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Iraq is banned from the Summer Olympics. I still cant figure out why they were actually banned, you can read the article here.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5guAoWR4d13iPmyA1Ic8qeJR2S58wD924BIH00
I think its kind of a bummer that they will not be participating. The olympics transgress politics and was hoping for one of those visa moments, where a US athlete helps up a fallen Iraqi athlete or vice versa.
Remember, summer olympics start on Aug 8, well the opening ceremonies do, but they are cool too.
I may be a sports idiot, but I love the olympics.
The below link has a pretty good overview of the schedule, that does not mean everything will be televised though.
http://www.nbcolympics.com/resultsandschedules/index.html
Table tennis, I gotta see that this year on TV. And when did trampoline become an olympic sport?
For you sports idiots, you may Jason Taylor as the football guy from this season’s Dancing with the Stars. He made it to the finals.
Well on the sports side, Taylor pirohuetted over to another team. He was traded from the Miami Dolphins to the Washington Redskins. He only ever played for Miami.
Never know, somebody may bring it up and now you know something about it
The Espys were on last night. I dont think I have ever actually seen the Espys, but they are like the Oscars for sports.
Tiger Woods won three trophies at the ESPY Awards on Wednesday night, including his fifth male athlete of the year award, giving him a career-leading 21 wins in the show`s 16-year history.
Woods surpassed retired cyclist Lance Armstrong for most wins as male athlete.
Even after hearing that they were on I could not bring myself to watch the award show, instead I watched Ocean’s 11 on TV with commercials for the 8th time.
Right now the best team in the league are the Los Angeles Angels, worst is now San San Diego Padres.
The Mets just won 10 games in a row, and are now first in their division which is the National League East.
The longest winning streak in Major League Baseball:
The 1916 Giants won 14 tied 1 won 12. In baseball, apparently, thats a 26 game winning streak as tied games are replayed but as one individual said, if the stats count, the games count.
The longest true winning streak was 21 games by the 1935 Chicago Cubs.
But those seasons were not 162 games as they are now, so another stat is:
The Oakland A’s got a 20 game win streak in 2002, which became the longest win streak in a 162 game season.
Kind of a cool nug to know.
Doping! Get your Doping here..! EPO anybody?!!
Dude…. come on. Another cyclist test positive for doping. This is the second in a week.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aCZcTR.tpOhg&refer=europe
I just posted about the other incident the other day. Check it out
This is getting crazy now.
Roger Clemens has been in the a news a bit in the last year for allegations for steroid use which he denies. There is news out today that there is documentation of shipments of steroids to Clemens house. Check out the article if you want more info.
If the evidence is true, he could be held for perjury for lying to congress under oath. Whoopsy daisy.
For you sports idiots, Clemens was a pitcher for quite a few teams in his career, but his last team he played for was the Yankees. And I guess he is most known for his 12 seasons at a Boston Red Sox.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Clemens
Many months ago I saw Clemens do an interview on 60 minutes or dateline, one of those. He actually sounded convincing to me that he did not use steroids. Who knows maybe he is good liar.
The American League won the All-star game last night at Yankee Stadium. Some teams in the American League are Boston Red Sox and NY Yankees.
I did not realize that this was the last all-star game at the current Yankee Stadium, so they had all these past baseball greats and celebs there. Ooops… I missed it, I didn’t know it was such a big deal, see I am sports idiot. I was watching ‘The Dark Ages’ on the history channel on netflix.
Also, not sure if this is true but in an article I read, the winner of the All-star game gets home field advantage for the world series. So a team in the American League will have home field advantage this world series. Thats cool baseball nug to know.
Guess thats why they play the all-star game mid season.
With Football season approaching somebody may bring this up. Brett Favre was quarterback for the Green Bay Packers, but retired last year. Now there is talks of him coming out of retirement, but he wants to be released from the Packers. Nothing been decided yet but September is around the corner then peeps will be talking about Football.
If you want more details, you can do searched for Brett Favre and find out more, but I could care less. And just the fact that I know he retired and is thinking of coming out of retirement is good enough for me to not sound like an idiot.
Whenever I here Brett Favre, I think of There’s something about Mary… Brett Favvvv … rrreeee
Heh
Tampa Bay Rays as of today do not have the best record anymore. The Chicago Cubs, LA Angels, and Boston Red Sox have better records now. The Rays went on a 7 game losing streak.
Washington Nationals have the worst record.
Check out my newer post about doping
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The Tour De France is going on right now. Another rider tests positive for doping. Check it out if you are interested.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/cycling/tourdefrance/2008-07-11-positive-test_N.htm
Is this race becoming a skill not only in cycling, but also who is better at hiding doping? Crazy.
I posted about Floyd Landis and how he was stripped of the Tour De France title from 2006. Check it out.
http://blog.sportsidiot.net/2008/06/30/cycling-floyd-landis/
Yankees beat the Tampa Bay Rays today for 2 times in a row. Tampa Bay Rays still have the best record, but the Chicago Cubs and LA Angels are creeping in. The have the second best records. Washington Nationals have the worst record right now.
I never heard of the Nationals before. But after reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Nationals
They used to be the Montreal Expos. There’s a nug for you sports idiots. Drop that on a sports guru who thinks you are a sports idiot, “So the nationals are the worst in the league, and didn’t they used to be the Expos” Boom… no more idiot.
This is so weird. Saw this video of John McEnroe interviewing Roger Federer after the championship match against Nadal.
“Give me a hug…”
So weird that its funny.
How does this fit into sportsidiot, it doesn’t but I am a snowboarder so read it and like it. My bro Live2ride commented on how there is empirical evidence that snowboarders get more girls.
http://liv2ride.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/the-snowboarder-gets-the-girl/
So the Yankees beat the Tampa Bay Rays yesterday. As I blogged, the Rays have the best record right now, so Yankees fans are stoked probably.
My nephew who is a baseball fan was impressed that I knew who had the best record. So I guess this site is working for me so far.
Yankees play the Rays again today at 1pm est
In my other post http://blog.sportsidiot.net/2008/07/01/baseball-best-and-worst/ I mentioned that the Tampa Bay Rays have the best record right now surprisingly, because they have been really bad is past years.
Well they play the NY Yankees tonight and people might be talking about it to see how the Yankees do against the team with the best record.
Michael Vick of the Atlanta Falcons declared bankruptcy. He was convicted of dog fighting charges. He owes a ton of money since he was kicked out of the NFL, and lost of his major corporate sponsors.
Sorry dude… as a dog owner I dont have much sympathy. Especially since most people’s memories are short and when he comes out or prison he will probably get back in the NFL and make millions. Who knows.. maybe there are enough dog owners out there who wont forget.
Just remember sports idiots… football is not going on right now and does not start until september.
Rafael Nadal beat Roger Federer at the Wimbledon Men’s finals yesterday. Federer had not lost at Wimbledon since 2002.
The match lasted 4hours, 48 minutes which is the longest match in Wimbledon’s 131-year history. Some are saying it was one the best tennis matches ever.
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal are playing in the men’s finals today.
