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And Now A Few Words About the Future
Some of you might have wondered what was going on Tuesday morning when Dan Shanoff posted his final Wake-Up Call here on The Sporting Blog. Today I deliver some news with a heavy heart that The Sporting Blog will no longer continue here on SportingNews.com.This whole thing started back in 2007 under the guidance of Chris Mottram, who departed for SB Nation just over a year ago. I...
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July 21, 2010
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Summer Discussion: The Best Conference In College Basketball Will Be ... ?
In the barren summer landscape of college hoops news, the release of ESPN's Big 12 Monday schedule rates as a highlight. College Hoops Nation has the particulars of the schedule, which features Kansas State and Kansas four times. (Only two games for Mizzou and Baylor, which is mildly disappointing.) But as a whole, it got me thinking about how loaded that league looks next season...
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July 20, 2010
The NCAA's Agent Enforcement Crusade Threatens To Be Epidemic
The NCAA declared Investigeddon last weekend, hiring Michael Bay to spill fireworks over message boards and ESPN by launching, announcing, or leaking investigations of star players at North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida in the wake of some very dumb tweets from UNC DT Marvin Austin (pictured).
As one toxic player (Austin) directly implicated another (SC TE Weslye Saunders...
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July 20, 2010
Russian Betting Firm Seeks To Make Paul The Octopus A Prized Employee
One does not simply pull off a perfect eight-for-eight streak in picking World Cup winners, and in doing so capture the imagination of the entire globe, without attracting further job opportunities in sports prognostication. Even if you're an octopus. Especially if you're an octopus.
Paul became the unintended star of this year's World Cup, earning adulation and even...
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July 20, 2010
Tommy Lasorda Warbles Anthem, Pays Backhanded Compliments in Albuquerque
Former Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda was, if you can believe it, the special guest at the Albuquerque Isotopes' Tommy Lasorda Bobblehead Night. In addition to some memorable warbling through the National Anthem, he beseeched the crowd for their dearest regards, but only after besmirching the history of their home town.
Lasorda once managed the Albuquerque Dukes, which were the...
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July 20, 2010
LeBron's Decision Cost At Least $10,000 in Security From Greenwich Police
The one item that seemed to get lost in the aftermath of the LeBron James Decision hoopla was why James needed to be in Greenwich, Connecticut to make his long anticipated and ridiculously overproduced announcement on live TV.
We were told that James had to be in New York City that weekend to attend Carmelo Anthony's wedding. We were told that money from the television special...
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July 20, 2010
Marist Wins Legal Battle Over Ex-Coach Matt Brady; What Will It Mean Going Forward?
One of the many reasons college athletes are often considered powerless is the logistical hoops they have to jump through in order to change schools. That process stands in stark contrast with the ability of any coach to just pick up and leave when something better comes along. But will that continue to be the case going forward?
New York State Supreme Court Justice Charles D. Wood...
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July 20, 2010
Dustin Nippert Laughs In The Face of Potentially Serious Head Trauma
Rangers reliever Dustin Nippert took a screaming line drive off the side of his head in the 6th inning of last night's game in Detroit. While the impact brought the game action to a temporary standstill, and rightfully so given how severe an injury it might have been, it turned out to be a thankful close-call.
Nippert was able to laugh it off exiting the mound after the ball...
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July 20, 2010
Offsides: Chris Johnson's Payday Arrives ... Sort Of
The Titans and Chris Johnson have agreed to a revised deal that will pay him $2.5 million this season. That's not exactly the $30 million in guaranteed coin he once demanded, but at least it's a raise.
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July 20, 2010
Shanoff's WUC: Your Final Wake-Up Call
Today's Calls: Wake-Up Call vs. Snooze Button, Chris Johnson vs. the Titans, Florida vs. NCAA, Miguel Cabrera vs. Josh Hamilton, Ubaldo vs. the Marlins, Rich Cho vs. Sam Presti, John Wall vs. Evan Turner, Brett Favre vs. Brad Childress, Kyrie Irving vs. Roy Williams, Derek Jeter vs. Stephen Strasburg and More.
The Opening Pitch: Let's call it "Last Call."
This...
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July 20, 2010
Minor League Fan Tasered After Mildly Obnoxious Comments And Mild Resistance
So there you are with your lovely spot for a night at the ballpark with the Daytona Cubs and the Fort Myers Miracle. Some guy is probably a little bit overserved -- because no one is this genuinely excited at a Class A game -- so you keep the camera rolling. Then, the Taser comes out. (Warning: Some NSFW language towards the end.)
The user account on YouTube, SuperRandomFunnyVidz...
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July 19, 2010
Jamie Moyer Open To The Possibility Of Playing Into His 200s
Or maybe just his fifties. Still, Jamie Moyer is clear on the fact that he isn't dogged by the jokes made about his age, nor the ravages of aging itself, and is willing to keep going for possibly two more seasons. Or more.
Moyer's contract with the Phillies expires at the end of this season, but there should still be demand for his services. He's pitching at a level...
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July 19, 2010
Florida Joins Parade of Schools With Agent Problems
The NCAA has a ton on its plate—there's this little matter of conferences sitting on shifting sands, and that NCAA Tournament restructuring, and, oh, the transition from interim president Jim Isch to Mark Emmert happens in November—at the moment. Adding a breakout of agent-related malfeasance would be just what the organization needs, right? Florida's just the...
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July 19, 2010
Choking the Ref to Prevent a Yellow Card Will Get You a Red Card
You may not be able to see this all that well, but the important part of the above video is Jose Pedrozo choking a ref who is about to fish a yellow card out of his pocket for the tackle that begins the clip. Pedrozo's anger necessitated restraint from his teammates and intervention from riot police, and he was, of course, shown a straight red after that,But Pedrozo actually...
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July 19, 2010
Pitt Lineman Sheard Suspended Indefinitely After Assault Arrest
A college defensive lineman can be a lot to handle, even for trained police officers, but it sounds like the cops on hand on Pittsburgh's South Side on Sunday certainly could have been more aggressive in breaking up a fight between University of Pittsburgh player Jabaal Sheard and another man. While reports of the incident indicate that police tried to break up the fight, the...
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July 19, 2010
Offsides: Spurrier Talks About Agent Allegations
South Carolina TE Weslye Saunders is being investigated for possibly having an agent, but it doesn't sound like the Old Ball Coach will be turning a blind eye to the allegations.
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July 19, 2010
Shanoff's WUC: Even MJ Says LeBron Is No MJ
Today's Calls: LeBron James vs. Michael Jordan, Dwyane Wade vs. New York City, Tiger vs. Louis Oosthuizen, Brad Miller vs. the Lakers, John Wall vs. Vegas Summer League, Tim McCarver vs. Yankees fans, Adrian Peterson vs. CJ Wilson, Rick Neuheisel vs. Lane Kiffin and More.
The Opening Pitch: Even Michael Jordan thinks LeBron is a Scottie Pippen.
That's the shorthand: Real...
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July 19, 2010
Dwyane Wade Makes Callous 9/11 Remark, Joins LeBron in Heat Hate Pantheon
I'd thought that Dwyane Wade had handled the free agency circus better than any other NBA player. By doing recon for Pat Riley and playing the Bulls like a mandolin, he brought two stars to his team, and retained alpha dog status on that team to boot.But there's no amount of good will that makes a poorly phrased reference to the attacks of 9/11 something that will pass without...
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July 18, 2010
Louis Oosthuizen's British Win One For Tedium, Racial Equality?
The British Open ended today, in case you just woke up from a nap caused by the British Open. Louis Oosthuizen's victory, a seven-shot win produced by a methodical series of scores (65-67-69-71) as the rest of the field fell back time and again, wasn't exactly exciting. To put it kindly, it was a sort of soothing, steady golf Oosthuizen played, minimizing mistakes and striking...
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July 18, 2010
Omar Samhan, Jeremy Lin, Rashad McCants, and the Fragility of NBA Chances
All it takes is one NBA team thinking a player is NBA-caliber for him to become an NBA player. (This is how Landry Fields and Ryan Reid have come to be NBA players.) But for Omar Samhan and Jeremy Lin, that chance is yet to come, and for Rashad McCants, time may be running out. Even one team taking a look is still rare.Samhan might be the most likely one to stick in the league. He...
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July 18, 2010
Tim McCarver Compares Yankees' Treatment of Joe Torre to "Despotic" World War II Regimes
"They have airbrushed his legacy," Tim McCarver said of the New York Yankees' treatment of Joe Torre on Fox's broadcast of the Yankees' game against the Tampa Bay Rays yesterday. Listen to the rest of McCarver's rant, and you might wonder whether he will the victim of some airbrushing in the near future.That's some incendiary rhetoric—if...
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July 18, 2010
Weekend Wake Up: Burnett Inept, Injured, Crash Fuels Feud, Cuban Wants Rangers?
Burned Notice. Yankees fans have been upset with A.J. Burnett all year. He's been streaky, putting together back-to-back scoreless starts just once, and hasn't been good at all since the beginning of June, allowing fewer than four earned runs twice in eight starts. Yesterday's outing was insult to injury and injury to insult: Burnett gave up a homer to Reid Brignac in...
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July 18, 2010
Oosthuizen, Casey Waving Back at British Open Field, Bye to TV Viewers
On a dreary Saturday in sports, the best performances are being turned in by a little-known South African and a Brit long expected to break through. Good luck getting anyone in the States to care about Louis Oosthuizen and Paul Casey, though.Oosthuizen is the revelation. He played in good conditions on Thursday and Friday, and raced out to double digits in red numbers. And he'...
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July 17, 2010
Nine Notre Dame Athletes Arrested for Underage Drinking
Another Friday night, another bushel of arrests for underage drinking in college football. It's almost a cliche now. WNDU reports that the illicit sipping was done in South Bend this time.A party in South Bend was busted by police overnight, sending 43 people to the county jail....Among those arrested are eight Notre Dame football players, including Nate Montana...
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July 17, 2010
Twitter Travails: David Huff May Have Scuttled Call-Up, Glen Davis Does the "Dougie"
In case you were worried that the introduction of a bland, regal Twitter account to the sporting landscape would convince other athletes to clam up, I present the cases of David Huff and Glen Davis.Huff's is the sad story. The Cleveland Indians AAA stalwart tweeted that he was getting a call-up to the big club Friday afternoon.Just got called up for a spot start Sunday against...
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July 17, 2010
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