Sports At Random

- On Sunday afternoon, former NBA Referee Tim Donaghy received a couple of phone calls. One reportedly said, “You’re fired- and a dead man!” and then hung up.

They don’t have any suspects on who said that or another threatening one almost 2 hours later… but “You’re fired” and a threat to his life? Shouldn’t you check David Stern’s phone records right away? Just maybe?

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This was the advertisement on the back of my Sports Illustrated last week.

Ok, so I may have altered it a little.

- Remember back on June 29th when the Yankees/Orioles game was suspended, just as the Yankees took the lead in the 8th, due to rain? (Orioles fans were very upset, as was Melvin Mora, who got thrown out for calling out the Umpires for basically waiting to call the game until the Yankees took the lead) Well, they are picking it back up on Friday- with Derek Jeter on base and the Yankees up by 2.

I have to say, I really hate this rule. It just seems like a video game, saving it before it ends and picking right back up where you left off- even a month later. Real games were not meant to be played this way. Even when I’m playing a video game I like to start over (unless Lee Evans has 5 TD’s in the 1st Half- then it’s ok to save it for later if you have to go somewhere).

- Same-sex marriage just got a new supporter. Ron Garber is being forced to pay alimony to his ex-wife, Melinda, despite the fact that she has registered a domestic partnership and taken the last name of her Lesbian partner.

So it’s not bad enough that this Dude’s wife of 18 years and mother of his two children changed teams on him, but he has to pay her $1,250 a month for the next 5 years, too, since the California Courts don’t recognize a Domestic Partnership as a real marriage. Ron is appealing, but this is actually the law.

That… sucks.