Posted January 27, 2009 10:38 AM
TAMPA., FL (Special to Sportsman's Daily) So it's about that time again. Super Bowl XLIII. Look, I don't mind the build-up, the hype, the media asking stupid questions -- "if you were a vegetable what kind of vegetable would you be." (I'd be a fucking ear of corn, moron, how...
Posted January 7, 2009 12:59 PM
ASTORIA, NY -- The bizarre spectacle of a headless goat in a topless bar comes on the heels of a recent New York Times story describing a game of buzkashi, which dates back to Genghis Khan. Buzkashi pits teams of horseback-riding Afghans wearing traditional Uzbek hats and robes, who beat...
Posted December 18, 2008 2:20 PM
ATLANTA -- His body is as sculpted as it ever was, but at age 46, Evander Holyfield is, well, 46 - a point where the body starts to balk and bruises refuse to heal. But that's not stopping the four time heavyweight champ from stepping into the ring this weekend...
Posted December 2, 2008 10:28 AM
FOXBOROUGH, MA -- During halftime of "Monday Night Football," super agent Drew Rosenhaus was on to clear up a major misconception surrounding his client Plaxico Burress's "self-inflicted" gunshot wound.
"I shudder to think of the carnage had the bullet been allowed to roam freely in a...
Posted November 26, 2008 4:16 PM
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Just minutes after President Bush pardoned "Pumpkin," the National Thanksgiving Turkey, the President condemned another turkey, named "Popcorn," to die. According to White House spokesman , Popcorn's final wish was to spend his last day with the First Family before being executed at dawn in a solemn...
Posted November 20, 2008 1:40 PM
NEW YORK -- There was a time when drama meant a game that went down to the final seconds. Now, it just as often refers to the amateurish over-acting of NBA drama queens who wouldn't know Constantin Stanislavski from Peja Stoyakavich. James Lipton, the famously finicky host of Inside the...
Posted November 14, 2008 3:27 PM
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne welcomed Vice President-elect Joe Biden and his wife Jill on Thursday for a tour of his new home to be, Washington's Naval Observatory, which serves as the official vice presidential residence.
The couples met on the porch and exchanged...
Posted November 7, 2008 5:22 PM
WASHINGTON, DC -- In appointing the legendary rage-a-holic Rahm Emanuel as his chief-of-staff, President Elect Barack Obama praised him as a no-nonsense guy who gets things done. But in sharp contrast to his preternaturally calm new boss, the Chicago native many call Rahmbo is known for in-your-face, over-the-top rants, hyper-aggressive...
Posted October 17, 2008 2:04 PM
PHILADELPHIA, PA -- To the untrained eye, Philadelphia sports fans are raucous, boorish, and, on balance, more drunk than sober, but just under their uncivilized veneer gently throbs a surprising sensitivity, a byproduct of years of near-misses and crushing disappointment.
As the Phillies await the outcome of...
Posted October 2, 2008 11:14 AM
ST. LOUIS, Missouri -- According to Joe Biden, Joe Biden never backs down from a fight, even the time he found himself face-to-fist with Samantha Bedell, a nine-year old bully who administered a beating the Delaware Senator will never forget.
At the Democratic National Convention, Biden...