The Weekly Shakedown
Jul 27th 2007ericjhoroWeekly Shakedown & Steroids & Gambling & MLB & NFL
(Every week there are a number of stories slip through the cracks here at ShakedownSports. These are just a few of them.)
Dmitri Young in on the verge of signing a 2 year, $10 million extension with the Washington Nationals. Once Young signs the extension the team will get to work on signing a 2 year extension with McDonald’s to provide Young’s special post-game buffet.
In light of the accusations against referee Tim Donaghy, the ACC announced that over the last year it has performed background checks on officials for three different sports. The league found that with the exception of the standard cheating for Duke basketball, none of the officials have ever done anything to raise a red flag.
Ted Ginn Jr., the 9th overall pick in the NFL draft, has finally agreed to terms with the Dolphins. The reason it took Ginn so long to sign was that his agent had to do extensive research to confirm that the Dolphins had in fact been dumb enough to select Ginn with the 9th pick.
Nearly a year after being diagnosed with cancer, Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester returned to the mound and pitched the Red Sox to a 6-2 victory. Lester says that he found motivation in a hand written note he received from fellow cancer survivor Lance Armstrong. Apparently Lester felt that if Armstrong could do something as improbable as win seven Tour De France’s without being caught doping his blood, then there was no reason he couldn’t beat cancer.
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