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You know, this is the NBA Finals, the World Cup, the start of some obviously exciting baseball pennant races and, of course, ant soccer. One would think it would be our one Terrell Owens-free time of the year.
As anyone who watched Game 1 of the Heat-Mavericks series last night knows … nope! Not only was Terrell there in a Miami Heat jersey — which is actually only in the top five of anti-Dallas actions Owens has taken in the last few years — but he’s also having some trouble with that kids football camp he was hosting. He showed up late.
It was 3 p.m. The group of nearly 60 campers attending the Terrell Owens Youth Football Camp was ready for the star attraction. By 4 p.m., the time the first day of the two-day event was supposed to end, they were irritated. By 4:30, a few of them left. “Where is T.O.?!” one young boy screamed. A parent exhaled, “I’m through with him.”
T.O. did officially show up, and he had this piece of advice for the kids: “You can be anything you want to be,” he said. “It starts at home listening to your parents. Do well in school. Do that, and you can buy as many things as you want.” Yep. That’s exactly what you should shoot for, and exactly how it happened for T.O.
Kids Enjoy T.O. Time, Even If It’s Overtime [Star-Telegram]
Typical Terrell [The 700 Level]
Continue Reading June 9th, 2006
You know, this is the NBA Finals, the World Cup, the start of some obviously exciting baseball pennant races and, of course, ant soccer. One would think it would be our one Terrell Owens-free time of the year.
As anyone who watched Game 1 of the Heat-Mavericks series last night knows … nope! Not only was Terrell there in a Miami Heat jersey — which is actually only in the top five of anti-Dallas actions Owens has taken in the last few years — but he’s also having some trouble with that kids football camp he was hosting. He showed up late.
It was 3 p.m. The group of nearly 60 campers attending the Terrell Owens Youth Football Camp was ready for the star attraction. By 4 p.m., the time the first day of the two-day event was supposed to end, they were irritated. By 4:30, a few of them left. “Where is T.O.?!” one young boy screamed. A parent exhaled, “I’m through with him.”
T.O. did officially show up, and he had this piece of advice for the kids: “You can be anything you want to be,” he said. “It starts at home listening to your parents. Do well in school. Do that, and you can buy as many things as you want.” Yep. That’s exactly what you should shoot for, and exactly how it happened for T.O.
Kids Enjoy T.O. Time, Even If It’s Overtime [Star-Telegram]
Typical Terrell [The 700 Level]
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OK, probably time for a Jason Grimsley update.
First off, in the biggest news of the day, trainer Chris Mihlfeld has denied our source’s report that his name is in the document. (In multiple places.)
“I just don’t want my name to be part of this,” Mihlfeld said. “It’s not fair to me. It’s not fair to my family. It’s not fair to the other players I work with. It’s not fair to the kids I work with … They’ve got the wrong name on that deal.
“I know Jason Grimsley very well. And I have only two statements to make. One, Jason Grimsley is still my good friend. And two, I’ve never been involved in any illegal steroids, amphetamines or HGH activity. Period.”
Mihlfeld also said Jason Grimsley’s lawyer told him he wasn’t in the affidavit either. Our source stands behind his/her story, so we have no choice but to do so ourselves. After our report yesterday, there’s all kinds of business blowing up out there. The Boston Herald has dragged the tortured soul of Chuck Knoblauch into this. Meanwhile, someone dug up an invite Mihlfeld sent out about the opening of his training faciity. (Thanks to The Sports Frog on this one.) To quote:
We also have more important dates to announce Mike Sweeney from the K.C. Royals will be there on Jan 14th 06 to do a camp with Chris Mihlfeld. Also Albert Pujols will be back in early Feb for a hitting clinic, and Jason Grimsley will be there at the end of January for pitching clinics.
By the way, we feel obliged to — once again — clarify our initial report. A few facts:
• There is no claim that Albert Pujols has taken HGH.
• There is no claim that Mihlfeld was in any way a distributor of HGH, or steroids.
• There is a source — whose confidence has always been rated at “80 percent” — who says Mihlfeld’s name is in the report. Mihlfeld has denied this, and we, as always, hope he’s right. As anyone who has ever read this site knows, Albert Pujols is our favorite player. We own four different pieces of merchandise with his name on it. We are out to get no one, least of all him.
Regardless of Mihlfeld’s name in the report, the connection of Grimsley to Mihlfeld and Mihlfeld to Pujols is now officially established. When you read the full report, and read the full breadth of Grimsley’s steroid/HGH/amphetamine abuse, the man who trained him back from a brutal Tommy John surgery is sure to remain under suspicion, fairly or otherwise.
Former Royals Trainer Denies Steroid Involvement [Kansas City Star]
Announcement [eTeamz]
Jason Grimsley Diary [MLB.com]
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UPDATE: Go to the Gobbly chat - this thing is sweet. We’re in there right now!
We don’t know what it is, but thanks to this World Cup related contest about boobs called the World Cups, we’re mildly interested enough to liveblog the first 15-20 minutes. Maybe 30 if there are lots of boobs.
Honestly though, part of the reason we don’t like soccer is because so many of the players look like they should be either getting busted by Dateline or trying to “make the love to a rich American A+ woman. Hello, baby. Enrico is here now and it is in the house.” You know the type.
Look at that Dateline dude Shaq’s looking at. Then look at the chick he’s with. Regardless, there are actually many good looking women in the soccer world, including Cheryl Tweedy, who sings in some English (?) girl group. We’ll begin - after the jump!
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As a lifelong soccer hater, I’ve never given a damn about World Cup. This year feels different though. I’ve been reading about it. Talking about it. Even blogging about it. And now that it has begun — Germany-Costa Rica! — I’m actually watching it.
For all of your World Cup needs, especially of the liveblogging variety, head over to WorldCupBlog.org. With at least a half-dozen Americans over in Germany, it truly is a whiz-bang operation. We’re less than 15 minutes into the first match, and they’ve already taught me a new term: “cracker.” As in, “GOAAAAAAAAAAL. Philipp Lahm with a brilliant cracker from just inside the corner of the box. Burries it in the corner. Lots of movement on the ball in air. Stunning start to the World Cup . 1-0 Germany”
A brilliant cracker. If that doesn’t get you jazzed about soccer, then go to YouTube and watch Ronaldinho videos and hear Bob from World Cup Blog on SBL.
Ronaldinho!
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The Knicks were apparently upset that Larry Brown left the Orlando draft camp a day early, which is strange considering they don’t want him there anyway.
“I’ve seem them all, I know them all,” Brown said of the camp’s participants before leaving the complex at Disney’s Wide World of Sports. “I can tell you everything about them.”
“I’m doing my job,” he said. [Hilarious Isiah] Thomas declined to comment.
He may have declined, but Denver coach and Brown friend George Karl did, stating that coaches can be “paranoid and emotional”. Clearly he was speaking of other coaches - not himself.
His point is valid, though. We felt it may go this way, and the pendulum is starting to swing Larry’s way. Let the guy go already - he has at least 2 or 3 solid years of franchise and player destruction left in him, and by tying him up all summer, you’re only depriving others.
Peter Vecsey adds a gleeful 700 words that this is all his fault, and that the Knicks should be praised for managing to stay in the headlines.
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And come with us, dear readers, to watch how an offense can find itself escalating …
We present Portland Trail Blazers forward Zack Randolph, and his early-morning escapades yesterday.
• Randolph was a passenger in a car at 3:15 a.m. Nothing wrong there.
• The driver ran a red light. Hey, it happens.
• The police said the driver — it was Randolph’s car — was “speed racing.” Didn’t they do a movie about that?
• The arresting officer said Randolph had “a definitive odor of marijuana.” Uh-oh.
• While searching the car, police found two loaded handguns under the driver’s seat. Well …
As a way of making the situation as easy for himself as possible, Randolph refused to give the police keys to his car, making it more difficult for them to tow it. They eventually figured out a way, though.
Randolph Stopped In Speed-Racing Incident [Oregon Live] (via True Hoop)
Continue Reading June 9th, 2006
Lots of activity and talk down at the Orlando draft thingie, and while definite moves don’t necessarily come out of it, sometimes definitive statements do.
For example, amid rabid fan speculation that Cavaliers center Zydrunas Ilgauskas is going to be shopped around this summer, Danny Ferry went ahead and shushed everyone.
‘’I believe he’ll be a part of many wins ahead,'’ Ferry said at Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex. ‘’He’s a big part of what we do.'’
One prominent agent said trading Ilgauskas doesn’t make sense. ‘’It would be almost impossible to replace him,'’ he said.
Granted that’s true of almost anyone in the NBA outside the Collins brothers, but we understand and agree with the point. Z slumped in the playoffs - he was admittedly nervous, plus coach Mike Brown’s system didn’t exactly utilize one of the few true centers in the NBA.
Which brings up the next point - Ferry says they probably won’t be adding an offensive assistant to the coaching staff. We can’t say that’s completely surprising, but we can allow words like “scary” and “crushing blow to our hopes and dreams”.
All that said, these could all be smokescreens - Z may be on his way to LA for Kobe, according to some typically outlandish message board trade scenarios. That’d be part of that big three-way with Minnesota where KG ends up in Cleveland for Ira Newble and cash.
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