"The Jock Itch" with Jasmine Sadry: DeMarcus Ware and Madden 12 Cover?? NO!!
DALLAS (105.3 The Fan) Leading off Today's "Jock Itch:" EA Sports is announcing in a first-time ever move that FANS will have the opportunity this year to vote for the cover boy for Madden 12! But, there's just one problem: our very own DeMarcus Ware is in the running for it! (NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! NOT THE MADDEN COVER CURSE!!!!) Anyway, EA Sports is doing this selection process through an NCAA-style bracket tournament, where potential winners are seeded and pitted against each other and whoever receives more votes in a given round, advances to the next round, and so on and so forth. In the first round, DeMarcus is up against Michael Vick and if he moves on, he'll face the winner between the Titans' Chris Johnson and Texans' Andre Johnson.
Voting on the first round started yesterday and will run through the 27th. Click on the below link to cast your vote…http://www.nbcdfw.com/blogs/blue-star/Vote-for-D-Ware-as-Madden-12-Cover-Boy-118381489.html
And in OTHER "itch" worthy news…
Guess who is publicly whining that the NFL owners and players need to get back to the negotiating table ASAP? Good ol' New York Jet Antonio Cromartie! He took to Twitter to show just how disgusted he is with the lax negotiation process, saying, "I'm tired of all this emailing each other. How about the owners and the NFLPA get ur behinds back to the table and talk it out there?" Can you blame the guy? He's got like 42 kids he's gotta pay child support on! He needs to earn! http://twitter.com/A_Cromartie31/status/49165208547102721
Speaking of the Jets, Rex Ryan says, "I feel like Babe Ruth!" (No, I know what you're thinking. He was referring to that fact that he feels like having a BABY RUTH, as in the candy bar, but nope! He's referring to the baseball legend himself!) Rex was talking to the New York Daily News, guaranteeing that the Jets will win the next Super Bowl in February, and that's when he compared himself to Babe Ruth, saying: "They talk about walk softly and carry a big stick. I love that. I agree with that 100%. But I guess I feel more like Babe Ruth. I'm going to walk softly, I'm going to carry that big stick and then I'm going to point and then I'm going to hit it over the fence." He went on to say that both he and the Bambino were similar in the fact that they both had the courage to make the call on shots ahead of time.
Incidentally, Sexy Rexy has guaranteed a Super Bowl victory every year that he's been the Jets coach and the team has reached two consecutive AFC Championship games. (We'll just forget the fact that they happened to lose BOTH of those too.) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/21/rex-ryan-babe-ruth_n_838577.html
First, we had Chris Bosh of the Miami Heat saying it's okay for players to cry over basketball games, then we had Ron Artest of the Lakers saying that sometimes he likes a good vomit cry and an ice cream cone afterwards to help deal with HIS feelings and now, FORMER Mets pitcher Oliver Perez (former as of yesterday when the team gave him the boot and now having to EAT the $12,000,000 bucks they owe him) says that he's visited a shrink to help him deal with the hurt from the booing fans! (When did all of these athletes all get uteruses all of a sudden!??!)
Perez said, "I want to get better. I want to do my best. It's not easy that people boo you. I know the New York people want to win a championship. I've got the same pain for them."
Does this mean he's going to have to worry about making his $25 dollar therapist co-pay now, since he's out of a job?…http://benmaller.com/2011/03/new-york-baseball-player-admits-to-visiting-shrink-over-booing-fans/
The official warning has been put out by professional baseball observationists: A-Rod should be FEARED by MLB teams this coming season! Yankees hitting coach Kevin Long said, "Every time he's up there, I think he's going to hit a home run. That's scary. I saw that in 2007 and he's got that explosion right now." His slash line in 37 spring-training plate appearances just happen to be: .412/.459/.912. He's dropped his body fat percentage to just NINE percent and apparently his swing, body, and shape is just out of control sick (in a good way) already, from these observationists. (FYI: this same kind of pop was what took him to MVP seasons in 2003, 2005, and 2007. Although, some would probably argue that "this same kind of pop" might include getting injected with a certain substance by a "cousin….") http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/274134-leaner-a-rod-having-scary-good-start?eref=sihp#ixzz1HHGG041i
Notre Dame suspended their star wide receiver Michael Floyd indefinitely yesterday, just a day after he was busted for drunken driving in his Cadillac! Our cute little fighting Irish-er was clocked in at TWICE the legal blood-alcohol level. It's his third run-in with the law over booze since 2009. Cops stopped him after he ran a stop sign about a block from Notre Dame's main entrance. He ended up failing three sobriety tests, (standing on one leg, walking and turning around, and a finger count) was booked and released on $500 bucks bond.
If you remember, this was the same guy who said back in January that he was returning for his senior year, instead of entering the NFL draft, saying he wanted to earn a degree, return to Notre Dame to the top of college football and become the nation's top receiver. He already holds the school record for touchdown catches (28) and ranks second in school history in catches (171) and third in receiving yards (2,539)
Let's just hope he avoids the local off-campus beer barns and keggers in his quest…http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/football/ncaa/03/21/notre-dame-floyd-dui.ap/index.html#ixzz1HHDf3IKS
Tiger Woods' new reported flame, a hot little college co-ed by the name of Alyse Johnston, has got him ALL kinds of giddy and ooey-gooey inside, according to witnesses who have been yachting with the two. BUT, her friends are saying that Tiger is just a fun little sex hook-up for Alyse! A friend of hers says that, through BBM messages sent from her Blackberry, Alyse was talking about Tiger and saying that she doesn't want to have anything serious with him, just a lot of FUN! (Poor Tiger)
In the meantime, Alyse's step-daddy (who just happens to be a head honcho at Tiger's sports agency IMG), a guy by the name of Alastair Johnston, is blabbing to the media that his little Alyse has known Tiger ALL of her life, since they've been neighbors in the very toney neighborhood for the past 15 years AND that she's been chummy with Tiger's ex-wife Elin, as a result of that! (Remember what happened the LAST time Tiger was busted hooking up with the neighbor's 20-something year old daughter?)
Anyway, we hope that for his sake, and for the sake of his golf game, he at least does a LOT of "having fun" with Alyse…
Just a reminder of what he's working with, click on the following link http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2011/03/stepfather-tiger-woods-new-girl-claims-she-was-friends-with-elin-dating-golfer
In case you just can't get enough of LeBron James, you can now buy some official LeBron furniture for your house, well, at least your kid's room if anything. Home Court by LeBron is King James' furniture line and it's going to be available at Value City Furniture and American Signature stores. Here's his catalog: http://www.shopvcf.com/homecourt/site/
I could try to recap the final 30 seconds of the Euro-league basketball game between Real Madrid FC and Unicaja Malaga over the weekend, but I don't think my high school Spanish education would be able to adequately match the meltdown of glee that the Spanish sportscaster calling this game had. Of course, I couldn't understand a lick of what he was saying, but I couldn't help but laugh at just how excited this guy got!
Click the following link to check it out for yourself…http://deadspin.com/#!5784142/spanish-announcer-goes-loco-after-amazing-final-30-seconds-to-euroleague-basketball-game
A veteran Sports reporter in New Hampshire, a fella by the name of Kevin Provencher, plead guilty last week to running a prostitution business featuring women who had auditioned for him! He set up a website soliciting women to work an escort service he'd established, claiming it was run by women and advertised this on sites like Craigslist, etc. Basically, he'd perform background checks on prospective customers (to make sure they weren't cops) rent out a Marriott Hotel room, have his girls do their thing, and at the end of the day, these women would give good ol' Kev HALF of the money they earned! He even ended up having sex with some of the women on their "auditions" before even hiring them for the gig.
In all fairness, what ELSE is there to do if you're a sports beat writer/journalist in NEW HAMPSHIRE for goddsakes!?!? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/20/kevin-provencher-prostitution_n_838140.html
The WWE is highly offended that they've been called (GASP!) a wrestling company!! Vince McMahon's PR hacks sent a SCATHING letter to "TV Week" DEMANDING that they change a headline that read: "Drew Carey inducted into pro-wrestling Hall of Fame." They said, "We're NO LONGER a wrestling company because we are a global entertainment company! We don't do wrestling events. They're entertainments. And we don't call them wrestlers. They're superstars and divas."
The genius part in all of this is that "TV Week" laughed off the ridiculous request to have the headline pulled and just ended up deleting the entire story.
Yowza, that's probably gonna get some WWE "superstars and divas" singlets outta joint…http://benmaller.com/2011/03/wwe-offended-by-being-called-wresting-company/
It's being reported that now CBS WANTS Charlie Sheen back! According to a well-placed "insider," CBS President and CEO Les Moonves is ready, willing, and able to forgive and forget ALL of Charlie's recent shenanigans and continue broadcasting "Two and a Half Men," WITH Charlie in the starring role!"
I'm sure this recent change of heart was completely out of sincerity and had NOTHING to do with the fact that Forbes Magazine has "Two and a Half Men" listed as the #2 moneymaker in ALL of television and that every episode generates almost $3,000,000 bucks of revenue above the cost of production! I think it's safe to say that with THOSE numbers, anything can be forgiven... http://screencrave.com/2011-03-21/charlie-sheen-may-be-a-man-or-half-man-yet/
And finally…
I've heard of "road rage" but "burrito rage?" Some idiot in San Antonio was LIVID that seven Taco Bell burritos he ordered had gone up in price; so much so that he started firing an air gun at an employee and later fired an assault rifle at officers before barricading himself into a hotel room in a three hour standoff! Apparently, he just couldn't reconcile the fact that the Beefy Crunch Burrito had gone from 99 cents to $1.49 each and now he's facing up to 20 years in state prison on his various charges… http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/weird/032111-Burrito-Rage-at-San-Antonio-Taco-Bell-Sparks-Shootings-and-Police-Standoff
And THAT'S my "Jock Itch!"
J
