Workout Innovator Brings His Positive Message To Chicago.
Let's just say Charles Barkley probably won't be filming any promotional spots for Australian Rules Football anytime soon.
"I don't want to insult the Australians," Barkley told ESPN Radio in Dallas after taking in a recent game Down Under, "[but] I am like, 'These guys are some damn idiots.' ...
"Nobody plays football without pads every week for three, four or five months and don't make any money. At least in the NFL, you are going to kill yourself and ... you get to be a millionaire after it's over."
Headlines
• At SportsPickle.com: "Jim Zorn catches Mike Shanahan sizing up his office."
• At TheOnion.com: "Defense drawn offsides by sexy-smelling quarterback."
Whitewashed
"Only three major-league franchises have never been to a World Series," it was noted at PoorKenneth.com. "Washington Senators/Texas Rangers (49 seasons) ... Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals (41 seasons) ... Seattle (Washington) Mariners (33 seasons) ...
"What is it with franchises related to Washington?"
Hardhat area
According to the latest Department of Labor statistics, the nation's most dangerous job is:
a) logger.
b) commercial fisherman.
c) Oakland Raiders assistant coach.
Pass the Coppertone
Yes, that was Phillies outfielder Matt Stairs — from St. John, New Brunswick — wearing short sleeves in Denver's mid-30s temperatures during workouts before playoff games against the Rockies.
"Nothing big," he told the Denver Post. "In Canada, this is lukewarm."
Rush to judgment
The statement "This is about the future of the United States of America and what kind of country we're going to have" was uttered by:
• Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, after he was dropped as a potential St. Louis Rams minority owner.
• Eric "Otter" Stratton, to the Faber College Inter Fraternity Council in "Animal House," during hearings to revoke the Deltas' charter.
Dateline: D.C.
News flash: Ex-Redskins running back John Riggins says Jim Zorn is not NFL head-coaching material but vehemently denies ever saying, "Loosen up, Jimmy baby."
Talking the talk
• Brooks Melchior of SportsByBrooks.com, on the Redskins accounting for both wins in their past four opponents' 2-17 record: "If this were college basketball, their RPI would be terrible. They'd be the Arkansas-Pine Bluff of the NFL."
• Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels, to AP, on leaving Game 2 of the NLDS in the front seat of a squad car to head for the hospital and the birth of his first child: "Best cop ride I had ever been a part of when I wasn't in the back."
• Exercise guru Jack LaLanne, 95, to the San Francisco Chronicle's Scott Ostler, after Ostler told him his mother watched LaLanne's TV show daily during the 1950s: "I spent a lot of time on the floor with your mother."
Splitting a pair
Dodgers owner Frank McCourt and his wife Jamie have separated, they announced on the eve of the National League Championship Series.
She's reportedly demanding the stadium and sole custody of the rookies.
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