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Mixed Martial Arts— Pride, UFC, and Strikeforce Attendance Breakdownby Ivan TrembowOriginally Published on MMAWeeklyMMAWeekly has obtained the live gate information for recent MMA events held by Pride, the UFC, and Strikeforce.When most organizations…
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We’d like to thank Joe Sports Fan for this photo of a true Cardinals superfan; this is exactly what we’re wearing to the game tomorrow.
It’s Game 3 tonight, the first World Series game at the new Busch Stadium, and it’s a definitive series-turner. If the Cardinals can win behind Chris Carpenter, they can send The Dominant Machine That Is Jeff Suppan out for Game 4 to take a huge lead. If the Tigers win, they retake control of the series and will have to be overwhelming favorites to close the thing out, perhaps even in St. Louis.
It’s Carpenter vs. Nate Robertson, and for the sake of all that is holy, please keep them the hell away from the pine tar stash.
We’re not heading to St. Louis until tomorrow, so we’ll be watching this in the comfort (and warmth) of our Mattoon home. We encourage everyone to chat along in the comments — look how much fun it is! — and we’ll be back postgame to grouse, revel or just pontificate. Enjoy, and we don’t just mean the mute button.
Cardinals Fan Of The Week [Joe Sports Fan]
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We don’t mean to imply that Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is suffering from an alarmingly high number of ailments right now, but we think we saw this sign on a telephone pole outside our current Mattoon dwelling earlier today.
It turns out that Roethlisberger’s head injury on Sunday was not terribly severe, as much as any head injury isn’t “terribly severe,” and he should be good to go against the Raiders on Sunday. His agent said that he talked to Roethlisberger on Sunday and he “was coherent and aware of everything that had occurred.” And hey, that’s a great sign! That’s more than we can say about some of our weekends.
Honesty, by the end of the season, Roethlisberger is gonna be taped up and carted around the Steelers backfield, “Weekend At Bernie’s” style. It beats Charlie Batch, anyway.
Roethlisberger Set To Play Sunday [Rotowire]
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Not that you couldn’t see this coming, but we’ll confess, it’s somewhat sooner than we necessarily expected.
Looks like Buzzsaw running back Edgerrin James, who has yet to hit the 100-yard mark, is realizing just what kind of mess he has gotten himself into in Arizona.
“I got a lot of warnings,” James said when asked about coming to Arizona. “I’m just out there, trying to run, looking for somewhere to run and put it where I’m told to put it at.”
In the words of G.O.B.: “I’ve made a terrible mistake.”
James Still Talking, Now Questioning His Move To Arizona [The Fanhouse]
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We’re not heading to St. Louis until tomorrow, and that’s probably for the best: Sometimes, it’s kind of difficult to be a Cardinals fan.
From InsideSTL, on the national anthem and “God Bless America” singers at Busch Stadium this week:
Here’s your 2006 World Series musical performers:
Game 3 National Anthem: country singer Trace Adkins…he brought the heat this year with “Honkey Tonk Badonkadonk”
Game 3 God Bless America: country singer Jo Dee Messina
Game 4 National Anthem: Billy Ray Cyrus (not making that up)
Game 4 God Bless America: country duo Sugarland
We still find it surprising that the right-leaning Cardinals owners weren’t able to get this guy out there. But yeah. To be fair, this is better than 2004: The singer of “God Bless America” that year was Scott Stapp.
But Billy Ray Cyrus? Heavens. Uh, go Cards?
Achy Breaky Family Fun [InsideSTL]
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It’s hard to believe, but the NBA season is just around the corner. So come with us now as we present five tiny tidbits on each team, just to get you in the mood. Today we continue with the Northwest Division, so do us a favor and send your tips to tips@deadspin.com.
• 1. Well, You Gotta Have Something To Fall Back On. From Mike James: “If I wasn’t playing basketball, I’d be a criminal. That’s the only other thing I knew besides basketball. That’s the only other thing that came natural to me besides basketball.” — (Thanks to Sonia Grover).
• 2. Dances With Wolves. Superfan Bill Beise, 50, has been a T-Wolves season ticket holder since their first season, 1989. His game rituals include: Lucky stone which all four members of his family must touch before a game; taping a dollar bill to the bottom of his seat; rolling up programs and spending the entire game squatting on the floor, banging program on the ground. The team offered a “Bill Beise bobblehead” promotion in his honor in 2003. — (Thanks to Sonia Grover)
• 3. Anatomy Of An NBA Player. Rookie Randy Foye’s heart is on the right side of his chest.
• 4. The Dance, She Is Over. Of course, Eddie Griffin’s masturbation habits and Rashad McCants’ poetry are more than tidbits at this point; they are legend. But what of Mark Madsen’s dancing? He only does it when his team wins a championship, so let’s all root against Minnesota this season.
• 5. Drumline. Troy Hudson has recorded three rap albums and goes on road trips with a drum machine.
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All right, we’re gonna make a vow: We’re pretty tired of this whole Kenny Rogers business, and we’re not gonna talk about it anymore. We know controversy is fun, and we know Rogers probably had pine tar on his hand, and we know Tony LaRussa probably should have had him thrown out of the game. But in all seriousness: It really didn’t make a difference. Rogers shut down the Cardinals, the series is tied and, well, we don’t even know if we’re gonna see Rogers again this series. It’s fun to have something to talk about, and we’ll confess an affinity to “Kenny Rogers has poop on his hands” humor, but really, we’re over it.
We’d like to talk instead about Jim Leyland, a guy we could watch talk for days. He had a vintage day yesterday; when discussing the Rogers business, he unleashed the classic Leyland grumbling retort, “I’m not going to chew yesterday’s breakfast.” This is funny not just because it could have come from no one other than Leyland, but also because we can actually imagine Leyland still chewing some ham and eggs from last Thursday.
Let us retell our favorite Jim Leyland story, which we mentioned back when he was interviewing for the Tigers job.
He was being interviewed by then-ESPNer Chris Myers, who was asking him about his well-publicized tendency to smoke cigarettes in the dugout. Leyland paused for a moment, put his head down and delivered the obligatory platitudes about how bad smoking is for you, how children should avoid smoking, how he knows it’s unhealthy. Then he looked directly into the camera, his eyes very wide, and said, “Still. Smokers out there, you know what I’m talking about. That moment, after you’ve had a huge meal, say at Thanksgiving, when you step outside in the cold, light up a cigarette and take a deep inhale … that’s about the best moment in the world, you know? All the smokers out there, you know that feeling. Sometimes, smoking is fantastic.” Myers quickly cut to commercial, and Leyland has never been on the show since.
It can be difficult to root against Leyland.
World Series Notes [Newark Star-Ledger]
Jim Leyland, America’s Role Model [Deadspin]
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