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Kyle Busch Got His License Suspended – Sort Of

By | August 24, 2011 | Celebrity Athletes, Crazy People, Racing, WTF? | 1 Comment

On the drive home from Target tonight my kids urged me to go faster on the freeway than I ever should. So I told my kids about Kyle Busch getting his license taken away for speeding, and they had a couple of questions.

#1: Who is Kyle Busch?

Well kids, he’s the jackass race car driver who thinks he’s special, you know like the people who park next to the curb at the grocery store while they run in to buy whatever it is that people with fancy cars buy.

“Ah”, said the oldest, “he must have an expensive car”.

Righty-o chap. He does have that.

Kyle says he was test driving a new Lexus and got carried away and he’s sorry for his ” lack of judgment”.  Oh, it’s okay Kyle. I’m sure you didn’t mean to do it.

#2: How fast was he going?

He was driving 128 mph in a 45 mph zone. Yes, kids, he was driving super fast. In fact he was driving 33 mph over the “reckless” driving statute in North Carolina. That is a mere 83 mph over the posted speed limit.

Kyle only had his license suspended for 45 days. If it was me, they would have locked me up and thrown away the key, no matter how many times I said I was an excellent driver. Just because he drives fast cars for a living doesn’t mean that he should be driving a fast car on the mean streets of the city or the suburbs or even a country road. He’s just another dumb son of a gun who thinks he’s invincible and gets away with it.

#3: Does he still get to race cars?

Yes, kids. Yes he does.

How does that work? You get your driver’s license suspended, but you can still drive? I don’t get it.

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You Have A Ticket To The Super Bowl? Think Again!

By | February 6, 2011 | Football, NFL, playoffs, WTF? | 1 Comment

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How mad would you be if you spent hundreds of dollars on a plane ticket to get to Dallas plus hundreds of dollars on a ticket to the Super Bowl and bam, I’m so sorry, you don’t have a seat? I’d be pretty mad. Actually, I’d be super pissed.

My friend Mike is having that experience right now. He was lucky enough to have a ticket bought for him by his family and as he was waiting with his dad and brothers to take his seat, the folks at the stadium announced: “I’m so sorry, the Fire Marshal has declared your whole section unsafe.”

These guys may be getting three times the face value of the tickets and the stadium is setting up an area for these fans to watch the game. However, they won’t be at the game, in the stadium.  Is the money worth it? My friend is just heartsick. They spent thousands of dollars to get to Dallas, they’ve been up since the middle of the night, because they are staying in a hotel two hours away.

I can’t even imagine how angry they are or what kind of a lawsuit is going to come of this, because you know someone is going to sue.

Update: Here’s a link to the breaking news

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Kids These Days… They Aren’t All Bad

By | October 12, 2010 | Football, Kids' Sports, Legends | 3 Comments

Every Sunday morning I start out the day reading the paper. It’s my favorite way to start/end the week. This Sunday I read an article about a local high school football team that had me in tears. Normally I can’t stand the little high-schoolers, but these kids may have restored a little bit of my faith in people and hope in the future.

My husband threw away the article, but I need to share it with you even if I have to paraphrase, because I know you will appreciate it too.

So there is this kid, Ike, and he attends a local high school. His parents were starting to worry because he wasn’t his usual shiny happy self for a while. His parents approached the football coach and asked if he could be a part of the team. They thought it would help his self-confidence and feelings of self worth.

Normally, that would be a crazy request, but because Ike was born with Down syndrome they made it anyway. The coach said yes and Ike was welcomed with open arms by players and coaches alike. The team even came up with a couple of plays called the “Ike Special” that they run once a game so he can have a chance to be on the field.

We come to the team’s game against their division rivals. They were getting blown out. The score was 35 – 0. Their coach, Perry, calls a time out to get ready to run the “Ike Special”, because win or lose, they were still going to run it.

Perry had already discussed the play with their rivals coach. The opposing coach was okay with it. Perry went out to talk to the opposing players and asked them to let Ike run 10 yards or so before they tackled him. He told them they deserved their shut-out so just a few yards would do, and thank you very much for letting him run.

Here’s what happened:

Sometimes it’s how you win, lose and play the game.

Lance Stephenson Follows Those That Went Before

By | August 18, 2010 | Basketball, Drafts, Politics in Sports?, Unsportmanlike Conduct | Comments Off

lance-stephenson-arrestedOh Lance Stephenson, what have you done now?

It seems that Mr. Stephenson pushed his girlfriend and baby mama down the stairs in their home.

Actually, I noticed a couple of things that seem off about this whole situation.

Why, if he’s only 19, does he have a two-year-old, with his 21-year-old girlfriend?

Also, did he not realize he had everything going for him? He just signed a $700,000 one-year deal, with $500,000 for his second year with the Pacers. That’s $1.2 million for playing ball for two years, something that he loves to do.

Why is young Mr. Stephenson following the example of so many professional athletes?

Silly, stupid boy.

Why is this such a trend with professional athletes? Are we paying them too much money, attention, or adulation? I’m thinking it’s the adulation and the ego that comes from it.

Do athletes need to start taking classes in high school about how to act like contributing members of society? Scratch that, do they need to start in pre-school?

Stephenson is not new to breaking the law. At 17 he was busted for sexually abusing a 17-year-old girl inside his high school, the  same school where he won four city championships and was the leading scorer in New York State history.

He’s such a super-awesome example for our young men to follow.

Maybe if he would have had better examples when he was a young man he would be able to make better decisions now, as he’s starting his professional career.

***Update***

Apparently his girlfriend didn’t answer her phone while on a girls’ night out and he ambushed her when she came home. He didn’t mean to hurt her, it just happened.

DUH she didn’t answer her phone. She’s not supposed to.

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MLB Makes An Effort To Clean Up Its Act

By | July 23, 2010 | Baseball | 2 Comments

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Well, well, well, it seems that the  Major League Baseball association is trying to clean up it’s act. Or at least trying to prevent more embarrassing messes in the future.

How? No, they aren’t going to be breaking out the cleanser, though it would probably need a little lye to really clean those hard to reach spots. Instead commissioner Bud Selig just announced the MLB is going to start testing minor league players for human growth hormones.

“The implementation of blood testing in the Minor Leagues represents a significant step in the detection of the illegal use of human growth hormone. The Minor League Program employs state of the art testing procedures and the addition of HGH testing provides an example for all of our drug policies in the future.”

This isn’t your average pee test. The players will be submitted to random blood testing that will take place after games and the blood will be taken from the players non-dominant arms.

This makes me sad.

Why the heck do these athletes think they need to juice up? I hate it!

My dad was a baseball player all his life and could have gone pro, but my mom got knocked up in high school, so my dad married her and had to get a job to provide for his new family. He never would have used steroids, if just out of principle.

The fact that these guys think they have to use something to amp up their game is so disappointing.

Hopefully this type of testing will weed out the idiots and we’ll be able to get back to watching a game in which every player gives his all to the team. You know, they would actually use skill and finesse, play a little small ball and not just use power to hit the ball out of the park every at bat.

I hope this works, if only for the sake of our national pastime. It’s so sullied these days that it’s not the sport that parents want their kids to play anymore. That’s just sad.

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