Category: Sports

IOC backs Phelps over pot pipe

So Phelps gets busted for smoking pot but IOC comes out and bails him. But I don’t see why this is such a big deal. The dude’s 23, a grown man, and can do whatever he wants to do when he’s not competing.

The dope test is only valid before and after the competition. During the off-season a man can do whatever he wants to do, and it’s nobody’s business.

bbc.co.uk

EA Sports, it’s in the game! Actually, even if it’s not, it will be

Well this certainly isn’t the first time a professional sports team is using a video game to scout for talents. Chelsea or Arsenal or whomever (I forget) used FIFA and Winning Eleven series before. But this is the first time a major league team in the North America to employ a video game.

Houston Rockets, as long as you don’t trade Yao I will always love your incompetent management team.

latimes.com

The 10 things

This is simply too awesome to not post. Thanks Mel!

Here are the top 10 comments made by NBC sports commentators during the Summer Olympics that they would like to take back but, alas . . .

1. Weightlifting commentator: “This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria. I saw her snatch this morning during her warm up and it was amazing.”

2. Dressage commentator: “This is really a lovely horse and I speak from personal experience since I once mounted her mother.”

3. Paul Hamm, Gymnast: “I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father.”

4. Boxing Analyst: “Sure there have been injuries, and even some deaths in boxing, but none of them really that serious.”

5. Softball announcer: “If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.”

6. Basketball analyst: “He dribbles a lot and the opposition doesn’t like it. In fact you can see it all over their faces.”

7. At the rowing medal ceremony: “Ah, isn’t that nice, the wife of the IOC president is hugging the cox of the British crew.”

8. Soccer commentator: “Julian Dicks is everywhere. It s like they’ve got eleven Dicks on the field.”

9. Tennis commentator: “One of the reasons Andy is playing so well is that, before the final round, his wife takes out his balls and kisses them… Oh my God, what have I just said?”

10. Another favorite is during the diving competitions two nights ago the commentator said… “Look at that… you aren’t getting anything between those legs.”