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Nate Tharp, Writer, The Drubbing, was born a Royals and Chiefs fan and raised a Celtics, Red Sox and Patriots fan. He writes about website design and development on natetharp.com. You can email him at nate[at]thedrubbing[dot]com.
The MLS is expanding, that’s right, expanding
, Monday, August 10, 2009 at 9:13 AM Comments (8)
If an expansion team is added in the MLS, does anyone know about it? I guess not. This one came as a shocker to me. In 2010 the MLS will have a new team, the Philadelphia Union. The only thing more shocking to most people I’ve talked to was that the MLS was still around.
David Beckham was supposed to be the savior of the MLS. There was supposed to be a flood of international talent that would rush over the league upon his arrival. To his credit there were a few players that defected from more popular leagues. But all that hype and media coverage lasted for a month or so.
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What would Adam Pacman Jones do?
, Thursday, August 6, 2009 at 10:40 AM Comments (0)
Pacman has a new slang term for strippers... "children"
Pacman has done a lot of undesirable things in his life. But he hasn’t done this. As the NFL continues to work on it’s image rehabilitation program, there are naturally a few players that just can’t get on board. Adam Pacman Jones is the league’s lightning rod and poster boy for their legal Troubles. Pacman has been charged with everything from assault, vandalism, disorderly conduct and public intoxication to obstruction of justice, marijuana possession and has allegedly been involved in a shooting at a Las Vegas strip club. But for all the things Pacman has done, Corey McIntyre, fullback for the Buffalo Bills, found something that he hasn’t done. And that’s fondling himself outside of a woman’s home.
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Tenured quarterbacks in the NFL
, Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at 8:37 AM Comments (2)
For those that may have missed it, former Texas Tech quarterback Graham Harrell signed with the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League on Friday. Yes, that’s the same Graham Harrell that threw for over 5,000 yards in a season twice and holds the NCAA Divison I record for career touchdowns with 134 and was undrafted in last years NFL draft. He has two of the top ten season passing yardage marks including the #4 spot, right behind the late Steve McNair. This guy not getting a good look from an NFL team is downright criminal if you ask me.
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Vince McMahon just as childish as the basement-dwelling man-boys that watch the WWE
, Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 8:55 AM Comments (2)
The WWE is about as popular as the MLS, and the people that run it are about as big of whiners as the Lakers or Spurs. The bumbling idiots that manage the Pepsi Center in Denver, home of the Denver Nuggets, were foolish enough to schedule a WWE event on the same night as a potential NBA playoff home game. Instead of taking it like a man, trying to reschedule for another day or rearrange the time of the event, the chairperson of the WWE, Vince McMahon, decided to throw a public tantrum and cry like the little woman that he is.
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Farewell to Arturo Gattii, a boxing great
, Sunday, July 19, 2009 at 1:15 PM Comments (0)
Recent weeks haven’t been kind to the celbrity ranks. There was Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Steve McNair and most recently Walter Cronkite. Last week boxing lost one of it’s own, Arturo “Thunder” Gatti. Aside from a brief mention on SportsCenter and the replay of some of his matches on ESPN Classic, it appeared that despite the odd circumstances of his passing, the death of Arturo Gatti went largely unnoticed. Much of the sports world was steel reeling from the untimely death of Steve McNair. And the average sports fan may have never heard of Arturo Gatti.
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Only six more years until LeBron suits up for the New York Giants
, Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at 9:08 AM Comments (0)
As noted before, there’s no doubt that LeBron James will be going to New York Knicks when his contract in Cleveland is up. No other city can offer LeBron what New York can. Between basketball, business and celebrity, New York was made for James. But as we’ve seen with other premier athletes, one sport can only keep them occupied for so long. Deion Sanders, Bo Jackson and the 45, Michael Jeffrey Jordan.
So how long will the NBA, Nike, Coke, Microsoft and State Farm be able to keep LeBron occupied. If recent history is any indication, we may not have long to wait. Jordan needed a break once he got to 30. Which gives LeBron six more years until he needs a change.
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Want some cheese with that whine?
, Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at 8:53 AM Comments (0)
How do you teach a young man how to be a responsible member of society and be accountable for your actions? By suing Duke University when they get kicked off the golf team of course. But I guess that’s what we should expect from a “student athlete” that embodies the stereotypes often associated with the Duke University student body.
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Stan Van Gundy hates the NCAA
, Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:39 AM Comments (0)
Stan Van (or SVG if you prefer) is never one to shy away from controversy or put his nose where it doesn’t belong. His latest victim, the NCAA. In a post-game interview after an NBA Finals loss, Van Gundy called the NCAA “about the worst organization going.” And called the NBA’s age limit “a sham.” Every organization has their own set of problems, some more than others, but Stan has gone a little far here, as usual.
I have my own issues with the NCAA, several of them in fact. But the NBA (flagrant fouls), MLB (steroids), NHL (Gary Bettman), NFL (protecting quarterbacks), NASCAR (Chase for the Sprint Cup), PGA (FedEx Cup) are no gems themselves. So to label the NCAA the worst organization out there is just a slight exaggeration.
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Everyone is doping
, Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 11:17 AM Comments (0)
The 2012 NFL draft class
Seriously, what is going on. Everyone is doping. Dope, dope, dope, dope, dope. Haven’t people learned yet, you’re going to get caught? Alex Rodriguez, Manny Ramirez, Floyd Landis, APOP Kyniras (soccer/football), Marion Jones and Shawne Merriman. For those that are counting, that’s nearly every major sport. Golf legend Gary Player has even come out and said that he knows of golfers that have used steroids in the past. The one notable exception is the NBA, but even they have been criticized for having a weak steroids policy.
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A tale of two teams, two halves
, Monday, June 29, 2009 at 9:15 PM Comments (1)
Watching yesterday’s FIFA Confederations Cup championship match and cheering for the USA team was a brutal experience. Surprise, joy, elation, cautiousness, nervousness, fear, disappointment, sadness, disbelief and ultimately devastation all played out on the face of every American soccer fan I saw at Dempsey’s Pub. If you weren’t drinking when you got there, you certainly were by the time Brazil knocked in their third (fourth to be honest) goal. What happened?
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