Say it ain't so, T.O.!
I didn't see this coming and I am sure Rush didn't either:
According to a Dallas police report obtained by News 8, Dallas Cowboys star receiver Terrell Owens attempted suicide Tuesday night.
The report says Owens was depressed and reportedly took prescription pain pills. A woman companion states that she observed him putting two pills in his mouth.
According to the police narrative, the woman said the prescription of 40 pills was filled on September 18 and—until Tuesday—Owens had taken only five pills.
The police report said Owens was asked if he had taken the rest of the prescription; Owens said, "Yes."
According to the report, police also asked if he was trying to harm himself. Owens answered, "Yes."
Owens was treated at Baylor University Medical Center.
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Now for the sports report . . . Pac-10 apologizes to OU, suspends officials
Here is breaking news from the world of sports, as being reported by the Tulsa World newspaper:
Pac-10 apologizes to OU, suspends officialsBy Staff reports
9/18/2006 6:49:00 PMThe Pac-10 Conference has issued a one-game suspension for officials in Saturday's Oklahoma-Oregon football game and has issued an apology to OU for errors on a key play late in the game.
The officiating crew and the replay official have been suspended for mistakes that occurred on an onside kick that gave Oregon possession of the football.
The Ducks drove to a decisive touchdown in a 34-33 win.
"Errors clearly were made and not corrected, and for that we apologize to the University of Oklahoma, Coach Bob Stoops and his players," Pac-10 Commissioner Tom Hansen says in a statement released by the conference. "They played an outstanding college football game, as did Oregon, and it is regrettable that the outcome of the contest was affected by the officiating."
Pac-10 Associate Commissioner of Communications Jim Muldoon said it's the first time in league history that football officials have been suspended.
To read the entire story, click here.
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An American Disgrace
Why does he not face criminal charges? With all those steroids hearing in congress, could we not pass a law that demands criminal charges on athletes representing the United States in international competition? Am I being too radical about this?
Two weeks ago, Floyd Landis was cycling's newest star, hailed by the Tour de France as "a Leader for a New Generation." Yesterday morning, his Tour triumph continued a slide both familiar and troubling to U.S. athletic officials: one more achievement tainted by the specter of doping.
In May, American sprinter Justin Gatlin equaled the world record in the 100 meters; last month, he revealed he had tested positive for testosterone. Later that month, Barry Bonds passed Babe Ruth to move into second place on baseball's career home run list; the event was widely ignored by baseball officials wary of Bonds's involvement in a steroid investigation.
Landis celebrated for three days before learning he had tested positive for suspicious levels of testosterone. Yesterday's second test result also was positive, meaning Landis could be the first cyclist to forfeit a Tour title because of doping. He maintains his innocence, and prolonged legal wrangling is expected.
The run of bad news across athletic disciplines last week prompted U.S. Olympic Committee Chairman and former baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth to call athletic doping "an epidemic in this country" and USOC CEO Jim Scherr to emphasize the importance of fielding a drug-free team in the 2008 Summer Olympics.
It's ironic because we used to always (in the back of our minds) think that Helga, the 400# weight lifter from East Germany, was doping. Now its us. What a disgrace.
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That's why they have nickel slots
Golfer John Daly admists to losing upwards of $60 million in gambling:
He told one story of earning $750,000 when he lost in a playoff to Tiger Woods last fall in San Francisco at a World Golf Championship. Instead of going home, he drove to Las Vegas and says he lost $1.65 million in five hours playing mostly $5,000 slot machines.
I remember watching an episode of "Intervention" on A&E's onDemand where this girl was addicted to gambling. She looked and acted like a drug addict. She discussed how she would get a high from the sound of the beeping slot machines and I believed her. This can be a serious affliction.
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Even MORE Hilarious!
I gotta give it to BulldogPundit over at ABP for one-upping me on the hilarious video. You will NOT believe this!
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The Big Unit's Big Mouth
Imagine my disappointment when I found out that Randy Johnson's nickname, Big Unit, is about his height. Damn. We get on musicians for making political statements (Shut up and sing!). I wish he would just shut up and pitch. I hate whiners.
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Bracket Madness
The NY Times has a piece on how people fill out their brackets for the NCAA tournament. I posted my secret method over at Brainster's a couple weeks ago and even got linked by Slate; unfortunately this wasn't 2003 when I correctly picked Syracuse and Kansas to go to the finals (but took Kansas mistakenly in the final). North Carolina, my championship team, is still alive, but Wake Forest, my runner-up, was upended in the second round by West Virginia, which almost made it to the Final Four.
Still, in one of the two pools which I entered we were asked to pick our Final Four. I took Illinois, North Carolina, Louisville and Michigan State, the teams that have actually advanced to the FF. Just wish I'd filled in my bracket on CBS Sportsline that way! Now I'll admit I was lucky and that there were other considerations than whom I actually expected to advance--this was a pool where you won points based on the seeding, so it made sense to pick a Louisville or a Michigan State.
Needless to say, I've won that competition (and 600 bucks) and in my straight brackets entry I'm currently sitting fourth but will win if North Carolina cuts down the nets Monday night.
Anyway, the NY Times article is quite interesting:
Some of us make up rules. We confidently go with the coaches who have the best records or teams that have the best guards, based on our conviction that these qualities are essential to success. But these comforting rules are merely desperate efforts to ward off the randomness of life, or at least the randomness of the N.C.A.A. pool. Duke, for example, has both an acclaimed coach and great guards, yet it did not reach the Final Four. And adding more or better rules will only make our choices more complicated.
Some of us try to outwit others. We make no pretense of knowing basketball. We expect that most people will select the No. 1 seeds, but a No. 1 seed has won the tournament only about half the time in the last 25 years. So we choose a No. 2 or No. 3 seed, figuring we might sneak to a win every few years. We hope to take advantage of the people who are playing the tournament straight.
I actually fall into both those categories. I have rules I've developed over the years (when in doubt go with the coach, look for the best seniors, etc.,) but I no longer watch regular season game sas they're largely a distraction, because you can easily get enamored of a team that happens to have a hot night when you're watching.
My predictions? I'll take Louisville over Illinois and North Carolina over Michigan State, with the Tarheels winning it all.
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