It may have been yesterday's news, but seriously, how huge is that helmet David Wright is rocking? Word is in 2011, this will be required gear by MLBers. Too funny.
- NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has to be paying attention. He obviously noticed Michael Vick, one public Grey Goose aside, has kept his nose super clean and not made any ill advised comments. As a result, Vick will be eligible to play in Week 3, not 6 as originally scheduled. Good for Vick, and good for Goodell for leaving a carrot out there and rewarding good behavior.
- Florida Marlins short stop stud Hanley Ramirez has been blasted publicly by teammatesDan Uggla, Josh Johnson and Cody Ross as being soft. Shame seeing a young talent like that not working at it.
- Is there anything less interesting to a Canadian sports fan than the latest fight by Steve Molitor at Casino Rama? The only times I saw him fight - three - he was fighting tomato cans the first two, and the third he actually fought someone with skill and was so thoroughly beaten he may as well have been fighting Ivan Drago circa Rocky IV. Molitor is back in the ring tonight. Yawn.
- Jorge Posada needs one homer to reach 20, Derek Jeter needs three. That would give the New York Yankees an incredible eight players with 20 or more. The Yanks smoked the Toronto Blue Jays last night 10-5 to move to 10-3 on the year against Toronto. The big story in Toronto this weekend is if Jeter gets real hot, he could break Lou Gehrig's franchise hits record with nine more knocks in the next three.
- Jason Whitlock at Fox Sports is a different kind of sports journalist. He'll say things with a fresh perspective that few if any others will offer. But check out his piece yesterday in which he laid out many prominent sports media members. You have to wonder if he's got career suicide on the brain. Have to say though, some of it is damn good, and funny.
- Pacman Jones isn't going to be a Winnipeg Blue Bomber after all. Seems his almost-employer didn't take too kindly to him bragging that his stop in the 'peg was just before jumping ship to the NFL for a playoff run, and he also added some YouTube smack about scoring at will in the CFL. Bonus points for him saying he was going to the UFL and needing to be informed it was the CFL, but in the end, Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde got him.
- European soccer's governing body - UEFA - dropped a strong sanction on Chelsea for tampering with French teen Gael Kakuta. The Blues are forbidden from signing any new players until January 2011 under the ruling which is a massive penalty. Think of your fav team being forbidden from signing free agents, except you can't even do a trade either. Crazy, no? Looks good on you, Chelsea. Not surprisingly, they are planning to appeal.
- a huge day of World Cup qualifying looms tomorrow around the world. Tough to imagine any game is more appealing than Argentina and Brazil tangling. Shame it isn't available on Setanta. Will check my U.S. feeds for those who are on an FTA setup.
Friday, September 4, 2009
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It was FIFA this time around, not UEFA. Roma got a similar sentence earlier and through appeal it was reduced to one transfer window. FIFA is getting tired of that stuff though and my guess is you will see a lot more of those cases coming up soon. Think CAS will play along with FIFA as well. Rumours now is that FIFA has turned their eyes towards Man U and some player they managed to get (pry away) from LeHavre. Can't find a link on that though...
Found it:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/sep/04/manchester-united-le-havre-fifa-transfer
I'm surprised the Ricky Rubio situation didn't get any play, given that it was the latest in highly selfless acts by Spanish NBA players. After the T-Wolves went all the way over there and negotiated (successfully!) with DKV Joventot to reduce their buyout of Rubio's contract so he could play in the NBA and was released to do so, Rubio decided that the NBA was too "complicated" and signed a contract with Regal FC Barcelona and won't be in the NBA for at least another 2 years.
I've been doing most of the blogs the night prior the last week or so (actually finding myself working in the mornings when I get to the office...weird) so sometimes if something is announced in the morning that day, gets left out come the next day.
That said, what is bad for the T-Wolves might end up good for the T-Wolves message boards, if you know what I mean.
Besides, you can't spell "Spain" without "pain".
That's awfully optimistic of you. Chances are T-Wolves boards are already being deluged with requests to bench Johnny Flynn just so he'll get used to how it feels for when Rubio does come over.
Gotta say: Rubio's a great player and fun to watch, but I'm cheering for a devestating injury for him right now.
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