NOW If Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather take the money and don’t run to Yankee Stadium or somewhere similar, they could contest one of the biggest boxing matches in years at a temporary 30,000-seat stadium on which the New Frontier sat before it was imploded in 2007. Supposedly, hotel mogul ...
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NOW You’ve got to hand it to France’s national soccer team. Or something like that. A goal-scoring wizard for Les Bleus named Thierry Henry — you may know him from those Gillette commercials with Tiger Woods and Roger Federer — blatantly used his hand to direct the ball to a teammate ...
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NOW These aren’t as classic as “the sun got in my eyes” or “the dog ate my homework” or “I thought we could pick it up on fourth-and-two.” But can you match the following excuses with the persons who said them? 1. “In my opinion, this must be a systemic, infrastructure ...
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NOW On the way to the gym this morning, I noticed an SUV at the side of the road on Boulder Highway. There was a giant New Orleans Saints decal on the back window. Two police units had pulled over behind with SUV with the giant Saints decal on back. This ...
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NOW Note to Antoine Walker, the former NBA star who owes three Las Vegas casinos $822,500: When your card has a picture on it and the dealer’s has a six, you are not required to ask for another card. But as the great John Candy said in “Stripes,” that’s just me. Mister Vegas. ...
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NOW Top 10 reasons the Rebels almost lost an exhibition game to a team from Kansas called the Washburn Ichabods on Tuesday night: 10. Got caught looking ahead to Pittsburg State game. 9. “Stripper Mobile” cruising the Thomas & Mack Center parking lot made it difficult to concentrate on blocking out and ...
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NOW Since when did the ECHL become the UFL? The Wranglers begin a stretch tonight where they will play the minor league hockey team from Utah seven consecutive times in 13 days. It’s essentially a seven-game series. It should cut down on travel and breed familiarity. And, because this is hockey, contempt. ...
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NOW Charlie Starkweather, meet Elizabeth Lambert. Charlie Starkweather was the guy who murdered 11 people with his girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate and was the inspiration for Bruce Springsteen’s chilling and universally acclaimed album “Nebraska.” Lambert is the University of New Mexico soccer player who went on a three-state crime spree without leaving ...
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NOW A team coached by Isiah Thomas (Florida International) lost to a team coached by Rollie Massimino (Northwood) in a college basketball exhibition game last night. As David Letterman used to ask band leader Paul Shaffer “Is this anything?” Well, it’s something if you didn’t know Massimino, the former and disgraced UNLV ...
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NOW While watching the Yankees celebrate their 27th World Championship Wednesday night we Cub fans recalled the warm, fuzzy feeling we got watching President Teddy Roosevelt congratulate Tinker, Evers and Chance on winning the 1908 gonfalon. And how Mordecai “Three-Finger” Brown grabbed the public address megaphone and said he was going ...
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