Sports Moron of the Week

[Hooch]

Maybe the new CBA should include forbidding any player under contract with an NFL team to have a twitter account.

[Speng]

Ray Lewis Makes Controversial Comments About NFL Lockout

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2011/05/23...l-lockout/

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Controversial comments. Ravens star Ray Lewis issues a stern warning. He says if there is no football, crime will increase across the country.

As Kai Jackson explains, not everyone agrees.

Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis is known for speaking his mind and that’s exactly what he did when ESPN’s Sal Paolantonio asked Lewis about the NFL lockout.

“We really gotta remove pride, seriously. There’s no other reason the issue’s going on,” he said.

Perhaps his most controversial statement was about the possibility of no NFL season. Lewis painted a grim picture across America of people without jobs and nothing to do on Sundays.

“Do this research. If we don’t have a season, watch how much evil, which we call it crime, watch how much crime picks up when you take away our game,” he said.

“I would hope that it would not increase crime without football. Baltimore is a place where we do have other things for people to enjoy,” said Baltimore City Councilwoman Helen Holton.

Another city councilman says if Ray Lewis is that concerned about the possibility of crime increasing, he should do something about it. He issued a challenge to the linebacker.

“Well, Ray…that’s pretty irresponsible. If you really feel that way, then come on down. We could use your help,” said Councilman Jim Kraft.

All council members agree that the NFL lockout will have a detrimental financial impact in Baltimore and other cities with NFL teams.

[3daddict]

Ray Lewis Makes Controversial Comments About NFL Lockout

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2011/05/23...l-lockout/

I feel Ray has right to his opinion. It sounds to me like he thinks that pride (money) is mainly driving the lock-out (can't fault him for that), and the lack of work for many could cause some to look at non-traditional way of earning income. Why can't people voice unpopular or difficult opinions? The status quo sucks.

[Securb]

Plax must have DeMarcus Russell as a financial adviser

http://cdn.mediatakeout.com/49060/nfl_st...ybach.html

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Canada

[Speng]

Canada

'nuff said, what a bunch of idiots.

[Speng]

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[Hooch]

Auburn oaks still hanging on, fate uncertain

AUBURN, Ala. (AP)—The ailing oaks at Toomer’s Corner are a mottled mix of yellow and brown these days, but experts say there’s still a chance the trees will be in good enough shape for Auburn football fans to roll them with toilet paper after wins this fall.

It’s been about five months since school officials confirmed that the famous trees had been poisoned, and fan of archrival Alabama is now awaiting trial in the attack. Emergency procedures that included removing poisoned dirt around the trees’ roots have helped them survive this long.

Auburn University horticulturist Gary Keever said no one is sure yet whether the trees will live or die. Fans have celebrated wins under the trees since at least the early 1970s.
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“I don’t want to give a sense of false hope, but we’re not ready to say they’re definitely not going to make it,” said Keever, part of a team of experts monitoring the health of the trees and trying to save them.

It was in February—not long after Auburn won the national championship— that university officials said someone deliberately poisoned the stately oaks at an entrance to campus. They took soil samples after a man called into a radio show in late January to say he had used herbicide on the trees that flank red-brick pillars topped by stone eagles.

Harvey Updyke Jr.—a 62-year-old `Bama fan with children named Bear and Crimson Tyde—was indicted on charges including criminal mischief and desecration of a venerated object. Updyke pleaded not guilty, and his trial isn’t likely to begin before football season.

Trying to kill trees is dumb enough, but the bolded part is douchey to the tenth power.

[Speng]

Trying to kill trees is dumb enough, but the bolded part is douchey to the tenth power.

He was dumb enough to call in to a radio station to brag about it, then he pleads not gulity...words escape me.

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Since completing a one-year suspension for multiple brushes with the law, cornerback Pacman Jones largely has stayed out of trouble. But for a minor incident with the man hired to babysit him in Big D (which got him suspended again but not arrested) and a case of mistaken identity during the 2010 season, Pacman has not been back in trouble.

Until now.

The folks at WLWT report that Jones, who now plays for the Bengals, was arrested early Sunday at a Cincinnati bar.

He reportedly was intoxicated and disruptive. He allegedly got into an argument, and he allegedly was uncooperative when asked to leave.

As Jones was being arrested, he reportedly struggled to get out of the handcuffs. Ultimately, two officers were required to restrain him.

With the league taking the position (ridiculous as it may be) that the personal conduct policy applies even though the players are currently locked out, it’ll be interesting to see how Pacman’s latest legal entanglement impact his career, given his history.