Brady Minus the Boot

From Page 6.com:

Don’t worry Patriots fans, what appeared to be a foot injury on Tom Brady early in the day yesterday was luckily not as serious as it seemed.
Yesterday afternoon PageSix.com was first to report Tom was wearing a cast on his right foot and limping home with girlfriend Gisele Bundchen. Later that night, however, the quarterback and his Victoria’s Secret angel arrived at New York hotspot Butter and the cast was nowhere to be seen.

The football star appeared to be in no pain as he sat on the top of the seats of the front booth with Gisele’s ex Leonardo DiCaprio, actors Lukas Haas and James DeBello, and a group of pretty girls.


That would be James DeBello of Dorm Daze 2, of course.

At this rate we fully expect our next Brady update to come from Perez Hilton rather than ESPN. Then again, maybe the thing simply didn't match his evening wear. Belichick would love that excuse.

Ok, so can we just drop the Brady being injured thing? If he was able to party without the boot last night, you better believe he'll be more than ready to play in two weeks. Now can we please get more pictures of Gisele and the "group of pretty girls" they were partyign with?

Brady Injured?

This is in today's New York Post. As you can see by the coverof the tabloid paper, the New York media isn't wasting time on hyping the Super Bowl up. Do you think the Green Bay papers would come up with this stuff?

By CHUCK BENNETT, MIKE PUMA and MELISSA JANE KRONFELD

A day after the Pats' win over the San Diego Chargers propelled them to the Super Bowl against the Giants, Brady sported an orthopedic, open-foot brace on his right leg as he struggled with luggage and the box of white flowers.

Brady was later spotted wearing the boot and hobbling out of the East Village nightspot Butter, with Gisele, early this morning.

The booty - known as a cam walker - is a good sign for the Big Blue faithful, according to Hospital for Special Surgery foot and ankle expert Dr. Rock Positano.

"When they put you in a cam walker, that usually means you're hurting," Positano told The Post, after viewing stills and video of the gimpy quarterback. "He's sustained some kind of trauma that requires immobilization. This is not just a simple strain or a sprain."

Positano was betting that Brady had suffered trauma to his metatarsals - bones toward the front of the foot - or the Achilles' tendon, located near the heel.

"Achilles' injuries are very difficult to treat," he said. "You don't come back from an Achilles' injury in a week. The fact that he's in a cam walker should make Giants fans very optimistic, and should certainly make Michael Strahan, or any defenseman who sees that, salivate."

Dr. Rock Positano???? Is this a real doctor? After doing some research, I found out that he actually is a real life doctor. Anyway, I'm glad he cleared up that the injury is in either the front or the back of the foot. That about covers it huh?


And for those of you freaking out, or Giant fans that are just way too giddy about this, don't pay much mind to it. If it were something serious Brady wouldn't have been in Butter till the "early morning."

Football is a tough sport people, and when you play a physical game like Sunday, you are bound to get nicked up a bit. Brady has two weeks to recover, and we have to two weeks of NYC tabloid journalism at it's best to look forward to until they get bcak to killing Isiah on a daily basis.

Roy Jones Defeats Felix Trinidad

As most of you know now, Roy Jones Jr. (52-4, 38KO) defeated Felix "Tito" Trinidad (42-3 35KO), by unanimous decision, at historic Madison Square Garden this past Saturday.

Tito couldn't hang with the bigger, and faster Jones, who let Trinidad dictate the pace early, before taking over with combinations of flurries in the later rounds. Jones knocked Tito down in the 7th and 10th rounds, on the way to his third straight victory.

The win puts the 39-year-old Jones in position to face the winner of the Joe Calzaghe-Bernard Hopkins fight in April. Tito, who was fighting at 170 pounds, the highest weight he has ever fought at, may retire again or go down to 160 where he is best suited to fight.

Does Roy have the magic back? Is e re-motivated in the sport? Does he have a few more big fights left in him? The victory over a clearly over the hill Trinidad doesn't answer many questions, but this bout was one of the more exciting Jones fights I've seen in a while.

Tito needs to retire for a third and final time. I sat behind him in the Caribbean World Series last year in Puerto Rico. The prescription strength on his glasses is very strong, and I don't know how he sees in the ring without them. Hopefully he knows when enough is enough, but as with most boxers, few know when to call it quits.

Golfweek Editor "Replaced"

Golfweek magazine replaced the editor responsible for illustrating the current cover with a noose and apologized Friday for its depiction of a Golf Channel anchor's use of "lynch" in a comment about Tiger Woods.

"We apologize for creating this graphic cover that received extreme negative reaction from consumers, subscribers and advertisers across the country," Turnstile Publishing Co. president William P. Kupper Jr. said. "We were trying to convey the controversial issues with a strong and provocative graphic image. It is now obvious that the overall reaction to our cover deeply offended many people. For that, we are deeply apologetic."

Turnstile is the parent company of Golfweek.

The company said Dave Seanor, the vice president and editor of Golfweek, has been replaced immediately by Jeff Babineau.

A copy of the Jan. 19 cover was removed from the magazine's web site Friday morning.

Kelly Tilghman, in her second year as anchor of PGA Tour coverage on Golf Channel, was suspended for two weeks because of comments she made during the second round of the Mercedes-Benz Championship, when she and analyst Nick Faldo were discussing young challengers to Woods.

Faldo suggested that "to take Tiger on, maybe they should just gang up [on him] for a while."

"Lynch him in a back alley," Tilghman said, laughing.

Seanor said in an interview Thursday night that he took responsibility for the cover, which showed a noose against a purple sky and the title, "Caught in a Noose." The sub-title said, "Tilghman slips up, and Golf Channel can't wriggle free."

Ok, when it was determined that Kelly Tilghman used poor judgment in her choice of words, I thought we had seen the last of any racially charged, motivated, or themed comments, jokes, or portrayals, but the Golfweek editor takes the cake.

Were you not awake during the past couple of weeks? What about the past couple of centuries, where the noose has been a symbol of hatred towards African-Americans? I don't doubt that Seaonor is an intelligent man, but where was the common sense when making this decision? Where were his assistants, or friends? Did he ask anyone fo their opinion?

I'm not sure if "replace" means fired, but I'm sure Al and Jesse are fired up about this one.

In case you missed the original comments on the Golf Channel, here is the video clip.

Serie del Caribe!

Muy pronto viene la Serie del Caribe. ESPN Deportes tendra las tranmisiones de los juegos del 2 al 7 de febrero desde Santiago, Republica Dominicana.

De acuerdo al convenio, ESPN Deportes ofrecerá cobertura exclusiva en español de la Serie del Caribe 2008 comenzando con el juego inaugural entre República Dominicana y Venezuela el 2 de febrero a las 3 p.m., hora del Este de los Estados Unidos.

La Serie del Caribe se jugará en Santiago como sede principal por primera vez en la historia de estos eventos que comenzaron su segunda etapa en 1970 y se han presentado en el país siete veces (1972, 1976, 1980, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2004), pero solo una vez en el Estadio Cibao (1976) cuando se efectuaron dos partidos como parte del programa de 12 encuentros.

“La Serie del Caribe es el pináculo de la temporada invernal de béisbol y es considerada, sin duda, uno de los eventos más populares de ese deporte en nuestra audiencia principal”, expresó Lino García, gerente general de ESPN Deportes. “Al añadir esta propiedad a nuestra lista de programación invernal de béisbol, que ya incluye todas las ligas activas en la confederación, cerramos con sello de oro nuestra temporada de béisbol invernal”.

“La Serie del Caribe 2008 celebrará su 50a edición en la República Dominicana”, indicó Juan Francisco Puello, comisionado de la Confederación de Béisbol Profesional del Caribe. “Nos enorgullecemos de unir fuerzas con un líder de los temas deportivos como ESPN Deportes para hacer llegar esta celebración a los fanáticos en los Estados Unidos”.

Desde 1949, en la Serie del Caribe, un torneo de 12 juegos entre los mejores equipos de México, República Dominicana, Puerto Rico y Venezuela, en el que cada equipo tiene que competir contra todos los demás, una de estas naciones se ha llevado la corona de campeón. El torneo a su vez les ha servido de plataforma de exhibición a los mejores campeonatos de la Liga Invernal de Béisbol. Entre los jugadores de las Grandes Ligas que han participado en la Liga Invernal se encuentran leyendas tales como Roberto Clemente, Fernando Valenzuela, David Concepción y Juan Marichal. Y los jugadores actuales que han desarrollado sus habilidades en la Liga incluyen Johan Santana, Carlos Beltrán, Robinson Cano y Miguel Cabrera entre otros.

Esta temporada la Liga Puertorriqueña se ausenta temporalmente de la Liga Invernal, así que la República Dominicana se verá representada por dos equipos en el torneo. Se espera que Puerto Rico entre otra vez en el torneo el año que viene.

Esta temporada ESPN Deportes televisó más de 50 juegos de ligas invernales desde la República Dominicana, México y Venezuela.

Campeonato hasta la fecha: República Dominicana (1970 a hoy en día) – 15 Campeonatos
Puerto Rico (1949 a hoy en día) – 14 Campeonatos
Cuba (1949 a 1960) – 7 Campeonatos
Venezuela (1949 a hoy en día) – 6 Campeonatos
México (1971 a hoy en día) – 5 Campeonatos
Panamá (1949 a 1960) – 1 Campeonato

SERIE DEL CARIBE 2008 EN ESPN DEPORTES

Fecha Horario (ET) Países

Sábado 2 de feb. 3 p.m. Rep. Dominicana. Vs. Venezuela
7 p.m. México vs. Rep. Dominicana

Domingo 3 de feb. 3 p.m. Rep. Dominicana vs. México
7 p.m. Rep. Dominicana vs. Venezuela

Lunes 4 de feb. 3 p.m. Venezuela vs. México
7 p.m. Rep. Dominicana vs. Rep. Dominicana

Martes 5 de feb. 3 p.m. Venezuela vs. Rep. Dominicana
7 p.m. Rep. Dominicana vs. México

Miércoles 6 de feb. 3 p.m. México vs. Rep. Dominicana
7 p.m. Venezuela vs. Rep. Dominicana

Jueves 7 de feb. 3 p.m. México vs. Venezuela
7 p.m. Rep. Dominicana vs. Rep. Dominicana

Pacman Jones in Trouble Again

OK, so I went to Miami for a little while, then the Holidays, too much food, drinks, and dominoes (the game, not the pizza), but I'm back! So lets get to it.

Adam "Pacman" Jones is in the news again. Pacman allegeldy punched a woman at a strip club.

"I was sitting in the office and he lunged at me numerous times in an effort to do grave bodily harm," Jackson wrote in the warrant application filed Jan. 7. "Veronica Jones, an owner, went into the hall to deal with a member of his entourage. I followed to gawk. He was in the hall, surprisingly reached over or around a security guard and sucker punched me in my left eye."

Jackson told police the next day she was at the club because she was handling a divorce case that involved Adam Jones. No one could be reached Tuesday afternoon at the club's listed phone number.

"Mr. Jones, according to Ms. Jackson, was at the Body Tap Club and she and Mr. Jones got into an argument at the club and Mr. Jones struck Ms. Jackson in the left eye, causing a bruise around her left eye," according to the police report.


Pacman has been arrested six times since 2005. Read that again! Six times in just over two years. Is that even possible? Pacman is serving a year suspension from the NFL after his involvement in a strip club shooting. Sooooo, I guess it is apparent that someone has a strip club addiction.

I don't know about you, but if I'm serving a year suspension from a game that could pay me millions, I think I can find a way to get the strippers to visit me without having to go out. How stupid do you have to be to keep ending up in these situations?

I wouldn't be surprised if this is the end of Pacman. Good job pal, you just blew millions in the name of "making it rain."