Jon Jones and Chael Sonnen are on weight and ready to go tonight for their big showdown in New Jersey for the UFC light heavyweight title. Can ‘The Gangster from Oregon’ shut down ‘Bones’ Jones? No one in the UFC seems to have an answer for what Jones throws at them but Sonnen came soooo close to beating a supposedly invincible Anderson Silva two years ago as well when no one thought he had a chance. It should be an entertaining fight. Could it be “one more for the bad guy?”
Tonight is the night that NFL fans have been waiting for ever since the Super Bowl. And depending on whether or not your team made the playoffs you have been waiting for it since the end of week 17 back in January. Kansas City, Jacksonville, and Oakland have the first three picks and are hoping to turn around their franchises tonight by picking the right players for their systems. If you want to watch the draft live it will be televised on ESPN and NFL Network at 8 PM ET live. It is available online too if you know where to look.
You could watch the event on ESPN’s streaming site or you could check out NFL.com where it will also air live. You could also go to a sportsbar like Hooters or Buffalo Wildwings to watch it with other fans. Most NFL teams have viewing parties in their towns for fans to gather and cheer for their newest player. You can check out the message boards on Rivals to see just where everyone is going in your town.
Eric Fisher, Luke Joeckel, Sharrif Floyd, Star Lotulelei, Geno Smith, and Dee Milliner are thought to be some of the first college players selected once the draft gets underway in New York.
Manti Te’o was the runner up for the Heisman trophy and a sure fire first round NFL draft pick before the BCS Championship game against Alabama. But as we all know Te’o didn’t play very well and then the world found out about his imaginary girlfriend. Then after a disappointing showing at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis the Notre Dame linebacker could fall out of the first round altogether.
Now Sports Illustrated is reporting that Chicago is looking at Te’o late in the first round at #20 should he still be available when the Bears pick at that spot. With the loss of perennial All-Pro Brian Urlacher the Bears have a massive hole to fill. Jay Cutler definitely needs help on the offensive line but should a stud linebacker be there late in the first round he could be too good to pass up.
We’ll see in a few hours just how it will shake out. Eric Fisher is thought to be the first pick by Kansas City in what is a mild surprise considering how much Luke Joeckel had behind him the past few weeks. Sharrif Floyd from Florida could go to the Raiders at #3 but you never know what will happen. A trade could mess up Mel Kiper’s draft board in the first few picks.
Justin Blackmon modeled the Jaguars new uniforms today as the team unveiled the changes to the media. Since Nike took over the uniforms from Reebok only the Seattle Seahawks did a complete overhaul. And as we all know Seattle went on to make the playoffs and come pretty close to making it to the NFC Championship game. Jacksonville needs a little more work but you never know what some new duds could do for the mojo in the locker room.
“As players, this is something we look forward to. It is always fun to have something new and different that you can call yours. I need a nice, tight fit so I can reach out and stretch in different ways,” he says. “I want to have a jersey I can put on that basically feels like I’m not wearing anything, that you can do all the things outside of the jersey as in the jersey.”
“It gives the fans something to look forward to. When you have options, you let them try and figure out what we’re wearing and nobody knows what we are going to come out in. I’m sure we’ll mix it up during the season.”
In addition to the new uniforms Jacksonville also got a new cooler logo. The logo looks a lot more like an actual Jaguar than a cartoon.
SAN DIEGO (CBS/AP) — 240-pound Padres slugger Carlos Quentin bull-rushed and wrestled Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander Zack Greinke to the ground after getting hit by a pitch, leading to a bench-clearing brawl between the teams.
Cy Young award winning pitcher Zack Greinke injured his throwing shoulder last night in a bench clearing brawl against the San Diego Padres. Greinke hit Padres outfielder in the shoulder Carlos Quentin in the bottom of the sixth inning to start a huge brawl that was all over the news this morning. Now it is being revealed that the Dodgers ace has suffered a broken left collarbone and will miss a signifigant amount of time with the injury.
According to Greinke after the game he didn't throw at Quentin on purpose.
“The only thing I’m going to say about the whole thing that happened there. is I’ve never hit him on purpose. I never thought of hitting him on purpose.”
But Quentin saw things differently;
“It’s unfortunate. It could have been avoided. You can ask Zack about that. For me, I’ve been hit by many pitches in my career. I think you guys know that. I can tell you I’ve never responded in that fashion, so you guys can do your homework on that. For me, the situation is done. That’s it.”
The two teams will meet again next Monday and you can bet there will be some retaliation.
You would think a starting quarterback at a bigtime college football program would be able to throw a baseball from the pitcher’s mound all the way to home plate. Not Denard Robinson, the stud Michigan QB. He attempted to throw out the first pitch in Detroit before the Tigers game with the Blue Jays.
Robinson is projected anywhere from a third round to a fifth round pick. That’s if no NFL scouts saw this video. He could drop to an undrafted free agent if this gets around NFL locker rooms.
Finally, the Rock has come back to Wrestlemania! After defeating John Cena in last year’s main event Dwayne Johnson returned to the WWE to defend his WWE title he won by defeating CM Punk against his Fruity Pebble rival. Cena talked for a year about how he would defeat the Rock and send him back to Hollywood. Unfortunately for Cena the Rock didn’t get the memo and forced him to eat humble pie all year. But after Cena won the Royal Rumble he earned the right to face ‘The Great One’ at Wrestlemania 29 on more time.
Did Cena finally figure out how to beat the Rock or did Rocky electrify the millions and millions of the Rock’s fans by beating Cena’s candy ass one more time? There had to be a decisive finish and we now have a definitive champion. To see how it all went down at Wrestlemania 29 check out the video below.
CM Punk had it coming. After almost a month of running his mouth about the late Paul Bearer you knew the Undertaker was ready to unleash hell on the former champion. But after Monday Night when Punk poured Bearer’s ashes out of the urn and all over the Undertaker Wrestlemania 29 got even more personal. Punk wanted to get in the Dead Man’s head and he may have bitten off more than he could chew.
Did CM Punk finally snap the Undertaker’s unbeaten streak and steal the show or did Taker add another victim to his resume on the biggest show of them all. You knew it would get physical. Check out the video below to see exactly what happened and how it went down at Metlife Stadium.
What do you do if you are stuck at home with the family and you want to get out and watch The Rock face John Cena one more time in the main event of Wrestlemania 29 at the Metlife Arena? Brock Lesnar will take on Triple H and could end his career and you can’t forget about the Undertaker vs. CM Punk. It’s a stacked card. What do you do? You could get out and go to local bar like Buffalo Wild Wings or Hooters that will be showing the event and spend a your entire paycheck on chicken wings and beer or you could suck it up and shell out 50 or 60 bucks to see the show in your own living room where the beer is free. Luckily we live in the age where you can find anything online if you know where to find it.
The WWE has really made it easy for you to find out where to watch it online and elsewhere and how to order it. You can go their website for all the different places it is shown live around the country. DirectTV, Dish, Comcast and just about every other provider will have it available for you to purchase. You can even order it on WWE.com for $54.95. It may not be on the bigscreen in your living room but it’ll have to do on your laptop.
If you can not afford to pay for Wrestlemania 29 there are sites on the internet that will offer it but it will be a pirated stream and not very good quality. Sites like Justin.tv or Sopcast usually have feeds up but they get taken down usually pretty quickly. My favorite option is to wait until the next day and download it off a torrent site. If worst comes to worst you can always watch Monday Night RAW the next night to see exactly what went down.
You can watch The Miz vs. Wade Barrett for the Intercontinental belt for free on Youtube or the WWE’s Facebook page. It will begin at 6:30 PM
You could always hop on your private jet if your pilot is on call and head to New Jersey if you want to see the show in person but tickets are sold out. But if you have a private plane chances are you won’t mind paying high prices from a scalper for tickets to get in the show.
Here is the card for Wrestlemania 29
The Rock vs. John Cena
Alberto Del Rio vs. Jack Swagger
Triple H vs. Brock Lesnar
The Undertaker vs. CM Punk
Ryback vs. Mark Henry
Kane and Daniel Bryan vs. Dolph Ziggler and Big E Langston
Sheamus, Randy Orton, and Big Show vs. Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose, and Seth Rollins
Wade Barrett vs. The Miz for the Intercontinental Title
Chris Jericho vs. Fandango
Brodus Clay, Tensai, Cameron and Naomi vs. Damian Sandow and Kody Rhodes and the Bella Twins
Brendon Ayanbadejo has been a huge supporter of gay rights. There were rumblings that a gay man was going to come out and make himself known around the same time the Baltimore Ravens were going to release him a few weeks ago but it never happened. Ayanbadejo is married and has a child so it’s doubtful he would be the guy to come out.
Yesterday he told the Baltimore Sun that up to 4 players were considering coming out on the same day as a sign of solidarity with one another.
“I think it will happen sooner than you think. We’re in talks with a handful of players who are considering it. There are up to four players being talked to right now and they’re trying to be organized so they can come out on the same day together. It would make a major splash and take the pressure off one guy. It would be a monumental day if a handful or a few guys come out.”
Ayanbadejo has been so supportive due to his upbringing as a child who was the product of an interracial marriage. He sees gay rights as a similar issue to racism.
Last week for 49ers offensive lineman Kwame Harris came out of the closet although it had been rumored for a while after he was arrested for beating his boyfriend.
It’s inevitable that someone is going to come out. Now it’s looking like sooner than later.
