Month: July 2008

Kenny Chesney's "Poets and Pirates" tour reached Lincoln Financial Field on Saturday night. Appropriately, the country singer's concert was interrupted for a rendition of the Eagles' Fight Song: [youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=NdQmcl76Yow] "Fly Eagles Fly" — what would Chesney's friend Peyton Manning think? — Joe Guckin Kenny Chesney's "Poets and Pirates" tour reached Lincoln Financial Field on Saturday […]

Candace Parker proves that it’s not just male athletes who are ill tempered. Parker, of the Los Angeles Sparks, threw down with Lisa Leslie and her Detroit Shock in the closing seconds of a game on Tuesday. The Shock, ironically, are coached by former NBA bad boy Bill Laimbeer. This comes just three day after […]

Nike’s new ad campaign for its Hyperdunk shoe is causing a stir. The six new spots from Wieden & Kennedy, which are starting to surface before the shoe debuts later this month, include variations on two basketball players with one getting a face full of crotch as the other jumps past him. Taglines include “Say […]

Some Nike crotch-to-the-face ads are catching “homophobic” heat By Cyd Zeigler jr. A Nike ad is hitting the streets, and some people are calling it “homophobic;” others, even many gay men, are saying, “not so fast.” The ad features a basketball player in white dunking on another player in a red uniform. The focus of […]

Organizers at the 29th Annual National Sports Collector’s Convention say they are offering a record $25,000 if disgraced Chicago Cubs fans Steve Bartman shows up and signs an autograph at the event in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont. Bartman entered baseball lore and earned the ire of Cub fans everywhere on Oct. 14, 2003, when […]

If you're a Dallas Cowboys fan planning to travel to see the Cowboys play the Arizona Cardinals this fall, the Cardinals have a message for you: stay away. Well, it's actually sort of a mixed message. Cowboys fans can buy tickets, but there's a catch. The Cardinals would like to keep fans of the team […]

It’s been a busy 48 hours in the trade market . . . As we said, Jason Taylor has done his last Neutrogena commercial as a Dolphin. (As a Dolphins fan, I'm a little bummed, I knew it had to happen, but I wish it had gone down with a little less bitterness on both […]

Eighteenth in a series. Game: Chicago Cubs at Houston Astros, 7/19/08Broadcasts: Chicago — Comcast Sportsnet Chicago, Announcers: Len Kasper (play-by-play), Bob Brenly (analyst); Houston — FSN Houston, Announcers: Bill Brown (play-by-play), Jim Deshaies (analyst), Patti Smith (reporter – and woman number six out of 17 teams reviewed thus far) You may remember — at least […]

Bill Parcells has danced his last jig with Jason Taylor. The six-time Pro Bowler, the NFL’s reigning Man of the Year and 2006 defensive player of the year is heading to the Washington Redskins after the Miami Dolphins finally gave him what he wants – a trade. The downhill dance between Parcells and Taylor started […]

Danica Patrick, the hottie pro racer who won her first IndyCar race in April, also has a hot temper. She confronted fellow female racer Milka Duno on Saturday after practice at the Honda Indy 200 IRL. Patrick was irked by Duno’ racetrack etiquette. Duno responded by throwing a towel at Patrick – twice. Of course, […]

Seventeenth in a series. Broadcast: Detroit Tigers on FSN Detroit, Tigers at Baltimore, 7/17/08; Announcers: Mario Impemba (play-by-play), Rod Allen (analyst) Normally, the MLB Extra Innings package for digital cable provides just one team’s broadcast for each available game. However, for the first few days after the All-Star break, they’ve run a free preview and […]

It’s been several hours since I first saw this, and I still haven’t found a good explanation for why the Clippers’ Baron Davis and the Suns’ Steve Nash were dressed, as one blogger (and the photo originator) put it, “like extras from the Cosby Show and Weekend at Bernies” riding a tandem bike in Santa […]

More signs that the Beijing Olympics may be among the strangest ever held, in a cultural sense: Chinese authorities have ordered the hot Beijing gay club Destination to shut its dance floor until further notice, in another sign of a crackdown prior to the Aug. 8 start of the Olympics. More signs that the Beijing […]

Get ready for the blackout Games if China has its way. With the Olympics less than three weeks away, news organizations are nervous, including host U.S. broadcaster NBC, about the restrictions being imposed on news coverage as the communist country with a capitalist bent seeks to put the best light possible on itself. One of […]

I DVR’d the final round of the British Open and when I got around to watching it –with a break to watch the Angels sweep the Red Sox– there was one shot that summed up the day at Royal Birkdale for me: Greg Norman teed off and he hit the ball so badly that the […]

It’s that time of the summer when I start listening to about a half dozen fantasy football podcasts, including the FootballGuys. On their Thursday podcast, a Bills fan called in and had this to say about the deceased fellow Bills fan Tim Russert: "I gotta think this year, if the Bills have a close game, […]

From Outsports cartoonist Dylan Edwards. See his Outsports cartoon archive. From Outsports cartoonist Dylan Edwards. See his Outsports cartoon archive.

I’m a staunch atheist, have been since I was 12, but I do firmly believe in one quasi-religious concept, redemption, when it comes to sports. My example this week is the Australian, Greg Norman, who's having a dream British Open under trying conditions at Royal Birkdale, in the North of England on the Irish Sea. […]

Don’t know how we missed this one. Actually, I do – we were on vacation. But another collegiate swimmer has come out of the closet publicly, this time UMBC junior Fred Deal. UMBC, for those who don’t know, is University of Maryland Baltimore County (believe it or not, their basketball team was in the NCAA […]

– Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee sprinter who spent years in court fighting for the right to participate in the Olympics, failed to make the South African team, missing the qualifying 400-meter time of 45.55 by 0.70 seconds and not being selected for the relay team. He blames the court fight for taking him away from […]