholic, and my mother always told me that people picked on Jews because they were jealous of them, as they were the chosen people. I mentioned this to my Jewish friend and her response was this: "Sometimes we wish He'd chosen someone else." Though I've blocked out most of the Catholic doctrine I learned as a kid, I'm pretty sure we didn't spend much time talking about which non-Catholics were going to hell. We were more concerned about our own stays in purgatory and such.
posted at 09:31 AM on September 21
Laveranues Coles Shares a Secret The New York Jets wide receiver recently admitted something he's been hiding for years: He was molested from age 10 to 13 by his stepfather. "It just kind of destroyed my relationships, with allowing new people into my life," he said. "As a man, when you're violated in that way, you don't know how other people are going to take it, how other people are going to view you."
posted by rcade at 12:20 PM on September 20
Good for him. I hope it helps him heal. It really is brave for him to talk about it, given the hyper-masculine context in which he works. It's also a reminder to those who think of molesters as the creepy guys lurking in playgrounds that molesters are usually family members or someone the child knows. Thanks for sharing your story, T, and good luck to you. I have a similar story but many, many hard feelings.
posted at 10:08 AM on September 20
Skip Bayless denounces Stoops's punishment of Peterson Skip Bayless's recent article on ESPN.com attacks Bob Stoops's choice to discipline Peterson for skipping class. The article is clear that academics are second to football and one should not effect the other.
posted by mcstan13 at 08:37 AM on September 16
Great honk, he is an awful writer. I didn't expect to be more annoyed by his writing than his TV appearances, since the TV stuff includes seeing his adam's apple and hearing his Shouty McYellerson rants, but I am. This could have been written by anyone. The piece goes off the rails when he mentions Vanderbilt. I had to read those swollen paragraphs a few times to get his point, and I'm bitter that those two minutes of my life are gone. And he's smugly comfortable shrugging off the "bad behavior" of OU players. What a giant ass. I think that until college players are straight-up paid, schools should at least try to emphasize academics, so good on you, Stoops.
posted at 09:13 AM on September 16
Perspective just doesn't mix with Columbus, where an Ohio State TE gets hate mail for a missed touchdown catch during the team's 25-22 loss to Texas.
posted by jackhererra at 06:47 PM on September 15
I'm not surprised, though I am embarrassed as a Columbus resident. There was a story in the paper yesterday about the giant mess the fans left after the Texas game - it included "five soiled pairs of underwear". The OSU president had to apologize to angry Texas fans who complained about their treatment at the game. She told them that OSU was trying to change the culture that caused such things. I don't want to be part of any culture that includes soiled underwear and death threats. That said, people who act like that are in the minority and are just using their fandom as an excuse to engage in toddler behavior. The fans I watched the game with were upset, but they didn't threaten to kill anyone.
posted at 08:51 AM on September 15
Clijsters wins U.S. Open for first Grand Slam Belgian routs Pierce 6-3, 6-1 to capture U.S. Open. So where did the Russians go?
posted by justgary at 10:02 PM on September 12
Hey, can someone who knows about tennis politics explain the Mary Pierce controversy to me? I was watching her match with Dementieva, and Mary Carillo was apoplectic about Pierce's gamesmanship and was grumbling about the women's game today and how Chris and Martina didn't play like this, etc. From what I can tell, Pierce took as many injury and bathroom timeouts as she could, and Carillo seemed to think that they were unnecessary.
posted at 10:16 AM on September 12
Clarett will be released by Broncos Does anyone else see Maurice Clarett turning into a Lawrence Phillips down the road?
posted by dbt302 at 12:45 PM on August 30
jojomfd1: Yeah, I understand why people were resentful of him and angry about the damage he did to the team. I just thought the reaction was extreme. I also didn't like the way OSU QB Steve Bellisari was wailed on by fans after his DUI a few years ago. This is why I'm only a casual college sports fan - I find it hard to overreact to the bad actions of unpaid kids as I do to those of well-paid adults.
posted at 04:11 PM on August 30
Clarett will be released by Broncos Does anyone else see Maurice Clarett turning into a Lawrence Phillips down the road?
posted by dbt302 at 12:45 PM on August 30
I wanted Clarett to succeed in some fashion, in part because I live in Columbus and the Buckeye Nation is exhausting me. The over-the-top bashing he took from the fans was unreal. You'd have thought that he was a serial rapist or murderer rather than an immature jerk with an inflated sense of his own worth who wanted to make some money. The local sports talk shows are full of schadenfreude since he was cut.
posted at 10:57 AM on August 30
Bradley accuses Jeff Kent of Racism Milton Bradley, a malcontent, again had a problem with a teammate. He said that Jeff Kent doesn't know how to deal with African American players. Bradley might just be spewing after Kent called him out after he failed to score from 1st on a double. I think that Milton Bradley should be dumped, he han't played up to his potential and he is a heinous teammate. What do you think?
posted by redsoxthrowdown at 10:07 PM on August 24
As a Tribe fan, I'm glad Milton's gone from my team, because he did engage in assholery regularly. I think you're right about the name being a problem for him, yerfatma. Had he embraced it as the fabulous Coco Crisp did, things may have worked out differently for him. I did feel a bit sorry for him last year when he was blasted for throwing that bottle in the direction of the asshole fan. That incident was nothing compared to the horrible chair-throwing mess, yet Bradley was demonized for it. My sympathy was shortlived, though, because Milton made another dick move immediately thereafter.
posted at 12:16 PM on August 24
The Unofficial NFL All-Criminal Team Here's a list of the NFL's all-time top criminals . See if your favorites made the cut .
posted by evil empire at 05:24 PM on August 19
I'm all for dark humor, but this makes me queasy, esp. when he jokes about wife-beating being a good preparation for taking down quarterbacks. Also, why is the soliciting for oral sex guy included? That's an embarrassment, not a terrible crime. Sporting News had a piece a few issues ago featuring mini-interviews with players, and it really struck me how half-witted many of them were. Most of them cited incredibly stupid/lame pranks as the pinnacle of humor when asked about the team jokesters. I can't help but think that many NFLers stopped developing mentally and emotionally at 11, not coincidentally also the time that they began to be lauded as superior beings. It put me in mind of "Our Guys", an excellent book concerning the dangers that excessive adulation of athletes poses. This is part of what makes me unable to love football as I used to. The other part is the eternal suckage of my team.
posted at 09:38 AM on August 19
The Kenny Rogers Saga continues Rogers has "words" with cameraman as he turns himself into police.
posted by daddisamm at 06:30 AM on July 19
I think it's clear that Kenny Rogers' anger issues stem from sharing a name with Kenny Rogers, much like Michael Bolton in Office Space.
posted at 12:22 PM on July 19
Officials Overturn Call; Redskins Trademark Might Be Sacked The lawsuit to strip the Washington Redskins of their trademarks has been revived on appeal. "No Native person who has been called the R-word has ever said: 'Wow, they must think I'm a football player or a sport mascot or a person covered in red paint for war,'" argues plaintiff Suzan Shown Harjo. "It has always been a fighting word and has never been a compliment."
posted by rcade at 10:21 AM on July 18
Also if you look back at the indians they named their team in honor of a native american player. Gregy606, I love the Tribe too, but this probably isn't true. www.baseballreliquary.org I hate Chief Wahoo. I love the Tribe. The tiny superstition/curse section of my brain is filled with a certainty that the Tribe lost the World Series in '95 and '97 because they didn't get rid of Chief Wahoo when they left the old stadium. Yes, I know that's nonsense.
posted at 03:50 PM on July 18
As far as I can tell, nothing is finalized yet and the deal won't happen unless the Indians acquire a replacement outfielder. That may be my denial shining through, as I would hate like hell to see Coco go. I sure wouldn't say he was 3rd or 4th on the Tribe outfielder depth chart - he's second behind Grady Sizemore. He makes some sweet plays. He has been consistently underrated by Tribe management, and I'm not sure why. They offered him just a bit more than they offered Ben Broussard, which must have been something of a slap in the face.