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Yuki Kondo now has an opponent for his second fight of his Pancrase homecoming.
Fresh off of his successful title defense against Daijiro Matsui on August 27th, Kondo announced he would return to the ring at Pancrase’s October 1st stop in Osaka for the 2006 BLOW TOUR. Now, Pancrase has announced that Kondo will meet Frenchman Jean Francois Lenogue as Kondo attempts to regain the confidence that has dimmed with his shortcomings and disappointments in the PRIDE ring as of late.
A veteran of England’s Cage Rage promotion, this will be Lenogue’s second stop in Osaka this year, as he fought South Korean up-and-comer Ju Pyo Hong to a draw at Real Rhythm’s Fourth Stage card in July. Lenogue had already competed five times this year, going 4-1, and now will attempt to make a big splash in his second trip inside the rings of Japan and upset the enduring Pancrase icon.
SEGA SAMMY Presents PANCRASE: 2006 BLOW TOUR
October 1st, 2006
Umeda Stella Hall
Osaka, Japan
Doors Open: 15:00
Fights Start: 16:30
Tentative Fight Card (Card Subject To Change):
Pancrase Athena Bout
56 KG, 3R 3M
Asuka Ito (Pancrase Inagakigumi) vs. Rin Nakai (Paraestra Ehime)
64 KG, 2R 5M
Naoji Fujimoto (Pancrase Inagakigumi) vs Yuichi Miyagi (REAL)
64 KG, 2R 5M
Takashi Hasegawa (Pancrase Inagakigumi) vs Kenta Nakamura (Zendokai Hiroshima)
64 KG, 2R 5M
Daichi Fujiwara (Pancrase Inagakigumi) vs Hirayasu Takayuki (Hokutoki Yamaguchi)
69 KG, 2R 5M
Kohichi Tanaka (Musou Senjyutsu) vs Kenji Takeshige (Pancrase Inagakigumi)
90 KG, 3R 5M
Yuki Kondo (PANCRASEism) vs. Jean Francois Lenogue (Freelance)
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We mean no offense to Redskins fans, but when your owner is hosting Tom Cruise in his luxury box — when he’s staying at your owner’s house — we kind of think that maybe you deserve to lose.
Sorry: That’s kind of what we think.
Cruise Family To Join Snyder At Redskins Game [The Washington Post]
(Photo from The Washington Post.)
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You know, we watched football all day yesterday, and it absolutely wore us out. As great as it is, that’s a lot of football. But imagine that actually starting at night.
That’s what we get tonight, with a rather unfathomable NFL “Monday Night Football” doubleheader. You know, we have to say, if Tony Kornheiser really took his job seriously, he’d broadcast BOTH games. Lazy candy ass.
The two games tonight — as is the custom this season — aren’t necessarily the most compelling games of the week, particularly if Clinton Portis doesn’t play for Washington and Jeff George doesn’t play for Oakland. But there will be football going on until 1:30 a.m. ET tonight, and that’s really kind of amazing, and absolutely unprecedented.
The first game is still Kornheiser, Joe Theisman and Hands Tirico, while the second game is the odd team of Brad Nessler, Ron Jaworski and … Dick Vermeil!
We’re gonna try to make it through both games … but we have to get up early tomorrow. Enjoy.
Monday Night Football Doubleheader [Seattle Times]
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If you needed another reason that the late Wilt Chamberlain was countless times more interesting than all-time scoring champ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, we bring you this gossip item from today’s New York Daily News.
New neighbors of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar were crying foul yesterday after the NBA great apparently dumped a huge pile of trash - complete with a pair of old size-17 sneakers - in the front yard of a home next-door to his Harlem brownstone. The sneakers, a Los Angeles Lakers ID card and a front row ticket for last spring’s NCAA basketball championship game were buried amid the pile of flattened boxes dumped in a neighbor’s front yard.
You think that’s good? We love the next line: “There was also a Dear Kareem postcard from a masseuse, a blow gun and an empty cardboard box for a martial arts kendo sword.” Sweet, a kendo sword! Badass!
Wilt made the gossip pages for bedding so many women that the number needed scientific notation. Kareem makes them for dumping trash on a neighbor’s lawn. Hey, you try to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes.
Curbing Kareem [New York Daily News]
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They opened up the Pink Taco yesterday … and the Black Eyed Peas welcomed a new member.
Honestly, Big Red’s a freaking sellout.
On The Right Track [Arizona Republic]
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If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a million times; when football broadcasters are allowed to attempt humor — especially at Fox Sports — it’s all of us who suffer. Coming out OK in the end, though, was Carolina superfan Greg Good, known to all as Catman. Let’s wrap up the details for you once again. It was on August 24, during Carolina’s preseason game with Miami, that Fox broadcasters thought they’d play a joke on Carolina’s No. 1 fan. They told him that he had won a free car … and then filmed the hilarity as sideline reporter Tony Siragusa handed Catman his prize, which was a toy car.
Hardly anyone found it funny, least of all Catman, whose actual car — an Econoline van — had more than 150,000 miles on it. Many of those were recorded traveling to his weekday volunteer job, counseling troubled youth.. The public outcry at the hoax forced Fox’s hand, and they ended up giving Catman a brand new Ford F-150 pickup on Sunday. Said Fox Sports Chairman and CEO David Hill, who flew in to hand Good the keys:
We’ve had extensive conversation with all of the Fox announcers involved, and they’ve agreed that what they’ll do from now on is talk about football. They will leave the comedy to the comedians.
Has anyone told Bradshaw?
Catman Gets His Truck [Charlotte Observer]
Fox Sports Car Giveaway Joke On Panthers Fan Was Cruel And “Lame” [Rammer Jammer Yewllow Hammer]
Fox’s Joke On Fan Just Plain Mean [Charlotte Observer]
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Fresh off of their return to their main series of events, ZST’s executive office has announced that their stars will be in tow for ZST.11.
Returning again to Differ Ariake on November 23rd, ZST have revealed that the card will feature the bulk of their most outstanding talent, including HERO’S stars Hideo Tokoro and Remigijus Morkevicius, as well as Shuichiro Katsumura and Naoyuki Kotani. Also announced for competition are GT-F2 winner Baret Yoshida, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu world champion Rubens “Cobrinha” Charles, fresh off of his win at the Mundials this past July.
ZST Executive Office Presents ZST.11
November 23rd, 2006
Differ Ariake
Tokyo, Japan
Doors Open: 16:30
Fights Start: 17:30
Scheduled To Participate:
Hideo Tokoro (Reversal Gym)
Remigijus Morkevicius (Titanis Gym)
Naoyuki Kotani (Rodeo Style)
Shuichiro Katsumura (Katsumura Dojo)
Baret Yoshida (SD Undisputed Gym)
Rubens Charles (TT Jiu-Jitsu)
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For some time, we’ve been hoping to get more kids to come to the site, and we’re not going to let things like using “fuck” and “shit” in sentences get the way anymore.
Despite our use of such language, the truth is we almost always use complete sentences, and our grammar is correct 60% of the time - YAYsports! could be a valuable tool for schools in this way.
Anyway, NBA.com is running a Photo of the Year contest, and while we think none of the dunkfest photos in the running compare to this one (for real - minus the “81″), we do see how we can use the competition to further our education agenda.
Therefore, a game for the kids. We’ve taken a photo and made five very subtle changes to it. The first person to note in the comments section all five correctly (IN ORDER), will win a YAYsports! t-shirt of their choice from the YAYsports! Store of Purchasable Items. (12 different shirts now available!)
Okey - here’s the before; study it carefully - you only get one shot at this:
And now the after:
And…get your guesses in! Can’t you just smell that new “Zeke for Prez” shirt?
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