- The only thing worse than cheating in a boxing match and losing is cheating in a boxing match, losing and getting caught. Perhaps putting what is being described as a "plaster-like substance" on two pieces of gauze placed inside his gloves wasn’t the soundest strategy for Antonio Margarito heading into his bout Saturday night with Shane Mosley. Cheating didn’t help him win; Margarito suffered a ninth-round TKO after being pummeled for nearly the entire match. Prior to the fight, the California State Athletic Commission forced Margarito to rewrap his hands after Mosley's trainer, Nazim Richardson, reviewed the original wraps and found them to be too thick. As per those orders, his hands were rewrapped and Richardson said the wraps were doctored in a "deliberate" manner. Piling on was Richard Schaefer, Mosley's promoter, who called the doctored wraps “more than additional gauze, that's not a good thing to say. There was a white pad with a substance that was a grayish, concrete color on it. The thing is, you wonder now how many times he did it before.” Ironically, doctoring his wraps this way probably made Margarito’s hands a little slower and one of his chief problems in the bout was that Mosley was much, much faster. Yes, putting plaster in the wraps may have given Margarito’s punches more weight to them, but now all of the weight is pressing directly down on his reputation and threatening to undermine all of the success he’s had thus far in his career. Analysts and fans are rightfully questioning how many times Margarito has cheated before. Serves him right that the time he was caught, he lost the bout and a whole lot more……..
- What’s up with attempting to be fiscally responsible with the money you’re doling out, Congress? Since when did you all starting giving a crap whether money you allocate goes for practical, useful and necessary projects? That’s not the U.S. Congress I know and love. Very, very disturbing that Congress is making a concerted effort to prevent money from the proposed $825 billion stimulus package it recently approved from being used for zoos, aquariums, golf courses, swimming pools and casinos. Furthermore, Congress is making a clear effort to ensure the bill funds only what it calls the "highest quality" infrastructure projects. Huh? Where’s the pork? If no one is benefiting from this in an under-the-table, unnecessary-but-execessive-spending type of way, what’s the point? "The purpose of this bill is to direct funding at projects that are primarily and clearly aimed at benefiting the economic conditions of communities and the public at large," the bill states. "The federal government and all other levels of government are directed to look with a skeptical eye at projects that don't meet that test." Skeptical eye? How can you bozos even call yourselves senators and representatives? When the U.S. Conference of Mayors makes the effort to endorse "ready to go" stimulus projects like museum and zoo renovations, aquatic centers, skateboard parks and bike and horse paths, you slap a damn rubber stamp on that request and move on. How is a skateboard park NOT a “highest quality” infrastructure project? Did you not just see the Winter X Games and how awesome they were? Well, the Summer X Games won't have future stars with the right skills to amaze if you quit funding skateboard park projects, a-holes. Nor will your refusal to fund a $4.8 million polar bear exhibit at the Providence, Rhode Island, zoo help anyone. If you’re looking for a group to blame for this disturbing trend, that would be the House Appropriations Committee, which added those restrictions last week after criticism from watchdog groups like the National Taxpayers Union, which monitors government spending. Throw some blame at groups like the NTU as well, because they’re part of the problem. "To the people supporting them, these proposals aren't a joke," said Pete Sepp, the group's vice president. "But to the taxpayers funding them, yes this will be a joke for them, only they won't be laughing." No Pete, you’re the one who is a joke. You obviously don’t give a damn about skateboarders or polar bears, two key groups in this great nation. Quit trying to hijack the stimulus bill, known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and steer it toward only practical, “highest quality” projects. This bill has been placed on the congressional fast-track and could land on President Obama's desk for enactment by Presidents Day. As such, your interference isn’t helping the bill, it’s hurting it and you shouldn’t be trying to ban projects like skateboard parks and polar bear habitats from receiving more funding, man……….
- Where is the honor among strippers? Does no one honor the stripper code anymore? I don’t know all the specifics of the code as I’m not a stripper and don’t know any strippers, but I feel confident in saying that stealing another dancer's bag, bikinis and underwear violates the code. You may ask yourself, where is this sort of crap going on? The answer is at the Mons Venus strip club in Tampa, Florida, where Tara Lynn Woodruff allegedly lifted the belongings of a fellow dancer. Weirdly enough, she lied when initially questioned about the theft, saying that she thought the bag and clothing were hers. She signed an affidavit to that effect, but when investigators reviewed the surveillance footage, it told them a different story. The tape shows Woodruff taking an orange-and-brown leather bag worth about $300 from an employee cubbyhole Jan. 16 and placing it into a larger black bag, then leaving the club. Hmm, that doesn’t sound like an accident to me. Maybe that’s why Woodruff has been charged with felony grand theft. What’s bizarre is that all Woodruff got from her mini-heist was three used bikinis each worth about $55 and several pairs of underwear. Who even wants to touch another person’s used underwear? Unless you’re one of those twisted pervs who gets off stealing women’s underwear (never got that one), what’s the point? But like I said before, what really pisses me off here is the total disregard of the stripper code and disrespect of a fellow skank, er, exotic dancer. If you can’t even leave your dirty underwear and bikinis in the dressing room without having them stolen, might be time to find a new line of business……
- You never want to be too tough on a person who has just lost his or her right hand and leg, especially a teenager. That being said, Wesley Kimmick, 17, of Latrobe, Pa. doesn’t exactly make the strongest case for sympathy. We’re always told not to play around with fireworks at that they’re very dangerous. That message clearly never sunk in with Wesley, who was playing with a large firecracker like an M-80 in his grandmother's house and for some reason decided to light the fuse. Lighting the fuse on a large firecracker that was basically a quarter stick of dynamite is a bad idea most anywhere, but especially indoors. Showing a stunning lack of intelligence, Wesley kept lighting and extinguishing and finally, the fuse wouldn't go out so he……you guessed it, put the firework between his thighs and covered it with his right hand in hopes of muffling the explosion. Good thinking, Wes. The explosion was muffled - muffled by his leg and hand, which were lost in the blast. Because of the tragic nature of the situation, I’m not even going to rip this kid for initially lying to police and telling them he had been the victim of some sort of attack. He was dealing with the shock of something terrible, so you can forgive the lying. What you can’t forgive it being so stupid as to shove a lit firecracker between your legs. Honestly, I don’t care where I am, what’s around me or how much damage might be done by letting a firework go off - I’m not shoving it between my legs. I could be in a jewelry store (not sure why I’d have a firework in a jewelry store, but play along) around millions of dollars in valuable jewels and I’m not putting the firework anywhere near my body in the hopes of “muffling the explosion.” So condolences on your injuries and what I’m sure must be a horrifically tragic time for you, Wesley, but you didn’t do yourself any favors, my man…….
- So it certainly appears that Bar-roid Bonds was lying about knowingly taking steroids, the question now is whether this revelation comes too late for anyone to care much about it. Authorities investigating charges that Bonds lied to a federal grand jury in 2003 that he used the designer steroids "cream" and the "clear" but did not know that they were performance-enhancing drugs have detected anabolic steroids in urine samples linked to Bonds that they gathered in their investigation. Early indications are that the urine samples prove the existence of other steroids in his body, which would definitely contradict Bonds’ assertion that he never knowingly took any steroids. With his perjury trial scheduled to begin March 2, this would not be what I call a fortunate break for Bonds’ defense. On top of that evidence, federal agents are turning up the heat on Bonds' personal trainer Greg Anderson, who has repeatedly been jailed for refusing to comply with court orders to reveal what he knows about Bonds’ alleged ‘roid use. With Anderson remaining mum, agents raided the home of Anderson’s mother-in-law. Madeleine Gestas’ home was raided because she’s the target of a tax investigation that Anderson's lawyer says is aimed at pressuring the trainer to testify at Bonds' upcoming trial. Mark Geragos, a lawyer for Anderson, is payback for his refusal to tell them whether or not Anderson would testify in the trial. Honestly, I couldn’t care less why the raid took place, I just wish I could have been there when 20 FBI and IRS agents showed up at Gestas’ Redwood City, Calif., home with a search warrant and proceeded to seize miscellaneous documents. Nothing like watching nearly two dozen feds bust down the door of a home in a nice, suburban neighborhood raid the place as part of an alleged tax probe that Geragos alleges is nothing more than a blatant attempt at intimidation. "They trashed the place and took all kinds of stuff," he said. "The execution was illegal and a grotesque example of bullying." As far as Anderson testifying in the trial, don’t count on it. He’s served two terms in federal prison for refusing to appear in front of separate grand juries during the government's investigation of Bonds. You can be sure than Bonds is paying him handsomely to keep his mouth shut so that Anderson doesn’t testify about, among other things, that calendars and diary entries that document steroid use by a "BB" is in fact Bonds. Geragos has maintained for some time that Anderson will never testify against Bonds. "My client is never going to speak," he said in a March 2007 interview. That he could be sent back to prison if he refuses to talk this time likely won't be enough to budge Anderson, but with the damning blood evidence the feds have now, that may not even matter…….
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