This is Maylan Studart, a 19-year-old jockey from Rio De Janeiro who keeps racking up victories. Horse-racing hopes to market her the same way the IndyCar Series has marketed Danica Patrick. We're here to help.Hey, have you heard? There's huge, huge Tiger Woods news! EA Mobile has previewed the upcoming Tiger Woods PGA Tour game for the iPhone and iPod touch! Oh, yeah... Also the real Tiger Woods is returning to the PGA.
The biggest story in sports continues to be A-Rod, and we continue to be fantastically bored. Reporters have tracked down the cousin he says was involved, investigated the substance he claims to have used, and found new contacts between A-Rod and allegedly dirty trainers. It goes on and on. Wake us when it's over. We're more interested in the news that Jose Guillen pulled off his own toenail. The overwhelming majority of sports fans, especially hardcore baseball fans, aren't under any illusions about juicing in the game and haven't been at least since Raphael Palmerio pointed his finger at Congress. Everyone knows that most baseball players were using back then, because they weren't really being tested. Now, they are being tested, so there is a lot less cheating. (Not none. Just less.)
Please, please don't tell us that the American public will be forced to hear about Barry Bonds, A-Rod, Roger Clemens, et. al., at the top of every sportscast for the next five years. Please. We are all for prosecuting guys who lied under oath to the fullest extent of the law. But we're also looking forward to a time when every nuance of every steroids case isn't reported with the breathless intensity of a moon-landing.
Newsday talked with Rick Reilly, discussing the latter's transition from Sports Illustrated to ESPN; his supposed rivalry with Bill Simmons and an alleged obsession with dentistry. (If In the interview, Reilly comes off as articulate and thoughtful, and makes lucid points about the difference between writing for print and writing online.
But we can like the man while still being annoyed by his cloying prose with it's Clinton-era references and Borscht Belt rhythm. Reilly is one of those writers who thinks that sports, underneath it all, are really about the triumph of the human spirit. We think that sports, underneath it all, are really about eating and drinking at tailgate parties, ogling cheerleaders, and jumping up and down with glee like a moron when your favorite team wins.
The million dollar meat market, the NFL Combine is getting underway in Indy.
NFL Blitz has this look at Workout Warriors who went bust on Sundays. Anyone remember Mike Mamula and Boss Bailey? neither do we.
