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2007 Year End Review
January
New England Patriots
run the score up on the Tennessee Titans, just a sign of things to come in 2007.
Donald Trump
and Rosie O'Donnell's very public arguments.
Oklahoma shocks Boise State in one of the thousands
of Bowl games.
O.J. Simpson tries to publish his now infamous book "If I Did It"
Nick
Saban made it clear that he was Not going to be the head coach at Alabama, then signs on to be head coach of Alabama
Barry
Zito signs for seven years $126 Million with the San Francisco Giants
Glen Mason fired from
University of Minnesota after his team gave back a 36 point lead in the Insight Bowl
Notre
Dame loses Sugar Bowl to LSU 41 - 14
Agent "0" threw himself a 25th birthday party which required
a Gilbert Arenas express card to get in...
Raleigh Fingers owed the state of Wisconsin more
than $1 million in back taxes...
Students here in Florida unsuccessfully lobbied to have the
opening of the school semester pushed back a day to recover from the championship hangover.
Rex
Grossman goes 2 for 12 getting blown out by the Green Bay Packers and admits he wasn't ready for the game because "it was
New Year's Day"
Randy Johnson leaves New York and goes back to the Arizona Diamondbacks, I
guess NY isn't for everybody
Mark McGwire rejected by the Hall Of Fame committee receiving
just 23% of the necessary votes
Jason Kidd filed for divorce after alleging that his wife
used his son to sneak into the Nets locker room to spy on him
High school coach was fired
for punching players in the groin, he would ask the players "What's the capital of Thailand?" When the players answered Bangkok
he would
L.A. Dodgers announced the right field pavilion would be an all you can eat pavilion,
gluttons rejoiced
Celtic Tony Allen shreds his knee while attempting a dunk after the play
was done
Donald Trump gets mad at Barbara Walters
David Beckham
moves to Los Angeles, no one cares
Michelle Wie missed the cut at the Sony Open
72
year old James Hilton tried to qualify for the Daytona 500
Florida rolled Ohio State for the
National Title in college football
Sammy Sosa gets a minor league deal with the Texas Rangers
Elijah Dukes of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays gets arrested on a misdemeanor drug charge
Barry
Bonds said that Mark McGwire and Pete Rose belong in the Hall of Fame
The Beckhams reportedly
were interested in Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch
The L.A. Galaxy held open tryouts which
made no sense, then again soccer doesn't make sense
Charlie Hoffman wins his first PGA Tour
event he also had a mullet
Martin Trewix Jr. arrested for urinating on his own car, the only
Nascar driver who got into trouble with the law
Tennessee men's basketball coach Bruce Pearl
showed up at the University of Tennessee woman's game with his chest painted
A member of the
L.A. Galaxy said there was some resentment on the team towards David Beckham's salary of $200 million when they were making
$30,000 a year...I can see why they resent him, he makes their salary times a thousand...at least!
Barbaro
the racing horse gets euthanized
February
It was Superbowl week here in Miami and all the hype that goes along
with that, history was made with two African-American coaches in the Superbowl the Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy vs
the Chicago Bears coach Lovee Smith
Basically I did what most beat reporters do at Media Day for the Superbowl,
get tons of autographs to impress chicks errrrr I mean pay attention, interview, and do my job to the best of my ability like
I learned from Jessica's "Edward R. Murrow" Thesis...shout out to Jess for helping compile this research, basically she googled
everything
The Indianapolis Colts finally win the Superbowl
Carl Pavano said that he was ready to
go for the NY Yankees and he basically sucked
A man dressed as "Chewbacca" was arrested for assaulting people
on Hollywood Blvd.
Colts GM Bill Pulliem talked about making the choice between QB's Payton Manning and Ryan Leaf
The PGA Tour returned to California at Pebble Beach, no one wants to watch celebrities play horribly
Former
Cal Coach was accused of assaulting a restaurant employee for giving the team ham sandwiches instead of turkey sandwiches...at
least he had a good reason
Juan Gonzales wanted to come back to play so he could get to 500 homeruns, surprisingly
no one wants a guy who plays one game a year
Lisa Nowak the crazy astronaut who wore an adult diaper cross country
because she didn't want to stop to use the restroom on her way to kidnap the other woman in her boyfriend's life, what happened
to "One small step for man"
Ron Artest was accused of cruelty to animals for refusing to feed his dogs
San
Diego Chargers safety Terrance Kiel was shipping codine based cough syrup to pay off debts to local casinos...I didn't know
you could pay off debts with Nyquil
Chicago Bears fan had to change his name to Payton Manning after his team
lost to the Colts, nothing like betting your legacy on a football game
A Minnesota teenager got frostbite in his
toes after running in -17 degree weather because of "family tradition" Since when is stupidity a family tradition?
A
sad day at the sportsbooks in Las Vegas when they added the dog show to the betting lines, me and my friend Tony were like
who the hell controls the lines? what's next fishing, badminton, ridiculous then and ridiculous now...and you know some degenerates
are going to place bets on the dog show
L.A. Laker Brian Cook dropped his sweats on the lap of coach Phil Jackson
when told to enter the game...shockingly he's no longer a Laker
The NBA denies tickets to Michael Jackson for
the All-Star game in Las Vegas
A goalie for the USC hockey team lost his mind and dropped his pants, mooned the
crowd and then road his hockey stick like a horse...freak
Manny Ramirez was late to spring training, didn't matter
because he won another World Series
Phil Mickelson follows his win at Pebble Beach with a meltdown in Los Angeles,
in other words he went Phil Mickelson
Dominic Rhodes picked up a DUI, what a way to celebrate winning the World
Championship by spending the weekend in jail
Hendrick Stensen won the Match Play championship, I don't think anyone
cared
Rulon Gardner survives a plane crash, this guy cannot die. Motorcycle crash, lost in the freezing wilderness
and now a plane crash, you can't kill this guy
L.A. Clippers' Shawn Livinston shreds his knee on a breakaway dunk,
it was terrible if you watched
A Honas Wagner baseball card sold for $2.35 million
Tennessee woman's
basketball coach Pat Summit showed up to a men's Tennessee game in a cheer skirt to return the favor to Bruce Pearl
A
man in Pakistan lost his daughter in a poker game, who could forget that one
March
L.A. Dodgers minor leaguer
Matt White discovers a stone quarry on his site is worth billions, not millions, billions! The only minor league player who
could be a major league owner.
Juan Pablo Montoya won his first Nascar event, he only had
to spin out his own teammate to do it
David Beckham debuts for the L.A. Galaxy and gets hurt,
thanks for playing
Boo Weekly admits to choking on the final hole of the Honda Classic when
he missed a 3 footer
A.J. Foyt said that Nascar was trending to a "wine" crowd, uh yeah it's
called progress
Jay Buhner said that someone should have froze Ichiro's gear, hilarious
John
Rocker's name showed up as a HGH user on the client list for an online pharmacy
Dude at L.A.X.
was arrested for trying to smuggle wire, gum, and a rock onto an airplane
Someguy was arrested
for pulling a knife on Pacman Jones at a bowling alley, rough year for Pacman...dude can't even go bowling
Barry
Bonds dropped two balls in the sun during a spring training game, yeah like he cares
Arizona
Cardinals assistant coach was fired for soliciting a prostitute
The state of New Mexico bans
cockfighting, thanks for joining us in the 21st century New Mexico
The NCAA held it's play
in game and no one cared
Tonya Harding called 911 and would not give her last name, yeah like
they can't find out
Evan Fields ordered HGH to Evander Holyfield's house, I wonder how the
feds figured that one out
The Iditarod disqualified a former champion, Remy Brooks, for killing
one of his dogs, he beat one to death with a trail marking lathe whatever the hell that is...again how is dogsledding still
a sport what year is it 1926?
Pro wrestling rocked by steroids scandal...wrestling and steroids..no
way
Busch Stadium banned smoking from the yard
A coach in
Oregon was reprimanded for biting one of his students, reprimanded? How about fired, you can bite a kid and not get fired?
That's news
St. Louis Cardinals coach arrested for D.U.I. embarrassing when he recited the
alphabet "R,U,S,X,Y,X,Z...uh that's not right
Boston Red Sox sent Jonathan Palapabon back
to the bullpen
Head coach for the Pakistani cricket team was beaten to death with bats, probably
not the way you want to go out
Major league baseball told Greg Biggio to take his cancer pin off of his hat,
way to go Major league baseball, it only benefits kids who are sick
Sergio Garcia spit in the cup after missing
a putt, stay classy Serg
Brian Giles was telling jokes to Greg Maddux in the nude, weird
Pat Summit
reached her 17th Final Four in women college bastketball, you know I think she can coach
April
Pacman
Jones met with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to talk about making it rain but not before he was seen in a strip club the
night before, when asked why he would be in another strip club after being involved in a shooting he replied "I had to get
something to eat" yeah because Morton's or Nobu was all booked up, hell go to McDonald's
Phil Mickelson chose fried
chicked, ribs, brisket, and smoked sausage and vanilla ice cream for dessert on the Master's menu, wow
Brad Lidge
went Brad Lidge on opening day for the Houston Astros
Vlad Guererro knocked around the Texas Rangers
Tiger
Woods called John Smoltz his personal ATM on the golf course, that was strong
Cincinatti Mayor throws the worst opening
day pitch in Major league history, Mr. Mayor the pitch is supposed to go to the backcatcher not the dugout
102 year
old woman gets an Ace (a hole in one shot) in golf
Ed Belfor was arrested in Miami
Don Imus story broke about
him calling the Rutger's basketball team "Nappy headed hoes" think he wants that one back
Nascar driver Michael Waltrip
was charged with reckless driving after hitting a tree and leaving the scene
Edward Encarnarcion got yanked by manager
Jerry Narin for not running out a pop up
Zach Johnson won the Masters
The Cleveland Indians got one hit and
they beat the Sox 1 - 0 win the game, still don't know how that happened. Your opposition shuts you out except for one run
and you still win...huh?
Dale Earnhardt Jr. wrecked his car then got into Kyle Busch's car and finished in his car
and then got back into his car and as a result he finished 37th And 38th, I don't understand that either
Houston Nutt
reportedly sent a television reporter, Donna Bragg, over 1,000 text messages in under a month...I haven't sent 1,000 text
messages in my life and that's to all my friends combined...emails well that's different right Maria lol
The Timberwolves
lost 116 - 94 and that clinched one of the 10 worst records in the NBA so they get a nice lottery pick, how convenient
Mark
Furleigh threw a no hitter for the White Sox, that was cool
Dale Earnhardt Jr. rejects an offer that would have given
him 51% of DEI
The Dodgers were swept by the Angels
NBC switched away from an overtime NHL Playoff game to
show pre-race coverage of the Preakness, ouch
Red Sox went back to back to back to back off of Yankee Chase Wright,
nothing like giving up four homeruns in a row, dude hit someone with a pitch. If I were pitching and I give up one homerun
the next batter's gonna pay but that's just me
Alec Baldwin is not a very good dad, apparently his daughter's "a rude,
thoughtless little pig"
Kirk Heinrich was fined $25,000 for throwing his mouthpiece into the stands, they ought to
fine him another $25,000 for that haircut
A condemned man's final words before taking the needle were that he would
"use his magic" to help the Browns win the Superbowl
Tori Hunter took a fastball off his face and didn't even take
a knee
Cubs reliever Bob Harley injures his back moving his grill...only in baseball
May
St. Louis
1st baseman Albert Pujols drew a three pitch walk and no one noticed
Tiger Woods and Michael
Jordan played together in the Wachovia Championship Pro-Am
Orlando Suppada was arrested for
speeding and the police found "white powder" in his car, dude is 69 shouldn't he be past experimenting with drugs errrr I
mean rolling around with "white powder"
Tiger Woods argument with Rory Sabitini
The
'Sopranos' final episode was in May remember how it ended?
Ruben Patterson failed to register
as a sex offender after he moved
Evil Knievel passed away
Barry
Bonds is named least friendly player in baseball according to a poll of Major League players
Steve
Spurrier caught urinating on the second hole at Augusta National oops
Pittsburgh Steelers
assistant coach Larry Zierline accidentally forwarded porn to all the Steelers executives and the Commissioner of the NFL
oops
Alex Rodriguez allegedly yelled "hot" on a pop up against the Toronto Blue Jays, Blue
Jays say it was a little league move
Clinton Portis said that Michael Vick should be allowed
to fight dogs, "they're his dogs, he should be able to do what he wants" Not exactly C. I mean it is a felony
Anaheim
Mighty Ducks won the Stanley Cup Championship
Reggie the gator finally captured in an Los
Angeles pond, great, it only took 3 years, way to go city of L.A.
Edwin Jackson got hit in
the head while running behind homeplate to back up a throw from the outfield how very Tampa Bay Devil Ray of him
A.J.
Pierzienski was accused of spiking Justin Morneau, twice
June
Michelle Wie
withdrew from the Jin Tribute, yeah I'm sure it had nothing to do with the fact that if she shot 84 or higher she'd automatically
off the tour for a year
Air Tran dumped Michael Vick from their sponsorship, why? Animal cruelty not good
for business?
Cubs Ace Carlos Zambrano and catcher Michael Barrett started fighting in the dugout, shockingly
Barrett was traded afterwards, you can't fight the ace and keep your job
The USA reclaims the world record
for gluttony, Joey Chestnut eats 59 1/2 hot dogs in 12 minutes to beat Kobiyashi...USA, USA, USA!
A minor
league manager in the Atlanta Braves organization went nuts when ejected from the game
Trevor Hoffman saved
his 500th game
A study determined that the 2012 Olympics in London would be ground zero for the spread of
venereal disease because of massive sexual promiscuity, I thought the Olympics motto was Stonger, Higher, Faster uh nevermind
The Feds got involved in the Michael Vick case, that was the beginning of the end for Mike
John
Daly showed up at the St. Jude Classic with scratch marks all over his face, he claimed his wife attacked him, wow
Chad
Johnson raced a horse and won, ocho cinco's team didn't do that well this year.
Justin Verlander threw a no
hitter against the Milwaukee Brewers
Adam "Pacman" Jones physically assaults a hooker errrr I mean exotic
dancer at a famous strip club resulting in his supension
Dodgers pitcher Hong Chi Kwo hits homerun against
Mets pitcher John Maine, then acted like he was Barry Bonds, you do know you are Hong Chi Kwo right, it's your first homerun,
stop styling
Angel Cabrera won the U.S. Open smoking a cigarette on his way in from the victory, who says
golfers aren't athletes. I'm sure Michael Jordan and Muhammed Ali smoked a pack before training also
Adam
"Pacman" Jones got into another confrontation at a strip club, well at least he learned his lesson
Washington
Redskins' draft pick Leron Landrey had to miss a work out in June because he was shot in the package playing paintball
Pittsburgh
Pirates pitcher Ian Snell couldn't play because he burned his finger on chicken, what do you prepare your chicken with lava?
Elijah Dukes threatens to kill his wife and then texts her a picture of a gun, wow...if anything happens to
that woman I know where i'm looking
Burt Blylevin told Johan Santana that if he threw a shut out he would
shave his head, so Johan threw a no hitter, Burt had to shave his head, easiest call ever...thanks for coming Burt
BYU
track star Kyle Perry was arrested for attacking pedestrians with mops, ridiculous
Devil Rays pitching coach
Jim Hickey opened up a giant gash on his head when he shanked a golf shot off a curb and struck himself in the head, how very
Devil Ray of him...why does this never happen to anyone but Tampa? Orlando doesn't have a Major League team so growing up
I used to like Tampa because they were the closest but I've since gotten rid of all of my old Tampa gear to be an objectionable
writer. Either that or out of embarrassment...
St. Bonaventure coach tries to bring a .357 onto an airplane,
what you can't do that?
A 16 year old girl marries her 40 year old track coach, how nice their first dance
can be at the prom...freak who's the best man Woody Allen? Michael Jackson?
A Florida man tried to get the
ball out of a golf course pond only to get pulled into the water by a gator, wow my man we all hate to take a drop while playing
golf but I'd rather be over on that hole and have my arm
A golf course in Pennsylvania investigated for public
sex acts after a party, and I don't want any emails about "playing through" already thought about it and it isn't funny
Annika
Sorenstam yelled at Michelle Wie for quitting at the Tribute, good job Annika
July
The Mets hired Rickey Henderson as a batting coach
Padrig Harrington won the British Open after Sergio Garcia
choked
Bay Area officers announced that they made 131 arrests during all-star weekend
A rugby player had another
player's tooth removed from his head that had been jammed in his skull for three months, he had headaches but didn't know
why, you've got to be a different kind of cat to play rugby, or boxing or mixed martial arts for that matter
Gary
Carter called out Barry Bonds for steroids
Mitch Kozad the deranged punter for Northern Colorado stabbed his teammate
in the leg to get his spot, and was reportedly worried about going to jail
Bud Selig was in attendance when Barry
Bonds "broke" Hank Aaron's homerun record
The Tour de France was run in France and no one cared
Gary Player
alleged that players on the PGA were using steroids but wouldn't name names
Tony Gwinn and Cal Ripken went into the
Hall of Fame
August
August I take vacation so this will be short but good
X-Gamer Jake Brown
fell 40' on his back, how he didn't die I don't know
Rolling Stones member Keith Richards admits smoking his father,
wow...how high do you have to be to go to the urn and line up pops....incredible and by incredible I mean sickening
Craig
Biggio gets his 3,000th hit
David Wells got released by the San Diego Padres only to be picked up by the Dodgers and
started winning
Brett Myers called a Philadelphia beat writer a retard
Miss Teen South Carolina's now infamous
statements regarding U.S. Americans and the map shortage in this country, and The Iraq and other Asian countries, are you
kidding me? Thank God she's hot
September
September is also a month I take vacation in and you know
the rest...
O.J. Simpson screams at people in a Las Vegas hotel room, they allegedly stole his gear
Oklahoma
State coach Mike Gundy had a meltdown of all meltdowns after a reporter called out one of his players
Hope
Solo crushes her teammate and her coach, "It's not 2004 it's 2007, I would have made those saves" Worst teammate ever, It's
U.S. Women's Soccer so no one cares
Brett Favre tied Dan Marino's NFL record for career touchdown passes on
a 57-yard completion to Greg Jennings
A high school assistant football coach was in hot water for recruiting 14
Samoan players for his team in Stockton, California...thank God recruiting in high school is illegal, I saw photos of those
guys and they look like they can beat the New England Patriots
Remember it was in September that seven teams were
chasing four National League playoff spots in baseball. The Phillies, the Mets, the Rockies, the Padres, the Cubs, the Diamondbacks,
and the Brewers we all still alive thanks to meltdowns from the Mets and Padres
According to Forbes magazine Tiger
Woods is the most valuable athlete in terms of name recognition for advertising worth annually $64 million, he raked in $87
million last year alone
It was announced that a 30 second ad spot during the 2007/08 Superbowl will cost $2.7
million dollars, the most expensive in history of television
Tour de France cheater errr I mean cyclist Floyd
Landis is stripped of his title and gets banned for two years
Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson is one of
seven members named to the NBA's Hall of Fame
Rafael Nadal, Andy Roddick, Lleyton Hewitt, Maria Sharapova all
lost the first weekend of the U.S. Open in New York City, so much for star power
Florida State athletes were accused
of cheating on their internet test, I don't know if they're guilty but two athletic department academic assistants did resign
Chris Benoit the pro wrestler who killed his family then himself had his medical records released, the WWE did
announce they'd start testing for steroids in the wake of so many of their "athletes" dying
October
Some middle schools in Maine were apparently handing out birth control, come on Maine check yourself, handing out
birth control to 12 and 13 year olds isn't health conscience it's sick
Gilbert
Arenas says the best way to get back at your girlfriend is to go on strike for 7 days good luck with that Gil
Boston
was and still is on top of the sports world as they have the rarity of being the best football team (New England Patriots),
the best basketball team, (Boston Celtics), and best baseball team (World Champion Red Sox)not to brag but that was us two
years ago, Florida still rules, check your record books
Miami Dolphins opened
the season with a loss to the New York Giants and the game took place at Wembley Stadium in England, I remember everyone in
the stands had a whistle, it was ridiculous
NCAA investigators were all over
Reggie Bush about $280,000 in unexplained income, you risk eligibility if you take money from anyone other than family as
a college athlete, I don't know if he did but not too many college students rolling around campus with $280 g's...
October
was the month that the International Olympic Committee called Marion Jones' admission of using performance enhancing drugs
a good thing for international sports, The Olympic Committee does not play! 1st offense you get a two year ban, 2nd offense
you are gone, banned for life! I'll never understand it, you train your whole life just to throw it away for a few seconds?
New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomas was found guilty of sexual harassment,
never a good thing to have on your resume
The Olympics are known for some
good decisions and some pretty stupid decisions like voting out baseball as an Olympic sport, so let me get this straight,
bobsledding is more of a sport than baseball? To be fair bobsledding is a winter event but ballroom dancing is a summer event,
oh no we'll keep ballroom dancing but baseball has got to go, ridiculous
November
Barry Bonds
was indicted by a federal grand jury for perjury and obstruction of justice and charged with lying about whether he knowingly
used performance enhancing drugs
Comedian Dennis Miller announced he was returning to sports television, who
could forget his two year stint with Monday Night Football, in one word it was confusing I mean I have a Bachelor's Degree
and I didn't know what the hell he was talking about during the games, "Sports Unfiltered with Dennis Miller" is on Versus
Tuesday nights
Adrian Peterson set a league record with 296 rushing yards in his eighth NFL game. It eclipsed
the previous record of 295 set by Jamal Lewis in 2003
The Wall Street Journal revealed that Ohio State University
spent $109,382,222 for 2007 or about $110,000 for each of the university's 980 athletes which is triple the amount the university
spends per undergraduate on education. So much for the term "student-athletes" the NCAA brags about on it's commercials it's
obviously athletes first
New York Knicks guard Stephon Marbury was mysteriously absent from a game against
the Phoenix Suns, and speculations were that he may have had an arguement with Isiah Thomas
Alessio Di Mauro was
suspended for nine months for betting on tennis matches, becoming the first player to be sanctioned under the ATP's new anti-corruption
rules. He was also fined $60,000 after being found guilty of making 120 bets with an online bookmaker
December
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