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Everyone is talking about whether or not LeBron James will be moving to a New York Market team, I.E. the Nets or the Knicks. RockKing over Waiting for Next Year took some time to examine whether or not this is the actually going to happen or whether it’s just a lie that ESPN and all of the New York Market Newspapers are perpetrating.
Eagles CB specialist Asante Samuel spent his first 5 years in the league with the powerhouse New England Patriots. He won two Super Bowls with the squad and lost a third one, which they would’ve won by the way if he had made this play.
So anyway, after they lost, Asante went on to sign with the Philadelphia Eagles in March and went on to say “I just want to be able to win and get back to the Super Bowl.” Wait that doesn’t make much sense, you go from a team that just came one game short of going undefeated to a team that didn’t make the playoffs and you expect to get back? Wouldn’t it be smarter to stick with the Patriots?
“Asante’s a great player, so it hurts not to have a guy like that. But then again, it’s part of the business of the game,” Welker said. “He chose money over championships, and that’s the way it goes sometimes.”
Honestly though Wes is just hating. I mean of course he left because of money… Duh!!! Everyone knows that but fuck it. Your career doesn’t last forever, I say go get your money.
Here is a video of a guy who I imagine is pretty good on a pogo stick, despite the fact that I didn’t even know that they still made pogo sticks with things like Playstation’s and the internet existing now. Anyway he attempts to do a backflip from one pogo stick to the other. It didn’t really work out though. I guess no pain no gain right?
Soccer is just like any other sport. You write up different defensive tactics to stop the other team from scoring. At the end of the day though whatever works is what needs to be done to win, however during the LA Galaxy/DC United game yesterday, Luciano Emilio had some an interesting defensive plan.
He decided that he would use his groin to block a shot attempt by David Beckham. Ouch. Hopefully he already has a family because he’s not gonna be able to have kids anymore after that shot.
Congrats to the Spanish team for winning the Euro 2008 Championship. Yesterday they defeated the German team in the finals 1-0 on a goal by Fernando Torres in the 33rd minute. Celebrations commenced all over Spain.
While the game was going on, there was an erotic film festival going on in Barcelona. The name of the 3 day event is the International Erotic Film Festival of Barcelona (FICEB) and it features performances by buxom strippers and appearances by top porn stars. Sounds like fun.
Usually around 50,000 people attend these events but this year only about 15,000 people stopped by. You can blame soccer for it. About 17 million people in Spain were glued to their TV sets.
FICEB director Juli Simon blamed the lower-than-expected turnout on the fact that the festival’s opening day coincided with Spain’s 3-0 Euro 2008 semi-final win over Russia which drew a record Spanish television audience of 17 million.
“Football is one of the few things that can compete with sex,” he told private television station Telecinco.
I guess when you’ve had a drought of 44 years since your last Euro Championship, that takes precedent over everything.
Here is some pics from the Miss Universe 2008 swimwear photo shoot at a hotel in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City. This just makes realized one thing, I definitely need to start doing a lot more traveling. Even though my favorite is Miss USA Crystle Stewart who just happens to live right here in Texas too. I wonder if I could look her up… .
You can also check out my man Cuzzy’s site for Cuzoogle the odds on who’s going to win the Miss Universe Crown.
Here are some pics of David Beckham riding around in his new Rolls Royce Drophead in Beverly Hills. Man his life looks like it sucks. I would never want to be him. I mean he is spending $400,000 on cars that only get 11 miles per gallon. I mean the gas prices must be killing him. What a horrible life.
Darren Taylor is a cool guy. He is a former strip club DJ (my dream job) and he just set a world record for shallow diving. This guy jumped from 35 feet, 5 inches into a kiddie pool that is 12 inches deep. At least it was padded. So who was crazy enough to be the previous record holder. I’ll you a clue, it was him.
Taylor has previously set shallow-dive world records in Italy, Spain, Japan and Germany. Professor Splash said his technique is to “skip across the water” when he makes contact with it.
Taylor also added that “experience and research” is the key to success dives and that what he does is not easy. Taylor says a record-setting dive in Tokyo caused him to black out for a few seconds.
Young kids who were present had good questions for him. One boy wondered, “What happens if he doesn’t land in the pool?”
They call this guy Professor Splash. Not a bad nickname but I prefer psycho. Thanks to Brooks for this one.
I’m going to be gone most of the day today. I’ll be back this afternoon with some updates but in the meantime, heres a little funny video to hold you guys until later. It’s a stripper in training who obviously needs to keep training….
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