So who gets the points?
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More on this piece of shit Paul Pierce... this is what i was talkin about yesterday... See you Saturday Bitch!
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Seahawks to sign T.O.????
When the Seattle Seahawks brought in receiver Brandon Marshall in the early days of the free-agency period, Pete Carroll's new team became in our assessment one of the teams that potentially would be in play for receiver Terrell Owens, if they didn't land Marshall.
Steve Wyche of NFL.com reports that, indeed, the Seahawks are one of the teams to express "preliminary interest" in the veteran wideout.
Wyche reports that "exploratory calls" have been made by the Seahawks at various points of the offseason. It's unclear whether the Seahawks remain interested in the wake of selecting Golden Tate in round two.
Owens reportedly wants $5 million for one year of football, and no one has been willing to meet his demands. At some point, Owens will have to decide whether he wants to play for less than that. Our guess is that if he's going to accept something in the range of the minimum for a 10-plus-year veteran (i.e., $855,000), Owens will be angling for a situation where he believes he'll have greater opportunities -- and a chance to play deep into January, and possibly into February.
The Seahawks currently have 15 receivers on the roster: Tate, Deion Branch, Deon Butler, Patrick Carter, Mike Hass, Kole Heckendorf, T.J. Houshmandzadeh, Victor James, Michael Jones, Ruvell Martin, Marcus Maxwell, Sean Morey, Benjamin Obomanu, Mike Williams, and Reggie Williams.
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Pacman has Grown and Changed???
Bengals cornerback Pacman Jones, back in the NFL after another one-year absence, spoke with the media from the locker room on Wednesday after a Bengals offseason practice.
Maybe we just like a good redemption story, but there seems to be something different about this guy. "I did a lot of soul searching," Jones said of his time away from the game. "Of course you change as you grow. . . . I'm 26 years old now. I can't do the same things I was doing at 21 or I'd be dead or in jail."
But he said he'll continue to have a "swagger" the field. "I'm not talking about a swagger with your pants down or nothing like that," Pacman said. "I'm talking about on the field. If I'm not playing with a swagger on the field I don't think I need to be out there."
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Comments on the bucs from Davin Joseph
Buccaneers right guard Davin Joseph was being rather coy when talking with reporters about himself and about his absence from Monday’s OTA, which is the first organized team activity at One Buccaneer Place this offseason, but wound up talking freely about a multitude of other topics.
First, Joseph danced around the fact that he was in attendance at the team’s facility, but not on the practice field.
“Not this week (laughs). I call it ‘vets week,’” said Joseph. “I had a little clean-up done a little while back, so I’ll be back. I’m not going to get specific.”
Joseph was asked if the clean-up surgery done to his upper body or lower body.
“We’ll go with the lower body region,” said Joseph. “Just some fine-tuning.”
Pewter Report has learned that Joseph is recovering from minor arthroscopic knee surgery, and as it turns out, he’s already recovered from the disappointment of last year’s 3-13 record.
“I would have been miserable if our guys had stopped working,” Joseph said when talking about the 2009 season. “I would have been miserable if our coach had given up on us. I would have been miserable if we had guys trash talking other guys, but we don’t have stuff like that here so, you know – you win some, you lose some. You’ve just got to keep on thinking that there’s going to be a light at the end of the tunnel. We’ll just keep on digging and keep on working hard and trust and believe in what you’re doing and why you’re doing it.”
If it sounds as if Joseph, who is entering his fifth season as the team’s starting right guard, is overly optimistic about the 2010 season, well, he is.
“Of course. We got better throughout the season,” Joseph said, pointing to the team’s 2-1 finish in the last three games of the season. “[Last season] we started kind of high, fell really low and then we worked our way back up. Our special teams really improved. We saw a lot of guys really contribute on special teams and that really helped us. Now having [quarterback Josh] Freeman as a full-time [starter] as quarterback, we know who our quarterback is going to be for the season. The defense is stable. We know who the defensive coordinator’s going to be. The offense is stable. We know who our offensive coordinator’s going to be. So there are a lot of positive changes that will allow us to grow now.”
Joseph, who was Tampa Bay’s first-round pick in 2006, saw the Buccaneers select another Oklahoma product in junior defensive tackle Gerald McCoy with the team’s first-round pick this year. Joseph said that he doesn’t plan on giving any slack to McCoy just because they share the same alma mater.
“Nobody gives anybody slack out here, and of course, the competition is going to be high this year with the two new guys inside coming off of last year,” Joseph said. “It’s going to be some high competition, but it’s going to benefit us in the long run.
“He looked pretty good today. He looked really good. If you are a good defensive tackle, you can play – and he can play. It’s going to take some fine-tuning and some adjustment to the speed of [the NFL].”
In addition to McCoy, the Bucs also added defensive tackle Brian Price to help the D-line and two wide receivers in Arrelious Benn and Mike Williams to help Joseph and the offense.
“There have been some good changes around here,” Joseph said. “After the draft, I feel like we’ve really improved our team. We got a lot of competition in here. That’s going to make everybody better. We just need to make sure everybody understands the playbook on the offense. Raheem is back running the defense for nearly a full year now. Last year we went through our growing pains and we learned a lot. Now we’ve learned enough to take it into this season and be able to benefit from them.”
Last year, Joseph and the offensive line went through the duress of an offensive coordinator and a system change. Jeff Jagodzinski was fired right before the preseason finale and quarterbacks coach Greg Olson was promoted to the role of offensive coordinator and charged with the responsibility of running an offense he was uncomfortable with.
The offensive line had spent the entire offseason losing weight and practicing a new zone-blocking scheme, but after getting limited results in the running game, Olson began to insert more man-blocking schemes and isolation power runs towards the end of 2009. Joseph said that there will be more power runs and iso’s in Olson’s offense in 2010.
“You know, it’s another year of being together, so we should improve.” Joseph said. "Coach [Pete] Mangurian has done a lot. Things are a lot more clean-cut for us, and a lot simpler. Having a solid plan going into the season with is really going to help us a lot – knowing where to be and how to do it. We’re going through all those finer things in the OTAs and our workout days.
“We’ve changed [the scheme], too. Part of it is learning and adjusting. We have to learn to be better players. When you are put in a position where you are trying to figure things out on the run, it caught up with us last season because we changed offensive coordinators. Then you change philosophies and you try to change things week after week after week. It’s different when you have a set plan and you start from March to August and then you just have one week to prepare [for your opponents in the season]. … I hope to get some more inside runs, more iso’s and more power plays. With our backfield it makes sense with Earnest [Graham], Cadillac [Williams] and those guys that can run between the tackles. It makes sense to run those guys between the tackles. Hopefully we can get a change-up guy in here that can give us some outside runs. Of course [Derrick] Ward can do it, but to get a change-up guy would definitely help.”
Joseph said that he will miss right guard Arron Sears, whose recent mental health issues unfortunately undermined his NFL career. Sears was released after the 2010 NFL Draft after missing the entire 2009 season coping with his personal problems.
“He’s a good friend of mine,” Joseph said. “It’s just the NFL. No matter how it happens it always sucks when someone is gone. I hope [he can continue to play in the NFL]. We lost a lot of good guys this year like fullback B.J. [Askew], a guy I really liked. When your time passes, your time passes. [Defensive tackle Chris] Hovan is another guy I would have loved to play with again this year, but when your time passes everybody has to deal with it.”
One player that Joseph will have to wait to some to play with again is left tackle Donald Penn, a restricted free agent who is holding out of the Bucs’ offseason program because he wants a lucrative, long-term contract extension. Joseph is a big fan of Penn’s playing style.
“Oh he did a good job, he did a really good job,” Joseph said. “It’s hard for a left tackle in this league anyways, especially when you switch three quarterbacks and you switch a whole offense. You’ve got two different offenses and you play some tough games, and some tough competition. I thought he did real well. He was given the worst situation you could put a left tackle in.”
While Penn may be holding out of the OTAs and possibly the mandatory mini-camp, Joseph has no doubt that he will not miss the 2010 regular season.
“Penn is a professional,” Joseph said. “He’s going to handle this like he’s supposed to. It is his decision, but he’s a professional. It’s his job, but I believe he’ll be here. It’s all voluntary – but highly recommended.”
Although Joseph wasn’t practicing on Monday, his sweat-soaked shirt was proof that he had just gotten through with a grueling weight-lifting session inside the gym at One Buccaneer Place. As soon as Joseph’s knee is ready to go, his muscular physique will surely follow, as he looks fit and trim.
Last year, Joseph dropped some weight for the rigors of the zone-blocking scheme and played around 305 pounds after years of playing closer to 325 pounds. He intends to add a little bit more size to his playing weight in 2010, but has not gained too much weight this offseason.
“I think we got the same plan as far as weights go, I think we’re just trying to get in better shape, everybody’s just trying to get in better shape,” Joseph said. “We work on our overall conditioning. I’m weighing in about 316 right now. I’ve probably got about another seven or eight pounds to [lose] right now.”
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Wish Gruden would have coached me in highschool :(
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Bucs OTA breakdown
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The NBA will not suspend Orlando's Dwight Howard for Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals between the Magic and Boston Celtics for his flagrant foul in Game 2.
Dwight Howard's takedown of Paul Pierce in Game 2 resulted in a flagrant foul, but not a suspension.
In the second quarter of Game 2, the All-Star center was called for a flagrant foul 1 after swinging his arm so that his elbow swept through the head of the Celtics' Paul Pierce, who tumbled to the floor clutching his head in pain. Both players remained in the game.
The NBA reviews all flagrant foul calls, and officials spent part of Wednesday deciding whether to upgrade Howard's foul to a more serious flagrant 2 or suspend him for Game 3. A league spokesperson said the play will "stand as called."
The NBA has a track record of punishing blows to the head severely. Howard himself was suspended for a first-round playoff game last season against the Philadelphia 76ers after swinging an elbow at the head of Samuel Dalembert.
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Even the Family of Celtics players have no class lol
ORLANDO, FLA. (AP)
The stepfather of Boston Celtics guard Marquis Daniels was arrested and subdued with a stun gun during Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Orlando Magic.
SPORTS by BROOKS
Learn more about this incident and the troubled past of Marquis Daniels' stepfather, Willie L. Buie, from Sports by Brooks.
The Orlando police report shows 55-year-old Willie L. Buie was charged with resisting arrest with violence during Tuesday night's game. Celtics spokesman Jeff Twiss confirmed it was Daniels' stepfather.
Officers responded to a disturbance in a lower-level section during the second half. Police say they tried to escort Buie from his seat, but he refused, using expletives at officers and swinging his arms free.
He eventually was escorted out near a security office but kept his hands under his body to avoid handcuffs. That's when police say an officer used a stun gun on Buie's back for about 5 seconds.
Willie L. Buie.
Orlando Police Dept
The report did not say exactly what prompted officers to remove Buie from his seat. A message seeking comment at the number listed for Buie on the police report was not immediately returned.
Daniels, 29, grew up in the Orlando area. He later went to Auburn and is in his seventh NBA season. Daniels has been used sparingly off the bench against the Magic.
Boston won 95-92 on Tuesday night to take a 2-0 series lead.
The incident is the latest in recent weeks involving police using a stun gun when arresting a fan during a sporting event.
A Philadelphia police officer used a stun gun on a teenager dashing through the outfield during a Phillies game earlier this month. A few days later, a man attending the second round of The Players Championship golf tournament in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., was subdued with a stun gun after he resisted arrest for disorderly intoxication.
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Video of ref joe derosa being a piece of shit to Wyndham Vacation Ownership CEO Franz Hanning.
If you would like to complain to the NBA about him please do so here like i did. http://www.nba.com/email_us/contact_us.html
Tell me if you get the same response.
Thank you for contacting the National Basketball Association with your concerns regarding officiating. The NBA’s highest priority is to ensure that every game is determined on its merits, thus providing its fans with a truly fair and competitive league.
We take seriously the performance of our officials. They are subjected to incredible scrutiny by the league, including tracking every call they make and holding them to the most rigorous standard in all of sports. Not only is their past performance measured, charted, and evaluated, but we employ a system of stringent metrics designed to continually hone their skills and improve their overall ability. We strive to ensure that NBA games are officiated at the highest possible level with the understanding that perfection is an unattainable goal.
Thank you again for your concern. We appreciate your feedback regarding this issue.
Sincerely,
NBA Fan Relations
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Lakers win again!!! GO KOBE!!!! here are the highlights
PS... I HATE EVERYONE ON THE LAKERS...BUT I LOVE KOBE... IF THEY PLAY THESE PIECE OF SHIT CELTICS THEN IM CHEARING FOR THE LAKERS... IT IS WHAT IT IS
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Santana Moss on HGH????
Washington Redskins receiver Santana Moss was among the athletes who received human growth hormone from Canadian doctor Anthony Galea, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
Galea is accused of drug smuggling, conspiracy, lying to federal agents, unlawful distribution of human growth hormone and introducing an unapproved drug into interstate commerce in court papers filed Tuesday in Buffalo.
Moss is rehabilitating his left knee after minor surgery. He would not discuss the matter at Redskins Park on Wednesday.
"I'll talk about football. I don't know about nothing else," Moss told the newspaper. "I ain't got nothing to do with nothing that ain't about me."
Citing unidentified sources close to the case, The Buffalo News reported federal prosecutors do not intend to file criminal charges against Moss or any other athlete with connections to the doctor. That paper's report did not link Moss, 30, to the use of HGH.
Redskins senior vice president Tony Wyllie said, "This is an off-the-field matter. I'm going to refer all questions to his agent, Drew Rosenhaus."
An employee at Rosenhaus' office declined to comment when contacted by the Buffalo paper.
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said Tuesday the league did not know the identities of any of the players listed in the criminal complaint filed Tuesday by the U.S. Attorney's Office.
HGH is among the banned substances in the NFL, though the league doesn't specifically test for it. Players are subject to punishment if they're known to be in violation of the league's drug policy.
“Officials of the NFL and other sports organizations can sleep soundly tonight, because there is nothing he did with these athletes to help them with performance enhancement,” Buffalo lawyer Mark J. Mahoney said of Galea. “(He) strictly provided treatment for injuries. If any athlete got (HGH), it was injected directly into injured tissue, in very small amounts, for purposes of healing.”
Galea has treated Tiger Woods, Alex Rodriguez and other high-profile athletes. A former doctor for the CFL's Toronto Argonauts, Galea is known for using a blood-spinning technique, platelet-rich plasma therapy, designed to speed recovery from injuries.
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