Canadians are having roid rage

Those dastardly Canadians are up to no good. The steroid problem has gotten so bad up there, they've had to suspend an entire football team.

The University of Waterloo Warriors football team will miss the entire 2010-2011 season over steroid violations.

As many as nine potential doping violations were discovered during a mass test of 62 football players from the University of Waterloo, resulting in suspension of the team’s activities for the upcoming season.

In addition, two players from the team received suspensions and a former player faces charges in a police probe into steroid trafficking.

The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport, Canadian Interuniversity Sport and the University of Waterloo held a news conference Monday to announce the findings of a sweeping probe of players in the university’s football program on March 31. More than 80 urine and blood samples were taken, resulting in nine infractions. The test was instituted by the school.

As for the NFL... move along.... nothing to see here. Go make fun of baseball...

Aikman and Bledsoe to the rescue!

The two former pro-bowl quarterbacks have a plan to solve this whole mess in the Gulf of Mexico. Lets hope the oil spill doesn't bring a blindside linebacker up to blitz.

Troy Aikman and Drew Bledsoe, both former Pro Bowl quarterbacks, are part-owners of a new technology that they claim can help clean up the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Their company, Ecosphere, has had meetings with BP. Bledsoe talked about the technology at a recent press conference. From FS Southwest:

According to Bledsoe, Ecosphere would set its filtration systems on barges in the gulf and on beaches to clean the water.

"This is not technology sitting on the shelf waiting for a disaster," Bledsoe said. "This is technology out in the field satisfying contracts for well over a year, so it's proven. ... When you watch it, it is magic seeing dirty, nasty water go in one end and then crystal, clean water out the other end." 

So wait, they have a Brita filter?

Golden Tate had the munchies

Is it wise to have a wide-receiver that likes maple bars this much?

Police were called to Top Pot Doughnuts in Bellevue, Washington, at 3:00 a.m. on Saturday after two men were found entering the store after hours. Turns out new Seahawk Golden Tate just had a case of the munchies.

It seems Tate, who lives in the building above the shop, apparently came home in the wee hours and was overcome by the smell of freshly baked maple bars. It's been well-established that the man lacks all self-control. So he and his buddy just went in and took some. Too bad the store didn't open for another four hours.

I don't know what is more weird, Tate thinking its cool to enter a store after hours or Tate living about a bakery. You decide.

Madden just got awesome

Good God... is that Gus Johnson's music?! It is! The favorite March Madness commentator for CBS has just been signed as the play-by-play guy for Madden 11 - which if you have played the game recently you've noticed the commentary has sucked badly.

Now, get ready for "The runner... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Oh I can't wait.

Today, Johnson, the exciting and excitable CBS sportscaster, officially became the fourth play-by-play man to hold sports gaming's top booth job. Teased at the end of this video a month ago, Johnson's hiring is hardly a shocker, and neither are EA Sports' reasons for grabbing him. After nearly 20 years of often sedate, always straightforward calls by the likes of Pat Summerall and Al Michaels, Madden badly needed the kind of high-five-yourself enthusiasm Johnson imposes on a game.

"Coming out of Madden 10 one of the biggest criticisms was the audio presentation," said Ronnie Morales, an audio designer with EA Sports Tiburon, the studio behind the game. "We felt the game lacked the energy it deserved. Football is a dramatic sport."

The commentary was always something I thought was really cool as a kid but as I grew up I realized it was kind of lame. I mean how many times could you really enjoy John Madden talking about "Stick-em on the wide-recievers hands."

Gus Johnson will be a welcomed adition and hopefully the game comes with a "Gus Johnson head is exploding feature."

NFL Player's career is over after golf cart incident

Well this is more than a little depressing, and it might prevent me from ever going out on a golf course.

As a wildly irresponsible golf-cart driver, this brutal story hits slightly close to home.

Broncos offensive tackle Matt McChesney(notes) was knocking it around the links recently. He stopped and stepped out of his cart, and just as he did, another golf cart zoomed by and rolled over his ankle. The same ankle, unfortunately, that had to be surgically put back together after an injury last season.

There are reports that McChesney's going to retire. Mike Klis of the Denver Post says that while the Broncos want him back, McChesney "appears ready to enter the next phase of his life."

You never know what life's going to throw at you. This guy is 6 feet 4 inches and 307 pounds of gym-sculpted man-beast, and his career may have been ended playing a sport that encourages plaid pants and has only the word "fore" as a safety precaution. I'm sure I'll think of him the next time I have the urge to do something dumb in a golf cart.

Don't you think God could have been more kind and just struck him down dead with lightning?

Tim Tebow can apparently go yard

For all you Denver Broncos fans out there, if the Tebow thing doesn't work out - he could always just go play for the Rockies.

Tebow got in some whacks -- not at the critics who consider Josh McDaniels and the Denver Broncos cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs for trading up to take Tebow in the first round of the NFL Draft.

No, these whacks came at batting practice with the high school kids on the Memphis University School baseball team.

Tebow hit 12 homers on 15 pitches.

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Tebow played high school baseball before giving his heart to Gator football — winning a national championship, along with a Heisman, in the process. I don't know if he could have gone the way of Broncos legend John Elway, who played minor league ball in the Yankees system, but it's a notable near-parallel.

And yet if he did play the grand old game, you have to wonder if we'd be criticizing Tebow's batting stance and swing like we do his throwing motion. 
Well now that you mention it... he could choke up on the bat a little.

Walter Jones, the toughest guy named Walter ever

What do you say about this guy? After he announced he retirement, I felt a tinge of "hey hold on, so we wont get to make the joke about Walter Jones skipping training camp again?"

To his credit, he has a kidney condition that doesn't allow him to take painkillers that are stronger than say Tylenol. Wow. It takes a man to play football like that. And in 13 years of playing tackle for the Seahawks, he was called for holding just nine times. Are you kidding me?

Thank you Walter Jones, you may have the record for "offensive lineman I traded for the most when starting a franchise on Madden". I think Shaq would refer to you as a video game cheat code.


Here is some highlights of Jones. Check out the old school Seahawks jersey in this video too. Classic!

Knowson Moreno is pretty good at basketball

That Knowson Moreno can do more than carry the football for the Denver Broncos.

Even the zoo doesn't like Big Ben

Big Ben doesn't even belong in a zoo, that's how despised he is in Pittsburgh now. A Pitt zoo has removed Ben's images from their displays which is basically the Pennsylvania way of telling you to go eff yourself. Can't wait until he's starting games for Oakland next year.

A life-size image of Roethlisberger has been part of a display that compares the height of elephants to other creatures. But the facility is having a new sign made that will replace Roethlisberger's image with one of former Pittsburgh Penguins star and team owner Mario Lemieux.

"Mr. Roethlisberger isn't the most popular person lately," Tracy Gray, the zoo's manager of public and media relations, said.

Well I mean they still called him Mr. Roethlisberger. That's got to count for something right? I'm wondering if the zoo was worried that the Big Ben displays would try and have their way with the Zebras.

Happy Draft Day Seahawks fans!

Just so you can relive the past, check out this little story about Rick Mirer's rookie card.


The photo team at Pro Line was excited when Rick Mirer asked if he could bring his motorcycle to his shoot in 1993 — at least, until Mirer showed up. The rookie QB rolled into the studio's parking lot on the Harley he had purchased with his signing bonus, wearing the free Seahawks leather jacket that came with the bike, a pair of mom jeans, prescription round-lensed sunglasses and his football helmet. Knowing that a photo of any man dressed like this should never see the light of day, the Pro Line photographer did the only thing he could: He conducted the shoot inside a dark, windowless warehouse on the outskirts of the Emerald City.

Seahawks schedule released

The NFL released it's schedule this year and Seattle will have to travel 23,122 miles, including one trip to the east coast. Here's

  1) Sunday, Sept. 12,       49ers at Seahawks,             1:15 pm, FOX
  2) Sunday, Sept. 19,       Seahawks at Broncos,           1:05 pm, FOX
  3) Sunday, Sept. 26,       Chargers at Seahawks,       1:15 pm, CBS
  4) Sunday,  Oct.   3,        Seahawks at Rams,             10:00 am, FOX
  5) Sunday,  Oct. 10,                      BYE
  6) Sunday,  Oct. 17,        Seeahawks at Bears,           10:00 am, FOX
  7) Sunday,  Oct. 24,        Cardinals at Seahawks,     1:05 pm, FOX
  8) Sunday,  Oct. 31,        Seahawks at Raiders,           1:15 pm, FOX
  9) Sunday,  Nov.   7,        Giants at Seahawks,          1:05 pm, FOX
10) Sunday,  Nov. 14,        Seahawks at Cardinals,         1:15 pm, FOX
11) Sunday,  Nov. 21         Seahawks at Saints,              1:05 pm, FOX
12) Sunday,  Nov. 28,        Chiefs at Seahawks,            1:05 pm, CBS
13) Sunday, Dec.   5,         Panthers at Seahawks,        1:15 pm, FOX
14) Sunday, Dec. 12,         Seahawks at 49ers                1:05 pm, FOX
15) Sunday, Dec. 19,         Falcons at Seahawks,          1:05 pm, FOX
16) Sunday, Dec. 26,         Seahawks at Buccaneers,      10:00 am, FOX
17) Sunday, Jan    2,          Rams at Seahawks,              1:15 pm, FOX

So now the challenge becomes... where do you pencil the wins at?

These guys again?

Didn't Donovan McNabb and TO end up hating one another in Philly? Don't we remember the wide receiver working on his biceps in his driveway in front of a national audience? And now McNabb wants to play with TO again?

What the heck!?!?!

The difference between Tiger and Big Ben

Not that I condone either's actions, I do find it interesting how everyone is reacting to the Ben Roethlisberger and Tiger Woods "sex scandals" in the past few months. One is the most famous athlete in the world, did something completely legal but immoral and is ripped apart by the media for it. The other hasn't been officially charged for anything but it's quite clear that his actions towards women have been very inappropriate for somebody of his stature (or any stature for that manner).

Yet, if you're keeping score at home, Tiger Woods has been ran through the ringer much more than Big Ben. The Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback has had his fare share of flack from the media but the only endorsement he's lost is for some crappy beef jerky. And nobody is demanding public apologies from Big Ben, or trying to determine how his actions directly affect their being - whereas everyone was proclaiming how much Tigers' actions affected the deep reaches of their soul.

Also how many awkward press conferences have we had to watch where Ben apologizes to his mother?

I know that Tiger Woods isn't any saint, but he didn't do anything nearly as atrocious as Big Ben was rumored to have done. If you want to boil down the quarterback's actions to a horribly watered down and inaccurate "taking advantage" of women (Which is crap, the dude is a creep and a bastard, but that's just my thought), that's still one-hundred times worse than Tiger Woods cheating on his wife with lots of women.

In Tiger's case, everybody did what they did on their own free will. And frankly, it's not really our business, even if Tiger is a big name. However, Big Ben is obviously forcing his will on other people. Yet Tiger gets the brunt of this media explosion.

I know that he hasn't been convicted, but there are so many instances surrounding this quarterback, you have to reaaaaalllyyy wonder what he's doing. When there is smoke, there is fire. Simple as that.

Tiger? Sure he's a bad husband, but he's not nearly as bad a guy as Big Ben and I dont think he should even be put on that same level as Ben.

What Tiger did was a mistake, what Ben did was a crime. Or many crimes.

Jeans from Brett Favre

I'm sure they would have prefered to have their quarterback in camp, but whatev. Brett Favre is such a swell guy he got his teammates... Wranglers. Oh goodie.

All Vikings who showed up to the team's offseason conditioning program -- obviously, this wouldn't include Favre -- got a pair of Wrangler jeans, courtesy of number four. No word on whether the jeans were cowboy cut or relaxed fit.

Aren't these like 15 dollar jeans? Wow, I'm sure professional athletes will love that gesture.

Reggie Williams

As you know, Reggie Williams is back in camp with the Seattle Seahawks. Here is a little nugget, producer Danny (on the far right) with Williams (in the center).

Ryan Leaf continues to fall apart

Everybody thought Ryan Leaf had settled down after being one of the biggest busts in NFL history. He had a coaching job at West Texas A&M. He had put pro football behind him. Things were good right?

Nope, apparently he was addicted to pain meds and has since been sentanced to 10 years probation.

AMARILLO, Texas (AP)—Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf has been sentenced to 10 years of probation after pleading guilty to eight felony drug charges in Texas.

State District Judge John B. Board sentenced Leaf on Wednesday in Amarillo. Leaf also was fined $20,000. He pleaded guilty to seven counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and one count of delivery of a simulated controlled substance.

Speaking to reporters after the hearing, Leaf said he knew he “had a problem” even as he continued to use prescription pain medication.

I have a feeling that the Ryan Leaf SportsCentury may have been the greatest hour in ESPN history if they had kept doing that show.

LeRoy Hill: Model Citizen

At this point, I think we can officially say that LeRoy Hill has some off-the-field issues.

SEATTLE (AP)—Seattle Seahawks starting linebacker Leroy Hill(notes) was arrested for investigation of domestic violence in the Seattle suburb of Issaquah over the weekend, just days after reaching a plea deal on a marijuana charge in Georgia.


Hill was arrested by Issaquah police and booked into that city’s jail early Sunday for investigation of assault in the fourth degree/domestic violence.

According to a release from Issaquah police, officers responded to a complaint of a domestic dispute late Saturday night at the Hill residence. Officers determined there had been a dispute between Hill and his girlfriend.

Note to professional football players, when you get in trouble with the law, you shouldn't turn around and get in trouble with the law again. That causes issues. That means you have a reputation. But knowing the Seahawks, they'll probably make him team captain.

Goodbye, Texas Stadium

I'm sure more than a few of you loved to see Texas Stadium bite the dust...

(Fast forward to about the final quarter of the video, that's when the fireworks happen)

Yeah that McNabb guy never did anything for Philadelphia

Donovan McNabb is now a Washington Redskin. Hey Eagle fans... remember this?

NFL prospects and high on the draft list

Apparently a lot of prospective NFL players like their greens, and we're not talking about vegetables.

According to one veteran club personnel man, 10 or 11 players who carry first-round draft grades on their board this year have been red-flagged for marijuana use in college, an estimate echoed by two clubs' head coaches.

Now this probably isn't a character issue. Trying not to be the moralist here, plenty of people smoke pot and their alright people, however when you work in the NFL and you get caught, you're gone for four games. That's a big concern for teams when you're investing millions of dollars into them.

Smoke if you got them?