Obligatory Sports Babe
Overshadowed by some other “bowl” this weekend, you may not have heard much about Spike and DirecTV coming together for their fourth annual Beach Bowl. But seeing as Marissa Miller here was playing, you probably should reconsider your priorities.
From The Giant Grain of Salt File:
I wouldn’t recommend actually believing this, but on the Calgary Puck forum someone relays the supposed details of a recent Edmonton radio report on the Flames: “After practice two weeks ago, [since traded D Dion] Phaneuf comes into the locker room breaking sticks, swearing, throwing garbage cans and basically throwing a hissy fit. Jarome [Iginla, team captain,] tells everyone to get out of the room and that ‘this is between me and him, everyone leave.’” A fight follows, and a trade not long after that.
MLB 2K10
“2K Sports is offering a $1 million prize to the first player to throw a perfect game in MLB 2K10, laying down the bounty as a statement of confidence in the authenticity of their game's revamped pitching controls,” according to Kotaku. “The million-dollar prize is believed to be the largest ever offered for this type of contest - a skill-based challenge, rather than a random drawing.”
Manning GOAT or Goat?
“The Colts won't say this and Colts apologists won't admit it, but I'm convinced the Colts believed their own pregame hype; that they were gifted this game. The arrogance started at the top of the organization with president Bill Polian blowing off media day and former coach Tony Dungy saying the Colts would win easily and all of that cocky chatter and behavior filtered all the way down to the bottom,” writes Mike Freeman of CBS Sports, arguing that Peyton Manning’s reputation has taken a massive hit after Sunday’s Super Bowl.
Pot Politics And A Terrible Song
Ugh. “Beginning next week, you will hear the CTV Vancouver Olympic theme song, I Believe, a lot,” writes William Houson of Truth and Rumours, before explaining CTV’s decision to go with unknown singer Nikki Yanofsky over a big name like Alanis Morisette, who was at one point being strongly considered. “But then came November and the minor problem of Morissette deciding to tell the world that she enjoys smoking marijuana. And that she feels it improves her creativity. Oops. CTV dropped her like a pot, er, hot potato.”
Quickly
Inspired by a great post from Big League Stew about how a baseball fan ought to handle his favourite sport as a Final Jeopardy category, Fantasy Hockey Scouts does the same for hockey fans.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel gives us some reasons why it’s not completely insane, but that doesn’t mean it’s still doesn’t feel wrong to learn that this August the Milwaukee Brewers will unveil a new statue outside of Miller Park. Soon to be taking his place in bronze alongside Hank Aaron and Robin Yount: Bud Selig.
The Tampa Bay Rays will be playing a number of games in powder blue next year, according to Rays Index. Not bad.
The Cleveland Cavaliers have removed all water fountains from their arena, citing advice from the NBA and the International Association of Assembly Managers regarding the spread of H1N1. But there’s a problem, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Those organizations told them no such thing.
The Smoking Section has screenshots from the new version of NBA Jam. Um… awesome.
Mike Millbury Vs. Blogger
For this morning’s video we’ll go with Mike Millbury acting rather respectfully after realizing he’s being filmed at the end of some kind of encounter with a blogger that is awesomely explained at Gunaxin.