WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING?!

Seriously.  This is not hard.  Steve Nash is CLEARLY playing basketball in this picture.  The LA KINGS play hockey.  The LA Lakers play basketball.  Come on, Canada.

Oh, but there’s more…

» Continue reading “Friday FAIL: That Team In LA, “Breaking News”, And Life After Kim K”

With all the chaos on the Internets yesterday from the ObamaCare announcement, it seemed only appropriate to post this nugget from our favorite idiot…

How very Canseco-esque of you, Metta.

BFFs who probably go to lots of pool parties together.

With the “not guilty” verdict on Clemens’ perjury charges earlier this week, a lot of people – on Twitter and everywhere else - began to complain about how much money and time our government has wasted on these so-called steroid witch hunts.

I’m not really sure why people think the governement should be focusing on healthcare, the economy and other things that other people seem to think are more important than baseball and trashy gossip, but to call it a waste of time?!  Just think about what we learned during this trainwreck…

1.  Roger Clemens’ love for blonde women, oh and underage girls.  Mindy McCready (who was FIFTEEN at the time), Paulette Dean Daly, and that random bartender?  Roger, you out did yourself.

Atta boy, Roger...

Which leads me to #2…

2.  That Mindy McCready still exists.  Seriously.  After her break up with Dean Cain (wait you didn’t know she dated Dean Cain? That was only me?), the former country star pretty much fell off the map.  Thankfully, ol’ Roger Clemens and his adulterous/pedophile ways brought this tabloid queen back into our lives.

3.  That, as a society, we don’t use the word “misremember” enough.  In fact, I didn’t even know that it was a word.  Thanks, Roger.

4.  That Clemens’ wife took HGH.  Not really sure why I found this fascinating, but I did.  AND that after all that cheating she would testify that they HGH delivered to their house was only hers AND that Roger wasn’t at that Canseco pool party.  They must have one hell of a prenup…

5.  Guys, we got to talk about that infamous Jose Canseco pool party for a LONG time.  And we all know that I love nothing more than to talk about Jose Canseco.

Clearly, this was NOT a waste of time…

I apologize if this picture gives you nightmares.

This week brought us a plethora FAILS ranging from the questionable Pacquiao/Bradley ruling (…or so I hear…I know nothing about boxing) to the Lance Armstrong doping charges.  However, it was a few interesting things said by two different individuals that caught my attention this week.

First up:  David Stern.  Yeah, so while on the Jim Rome Show, NBA Commish David Stern was being grilled about whether or not he thought the NBA draft was fixed.  To which he responds:

“Have you stopped beating your wife yet?”

Yeah…

Obviously, he was trying to prove a point – that if the media starts raising “ridiculous” questions that the public will start to think it’s true and that asking if the draft was fixed was “cheap”.  OK… I’m sure there might have been a better way to say that, David, and I’m sure A LOT of listeners would not have gotten the point and probably googled whether or not Jim Rome beats his wife.

Next up:  Bryce Harper.  During an interview earlier this week, the Nationals’ super-hyped rookie was asked if he would drink alcohol while in Canada (since Harper is only 19 and the legal Canadian drinking age is 18).

» Continue reading “Friday FAIL: He Said What?”

So, I’m starting to think that maybe I should start renaming this feature to “Friday News-Anchors-Know- Nothing-About-Sports”.  I’m starting to think that maybe they should teach Sports 101 in journalism school.  Anyways, the worst of the worst from this past week.

Then an ACTUAL screencap (via @RoyalHalf) of a news channel WHILE TALKING ABOUT THE LA KINGS.

Not only is this not a graphic about the LA Kings, but ERIC GAGNE RETIRED IN 2010.  How does this even happen?  Did this news channel dub Gagne “LA King”?

Oh, but it gets worse.  This anchor apparently can’t read a teleprompter as she mixes up Jonathan QUICK and Jonathan SWIFT.

They do have similar career paths.

Then, this poor girl thinks that basketball games can end in a tie. » Continue reading “Friday FAIL: Where To Begin?”

I bet you could buy so many tickets with that cash!

Things that are funny: Celebrities who think they are entitled to whatever they want, but are told “no, you are just like everyone else”.  It’s even better when the celebrity is sort of a dbag.

Enter Lil Wayne.

Excuse me while I laugh for a few minutes…

Now that I got that out of the way…  ”Denied by the team to be in their arena.”   Dude…BECAUSE YOU DIDN’T HAVE A TICKET!  Evidently, Lil Wayne thinks he can just stroll in anywhere and just be granted front row seats.  Wrong.  You know, because other people WHO HAD TICKETS were already sitting there.  Imagine that.  A playoff game being sold out.  Shocking.

According to the AP, the Thunder responded:

”We’d love to have him at a game, but like anyone else, he needs a ticket.”

BECAUSE YOU ARE JUST LIKE THE REST OF US.

Some other headlines that got consideration this week:

» Continue reading “Friday FAIL: Ticket Please”

I'm sure she would rather be shopping. AMIRITE?

Anybody else feel like Friday FAIL often just turns into “What the eff did XX sports network/news outlet do now to piss off female sports fans”?  Which means I need to keep up with the trend right?

Well, this week CBC (The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), the oldest broadcasting network in Canada, announced that they were launching a new series called “While the Men Watch”.

The tagline: “Where Girl Talk is a Sport.”

The premise?  These women are “sports widows”.  They watch a hockey game and cameras forever document everything they say during the game.  Most of the conversations surround the awfulness of playoff beards and discussions of uniforms.  You know the stereotypical things that guys think that the majority of women think about during sporting events.  Because clearly we’re not thinking about strategy or some nonsense like that.

» Continue reading “Friday FAIL: Girl Talk!”

We all know that no one is perfect.  We also all know that I LOVE pointing that out to you each and every Friday.  Well, today’s no different.  This week’s FAIL is a combination of awesome sports reporting and some dimwitted ones.  And here we go…

First, let’s check out the Charlotte Bobcats’ Facebook page!

(Image via Deadspin.com)

I guess someone learned that you shouldn’t allow readers to add their own answers, huh?

Let’s hop on over to Los Angeles where sports are thriving…wait… » Continue reading “Friday FAIL: Fun With Graphics!”

Photo Courtesy of golfstinks.blogspot.com

The Arizona Charter Athletic Association was supposed to hold a state championship baseball game last night, but failed to do so for the reason being, the second baseman was a female player.

Yes, you read that correctly, the state championship baseball game was not played due to a female being a part of the team. I’m sorry but, we live in a world where we preach about EQUALITY and the Womens Rights movement. Am I correct? Alright then, so why is there an issue?

First off, this is a HIGH SCHOOL game, not some big time professional team. The reason this girl is playing for her school’s baseball team, while it should be irrelevant, is because her school does not offer a softball team. The school that Mesa Prep was supposed to play against, Our Lady of Sorrows Academy, said its boys would not compete against a team with a girl and forfeited the game, thus handing the state championship on a gold platter to Mesa Prep.

While it is great that the team got to claim the state title as their own, they can’t call it theirs because they didn’t feel they earned it. Totally understandable. I would be completely agitated if a team forfeited the biggest game of the season because I played on an all boys team.  Mesa Prep was an undefeated team that worked hard to get where they were and was ready to play one last game, but they were denied that chance to prove they were the best. Instead, they were handed it due to having a female play for them. Complete asinine.

This week’s second edition of Friday FAIL goes to the players and administration of  Our Lady of Sorrows Academy, for their fear of girls cooties in the sport of baseball. Congratulations, you have made complete fools of yourselves.

(Photo courtesy of Deadspin.com)

I’ll freely admit that I have no idea who Patrick Kane is (OK, I’ve heard of him due to Kat Velez’s – AKA: @runsonduncan – constant mockery of him on Twitter).  I don’t follow hockey.   That won’t, however, keep me from mocking him for being a complete train wreck.  It’s what I do.

Much of what I’m about to recount is from Deadspin.com, and it’s not pretty.  Evidently, Mr. Kane (who is only 23…not that it’s an excuse just useful to know) decided to make all white people look bad by getting seriously intoxicated on Cinco de Mayo.  Like REALLY drunk.

» Continue reading “Friday FAIL: Drunkity Drunk Drunk Drunk Patrick Kane”