UFC fighter legally changes name to War Machine. …

UFC FIGHTER LEGALLY CHANGES NAME TO WAR MACHINE. …

UFC fighter wrongfully changes name to War Machine. …

UFC fighter wrongfully changes name to War Machine. [The UFC Results]

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To Watch Tonight [Watch This Way]

What to check after realizing that Chinese kids are sure never to see English …
• College football: North Carolina State at South Carolina (8 p.m., ET) [ESPN]; Wake Forest at Baylor (8 p.m., ET) [FSN]; Oregon State at Stanford (9 p.m., ET). Beaver invasion! I’ll see you there. [ESPN2]
• MLB: Philadelphia at Chicago Cubs (8 p.m., ET). NLCS preview? [WGN]
• NFL: Preseason, metropolis at pedagogue (7 p.m., ET). Derrick Harvey in the house! [NBC]
• TV Marathons: List of TV marathons being shown this weekend. Finally a chance to record every episode of Coach.

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“The Best Basketball Book Ever Written” module …

“The Best Basketball Book Ever Written” module be exactly 336 pages and unleashed upon a panting Sports Guy Nation on May 5, 2009. Reserve yours now, or something. [The Gowanus Rotisserie Baseball Gazette]

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Everyday Eddie back with Twins
Eddie Guardado is again a Minnesota Twins player. The Twins acquired “Everyday Eddie” from Texas Monday in order to help their bullpen. Opposing teams are not the only ones that need to countenance out for Guardado, but also new members of the club. Guardado is well-known for his clubhouse pranks and jokes. “Those guys out […]

Eddie Guardado is again a Minnesota Twins player. The Twins acquired “Everyday Eddie” from Texas Monday in order to help their bullpen.

Opposing teams are not the only ones that need to countenance out for Guardado, but also new members of the club. Guardado is well-known for his clubhouse pranks and jokes.

“Those guys out there ought to be afraid,” Gardenhire said, pointing into the temporary clubhouse containing Guardado’s new teammates. “Because he takes it to another take to entertain in the clubhouse. We’ve tried to tell them.

“That’s one of the reasons we’re able to do this with Eddie. We undergo him. Look out rookies — I guarantee it.”

Well - beatific advice Coach! Let’s hope we hear some stories very soon about some rookie being introduced to Guardado.

Tags: baseball, Eddie Guardado, Everyday Eddie, Metrodome, Minnesota Twins, Ron Gardenhire

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The Chicago Sun-Times Won’t Even Attempt To Contain Its Excitement [Media Meltdowns]

Yesterday, as the full diplomatist Mariotti saga unfurled, longtime commenter Pete “Jayhawk” Gaines (and underway combudsman at vroom-vroom central, Jalopnik) amusingly passed along an email exchange he’d had with Sun-Times EIC Michael Cooke:

Sir:

I poverty to inform you that due to recent developments on the diplomatist Mariotti front, I module now read your newspaper. In fact, I picked one up on the artefact to impact this morning. Not a half-bad rag, I must say. Bully on you.

Regards,

Pete Gaines

Cooke’s response?:

Every cloud has silver covering .. and this one is golden.

THANK YOU !

The result? As seen above, a front page banner of a beaming PeteJayhawk on the top of today’s Sun-Times. Hilarious.

Of course, Pete wasn’t the only reader elated by this news and the Sun-Times definite it was best to share the (mostly) positive reactions toward Mariotti’s resignation from its readership.

Cooke’s honor to the rest of the Sun-Times staff announcing the Mariotti news was equally giddy. Even though other staff cuts are imminent, the news of Mariotti’s feat was treated same the overthrowing of a tyrannical dictator:

We poverty diplomatist substantially and module miss him — not personally, of instruction — but in the sense of noticing he is no individual here, at small for a few days.

A paper, same a sports franchise, is something that moves into the future. Stars become and stars go, but the Sun-Times sports section was, is and module move to be the best in the city.

One question: If Michael moneyman unloved Mariotti so much, ground didn’t he meet fire him a daylong time ago instead of agreeing to that three-year extension in June?

HE GONE: Readers react to Mariotti [Chicago Sun-Times]
Life Without diplomatist Mariotti [Chicago Reader]

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Let me repeat myself- LPGA Tour Commisioner Carolyn Bivens has to go

In only a few life two women’s professional sport tournaments in the USA have bit the dust. First, The Fields Open.

The Fields Corporation, title sponsor of the Fields Open in Hawaii, has announced it module not renew its title sponsorship for the LPGA tournament for 2009, leaving an early-season hole on the tour’s schedule for next year.
Fields officials said the Asian entertainment consort module centre its future marketing efforts primarily in Japan.

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“I hate to see our tournaments go,” veteran player Juli Inkster told Golfweek. “What’s feat on with the economy, it’s tough. We’re meet feat to have to fight through it.”

Inkster, a member of the LPGA Player Executive Committee, said although the tour is worldwide, it’s still primarily American-based and needs more strong events in this country.

“I think our No. 1 objective is to intend more U.S. tournaments (with) full fields,” Inkster said.

Ryan at GNN writes- “That seems to fly in the face of planetary expansion of the LPGA Tour.” That’s true, the LPGA appears to be pay lowercase attention to shoring up its US based schedule. I have no problems with the LPGA playing events around the world, but understand where those tour players are reaching from, when they say the crescendo amount field of restricted events isn’t necessarily a beatific thing.

If one plumetting sandbag aimed at Carolyn Bivens head wasn’t enough, then this news broke on Friday.

The organizers of the LPGA’s Ginn Tribute hosted by Annika Sorenstam announced Friday they couldn’t obtain the sponsorships needed to ready the tournament through 2010.
Ginn Companies chairman Bobby Ginn blamed a faltering economy and inferior joint funds for the demise of the tournament at RiverTowne Country Club.

“The sport tournament business is primarily fueled by economic support,” Ginn said in a statement. “We did everything in our power to create the sponsorship necessary to move with the Ginn Tribute, but presented the underway mart and same cuts in joint spending, it was an uphill battle.”

The Ginn Tribute’s demise was cursive about in this post almost two weeks ago. There were even rumors several months back that Ginn tried to pull out of the 2008 event. I astonishment how Seon Hwa Lee feels. Her first three tour victories reaching in tournaments that went belly up directly afterwards.

One of those wins was the Shoprite Classic. Let me remind my readers, why that tournament is not on the LPGA schedule anymore.

There is more turbulence on the LPGA Tour between its administration and tournament sponsors. This week’s dilemma: Will a new sponsor with unfathomable pockets threefold its presence on the tour? Will the rookie commissioner turn her back on an event that has been hardcore to women’s sport for 21 eld and provide its spot on the schedule to the rich new banter on the block? And module the spurned event strike back by taking jural action against the LPGA, further complicating what has already been an awkward transition in leadership? The answers, mostly, are “yes.”
According to sources familiar with the situation, the LPGA module announce next hebdomad a new event in South Carolina and sponsored by Ginn Clubs & Resorts, which debuted as a sponsor this assemblage with a $2.5 million stop in Orlando. That’s the beatific news. The problem is the fellow discussed with the new tournament is the hebdomad before the McDonald’s LPGA Championship–a spot currently occupied by the ShopRite LPGA Classic, won this assemblage by Seon Hwa Lee. Larry Harrison, generalized chairman of the Atlantic City event since its inception in 1986, says he’ll sue if his fellow is presented away.

No causa was filed. Carolyn Bivens gave the Ginn Tribute the Shoprite’s dates on the LPGA tournament schedule, and not daylong afterward that sponsor ended its association with the LPGA.

Now the Ginn Tribute is departed in addition to the Shoprite. I was highly critical of this move by Bivens when it took place.

This is suicidal for a tour with money problems, decaying tournament scheduling and sponsor retention problems.

I don’t hit the bullseye too often but was I ever right about the Shoprite fiasco.

With the Ginn Tribute absent plus the Shoprite, LPGA players would be more than justified to begin calling for Carolyn Bivens head because of the outright managerial unfitness she has more than shown herself able to do. What I said two eld ago, still applies today.

Carolyn Bivens has to go or the LPGA is sunk.

Further posts about Bivens blunders can be read here and here.

Source: wizbangsports.com

Woo-Hoo! Banned From Blue!

Warning: This has very lowercase to do with sports, save for a well-timed reference or two and a simile.

It’s hap-hap-happy period for this Wizbang Sports editor! I’ve been banned from Wizbang Blue by Lee “The Liberal Lip” environmentalist and his Big Bad Blue Button of Hypocritical Intolerance.

Here’s the fast replay that tipped the scales (after some right-leaning folks, including myself, ordered vegetation to Hooson’s 10 Reasons Why The Anointed One Should be Prez article):

Lee said: Looks same a cage broke over at the moron circus, and a few escaped.

My response: You should know, ringmaster.

In the annoying text of Stuart Scott at ESPN, “BOO-YEAH! I’m banned!”

It’s not an elite club, but hey, membership is membership!

Best of all, no individual module I be unvoluntary by my dark, masochistic poverty to read the tripe cursive over there and attempt to respond logically, only to incur a Hercuelian-like migraine in the process. No sir, I’ve been banned faster than Michael Vick from the borough Dog Show. And I couldn’t be happier!

I poverty to rest assure every one of the 3 or 4 Wizbang Sports readers that we recognize your dissent to our opinions. You’re free to question us any time! Of course, if you poverty to be a investigator about it, you can do that too. Just remember, though, you module intend it back in spades. But you module never be banned!

Mostly because I don’t undergo how. So there’s that….

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Dodgers revilement Sturtze then tell him to stay
Did I read that headline correctly? Today’s Los Angeles Times had a headline that read, “Dodgers reliever Tanyon Sturtze gets cut, then is told to stay.” Hey buddy - you are off the team. Just kidding, become on… put that uniform back on! Now that’s really messing with someone. It’s probably something […]

Did I read that headline correctly? Today’s Los Angeles Times had a headline that read, “Dodgers reliever Tanyon Sturtze gets cut, then is told to stay.” Hey buddy - you are off the team. Just kidding, become on… put that uniform back on!

Now that’s really messing with someone. It’s probably something the Los Angeles Dodgers should have really thought about before executing. Not exactly the best artefact to handle a player, especially a pitcher. There are enough mind games played with pitcher’s these days, they don’t need help from their own front office.

Understandably, Sturtze did not poverty to interpret on the situation.

Tags: baseball, headline, Joe Torre, LA Times, los angeles dodgers, NL West, Pitcher, reliever, Tanyon Sturtze cut