Call me crazy but I assumed a brotha that plays golf would be a fan of hockey. This is not the case for one Eldrick Tiger Woods. The Great One on the links was speaking via satellite during a news conference at Oakland Hills Country Club when he was asked which team he’s rooting for in the Stanley Cup finals.

“I don’t really care. It’s all about the Dodgers. I don’t think anyone really watches hockey anymore.”

Ok, he’s right. Nobody watches the NHL anymore, but it’s only because nobody knows where to find the NHL on television. As far as Tiger being a Dodgers fan, that’s cool. He’s an Orange County guy so the Angels would be more understandable, but at least he’s not front running and showing up in the stands at Rays and Marlins games.

Tiger Woods doesn’t care about Cup finals. Courtesy of the Detroit Free Press

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A lot of attention is given to the off the field problems of athletes. Not enough attention is given to the men and women leading the athletes. I’m not skilled in mathematics but I bet if you broke down the ratio, you’d see that more coaches find themselves in trouble with the law than players. I did a quick google news search and was able to come up with five coaches that have been in trouble the last few days.

*A Delaware man serving as a tumbling coach has been charged with eight counts of sex offenses against three young girls.

*A former Toronto jail guard and soccer coach plead guilty to possession and distribution of child pornography. He allegedly persuaded a woman to sexually abuse her grandchild online.

*A former Creighton University softball coach plead guilty in federal court to receiving and possessing child pornography.

*An assistant football coach in New York was charged with faking a burglary to hide the fact he stole money earned from a fundraiser.

*A former NHLer and current assistant coach in London charged with impaired driving.

It doesn’t matter what sport, what gender, or what country they’re in, coaches are outta control. Is this because they’re young, rich, and hanging out all hours of the night? Probably not. They’re just idiots like anyone else doing dumb shit and getting arrested.

**The people in the picture have nothing to do with the stories that are linked.

Tags: Sports, coach, arrested, jail, gone wild

February 29th is just another day to me. I don’t buy any of the Leap Year superstitions, and I don’t do anything special for our extra day. I am, however, amazed that a bunch of goofballs in tights could figure out that the Earth circles the sun in 365 1/4 days.

Since the Leap Year is every 4 years, people with a birthday on February 29th get shortchanged.. And I’ve always wondered how they decided which day to celebrate their birthday in a non Leap Year. Do they have to pick February 28th or March 1st or can they go with the closest weekend? I would want the closest weekend.

So which athletes were born in a Leap Year? I’m glad you asked.

Athletes with Leap Year Birthdays:
1904 John “Pepper” Martin – Feisty 3rd baseman for St. Louis ‘Gashouse Gang’.
(NL stolen base leader 1933, 34, 36) (d. 1965)
1908 Alf Gover, English cricketer (bowled in 4 Tests for England/famous coach) (d. 2001)
1924 Al Rosen – Ballplayer, slugging Cleveland 3rd baseman.
1932 Gavin Stevens, cricket (Australian bat on 59-60 India/Pakistan tour)
1932 Masten Gregory, American F1 Driver
1936 Alwin Schockemohle, Germany, equestrian jumper (Olympic-gold-1976)
1936 Henri “The Pocket Rocket” Richard – NHL Hall of Fame Center, Montreal Canadians.
1940 Billy Turner – Thoroughbred horse trainer, “Seattle Slew”.
1944 John Niland – NFL guard for Dallas Cowboys.
1948 Yuri Pimenov, USSR, coxless pair rowers (Olympic-silver-1976)
1948 Nikolai Pimenov, USSR, coxless pair rowers (Olympic-silver-1976)
1952 Raisa Smetanina, USSR, cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1976, 80, 92)
1952 Raul Gonzalez, Mexican 50K speed walker (world record)
1960 Dan Daoust – NHL center for Toronto Maple Leafs.
1964 Lyndon Byers, Canadian hockey player
1964 Henrik Sundstrom, Sweden, tennis star
1968 Chucky Brown, NBA forward (Houston Rockets, Atlanta Hawks)
1968 Cary Conklin, NFL quarterback (SF 49ers)
1968 Pete Fenson, American curler
1968 Bryce Paup, American football player, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers, Buffalo Bills)
1972 Cyrus Beasley, Rowe NY, rower (Olympics-1996)
1972 Fabien Bownes, NFL wide receiver (Chic Bears)
1972 Chris Devine, Allentown Pa, diver (Olympics-96)
1972 Mark Farraway, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)
1976 Bryan Gillooly, Auburn NY, diver (Olympics-96)
1980 Simon Gagne, Canadian Hockey player, NHL player (Philly Flyers) who has been an all-star
1980 Taylor Twellman, American soccer player
1984 Darren Ambrose, English footballer
1984 Cam Ward, Canadian hockey player
1984 Adam Sinclair, Indian Hockey player
1988 Scott Golbourne, English footballer

Other Notable Leap Year Babies:
1468 Pope Paul III
1904 Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd
Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William
Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenberdorft Sr., Germany; had a Christian
name for every letter in the alphabet, shortened it to Mr Wolfe Plus 585 Sr. The world’s
longest name officially used by a person.
1960 Anthony Robbins – American Motivational Speaker
1960 Heidi Henriksen – The 1st of 3 siblings born on consecutive Leap Days.
1964 Olav Henriksen – The 2nd of 3 siblings born on consecutive Leap Days.
1968 Leif-Martin Henriksen – The 3rd of 3 siblings born on consecutive Leap Days.
1972 Antonio Sabato, Jr. – Italian-born actor
1972 Saul Williams – Rap Poet, Actor, USA
1976 Ja Rule – American Rapper and Actor

Tags: Leap Year, birthdays, sports, February 29th

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Ryan Clowe, Johnathan Cheechoo, and Patrick Rissmiller of the San Jose Sharks got a chance to take some bp with the Oakland A’s… They didn’t embarrass themselves, except for somebody hacking with an aluminum bat. None of the 3 hockey players were able to hit a home run, telling me that either A) Hockey steroids are weaker than baseball steroids, or B) The hockey players weren’t currently on the juice because they knew they were getting tested.

Tags: MLB, Baseball, NHL, Hockey, San Jose Sharks, Oakland A’s, Batting Practice

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If you missed the 06-07 NHL season, and the numbers say that you did, this video is a 9 minute recap. I only know two people that would sit through the entire video, and neither of them read my blog because I don’t write hockey. Here you go fellas… As for you normal people, if you do nothing else today, watch the first 20 seconds of the video.. That’s one of the few plays I remember from last season.

I’m not one of the people that likes to rip hockey for no apparent reason. It’s a cool little game, and it probably features the best passing in sports. My beef is with the league itself. Why start the season on a college football Saturday in England? And then to follow that up by having the real start to the season the same day the MLB playoffs begin?!? It seems like the NHL is doing it’s version of Springtime for Hitler.

Tags: NHL, New Season, Sports, 2006-2007 Highlights, Hockey, You+Tube

If you’re a diehard NHL or NBA fan now is the worst time of the year for you. The championship is decided, the draft is over, and the preseason doesn’t start for weeks months. Well don’t worry cause I got your back.

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I’m not a huge hockey fan so I only recognized a couple of the plays. Most notable to me was when Gretzky was playing for St. Louis and Detroit’s Russians were draggin his ass up and down the ice.

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Since I’m the champion of the BBL fantasy league I knew that the Giessen 46ers is a real team. I prefer the Basketball Bundesliga to the WNBA because A) it’s anything other than the WNBA and B) I’ve never won my WNBA fantasy league.

So what’s a lego to do after he’s made it to the league? Endorsements.

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Dude got game but he needs to do something with the moblawk he’s rockin. I wonder, why didn’t they use a black blockhead like the original?

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The Ducks owe it all to this hardcore fan:

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They better at least let him hold the Stanley Cup with the arm he has left.

I’m not gonna sit here and pretend that I can talk hockey, but the championship of America’s former fourth major has been decided and it deserves at least a line or two. Congrats to the Ducks and the city of Anaheim. A World Series title and now a Stanley Cup.. Maybe the Clippers really should move to Orange County.

And since I’m typing hockey, this gives me a convenient excuse to play this wonderful bit of sound. I know the whole free world has heard this by now, but a high cop calling 9-1-1 because he thinks he and his wife have overdosed on weed brownies and then asking for the Red Wings score (at the 4:56 mark) is beyond hilarious. “I think we’re dead. I really do.”

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All you ever wanted to know about a woman making love to a Red Sox fan. Courtesy of Ladies Dot Dot Dot

Taking a look at ESPN’s new football blog. Courtesy of The Big Lead

Roger Goodell prefers bitches to women. Courtesy of Leave The Man Alone

Joe Budden says Nas is right..Hip Hop is dead. Courtesy of XXL

Is the end near for Curt Schilling? Courtesy of the WBRS Sports Blog

Retro gear galore… If you’re in NY. Courtesy of Dallas Penn

Paris Hilton played high school hockey? Yeah right.. Courtesy of With Leather

Jim Jones and Cam are cool again? I can’t keep up. Courtesy of SOHH

Let’s all pray that there’s no video of Michael Vick doing this. Courtesy of Awful Announcing

Bill Simmons hasn’t off’d himself yet..Give it a week. Courtesy of ESPN.com