The Weekly Shakedown
Feb 1st 2008eMLB & Weekly Shakedown
(Every week there are a number of stories slip through the cracks here at ShakedownSports. These are just a few of them.)
–Tom Davis (the congressman who presided over the 2005 House hearing on steroids) announced that he will retire. Clearly the pressure of trying to run the country and keep Jose Canseco happy was too much for Davis to take.
–NBA China has reached an agreement to help design, market, program, and operate Beijing’s Olympic Basketball venue. In return for the opportunity to further market itself to China, all the NBA had to do was give the country 5 million Yao Ming autographs and 700,000 Yi Jianlian bobblehead dolls.
–The Rangers retired Brian Leetch’s #2 jersey, raising it to the rafters between fellow 1994 Stanley Cup winners Mike Richter and Mark Messier. I assume the franchise will continue to live in the only successful part of its recent past by eventually retiring the numbers of Jeff Beukeboom and Alexander Karpotsev.
–A Kansas State assistant coach was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence just hours after the his team upset #2 Kansas. It’s so nice to see that even though Bob Huggins is now at West Virginia, his legacy still lives on.
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