Testing a new camera and lucky to catch Paul's Crazy eyes as he learns about Moneyball getting nominated for 6 Oscars, also Steve Cofield shown with his trademark Thumbs Up!
But "Lift that bag of potatoes" is one of those great all purpose calls. It can go with anything.
Big time dunks, amazing passes, and great steals can all be explained with a bag of potatoes.
This speaks to the brilliance of Kevin Harlan that he can come up with such a perfect catchphrase that will sweep the nation off the top of his head like that.
Marcos Baghdatis was having a rough day at the Austrailan Open.
He was losing to some other guy nobody knows and did the only he could.
And that was to smash every tennis racquet in his sight.
The man is a machine. He ripped through 4 racquets in 30 seconds destroying the old record of 1.
The freakout is great even if it does appear that Baghdatis is continuing it just so people will look at him, beacuse of the superb work done by the commentary team.
They aren't even phased by the impressive smashing feat. They just seamlessly transition from the match to the play by play of racquet's demise.
Extraordinary job.
For those of you who care, Baghdatis lost to Stanislas Wawrinka by scores of 7-6(3), 6-4, 5-7, and 6-1.
JaVale McGee explained his flashy dunk saying he was trying to inspire his team to make run, but Flip Saunders disagreed.
Flip benched McGee after the move feeling that McGee was too concerned with geting himself on the highlights.
The truth is they're probably both right.
McGee wanted to be the catalyst for his team to make a run, who were only down 6 at the time, and I'm pretty sure he was trying to land a highlight reel dunk to replace this image:
I'm not really sure he should be benched for trying to get this one back.
Welcome to the first edition of Bloggin-n-Weavin. Now originally I intended this to be a strictly boxing blog but there is so much material in the wide world of sports why limit myself.
Just to catch you up with the goings on of boxing now mind you I try and stay away from gossip and trash talk BUT this i couldn't pass up.
So, Mayweather is calling out Pacquiao calling him a punk and Bob Arum is saying HE [as in Bob Arum] doesn't want the fight however Pac Man and Freddie do.
Meanwhile on the otherside of the world Sergio Martinez is calling out Julio Ceasar Chavez Jr.
As well as Pacman saying and I quote,"They are just Bob Arum's puppets." So shots fired from Martinez and Mayweather. I love this its so exciting just like high school now all we need to know is who's fighting by the gym after school!
The baby pit is an up and coming prospect sort a speak. Starting at the age of six at the east side gym he became the first boxer since Davel Lee Armstrong to compete in two straight olympic games 04 and 08.
In '04 he was the youngest boxer at the games and the youngest male in all sports. unfortunatley he was eliminated both times in the first round. however 08 was a controversial decision.
That did not stop his grind nor his hustle! He was an amateur flyweight champ winning the gold in 07 and in 05 as well as last year he placed in the bronze.
More to come in the weeks ahead from the baby pit as I try and get a few of my questions answered.
Look out for a special edition of Extra Time w/ Reynolds and Marc this Tuesday for Big Show live in studio with Reynolds. Listen in and see if he is willing to give me a Ric Flair chop to the chest [bare chest mind you] and choke slam Reynolds. 1/17/12 Wooooooo!
Despite all the Teblowin' going on I just gotta say this
LET'S GO PATS!!!!!
Floyd has really been flaunting his money in recent weeks.
He's been hitting on all his bets, including taking Alabama in the first half against LSU for $333,333 in some kind of football game.
And now here he is with 50 Cent showing everybody that he has lots of money and a friend.
My guess is Floyd's going into full blown Million Dollar Man mode in an attempt to make everybody forget that he's going to jail after his next fight, which he still has no opponent for.
It's looking less likely like it's going to be Manny Pacquiao after the Pacquiao camp said it makes "no economic sense" for Manny to fight Mayweather on May 5th.
Then another fight option fell through after it had been reported that the Mayweather camp was in deep negotiations with Robert Guerrero's camp, the CEO of Golden Boy, Richard Schaefer, told ESPN.com that Floyd would not be fighting Guerrero.
There's some other list of opponents that I don't care enough to name them out there, but nobody who would bring in the kind of money that a Mayweather/Pacquiao fight would make.
So, without a scheduled fight and looking at jail time, what's a douchebag to do?
Better take a picture with lots of money and the creator of the Vitamin Water drink Formula 50.
The most exciting part of the Mavericks 100-86 win over the Pistons last night was the two hipster fans who were sitting amongst the Mavs players last night.
George Blaha, the voice of the Pistons, was very confused about how this was happening.
Well as it turns out, there's a very good reason why it looked like these two guys who clearly only listen to LMFAO ironically are sitting between Delonte West and Vince Carter.
If you look closely, you can see that the chill bros (and Vince Carter) are sitting in big, plush chairs, while West (and the rest of the Mavs) are sitting on folding chairs. Those plush chairs are VIP seats immediately next to the bench that anyone can buy -- so what's actually happening is that Carter is sitting in the stands, not fans sitting on the bench.
Watson goes on to explain that he's seen players take over those VIP seats before, but that didn't help get Blaha through this perplexing moment in history.
Ryan Greene from RunRebs.com reported shortly after 4 p.m. PT that Khem Birch, the 6'9 Mc Donalds All-American power forward, announced his decision to play for UNLV next season.
Birch. who hails from Montreal, averaged 4.4 points and 5 rebounds in 10 games for Pittsburgh. He started six games, but left because he felt like he didn't fit within Pittsburgh's offensive scheme.
After a Friday/Saturday visit to Las Vegas, Birch narrowed his decision down to Florida and UNLV.. He was also considering Oregon State, Washington and New Mexico State.
Birch joins several other high profile transfers on the UNLV roster - Mike Moser (UCLA), Chace Stanback (UCLA), Quintrell Thomas (Kansas) and Bryce Jones (USC).
His commitment only adds to the intrigue locally where three top 50 recruits in Las Vegas are waiting to make their decision.
No. 1 Shabazz Muhammed (Duke, Kentucky, Kansas, Arizona, UNLV and UCLA)
No. 9 Anthony Bennett (Washington, Florida, UNLV, Oregon and Kentucky)
No. 43 Winston Sheperd (New Mexico, Oklahoma State, San Diego State, UNLV, UTEP)
Bennett, also a Canadian, is reportedly tight with Birch. It's hard to believe anything could top the news of UNLV rising to 12th in the national rankings, but getting a former top 10 recruit with three and half years eligibility remaining is pretty huge.
Holy lord. The Mile High Savior is coming to Vegas to attend church services at Canyon Ridge on the 3rd and 4th of March.
And be it so that we may gaze upon him and ask and it shall be given to you.
Tim Tebow provided a miracle playoff win for the Broncos yesterday and with a miracle worker coming to town the ESPN 1100 & 98.9 FM staff is taking this opportunity to ask him if he may bequeath his gifts upon us.
Here is what we're asking the Denver Deity for:
Cofield- A Chick-Fil-A here in Vegas
Cokin- the scores in advance
Paul- A pro sports team in Vegas
Seat- Another Shih Tzu for 20 years
Baker- a speed train form Vegas to Victorville
Dug Dugless- To fill up Lake Mead
Reynolds- A signed copy of On The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin
Going into the last Wild Card game of the weekend, the sportsbooks in Las Vegas were facing heavy liability as all the favorites had won and covered the spread.
Then Tebow bestowed his gifts upon them.
The Steelers were favored by 8.5 points, which meant that the books had already won most of the bets before overtime had even been played.
Tebow's 80-yard touchdown pass to Demaryius Thomas only added to their joy as it knocked out all the teasers and cleaned up all the action still on the table from bettors waiting on the result of the late game.
“The entire weekend rested with Denver,” said Lucky’s sports book director Jimmy Vaccaro. “It was the only game we won of the four, but it was the biggest one of them all.“
Combining the Steelers status as a huge public team and the fact that the late playoff game is always heavily bet, the Steelers/Broncos game was the most heavily bet of the weekend.
Tebow's resurrection after three poor performances killed the public's four, five, and six team parlays, which were the greatest threat to the sportsbooks.
And that's the story of the Miracle on Las Vegas Boulevard.
So the top 10 pickers in our College Bowl Pick'em and a HUGE edge in the picking edge goes to LSU. only PROPLAYER (currently in 9th) took Bama. So will the hot streak continue for these pickers? Of course with confidence points some of the top players who have LSU with low confidence points will actually be hoping to be wrong so they finish higher.
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A couple of days ago Darwin Cook did this in a completely meaningless athletic activity.
He did that because that guy in the mascot suit was a symbol.
A symbol of all the people who didn't believe that his team could cover the 3.5 point spread against some other group of scholarship athletes.
The problem is "that guy" in the mascot suit is actually a female.
This information shocked Cook when he was told by an intrepid reporter that it was a "little girl", which prompted one of the greatest reactions from an on field interview ever.
The female wasn't injured and Cook hugged it out with her (in costume), so I think he's safe from any kind of lawsuit.
What a hilarious case of mistaken identity that we can all learn from.
Thanks to a hilarious mishap by the TNT production team, the cameras continued to roll and the mics stayed open during a commercial break.
What we learned from this is that Barkley is pretty much the exact same guy on air that he is off air and Reggie Miller has eliminated at least one team from the Dwight Howard sweepstakes.
Also, Kevin Harlan doesn't care very much for the game he's calling.
TNT can now add television production to it's list of things it knows. TNT now knows drama and television production.
Can you blame him? It looks disgusting. You can't eat a crown.
Lebron apparently worked out a sponsorship deal with the baker, Alethea Hickman, to design a cake for his 27th birthday party and in lieu of pay Hickman would receive throngs of free publicity.
But when Lebron's people saw the cake, they said it wasn't what they expected and they'd bring their own cake, according to Hickman.
I assume it was Lebron's use of an Entenmann's cake that really set her off.
Hickman is now demanding to be paid for the time and effort it took to produce the monarch sized pastry:
"I was mortified. They had me do it in the middle of the holiday crush and I hired additional people. Someone needs to pay."
Jared Galbut, Lebron's birthday party handler, valued the cake at closer to $600 saying it was only flour, eggs and water when asked how much he would pay Hickman.
A couple of things to note here, Lebron is clearly a childish moron , but not for refusing to pay for a cake that was agreed to be paid with free publicity.
The real problem for Lebron is he's turning 27 and still throwing himself birthday parties complete with birthday handlers.
If you're over the age of 12 and still planning out your birthday, you better have Alzheimers. (Link NSFW)
And Hickman can stop her complaining because now she's going to get a lot of publicity anyway for Lebron's pass on using her cake.
Steve Cofield grew up in a small New Jersey home to a blue collar family, which laid the groundwork for his early sports franchise love, the New Jersey Nets.
Over the years, Cofield grew accustomed to the rage he felt after watching losing season after losing season with the Nets and embraced that rage.
Content with spending his nights fist-pumping into the Brendan Byrne Arena and drinking away his pain, Cofield's love for the Nets was unquestioned.
But after leaving New Jersey for the West to follow his dream of hosting a show with Dave Cokin, Cofield soon found a sympathetic attachment for another perennial losing franchise.
The Los Angeles Clippers were in many ways just like the Nets with their poor management, bad draft choices, and litany of injuries.
The "Soul Crusher" would develop a deeper passion for the Clippers over the years of watching their comical brand of basketball.
Cofield would often claim that the Nets were his first love, but the Clippers were his main bitch.
Then Don David Stern threatened to test Cofield's allegiance to the Nets when his rejected a trade proposal that would have sent Chris Paul to the Lakers.
With Don David's rejection of the Lakers' attempts to get CP3, the Clippers uncommonly stepped forward to claim the biggest acquisition in their history.
Chris Paul and Blake Griffin are now turning the Staples Center into "Lob City" and Cofield's love is being tested.
And the Nets are not making it easy.
Shelden Williams dunked a ball into his own face and Kris Humprhies is more famous for a failed 72-day marriage.
That's what the Nets are bringing to the table.
Who will Cofield choose?
Between the Clippers, the Nets, the innocent, the sensual, and the unthinkable. There are still some things one man has yet to imagine.
