Dallas Sports Icons Sing ‘This Kiss’
This is just an early look at Jerry Jones going full throttle in his promotion of the Super Bowl to be played in his World.
Hopefully you don’t get a visual when Pat Summerall tells you that you can kiss him in the moonlight.
Final Four Will Be In 3D
Get Your Eyes Ready
CBS announced that it will produce 3D coverage of the Final Four of NCAA men’s college basketball tournament that will be carried in more than 100 theaters.
Sean McManus, who oversees the network’s sports and news divisions, says the 3D coverage will be a “separate production” from the regular TV coverage.
McManus says CBS first 3D coverage, which will be distributed to movie theaters by Cinedigm Digital Cinema, will be “more of an experiment than anything else” and is the “only” sports event that CBS now has definite plans to cover in 3D.
Fox has produced a 3D BCS game that was carried in theaters and plans to cover this season’s MLB All-Star Game in 3D in coverage that will be carried by DirecTV.
ESPN produced an Ohio State-USC game in 3D last season that was available to the public in a handful of theaters and plans to launch a 3D channel in June in time for the World Cup.
President Obama Gets Offer To Join CBS For NCAA Tournament
One Shinning Moment
U.S. President Barack Obama has a “standing offer” to join CBS for its telecast of college basketball’s men’s tournament, network executive Sean McManus said.
The CBS Corp. network contacted the White House to ask whether Obama would fill out a 65-team bracket or otherwise participate in coverage of the NCAA tournament since he isn’t busy with anything.
Obama, an avid basketball fan and recreational player, sat in with CBS commentators Clark Kellogg and Verne Lundquist for six minutes of commentary during a game between Georgetown University and Duke on January 30.
After Obama described one player’s spin move and score, Kellogg, the network’s lead basketball color analyst, said Obama could have a career in broadcasting.
“After retirement, I’m coming after your job, Clark, just letting you know,” Obama responded. “So you only have three more years or seven, I’m not sure which.”
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said at a briefing today that the president liked his short stint as a broadcaster.
Last year Obama went out on a limb and picked correctly that the University of North Carolina would win the national championship.
Jennifer Hudson To Perform ‘One Shining Moment’
TALENT
Jennifer Hudson will have her “One Shining Moment.” The Grammy and Oscar winner will perform the song that plays each year at the end of the CBS broadcast of the NCAA men’s basketball championship game.
Hudson will be the first woman to sing it. Teddy Pendergrass and Luther Vandross have performed previous renditions. Hudson recorded the song in Los Angeles on February 13 and her producer, Harvey Mason Jr., played for the Arizona team that reached the 1988 Final Four.
The tune by folk singer David Barrett has been a March Madness staple since 1987, played over highlights of the tournament.
Hudson, who won an Academy Award in 2007 for her supporting role in “Dreamgirls,” performed at last year’s Super Bowl.
Robert De Niro To Play Vince Lombari
"Lombardi"
Back on July 28th we posted that ESPN’s Films-Movies had joined forces with Andell Entertainment and NFL Films to produce “Lombardi,” a drama about the iconic Green Bay Packers head coach Vince Lombardi.
Now we find out that actor and Oscar winning Robert De Niro will star as the head coach. Additionally, Academy Award-winning screenwriter Eric Roth who has written such films as Forrest Gump and The Good Shepherd has come on board the project.
The film’s former focus will be the week leading up to the 1967 “Ice Bowl” championship game played between the Packers and Dallas Cowboys in 13 below zero weather. It broadened into a long rivalry with Cowboys head coach Tom Landry, whose cool demeanor was the exact opposite of Lombardi’s fire and brimstone.
Early word is that to open the film the Friday of a down weekend between the conference championships and the Super Bowl in 2012, the 40th anniversary that the championship trophy was named after Lombardi.
Curt Schilling Sells His First Video Game
Jerk
Former Boston Red Sox pitcher and current jerk Curt Schilling sold his first video game from his 38 Studios, to EA Studios. His first game is “Project Mercury” a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game like World of Warcraft is a single-player epic role playing game.
It will have the creation an enormous world, with heroes and villains and a rich back story from the brilliant minds of R. A Salvatore and Todd McFarlane, the creator of Spawn, and be available for PlayStation3, Xbox 360, and the PC.
“Project Mercury” is the first game to be published for 38 Studios which is the creative enterprise of the World Series MVP and avid gamer Schilling. It will be developed at Big Huge Games, a wholly-owned subsidiary of 38 Studios, under the leadership of Ken Rolston, former lead designer of the critically acclaimed hits, Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivionare.
Such disgusting news for me to receive on the same day that Final Fantasy XII dropped.
Notorious B.I.G. May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997
Gone But Never Forgotten
March 9 isn’t a day for tears but one we can look upon to be thankful and celebrate that the music of one of the greatest rappers to ever grabbed a microphone, Christopher Wallace aka Notorious B.I.G., graced our presence and made love to your eardrums.
In the end it was all a dream….
Donovan McNabb & Terrell Owens Will Be Teammates Again
Brotherly Love
That’s right Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb and free agent wide reciever Terrell Owens will once again be teammates however it won’t be back on the football field. No, this time they will be team together on the basketball court to take part in Spike TV’s game show Pros vs Joes new season.
Eagles fans can began to find a wall to punch and Dallas Cowboy fans can breathe easier now. If McNabb and Owens would have been able to smooth the hurricane out after the Super Bowl run they surely would have been back by now in their careers.
On the new season of Pros and Joes, McNabb and Owens will be joined on the basketball court will NFL superstar Antonio Gates and former NBA champions Hakeem Olajuwon, Kenny Smith and Rick Fox.
WTF: Erin Andrews Getting Bruised Up
@ErinAndrewsESPN
ESPN and Dancing With the Stars Erin Andrews took to Twitter in her first ever tweet to show off her bruise that her dancing partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy has left her.
Poor Erin.
Hair Wars: Ron Artest
I guess things do come in cycles. Off the court it was Wesley Snipes wearing some wack ass futuristic pants in Demolition Man then of course you had Sisqo asking everyone is she had dumps like a truck, truck and thighs like what, what. But on the court we had Dennis Rodman step out and show us it still not a good look and now Los Angeles Lakers is out to resurrect a dead image.
Dudes need to keep the curtains matching the carpet while brothers need to act like peroxide was never invented.
(Diss It)
Hair Wars: Greg Oden
Brother Dreads
Portland Trail Blazers Greg Oden is calling his new hairstyle “brother dreads” and will try to go full dreads by the summer. I call it nasty.
(Diss It)
Orel Hershiser To Replace Steve Phillips In Sunday Night Baseball Booth
True Blue
I’m complete idiot and realized today that I had one of the biggest brain farts in recent memory, oddly though its been for the good. Today I received word that Orel Hershiser will join Jon Miller and Joe Morgan in the Sunday Night Baseball booth this season on ESPN.
Hershiser replaces former analyst Steve Phillips, who him and his disco stick where fired from ESPN in October after having an affair with an ESPN employee. That’s where my brain fart comes in, during the whole Phillips fiasco in October that lead to his firing I never once thought about how he wouldn’t be in the booth anymore on Sunday nights. That’s a huge relief for me. Make no mistake about it I can not stand Phillips or to put it a little nicer I hate him and make no qualms about it.
Miller and Morgan have been together on Sunday Night Baseball for over 20 years and last year they added a third man into the booth for the first, so that’s how I will rationlize him no longer being in the booth escape me.
Miller, the recently announced winner of the Baseball Hall of Fame’s 2010 Ford C. Frick Award, and Hall of Famer Morgan will be joined by ESPN analyst and former Major League Baseball Cy Young Award winner Hershiser in the Sunday Night Baseball booth this season.
In addition to his Sunday Night responsibilities, Hershiser will continue to serve as analyst during ESPN’s College World Series and Little League World Series coverage, and provide analysis for Baseball Tonight. That’s why his nickname is Bulldog, he just gets down and does it all.
I’ve always enjoyed Orel in the booth on Monday and Wednesday Night Baseball and now he’ll be with ESPN’s “A-Team”. His knowledge of the game and game situations trumps his tendency to be bland at times.
“Tecmo Bowl” To Be Re-Released
Who Wanna Battle?
With NBA Jam getting a makeover and returning to shelves near you, news comes that another classic video games is coming out of retirement.
Tecmo confirmed that a new Tecmo Bowl football game is coming our way. Entitled Tecmo Bowl Throwback is on target to be released in the Spring of 2010 for Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network. No mention however of it coming to Nintendo, the company that first introduced the classic on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
Some of the features that Tecmo Bowl Throwback will present are:
- Online Multiplayer: Find your old buddies online and challenge them to matches just like back in the day.
- 2D + 3D Graphics: Experience all new 3D graphics with the ability to switch to the classic 2D style!
- Customizable Teams and Rosters: Play as any of the 32 teams with customizable team names and rosters in full seasons.
- Online Leaderboards: Compare your stats in a wide array of online leaderboards.
- Classic Game Modes: Battle it out with your friends and kick off a game in Preseason, Season or Pro Bowl modes.
There’s no word yet on the price.
Chad Ochocinco To Be On ‘Dancing With The Stars’
Did She Have Dumps Like A Truck Or Thighs Like What?
Chad Ochocinco does it again and suprises no one with the annoucnement that he will be part of the new cast of “Dancing With The Stars” according to TMZ.
The Cincinnati Bengal joins a list of NFL stars who have done the show including Warren Sapp, Emmitt Smith and Jerry Rice.
A rep for ABC would not comment on potential cast members but did a great job of announcing that the cast will announced tonight during the season finale of “The Bachelor.”
If the Riverdance is a chosen dance this season, he will definitely have a leg up on the competition.
The Tiger Woods Spoof Porno I Bought
There Was Sex In The Champagne Room
So I was at the Adult Mexaplexx last night after striking out the bar and came across the latest production by Adam & Eve Pictures entitled “Tyler’s Wood,” obviously a play on Tiger Woods.
After staring at it for no more than two seconds I went ahead and bought it. The plot features a famous golfer and his long-suffering blond wife. There of course was the interracial scenes, some lesbian scenes and a whole lot of screaming “FORE!”
Can’t say its the best Ive ever seen but that’s what I get when I have one to many ‘Irish Car Bombs’ and ‘Jager Bombs’ that it impairs me from getting the real thing.
Scott Van Pelt Is Having The Worst Week & Drops F-Bomb
First Scott Van Pelt gets hosed by Howard Stern’s Captain Janks in an epic prank call heard live on air where the prankster pretended to be former Philadelphia Eagles running back Brian Westbrook, now a hot mic catches the SportsCenter anchor dropping an f-bomb as the show was going to commercial.
Juvenile Arrested For Weed Possession
Reality Check
Juvenile was arrested on misdemeanor drug charges in his New Orleans hometown.
Authorities say that the former Hot Boy was busted in a home studio on 208 Livingston Ave in the St. Bernard Parish. Apparently someone smelled marijuana coming from the residence and called the local sheriff’s drug line. Upon visiting the house, a deputy with the Special Investigations Unit also smelled the drug when the door was opened and got a warrant to search the house.
Juvie wasn’t the only person in the house that was busted, his producer Leroy Edwards was also put in cuffs.
Ludacris Uses Tiger Woods As Punchline
LMFAO!!! Ludas new album Battle of the Sexes due in stores March 9th.
Kevin Love Stuffs NBA Jam Ballot Box For Kevin Love
Excited?
NBA Jam officials are excited on their decision to return franchise later this year to the Nintendo Wii and NBA players are no different in this regard. Minnesota Timberwolves Kevin Love expressed his love for the game so much that he went online to stuff the ballots for his inclusion,
“I went online and kept refreshing my computer and voting myself into ‘Jam,’ I’m not going to lie,” said Love. “‘NBA Jam’ was my favorite game growing up, so I was on there all day voting for myself. I used to play as Shawn Kemp and Gary Payton or Karl Malone and John Stockton. I never even imagined that I could be in ‘Jam.’ I just want to get that team fire, get that blue ball … it’s going to be cool.”
Other players like Carmelo Anthony said he used to always use the New York Knicks with John Starks and Patrick Ewing. Anthony also can’t wait to see himself in the game saying that he’s not a high flyer, but they’ll have to have the ball on fire when he shoots.
To Golden State Warriors rookie Stephen Curry, just the mention of “NBA Jam” brings back special memories of playing as his sharpshooting dad, Dell, in the game. “I remember in ‘NBA Jam’ and ‘NBA Live 95,’ those were the two games where my dad just couldn’t miss.”
Chad Ochocinco In Monica’s “Everything To Me” Video
Monica is back with new single “Everything To Me” from her upcoming album titled “Still Standing.” This video is knock-off of “Obsessed” the movie and seek the services of Chad Ochocinco to be her love interest.Doesn’t the crazy chick resembles Chad’s old girlfriend from HBO’s Hard Knocks?
Howard Stern Pranks ESPN Pretends To Be Brian Westbrook
Another day and another snafu at ESPN. First they had to suspend Tony Kornheiser for what he said about Hannah Storm’s wardrobe and now Howard Stern has pulled another fast one on the call screener at ESPN.
Tonight on SportsCenter, Scott Van Pelt thought he was getting an exclusive interview with recently released Brian Westbrook, which would have been a huge get….except it wasn’t actually Brian Westbrook.
No it was Captain Janks from the Howard Stern show who expressed his desire to worship Stern’s prostate to Van Pelt on live TV. Van Pelt is a great anchorman but his face is classic when he realizes he’s been duped.
The worst part about this is this isn’t the first time that SportsCenter has been prank called by Howard Stern’s people. The Stern show pranked SportsCenter with a call from Steve Bartman just days after his incident in Chicago.
ESPN Suspends Tony Kornheiser For His Comments Towards Hannah Storm
Now Thats A Horrifying Outfit
ESPN has suspended Tony Kornheiser “for some time” over comments he made about Hannah Storm’s wardrobe.
On his radio show last week, Kornheiser mocked Storm for her “horrifying, horrifying outfit” on ESPN’s “Sportscenter.” Kornheiser hosts “Pardon the Interruption” on the sports network.
“Hannah Storm in a horrifying, horrifying outfit today. She’s got on red go-go boots and a catholic school plaid skirt … way too short for somebody in her 40s or maybe early 50s by now…She’s got on her typically very, very tight shirt. She looks like she has sausage casing wrapping around her upper body … I know she’s very good, and I’m not supposed to be critical of ESPN people, so I won’t … but Hannah Storm … come on now! Stop! What are you doing? … She’s what I would call a Holden Caulfield fantasy at this point.”
Last week, Kornheiser apologized for the remarks:
“I apologize unequivocally. … I was wrong. This is sort of what I do, and I’m sorry for it. … Not the first time and won’t be the last time but I apology for it this time.”
An ESPN spokesperson said Tuesday that Kornheiser will be suspended “for some time” from “Pardon the Interruption.”
Kornheiser acknowledged the suspension in remarks:
“I have been sent to sidelines from PTI for a while and when I’m allowed back on PTI, I will happily go back because I love the PTI show and love all the people on the PTI show.”
Tila Tequila & Shawne Merriman Settle Lawsuits
For The Love Of God, Finally
Dueling lawsuits between San Diego Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman and reality television star Tila Nguyen have been resolved, an attorney for Nguyen said Tuesday.
“The matter has been resolved and all the cases will be dismissed,” said attorney Cyrus Nowenjad of Beverly Hills.
On her Twitter account, Nguyen said she now has “closure.”
“Now that the shawne case is resolved and both parties are happy, I’m happy to move on with my life now!,” she writes.
Over on Merriman’s Twitter page, the only mention of the resolution is a request that his followers to give him a heads up if Nguyen uses his name in any way.
The lawsuits were the result of an encounter between Nguyen and Merriman at the player’s Poway home on Sept. 5. Nguyen alleged in a lawsuit filed in November that Merriman choked her as she tried to leave his house.
In December, Merriman filed a copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit against Nguyen in federal court, alleging she posted pictures of him and used his “Lights Out” trademark on her Web site without permission. He had been negotiating a T-shirt business venture with Walmart that was “delayed” due to the controversy. He claims his relationship with the Chargers also suffered because of Nguyen’s statements and actions.
Nowenjad said he was not permitted to elaborate further on the details. Merriman’s attorney Andrew Skale said the situation was amicably resolved.
Man Refuses To Leave Super Bowl Party & Gets His Testicles Nearly Ripped Off
What Is Wrong With You
Indianapolis Colts fans may have had their dreams of a championship punctured on Sunday, but
Vinh Pham suffered a much-worse during a post-Super Bowl fight.
The Key West resident got in a tussle after Super Bowl XLIV because he wasn’t ready to leave a Super Bowl party. Y Le, who was hosting the party as his house, tried to kick Pham out and that’s when they got into a fight.
Le wanted Pham to leave. Words were exchanged. Le went after Pham with a beer bottle, and Pham landed a punch to Le’s jaw. Pham then put Le in a chokehold, and then Le figured the only way to get his attacker to break the hold was to grab his testicles. Pham’s testicles were nearly ripped off. Deputy Becky Herrin said at that Le’s fingers punctured Pham’s testicles, which took 52 stitches to patch up.
Both men are facing criminal charges. Pham is looking at battery charges for dislocated Le’s jaw, and Le is looking at aggravated battery for yanking on Pham’s balls.
I hate Le right now more than Steve Phillips.
