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A legend steps down, ScottJax talks Wrestling Wednesday, Unruly fans and the NFL, NFL player is a baby maker, ScottJax goes on a rant, well maybe, and a college football players is classy. All this inside this weeks edition of……
Pat Summitt steps down as head basketball of the lady Vols. During her time at Tennessee she had a NCAA record 1,098 win and 207 loses, 16 regular season SEC championships and 16 SEC Conference Titles and 8 National Titles.
The NFL is going to enforce unruly fans to see a shrink. That’s right go figure. Unruly fans kicked out of the stadium will be required to pass a code-of-conduct exam or they will not be allowed back in for another game. This was an idea from Dr. Ari Novick the man behind it all.
File this in “Maybe he outta be neutered” folder.
When is enough-is-enough? Antonio Cromartie, New York Jets cornerback, is trying to create his own defensive team as he now has 10 kids from eight women located in six states. The 27-year-old and his second wife, Terricka, had their second child joining his other sibling from the couple as well as eight-half siblings from flings that Antonio had. The other children are located in California, Texas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and New Jersey.
He pays more than $3,500 a month to each child’s mother except Rosemita Pierre, who Cromartie has custody of their son. They have a bitter relationship where she has rights to call her son 3 times a week but Antonio does not pick up the phone.
Antonio better make a lot of money and save it because I see a major problem when he retires and can’t pay child support.
In the Classiest act of the year, Trent Richardson was an escort to cancer survivor Courtney Alvis senior prom.
Does it matter what a coach does on his off-time if he is not breaking any rules?
New England has the easiest schedule in the NFL. How could that be?
If you’re an NFL General Manager, and your ready to select your first pick, do you chose for need or best available player?
Jacksonville Jaguars slogan for the this year is “All in.” It was started by our new owner Mr. Shad Khan. The question I have is, did anyone tell that to Maurice Jones-Drew? He is the star of our team and yet he did not show up for voluntary practice. I know its voluntary, but the team has a new coach and offensive coordinator. I know MJD got married a couple of weeks ago, he could have taken his new bride with him to Jacksonville.
In baseball, it’s too early to start worrying about your team. Oh, okay, Cub fans its time to panic, same for the Astro’s.
Nasty hits during NHL playoffs. There is more action this year than in past years.
I have not been posted much on wrestling lately. I have a lot of things written to post I just am building more stuff. The trivia didn’t go over to well, so I am scared to post more. Will try another time with the trivia, I will make it easier.
Bella twins are leaving at the end of the month. They want to do something else.
Rumor has it that Batista and Bobby Lashley want back in the WWE.
Brock Lesnar has a special deal with the WWE that allows him to have advertising on his shirt.
Till next time
Scott
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While you know who talks about why he doesn’t think he’ll ever be an NFL starting QB his new team, the New York Jets quite possibly are looking at a second straight season of HBO’s Hard Knocks. As Jets owner Woody Johnson put it, “we had a formal invitation that we can respond too, not an informal one”.
Now it’s wasn’t the spectacular coverage of a bunch of brainiacs that is getting them a second nod, we all know what’s going on here. We’ve all had our fair share of Rex Ryan and since he’s never seen a microphone or a camera he didn’t like we don’t need a 5 episode show to get his opinion on anything to do with football, snack food or feet for that matter. It’s about TEBOW and how he’ll overshadow Mark Sanchez at camp regardless of the role he’ll actually play on this team. I think we can all agree Mark Sanchez is about as mediocre a QB as you can have and adding Tebow to the mix gives the Jets another mediocre option, but what I really want to know is, WHY in the world would a team that is coming off the season they just did want this type of distraction at camp? For a team that just finished an awful year I’d think the most important thing on their minds would be righting the ship that clearly sank and fell apart while doing so, on and off the field.
But this is the Jets, and it’s New York and yes Rex Ryan will undoubtedly have a lot to say about whether this happens or not and for that reason alone I believe if he ok’s this again he will demonstrate just how piss poor he is when it comes to doing what’s best for the team he coaches. Anyone dealing with the woes the Jets did this past season would have to be out of their fucking mind to allow camera crews follow their every move while attempting to regain a playoff caliber team. When cameras are rolling there’s a lot of horse play, everyone mugs for their few minutes of face time and of course we get gems like this:
If the Jets aren’t interested in putting last season behind them and focusing on nothing but football then just remember where you read it when they don’t make the playoffs or choke because it’ll all come down to what their priorities were, show time rather than to show up for football season prepared.
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Is there are riff between the NFL players?? Booster wants money back?? Texas takes shot at Yankees?? What’s going on here?? All this, in this weeks edition of Rants and Raves.
New York Jets cornerback Antonio Cromartie spoke his mind about the contract talks between the NFL and the NFL Players Association. "To me, you need to stop bitching about it, and if you wanna say you're gonna get into a room and meet and greet, and say you're gonna do what you need to do, then do it. Don't just talk about it." Antonio will be a free agent at the end of the season and cannot sign a new deal until the Collective Bargaining Agreement is negotiated. The CBA expires on March 4th. Cromartie also stated "Especially when you don't get no information about nothing from the union or the owners, so to tell you the truth they need to get their damn minds together and get this [expletive] done. Stop bitching about money. Money ain't nothing. Money can be here and gone. Us players, we want to go out and play football. It's something we've been doing and we love it and enjoy it. It's our livelihood."
Now, after Antonio Cromartie said what he had to say about the NFL and the NFL Players Association, several NFL players came out against the New York Jet. Baltimore Raven Ray Lewis and Arizona Cardinal Darnell Dockett say that Cromartie does not speak for all the players. Darnell said "We have leaders, we know what is fair and the players are behind our leadership." Lewis stated that he supports DeMaurice Smith, the union's executive director. "Great leaders are servants first," Lewis said. "That is who our leaders are. Players are not going to turn on each other. We are blessed with what we have and it is on all of us to keep it fair. I'm resolved to do that." Lewis and Dockett are not player representatives for their teams but still felt like speaking out on the issue.
Of course Cromartie had to respond to Lewis and Dockett. "I don't give a who about Ray Lewis or Darnell Dockett talking about what I said. There's 10's of thousand people who will lose jobs. They taking our healthcare away and for players that have surgery can't even get rehab once March 3rd gets here."
Now the NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said that if there's a lockout, he will reduce his salary to $1. In which the President of the NFL Player’s Association DeMaurice Smith countered that if they can get a deal done by the Super Bowl, he'll take a pay cut to 68 cents.
I can’t believe that a booster wants his $3 million dollars back because he doesn’t like the choice of football coach the college signed. But, it did happen, and it happened to the University of Connecticut and supporter Robert G. Burton. Mr. Burton wants his donation of $3 million and his name removed from University’s football team’s training facility. This all happened because the school hired former Syracuse football coach Paul Pasqualoni, and Burton had no say in the matter. I guess he is sore because Burton did have a say in the hiring of former Husky coach Randy Edsall. It looks like the school has no intention of giving him his money back. I don’t blame the school. I would hope they would take the Burton name down from the facility. That would keep Burton from opening his mouth in the future.
The GM wants to stay and the team wants him back. That’s the love fest called the Cashman - Yankees affair. The Yankees General Manager has a year left on his contract and Hal Steinbrenner say he absolutely want Cashman to return. But if the Yankees GM is true to his heart, as he was with Rivera, Jeter, Posada and other Yankee players, he will wait until the end of the season to negotiate his contract. Of course Hal can override Cashman, as he did with the Soriano signing, and sign Brian during the season. Brian Cashman has done an outstanding job in restocking the minor league system. The Yankees have outstanding catchers and pitchers ready to produce.
Wow, are the Texas Rangers getting cocky or what? They make it to their first World Series and all of a sudden they are flexing the mouths with a war of words with the New York Yankees. Texas Owner Chuck Greenberg commented that the Rangers kept the chase for Cliff Lee going long enough for the Philles to sneak in and take Lee from the clutches of the Yankees. In response, Yankees President Randy Levine fired back that Greenberg was “delusional” and mind your own business and keep your team off “welfare.” "I think Chuck is delusional," Levine told ESPNewYork.com. "He has been running the Rangers for a few minutes and seems to believe he's mastered what everyone else is thinking. I think he should let Cliff Lee speak for himself. I'll be impressed when he demonstrates he can keep the Rangers off welfare. What I mean is make them not be a revenue-sharing recipient for three years in a row, without taking financing from baseball or advance money from television networks. Then I'll be impressed."
Here is a clip of my cousin and his son having a great time driving in the snow, singing along:
This just goes to show you America does have talent!!!
Navy Term:
Sea Lawyer: Old Navy, a person who is forever arguing about everything and anything aboard the ship, with a view of getting out of work. Today’s Navy a Sea Lawyer is one who thinks they know everything and parts that information on the less knowledgeable.
Pictures by: Antonio Cromartie-cbschicago.files.wordpress.com, Roger Goodell - usavored.com, DeMaurice Smith - static.businessinsider.com, Ray Lewis - unlockedsports.com, Darnell Dockett - billvolhein.com, Robert G. Burton - ctnews.com, UCONN Logo with dog - posters.ws/image, Brian Cashman - siboundsthe4.mlblogs.com, Texas Rangers - arclubs.org, New York Yankees - frontrowking.com, Hal Steinbrenner - nymag.com
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To say I’m not surprised we’re here is an understatement, this has obviously been coming for a while, a few of us predicted it, a couple of us have written about it only to be told we don’t know what we’re talking about. However, when you watch the numbers and have at least half a sense of how business works it was pretty clear to see that a website that did everything it could do to piss off its customer base was bound to end up either going in a different direction or folding.
When TSN announced this week that they were disbanding the site in its current form many immediately came out and started exchanging their emails and messages of goodbye. They also voiced their displeasure over the call. Now they might be eliminating the community there in the current form it is in, but whatever it is they’re planning is not going over very well. The rug was pulled out from under many who have called that place home for sports commentary and camaraderie from as far back as 2004, and from the looks of the site that they’re installing there’s not much chance that’s really what people want. Was it a bad business move? I think so. Jeff Price, the new president of TSN thinks what people really want is sports on the go, which is another way to say he’s banking on the Blackberry crowd for a lot of traffic. I’ve looked at the current posts up by their writing staff and only one had any “LIKES”, which in translation means so far no one is interested in the idea of promoting this format at all.
Personally I’d like to see the research Price used before he came to this decision, because from what I’m looking at right now it makes me say –“I’m not getting it”, I understand the concept, I’m just not sure it was wise to begin a networking format when the whole idea behind it depends on reader’s promoting it and the very reader’s you’ve counted on for years are being shafted so it’s hard to fathom they’d stay around to do you a favor. It also seems the demographic they’ll be reaching are those in the 17-25 age group with the launch of Rowdy.com and that as of now isn’t even complete. So it’s safe to say they didn’t learn anything from the 2.0 debacle that blew up in their face. What a mess that was if you recall.
But from one’s loss is another’s gain, we’ve learned a few of the member’s at TSN are launching in the coming month or so their own site and we wish them all the luck in the world with that, and we also have seen some rollover from TSN as well. If the powers that be would like to know where all their traffic went, all they need to do is click to a few outside places and they’ll see where they went, because they aren’t there. When they stop by here I’ll personally hand Jeff Price and Marcus DiNitto (when he makes his way back from Santa Monica, where he was sent to work with Yahoo on TSN’s behalf) their very own Gold Plunger by Binford, because this week “Sporting News FEED” is the “YGS Tool of the Week”!!!
The runner up in this week’s voting was Antonio Cromartie from the New York Jets, who has so many kids, mostly three year olds, that he has trouble remembering their names on command. There are only a couple of reasons I could see this happening; one, he hasn’t ever met them, so out of site out of mind, or, he’s just not in the practice of writing their names on the memo line of his child support checks. Either way, it sure looked pretty bad on camera for this year’s Hard Knock’s show on HBO. There he was, eye’s rolling, trying to name them and count them on his fingers, pausing between names like he was asked to name the 50 states alphabetically…what a dolt. I don’t know what’s worse, that he had an over-active libido that produced numerous offspring in ’07-08, or that he never thought to consult Larry Johnson first before he went without purchasing at least one box of Trojans. For Antonio, we at the Gab have a real special surprise; Antonio gets to choose from one of these two gifts, we’re donating either a lifetime supply of stickers that say “HELLO, My NAME IS…” or the cost of a vasectomy. We’ll let you all know what Antonio says when we hear back from his agent, if he can remember who it is.
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