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Jeff Fisher is a Big Jim Carrey Fan. Or Maybe Jeff Daniels.

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Titans running back Chris Johnson declared on Wednesday that the “Slash & Dash” nickname, by which he and teammate LenDale White were known last season, has officially been sent to the showers.  This has set off a chain reaction of new nickname brainstorming, most...
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Shaq Takes His Act to Cleveland

Shaquille O’Neal is headed to the Cleveland Cavaliers to play alongside fellow superstar LeBron James.  The trade, agreed to in principle by the Cavs and Phoenix Suns, would send Sasha Pavlovic, Ben Wallace and other stuff back to Phoenix in exchange for the future Hall of Famer...
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Maria Sharapova Continues Her Descent into Tennis Irrelevance

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Maria Sharapova may be a big deal in the world of fashion, and going to movie premieres to get one’s picture taken with random Jonas Brothers, but in tennis?  She matters about as much as the Washington Nationals do to baseball. Okay, I know:  Maria’s a big star.Â...
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Favre is Already a Viking

Television station WCCO in Minneapolis is reporting that Brett Favre has already signed a contract with the Vikings, and is expected at training camp come the end of July.  And yes, the Favre #4 Viking jerseys have already been ordered up.  Packer fans who’ve been holding their...
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Manny Ramirez Goes 0-2 Despite Being Suspended

15,000+ people showed up to watch Manny Ramirez play a tune-up game with the AAA Albuquerque Isotopes.  Manny went 0-2 in the game, but the folks didn’t seem to care.  They were just tickled to see Manny who will soon be reinstated to the Dodgers, having served his 50 game...
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Tuesday Link Jonesin’

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2009 Father’s Day Lifetime Achievement Award: Marv Marinovich (FanSided) Song About The Two A-Rods: Alex Rodriguez & Andy Roddick (Sports Rubbish) Transformers - Revenge of the MLB Fallen (My Sports Rumors) William & Mary to Change Mascot…Considering Certain Vegetable...
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Carlos Beltran Has a Bruised Bone

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The Mets have placed Carlos Beltran on the DL with a bruised bone, adding to a roster of injured stars that already includes Jose Reyes and Carlos Delgado. The bruised bone - described as “aching” and “painful” - first gave Beltran trouble in late May, and has...
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Darth Vader Retiring

America finally rid itself of Dick Cheney after 8 years, and now it’s about to lose another of its greatest villains, MLBPA chief Donald Fehr, who announced on Monday that he is retiring after 25 years of smugly helping to trash the national pastime.  AP reports (via SI.com...
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T.O. Can’t Handle Joanna Krupa (NSFW Video)

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Terrell Owens is participating in a new reality show called Superstars, which teams up various people from the worlds of athletics and entertainment so they can make fools of themselves.  Owens drew model Joanna Krupa as his partner…a fact Ms. Krupa quickly comes to regret...
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Phil Mickelson, When Will You Stop Breaking Our Hearts?

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Rooting for Phil Mickelson to win the U.S. Open has become a lot like pulling for Nicolas Cage to make a good movie:  we love the guy, and we want to see him prevail, but we’re getting a little tired of the disappointment. Mickelson did it to us again today at Bethpage Black...
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A-Rod's Fatigue Issues: Blame Kate Hudson?

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Alex Rodriguez has been benched by the Yankees so he can overcome his exhaustion. And what, you ask, could a young, fit man like A-Rod be doing to tire himself out so much? The New York Post offers an answer: Kate Hudson may be wearing A-Rod out. The slumping Yankee slugger missed...
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Tony La Russa Joins Club so Exclusive, Everyone Else in it is Dead

Tony La Russa achieved a career milestone this weekend, becoming just the third man in major league history to record 2,500 managerial wins.  To give you an idea how rare an accomplishment this is:  in the whole 7,000-year history of MLB, only two other people have gone over that...
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Rumor: The U.S. Open Will Finish on Monday

The U.S. Open has been going on so long now, it could be considered a tune-up for next year’s U.S. Open.  Actually, the Open has been going on since Thursday, and today is Monday, which means it’s only been extended by one day - but there was so much golf crammed into...
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U.S. Open Delayed Again. This is Getting Old.

The U.S. Open has once again been delayed by weather.  Play was scheduled to resume on Sunday at 7:30 ET, but the USGA elected to push it back to Noon.  This means there is no hope of the third and fourth rounds being completed by the end of the day as planned.  So, for the [...]
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Jim Brown Wishes Tiger Woods Would Speak Up

Legendary football hero and activist Jim Brown always has a lot to say about everything, and this time, he is saying stuff about Tiger Woods - and not good stuff.  Seems Brown is just about the only person on earth who doesn’t think Woods deserves to be fawned over like the...
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Friday Link Jonesin’

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Maria Sharapova Flashing (Sports Rubbish) Every Team In Pittsburgh Rocks! …. Wait, Music Video (NESW Sports) “Year One”: Rebuilding Process Fan Survival Guide (Fansided.com) Top Ten Athletes With Illegitimate Kids (Gunaxin) My Earliest Sports Memory Poll (The Results...
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Leighton Meester Sex Tape Loose in the Wild

We interrupt this sports blog to announce a matter of profound interest to anyone who enjoys watching fine-looking  young starlets get it on with their boyfriends with the sort of reckless abandon one can only experience when one is making a sex-tape one never expects to see the...
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Rain Goes Away; David Duval Begins His Annual Tease

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The rain finally let up on Long Island, allowing the puny mortal golfers to resume the U.S. Open.  So far the big buzz has been for Phil Mickelson, who is this year’s inspirational story, by virtue of his wife having breast cancer.  Everyone wants Phil to win - because his...
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Serena Williams Wears an Amusing Shirt

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Serena Williams goes for a run, sporting a t-shirt that says, “Are You Looking at My Titles?”  No Serena.  We’re waiting for you to go by so we can see how your pants are managing your assets.
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UFL Holds Surprise Draft

Don’t worry if you didn’t know the UFL was holding its draft Thursday night - no one outside the league seemed to know, and this was apparently by design.  By the time the event itself went down, the only means of following the picks was, somewhat bizarrely, via Chris...
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Kobe Bryant Visits Conan O’Brien

Conan O’Brien’s 100% L.A. now.  He had Finals MVP Kobe Bryant on his show, and later this week, he will be getting breast implants.  Two nights ago he was seen staggering out of a club with Juliette Lewis. They went to Adrian Grenier’s place where Conan completely...
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Sosa to be Probed…by Congress

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Confirmed juicer Sammy Sosa is not going to just get to skate on telling Congress he never did steroids.  AP reports (via SI.com): A congressional committee will look into former baseball slugger Sammy Sosa’s denial that he used illegal performance-enhancing drugs in light of...
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Rain Wrecks First Day of U.S. Open

The U.S. Open is supposed to be going on right now, giving me something to do while I wait for the Melatonin to kick in, but alas, nature has elected not to cooperate.  Right now the  Bethpage Black area looks like something out of a terrible Morgan Freeman/Christian Slater movie...
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Premature Tweeting: Kevin Love Spills Beans on McHale Ouster

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The Minnesota Timberwolves are saying so long to Kevin McHale after nearly 15 years.  This is big enough news on its own, given that McHale did a decent job last year as their coach and could very well have been retained in that capacity, but it became even bigger news when the story...
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Joe Buck Whines About Artie Lange Appearance

Artie Lange’s appearance on the debut edition of Joe Buck’s HBO show has already achieved infamous status, thanks to Lange’s off-color takes and relentless roasting of the host during a pair of roundtable segments, one of which took place on the internet after theÂ...
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