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31
Dec

Memo to Tuna: Beggars Can’t Be Choosers

With all the hype in American football surrounding the New England Patriots’ epic perfect season (soon to be memorialized, I’m sure, in a Disney movie), it’s easy to lose sight of all the other big stories in the National Football League. Here’s one begging for scorn.

parcells.jpgBill “Big Tuna” Parcells, an NFL coach of no small import, agreed this week to take on the job of Executive Vice President of Football Operations for the woeful Miami Dolphins. How bad are the dolphins? The team posted just 1 win this year, and 15 losses. The last team to do what the Patriots have accomplished this year (a perfect season) was the 1972 Miami squad. Last time I checked, the veterans from that year were switching their arm bands and pretending they lived in Boston.

So here’s what the new head guy in Miami has to say about his plans for the team:

“I’m interested in good character people. I don’t want thugs and hoodlums on the team. I don’t want bad character guys. I don’t want problem children … I want to get a good base, good character people that are dependable, reliable employees that come to work with the idea of trying to win football games for the Miami Dolphins.”

Funny — Last time I checked, Parcells owed his two Super Bowl rings to the on-field talents of social misfits and thugs like Lawrence Taylor. Remember him? The superstar Pro Bowl linebacker who admitted to snorting coke as early as his second pro season? The guy who played games while high on crack and bottled his teammates’ urine to beat drug tests?

Yeah — “good character” people help you get ahead in the NFL.

Prediction: Next year at least two Dolphins will have highly publicized drug problems. One will be arrested on firearms charges. Parcells will keep his eye on the scoreboard.

Of course, I could be wrong. Give back the rings, Bill, and all will be forgiven.

Hat tip: New York Daily News

26
Dec

Sorry, Tony!

Remember Alexandra Paressant, that (allegedly) French (alleged) model who claimed she had an (alleged) affair with Tony Parker? If you’ve been on Mars for the last few weeks, type “Tony Parker” in the search field on the right side of the page. Got it? There you go. Well, it turns out that not only doesn’t she have any proof of the affair, but she isn’t even really who she says she is!

Somebody at the Huffington Post did some actual reporting on it. (Yes, I said the Huffington Post. Why?) Dana Kennedy looked into it for People magazine, and she talks about her findings at HuffPo. It turns out that all the pictures and videos of Paressant online are really of a German model named Hana Nitsche. Nobody reporting on the story has ever actually seen Paressant. She also invented other characters to back up her story, including a “best friend” named Ornella, played by Paressant herself. She’s like the Eddie Murphy of crazy stalkers! Before Parker, she pulled the same crap on a Brazilian soccer star named Ronaldinho, and it sounds like he wasn’t the first one. Now Parker is suing x17online to the tune of $20 million for running her story, but they got suckered too.

So, Alexandra Paressant isn’t who she says she is, Tony Parker didn’t do anything wrong, and I totally fell for it. I was careful to point out that her tales were only allegations, but in my heart I was a liar. I believed it because I wanted to believe it. Let that be a lesson, Me!

(Hat Tip: Cele|bitchy, who has more on Hana Nitsche and how she got fooled into helping Paressant’s plot along)

19
Dec

“I Did Not Have Sexual Relations with That Woman… Miss Paressant…”*

So what’s new with Tony Parker today? Not much, just a “strongly worded statement” from his lawyer about the affair he totally didn’t have with French model Alexandra Paressant:

“Tony adamantly and unconditionally denies ever having laid eyes on this woman, let alone having had an affair with her,” says the attorney, Stanton “Larry” Stein of the firm Dreier Stein & Kahan. “The allegations of the supposed affair are entirely false and fabricated.”

See, if the allegations were entirely false or entirely fabricated, neither one alone would be enough to convince me. But entirely false and fabricated? Nuff said. Also, it’s a really good idea to hire a lawyer who includes his nickname in quotes. Like my longtime attorney, the late, great Larry “Bud” Melman.

*Try pounding on a podium to the rhythm of the words. Get it?

17
Dec

Shoeless Rocket Becomes a Punchline

How do you go from seven Cy Young awards and a spot on the “All-Century” Major League baseball team to a locker-room punchline? Make human growth hormone a part of your training regimen. And get caught.

clemens.jpgRoger “The Rocket” Clemens is probably the best known current player to be beaned by last week’s Mitchell Report about performance-enhancing drugs in baseball. The report mentions Clemens no fewer than 82 times (only Barry Bonds got more ink) which could be enough to keep him out of the Hall of Fame.

As the pitching great’s non-denial denials lose potency over time, keep January 12 on your calendar. That’s the date Clemens is scheduled to give a speech at the convention of the Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association.

The speech is titled “My Vigorous Workout: How I Played So Long.” I’m not making that up.

Clemens may lose that slot as early as tomorrow, however, as the group will meet then to decide whether to let a drug-induced All Star lie through his teeth to little kids.

The Coaches Association’s website currently includes no trace of Clemens, but the Internet has a long memory. Here’s a PDF of Google’s cache, complete with Clemens’ name misspelled, from a week ago.

14
Dec

Longoria Stars in Real-Life Fantasy Island

Another chapter in the continuing saga of French model Alexandra Paressant, who claims Tony Parker has been committing flagrant fouls with her ever since they met at his wedding to Eva Longoria. Parker and Longoria have been disputing the call. Now Longoria’s rep says:

“These allegations are 100 percent false and untrue … this is not the first time this woman has used an athlete to gain public notoriety.”

That’s referring to some soccer player Paressant went out with, I think. Who cares. It’s soccer. Anyway, the allegations are false and untrue? Why didn’t Longo say so to begin with? Case closed!

Paressant has produced what she claims are text messages from Parker arranging their trysts, while the happy couple have countered by skipping happily around LA because they’re so happy. Did I mention their complete happiness? Who knows how solid the text-message evidence is, but I’m willing to believe that French putain over them because it’s much more interesting that way.

14
Dec

12 Days of Hypocrismas: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

ditka.pngPro football hall of famer Mike Ditka blasted the NFL and its players union earlier this year for not doing enough to help needy former players. Funny, because the charity he founded to do his part has actually done almost nothing at all. And now the loudmouth former coach is set to dissolve it entirely.

Writes USA Today:

The Mike Ditka Hall of Fame Assistance Trust Fund has collected $1.3 million and netted about $315,000 after expenses. But it has given only $57,000 to former players in need, according to federal and Illinois tax records.

Ditka promised in 2004 to give away $890,000 during the fund’s first three years, but no grants were made until just last year, when ten retired players collected modest checks. (Click for tax returns from 2004 and 2005.)

Meanwhile, the NFL and the union Ditka trashed? They gave out an average of $1.1 million each year from 2000 to 2005.

13
Dec

Tony Parker Definitely Wants to Have (No) Children

X17online’s interview with Parker’s (alleged) mistress, Alexandra Paressant, is fantastic. Remember how he told the press that having children with Eva Longoria would be better than his NBA titles? Well…

Alex asked him if he wanted kids with Eva, he answered, “Certainly not for now.”

She also described one of her (alleged) trips to San Antonio to hook up with him:

“We had room service. He said that Eva sexually speaking does not want to do certain things. She do not want to make love in front of a mirror, does not like certain position and thinks that sperm gives acne,” Alexandra told X17online.

Well, it all depends on how you apply it. And if you leave it in the container, then the container gets acne. Or do you get acne if you dispense it too much? I can’t really remember; it’s been a while since junior high.

P.S. Here’s what Parker and Longoria tell people. I mean, tell People:

“I love my wife,” Parker said in a statement… “She’s the best thing in my life, and I have never been happier.” Longoria, who took Parker’s name this year after their July nuptials, added, “Tony has been nothing short of the perfect husband.”

13
Dec

Taking a Dive

The football (read: soccer) hooligans in Manchester have declared it, so it must be true: Liverpool midfielder Steven Gerrard is “the biggest hypocrite in England.” Apparently Gerrard is less than kind to opponents who “take dives” to earn cheap fouls, but he does it a good deal himself.
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Biggest hypocrite in England? I would go with this guy. But then I’m not a big “football” fan.

UPDATE: Steven Gerrard’s home was apparently burglarized two night ago. No word yet on whether it was payback for all those “stolen” penalties.

12
Dec

Tony Fouls Out

When Tony Parker — the San Antonio Spurs point guard, rapper (or, as it’s pronounced in his native France, “rrrrrappair”), and, most importantly, husband of Eva Longoria — was asked on the eve of his July 7th wedding whether he wanted children, he had this to say:

“That would be even better than my NBA titles, even if I don’t compare private life and sports. Eva talks to me about it all the time. I’d like to have girls, because I come from a world of boys.”

He sure wasn’t kidding about wanting to have girls! Because now it turns out he’s been “having” French fashion model Alexandra Paressant on the side. And where did they meet? His wedding.

At this year’s NBA All-Star Game, Parker was asked about his wedding plans:

“Eva is doing everything, I’m just going to show up and say yes.”

Apparently “everything” included “not banging anybody else, like we promised.” And Eva told People last year:

“There’s no way in the world I would rather be single… I’ve said the only reason Tony and I are going to stay together forever is because we’re too lazy to look for someone else.”

Sounds like he got his second wind.

Damn, Longoria changed her last name for him, talked about quitting Desperate Housewives so she could have kids with him…

Asked by Fox Sports if her life was shaping up like a fairy tale, she prophetically quipped: “I’m nervous. It’s like everything’s going so well, something’s bound to go wrong.

For his part, Parker offered this in his first dual interview with Eva, on Extra:

The next day after I met her, like when we sat down, we talked for hours. And I really thought she was a great girl. She’s got a good heart, and I thought, “She was a keeper.” So I said, “I can’t mess that up!”

Oops. Some people just don’t know how good they’ve got it. And by “some people,” I am of course referring to the French.

UPDATE: X17online has an interview with “the other woman.”

12
Dec

Et Tu, Mangini?

belichick.jpgRemember that National Football League videotaping fracas in September? The New England Patriots (presently playing a perfect season at 13-0) were fined $250,000 and lost a top draft pick for next year. Patriots coach Bill Belichick personally had to fork over $500,000. All because a team employee was caught filming the defensive signals of the New York Jets (who presently, well, suck).

mangini.jpgHow did the Patriots get caught? Jets coach Eric Mangini turned them in to the league.

But that was then. This is now.

The Jets and Patriots are scheduled to play again on Sunday, and guess what? It emerged this morning that a Jets employee was caught secretly videotaping the Patriots sideline last season, presumably looking to spot play-calling signals.

The Jets claimed last night that they had the Patriots’ permission to film. But a league source told Newsday that the incident “resulted in the removal of a Jets employee. After Gillette Stadium officials saw him using the recorder early in the game, he was told to stop and leave the area. He had been filming from the mezzanine level between the scoreboard and a decorative lighthouse in an end zone.”

Permission or not, NFL rules state that “no video recording devices of any kind are permitted to be in use in the coaches’ booth, on the field, or in the locker room during the game.” Also, “all video shooting locations must be enclosed on all sides with a roof overhead.”

Unless this entire episode is a ruse by the NFL to get fans interested in a game between arch-rivals, it looks like Mangini got caught with his zoom lens hanging out.

Bonus points: Mangini previously spent six years as an assistant coach, working for (drum roll, please…) Bill Belichick.

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