Left Coast Sports Babe

A Republican Senator, Chuck Grassley, said that President Obama doesn’t know how Congress works. How ridiculous. Senator Grassley thinks Congress actually works?

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Eli Manning has just signed a six-year $97 million contract with the New York Giants. Amazing. He will earn almost half what his brother does on commercials.

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And although overall travel is down, an increasingly lucrative business for U.S. airlines is collecting ticket change fees when customers change their minds. Over $2 billion a year. Which is means a potential great airline endorsement contract for Brett Favre.

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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has been revisiting the his 2006 affair with his friend and campaign manager’s wife? Specifically he has said in two magazine profiles: “There’s a story that’s never been told…Things were much more benign than they actually appeared in print.”

Is this man reading from the same damage control playbook as Mark Sanford??

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Speaking of playbooks, several NFL teams have banned fans and reporters from Tweeting during training-camp practices, including the Detroit Lions. Yeah, I could see how the Lions would hate for anyone to steal any of their secrets for success.

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Inspired by the very funny Jerry Perisho, who noted that a survey finds that men spend on average 43 minutes a day ogling the opposite sex, while women spend 20 minutes.

And that women’s number would be a lot lower if they didn’t count all the time Sarah Palin spends watching Russians from her house.

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