Friday, August 15th, 2008 - You Cannot Be Serious

Even though he's long retired from competitive tennis, John McEnroe still has that passionate heart pounding: he got tossed from a tourney for arguing with the chair umpire, swearing and making an obscene gesture to fans. I love McEnroe...the Arizona Cardinals have picked up a championship belt - think boxing, MMA or WWE - for the man with the most sacks to carry. It cost between $10k and $20k! This is great stuff...for those that haven't had the pleasure of following Santino Marella on WWE Monday Night Raw, here's a great introduction...Serena Williams may be out of the Olympic tennis competition, but word is if they can find a rider, she'll be on the bottom for a run in the equestrian competition...hey, here's a Top 10 for you today: Top 10 Greatest Female Streakers in Sports History...ESPN's Jayson Stark is not at all a fan of Manny Ramirez and his act this year, and rails against the love he's getting. I think Manny has vastly overplayed his hand in thinking he's going to squeeze $100 million over 4 years at his age. He'd have been better off keeping his two options at $20 million methinks, and adding a year or two at the end. Peter Gammons says he'll be lucky to get 3 years and $40 million or so, in which case, the only one that wins is his new agent, Scott Boras, who has surely orchestrated his Operation Shutdown in Boston and move out...Mongolia has their first medal - ever - while Canada is still sitting at a donut. Are you like me, and almost hoping it stays that way?...Michael Phelps has six gold medals to his pile now for the U.S. in the pool. Jim Rome mentioned that Phelps downs 10,000 calories a day...expect lots of overdone analysis on what the less-than-capacity Rogers Centre NFL game last night means for the future of the NFL in Toronto. It boils down to this: if Larry Tanenbaum and Ted Rogers want a team and can afford a team, Toronto will get a team, likely when Ralph Wilson goes for the Great Dirt Nap. But, hopefully they've learned that people will not pay double the prices the New England Patriots charge for tickets, and they're the NFL high, to watch an exhibition game...have a great Friday.