Serious question - is this chick really Tim Tebow's girlfriend?...there is another photo of her with Tebow...but you know how things get on the internet - sometimes people make shit up...I'd appreciate if someone can respond to my question...whether she is or she isn't, the fact is that this chick has incredible gallon cans...there is no doubt this poor girl suffers from severe back pain after lugging those jugs around all day...
Coming next week, "Five Good Questions . . . " segment is coming back...on Monday, I will have my interview with Jonathan Okanes from The Oakland Tribune as he discusses Cal running back Jahvid Best....on Tuesday, Pat Dooley from the Gainesville Sun responds to questions about Florida All-American and all-around quarterback Tim Tebow...
July 2 is the first day that Major League Baseball teams can sign international players...the top player this year is the 16-year-old Dominican shortstop Miguel Angel Sano...it has been reported that the Pittsburgh Pirates are ready to offer Sano a $3 million signing bonus...
Last year the Oakland A's set the standard by giving a $4.25 million bonus to Michael Ynoa (Inoa)...so what has Inoa been up to in the minors?...
First off, there is some confusion with his name...his real name is Michel Ynoa, but the Athletics "Americanized" his first name to be Michael...as far as his last name goes...through a mix-up or just plain poor hand writing, the press reported that his name began with an "I"...but this past February Ynoa got it straightened out...
Ynoa is a 6'7", 17-year-old pitcher from the Dominican Republic...Ynoa was being offered by the Texas Rangers, Cincinnati Reds, and New York Yankees...however he signed with the Athletics, even though they offered him less money, because of how they handle pitchers...
The Washington Nationals should be aware of Ynoa before they cave into the ridiculous demands of supposed pitching phenom Stephen Strasberg...this past week the Athletics shut down Ynoa indefinitely after he complained of elbow soreness...Ynoa had been doing a throwing program at the Athletics minor-league complex in Phoenix...the team was hoping he would pitch in the Arizona Rookie League this summer...
The Athletics were hoping Ynoa would be able to pitch in the Majors in 2011...
Ed Zieralski of the San Diego Union-Tribune writes about a fisherman who caught a 361.8 pound yellowfin tuna, but still fell short of breaking the world tuna record... "“Four hundred, 400, 400,” Ashford yelled, leading a crowd chant and holding four fingers aloft for the crowd to see. They chanted with him and cheered as Cates hoisted the yellowfin onto the digital scale. But as happens far too often with these big tuna, the catch didn't come close to expectations. Once up on the scale, it settled at 361.8 pounds, nearly 27 pounds shy of Wiesenhutter's all-tackle record." ... Ed Zieralski
You've heard of spelling bees, hot dog eating contests, but now you can add texting contests...yep, I found an article in the Gainesville newspaper about some kid who is competing at Madison Square Garden in the third annual LG U.S. National Texting Championship...what has this world come to?... Tatiana Gonzalez
I was reading through The New York Times from about two weeks ago when I came across an interesting fact...
There have only been two 20-game winning pitchers in NCAA history...the first was Derek Tatsuno (photo, right) of the 1979 Hawaii Rainbows who went 20-1 with a 1.86 ERA...in his 3 years at Hawaii he posted a 40-6 mark with 541 strikeouts...however, many of those strikeouts came against lower echelon competition such as DeVry Institute and Whittier College...he was a 1st round pick of the Milwaukee Brewers in the January 1982 regular phase draft...Tatsuno never made it to The Show...in 1982 he played for the Brewers' AA affiliate, the El Paso Diablos of the Texas League, going 7-2 with a 6.42 ERA and walking more than a batter an inning...he bounced around the minors until 1987...
Richard W. Johnston of Sports Illustrated did a feature story on Tatsuno in the April 30, 1979 edition of the magazine... Richard W. Johnston articleThe other 20-game winner was Mike Loynd of the 1986 Florida State Seminoles
who went 20-3 with a 2.45 ERA...Loynd was a college stud as he was named the winner of the 1986 Golden Spikes Award which is the Heisman Trophy of college baseball...Loynd helped Florida State get to the College World Series...he was drafted by the Texas Rangers and was called up to the big leagues in less than two months...with the Rangers in a pennant race, Bobby Valentine gave the ball to Loynd as he won his first start 6-3 over the Cleveland Indians...
Loynd started his career 2-0 which would be his only highlight...soon thereafter, he began to struggle and within two years he found himself traded to the Houston Astros...he spent the next seven seasons in the minor league organizations of the Astros, Toronto Blue Jays, St. Louis Cardinals and Atlanta Braves before ending his career with the West Palm Beach Expos of the Florida State League in 1994...Loynd finished his brief career with a 3-7 mark and 2 saves...
Terry Pluto of The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer writes about former Plain Dealer sports reporter Bill Nichols (photo, right) who died on Saturday... "Nichols spent 30 years at The Plain Dealer. He had some heart problems, but was well enough to have lunch with former Plain Dealer writers Eddie Dwyer and Dick Zunt on Friday at the Hometown Buffet in Parma. He died early Saturday morning at his home in Rocky River." ... Terry Pluto
As the Washington Nationals sweat it out in dealing with first pick Stephen Strasberg and his agent Scott Boras, they quietly signed their other first round pick Drew Storen to a $1.6 million signing bonus...
Storen was selected just nine picks after Strasberg...the 6'2" righthanded pitcher from Stanford went 7-1 with seven saves and a 3.80 ERA in 28 appearances for the Cardinal...in 42 2/3 innings of relief work, he tallied 66 strikeouts (13.9 strikeouts per nine innings) in his two years at Stanford, Storen had a combined 12-4 mark with 15 saves and a 3.64 ERA in 59 appearances...
Storen will start his professional career at Class A Hagerstown and wear No. 26...he is being groomed to be a closer...
Gerry Dulac of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writes an in-depth story on Pittsburgh native and new Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari... "At age 50, he has ascended to the one program he long desired to oversee, a program whose fan base encompasses the entire state, border to border, and whose passion runs deeper than perhaps any other college sports program in the country. Kentucky is to college basketball what Notre Dame is to college football -- storied, tradition-rich, mystical. Or, as Calipari said, "Always one season away from where you were." ... Gerry Dulac
CHAMPION AGAIN
Mike Wise of The Washington Post writes how Jeanie Buss is the one responsible for bringing the Lakers on the brink of another NBA title... "Wait. So, if Phil wasn't in love with Jeanie Buss, the daughter of owner Jerry Buss, a Lakers executive and one half of America's most powerful sporting couple, there is no Siddhartha presence in the locker room? No closing in on a 10th NBA coaching title -- one more than Auerbach's nine with the Boston Celtics?" ...
Mike Wise
Yesterday I ran a photo of a chick with some huge cans who I thought was Tim Tebow's girlfriend...G$ from The Money Shot straightened my ass out by correctly stating this chick was (and this is a direct quote), ". . . British whore, Lucy Pinder."
