NFL Commish Cracking Down On Fans

It now appears Roger Goodell, the NFL commissioner has decided to crack down not only on the players and others associated with the NFL teams but now also the fans who attend the NFL's games throughout the nation.

"We want everyone to be able to come to our stadiums, behave properly, enjoy this experience but don't ruin it for others," said Goodell. "We will be focusing on that, including the implementation of an NFL fan conduct policy which we will have out prior to the season." -- Roger Goodell

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Here are a few incidents that have happened in years past that involve NFL fans and violence.

In 1995, when unruly Giant fans pelted the field and knocked the opposing equipment manager unconscious with ice-balls, the league might have thought it had a problem.

In 1997, when over 60 fistfights broke out at Veterans Stadium in a nationally televised game, prompting Philadelphia to assign a municipal court judge to the stadium on game days in '98, the league might have thought it had a problem.

In 2000, when that Raider fan stabbed a Charger fan, the league might have thought it had a problem.

In 2001, when Browns fans showered the field with plastic beer bottles, the league might have thought it had a problem.

In 2003, when three Charger fans beat a Jaguar fan into unconsciousness, the league might have thought it had a problem.

The University of Oregon has installed a plan similar to this in the past where Fans are responsible to inform authorities of misconduct.

Justin provided his own thoughts on how to control this problem:

1. Alcohol monitors roaming the stadium to watch out for drunks
2. Teach vendors to notice who has had too much
3. Shut down the vendors who are mobile and can sell drinks.

It appears to be a good idea for Goodell to get in on this as there have been constant problems every year it seems.

But doesn't this seem like Big Brother is watching type of thing?

Independent League Baseball Player Traded For Bats

Even though small independent baseball leagues notoriously try to draw fans with promotions like "vasectomy night" and "midget wrestling," two teams had good reasons to swap a right-handed pitcher for 10 bats.

The Calgary Vipers of the Golden Baseball League couldn't get newly signed pitcher John Odom into Canada for immigration reasons.

And the Laredo Broncos of the United League were willing to take a cheap gamble on a pitcher.

Oh, and the Vipers really, really wanted some new bats.

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So Odom is worth 10 bats? NICE! Wonder what else a team could trade for 10 bats, shoes? Hats? A few tickets to that nights game?

Talk about a sucker punch to the gut for Odom.

Long Live The Washington Oregon Rivalry

Sounds like Washington's football coach Tyrone Willingham is already laying down the lumber and calling out a victory against the Ducks come August 30th when the Ducks and Huskies meet in Autzen Stadium to start off both team's seasons.

D&E: How is U-Dub going to be this year?

"We're going to win the next game. That's an awful big one because that's Oregon. We've got to some things in place. I think we have maybe the best quarterback in the country. He's a great leader, a great person, a great player."

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Can you say Bulletin Board material for the Ducks and their coaching staff?

Top 10 Worst Sports Fashion

TOP 10 WORST SPORTS FASHION TRENDS

10. Starter Jackets

The Chicago Bulls logo looked pretty sleek against a black background, but the innocuous logos of many teams, like the sweet Miami Dolphin jumping through a ring, looked out of place. They were marketed as winter jackets, but kids across the Northeast froze their %$!# off while waiting at the bus stop. At least they looked cool doing it.

9. Visors

Jon Gruden and Steve Spurrier look like they’re overseeing a golf tournament, not directing monsters of the gridiron as they pace the sideline with their team visors. Chucky’s scowl isn’t very intimidating when accompanied by a silly little half-hat. Sadly, the visor trend’s caught on with fans of all sports. I cringe every time I see the Raiders logo propped up on disheveled hair of some nitwit’s head.

8. Pink, Red and Green Apparel

The only constant identifiable component to a sports team is its uniform. Players and coaches change, but the colors remain the same. When fans sport a red or green jersey with an NY logo on it, they’re not representing the Yankees, they’re supporting some imaginary team. The worst examples of this color confusion are the ever popular pink hats, shirts and jerseys designed for female fans. Sorry, but pink and football don’t mix.

7. Hats With The Tags Still On

In the 1990s, it became fashionable among youngsters of the hip-hop culture to leave the price tags and stickers on baseball caps when they wore them. These trendsetters also refused to bend the brim of their caps, in order to maintain that fresh from the store look. Sometimes I offer these kids the price on the ticket for their hat, claiming that I thought it was for sale.

6. Jersey Dresses

I know, Mariah Carey was smokin’ in that Michael Jordan jersey dress she wore during her performance at the NBA All-Star Game a few years ago. But it’s Mariah, she looks great in any tight clothes. It’s the less curvaceous members of the female population I’m concerned with. If you want to support a player or team, buy a jersey. Please don’t try and squeeze into one these ill-fitting eyesores.

5) Spandex

Towards the end of basketball’s high and tight shorts era, players began to cover their inner thighs with spandex. Kenny “Sky” Walker looked like an oversized cyclist when he won the 1989 Slam Dunk Contest, with his white spandex reaching several inches below his shorts. Basketball fans imitated the pros, defiling playgrounds nationwide with this unsightly style.

4) Reebok Pumps

At best, this silly innovation had the same effect of simply tying your sneakers a little tighter. It took several pumps for the sneaker to compress around your ankle, and you could be sure that within a few weeks at least one of your pumps would be broken. Stylistically, the sneakers were bland, consisting of a couple of blue and gray stripes. Quite a coup by the marketing department at Reebok!

3. Coed Naked Shirts

Rivaled only by Big Johnson tee shirts, Coed Naked apparel brought a new level of intimacy to a wide range of sports. In retrospect, it’s hard to believe parents bought these sexually explicit tees for their children and that schools allowed students to wear them in class. One of my personal favorites was “Coed Naked Lacrosse … Rough, Tough and in the Buff.”

2) Umbros

Every time a pubescent boy wore these bright-colored, loose, nylon shorts to middle school and sat next to a cute girl wearing a different color, but equally bright and loose pair of Umbros, it was a recipe for disaster. Yet, we all did it anyway. The nylon material gave Umbros the versatility to be worn as shorts on the ballfield and as a bathing suit to cool off in afterwards.

1) Zubaz

In case you don’t recall, Zubaz were the zany, zebra patterned pants designed in the colors of various sports teams. These loose fitting pants were so preposterous they made MC Hammer’s parachute pants look like Dockers. The hideous style spread to the NFL, wear football players looked like clowns as they paced the sidelines in zebra patterned jackets and hats.

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Toughest Sport To Officiate

Justin Myers debated today on what sport is the hardest to officiate as a ref or umpire in today's sports world.

Justin came up with basketball being the toughest sport to officiate because basketball is an every changing game with constant motion and different angles to watch. Mix in the "old school" and " new school" rules that seem to go on during the game where its ok to bump and hit harder than normal later in the game where as those same no calls get called earlier in the game make the NBA the toughest game to officiate.


Let us know what you think is the toughest sport to officiate.

Phil Knight Forum on KEZI

In case you missed last night's forum about Phil Knight's influence over the University of Oregon's athletic department on KEZI, we have it here for you.  

Justin was there and voiced his opinion, but what's yours?

Video courtesy of KEZI-TV

Spurs Choke Or Lakers Wake Up?

Watching last night's Western Conference game 1 game and seeing how bad the Lakers were playing in the first half and how good the Spurs were controlling the tempo of the game. Then as we all know the Spurs went dry and the Lakers came back from being 20 points down to take the lead and hold onto the victory.

So did the Lakers pull it out or did the Spurs choke? let us know!

Joining the 21st Century

Within the last five days umpires in Major League Baseball have blown home run calls on three different occasions.  

On Sunday, Mets' first baseman Carlos Delgado was robbed of a dinger after umps reversed their original of a home run and deemed the ball to be foul.

The next night, Cubs' catcher Geovany Soto wasn't robbed (he ended up with a inside the park home run), but umps once again missed what was an actual long ball.

And last night, Yankee third baseman Alex Rodriguez went to the next level hitting a shot off a concrete stairway beyond the outfield fence that should have been labeled HR#525, but was instead A-Rod's 405th double.

With all that said baseball is now considering using instant replay, but are planning on giving it a try first in their Arizona Fall League. 

Will instant replay find it's way into baseball like it has in every other major sport, or are baseball purists going to fight to keep baseball in the dark ages?

Albert Pujols Has Guilty Half Inning vs Padres

The San Diego Padres have had some tough breaks these past few days.

Two days ago they lost star ace Jake Peavy to an injury and had to place him on the disabled list. Now add two more starters to that list after Albert Pujols got done with them. Mind you Pujols felt terrible and didn't do this on purpose.

In a span of 2 batters Pujols lined a basehit right back up the mound that struck starting pitcher Chris Young right in the face with the ball resulting in a massive cut across his head and blood gashing.

Two batters later with a play at the plate Pujols slid into home plate for a run and in the process slid over the ankle of Josh Bard and eventually was determined a sprained ankle.

To see the events unfold watch the video below.

Steroids In The NFL?

The New York Times is reporting that a Steroids dealer David Jacobs, who is the convicted steroids dealer from Plano, Tex., provided documentary evidence to NFL officials Wednesdays.

According to the New York Times Jacobs has provided a list of names that showed they were using Steroids while playing in the NFL.

Here is the story.

So listeners lets hear your feedback if this is something that caught you by surprise or not.

David Cook Wins American Idol

If you have listened to "The Sports Idol" at all over the past few months you will know Justin loves the American Idol. With the American Idol now over with David Cook winning the contest we can now go back and relive all the memories given from this show or like some others can stop hearing about this show.

Anyhoo here is a clip of David Cook singing "Dream Big"

What Is The Face Of The Oregon Football Program?

ESPN.com is running a poll like story asking college football fans to give their vision in their minds when they think of Oregon football.

On the show callers mentioned everything to the Oregon Duck to Autzen Stadium to Jonathan Stewart to Mike Bellotti with or without his mustache.

So Duck and College Football fans, when you here Oregon Football what comes to mind?

Toughest Individual Achievements in Baseball

On Yesterday's show Justin talked with callers about John Lester throwing a no hitter against the Kansas City Royals. The discussion lead to Justin posing the question on Lester's no hitter having a small slight in the importance or how awesome an achievement it really was since it was against the Royals.

Today SI.com came out with an article that gave a list of the Toughest Individual Achievements in Baseball.

1. Throw a perfect game.
2. Hitting for the cycle.
3. Unassisted Triple play.
4. Hitting a home run.
5. Stealing a base.

Do you agree with this list provided by SI.com or do you have a better collection of achievements than the one by SI.com? Let us know by commenting on the comment page.

Bulls Land #1 Pick; Who Do You Draft?

Chicago Bulls have landed the first pick in the 2008 NBA draft and are now left with the tough choice; Who do you draft with the number one pick? What about a trade? Do you try to trade down to get more players and picks for this year's draft?

Top 10 BCS Bowl Slights: 2001 Fiesta Bowl #3

Ted Miller of ESPN.com wrote an article today about the Top 10 Slights in the BCS Bowl history and listed the Fiesta Bowl in 2001 as the number 3 slight of all time.

Now Justin says Oregon has benefited greatly from the BCS. Without the BCS Oregon would not have played Colorado in the Fiesta Bowl and instead would have played Illinois from the Big-10. Also think back to how good that Miami Hurricane football team was back in 2001 and would Oregon beat them if they met in the title game? With the Ducks going to the Title game instead of the Fiesta Bowl Oregon might not have that bowl title in their hands and all that momentum gained from the blow out.

So the question is, do you agree with Justin that the BCS has been good for Oregon? Or has it been Bad?

Oregon Holiday Bowl Ring For Sale

Want to know what one of those big clunker bowl rings feels like on your finger?

Well here is your chance Duck fans! Rob Mosley of the Register-Guard and guest on the Writers Block has found an Ebay listing that is currently running for the chance to win a 2000 Holiday Bowl Duck Championship ring.


The Ring is going at 510 dollars right now with 1 day and 5 hours remaining for the bidding.

Check out the other pictures and follow the bidding here: Holiday Bowl Ring

Is Mike Piazza A Hall of Fame First Ballot

Mike Piazza retired today with a career .308 batting average, .377 on-base-percentage, .545 slugging-percentage, 427 home runs, 1335 RBIs, and 2127 basehits.

Question is though, does Mike Piazza get into the Hall of Fame as a first time ballot and does he fall into the steroid issue and the steroid ere hurt his chances of getting into the hall?

No Hitters By Month

Maybe if you were sleeping under a rock last night and all day today you might not have known that Boston pitcher John Lester threw a no hitter against the Kansas City Royals Monday night.

That led us here at 1320 to wonder what month has had the most No hitters thrown by pitchers.

After studious labor in counting the games we came up with this ranking:

September- 58
June- 42
May- 40
August- 38
July-36
April-34
October- 8

NBA Conference Finals

Starting tonight the NBA's playoffs have reached the Conference Finals for the Eastern and Western Conference with the Eastern Conference starting tonight and the West tomorrow.

So, what team left, Boston, L.A., San Antonio, or Detroit, will win it all?

Can You Eat A Snake After Biting Its Head Off?

Man vs Wild

Think your hot stuff out in Nature? Try doing this to prove you can survive

NBA Draft Changing?

College basketball analyst Jay Bilas is proposing the NBA adopt a new rule similar to Major League Baseball: Let high school seniors enter the draft, and require players that go to college stay for a few years.

With 13 freshmen entering the NBA Draft this season does the "Sporting World" believe college basketball is becoming a pit stop or a poor man's minor league for the NBA?

Bilas is suggesting the NBA develops a rule where kids have the option to go straight to the pros or go to college for two years instead of one.

Seems good on paper right? The NBA teams get a longer period to evaluate the players, the players get a chance to hone their skills instead of sitting at the end of the bench night in and night out, and the colleges get their star players to market.

But would Kevin Durant, Greg Oden, or Kevin Love go to college for two years instead of going to the NBA when it they could go pro?

Good idea? Agree? Disagree? Have a different idea to solve this issue?

Jerry Seinfield Seen Sporting Cubs Hat

Jerry Seinfield was seen Saturday afternoon sporting a brand new "Cubbies" hat. Is it right for a loyal fan of the New York Mets to sport another team's hat when his team isn't even playing?



But seriously Jerry, can you please at the least take off the sticker to make it look like your some sort of fan of the Cubs?

(Note the Rapper Sticker is still on the bill)