Biggest Sports Cheats

We received this link in an email a little while ago.  We normally don’t post these, but it’s a slow news time and I enjoyed this one.  Enjoy the Top 15 Sports Cheats of All-Time.

I think Rosie Ruiz should be higher and I don’t think Diego Maradona is the biggest cheat of all time, but it’s still funny.

All-Star Results

As Weller mentioned in the previous post, we were both out of town for the 4th of July so I’m a tad late on this.  As I’ve said plenty of times in the past, Major League Baseball’s All-Star voting procedure is dumb and I hate it.  Every year there are examples of this and this year is no exception.  So I’m going to take look at who was actually voted in and who should have been voted in.

Weekend Update

Bryan and I were both out of town for Fourth of July weekend and weren’t on the internet at all. There were some pretty big things that happened in the world of sports that we feel should be mentioned but didn’t have the opportunity to write full posts on. I’ll just give a quick one or two sentences about each one.

- Steve McNair was shot to death in his downtown Nashville apartment. It currently looks as though it was a murder suicide by the girl whose body was found next to his.

- Roger Federer beat Andy Roddick for his 15th Grand Slam at Wimbledon, passing Pete Sampras previous record of 14 career Grand Slam victories.

- Tiger Woods won the AT&T National this weekend. This gives Tiger 68 career PGA Tour wins, five short of Jack Nicklaus and 14 short of Sam Snead’s record 82 career wins.

- Manny Ramirez returned from suspension and hit a home run in his second game back.

- USA beat Grenada in soccer to win their first round match of the 2009 Gold Cup and will face Honduras in their second game.

- Serena Williams beat sister Venus Williams to win Wimbledon on the women’s side and then the two teamed up to win doubles.

- Three stages into the Tour de France, Lance Armstrong is currently in third. He is seven seconds behind Tony Martin and 40 seconds behind Fabian Cancellara.

- Some big name NBA free agents have agreed to terms with different teams from the ones they played with this past year. The most notable are: Ben Gordon to the Pistons, Hedo Turkaglu to the Raptors, Trevor Ariza to the Rockets, Charlie Villanueva to the Pistons, Rasheed Wallace to the Celtics, Marcin Gortat to the Mavericks, and Ron Artest to the Lakers.

- And most importantly Bryan and I got the oportunity to play two games of Schleuderball over the weekend and we won both games.

2010 Mock Draft III (07/01)

Here is the third mock draft for 2010. In case you haven’t caught on, I’ve been doing them on the first of each month. This time around I determined the draft order by using the results from the poll that I put up with my last mock draft. That took care of the first six picks because people submitted other votes as Denver and Cleveland. After the I used more recent Super Bowl XLIV odds to put the remaining 26 teams in order. I again have the Steelers repeating as Super Bowl champs. Let me know what you think about the draft in a comment.

Steroid List From 2003?

I got this little gem this morning so I figured I’d share.  This list is unconfirmed so it may be fake.  Read on to see how it is.

This is hilarious

For those of you that haven’t heard, Tennessee got a “commitment” from a 13 year old yesterday. With that in mind, check this out.

USA Falls to Brazil

I really don’t want to write this because I’m still frustrated about the second half of that game.  The Americans seem to either play brilliantly (see, Spain and Egypt) or fall flat on their faces (see, Costa Rice, Brazil, Italy).  Today, they managed to do both.

The first half was spectacular.  The US hung with Brazil in even aspect of the game.  They looked great.  They carried a 2-0 lead into the half and were poised to win their first FIFA sanctioned tournament.

Instead, the wheels fell off and Brazil scored three unanswered goals (should have been four) and sent the US to a second place finish.

Tennessee Gets A New Commitment… From a 13 year old?

I know what you’re thinking. “He’s thirteen, how can we be sure we’re going to want him when he’s 18?” And my answer is simple: he is Eric Berry’s younger brother, Evan. Read what I wrote about it for 3SIB by clicking here.

Most Fuel Efficient NFL Divisions

I was bored today and my mind started to wander in the direction it always tends to wander when I get bored and that would be towards football. Somehow or another my chain of thoughts made me wonder how many miles the 32 NFL teams travel on average per season when they fly around the country to play football. Then I thought to myself “man, if they reorganized the divisions I bet they could save ton of money on fuel costs.” And next thing you know, I’m looking up distances between different NFL cities and seeing what would be the most efficient way to arrange the divisions to minimize total travel distance for the teams to play games within their division.

Let me first start by saying that I realize this would ruin a lot of the tradition in the NFL and would be breaking up bunch of the divisions historical division rivalries and by no means am I actually proposing that the NFL does this. It’s just something interesting to look at. I just wanted to see how many total miles of flying is done by the NFL for division games, and then come up with the divisions that would reduce that number the greatest amount and then compare.

NHL Draft Review

John Tavares puts on an Isles jersey for the first time. Sorry, kid.

Last night the NHL hosted the first round of their annual entry draft.  It was broadcast on Versus, so chances are good that you didn’t know it was going on (unless you frequent WaB and for that, we thank you).  As I outlined here, there was potential for a pretty wild day with trades and picks being sent all over the place.  There was also potential for nothing to happen and for everything to go according to plan.  Unfortunately, teams went with the latter option.

The biggest news of the day was Anaheim’s trade of Chris Pronger to Philadelphia for Joffrey Lupul, Luca Sbisa and two first round draft picks.  Pronger will be an unrestricted free agent next year, so this is entirely too much.  That being said, I’m happy to see him exit the Western Conference.