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We await the great moment that will rival the meeting of the East and West railroads in Utah in 1869. When will Rajon Rondo meet Chad Ochocinco? Well, no sooner did we call for it than it happened!Rondo went to Patriots camp today and met with Ocho. Boston has not had such an anticipated moment since thunder met lightning at Concord and Lexington.Ocho has his photo taken with everyone from Bill Clinton to Manny Ramirez. How long will it be before he sidles up to Rondo? With the addition of the vaunted 85 to the New England Patriots, the likewise ...

Yes, New England Patriots fans, if Brandon Meriwether needed a soul mate in criminal mischief, the Patriots have provided it in Albert Haynesworth.Give us your remorseless, criminally charged-with-allegation, attitudinal pariahs. On the other side of the fan coin, there comes the altruism and genuine sportsmanship of Chad Ochocinco. Faced with changing his name to Smith or Johnson—or something else, equally mundane—as a Patriot, Chad Ochocinco had to grapple with the fact that the number belonged to the tall, lean, dashing Aaron Hernandez, who made a big fan impact last season, his rookie year in New England. Speculation mounted that Chad ...

The last time we saw an outfit of this caliber, Erich Von Stroheim was directing Marlene Dietrich in an orgy scene before the Hays Code changed movie history. If only we could see the jodhpurs and riding crop, we’d be convinced Rajon Rondo is the cock of the walk. Out in Los Angeles to film some kind of Nike commercial, Rondo makes his entrance on the set like Norma Desmond has returned to the Celtics stable. The ascot in Celtic green is, of course, de rigueur to any self-respecting fop of French art: jeunesse doree were the name of the ...

This past July 7, 39-year-old firefighter Shannon Stone took his young son to a Texas Rangers game in Arlington, TX, to see their Rangers play the Oakland Athletics.This perfect imagery of father and son bonding took a tragic turn at the middle of the second inning, when Rangers All-Star outfielder Josh Hamilton threw a ball into the stands towards Stone and his son. Stone reached over the railing to catch the ball and lost his balance, falling 20 feet, head first, to the concrete below behind the stadium scoreboard.This fall, caught on tape, morbidly played out for those in attendance ...

Mexico may have the USA's number in associated football (do Pablo Barrera, Giovani dos Santos and Javier Hernandez ring a bell?), but when it comes to American football, they are still relegated to second fiddle. On Tuesday, the USA, under head coach Mel Tjeerdsma, exacted some sort of payback for the demise of their soccer counterparts in the CONCACAF Gold Cup Final by defeating Edgar Zapata's Mexican national team by the score of 17-7 in Innsbruck, Austria. Former Colorado Buffaloes quarterback Cody Hawkins is the USA's main playmaker on offense. Hawkins passed for 267 yards, setting up a couple of ...

In a recent radio interview, DeSean Jackson used language that puts Kobe Bryant’s foul tongue to shame. His vile words about sexual orientation, on the public airwaves, apparently sparked outrage from his corporate sponsors.  Jackson joins athletes like Joakim Noah, unable to restrain themselves from using slurs in public. DeSean Jackson has shocked his fans with three recent tweets that do not sound like football’s holy terror. Crafted by his lawyers, keepers, or former English teachers, DeSean does not sound like his true self. The series of tweets come in a vernacular that does not in any way resemble the ...

With the recent Indian doping scandal, the Kyrie Irving-"Miss Hawaii" harassment scandal and the arrest of Anthony Galea (Tiger Woods' former doctor) for steroids offenses filling up our sports headlines, I couldn’t help but remembering Charles Barkley’s famous words, “I am not a role model.” Sir Charles was right. He's not a role model, and we sports fans need to stop thrusting these athletes into roles they didn’t ask for and can’t handle. We need to get on with our own lives and stop worrying about what these entertainers are doing with theirs. Growing up, I worshiped athletes. Back then, ...

If any player on the Boston Red Sox can make Terry Francona laugh, it is Dustin Pedroia. How unlikely is it to put the diminutive—in size, not in spirit—second-bagger into the cleanup spot in the lineup? Well, Dustin Pedroia went there, and of course, hit a home run. We keep waiting for him to come into the game in relief. Stranger things have happened in baseball.Dustin rivals Babe Ruth. During a game in spring training, he left the dugout to go get a couple of hot dogs at the concession stand. If ever there was a hare separating himself from ...

 Boston Celtics players have generally removed their team logos and pictures showcasing their uniforms, in the social network locker room, in light of the lockout. Photos of players in their respective team jerseys are now rarer than hen's teeth. Before your palpitating hearts go on a tear, please bear in mind that the modest players of the NBA may have discarded their uniforms, but they still wear fashionable clothing suitable to a runway double dribble. This may be in retaliation for the owners stripping their team websites of any and all mentions of their former players like Kevin Garnett, Rajon ...

As much as the self-feigned American public revels in a comeback story, we solicit higher ratings for the downfall of one even more. Watching hopes crumble in a Hollywood (Hollyweird if you're from Cali) fashion is best suited for an American TV landscape where reality is as popular as a colonoscopy. Enter the surreal.  Worlds where Jersey Shore and steroids are the barometers by which we judge the nature of reality. A place of boob jobs, fake tans and miniature dogs. The one year anniversary marking the Cavaliers messy fall from grace to that of NBA serfdom is not only a sour topic for its last remnants of fandom, but a juicy one ...