As most of you know I am a news and sports junkie. I read and read, and read some more. here is some of the more interesting quips from articles I have read this week. (italics, mine)New Zealand viewers tuning in for their weekly fill of "Grass Roots Rugby" on Prime TV last week got quite an eyeful, Auckland's TV3 reported, when the broadcast was inexplicably pre-empted for nearly four minutes by an X-rated movie, "Desperate Black Wives 2."
Pitcher C.C. Sabathia, upon arriving in Milwaukee via trade Monday, asked reporters to henceforth lose the two periods after his initials, please.
Oh, and while you're at it, move the period one digit to the left on his 13.50 All-Star ERA.
No wonder German policeman Frank Stoldt, 37, lost the world chess-boxing championship — featuring alternating rounds of chess matches and boxing — to Russian student Nikolai Sazhin, 19, in Berlin.
"I took a lot of body-blows in the fourth round, and that affected my concentration," Stoldt told Agence France-Presse. "That's why I made a big mistake in the fifth round: I did not see him coming for my king”.
Former U.S. soccer star Brandi Chastain is among the golfers entered for this weekend's American Century Celebrity Championship in Lake Tahoe, Calif.
Can't wait to see how she celebrates an eagle putt.
Wow, I just typed that entire blog in 1 minute, 23 seconds flat. Amazing what I can do when I'm writing in my new high-tech, body-length Speedo LZR Racer.
Part-time NASCAR driver and part-time broadcaster Kyle Petty, winless since 1995, was in no hurry to return to the booth after driving the pace car in Saturday's Coke Zero 400 race at Daytona.
"I may not come up there," he told TNT's Bill Weber and Wally Dallenbach. "This is the first time I've led anything in about 20 years."
Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain, to Sports Illustrated, on the difference between New York and his native state: "In Nebraska, we don't get clothes from Europe; we get Wranglers."
Padres CEO Sandy Alderson, to The San Diego Union-Tribune, on why his last-place team won't be buyers at the July 31 trading deadline: "There's not a shopping cart big enough."
Ted Wyman of the Winnipeg Sun, on players jumping teams for tens of millions of dollars: "Is there a bigger oxymoron in sports than the term 'free agent'?"
Mike Downey of the Chicago Tribune, on the Olympics opening on Aug. 8: "For a while there, I thought Rafael Nadal vs. Roger Federer might not be done by then."
Pitcher C.C. Sabathia, upon arriving in Milwaukee via trade Monday, asked reporters to henceforth lose the two periods after his initials, please.
Oh, and while you're at it, move the period one digit to the left on his 13.50 All-Star ERA.
No wonder German policeman Frank Stoldt, 37, lost the world chess-boxing championship — featuring alternating rounds of chess matches and boxing — to Russian student Nikolai Sazhin, 19, in Berlin.
"I took a lot of body-blows in the fourth round, and that affected my concentration," Stoldt told Agence France-Presse. "That's why I made a big mistake in the fifth round: I did not see him coming for my king”.
Former U.S. soccer star Brandi Chastain is among the golfers entered for this weekend's American Century Celebrity Championship in Lake Tahoe, Calif.
Can't wait to see how she celebrates an eagle putt.
Wow, I just typed that entire blog in 1 minute, 23 seconds flat. Amazing what I can do when I'm writing in my new high-tech, body-length Speedo LZR Racer.
Part-time NASCAR driver and part-time broadcaster Kyle Petty, winless since 1995, was in no hurry to return to the booth after driving the pace car in Saturday's Coke Zero 400 race at Daytona.
"I may not come up there," he told TNT's Bill Weber and Wally Dallenbach. "This is the first time I've led anything in about 20 years."
Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain, to Sports Illustrated, on the difference between New York and his native state: "In Nebraska, we don't get clothes from Europe; we get Wranglers."
Padres CEO Sandy Alderson, to The San Diego Union-Tribune, on why his last-place team won't be buyers at the July 31 trading deadline: "There's not a shopping cart big enough."
Ted Wyman of the Winnipeg Sun, on players jumping teams for tens of millions of dollars: "Is there a bigger oxymoron in sports than the term 'free agent'?"
Mike Downey of the Chicago Tribune, on the Olympics opening on Aug. 8: "For a while there, I thought Rafael Nadal vs. Roger Federer might not be done by then."
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