As you may know, they beat the Cowboys last night to win the NFC East title. While I may hate football, I hate the Cowboys, too. Everyone around here hates the Cowboys (and the Mets, and the Rangers).
Category: Sports
Outta here!
Charlie Manuel, general manager of the Phillies.
Allen Iverson
Rock bottom. Poster boy for how poorly prepared professional athletes are for real life.
My gift to you
How Lance doped his fans
Evidence? OK, here you are:
Lance Armstrong said he wanted to see the names of his accusers. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency gave him 26, including 11 former teammates.
The world’s most famous cyclist said he wanted to see the hard evidence that he was a doper. The agency gave him that, too: About 200 pages filled with vivid details – from the hotel rooms riders transformed into makeshift blood-transfusion centers to the way Armstrong’s former wife rolled cortisone pills into foil and handed them out to all the cyclists.
In all, a USADA report released Wednesday gives the most detailed, unflinching portrayal yet of Armstrong as a man who, day after day, week after week, year after year, spared no expense – financially, emotionally or physically – to win the seven Tour de France titles that the anti-doping agency has ordered taken away.
NFL players paid to injure — shocking!
By Odd Man Out
They’re calling it a “bounty” scandal, but I must be missing something. Aren’t all NFL players — all those who play defense, that is — rewarded for “inflicting injuries on opposing players” while trying to keep the opposing team from scoring points? More here.
Two Philly marathon runners collapse, die
Marathon fatalities are uncommon, but that doesn’t make what happened today any less sad:
Officials confirmed that a 21-year-old Asian male collapsed at the finish line, while a 40-year-old white male collapsed a quarter of a mile before the finish line. Both men were taken to Hahnemann University Hospital and pronounced dead of apparent heart attacks. More here.
Before training for a marathon, see your doctor.