Daily sports roundup: The top sports stories
I’m going to try to start doing this daily.. a roundup of the top stories from various sports. Let me know if I missed anything. Send me a quick note at brian (at) sportsnickel.com.
Lawrence Taylor might not have had sex with the ‘teen hooker’ according to a friend of hers.
The friend relayed that account to investigators, and it could buttress Taylor’s defense against statutory rape charges.
The 16-year-old hooker allegedly blurted it out after she left a Rockland County hotel room where Taylor paid her $300.
“She starts explaining that it was weird because she didn’t even have sex,” the pal told investigators, according to the source.
“When she got back in the car, she wasn’t mad or anything like that. She was like, ‘Wow’ – she got paid $300 and didn’t have to have sex with him.”
Tiger Woods’ neck? He has an inflammation of a neck joint. “Woods had an MRI that revealed inflammation in a facet joint of his neck. He said on his website that when facet joints are inflamed, it causes pain in the area along with headaches and difficulty rotating the head.”The remedy? Medicine, massages and rest. “I now need to take care of this condition and will return to playing golf when I’m physically able,” Woods said.
The promoters for Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather are entering negotations cautiously this time around for what could be the right fight in boxing history.. Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum says he’ll soon start talking to Mayweather’s camp about putting together the world’s top two welterweights for a Nov. 13 bout in Las Vegas or Texas.
“That’s the fight people want to see, and that’s the fight I’m going to do my darnedest to make happen,” Arum said. “My first goal is to make that fight happen, but we’re not going to negotiate this thing in the press, because if we do, given the egos (involved), it’s never going to happen.”
If talks fall through again, Pacquiao will still be fighting in November, though probably against former welterweight champion Antonio Margarito…
Arum also said Pacquiao led him to believe he wants to fight three more times before retiring. Keep your fingers crossed on this one…
There were times where Suns GM Steve Kerr sometimes wished he kept his TNT analyst job.. ” I thought ‘Man, I should have just sat there with a microphone in my hand,”’ he said. “`It was a much better life.”’
But Kerr didn’t blame the fans for villifying him… “I deserved the criticism,” he said. “You kind of have to know what you’re getting into in this business, and I didn’t do a very good job last year.”
I think this story typifies sports right now. Idiot one day, genius the next, and vice versa.
There’s an app for that.. Suffering from pains while in his hotel room, Tim Stauffer, a pitcher for the San Diego Padres, diagnosed his appendicitis with the help of his iPhone. Apple should turn this into a commercial ASAP.
Former NBA player Kenny Anderson will be graduating from St. Thomas University in Miami, 19 years after leaving Georgia Tech for a 14-year NBA career… “The degree is a statement that his life did not end after 14 years in the N.B.A., after the tangled relationships with his seven children with five women — much better now, he said — and the vanished salary, somewhere above $60 million. He did that himself, too.”
After he was released from the Clippers in 2005, he found himself broke. He realized he needed a degree to get a job. “I didn’t know if I could handle it,” he said. “I didn’t use my brain for 20 years.”
A 12-year old became the younger person to cash at a PBA event (That’s bowling). “Kamron Doyle of Brentwood, Tenn., finished 30th in the PBA’s Canton (Ga.) Open Regional tournament Sunday, receiving $400 that will be deposited into a scholarship account.
Bowling as a non-PBA member, he had a 2,797 13-game pinfall total for a 215.1 average. The sixth-grader was competing against a 94-player field.”
The Jets and Giants have officially bid on the 2014 Super Bowl. They’re trying to downplay weather (The game is played in February) as a reason to reject the bid, but have you been up there in February?!
“The bid will arrive at NFL offices Wednesday afternoon, and team owners will vote on May 25 at the NFL owners meeting. Tampa and Miami are the other two potential sites, and both have hosted Super Bowls in the last two years.
“A New York/New Jersey Super Bowl will be unlike any other,” Lamping said.
Two of the next three Super Bowls are to be held in relatively new stadiums, in Dallas this season and Indianapolis in 2012. Lamping said that the New Meadowlands’ digital scoreboards and the stadium’s ability to change its colors, needed to host both Jets and Giants home games, would allow the NFL and Super Bowl teams to brand the building and have a home team feel. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has been supportive of the bid.”
Charlie Weis, former Notre Dame football coach, earned 2.927 million from July 2008 to June 2009. “Weis earned $649,090 from Notre Dame, including base salary, bonuses, “other” income, deferred income and non-taxable benefits. But the table for “compensation from unrelated organizations” offers insight into the areas of true windfall.
Weis earned $850,000 from Adidas and $1,303,000 from Play By Play Sports — the original name for what has become Notre Dame Sports Properties, the outlet that compensated Weis for media appearances such as a coach’s show.
He also earned $75,000 from ISP, Notre Dame’s radio partner, and $50,000 from Gatorade.”
Tom Brady knows why the Patriots weren’t as successful last season. He says it’s because of “lack of trust, lack of confidence” within the team….
“When it comes down to it, games that we lose in the fourth quarter, games that we lose in the second half, or losing on the road like we did, that can be lack of trust, lack of confidence,” Brady said in an interview on Boston sports radio station WEEI on Wednesday morning. “There are a lot of issues you have when that repeats itself time and time again over the course of the season.”
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar thinks players’ attitudes are hurting the NBA and that the league should raise it’s minimum age to 21. “They get precocious kids from high school who think they’re rock stars — ‘Where’s my $30 million?’. The attitudes have changed, and the game has suffered because of that, and it has certainly hurt the college game.”
Abdul-Jabbar said the players just aren’t emotionally or physically mature, because they’ve never really had to fight for anything.
“When I played, the players had to go to college and earn their way onto the court, meaning that there were upperclassmen ahead of them,” he said. “Players who had to go through that and had to go to class, when they got to be professional athletes, they were a lot better qualified.”
Abdul-Jabbar said even “King James” would have benefited from college.
“He would have come into the professional ranks very polished, given his innate gifts,” Abdul-Jabbar said. “Having to go through a college system would have made him a total gem as soon as he stepped out of the college ranks.”
The Hornets are still interviewing candidates – they’re up to 7 interviews now — for their head coaching vacancy.. Lawrence Frank (the guy who started 0-16 with the Nets before being fired) and Monty Williams, an assistant with Portland, were the latest to be interviewed. New Orleans has also interviewed former Dallas coach Avery Johnson, current Mavericks assistant Dwane Casey, former coach Mike Fratello, former player Mark Jackson and current Boston assistant Tom Thibodeau.
Frank is also a candidate for the Chicago Bulls coaching job. Orlando Magic player Vince Carter, who played for him in New Jersey, is coming out in support of Frank.
“He tries to bring out the best in his players. He’s great. He pushes you. He listens. He’s stubborn sometimes, but you kind of have an appreciation for that because he works hard and he wants to win.”
“Everybody remembers the last thing, OK fine, 0-16,” Carter said. “But look at what he’s accomplished in his years there. He’s done great things. He’s taken a team that was 10-12 games below .500 and made the playoffs my first year [in 2004-05 with the Nets]. But nobody talks about that. They just talk about his 0-16 start. Well, he didn’t have a very good team to work with. Look at what he had that year I got there in December. We were losing, we were counted out, and we made the playoffs.”
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