Fines On Athletes That Should Be In Effect

Looking back on the NBA front office deciding to ban floppers and to also fine the player who does fine got us here at 1320 The Score to thinking about what other annoying instances in sports that should be outlawed and eligible to fines.

After collecting our heads Justin, Joey, and I have come up with our list of situations that should require a fine after happening.

1. Wide Receiver or Quarterback calling for a flag after being breathed on.


2. NBA player who throws his hands up in the air in complaint of no foul being called when driving to the hoop.

3. And 1 call from coaches and players after every single foul in the NBA.

4. The baseball teams for not doing homework on who can throw a baseball for the first pitch.

5. Celebrating first downs in the NFL and College.

6. NBA and College players giving teammate Hi-Five after a missed free throw. Huddles are also included in this list.

7. Fist Bumps and Knuckle Bumps after a good play.

8. "Get In The Hole" guy after a drive on a Par 5.



There has to be bounds and bounds more of these instances so lets find'em gang!

Quote Of The Day-Thursday Edition

This short clip came from the interview Justin had with the Oregonian's Aaron Fentris yesterday when they were discussing NFL news and rumblings.

Worst First Pitches Ever!

When I look for stuff to slam onto the blog I usually spin it in my own words some how and make a unique twist to it. For this however, I gotta simply just copy and paste all the way its too good (and time consuming).

Found it over at FanIQ.com if you were curious.

Sounds like Mariah Carey is the latest victim of the ceremonial first pitch gone wrong disaster.

Now FirstIQ took this to another level and found some of the worst first pitches ever in the history of baseball that can be found on YouTube.com.

Here is their list.

Talk about brutal pitches and yet another reason why these people should stick to their day jobs.

Is The Skinny Vanilla Latte Fruity?

Justin just had to get a clarification on an order from Starbucks from John the "Barista" at the Starbucks near our studio.

Question is, does this drink, Skinny Vanilla Latte, seem fruity to you? Not gonna lie it does for this blogger...

To listen to the interview/slam/questionnaire click below.

Red Auerbach Gives Anti Flopping Tips

Talked about this last show on Thursday where the NBA is going to be fining players who flop next season.

Found this little clip over at Dailymotion.com

Mike Riordan is a flopper!
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This Blogger Is A Laker Fan For One Day

Last night the Lakers killed the defending champs chances of repeating and sent the Spurs home for the summer.

I dislike both teams but I vastly hate the Spurs more for their dirty play and cheap tactics against my Suns but today I will gladly say I enjoyed watching the Lakers play.

With the Lakers moving on to the NBA Finals radio shows across the nation have already started the Jordan-Bryant comparison. Give me Jordan for now but Kobe is starting to come into his own...

Lost TV Show's Cast: Baseball Style

I am almost 100% sure everyone that reads this show is a big Lost fan or if your not...better be after tonight!

ESPN created a baseball lineup out of the cast of the show since tonight is the big 2-hour finale tonight! Being an avid fan of Lost I loved this list and just had to share it with everyone else.

Batting Order:

1. Sayid Jarrah, LF
Not only does he have deceptive quickness, but his experience as an interrogator helps him tell what a pitcher is going to throw just by reading his eyes. Oh, and by hooking the pitcher's nipples up to electrodes. That helps too. By the time the second batter comes up, the pitcher is pretty taxed already.

2. Kate Austin, 2B
A superior athlete with the ability to improvise at the plate no matter the situation, her only real downside is that once she gets on base she's unable to commit to a single direction.

3. Jack Shephard, SS
Like it or not (and many fans don't) Jack is the team leader. His defense is iffy and his bat isn't what it once was, but management is paying him the big bucks so, damn it, he's going to play shortstop. Think a tormented Derek Jeter.

4. Ben Linus, C
A wizard behind the plate, Linus has an uncanny ability to have a pitcher shake off his signs only when he wants them to shake it off. Equally important is his ability to get the batters to second-guess themselves. The weak spot in Linus' game? For some reason, it seems as though he hits into double-plays on purpose, as if he's playing for the other team.

5. Hugo "Hurley" Reyes, DH
In addition to his bat, Hurley's other major asset is heading into the stands and sharing a few hot dogs with the fans while the rest of the team is on the field. Because he's fat. And likely over eats.

6. Desmond Hume, 3B
From Scotland, Desmond had no idea how to play baseball until management told him they'd locate his love Penny if he hits .400 in a season. This wouldn't be a problem—love conquers all, ya know?—if Desmond would only show up to the games on time.

7. Sun-Hwa Kwon, RF
The Korean import has a wide array of skills, most of which she usually keeps hidden until needed. One skill that's no longer hidden is her ability to speak English, which not only helps the team's PR but also allows her to respond to the hecklers who are constantly criticizing her for playing while extremely pregnant.

8. Michael Dawson, CF
An adequate if overly dramatic player, Michael has the odd quirk of calling off other outfielders by loudly shouting, "Waaaaaalt!"

9. Charlie Pace, 1B
The Good: Helps attendance by bringing in scores of fans. The Bad: The fans are all teenage girls who bring an annoying Beatlemania atmosphere to the park. The Ugly: They're screaming less because of Charlie's musical prowess and more because there's a corpse at 1st base.

Starting Rotation:

John Locke
An old pro who seems to get into trouble every inning but somehow wiggle out of it, Locke's confidence on the mound is unmatched, except if he decides to wear that silly hairpiece and pretend he's twenty years younger, which happens every 3rd start or so.

James "Sawyer" Ford
A junk ball pitcher, if an umpuire ever examined him on the mound they'd find a jar of Vaseline, some tar under the brim of his cap, eight different kinds of sandpaper and maybe a dirty magazine or two. Of course, the umpires don't dare question him because of the gun in his belt.

Juliet Burke
A newcomer to the roster, Juliet intimidates batters with her brand of "effective wildness"; they don't know whether to root for her or against her, or if they're even really that interested at all. But the real reason why her opponents are so befuddled is because they're still trying to figure out why a fertility doctor has such great hand-to-hand combat skills.

Christian Shephard
Owner of the best curveball in the league, it's a good thing Christian gets a lot of strikeouts, seeing as son Jack is too busy (poorly) holding back tears to play capable defense behind him.

Baby Aaron
Aaron gets this roster spot based entirely on projecting that he's important to the storyline. Which he better damn well be!

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Top 10 Announcers In Sports Movies

We found this at Rumors and Rants which can be found here, the topic created a great topic for us here at 1320 because all three of us love sports movies and brought back great memories of some of the best quotes from each movie.

The Top 10 goes as followed:

10. Brent Musburger and Dan Fouts (The Waterboy)
9. Packed Broadcast Booth (Naked Gun)
8. Teddy Cullinane (Bull Durham)
7. Lou Redwood and Dick Pepperfield, Semi-Pro
6. Al Michaels and Bob Costas (BASEketball)
5. Chuck Neiderman (Necessary Roughness)
4. Cotton McKnight and Pepper Brooks (Dodgeball)
3. Jim Carr (Slap Shot)
2. Buck Laughlin (Best In Show)
1. Harry Doyle (Major League)


I'd post some of the best quotes from these movies but then the blog would become full as its an endless list.

Mr. Favre Please Pick Up Your Locker

It appears the Packers still have not gotten over the fact that Brett Favre is done with football as his locker is still intact with his name across the board and even his shoulder pads are still hanging from the hook!

Justin made a great analogy to this situation. Its like the girlfriend/boyfriend who after a break up is still feeling the effects from the break up 6 months later. Or the classic myspace top 8 where the ex is still up there in the top 8.

Talk about a franchise that is will be cursed with a Ghost forever! Whats Aaron Rodgers think about this anyway?

Quote Of The Day-Wednesday Edition

Justin went off on Madden Haters and the image for Hockey Players on Wednesday's show.

High School Sophomore Basketball Star Followed By Cameras

Found this on Rivals.com and thought it was something pretty darn interesting. Apparently a movie production company has gotten in touch with a San Diego area High School Sophomore basketball player named Jeremy Tyler to follow his life in and around basketball as he goes from a prep star to college star to even maybe NBA'er.

To read the story click here

"My life has a good story to it – the way I carry myself and the way my team is getting to travel around the nation to play and getting on television. The film company thought it'd be a good thing to catch on film." -Jeremy Tyler

Oh by the way, Tyler is the number one ranked prospect for his class of 2010 and should be a top notch recruit as a Senior.

Talk about an ego boost however but how annoying will it be to have a crew all over him.

Good-Bye Floppers!!!!

NBA has announced a change in the rules for next season, fines for floppers! That means the entire San Antonio Spurs team and other individuals across the league will need to quickly learn how to pick up proper defense as they will receive a hefty fine for any flopping they do in games next season.

Personally, I love the rule because I don't know how many times I've jumped out of my seat and pulled my hair in protest of a flop on in particular these guys....

Flopping is even in the College ranks as we can see below

Take that you Cheaters!

Early Signing Period For Recruiting In CFB?

The South Eastern Conference football coaches have decided to vote for an approval of an early signing period sometime in the late summer or early fall to go along with the current signing period which is in early February.

Is this a good idea? Not quite sure but it does raise some very interesting questions that could stem from this.

With an early signing period in place less importance on a football recruits senior season and more importance on a kid's Junior and Senior season.

Will the NCAA allow football coaches an earlier evaluation period than they get right now?

Will we see college football coaches going out and offering a freshman high school football player soon? OOOOOOh wait...we already have seen that from the Evil Empire to the north as Ty Willingham is trying to save his job.

My bad.

Top 10 Worst Sports Broadcasters

Going with the theme of the day which seems to be Maxim.com Justin found a top 10 list of the worst sportscasters of ALLLLL Time.

Here is the list:

10. John Madden
9. Walt Frazier
8. Mike Patrick
7. Billy Packer
6. Bill Walton
5. Bryant Gumbel
4. Dick Vitale
3. Joe Morgan
2. Chip Caray
1. Chris Berman

1st Place Cubs place Ban on Boos towards Soriano

Found this little blurb on Deadspin.com about the Chicago Cubs placing a ban on fans who decide to boo Left Fielder Alfonso Soriano while playing in Wrigley Field.

Surprisingly Joey the producer who is a big time Cubs fan didn't know of the ban and couldn't explain why he would need such protection.

But seriously, protection? Really? Does he confidence issues? As fans who pay high ticket prices and outrageous prices for a hot dog we should have the right to boo a player if we choose to do so!

Top 10 Scariest College Football Defenders

Since Justin loves lists and debating lists I found a list that relates to a lot of the listeners/readers since most people in Eugene are Duck fans and also anyone who is a college football fan in general.

Rivals.com came out with a "Top 10 Scariest Defenders" in college football for this upcoming seasons.


USC's Rey Maualuga was rated as the top man for this list put on for Rivals.

The 6-3, 250-pound Maualuga is physically imposing – and just plain looks mean. His play measures up to his stature. A two-time All-Pac-10 selection, Maualuga is a punishing hitter who led the Trojans in tackles last season despite being limited at times by a painful hip pointer. He posted 10.5 tackles for losses and six sacks while accumulating 79 tackles last season. This season will mark his third as USC's starting middle linebacker.

Oregon's Senior Safety Patrick Chung made honorable mention for this list as well.

When I think scary I think of Maualuga simply because the man is scary looking and hits like a truck...

Quote Of The Day

We and when I say "we" I mean myself (Intern Matt) has decided to take something completly random from the previous day that Justin said and throw it on the board and run with it.

If you like it you can keep it. If not, you can send it right back.

Here is the quote of the day from Tuesday's show.

Best Job In All Of Sports Is......

according to Justin and Maxim Magazine its the guy who's sole job is to watch over the Stanley Cup which is given to the NHL champion each year.

Maxim recently interviewed Mike Bolt about his job. Keep in mind where it goes, he goes. so there are bound to be some interesting stories.

Here's a teaser on the interview,

What kind of action has it seen?
It's been used to chill champagne... Doug Weight [of the Hurricanes] made an ice-cream sundae in it with his kids... The Devils made a margarita in it at a nightclub—they even salted the rim... Guys have taken it fishing, putting bait in the bowl... [Former Ranger] Ed Olczyk fed a Kentucky Derby winner from it. But the best is when a player walks into a bar with this thing. It's like a major celebrity walking in. It only likes being hoisted by the winners, though—you have to earn the right to hoist it.

Interview

I think I could come up with a few places I would want to take it and he get some good stories to tell...

You Make the Call...

So, some of you very diligent bloggers out there beat us to the point, but obviously there was a bit of controversy in last nights Spurs/Lakers game.  

(highlights from the game, watch the final play if you don't know what this post is about)

The final call was not one at all as refs let the contact from Derek Fisher slide and the Spurs lost the game.

Do you side with media people saying Brent Barry didn't sell the foul? Do you agree with NBA officials and there was no foul? Or do you think it was wrong all together and there should have been a foul?

So many options so little time...

NBA Franchise's Top 5 Players

USA Today came out with top 5 players in each NBA franchise in NBA history. Its a great cooler talk conversation and producer Joey and I(Intern Matt) have discussed a few guys missing from a few teams and Justin has given his view on what team has the best roster and who else should be listed and gave a slam on my former Sun Tom Chambers.

To check out the entire list of each team click here.

Justin Myers
Bulls

1. Michael Jordan
2. Who Cares
3. Who Cares
4. Who Cares
5. Who Cares

Side note: Justin copped out and told me to put the starting five of the '96 team as they were the "greatest" in Justin's words, but then decides the Bulls only need Jordan as he can guard everyone and he doesn't miss a shot. Ever.

Joey The Producer

Blazers
1. Clyde Drexler
2. Terry Porter
3. Bill Walton
4. Cliff Robinson
5. Jerome Kersey

Intern Matt

Suns
1. Kevin Johnson
2. Steve Nash
3. Dan Majerle
4. Danny Manning
5. Charles Barkley

Give us your top five players for your favorite team or rip our lists to shreds!

NBA Needs To Clear The Air of Conspiracy & Others

Intern Matt here,

I am a big supporter of the conspiracy that the NBA fixes NBA playoff games to allow certain teams to continue moving on in the playoffs or to win the entire playoff.

Here is a great article from the Tacoma News Tribune that goes into good detail about how "strange and ironic".

I still to this day believe the NBA had a mission to take out the Phoenix Suns (who is my hometown team and favorite) in the 2007 playoffs and found any reason to help and aid the San Antonio Spurs win.

My contribution to this article is the fact that David Stern the NBA Commish stated that any player who takes a step onto the court who isn't playing at the time will be suspended for the next game. In a game in San Antonio Robert Horry hip checked Sun Steven Nash that provoked a bench clearing situation but no punches were thrown as coaches were able to get the players back to the Suns bench before the players(Diaw and Stoudemire) made it far onto the court.

Fast forward a year and into the first round the Celtics and Hawks had a similar instance where the bench was cleared from the Hawks and a few players stepped onto the court. Stern went back and looked at things and said it wasn't necesarry to suspend any players even though they broke the rule that Stern said was enforced to a "T" the year before.... HMMMMMMMMMM

Celtics Getting A Tad Cocky

According the Deadspin.com the Celtics are now selling NBA Eastern Conference Champion T-Shirts inside a Disney ESPN Store inside the Walt Disney World Park.

Its one thing to make two shirts for both teams playing but its another thing to sell them to the public before the Eastern Conference Finals are even over.

This also spurs even more thought into the idea that the NBA front office and commish David Stern is working with the media to have "certain teams/markets" in the NBA finals....

Gas or Charcoal

(Justin from this weekend)

Question of the day gang for the first day back after Memorial Day Weekend as you "bloggers" or "listeners" watch the clock on your computer or watch ticks closer and closer to 5 O'clock when you get off work.

This weekend and whenever you BBQ did you use Gas or Charcoal and why?