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Losman’s Opportunity Leads to the UFL
Former Buffalo Bills starting quarterback J.P. Losman makes a jump to the Las Vegas UFL franchise on a one-year contract. Joining one of the four teams set to start the 2009 sason it is of little surprise that he would consider the opportunity after losing the starting position during the 2007 NFL season.
“I have followed J.P.’s career since his early days with Buffalo, where he impressed me with his raw talent, passing accuracy and on-field competitiveness,” Las Vegas coach Jim Fassel said. “J.P. has all the attributes of a great professional quarterback, and I am truly looking forward to working with him.”
A tough decision to some degree for his once bright future he may just be the marquee player that the UFL has been looking to find and continue to mold the competitiveness of UFL play.
The NFL Continues its Opposition to Sports Betting
Calling for action from the US Department of Justice against Delaware’s sports lottery as Delaware is one of four states that is nationally exempt from the ban on sports gambling the NFL continues its onslaught.
With the advent of sports betting the NFL’s stance remains clear. With the common thought that sports betting could create the perception of corruption related to the games outcome. I would also point out that the NFL would not be able to regulate or obtain the proceeds from sports betting.
“sports betting threatens the integrity of the pastimes our citizens enjoy and the nature of the games they follow,” wrote Senators Orrin Hatch of Utah and Jon Kyl of Arizona.
The issue remains that in the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act that banned sports gambling, grandfathered four sates in being exempt from the law – Delaware, Nevada, Montana and Oregon.
However in this matter the senators position remains that the 1992 act did not allow for single game betting and the Delaware lottery in fact violates such legislation.
Pete Rose Lobbying Falls on Deaf Ears
It is an unavoidable topic every so often perhaps that Pete Rose be brought up and the debate as to whether or not he should be considered in Cooperstown after a prolonged banishment from the MLB. He has not been expunged or forgotten as he remains among many other records the all-time MLB hit leader but it is up to baseball and specifically Bud Selig to draw a line in the sand.
Selig whom continues to look to solidify himself as the no-tolerance, hard-lining commissioner looks to set baseball straight and move past the days of looking the other way as baseball’s drug policy is being ignored. Yet the New York Daily news reported that, “Bud Selig is said to be seriously considering lifting Pete Rose’s lifetime suspension from baseball.” Having been banished from baseball some 20 years ago recent lobbying from influential Hall of Famers may have caught Bud’s attention.
“I would like to see Pete in. He belongs there,” said Hank Aaron.
Ultimately it is far more complex then simply reconsidering Pete Rose as a part of baseballs history and recognition into the MLB Hall of Fame would have to be determined by the Baseball Writers of America. With his past still in the back of everyone’s mind, it would be hard to find sound reason for forgiveness when considering whether Pete Rose should be reinstated as his black eye on baseball just adds to a laundry list of horrible decisions related to the sport.
Supreme Court Could Unleash the NFL from Antitrust Worry
Is the NFL a collection of teams or a single league?
Possibly the single most significant legal case in history is about to take place commonly referred to as the American Needle vs. the NFL.
“This case could end sports as we know it,” an NFL union official said. “It could change everything. We’d be back in the Bronze Age.”
The complicated issues that stems from this case would allow the NFL to remove all antitrust liability by accomplishing a ruling that the NFL is one entity, creating much cause for alarm.
Designed to ensure economic competition and protect consumers Antitrust laws some feel that should the NFL be viewed as a single entity instead of 32 teams which make up the NFL everything from tickets to the jerseys on your back will increase in price.
MLB All-Star Game Unlikely Accomplishments
Generating over $7 million in donations for charitable organizations it seems an unlikely time for MLB All-Star Week to mark the most extensive charity fund raising and community service in Major League Baseball All-Star history.
The slew of accomplishments include all as a part of what the MLB called “Going Beyond”:
- $5 Million Donation to Local and National Charities
- MLB All-Star Charity Concert Presented by Pepsi
- State Farm® Home Run Derby Boys & Girls Clubs of America Donation
- Anheuser-Busch Local Field Renovation
- Bank of America “Hits for Hunger” Program
- First All-Star Charity 5K and Fun Run Presented by Sports Authority and Nike
- Holiday Inn Hit Tracker Donation to Boys and Girls Club and RBI Program
- MasterCard Hit It Here Program
- PEOPLE “All-Stars Among Us”
- “United We Serve”
- Environmental Efforts
- Volunteer Efforts
- Jr. RBI Classic Presented by KPMG
- Boys & Girls Clubs of America Activities
The All-Star game alone marked a record-setting day for the MLB with record results in viewership with 33.6 million viewers, FanFest attendence totalling 150,804 and sponsorship.
The All-Star Game even went international with a 230 country broadcast in 17 different languages.
Is the Jim Parque HGH case different?
Admitting that he used human-growth hormone going into the 2003 season, but for a different reason then one initailly asumes when hearing about baseball and performance enhancing drugs. Jim Parque admitted to taking HGH but said he used it to overcome a shoulder injury.
The former pitcher for the White Sox and Tampa Bay admitted, “I’m Jim Parque, former major-league pitcher, and I took human growth hormone.”
“With my career in jeopardy, I turned to performance-enhancing drugs, like some other players did,” Parque wrote for the Sun-Times. “I never had needed them before, but with a shoulder that wouldn’t heal, it was realistically the only thing I could turn to.”
But certainly in the case of Jim Parque, it is being looked at as if he came forward, and admitted something that he had felt guilty about. As if it is more noble.
Mark Buehrle Obtaines Perfection
Against the Rays Mark Buehrle obtained perfection, the second no-hitter of his baseball career, now bringing him recognition with just 18 other perfect games in MLB history. As well as on of only 5 pitchers to throw two no hitters, one of them being a perfect game.
Center fielder Dewayne Wise came through with a center field grab off the all that looked to be a Gabe Kapler home run, which solidified the first perfect major league game in five years.
“I was hoping it was staying in there, give him enough room to catch it,” Buehrle said. “I know the guys were doing everything they could to save the no-hitter, the perfect game, whatever it might be.”
“I was just hoping it didn’t have enough distance to get out of here.”
Roethlisberger’s side of the story
With the alleged altercation taking place over a year ago, NFL quarterback, Ben Rethlisberger and the accusation of raping Andrea McNulty in a Lake Tahoe hotel penthouse according to the Associated Press.
Thus far the only word we have received has been from Roethlisberger’s lawyer whom has stricken any allegations that would even suggest such a horrid thing had taken place.
“Ben has never sexually assaulted anyone. The timing of the lawsuit and the absence of a criminal complaint and a criminal investigation are the most compelling evidence of the absence of any criminal conduct.”
Set Thursday afternoon at the Pittsburgh Steelers practice facility Roethlisberger will read off an official statement.
Underrated Really?
With a rating of 91 it seems minuscule to throw a fit at your Madden NFL 10 rating but it has Houshmandzadeh’s panties in a bunch enough to publicly suggest that he is boycotting the game of Madden. So much so that Seahawks wide receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh will not be among the players in the digital Seahawks team, sad.
“Yeah man, they don’t get my rating right,” he told Cowherd today. “I just look at the game and they had this wrong and that wrong. And I understand I average 10 yards a catch but it’s the (Cincinnati) offense man. It’s not me. Oh yeah, I’m not playing ‘Madden’ no more until they get my rating right. I’m not playing. It might be a little pouting, too. I used to be the best of the world at ‘Madden’ so I’m going to miss not playing but until they do me right, I am not playing,” Houshmandzadeh told ESPN Radio’s Colin Cowherd.
Infringing upon MLB prospects
With the advent of rampant identity and age falsification among Latin American baseball prospects the league had taken an extreme course of action to prevent the occurences but have since raised the issue of violating personal privacy.
Because a number of Latin American prospects have been caught reporting a younger age in order to make themselves more enticing to MLB teams.
Major League Baseball stated that it used DNA test in the Dominican Republic “In very rare instances, and only on a consensual basis to deal with the identity fraud problem that the league faces in that country.”
Also of concern is the potential for an emplyer such as Major League Baseball being able to try and predict a players future medical issues, adding more to teh complexity of emplyer descriminaton.
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