Juiced Sports Blog*: Writing Enhanced by Flaxseed Juiced Sports Blog*: Writing Enhanced by Flaxseed Edgy and humorous takes on sports news, plus three weekly columns. Also includes interviews with athletes. Desmond Clark told us he wanted more passes because he was good enough to catch 80. Articles
Rick Reilly Leaves SI For ESPN
2007-10-23 02:23:00 Mitchell Blatt Media's Reaction? "Totally Fabricated Piece of Crap From The Big Lead.com." As Rick Reilly became more and more self-promoting and his columns began to lose their luster, it was bound to happen. ESPN has announced today that they signed him away from Sports Illustrated. The move is not official until June of 2008. The Big Lead.com was one of the first sources reporting it as More About: Leaves , Aves , Espn
Fake Bulletin Board Quote Defeats Indians
2007-10-22 06:42:00 Mitchell Blatt Manny Regained Motivation After Reading Garko's Editted Game 5 Quote After the Indians lost Game Five and had to go back to Boston, Indians first basemen Ryan Garko made a startling revalation, "The champagne tastes just as good on the road as it does at home." That alone doesn't suffice for bulletin board material, so the Red Sox editted it to have him say, "I can't wait to More About: Board , Fake , Bulletin , Bulletin Board
Hey Stoopid!: Does Hoynes Know How to Read?
2007-10-21 16:42:00 Mitchell Blatt Plain Dealer Baseball Editor is Illiterate; Eric Snow Selfish for Not Retiring Eric Snow won't retire: Hey, Branson: "Do you think that Eric Snow might retire to free up cap space?"-Betty, Cleveland I'm sure it's flattering to Snow to hear your opinion on him. You're right that the Cavs might be better off without him, but I think the Cleveland Plain Dealer needs to have Paul More About: Read
Sorry, HBO, Boxing is Dead
2007-10-20 16:46:00 Mitchell Blatt And It's Only On Pay-Per-View For That Mater... The week of October 8, Sports Illustrated did their obligatory strory on how utterly lifeless boxing is, with the Pavlik vs. Taylor fight coming up. (Those guys are boxers, just so you know.) Ross Greenburg, president of HBO Sports, the only network that broadcasts boxing, sent a letter in that was published this week, saying that More About: Boxing , Dead , Sorry
Guy Who Designed Ravens Logo Didn't Get Money
2007-10-19 01:56:00 Mitchell Blatt Suing 200+ Companies Along With the Ravens Doesn't Help The legal battle of Frederick E. Bouchat v. Everyone Who Ever Used the Ravens Logo in Any Capacity was decided yesterday. Bouchat lost. Frederick E. Bouchat, the security guard who originally designed what became the Ravens' original 1995 logo, has been fighting the Ravens and others for a few years, for proceeds from More About: Money
How Manny Celebrates Losing Game 4 of the ALCS
2007-10-18 02:46:00 Score after Manny 's homer: Red Sox: 3, Indians: 7 Mitchell Blatt Sox Down 3-1, but "Who Cares?" Everyone knows Manny Ramirez is a classless showboater, but did he really need to celebrate his homerun that put the Red Sox within 4 like this? (Why yes, he did, or else what would I have to write about?) It was in the sixth inning of the Indians Game 4 ALCS win, and it was the Red Sox third
Sports Road Trip: Phoenix
2007-10-17 02:40:00 Sports Brethren blogger, Panther Superfan Jerry, is greated at University of Pheonix Stadium. Guest Post: The Sports Brethren How Can a Stadium be Named After an Online University? For all intents and purposes, this was my first time in Phoenix ; it was resplendent with potential. Entering from the West on the freeway you can make out the University of Phoenix Stadium just north of town. It More About: Sports , Trip , Road Trip , Road
A Super Bowl in London?
2007-10-16 04:48:00 Mitchell Blatt Un-American Commissioner Goodell Should be Sent to Guantanamo Bay Recently, Barrack Obama came under fire for not wearing his American flag lapel, as some in the media found it's absense unpatriotic. Not that it is a big deal. He stopped wearing it a few years ago, not last week. What is unpatriotic is what Roger Goodell said yesterday: "There's a great deal of interest in More About: London , Super Bowl , Super , Bowl
South Florida Playing in the BCS Championship Game?
2007-10-15 15:25:00 Mitchell Blatt Nothing wrong with South Florida Going for the Title if Playoffs Decided That, Not a Computer The first BCS Standings were released yesterday and South Florida was #2. (Complete BCS Standings) South Florida has surprised the nation, going 6-0 so far, including wins over West Virginia and Auburn, but I don't want to see them take an outright bid to the title game based on that More About: Championship , Game
Donyell Marshall Interview
2007-10-14 11:00:00 Mitchell Blatt Donyell Marshall's Predictions Came True This is the last day of my exile from blogdom. With the NBA season coming up, I have decided to feature my 2006 interview with Donyell Marshall today. I will likely have an interview with Emeka Okafor up soon. September, 2006 His Thoughts on Sprewell's Choking of Coach PJ in Golden State? Why Was He Traded 40 Games More About: Interview
A Look Back at 1979
2007-10-12 04:02:00 Mitchell Blatt I'm on vacation until Monday, so I'm reposting some of my greatest hits. Think Gatorade Would Sell Today With This Ad? Click "Read More!" for more pictures of geeky white guys with short shorts and shaved legs drinking from glass bottles of gatorade... T.O. on Roger Staubach: "All I'm saying is if it looks like Garcia, and it smells like Garcia..." At least his legs aren't More About: Back
International Olympic Committee: An Example of What MLB Shouldn't Be
2007-10-11 04:39:00 Mitchell Blatt IOC Taking Away Jones' Teammates' Medals is Over the Top In the same season that Barry Bonds broke the MLB home run record by using steroids, sprinter Marion Jones finally admitted to steroid use after years of suspicion. Bonds' punishment? His home run ball will be displayed in the MLB Hall of Fame with an asterisk on it. Jones'? She had to return all of her medals and had More About: International , Olympic , Committee , Mitt , Mitte
Mark Mangino Looks Like Danny DeVito
2007-10-10 14:27:00 Mitchell Blatt Fat Coach? Cliche. Fat Coach Who Looks Like Danny DeVito? Funny. Mark Mangino putting the hit on this ref after he made a bad call. What do you think? Post your opinion in the comment section. Sign Up To Recieve Free Unpublished Content.
Joe Torre's Imminent Firing
2007-10-09 04:18:00 Mitchell Blatt Torre Can't Win in the Playoffs? Neither Could Shottenheimer. You've probably seen this quote too many times by now, but here, for any of you who haven't taken a glance at the sports section or turned on ESPN in the last few days, is George Steinbrenner's quote regarding Joe Torre's future: "His job is on the line. I think we're paying him a lot of money ($7 million). He's the
Pacman Jones: What Exactly Has He Done?
2007-10-08 03:16:00 Mitchell Blatt "Enough to be Reinstated." Pacman Jones wants you to know that he is now a model citizen. So much so that he wants to be reinstated by the NFL early. He is going to meet with Commissioner Goodell later this month to try to get reinstated after 10 games on November 19. Why should he be reinstated early? Well, because he's done enough: "I think I did enough. I did pretty More About: Pacman Jones , Done
Hey Stoopid: Yankees Edition
2007-10-07 15:56:00 Mitchell Blatt Bug Spray Doesn't Work on Midges Before midges made their appearance at Jacobs Field Friday night, they had already been feared in Scotlands. The Scots knew what the Yankees didn't: that bug spray doesn't work on midges. You need women's skin cream to combat them. For years, midges have wreaked havoc on Scotland, though their midges are biting midges and most of ours are not More About: Edition
LeBron James: Like a Nazi in a Temple
2007-10-05 23:37:00 Mitchell Blatt More Angry Reactions Against LeBron for Killing the Jews Selling Drugs Soliciting Gay Sex in a Bathroom Wearing a Yankees Hat LeBron James went down to Jacobs Field on Thursday night doing nothing more than wearing a Yankees hat, just like the throngs of New Yorkers who usually converge on Jacobs Field when the Yankees come to play. Because the Indians have such good fans, they More About: Temple , Lebron James , Nazi , Temp
Baseball Caps Are Causing Problems For The Cavs
2007-10-05 02:48:00 Mitchell Blatt LeBron Wear's Yankees Hat; Local Media Goes Ballistic Just last night, guard Shannon Brown was assaulted by a club bouncer for wearing a hat to a club. In an unrelated story, LeBron James has been criticized his entire career for wearing Yankees hats. The criticism was ratcheted up recently because LeBron said in an interview that he wanted the Yankees to win the world series. More About: Baseball , Problems
Read Mark Cuban's Blog Then Vote For Him on DWTS
2007-10-04 03:59:00 Mitchell Blatt Interested In Self-Promotional Reality TV Posts? Blog Maverick is The Place I like Mark Cuban, and I like his blog, but I hate Dancing With the Stars. So that's the main reason why I am saying that Mark Cuban's blog has become a self-promotional wasteland these past few weeks. Ever since took the role of "sports dude who can't dance but will go shockingly far in the More About: Read , Vote , Then
Bring on October: NL Playoffs
2007-10-03 21:09:00 Scott Jacobs Playoffs shaping up to be the best in years! You excited? Because I sure as hell am. I am so amped for these playoffs it would be doing a disservice not to throw out some random predictions. Afterall, if we've learned anything at all from this season, it's to love thy underdog, relish thy comeback, and expect the unexpected. Let's do this thing! ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS What we More About: October
College Football At It's Best
2007-10-03 04:15:00 Guest Blog: The Sports Diva Upset? I'm Not! Counterpoint:Don't Discount the Losers "You play to win the game!"-Herm Edwards This weekend in college football was fabulous. Just fabulous. Of course I can say this being that Ohio State won their game. We'll get into that win later. We had loses from No. 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 13, and 21. That's mighty Oklahoma, Defending champs Florida (Hey Urban, More About: College , Football , College Football , Coll
Ricky's Return?
2007-10-02 04:14:00 Mitchell Blatt Trying to Play NFL Ball After Losing the CFL Rushing Title by 1083 Yards Ricky Williams has applied to be reinstated to the National Football League. All marijuana jokes aside, the funniest thing about this is that his agent is talking up how durable Ricky is. "He hasn't taken the wear and tear on his body in the last couple years. He's a physical specimen and he's got the More About: Return , Icky
Top 100 Most Influential Sports Bloggers
2007-10-01 04:57:00 Mitchell Blatt Leitch Takes First, See Where The Rest Rank Juiced Sports has decided to profile and rank the big names in sports blogging. Who gets the most hits? Who gets the most attention? Whose opinion matters most? We rank the top 100. 1.) Will Leitch, Deadspin He's the editor of Deadspin, the most popular independent sports blog on the web. It received 7 million pageviews in More About: Bloggers , Ports
Hey Stoopid!
2007-09-30 15:18:00 Mitchell Blatt Hey Ecko: Can I Please Buy Your Balls? Pleeeeaaaase? Hey Tony: Why doesn't Romeo Crennel try Josh Cribbs at cornerback? He did it with Troy Brown in New England...-Dan, Brooklyn, OH Hey Stoopid: Crennel isn't that bad of a coach... He played Brown at CB for a few games one year because the Patriot were severely depleted by injury. Cribbs is an athletic player and a good
Evaluating the Big Stories of the Summer
2007-09-29 16:17:00 Mitchell Blatt Michael Vick Commanded the Most Hype All Summer We have to say goodbye to the summer, now. Most people already have, but here at Juiced Sports Blog, we were holding on until the end of the baseball season. That's how desperate we were. But, now it's gone. And what a summer it was. Barry Bonds, Michael Vick, Tim Donaghy... We decided to investigate what stories have More About: Stories
Who Needs October...
2007-09-28 22:47:00 When the best baseball races I've ever seen are happening in... September? Scott Jacobs National League an awesome race Lions and Tigers and Bears o my! I mean what a race. D-Backs, Mets, Rockies, Padres, Cubs, Brewers, Phillies... how fun is this? I mean, who cares if the League is completely inconsistent. It is one heck of a race. And I for one can't wait for everything to unfold. More About: October , Needs
Lazy Friday
2007-09-28 13:23:00 Mitchell Blatt Hey, I Did Get Interviewed Last Night Nothing new to tell you in sports news other than the fact that Michael Vick tested positive for drugs (so shocking!) The big news in the sports world is that I did my first interview. Here it is from Browie's Blog. I'm planning on doing more interviews in the future, so if you want publicity for your site, nothing better than getting a More About: Friday , Lazy
YELLOWCARD COMPLETE INTERVIEW
2007-09-27 03:20:00 Mitchell Blatt Ryan Mendez: "In the Past, Yello wcard Felt Pressure to Avoid the Pop Punk Label." Outside of this blog, I write as a music critic. I interviewed Yellowcard's newest member Ryan Mendez. Yellowcard, multiplatinum pop punk band, is promoting their new album Paper Walls. Yesterday, I featured his comments on sports. Here's the whole thing. Mitchell Blatt: What do you think More About: Interview , Complete
BONDS' HR BALL WILL BE DISPLAYED IN COOPERSTOWN WITH ASTERISK
2007-09-26 21:28:00 Mitchell Blatt Branding the Ball Won Ecko's Vote, Cooperstown Says They Will Accept It Barry Bonds thinks Mark Ecko is an idiot. Most sports fans who know him like him. He's the guy who bought Bonds' record-setting home run ball and put it's fate up to an online vote. After 10 million votes, the results are in. The ball will be branded with an asterisk and sent to Cooperstown. Baseball More About: Asterisk , Aster
DO MUSICIANS KNOW SPORTS? YELLOWCARD DOES.
More articles from this author:2007-09-26 12:19:00 Mitchell Blatt Yello wcard 's Ryan Mendez Shows His Knowledge As my latest interview as a music critic, I spoke with multiplatinum pop punk success Yellowcard. Yellowcard's hit the scene in 2003 with Ocean Avenue. Lights and Sounds in 2006 wasn't as successful, but then they added Ryan Mendez to guitar and released Paper Walls last summer. He's a big sports fan, hockey in particular, and More About: Sports , Musicians , Ports 1, 2, 3 |
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