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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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11
Dec

Going to the Dogma

Yesterday Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick was sentenced to 23 months in prison for his participation in dogfighting, a “sport” in which dogs were forced to fight each other and were (sometimes violently) killed when they didn’t perform to expectations. Vick has been suspended indefinitely by the National Football League.

Tennessee Titans cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones has had a string of problems with the police, most notably a February 2007 brawl in a Las Vegas strip club that ended up with three people being shot, one paralyzed from the waist down. For that offense, he was recently sentenced to one year of probation, anger management, and 200 hours of community service. Jones was also suspended by the NFL — for one year. To occupy his time during the suspension, he dabbled in professional wrestling.

In 2000, Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis was involved in a brawl outside a Super Bowl party in Atlanta in which two men were stabbed and killed. Originally indicted with two others for murder and aggravated assault, Lewis pled down to a misdemeanor charge of obstruction of justice and received one year of probation. The NFL fined Lewis $250,000, but never suspended him. He also didn’t get to go to Disneyland for being MVP of Super Bowl XXXV. Lewis was, however, featured on the cover of the video game Madden NFL 2005, and currently endorses the Under Armour brand of sports gear.

The moral of the story? You make the call.

(Hat Tip: The Bennington Banner)

UPDATE: Michael Wilbon of The Washington Post questions America’s priorities.

29
Nov

Hulk Hogan’s Four Seven Commandments

Remember, all you little Hulkamaniacs out there, here’s what you gotta do if you want to be just like the Hulkster!

  1. Train.
  2. Say your prayers.
  3. Eat your vitamins.
  4. Believe in yourself, brother.
  5. Encourage your kids to drag-race on public streets.
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  6. Buy your underage son and his friends $80 worth of beer right before he slams into a palm tree at 100 mph and puts a kid in the hospital, maybe for life.
  7. Learn this phrase and learn it well: “No comment.”
27
Nov

Yankee? Dude, LOL

Now that British soccer “star” David Beckham is living in the U.S., he’s worried about his 3 young children growing up with American accents:

“They sound as if they are from London — and that is how I want them to sound,” he told Britain’s ITV This Morning of sons Brooklyn, 8, Romeo, 5, and Cruz, 2, according to Britain’s Daily Mirror. “But they are getting little parts of an American accent. Romeo keeps saying ‘Awesome’ a lot. ‘Awesome, awesome.’”

Well, Becks, there’s a surefire way to avoid that. No, you don’t have to move back to England, which is how most people would make sure their kids sound like they’re, y’know, from England. Nope: Just use some of that $1 million per week you’re earning by playing soccer (sometimes) in a country where nobody follows soccer, and pay everyone who comes in contact with your kids to speak with fake British accents. If you really want to go all-out, buy them bowler hats and monocles and make them stop brushing their teeth. (Yeah, it’s a cliché, but that’s always bugged me. I mean, monocles? Come on, England.)

If that doesn’t work, then you could try going back where anybody cares about you.

27
Nov

Hulk Hogan Update

The Hulkster just issued the following statement:

“Please respect my family’s privacy at this time with all that we have been through. I care for my wife and my children are my world and I just hope this all works out.”

There doesn’t seem to be anything in there about giving back all the money he’s made from his reality show. He sure didn’t mind the flashbulbs when he was dragging his oafish clan to every red-carpet event on earth, did he?

(Hat Tip: TMZ)

27
Nov

There Goes That Hogan*

Yesterday TMZ reported that despite filing for divorce, Linda Hogan still wants to save her marriage with the Hulkster:

“She doesn’t want to see the family break up. She really wants to work it out with him. But it is like pushing up against a brick wall. She is heartbroken about it.”

How heartbroken? This heartbroken:

Hulk Hogan’s estranged wife Linda is seeking half of the couple’s more than $9.5 million in assets, including a share of the value of their Bel Air mansion.

In her divorce filing, Linda Bollea, who appeared with her husband [real name: Terry Bollea] and their children during four seasons of VH1’s reality series Hogan Knows Best, calls the 24-year marriage “irretrievably broken,” the St. Petersburg Times reports.

I just looked up “irretrievable,” and it means “not retrievable : impossible to regain or recover.” Sort of like her credibility. Maybe she got “heartbroken” mixed up with “bankbroken“? Or is the whole thing just a way to protect the family assets from a civil lawsuit by the parents of the kid who’s in critical condition because Nick Hogan had a few cocktails and played chicken with a palm tree? It’s all so confusing. I liked it better when ol’ Hulk just ripped apart his t-shirt and told me to eat my vitamins and did the exact same wrestling moves every single match.

Also: Brooke Hogan in a bikini. Because, you know, um… journalism?

*Like “There goes that ho’ again.” Get it? Never mind.

26
Nov

Football or Eight-Ball? Ben Cousins Can’t Decide

cousins.jpegBen Cousins, former captain and star of the West Coast Eagles football team (the Australian kind, not the American or European kind), has been videotaped snorting coke (the Colombian kind, not the carbonated kind) at a party on Australia’s Gold Coast.

This comes a few weeks after he was suspended from the football league for his drug use and just days after American police agreed not to slap him with drug charges following an early November binge in Los Angeles. At the time, Cousins said of his addictions:

“I am a lot further down the road to recovery than has been portrayed.”

To set the record straight, he allowed a film crew from Aussie television program A Current Affair to follow him around — the very same crew that caught him sniffing up the goal line. Click here to see the video.




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