Three new things I learned after hearing about this story: (1) NFL cornerback Charles Woodsonhas come out with his own wine called “Twentyfour.” (2) Charles Woodson still plays football. And (3) NFL players aren’t allowed to endorse alcohol.
Yeah, this actually happened. The Michigan alum was debuting his wine in downtown Ann Arbor last night, and when the NFL heard that he was giving interviews promoting the wine, the league kindly reminded him of a Roger Goodell-implemented rule that athletes aren’t allowed to endorse alcoholic beverages.
And this is bad, because there are people under the age of 21 who watch football. They could watch Charles Woodson. They might learn he makes wine! Then they’ll get into a drunk driving accident. No, the NFL can’t have this on their conscience.
Woodson got around this loophole by having his cellar master speak on behalf of the new wine. I’m glad that the NFL is okay with Woodson having his signatureon the freakin’ bottle but not letting him use verbs and nouns and hand signals to tell people about it.
But seriously, let’s all be glad they sorted that out. Now, please enjoy these hilarious Bud Light commercials.
Here’s a game for you the next time you pick up the sports section of a newspaper. (If people still do that these days. Zing! High five!) Find their local columnist and count how many consecutive one-sentence paragraphs that lead off their article. Today, it’s Woody Paige, and the count comes in at six.
I’m sure that’s not a Denver Post record by any means, but six sentence-graphs in a row is a pretty solid day at the office. Let’s sample a portion of that, shall we?
Last season, the Broncos stunk like a skunk.
The stench could have been worse.
They were close to stinking like a Titan Arum, a large, flowering plant that is indigenous to Sumatra and emits an odor considered by many botanists, and the people in Sumatra, to be the foulest on Earth.
Oh, Woody, Woody, Woody. You’re not supposed to explain your jokes. Here’s how it works. If you go for obscurity, you’re supposed to just leave it out there, in which case the four greatest living botanists will laugh uproariously. Then the rest of the people will search Wikipedia for that item, then kind of get the joke. It’s a formula that’s worked well for me.
It’s about time the Kansas City Royals got themselves a bona fide All-Star, after branding Ken Harvey and Mark Redman as such. Joakim Soria is the Royals’ scintillating closer, saving 25 of 27 games and sporting a 0.72 WHIP. With stats like that, a guy needs a legendary nickname, and he’s got it now. Meet “The Mexicutioner.”
It’s gotten pretty big locally. The T-shirt is selling like pine tar in Kansas City, while even Soria himself has acknowledged and embraced the nickname. And the good news? The Mexicutioner is being attributed to a blogger.
Bob Dutton, Royals beat writer for The Star, says the The Mexicutioner nickname didn’t start with him. WHB’s Kevin Kietzman, who did launch the T-shirts, also said he can’t claim to be the origin of the nickname.
Both agree that the nickname appeared to start on the excellent baseball website, ranyontheroyals.
Good to hear it wasn’t shamelessly goinked from the blogohedron. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have an important telegram for Magglio Ordoñez.
Manny Ramirez, what a free spirit! That hair, that carefree attitude. He’s like the Dharma & Greg of our generation! And this is what makes him so lovable, right? Well, no. That would be fielding attempts like this.
It’s not much of a surprise to Oklahomans that some derivative of Thunder was going to be the newly relocated Seattle SuperSonics team name, be it Thunderbirds, Thundercats, Thunderpants, or the Fighting Dan Majerles. But it looks like they’re just going to go with Thunder. The Oklahoma City Thunder. There’s your newest NBA team, perhaps. After all, the NBA’s registrar company snatched up the okcthunderbasketball.com domain. (Rolls right off the tongue, doesn’t it?) One thing, though. There’s another professional team in the state that call themselves almost the exact same damn thing.
Why, of course I’m talking about the minor league football team Oklahoma Thunder of the World Football League, who play their games in Tulsa. What, you never heard of them? Their running back is former Sooners tailback and Adrian Peterson backup Kejuan Jones! Yes, thatOklahoma Thunder.
So this is somewhat intriguing. Can an Oklahoma Thunder and an Oklahoma City Thunder really co-exist? Might one search for tickets online and think, “Wow, it’s two hours before the game and front row seats are still available?” This could get confusing. Maybe Seattle would be wise to steal this promising young minor league football team and transplant them to Washington and rename them the UltraSonics.
What Wii Sports did for the Wiimote, Wii Sports Resort does for the Wii MotionPlus. The added precision of the Wii MotionPlus gets to show off in the title and, from the three minigames we experienced, it gives an idea of how other games could benefit from the accessory.
We had a chance to try out Disc Dog, Power Cruising and, our favorite, Sword Play. Nintendo says the Wii MotionPlus gives 1:1 control, but that’s stretching the truth just a little. The controls certainly feel more precise than the Wiimote in its current state, but we’re not exactly sure just yet if it’ll fulfill gamer fantasies of precise lightsaber duels. %Gallery-27741%
Three new things I learned after hearing about this story: (1) NFL cornerback Charles Woodson has come out with his own wine called “Twentyfour.” (2) Charles Woodson still plays football. And (3) NFL players aren’t allowed to endorse alcohol.
Here’s a game for you the next time you pick up the sports section of a newspaper. (If people still do that these days. Zing! High five!) Find their local columnist and count how many consecutive one-sentence paragraphs that lead off their article. Today, it’s 
It’s about time the 
It’s not much of a surprise to Oklahomans that some derivative of Thunder was going to be the newly relocated Seattle SuperSonics team name, be it Thunderbirds, Thundercats, Thunderpants, or the Fighting Dan Majerles. But it looks like 
