Several years ago, I read somewhere about how to properly pronounce the last name of Maryland guard Saruna Jasikevicius. It said that it rhymes with “head of cabbages,” which is about right. Well, ole Cabbage Head was on the telly again today looking pretty much like he did last time I saw him in the…

I admit it; I watched the Olympic Ritualized Child Abuse and Tumbling competition last night. For a while, I was thinking that the anorexic Russian star, the one who’s been in the last three or four Olympics, was the same one that John Tesh used to breathlessly call “The Belarussian Swan.” Remember that? He said…

I learned a couple of interesting things from my television the last couple of days. Michael Phelps Is A Loser Can you believe this guy? He was supposed to win 8 gold medals and he’s already lost twice. Bronze is for losers. It matters not that he lost his last race to the guy that…

Everyone sort of knew this was coming, but it made it no less shocking when it happened. The US basketball team was absolutely embarassed by Puerto Rico today, losing by 19 points. It was disgraceful. It felt like watching one of those Faces of Death videos. I won’t go on too big of a rant…

I was very surprised earlier today to read that Ronald Curry had climbed the depth charts to be the #3 wide receiver for the Oakland Raiders. He’s behind only Jerry Rice and Jerry Porter. Just a few days ago, the #3 spot was held by the great Tim Brown. From Tim Brown to Ronald Curry?…

Last week, NC State admitted Bobby Washington and quickly added him to their football roster. Williams, out of Killian High in Miami, was one of the nation’s top running back prospects. Up to a week ago, Washington was headed to the University of Miami. After Miami questioned Washington’s qualifying ACT score, he angrily asked for…

Sports Illustrated has been running an interesting series of articles on the globalization of sport. The last of the four articles focused partly on the creation of a new Hispanic-owned MLS team, Chivas USA. Chivas USA is owned by billionaire Mexican businessman Jorge Vergara. Vergara already owns the original Chivas, one of the most popular…

This is a fairly benign little article about Lou Holtz the state of the South Carolina football team. But then, the author, Michal Lough drops in this doozy: If South Carolina wasn’t yanked out of the ACC by the brilliant-in-his-own-mind Paul Dietzel almost 40 years ago, the Gamecocks would be at Florida State’s level in…

Yoni over at College Basketball wrote a little blurb a while back about the new contract that Coach Jimmy Collins got from Illinois-Chicago. There’s nothing too exciting about what Yoni wrote or the article he linked to. A good small-school coach got an extension. To me though, it brought back an old memory.

Yesterday, the San Francisco Chronicle printed an article detailing claims from Marion Jones’ ex-husband CJ Hunter that she used several illegal performance-enhancing drugs during the 2000 Olympics. The claims came from a transcript of a testimony from Hunter to a federal investigator in the BALCO case. The testimony, just like previous testimony from Tim Montgomery,…