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So I’m watching TMZ’s TV show and they have a short segment on Floyd Mayweather and Zab Judah battling it out in a nightclub. No they weren’t fighting, they were seeing who could floss the hardest.
Floyd and Zab took turns buying $1,000 bottles of champagne and passing them out to random people in the crowd. When that battle of idiocy ended in a stalemate, Floyd Mayweather took home the crown when he grabbed a $5,000 stack of money and made it rain onto the dance floor.
While I don’t agree with it, I can understand Floyd blowing money, he’s made over 50 million dollars in 2007. But Zab Judah????? The same Zab Judah who hasn’t won a meaningful fight in years? The same Zab Judah who is no longer a pay per view draw? When you get beaten by a guy who looks like a bus driver, you’ve lost your “make it rain” club card.
Hectic few days for Sportaphile. As you can see we’ve updated the site and it looks great. (RSS Subscribers, click over for a moment to check us out). New Look
1. We’ve got a rotating banner at the top of the site now. Each time you refresh the page you should see a different image. (Tom Brady isn’t in yet, but he will be unfortunately). Shout out to Erican for all the nerd work, and Gin Gin for creating the ladies banner.
- There should be banners for football, baseball, basketball, and chicks when it’s all said and done.
- the search function now works (and looks much cooler than our last one)
- clicking the header now takes you back to the home page (i know that drove some people crazy on the old version)
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2. Sportaphile is looking for contributors! You don’t exactly have to be a journalist, but you DO have to know your stuff. (that way we can say we have at least one competent staffer) We aren’t looking for someone to simply report the news. If you’re the type that doesn’t mind expressing their views (and most importantly backing them up), while having fun… join the gang.
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So Ray Lewis appeared on The Best Damned Sports Show Period and was subjected to a polygraph examination. It was a play on Fox’s new reality show The Moment Of Truth where contestants answer questions (truthfully) for money. Ray was asked four questions total, and only lied on one of them.
“Do you think you’re more talented than Brian Urlacher?
Would you take steroids if you knew you wouldnt get caught?
Was Brian Billick a good head coach?
Were you surprised you won the super bowl with Trent Dilfer as your quarterback?”
You can check out the video of Ray answering these questions at the bottom of this post (shout out to Awful Anouncing for the vid)
This made me think, what questions would I ask famous sports figures if I had the chance?
- I’d ask John Madden if he’d leave his wife for Brett Favre if he was guaranteed Brett would be down for some Brokeback action.
- Id ask Donovan McNabb if he could take Terrell Owens back right now, would he do it?
- I’d ask Norv Turner if his neck is in fact… made of oatmeal.
- I’d ask Paul Tagliabue if he retired because he got sick of waiting for Al Davis to die.
- I’d ask Michael Jordan’s wife if she knew what she was doing when she slapped the martial cuffs on him.
While mingling in Arizona for Super Bowl week, Chad Johnson is asked by a reporter if he’d be wearing orange and black next season, and in true Chad fashion he gave an interesting answer.
“Maybe [i'll be wearing] aqua, teal, and white. Parcells call me, stop playin around man..”
At this point we know four things.
1. Chad Johnson definitely wants to leave the Bengals, and he is a Miami native so playing for the lowly Dolphins has significant appeal for him 2. Bill Parcells doesn’t like diva football players, Chad Johnson is definitely a diva football player. 3. Miami seriously needs wide receivers, they traded away their best WR (Chris Chambers) to the Chargers. The presence of Chad would greatly benefit Ted Ginn Jr. 4. Due to the Chris Chambers trade, Miami has an abundance of draft picks, including the first overall selection. So they definitely have the means to deal for Ochenta Y Cinco if they wanted to.
This offeseason should be fun. Check out the vid of Chad’s comments below.
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Remember back in the day when you bought shoes, there was only a cardboard box, with (hopefully) shoes you liked inside?
That’s not necessarily the case anymore, especially with Nike Air Jordans. The special pre-release of the Air Jordan XX3 Premier White/Titanium-University Blue versions took place yesterday, and came with a DVD disc. It contains footage of Michael Jordan, Tinker Hatfield, and Mark Smith talking about the brand and all that jazz.
If you aren’t a sneaker head this probably holds little to no interest for you. Shout out to Sneaker Files for the video though. They keep me posted.
