Been there, done that

Here’s my rationalization: Better to take your anger out on objects than people.

Happy 70th to The Greatest!

Benjamin Franklin, Michelle Obama, Andy Kaufman and the great Larry Fortensky were also born Jan. 17.

Saints fan shoots 49′ers fan — in Atlanta

Only in Atlanta, where visiting teams rule. 

If you’re not sick of Tim Tebow yet you will be

THROWS FOR 3:16 YARDS...

Posing w/ Mary Magdalene

Though I’ve never been a big fan of proselytizing jocks Tebow seems like a decent enough fellow — I’ll take him over that asshole Ben Roethlisberger any day.

It’s the Tebow acolytes I can’t stand, those who’ve turned him into a litmus test for their Christian persecution complex. Makes you wonder how Romneytron will handle this.

The former governor of Massachusetts can’t root against the New England Patriots, who will play host to the Son of Jesus next weekend, any more than he can speak ill of Tebow.

Please, someone ask him to choose a side. It’ll be fun watching The Anchorman squirm.

 

The pedophile Syracuse basketball coach and his pervy wife

The other college sports molestation scandal is all but confirmed by this disgusting exchange between the alleged victim and the predator’s wife.

“When he gave you the money, what does he want for that? He wants you to grab him or he wanted to do you?” she asked.

“He wanted to do me. He wanted me to touch him, too. He tried to make me touch him a couple of times. He’d grab my hand, and then I’d pull away, and then he’d put me in your bed, and then you know, put me down, and I’d try to go away, and he’d put his arm on top of my chest. He goes, ‘If you want this money, you’ll stay right here,’ ” Davis said.

“Right. Right … ,” Laurie Fine said. “He just has a nasty attitude, because he didn’t get his money, nor did he get what he wanted. He didn’t get … “

Davis interrupted her at that point and said, “It’s not about the money.” To which Laurie Fine replied, “It’s about the d—-. I know that. So you’re — I’m just telling you for your own good, you’re better off just staying away from him.”

Davis said he recorded the conversation because he knew he would need more than just his word against that of Bernie Fine’s—a respected coach in the area for over 35 years. He needed proof and turned to Laurie Fine—with whom he had also been sexually involved—and recorded his conversations with her. At the time of the recording, both he and Fine were in states that do not require consent to record phone conversations.

Laurie Fine said her husband “thinks he’s above the law,” which is understandable, since he’s a major figure of a top collegiate sports program.

The complicity of law enforcement in both this case and at Penn State needs to be a bigger story.

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• On tape, Fine’s wife admits worries over abuse (espn.go.com)

RIP Joe Frazier

“Joe Frazier would come out smoking. If you hit him, he liked it. If you knocked him down, you only made him mad,” George Foreman

Don’t forget Frazier’s bravura turn as host of the “First Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence.”

Hi Chris

Andrew Sullivan had been lamenting the absence of a gay superstar before someone reminded him of one 30 years removed from the closet, when the famous didn’t dare disclose their homosexuality. Few athletes were more dominant than Martina Navratilova and none had bigger balls (not meant pejoratively, so calm down).

Do men never tire of thinking that the only important events in the world are done by men? You already have your groundbreaker in Martina. That there hasn’t been a man as brave as her is pretty damn weak for the so-called “stronger sex”. When you think of who has come out in sports and entertainment, the groundbreakers are almost all women. A little respect is due. They’re the ones breaking the closet door down for you. Walk through it already, would ya?

Interlude

“I’ll say he has good taste.”

The opiate of the Southern masses returns

College football is back — wake me when it’s over.

Someone tell Atlanta Spirit they sold the Thrashers

	Atlanta Spirit, LLC is the parent company of the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks, the NHL’s Atlanta Thrashers and owns the operating rights to the world-class entertainment venue Philips Arena.

No refunds for the subsidisers

Just say 'hell no!'

Let’s say 10 years from now — long after the Georgia General Assembly approves public funding for a new Falcons stadium (shouldn’t that be put to a statewide referendum?) — NFL owners preside over another lockout. A prolonged work stoppage ensues.

Who will reimburse the taxpayers who funded the stadium, the ones misled to believe that a new facility would bring added revenues to the city and state? What about the merchants who open establishments dependent on fan business?

Fan reimbursement — that’s funny. Additional subsidizing is more like it, in the form of higher ticket prices to cover alleged losses by team owners.

Why haven’t we heard from the Tea Party on this? Are they okay with government subsidies, as long as they don’t go to the poor?