May 23, 2013

Anthony Mackie on his Lil’ ‘Pain & Gain’ Pickle

Anthony Mackie in a scene from "Pain & Gain"

*Anthony Mackie’s body may be on swole in the new movie “Pain & Gain,” but his character has one tiny little problem. Make that two tiny little problems. The actor, 34, plays Adrian Doorbal, a bodybuilder who works out at Miami’s Sun Gym with his friend Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg). Tired of being broke, Lugo comes [...]




Street Salesman Sells Ferrets As Toy Poodles?

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There are all kinds of tricksters on the streets promising authentic jewelry, a chance to win double your money and now full bred pooches. But, like all other street salesmen, one man that was promising toy poodles for sale for $150 was really selling ferrets! That’s right, he got a man to believe that the [...]




The Socialist’s Journal: What Are The Odds?

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*This will come off as hating but it’s actually realism. What are the odds that a baseball player who admitted to using performance enhancing drugs at one point in his career to live up to his contract would use them that one time only? And what if there is no real change in production during [...]




NFLer D.J. Williams Appeals ‘Non-Human’ Urine Test Allegations

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*NFL players have a new (maybe) trick up their sleeves these days. Broncos linebacker D.J. Williams tried to pass the ol’ pee test but used some non-human urine. Desperate times call for desperate measures, as they say. The football player failed the drug test he took last August, but it wasn’t because toxicologists detected some [...]




Barry Bonds’ Conviction Stands

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*He tried to fight it, but the judgment is just going to have to stick. Barry Bonds attempted to get his conviction on obstruction of justice overturned, but the judge just wasn’t hearing it. According to CNN, San Francisco Judge Susan Illston issued a 20-page order denying a new trial. In 2003, the slugger got [...]




Bonds Trial: Defense Calls No Witnesses; Closing Arguments Begin

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*After more than two weeks of testimony from more than two dozen prosecution witnesses, defense lawyers for Barry Bonds did not put on a single witness Wednesday, setting up today’s presentation of losing arguments. Bonds is charged with three counts of making false statements and one count of obstruction of justice. He told a grand [...]




Barry Bonds Perjury Trial Gets Ugly Before it even Starts

"Dreamgirls" Los Angeles Premiere - Red Carpet

*On Thursday a federal judge refused to allow the jury at Barry Bonds’ perjury trial to listen to angry voicemails he left with his mistress during a stormy nine-year relationship. Prosecutors wanted to introduce the voicemails to show that Bonds was experiencing so-called “roid rage” when he left the messages demanding to know the whereabouts [...]




Gary Sheffield Announces Retirement from Baseball

Gary Sheffield watches the Orlando Magic play the Los Angeles Lakers in an NBA basketball game in Orlando, Florida, Feb. 13, 2011.

*Gary Sheffield, who last played in the majors with the New York Mets in 2009, told the New York Post that he called the Major League Baseball Players Association on Wednesday and officially retired, reports espn.com. “I wanted to retire after I played for the Mets,” Sheffield told the newspaper. “My family said wait one [...]




Marion Jones Joins the WNBA

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 *Former track sensation Marion Jones, who was stripped of the three Olympic track gold medals because of steroid use, has signed with the Tulsa Shock of the Women’s National Basketball Association. Jones, 34, became the first female track and field athlete to win five medals at a single Olympics during the 2000 Games in Sydney. [...]