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OZZIE'S "MISTAKE"....................
05/17/2013 @ 08:48 PM
Former Marlin manager Ozzie Guillen said it was a "BIG MISTAKE"taking the Miami managers job.....he wants a job back in baseball.....

MLB - "JERK OF THE YEAR"..................
05/13/2013 @ 05:19 AM
Second rate New York Yankee pitcher takes offense at Mariano Rivera for being asked to tone the noise down while the star reliever was being interviewed in the dugout.....

"OUT OF SIGHT - OUT OF MIND"................
05/10/2013 @ 05:47 AM
An out of work NFL quarterback topped Forbes' list of America's Most Influential Athletes in 2013......weird.....

"THE CLOCK'S RUNNING OUT"...........................
05/09/2013 @ 02:49 PM
Police made it official...soccer in Europe and around the world's in serious trouble...the sports been corrupted with match-fixing....

Youth Sports - "HIJACKED" forever........
05/07/2013 @ 08:33 AM
Youth sports leagues across the country have been "hijacked" by grown-ups and it's time to throw them out of our parks and playing fields.....but with billions involved it can never happen.

"DEADLY CALL" ........................
05/06/2013 @ 09:52 AM
A ref in a recreational league soccer game in Utah is dead today because a 17-year old he called a foul on punched him in the head...

"BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME?"..........
05/05/2013 @ 08:33 AM
Florida politicians on Friday said "NO" when the Dolphins asked for tax-payer money to refurbish their stadium......

"FORE" - on tax-payers dime......................
05/04/2013 @ 08:44 AM
Did you know the Pentagon runs a staggering 234 golf-courses with your tax dollars? They also run a ski lodge in the Bavarian Alps for non-golfers. Did you know that?

"MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME".................
05/02/2013 @ 05:47 AM
Racing's "main event" of the year, the Kentucky Derby, if off and running at Churchill Downs Saturday, May 3rd.......it's the 139th running of the Derby - 20 horses will head for the starting gate, but who will win the $1,439.800 purse?

"T-BOWING"..................
05/01/2013 @ 02:11 PM
NFL's most controversial quarterback is out of work....how much has his "religious beliefs" played in realizing his full football potential?

Sports "DUMBEST" ......................

Posted on 05/19/2013 @ 09:28 AM

There's a "TOP TEN" list for just about everything in pro sports.

I had trouble finding a "top ten" dumbest list for a specific sport.

Seems each sport has a long list of "dumb athletes" - we just don't know which sport has the "most" dumb athletes. Is it baseball - football - basketball - hockey - soccer - or.....?

Starting with former NFL great O.J.Simpson - to boxing champ Mike Tyson - to golf's great Tiger Woods - and cyclist Lance Armstrong - every sport has a "long" list of "dumbest athletes."

During this years baseball spring training, Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz may have come up with the correct answer when he told a reporter, "BASEBALL PLAYERS," we pretty much might be the "dumbest athletes" of all the sports." He said he was taking that position in light of revelations that a number of baseball players names were found on a pill/steroid clinic client list (Biogenesis) of South Florida. The players listed were active major league players, and included several stars. Ortiz said, because of baseball's 10 year history of players using PED's - "how come players are still being caught in the same situation?" For that fact alone David Ortiz says, baseball players have to be the "dumbest athletes" of all.

Recently, an NBA player got busted - some people say "you gotta be a special kind of "stupid" to get busted for PED's in the NBA." The NBA suspended Orlando's Hedo Turkoglu for testing positive for an anabolic steroid. Turkoglu became the 8th NBA player caught by the league's anti-drug policy. The second Orlando Magic player to get caught for using drugs. The first was Rashard Lewis who tested positive for drugs during the 2009 playoffs and missed the first 10 games of the Magic's 2010 season.

David Sterns, NBA Commissioner will tell you his league does not have a PED problem. Others say otherwise. Several reporters, learning the lessons from watching steroid users in baseball, football, and cycling, know that it's folly to quickly say Turkoglu drug use is an "isolated" incident. The player said he was given the drug by his trainer when he was back at home in Turkey during the off-season. He took the drug (he called "medication") to help him recover from a shoulder injury. Cynical reporters didn't buy that story. They say at 34, he's an "aging athlete" who saw his talents decreasing and was desperately looking for a shortcut to prolong his career.

Reporters say there are "many" NBA players on PED's today.......

It should also be noted that the drug the Orlando Magic player tested positive for is the same one Yankee star Alex Rodriguez tested positive for.

By far baseball players have been exposed to be the biggest users of steroid/PED's over the last decade but it's not to say they're the biggest "abusers." It's just been the sport that got caught in the anti-drug headlights of the past decade,(like cycling-because one man won so many times) baseball had too many home run sluggers each physically looking like the "HULK."

Football had Plaxico Burress as one of their "dumbest." This moron walked around New York drunk, with a loaded weapon, then he shot himself during a visit to a local nightclub.

Nice guy baseball star Andre Dawson had his "moment" to regret what he told kids. He said to kids, "I want all dem kids to do what I do, to look up to me,I want all kids to "copulate" me.(what?.."copulate?") Did he really say he wants all the kids to engage in sexual intercourse with him? Nice guy Dawson was "NEVER" a child molester - (nor master of our english language)

Ricky Williams got into trouble for smoking too many joints. He couldn't lay off the wacky weed and missed two seasons of NFL play. He fled to Canada to play.

Then there's Mike Tyson - this man is on so many "top ten" negative list his antics would fill this page.I need only say he made and blew away more than $30 million over his career. Is that "DUMB?"...............

Add Lance Armstrong - Golf's John Daly - the NBA's Jayson Williams - plus hockey's Tom Watt who goes down as one of the worst coaches in NHL history. He once said, "BETTER TEAMS WIN MORE OFTEN THAN THE TEAMS THAT ARE NOT SO GOOD." Hey Tom - thanks for letting us know that - great insight, and words of wisdom.....

"SPORTS DUMBEST" - there's not a shortage of athletes that fall into the "dumb" category...no doubt you could add to this list. I just didn't have enough space to list everyone........

Larry Upton
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