The Weekly Shakedown
Feb 8th 2008eWeekly Shakedown & Steroids & Football
(Every week there are a number of stories slip through the cracks here at ShakedownSports. These are just a few of them.)
–Remember Brock Lesnar? He’s the former college and WWE wrestler who once tried to make the Vikings as a defensive lineman. Now he’s an MMA fighter and he just lost his debut. Not everything in this world is as easy as sacking Damon Huard.
–Rutgers coach Gregg Schiano has been using a helicopter to visit potential recruits in New Jersey and New York. Schiano says that not only is it much more efficient, but the “wow” factor of landing a helicopter on a football field is also useful. I don’t know if the “wow” factor actually has an effect, but the helicopter is definitely better than Schiano’s old strategy of showing up in an old Chevy reeking of New Jersey factory waste.
–Kobe Bryant is going to participate in this year’s three point shooting contest. I’m assuming Bryant’s publicist decided that since his client is attempting to exude an “I’m not a rapist” persona, it would be beneficial for him to stop repeatedly shafting his fans.
–Maurice Greene, the sprinter with a tattoo proclaiming himself the “Greatest of All Time,” is retiring. Greene cited nagging injuries for the decision, but we all know the real reason—he has to wait too long to take locker room shits because all the stalls are full of people injecting themselves with steroids.
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