What you might have missed while trying to get the restraining order reduced to 200 feet (61 metres)...- CFL: Milt Stegall (pictured), who do you think you are, Barry Bonds? The Blue Bombers slotback is keeping everyone waiting -- two weeks without scoring since tying the CFL career touchdown record.
For his sake, he better get it over with tonight when his Blue Bombers play the Alouettes in Montréal. B.C. Lions second-year scoring machine Joe Smith is only 123 touchdowns away from breaking the record -- and he's facing the Tiger-Cats in the late game. - FIFA U-20 semi: Czechs 2, Austria 0: Again, this is just soccer dilettantism talking, but is Chile-Argentina tonight the real final?
The Czechs lost midfielder Petr Janda to two yellow cards and he won't play in the final. Knowing what we know about Chile-Argentina, there's no way the winner makes it to Sunday with the starting 11 intact. - The NBA Summer League is kind of, well, not for purists.
- Cool Standings says the Red Sox, recent slide and all, should still take the AL East by eight or nine games over the Yankees. (Their lead has shrunk from 12 to seven in about a week.)
In 1978, the Red Sox lost Dwight Evans for most of the final month with an injury. Hey, does the current Red Sox right-fielder, J.D. Drew, have a history of injuries? Just askin'. - Yes, like that guy said: San Diego Union-Tribune sportswriter Brent Schrotenboer was on Prime Time Sports last night with stats on NFL players and crime and said, "A lot of the dynamics that cause crime in regular society are at play ... in fact, even if you double the amount of the arrests that there are in the NFL, only then would it be about equal to the regular population." (Emphasis mine.)
He added there's "all kind of societal factors... criminal culture, poverty and decay of urban areas" which contribute to the public (mis)perception. That's all. It's not an excuse for any one individual -- it just has to be acknowledged as part of the problem. Especially the problems faced by those who have Mike Vick on their fantasy football team in a keeper league. (Do they do keeper leagues in fantasy football?)
SI.com's Paul Zimmerman is wondering if Vick's defence can claim prejudical treatment.
That's all for now. Send your thoughts to neatesager@yahoo.ca.
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Just your grumpy old conservative reader here, weighing in on Vick one more time. Michael Vick hasn't been poor for some time, so poverty isn't a reason for his actions. Nor is decay or urban areas. As mentioned previously, dog fighting is primarily a rural phenomenon, as you need large open spaces for the kennels and training.
Again, if this was Pacman Jones we were talking about, I might be buying the sociologial explanation to a degree. This is dog fighting we are talking about, though, and I think it fairly stands apart from the usual fare when it comes to misbehaving athletes.
We all have our biases, though, and I'll freely admit that animal cruelty is an issue that gets my back up pretty quickly. I think it reveals a very deep, disturbing character flaw in people when they are willing to treat animals with such wanton and calculated cruelty. To me, this is very different from driving 110 in a 60, having a posse who all pack heat, etc. Those are errors in judgement that I am willing to consider might be culturally related. What Michael Vick is alleged to have engaged in, sober and in broad daylight I might add, is just plain sick.
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