Usain Bolt > Michael Phelps

Bolt not only has the clear-cut better name but he is quite the character. After his 100 meter race Bolt reveled that he doesn’t exactly have the most conventional diet for a runner. He said. “I woke around 11am and decided to watch some TV and had some nuggets.” Some nuggets? This guy is a [...]

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He’s back; Chris Henry has 9 lives

President Mike Brown, April 3, 2008:
“Chris Henry has forfeited his opportunity to pursue a career with the Bengals. His conduct can no longer be tolerated. The Bengals tried for an extended period of time to support Chris and his potentially bright career. We had hoped to guide him toward an appropriate standard of personal responsibility [...]

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Joba; the most dominating pitcher in the game?

“I think it’s very simple, we’ve been devastated by injuries. No team I’ve ever seen in baseball has been decimated like this. It would kill any team,” Steinbrenner said. “Imagine the Red Sox without (Josh) Beckett and (Jon) Lester. Pitching is 70 percent of the game. Wang won 19 games two straight years. Chamberlain became [...]

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Brett Favre still doesn’t get it

If you happened to catch the Brett Favre train wreck of a press conference yesterday evening you are lucky. It isn’t everyday you get to see something so painful. I want to dissect some of the comments from the Brett Favre portion of the press conference.
First of all what Brett doesn’t understand is that this [...]

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Kobe ain’t reasonable

“I’d go. I’d probably go,” said Bryant, during a USA Basketball press conference on Friday morning. “Like Milan or something like that, where I grew up or something like that… Peace out.”
Bryant continued: “Do you know any reasonable person that would turn down 50 (million dollars)?”
I’m not 100% sure that I am comfortable with Kobe’s [...]

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