San Antonio Silver Stars To Face Phoenix Mercury In Western Conference Semifinals
Via Silver Stars Press Release
[Via Silver Stars Press Release]
The San Antonio Silver Stars clinched the No. 3 seed in the Western Conference and will face the No. 2 seeded Phoenix Mercury in the 2010 Western Conference Semifinals, with Game 2 (Round 1, Game A) at the AT&T Center scheduled for Noon on Saturday, Aug. 28.
As per a change in playoff scheduling announced by the WNBA earlier this season, the higher seeded team earns home-court advantage in a 1-1-1 format; San Antonio will travel to Phoenix for Game 1 of the conference semifinals, set for an 8 p.m. CDT tip-off on Thursday, Aug. 26.
The Stars then will return to San Antonio for Round 1, Game A, which also will be $1 Night at the AT&T Center, where fans can enjoy $1 beer, fountain drinks, and hot dogs while taking in an exciting night of Silver Stars playoff action.
The first two games of the series will be broadcast on ESPN2. If necessary, Game 3 will be played on Monday, Aug. 30, with tip-off in Phoenix set for 9 p.m. CDT; NBATV will broadcast the deciding match-up.
Tickets for Round 1, Game A, are on sale now at SASilverstars.com and at the AT&T Center Box Office starting at $10. For more information on 2010 Silver Stars playoff tickets, visit www.sasilverstars.com or call (210) 444-5090.
And a side bar from me I would like to give a huge shot out to Ruth Riley, give em all you got.
Congratulations To Northside Suburban All-Stars
Courtesy of SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
Sports Grind Entertainment would like to send out a congratulations to San Antonio’s Northside Suburban All-Stars after winning the 2010 Senior League Softball World Series with a 3-1 victory over Haverstraw, New York on Saturday.
Northside Suburban went through five levels of all-star tournaments finishing a perfect 17-0. A year removed after coming up one win short of qualifying for the World Series. Haverstraw made it tough on the girls from San Antonio taking the leading in the bottom of the third and held onto a 1-1 tie until the top of the seventh when Northside Suburban take the lead for the rest of the game.
Northside pitcher Henessey Soto pitched a complete game and struck out nine.
St. Louis Cardinals & Cincinnati Reds Brawl In Heated NL Central Race
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Yesterday we posted the story of Cincinnati Reds all-star second baseman Brandon Phillips saying he hated the St. Louis Cardinals and that they where bitches. With that Major League Baseball had a 10-31 in progress, shots fired.
In the second game of a three game set, tempers boiled over when Phillips tried to act like all day long no one heard his statement and tapped Cardinals all-star catcher Yodier Molina on the leg in the bottom of the first inning. Molina who I assume doesn’t like being called a bitch in the media and then fronted on like nothing ever happened took issue and confronted the culprit.
Phillips comments wasn’t really about any newcomers to the Cardinal origination, they where about a core that has been together for multiple years which Molina has been part of for six years. In all Phillips awoke a passion in the Cardinals and their fans that hasn’t been seen since Matt Holliday took one off the apple sac in Los Angeles last October.
If this was a high stakes poker game, the Cardinals are sitting on a big stack with the river card being all-star pitcher Adam Wainwright taking the mound on Wednesday. No matter if the outcome goes against St. Louis, the Cardinals look to be a new ball club in just one outing. A team with passion and Phillips a big thank you for walking that giant up.
Oh and Johnny Cueto next time you think about taking metal spikes to the face of a Smithson Valley Rangers alumni you better make sure you have no schedule trips through San Antonio, Texas.
If you missed the melee you can watch it HERE
San Antonio Spurs Tim Duncan Sea World Experience
San Antonio Spurs forward Tim Duncan put his Saint Croix swimming skills to use at the San Antonio Sea World when he took a dip/spin in the pool with some beluga whales. I was unaware that Sea World was still open for business here in San Antonio.
New San Antonio Spurs Uniform?
Brand New?
We haven’t received any email or press release from the San Antonio Spurs telling us that this was in their future plans but what we did received was a link to adidas official basketball site. That is where I saw this picture in the bottom right hand corner with forward Tim Duncan donning an all black Spurs uniform. Could adidas have jump the gun with their marketing or just happen to photograph Tim in an Eisenhower flea market bootleg jersey?
Either way I’m a fan.
Former Dallas Cowboys Offensive Lineman Nate Newton Drops 130 LBS
Shocker
For the next two weeks Sports Grind Entertainment will be down at the Dallas Cowboys training camp while they are here in our beautiful city of San Antonio. With the Cowboys being here come extra media and even some former NFL players making an appearance.
Sitting down to do our show from the Alamodome we noticed to our left was former Cowboys offensive lineman Nate Newton, who you might remember helped protect Troy Aikman and open up running lanes for Emmitt Smith. But if you saw him on the streets today would you really recognize big ol Nate after losing 130 pounds?
Don’t get it mistaken that is the former offensive lineman and not some wide receiver.
Dallas Cowboys Martellus Bennett Exposes His Dong
Greg Oden, George Hill Are Not Impressed
Dallas Cowboys tight end Martellus Bennett hasn’t even hit the field in San Antonio yet, due to his sprained left ankle that he hurt prior to camp, but once again is making headlines for off the field activity. This time Bennett is the latest athlete that thinks its necessary to grab his iPhone and snap pictures of his Alabama black snake.
The one on one bathroom modeling session was suppose to stay in the senders hand but instead people from San Antonio to Norway to South East Asia with see how he likes to spend his free time. Does this extra exposure bother Bennett? Judging by his previous internet videos not likely.
Malik Roses Philly’s Phamous Cheesesteaks Are Back In San Antonio
Straight Out Of Drexel
That’s right former San Antonio Spurs Malik Rose is bringing his Malik’s Philly’s Phamous Cheesesteaks Restaurant back to San Antonio. When Rose played with the Spurs he had two locations in San Antonio, in the Quarry Market and the other was off 1604 and Bandera Road, but where shut down after he was traded away to the New York Knicks.
Now that it looks as if his NBA career has come to a close, Rose can devote full attention to his restaurant which the new one will be off West Avenue and Blanco across the street from Churchill High School.
I did always appreciated Rose on the court and his hustle so it’s good to see him once again laying roots down in San Antonio. However I gotta call a spade a spade and say that I was never a fan of those cheesesteakes and believed they San Antonio put them on pedestal because he played for the Spurs. They just weren’t all what they where cracked up to be and that’s just my palate though.
WTF: LeBron James
King With No Rings
This is the cover of the Cleveland Plain Dealer that they published this morning, notice the text pointing to his fingers. Need some help? It says
7 years in Cleveland, No Rings.
Finally they aren’t blinded by the light that was LeBron. I guess this is how Calvin Casey feels about University of Texas Longhorns and Big 12 fans in San Antonio.
San Antonio Spurs To Host Free NBA Draft Party At High Velocity Sports Bar
Via Spurs Press Release
[Via Spurs Press Release]
The NBA Draft is set for Thursday, June 24 in New York, but the real action will take place in San Antonio at the Spurs free NBA Draft Party at High Velocity Sports Bar at the JW Marriott for all Spurs fans starting at 6 p.m.
Spurs radio play-by-play announcer Bill Schoening will host the night, as fans watch the NBA Draft Coverage live on ESPN. The festivities include food and drink specials, appearances by the Spurs Silver Dancers and The Coyote, and a unique photo opportunity for fans to take photos with their own camera with the NBA Championship trophies. Prizes and giveaways, including Spurs and Silver Stars tickets, will also be distributed throughout the night.
The party tips-off at 6 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
WTF: Rudy J Closet
Don't Be Jealous
This weekend Rudy J has an upcoming yard sale and when he was rummaging though his closets where he came across his chinchilla and crocodile NBA logo winter jacket. He said he’s sentimentally attached to it because he once meet former San Antonio Spurs Coby Dietrick while wearing it. To get your hands on it something Dietrick had made his pleas could not do will only cost you $7,000.
Be sure to tune in tomorrow to hear the location of Rudy J’s yard sale so you too can swagger walk around San Antonio in your own chinchilla and crocodile NBA logo winter jacket. Who knows you may just bump into and make Sidney Green jealous.
Mix 96.1 Presents Charles Barkley The Skinny Women Of San Antonio
Back during the San Antonio Spurs and Phoenix Suns series former NBA player and Inside the NBA host Charles Barkley made a comment regarding the plus size women that live here in San Antonio. So our local Mix 96.1 created a calendar of skinny women for Barkley.
Then TNT decided to add a little spice to the images…..the Chicken!
Mike Bacsik Fired For Racially Insensitive Tweet
Hidden Racist?
For those that don’t know who Mike Bacsik is, he’s a former Major League Baseball pitcher and the son of Michael James Bacsik, who was also a pitcher in the majors. He’s most famous though for giving up Barry Bonds 756th career home run, which broke the all-time record formerly held by Hank Aaron.
Bacsik was fired just minutes ago from his producer role on The Ticket 1310 in Dallas after he allowed his racism to spill out onto Twitter after the Dallas Mavericks loss to the San Antonio Spurs in game 4 on Sunday night, with his above tweet. Shortly thereafter he deleted his comment, hoping it would forever cease to exist and followed it up with a back handed apology.
Bacsik, who originally was suspended indefinitely by the station, said that when the tweet went on national television, including CNN, the station decided to let him go.
“It’s been a rough couple of days. Obviously, I made a terrible mistake. It was very bad and stupid on my part. The last few days, I’ve been getting positive e-mails. But the station changed their mind and decided to go in a different direction.”
“When you tweet like I did, you can’t see the sarcasm,” he said. “It’s not a good joke. You can’t tell if it was pure hate or sarcasm. I never got to say anything. My tweets were talking for me. When you tweet like that, it’s not a playful, harmless thing. It’s not what it was meant to be.”
“If you want to do a job like this, your guard always has to be up,” he said. “It’s tough because my guard was down. I learned my lesson. I’m owning up to what I did. I did a horrible thing. I’m very sorry and will try my best for my actions to speak louder than my tweets.”
I wonder if Bacsik feelings have changed or does this further fuel an anger inside him since it was just a basketball game that caused his racism to go viral, not something as major as losing his job. Does the hidden racism grow or does Bacsik really looked to change his beliefs?
Fiesta, Forever Come On & Sing Along!
Yeah Fiesta is off to a rough start here in San Antonio with all the rain and it doesn’t look to be letting up anytime soon but it’s Fiesta!
Fiesta usually means two things: extremely great times with fellow San Antonians and the Spurs are in the playoffs, which is true once again this year. Hopefully the rain will only be here a short while but have fun this Fiesta and be safe. Love my San Antonio!
Why does former Spurs draft pick and current Phoenix Suns Leandro Barbosa sound like a goat though?
WTF: Cleveland Cavaliers
Who could forget the San Antonio Spurs Montell Jordan anthem “This Is How Spurs Do It”, it legitimized them as a NBA playoff team. Especially when you had the rifle man from three point land! That’s San Antonio running through my blood and you gotta have been in San Antonio longer than three years to know of that classic.
It seems that the fans of the Cleveland Cavaliers have chosen to embark on a similar path and produce one of their own for the upcoming playoffs. Sure every NBA city right about this time on the local air waves you can hear someones rendition of a playoff anthem for their team but can any of them really top “This Is How Spurs Do It”
Glad to hear they showed some hometown love and used Bone Thugs-n-Harmony but whats up with the Tony Parker diss? Like being around Eva is a terrible thing.
AFL Wont Play In California Due To Insurance, What’s San Antonio Excuse?
San Antonio Force 2
The Arena Football League returned to play this past weekend but chose to not return to the state of California due to the states workers compensation system, which allows retired players to receive $100,000 or more for claims that would be inviable in any other state.
The AFL had regularly operated teams in the state with the Los Angeles Avengers and the San Jose SaberCats in 2008, before the league ceased operations. Ownership groups have inquired about placing teams in Fresno, Los Angeles-Anaheim and the San Jose markets, but cost for insurance became so high after retired athletes filed claims that the AFL decided not to return.
The AFL purchased a league wide insurance policy for 2010 from American International Group and distributes the cost evenly among the 15 teams, regardless of their states. But California brings such high liability for football-related injuries that an ownership group would have to absorb most of the insurance cost for all the teams itself.
Claims cost AFL teams the same as their NFL counterparts, $100,000 to $150,000, but operate with far slimmer profit margins.
If California can’t have a team due to insurance claims, whats San Antonio excuse? Bring back the San Antonio Force at least for Rudy J since he never got to use his 1993 season tickets he purchased.
Quiznos Toasty Topic: UConn Women Win Second Straight Title
UConn Women Win Second Straight Title
Every Wednesday Sports Grind Entertainment presents you with the Quiznos Toasty Topic. Today the toasty topic to be discussed is the University of Connecticut Huskies women’s basketball team winning their second straight title and 78th game in a row.
The game didn’t start out pretty for the Lady Huskies but in the end it finished just fine for them after coming out of halftime to play with complete domination.
Connecticut’s Maya Moore, the tournament’s most outstanding player, took over the NCAA title game rallying the Huskies from a horrible first half to a 53-47 victory over Stanford. The team started off stagnant trailed 20-12 at the break. The junior scored 11 of the Huskies first 17 points in the second half and ended finishing with 23 points and 11 rebounds. Senior Tina Charles added 9 points, 11 rebounds, and 6 blocks.
This was the lowest-scoring game in NCAA championship game history and was played in front of a crowd of 22,936 that included Vice President Joe Biden, who hugged the UConn players after the game, as well as former U.S. Secretary of State and Stanford alumni Condoleezza Rice. This was the sixth time the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the final AP Top 25 poll met for the title. The last came in 2002 when UConn beat Oklahoma in San Antonio.
Since Stanford beat UConn in the 2008 national semifinals, the Huskies haven’t lost since and have defeated the Cardinal three times during that stretch. The Huskies have been unstoppable over these two years, winning 78 straight and up until last nights championship game was winning every game by double figures.
The Huskies passed their own NCAA women’s Division I record of 70 straight wins that was set from 2001-03 and is the first team ever to have consecutive unbeaten seasons. The championship victory put them within 10 of the vaunted 88-game streak set by John Wooden’s UCLA men in the early 1970s.
This marked Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma seventh national title and closed the gap to within one on Tennessee coach Pat Summitt.
The MOJO Panthers Need YOUR Help San Antonio
Don't Deny This Kids A Chance At Their Dreams
San Antonio we have a local youth football team that needs your help. The MOJO Panthers call beautiful San Antonio their home and are in a similar situation as McAllister Park Little League team had this past summer in needing to help raise money to get the Panthers to San Diego, California to play in National Youth Sports Championship Tournament in June.
The Panthers are have a few events coming up to help raise money to get them to San Diego. The events they have coming up are April 10th, they are having a Plate Sell ($7 a plate for chicken, sausage, rice, beans and bread) at Gillman Honda located at 16044 IH35 from 11am-3pm. Then on April 17th we are having a car wash at the Sonic location at IH35 and Walzem from 12n-4pm for donations.
There are 24 Panthers who need your help in trying to get from San Antonio to San Diego. So who doesn’t love some good bar-b-que or need their car wash, let’s not leave any San Antonio kid behind.
Remember on April 10 to fill your tummy with bar-b-que at Gillman Honda and on April 17 stop by Sonic off IH35 to get your car washed.
Your help is appreciated!
Mamma Margie’s Major Meltdown: Dee Dee Jernigan
Dee Dee Jernigan
Every Thursday Sports Grind Entertainment will present you with the Mama Margie’s Major Meltdown. The recipient of this honor goes to Xavier Lady Musketeers Dee Dee Jernigan who blew two open layups in the final seconds that would have put the Musketeers into the Womens Final Four.
A victory for Xavier would have been the schools first trip to a Final Four in either men or womens basketball. Jernigan had her chance to send the Lady Musketeers to San Antonio not once but twice when she missed two wide open layups with the game tied and under 20 seconds to play. The Stanford Lady Cardinals where finally able to grab the rebound after her second miss and called their final timeout with 4 seconds left. Stanford won the game in those final seconds 55-53and has a Final Four trip it can thank Jernigan for.
Mess With Spurs Coyote & Get Sweet Chin Music
I know its old but how can you get enough of Randolph High School Ro-Hawks and San Antonio’s own Michael Hickenbottom aka Shawn Michaels The Heartbreak Kid standing up for the Spurs Coyote.
HBK is not a fan of the Charlotte Bobcats mascot messing with the Coyote so he gets a right foot lullaby.
Former Spur Returns To San Antonio To Face Sex Trafficking Case
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Former San Antonio Spurs Alvin Robertson waived his extradition rights and is returning to San Antonio to face charges of sexual assault of a child and sex trafficking.
He was arrested in Bentonville, Arkansas, a week after Texas authorities issued a warrant.
The 47-year-old former Spurs player is accused of being part of a sex trafficking ring that kidnapped a 14-year-old girl last April. The teen was allegedly forced to have sex with men around San Antonio and to dance at a Corpus Christi strip club.
Robertson’s attorney, Jimmy Parks, said Robertson wanted to return to San Antonio quickly to challenge the “scurrilous allegations.”
I guess he was probably wrongfully accused in theses situations as well:
- Robertson spent a month in jail during the 1990 NBA off-season for beating his then-wife.
- In August 1997 he pled no contest to four misdemeanor charges of abusing a former girlfriend and was sentenced to one year in prison.
- Robertson was arrested again in San Antonio in January 2007, on a variety of charges, several related to domestic violence.
- And you can forget his late night ecstasy binges out at Canyon Lake.
- In addition to possessing that kind of terrible credit report is that according to quite a number of my female stripper friends is that he is a bad stripper tipper. Nothing says your a bad guy more than being a bad stripper tipper. Come on!
Want To Sit Courtside With David Robinson March 5th?
I Salute You
That’s right you could be a lucky fan to sit courtside with one of the NBA’s greatest players and one of San Antonio’s finest citzen, David Robinson.
There’s two ways that can happen.
- Recruit your friends to donate just $2.99 to this great cause with your link below (Facebook, Twitter or email). Most recruits March 3rd wins. Check the leaderboard below to see who’s ahead.
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Each winner brings a friend and sits courtside Spurs vs. Hornets March 5th Airfare & Hotel included.
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Former San Antonio Spur Charged In Sex Ring Bust
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Former San Antonio Spurs Alvin Robertson has been charged with sexual assault of a child, trafficking an underage child for purposes of sex and forcing a sexual performance by a child.
The charges were contained in an arrest warrant Friday. Robertson has not been apprehended.
Authorities claim the 47-year-old former Spurs star was part of a ring that kidnapped a 14-year-old girl from San Antonio, forced her to have sex with clients and to dance at a Corpus Christi strip club last year.
The girl escaped her alleged captors, prompting an investigation. Seven people have been charged, including Robertson’s girlfriend, and he’s the only one who has not been arrested.
The seventh overall pick in the 1984 draft, Robertson averaged 14 points over 10 seasons and was voted to four All-Star Games.
The most alarming thing about the former Spur is his credit report, lets take a look:
- Robertson spent a month in jail during the 1990 NBA off-season for beating his then-wife.
- In August 1997 he pled no contest to four misdemeanor charges of abusing a former girlfriend and was sentenced to one year in prison.
- Robertson was arrested again in San Antonio in January 2007, on a variety of charges, several related to domestic violence.
- And you can forget his late night ecstasy binges out at Canyon Lake.
- In addition to possessing that kind of terrible credit report is that according to quite a number of my female stripper friends is that he is a bad stripper tipper. Nothing says your a bad guy more than being a bad stripper tipper. Come on!
WTF: San Antonio Express-News
I'm sorry how many major sport franchises do we have here?
First let me start off by saying once again that I love my city of San Antonio all that comes with it. I love the city so much that at times I act as if the negative doesn’t even exist but over the weekend I ran into a problem with the San Antonio Express-News.
On Saturday the San Antonio Spurs played the Los Angeles Clippers, understandably comes with a later start time here in San Antonio. However as I mentioned on today’s show, I left before the game had finished and just awaited to read about the finish through the Sunday paper which I’m a subscriber of everyday to. But to my surprise when I went outside and grabbed my paper in the morning there was no recap or any score just a post listing it as LATE.
Now this subject would have been dead to me after today’s show but it wasn’t with a few listeners, who called me after and couldn’t believe the Express-News would skip out on covering it’s only real major sports team in town. That’s where I had to dig up the paper, good thing I recycle and care about my planet, and relive this beef.
The callers where right we are talking about an organization that has brought four NBA championships to this city and helped put San Antonio on the map at least in the sports world. I know there’s other ways to achieve this information and I am an Internet rat but when you spend $237.60 yearly on what many call a dying business, you ask yourself is it necessary to continue to contribute to something that’s on life support?
This isn’t in anyway directed at Jeff McDonald but rather his employers. Those that make the decisions on how much coverage to give, when to holdup a deadline or whoever has the responsibility to run with the posting as LATE. I know what it feels like to work but not be there mentally and chalk it up as “just one of them days” but we are talking about the Spurs here not San Antonio Iguanas and when your asking $237.60 yearly from me, that’s unacceptable.
