When it comes to digital embarrassment, celebs are apparently just stupid
By Helen A.S. Popkin
msnbc.com
updated 7:59 a.m. CT,Thurs., Dec . 3, 2009
Not since Prince Charles of Wales told then-mistress Camilla Parker-Bowles of his desire to be her feminine hygiene product has an adulterous celebrity been so humiliated by a telephone communiqué. We’re talking about Tiger Woods here, and the voice mail message he left to an alleged mistress, released earlier this week by Us Weekly. In review:
“Hey, it’s, uh, it’s Tiger. I need you to do me a huge favor. Um, can you please, uh, take your name off your phone. My wife went through my phone. And, uh, may be calling you. If you can, please take your name off that and, um, and what do you call it just have it as a number on the voice mail, just have it as your telephone number. That’s it, OK. You gotta do this for me. Huge. Quickly. All right. Bye.”
If Florida doesn’t suspend Brandon Spikes, then the SEC office should. Unless the video below has been doctored, this is simply unacceptable from a college football player. Spikes is a great player. He is also an emotional player. And he clearly let his emotions get the best of him when he stuck his hand inside Waushan Ealey’s facemask. My hope is that Florida coach Urban Meyer looks at the video, is horrified, and suspends Spikes for at least one game. Spikes needs a reality check. Look, I know enough former players who have told me that a lot of bad things happen in pileups. But this is right out in the open and everything was caught on camera. This is a player intentionally trying to hurt another player. It’s simple: If coaches are going to be held accountable for their actions and officials are going to be held accountable for their mistakes, then players must be held accountable for what they do. There is no place in the game for something like this.
Southern Methodist University freshman Ryan Rosenbaum still has a lot of collegiate soccer ahead of him, but he’ll be hard pressed to ever score as memorable a goal as he did Wednesday night.
Up 2-1 against No. 16 Tulsa, SMU was on its heels trying to keep the Hurricanes from setting up the equalizer in the 63rd minute of their Conference USA game. Tulsa controlled possession, but an errant pass found the freshman Rosenbaum, who attempted to clear the ball downfield. Things ended up working out slightly better than expected.
The goal, which was kicked from approximately 95 yards out, ended up being the game winner for SMU, who downed the 16th ranked Hurricanes, 3-2. Rosenbaum’s kick had plenty of wind behind it (check out the American flag blowing behind the goal) and also benefited from a huge bounce that looked like it came more off concrete than grass.
It wasn’t just Rosenbaum’s first college goal, it was his first college shot on goal. The Tulsa game was just the fourth in which the freshman from Washington, D.C., had played. As a defender, he’s not counted on for offense. Maybe he will be now.
What a week this is going to be. The Green Bay Packers are coming to the Metrodome to play the unbeaten Vikings. Yes, it’s Brett Favre week. In all of the NFL, there isn’t a bigger neighborhood rivalry than the Packers and the Vikings — and now Minnesota has the former Packer as its quarterback. It doesn’t get any better than this. Read the full story
HOUSTON — Houston Texans receivers Andre Johnson and Jacoby Jones have been fined by the NFL for their roles in a fight during Sunday’s 34-31 win over Tennessee. Read the full story
Bobby Blythe, a dojo owner and former marine, is coming under fire after an incriminating video was posted to the internet. The video, shot in 1984, shows a mentally handicapped person coming into his dojo and claiming that he is a “10th degree red belt.”
Blythe allows one of his black belt students, Willie J. Dennis, also a former marine, to fight him. It gets to the point where the handicapped man gives up and no longer wants to fight, but Dennis continues to kick him while he is down and bleeding. Read the full story
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