By now you’ve probably already seen Denver Bronco Brandon Marshall’s patty-cake impression from last week. Not that we were surprised. Marshall’s a wide receiver after all, and therefore predisposed to acting the fool, as you’ll see with our collection of the 5 Greatest Wide Receiver Hissy Fits (with video evidence)…
Don’t cry, dry your eye… Yesterday’s Wimbledon men’s championship left Andy Roddick a little misty after losing to Roger Federer, but who can blame him? The match went four-plus hours and was A-Rodd’s best chance at a Grand Slam in years. At least Andy has Brooklyn Decker to rub his back.
But just because Roddick had cause to water up a little doesn’t mean every blubbering athlete gets a pass. There’s a long, sordid (and soaking) history of sports figures turning on the waterworks, and we’ve identified three distinct genres. So, dial up the waa-mbulance, and read on to see The History of Crying in Sports…
Detroit’s new mayor in his younger days.
Yesterday came the news that Detroit had elected a new mayor, former Pistons star and NBA Hall of Famer Dave Bing (Bing’s replacing D-Town’s “Hip-Hop Mayor” Kwame Kilpatrick, who kept it a little too real and landed himself in the bing). Bing’s not even the first former NBA star to be elected mayor in the past year; former Suns All-Star Kevin Johnson was tapped to run his hometown of Sacramento last fall.
But why limit potential athlete-mayors to their hometowns or the cities where they played? We’ve selected five off-the-beaten path cities and assigned them to the pro athletes we think would be their best chief executives…
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If you’re not the a hockey fan, you might have missed Alex Ovechkin’s celebration last night after scoring his 50th goal of the season (is that a lot? Sounds like a lot.). He threw his stick down on the ice, pretended it was too hot to pick back up; standard stuff, really. The only problem was that he’s a Washington Capital, and he did this in Tampa in front of Lightning fans, so all the Floridians who care about artificial ice got their panties in a twist about it.
We don’t care either way, we just like seeing athletes be disrespectful–which is why we pulled some of the all-time great instances together for all the rest of you who don’t spend their Thursday night watching Caps-Lightning games. Least surprising news ever: Terrell Owens appears in more than one clip…
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In what seemed like no time at all, Terrell Owens was snatched up by “North America’s Team,” the Buffalo Bills, less than a week after being cut from the Dallas “America’s Team” Cowboys. While we’re happy one of the league’s best athletes and entertainers has found another home, we just can’t see Terrell being happy in the land of Mark Twain and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Yeah, yeah, it’ll be good for him to get out of the national spotlight for a season to get his mind right, and he’ll undoubtedly be
Tony Romo says he’s ready to steer the Cowboys. Pause.
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo is under a lot of pressure lately, and no, this time it’s not because a beastly defense is gang raping him. Last season was cursed by controversy as star receiver Terrell Owens claimed that Romo was conspiring to not throw him balls that he could in turn drop (yes, the same Owens who showed public support for his QB a year earlier by crying when the press criticized Romo for losing yet another playoff game). Such turmoil may have led to the Cowboys getting reamed 44-6 by the Philadelphia Eagles in their final game, putting an exclamation point on a late season collapse.
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