We had a good run going on the diamond, scoring some fairly big hauls on the Nats and the Reds early in the week. But like all good things, that came to a screeching halt Friday, when some big plays on the Angels, who apparently spent over $200M on a bunch of crap, and D'Backs blew up in our face. It was especially nice of Arizona to cough up a 6-2, late-inning lead to the Rockies. We got a little back Saturday with Edwin Jackson and the Nats, but Friday hurt, no doubt.
Couple thoughts/stats/links before the Super Play of the Day...
Fresh off an 11-win season, South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier, who is old and apparently doesn't care, got a little loose in an interview with ESPN's Chris Low this week.
Saying he was disappointed his team's game with Georgia, which is normally one of the first ones of the season, was moved to later in the year in 2012, Spurrier dropped this bomb:
"I sort of always liked playing them that second game because you could always count on them having two or three key players suspended."
That is Grade-A, 100-percent pure awesome. The problem is that it also happens to be staggeringly hypocritical.
Just two months ago South Carolina met with the NCAA's infractions committee concerning potential major violations.
And it's not like Spurrier and the Gamecocks are strangers to suspensions. Former quarterback Stephen Garcia was suspended a total of six times before the Head Ball Coach ultimately kicked him off the team last season.
All of which means dude shouldn't be throwing stones while he and his program are sheltered under an enormously brittle glass house. But it's still funny...
In the worst story of the week, one of the men who accused former Syracuse basketball assistant Bernie Fine of sexual abuse admitted he fabricated the entire story.
Zach Tomaselli told something called CNYCentral.com in an email that the lie became a burden too large to bear, adding that former Syracuse ball boy Bobby Davis, another Fine accuser, put him up to it.
"Bobby Davis told me what to tell detectives and it pretty much took off from there," he wrote. "I made the ENTIRE thing up. I have never met Bernie in my life."
Davis denied the claim to ESPN.
Tomaselli, who in a deeply ironic and altogether sick twist next week begins a 39-month prison term for sexually abusing a teen at a Maine summer camp, also told the website that lying about Fine, though agonizing, was a source of entertainment.
"It was a game to me," he said. "It was fun trying to make this story come alive."
Yes, what fun that must have been.
The jury is still out on Fine, but one thing is for sure: Zach Tomaselli is one of the worst people on the planet...
In a stunning and profoundly disappointing development, the Lingerie Football League announced it will forego its 2012 season and will resume operations in April 2013.
League spokesman Jim Wallin, who hopefully has another job besides being a spokesman for the Lingerie Football League, told Yahoo! Sports the move was made to get the league on a warm-weather schedule -- no doubt the only obstacle keeping it from becoming the next big thing.
In what appears to be a flawless marketing strategy, Walling said the league will use the down time to promote the league abroad, most notably in Australia and Asia, where apparently they need even more reasons to hate Americans...
For $22.99 plus shipping you can join the Bobby Petrino Motorcycle Club. We can guarantee there will be at least one member in downtown Seattle...
Speaking of Petrino, who, of course, was fired this week after it was revealed he sends more texts per week than a ninth-grade girl, he might be a horrible guy and even worse husband, but bettors certainly will miss him. Dude went 60-38-3 ATS as a college head coach, according to Covers.com...
It's early and it won't last, but Baltimore is in first place in the AL East. Cal Ripken was still playing the last time the Orioles made money for bettors, according to The Las Vegas Sun...
A good write up at Covers.com looking back at the first week of baseball. Pay special attention to what Teddy Covers says about MLB totals...
We'd be lying if we said we are huge hockey guys, but we enjoy the NHL playoffs and somewhat follow the Phoenix Coyotes from our time in Tempe, where we attended the "Harvard of the desert," The Arizona State University. Here's a nice piece about so-called must-win situations and why they rarely present any value...
The Super Play of the Day (homer pick alert)
Mariners -110
I've been to, and bet on, a lingerie football league game. Not only did I cover... But i covered on a last second touchdown pass. SheaInIrving was along for that glorious ride, and I'm sure I can speak for him when I say that the LFL will truly be missed.
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