Month: September 2007
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Where's a Pirate when you need 'em??
Female ninjas robbing gas stations. I guess real ultimate power requires less than $50 and some Slim Jims.
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Decide the Fate of 756
Vote for great justice. Mark Ecko is apparently the buyer of Barry Bonds 756th home run ball. He has given we, the people, three choices for the ball’s ultimate fate: give it to Cooperstown as-is, brand it with an asterisk and THEN give it to the Hall, or shoot it into space. I’m voting brand…
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Russia Builds 'Most Powerful' Non-Nuclear Bomb; Claims it Doesn't Hurt Environment
The Russians claim it is equivalent to 44 tons of TNT, with a 990 foot blast radius. My favorite part of the article: “The tests have shown that the new air-delivered ordnance is comparable to a nuclear weapon in its efficiency and capability,” said Col.-Gen. Alexander Rukshin, a deputy chief of the Russian military’s General…
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Never mind…Ankiel the Cheater
Ankiel got a full one year course of Human Growth Hormone, stopping it’s use just before it was banned by baseball. Way to take a ‘feel good’ story and turn it into yet another black eye for baseball. Ugh.
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Rick Ankiel
With all the negative/controversial stories in pro sports, I’d like to highlight one of the coolest of the current baseball season, the triumphant return of Rick Ankiel. He originally broke into the majors in 1999 and pitched a full season for the St. Louis Cardinals in 2000, going 11-7. He was a Rookie of the…