“Man, I love that flick,” said Rose. “It used to just be my secret, but now the whole world knows.”
Read MoreAlthough the weather was crystal clear, someone still managed to rain on the Giants’ Super Bowl Parade in New York Tuesday — Jets’ coach Rex Ryan somehow managed to climb aboard a float without being noticed.
The crowd of thousands who clambered for a first look at the new landmark looked on dumbfounded as officials spoke of Manning’s great victories over Mario Andretti and the New England Patriots. After 20 minutes, an aide of the Mayor told him that Eli Manning had been the quarterback in the Giants victory over New England.
“I really appreciate the invitation to Disney World and I would love to accept,” Coughlin said to Disney president Robert Iger. “I know Disney World is supposed to be a fun place where people laugh and stuff, but I’m saying beforehand that I will not be laughing or having fun whatsoever.”
Frustrated by the Yankees’ early playoff exits in 2010 and 2011, Hank Steinbrenner employed an unprecedented tactic to get his message across for the upcoming season, sending each player on the active roster a shipping crate full of tickets to the 2011 World Series, a game the Yankees’ players watched from their living rooms.
Just a few days after Josh Hamilton admitted to a momentary alcohol relapse, another star fell off the wagon. CC Sabathia was spotted scarfing down Chicken McNuggets at a charity event.
Punxsutawney Phil made a surprise appearance at Wrigley Field Thursday, emerging from the Cubs dugout and seeing a very long shadow. According to Phil’s handlers, the large rodent firmly predicted a losing season for the Cubs.
Kendrick Perkins spent the evening in a Los Angeles hospital after Blake Griffin mounted a thunderous dunk over the entire body of the Oklahoma City center.
“It’s going to take me a while to recover from spending a weekend at Dennis’s house,” said Gibson. “I shouldn’t even call it a house. Because it’s more like a bordello. We did talk about actual basketball rebounds once. But since, according to Dennis, the key to rebounding is confidence, that just lead to a lot of drinking.”
Stern revealed the NBA had conducted several impartial focus groups in which the topic of Blake Griffin receiving three or even as many as 10 points for a single dunk was discussed.
“I wanted the guys to see the folks who work there,” said Quenneville. “That they’re real people and not evil overlords hell-bent on our destruction. Because Kaner’s been having nightmares.”
The Chicago Blackhawks are playing the Vancouver Canucks this evening. Naturally, Vancouver goalie Roberto Luongo will be on the bench.
“He wore it around Ottawa all Saturday night,” said Blackhawks teammate and fellow All-Star Marian Hossa. “And then he showed up at the Arena this morning. I bet he wears it on the flight out of here too.”
After falling to .500 in the Big Ten, the Indiana men’s basketball team has been declared an official choking hazard by the United States Food and Drug Administration.
The writing was on the wall that the 2011 college football season would be full of catastrophes the minute the Terrapins walked out onto the field to play Miami back in September in uniforms that could be best described as shockingly hideous.
In his annual state of the NCAA address to unviersity presidents and administrators, NCAA president Mark Emmert lauded his organization’s effort to enact tough legislation to dramatically improve the collegiate sports landscape. “I am very proud of some of the things we’ve done,” Emmert said to an appreciative audience. “The piece about which we are [...]
