Is this real? If not, it's close enough to be very entertaining. You might recall the prank war between Amir and Streeter over at CollegeHumor.com The last battle had Streeter getting slapped and dumped by his girlfriend at Yankee Stadium. A year and a half later, Streeter's vengeance cometh. During halftime of the hoops game Maryland and Wake Forest, Amir got a chance to make a half-court shot and win $500,000. Or, you know, not.
Terrell Owens got cut by the Cowboys? Wow. Kind of a stunner. Gunaxin has 15 (silly) reasons why Dallas cut him. The real reason? Who know$ Hard to $ay. Scouts Inc,. wonders where the wide-out might go next. Hall-of-Famer Tim Brown says Owens "will be a Raider by next week." We find that very hard to believe. T.O. still has two or three good years left. The Raiders usually don't sign veterans to bloated contacts until they are officially out of gas.
Alex Rodriguez will undergo surgery on his right hip. Joe Dunand, Alex Rodriguez's big brother, told Enrique Rojas of ESPNdeportes.com that rehabilitation would take about 10 weeks.
Yawn. Does anyone know why A-Rod and his brother have different last names? Are we missing something obvious?
This is certainly bad news for A-Rod and all the Yankee fans who adore him. But it's not terrible for those folks, like a certain blogger you know, who are beyond sick-to-death of all things A-Rod related. The other day, a few news outlets reported that the guy's ex-wife showed up at Spring Training with their kids. Really, America? Do we need to know this?
Extra Mustard give us the Pop Culture grid, where we find out that Cubs second-baseman Mike Fontenot wants Kriss Kross to make a comeback. Who doesn't?
NASCAR Nationwide Series driver Burney Lamar and wife, supermodel Niki Taylor, welcomed a new daughter yesterday, Ciel Taylor Lamar. This proves, once more, that even low-tier race car drivers pull some seriously fine babes. Lamar, if he stays in Nationwide cars, will continue to race in Montreal. Monday race organizers signed a three-year deal to keep the event at Gilles Villeneuve Circuit.
The same day Manny Being Manny signed his new deal with the Dodgers, the dreadlocked star put his 37th-floor condo at the Boston Ritz Carlton up for sale. SoxAddict reports that Manny bought the condo in 2001 for $5.8 mil. He tried selling it fours years later for $6.9 mil, but didn't get his asking price. Now, the almost pathologically insensitive slugger wants $8.5 mil for the place. You know, because the housing market is so hot right now.
