Update: per the information in Jim’s comment below, the Eli Manning on Twitter is apparently a fake. This week, as a change of pace, the Sports Tweet of the Week presents…no, that’s not true. To be honest, I didn’t look once all week at AthleteTweets.com or WeFollow.com to see what our Twitterlicious sports personalities were [...]
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“Moneyball” flick may be struck out
Variety reports that “Moneyball,” the Steven Soderbergh film starring Brad Pitt as Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane (not to be confused with openly gay former ballplayer Billy Bean) may be in trouble. The report says that Columbia Pictures has put the production in “limited turnaround” because studio head Amy Pascal felt the final draft [...]
Sports Tweet of the Week: NBA’s lifesaver
My award this week doesn’t go to the best tweet but to the athlete himself. More on that in a moment. Here are some other gems: Texas Rangers pitcher C. J. Wilson needed to vent on a writer-turned-ESPN personality: why anyone listens or cares about what skip bayless says is beyond me, and every athlete [...]
TMZ angers Lenny Dykstra
With major league ballplayer-turned-financial wizard Lenny Dykstra’s financial woes making news recently, the sight of a Rolls-Royce owned by Dykstra seemingly being repossessed might seem like another sign of his money problems. So when photos of the car being towed from his work in Camarillo, California reached the folks at TMZ, they naturally contacted Dykstra [...]
Why the Cubs must NEVER win the Series
Denise Richards “singing” Take Me Out To The Ballgame in the seventh-inning stretch at Wrigley Field on Friday: [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S77mIxm75PA] If the Cubs are going to keep this “tradition” going (it’s not really a tradition now; that died with Harry Caray) they have got to screen these people first. At least Ozzy Osburne’s rendition (after the [...]
Bulls-Celtics awesome, Sixers far from it
Last night’s NBA playoff action featured a tremendous display in which the Chicago Bulls forced a seventh and deciding game in their first-round series against the Boston Celtics with a 128-127 triple-overtime win. Of the six games, four have gone to OT, with a total of seven extra periods. Absolutely classic. And then there was [...]
Celine Dion to buy Canadiens?
This just about leaves me speechless. Among the possible bidders for the Montreal Canadiens (as well as the Bell Centre arena and a concert promotion division) is none other than singer Celine Dion. I assume the arena and concert promotion angles are really what interests her. Montreal fans will remain loyal to the Canadiens — [...]
Sports getting all a-Twitter
Imagine for a moment that you’re a professional athlete. (If any of you reading this happen to be a pro athlete, this will be easier for you because you won’t have to imagine. Also, feel free to call me anytime. Just to chat.) As one of the best of the best, the cream of the [...]
Fallon does A-Rod
The newest late-night talk show host, Jimmy Fallon, provides us with his version of the Alex Rodriguez kissing-his-mirror-image photo. From the Huffington Post, a look at the two side-by-side: Can someone work some Photoshop magic to make it look like Fallon is kissing A-Rod? Am I a naughty boy for suggesting such a thing? Share [...]
Nats look like J-Lo now, says Tavarez
Back in April 2001, then-Cubs pitcher Julian Tavarez ripped San Francisco fans who booed him in a game by saying, “Why should I care about the fans? They’re a bunch of assholes and faggots here.” The next day he apologized, but he still rated 2.5 out of 5 Rockers on the Outsports Anti-Gay List (the [...]
Dykstra article alleges homophobia and more
With the recession continuing to ravage the nation, there’s been a lot of discussion about last week’s interview of CNBC’s Jim “Mad Money” Cramer by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. Stewart effectively picked apart Cramer’s reputation as a financial expert (at least from some reports — I didn’t watch it myself so I can’t [...]
Things that make Joe sorta happy today
The title is self-explanatory, I think. Some news items caught my eye today that aren’t exactly as wonderful as, say, a World Series victory, but they put a little jump in my step: No more annoying Frank TV ads during postseason baseball! According to this story promoting Frank Caliendo’s appearance in Atlantic City this weekend, [...]
Hockey and sex mix onstage in Canada
Attention Canadians, and anyone else planning visits to the Great White North: does the phrase “He shoots, he scores!” excite you a little more than usual? Does the thought of making it with a hockey player turn you on? Or maybe you just have a fetish for goalie pads? If any of this applies, this [...]
Hamels outshine other Philly ‘reality’ couples
I’ve been meaning to write recently about what I see as a disturbing trend: Philadelphia pro athletes being linked to “reality” television and its questionable participants in some way. It started in late 2006 when Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels married Heidi Strobel, a contestant during the sixth season of Survivor. On the program, Strobel and [...]
SB XLIII: sloppy but fun
Before the Super Bowl got under way I came up with what I thought might be the typical perspective on the game coming from an Eagles fan: Arizona wins: “I can’t believe the Steelers lost! What a bunch of chokers!” Pittsburgh wins a close one: “Dammit, the Eagles could’ve beaten Pittsburgh — if only they [...]