Gubernatorial candidate and former Sen. Lincoln Chafee, while criticizing a $75 million state loan guarantee to Curt Schilling’s video game company, questioned today whether the Boston Red Sox great faked his famous bloody sock in the 2004 playoffs.

For an answer, Link should go talk with Massachusetts Attorney General Mah-thaa Coakley what happens when you talking sports under-the- ignorance during a campaign.

Caption: WHEN HELMETS MAKE NO SENSE…

h/t George L

Cleveland Cavaliers majority owner Dan Gilbert was fined $100,000 for his remarks about LeBron James.

NBA commissioner David Stern called the comments — in which Gilbert referred to James’ decision to sign with the Miami Heat as “narcissistic” and “cowardly behavior” — “a little bit extreme,” although he did support the owner’s right to express his disappointment.

‘… narcissistic’, ‘cowardly behavior’…? Look who’s talking, Commissioner.

Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson responded with some harsh criticism of Gilbert.

In a phone interview with the Associated Press, Jackson said Gilbert’s harsh comments about James “personify a slave master mentality.”

Like Hallmark who went linguine-spine on the NAACP, David Stern has wimped out and reacted to the ‘little bit extreme’ statements of one of our nation’s greatest race-huckers ever. BTW— I watched the Cleveland Cavaliers-Boston Celtics series and LeBron wasn’t LeBron.

If he didn’t quit, it sure looked like it. But to fine Gilbert for calling it like we all saw it (especially after James dissed Cleveland) … does the First Amendment count for nothing?

Let’s not even get started on Stern’s stupidity on responding to anything Jesse Jackson says.

There, I said it. And Commisioner Stern, you can’t fine me.

h/t Nicholas

A male fan fell from the second deck of Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Tex. last night while reaching for a foul ball, landing in the field level seats below.

I’m amazed this doesn’t happen more often.

I hate her. I can’t believe they put her in my box that I paid for. You give people the finger and you get upgraded? Is that the world we’re living in now? It’s pathetic.

I don’t know what these people think or how they promote their careers. I’m older, I’m 56… I’m not one of these ‘all publicity is good’ people. People talk about you need exposure – you could die of exposure. I don’t understand how this is good for her.
— Jerry Seinfeld, WFAN Sports Radio

Let it go, Jerry.

Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman made an announcement Sunday saying Lady Gaga is welcome to mingle with players at the Yankee Stadium — just not in the clubhouse, and only if they win, the New York Post reported. Gaga was criticized for drunkenly crashing the clubhouse after the Yankee’s loss to the Mets Friday night, but Cashman came to her defense.

I think not.

A new US Senate Bill would grant the President far-reaching emergency powers to seize control of, or even shut down, portions of the internet.

Seizing and/or shutting down the whole Internet will never happen. Power Grids are essential and other nations could consider a partial Net shutdown an Act of War. Plus the youth would consider voting for the next Republican who’d vow to never pull an Obama.

Chief: Strong LAPD presence at final Lakers game
City officials are warning basketball fans to stay away from downtown unless they have tickets to Game 7 of the NBA finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics.

Knowing L.A. as we do, should the Lakers win the NBA Championship tonight (Lord, strike them down), will thug Angelenos cause problems… yet again?

Somehow, I don’t think this will catch on too quickly.

Jim Joyce’s perfectly blown call Wednesday night is not an opportunity for commissioner Bud Selig to misuse the powers of his office to change what happened on the field. It is an opening to celebrate what happened after the call that cost Detroit pitcher Armando Galarraga the immortality of a perfect game.

Baseball is a game built on blown and make-up calls, expanding and contracting strike zones, etc., but we were all told that the human element is what makes baseball baseball. I appreciate instant replay in football because the play is reviewed right after it happens, not the day after. If Galarraga is awarded the perfect game, how many other players and teams will demand a make-whole?

Enter the second grade element: if you do it for one, you have to do it for everyone.

Take this as justification for full-blown instant replay to be implemented during the regular season. So much for the argument that it may make the game go on longer. As we’ve seen, it’s much better the right call is made right then and there. NFL officiating crews don’t seem to suffer from hurt feelings if they were overwhelmed by the ‘speed of the game’ and they missed something. At the end of the day, they’re either vindicated or gladly corrected.

Armando Galarraga was robbed but this is no reason to open up a can of worms.

Then again, let’s see how the commish reacts.

USA’s Venus Williams returns the ball to Switzerland’s Patty Schnyder during their first round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Sunday, May 23, 2010.

There are probably quite a few, after seeing this, hoping Venus might play a little softball later.

Los Angeles Lakers fan are abuzz with news that Vanessa Laine Bryant, wife of Kobe, wore a blinged-out T-shirt with the words, “Do I Look Illegal?”

Bryant’s statement is absolutely shocking, considering she’s never exhibited any Aztlanista tendencies in her life. Sure, she’s part-Mexi, and she and her husband are known to frequent El Camino Real in Fullerton from time to time, but Vanessa’s most prominent connection to her Latino heritage before wearing this T-shirt was getting sued by her Peruvian maid for supposed workplace abuse.

Aside from the fact that I know of few people who actually give a shit what Kobe Bryant’s wife is thinking, I hope she likes the attention she deserves.

softball
a lesbian sport; when someone says they are goin’ to ‘play softball’, they are goin’ to make lesbian love. if someone tells you that you ‘play softball’ and you’re not a lesbo, tell them that you play baseball instead. (that means you’re straight)

to ‘suck at softball’ means that you suck girls’ pussies, and to ‘suck at baseball’ is to suck dicks. if a ‘softball tournament’ is goin’ on this weekend, then it will be a whole bunch of girls scissoring and doin’ other lesbian shit. also called a ‘playoff game’

Well, I hope this cleared things up.

Torry Holt’s left middle finger looks like something out of a Quentin Tarantino film. It’s been dislocated so many times that it’s permanently stuck in a post pattern.

If he said he got it caught in a bicycle spoke, there’d be universal cringing. When he says he earned it as a future NFL Hall of Famer, you nod your head in tepid admiration.

(I’d be interested to see if this pic winds up all over Russia…)

At the Bobby Orr statue unveiling, a few words was all it took.

In Boston, we have an amazing set of remarkable athletes whose actions have become ionic in sports.

Havlicek stole the ball, Fisk waving the ball fair, Flutie launching the Hail Mary pass, Varitek splitting the uprights.
— Boston Mayor Thomas ‘Mumbles’ Menino

For the first day in months, Mah-tha Coakley and Scott Brown aren’t the most sports-challenged politicos in the Bay State.

Pro Football Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor pleaded not guilty to a rape charge in New York on Thursday after police alleged he had sex with a 16-year-old girl at a suburban New York City hotel in the early-morning hours.

Town supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence said that police believe Taylor committed the statutory rape of the 16-year-old victim who St. Lawrence said was “delivered” to a Holiday Inn in Ramapo by Rasheed Davis at about 1 a.m. Police in New York City arrested Davis on Thursday morning, part of a string of events that led police to Taylor.

I just don’t understand why football players and legends can’t find settle down with nice women, their own age. Between Tiger, Ben Roethlisberger and maybe now L.T., the whole notion of role model has tanked.

A Phillies fan who rushed the field at Monday night’s game became the first person police used a Taser gun on in the team’s history. The crowd of 44,000 fans laughed and cheered as he face-planted into the grass.

I probably would have as well.

The team will be wearing its “Los Suns” jerseys for Wednesday night’s Game 2 against the San Antonio Spurs “to honor [the] Latino community and the diversity of our league, the state of Arizona, and our nation.”

I have absolutely no Hispanic roots, but wouldn’t that be ‘Los Sol’…?

What kind of U.N. environmental ambassador builds a 20,000 square-foot home with a six-car garage, an elevator and a lagoon? Why, that would be the Hub’s favorite Pats fan, Gisele Bundchen! A paparazzo’s sneak pics of Bundchen and hubby Tom Brady’s gargantuan new Brentwood, Calif., chateau has green activists seeing red.

“How big a space do two people need?” asked Philip Dowds, a Massachusetts Sierra Club official and professional architect. “A 20,000 square-foot house — the resources that it takes to put it together and the land that it needs, this just can’t happen anymore.”

LOL.