Sports Illustrated ran an article questioning who is the most dominant athlete in their sport – Tiger Woods or Roger Federer. What, no consideration of Joey Chestnut?
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Pablo Sandoval of the SF Giants finished second in the fan voting for the last All Star roster addition, after Philadelphia partnered with Detroit to urge fans to vote jointly for the Phillies’ Shane Victorino and the Tigers’ Brandon Inge.
Unfortunately, right now you don’t want to enter a contest with people from Detroit where the winner is determined by who has the most time on their hands.
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Four people who worked at a Chicago cemetery were charged with digging up bodies, dumping them, and reselling the grave plots. Authorities became suspicious when more cemetery residents voted than normal.
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Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush would not answer when asked if he believed President Obama was a socialist, saying, “I don’t know, define socialism.” He had a similar response to a question about his brother George – “I don’t know, define idiocy.”
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Amongst the many high profile celebrities at Maria Shriver’s annual women’s conference will be…Kate Gosselin? What exactly has this woman done anyway besides taking fertility drugs and making a spectacle of herself on television? Was Manny Ramirez not available?
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Actually, and this was inspired by the very funny Jerry Perisho, who noted how
“British scientists claim to have created human sperm from embryonic stem cells for the first time. … thereby rendering the human male completely unnecessary, other than to carry in the trash cans once a week”
Now we know the real reason Manny was taking those fertility drugs. He just wanted to stay relevant.
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After Chad Ochocinco said he would twitter during games, the NFL said they would look into the issue, and has now issued a ruling prohibiting in-game tweets.
A Fox Sports poll is asking fans if they thought the player would test the rule. The current results, 80 percent have said “Yes.” The other 20 percent have clearly not been watching Ochicinco.
Left Coast Sports Babe 