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Danica Patrick on PEDs (I never said I was a role model)

Mike — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:30:03 +0000

Danica “Go to GoDaddy.com to see more (wink, wink)” Patrick’s moral compass is being questioned after her comments revealed her seemingly blase attitude towards performance enhancing drug use in sports.

In an interview published in this week’s SI, Dan Patrick asked Danica Patrick: Would she take performance-enhancing drugs if she would not get caught and it would lead to her winning the Indianapolis 500? To which she responded,

“Well, then it’s not cheating, is it? If nobody finds out?”

Danica also yapped about how Motorsports in general, dare I say, embodies deceit?

“It would be like finding a gray area. In motorsports, we work in gray areas a lot. You’re trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.”

Here’s hoping Danica stays off the drive-200-mph-more-angry juice and sticks to tweaking her catylitic converter to get that edge.

Danica Patrick says what every pro athlete is thinking: It’s not cheating if no one finds out (FAN IQ)
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Toss The Burner: Nov. 10, 2008

Mike — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:00:36 +0000

The country’s top eight female roller derby squads will square off next weekend in Portland, OR, with the title of Women’s Flat Track Derby Association National Champion on the line. The tournament will include teams from Texas, Philly, Chicago, Duke City? (Albuquerque, apparently), and of course the high-powered team from NYC known as the Gotham Girls. The Portland Expo Center is expecting upwards of 3,000 fans to come out for the event.

DerbyNewsNetwork.com has the official 2008 WFTDA Championship Bracket up on there site, and you can go log-in and edit and share your own bracket.

Stay tuned, as I try to find out if they’ll be any online or TV coverage of the tournament. And good luck, ladybadasses!

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West Bound & Down…

Mike — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:42:00 +0000

Something kind of awesome that just came on my radar…Jay Busbee at Yahoo! Sports is running what he’s calls The Greatest Driver That Never Was tournament on his blog From the Marbles.

It’s already in the second round, and today’s match-up features my all-time favorite movie character Bandit from Smokey & the Bandit facing off against Anakin Skywalker (meh).

As I could of have predicted, Bandit is throttling Anakin (84% of the vote counting mine); I wonder how my unborn son would feel about the name Burt Reynolds Hayes?

For those of you who haven’t seen the Smokey & The Bandit…shame on you. Reynolds plays a trucker – a trucker that makes me want to become a trucker – but spends most of the movie running interference in that really boss Pontiac Trans Am. In fact, after the movie was released Trans Am sales actually jumped from 68,745 to 93, 341 in 1978.

Speaking of truckers who rule hard, my one critique of the TGDTNW tourney is that Lincoln Hawk from Over the Top wasn’t selected for the field. Bogey, Busbee. Stallone would have been a formidable opponent for Reynolds I feel.

Naturally, we’re going with Bo “Bandit” Darville to win the whole damn thing.

Dem boys are thirsty in Atlanta, and there’s beer in Texarkana…