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WTF of the Week

Sep 1

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First, Ray Finkle loses his diamond in Snowflake’s Dolphin tank, now Kendall Langford loses his diamond on the Fins’ practice field.

The third year defensive end from Hampton lost a 2.5 carat, $50,000 diamond earring while practicing Tuesday. The Dolphins halted practice to search for the earring as Langford and teammates got on all fours to search for the rock. Other teammates began to rake the field in search of the buried treasure to no avail. The search was eventually ended when the Dolphins were called in for a team meeting.

Langford’s mistake was good enough to overtake Troy Polomalu’s $1 million insurance policy Head & Shoulders put on Polomalu’s lovely locks for our most recent WTF of the Week. This also overtook Mark Sanchez’s attendance at Justin Bieber’s Wednesday night concert at Madison Square Garden. Two pretty big WTF’s and you beat ‘em out. That a boy Kendall.

Mr. Langford, a little bit of advice: If Ochocinco is buying cubic zirconia earrings to flare himself up, why are you spending 50 G’s on yours? I’m pretty sure that if diamond earrings are too expensive for Ocho, then they are absolutely too expensive for you and your $640,000 a year contract.

Good luck on your continued treasure hunt, Kendall.

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WTF of the Week

Aug 25

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Don’t you just hate it when you have something really important to wake up for and you oversleep? I know you do, but I also bet that it never cost you $10,000,000. Well it could for Jim Furyk.

Furyk was scheduled to participate in this morning’s pro-am at The Barclay’s in a shotgun start at 7:30 a.m.

Furyk found out at 7:23 this morning that his cell phone had died overnight and that his alarm clock never went off. Furyk quickly threw on some clothes and shoes (no socks or belt) and hauled it to the golf course. Furyk arrived at 7:35 a.m. only to find out that he had been disqualified from the first of four FedEx Cup playoff events.

The PGA adopted the DQ rule in 2004 after many golfers were missing the Wednesday pro-am for reasons that were often suspect. Furyk currently sits at third place for the $10 million purse and will likely drop in the standings after missing the first event of the playoff.

 ”I’m kicking myself,” Furyk said. “I have a way of climbing into situations that are all my fault.” Furyk will be kicking himself much harder if he falls just short of the largest purse in golf.

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WTF of the Week

Aug 16

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Sunday had to be one of the strangest days of the baseball season to date. Sunday saw the nicest guy in baseball, Armando Galarraga, get in a fight with not one but both of his two catchers as his Tigers were defeated by the White Sox and continued their fall from postseason contention. While Galarraga was blowing up, Reds shortstop Orlando Cabrera was feeding balls to umpires and collecting teammates sticks as he served as the bat-boy for Cincinnati. Cabrera is currently on the DL and said he wanted to contribute in any way he could. As odd as these two situations were, the biggest head scratcher of the day came in the Minnesota/Oakland game. Through seven innings Twins pitcher Kevin Slowey had a 1-0 lead and a no-no going against the A’s. When the bottom of the eighth arrived, Slowey was on the bench and the n0-n0 was no more. When Twins manager Ron Gardenhire was asked how could he possibly pull a guy who is two innings away from history, he justified his decision saying that Slowey was suffering from elbow tendonitis and after 106 pitches his day was done. All in all probably a smart move by Gardenhire as his Twins are battling the White Sox for the AL Central crown.

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WTF of the Week: A 4th of July Without Kobayashi?

Jul 1

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This Independence Day there will be fireworks, watermelon, and American flags as usual but one very critical ingredient to this great holiday will likely be missing. Six-time Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest winner Takeru Kobayashi is in a contract dispute with MLE (Major League Eating of course) and could miss Coney Island’s big event.
 
The superstar of competitive eating is being forced by MLE to skip the event because Kobayashi has been competing in other events which is forbidden by his contract. The MLE only wants Kobayashi competing in their main event and not wasting his appetite on rice balls or Krystal’s burgers-eating contests. I’m sure the MLE is afraid of their global superstar and cash cow pulling a jaw or stomach muscle while scarfin’ down 17.7 pounds of cow brains in 15 minutes (No Joke!).
 
MLE only allowing Kobayashi to compete in their main event is like the PGA Tour only allowing Tiger to play at Augusta. It doesn’t make sense. Advice to the MLE: Take all of the publicity you can. You are Major League Eating for goodness sake. The NFL has games in Toronto and London, the MLB has games in Puerto Rico and Tokyo, the least the MLE can do is allow their champion of chow to tour the country picking up trophies. Throw that little dude a bottle of Tums and watch the Benjamins stack up MLE.
 
As for Kobayashi, he remains confident that he will be allowed in this year’s contest after his agent does some prime time negotiating with MLE. Kobayashi has even gone as far as saying “If I compete, I guarantee I’ll win”.
 
Those are big words from a little man that his finished runner-up in the last three contests that have made Kobayashi a name comparable to Ruth, Pele`, or Jordan. While Kobayashi may still be the brand name in the world of competitive eating, Joey Chestnut is now the undisputed champion of the sport’s main event winning the last three contests. This is like Shaq telling Kobe he is going to take his title in 2011.
 
While Shaq may not be able to take Kobe’s trophy away from him, Shaq is no Kobayashi. Kobayashi is Muhammad Ali. He may have lost his title and be counted out by the experts, but he will reclaim his belt and be the greatest of all time.
 
This 4th of July we may have to focus our attention on the Queen and the Brits watching the Wimbledon final instead of good ‘ol Uncle Sam and Coney Island, USA. Hopefully the MLE gets their heads on straight and allows the Japanese sensation to eat. I mean really, what’s an Independence Day without Kobayashi? Let’s pray we never find out.
-scf

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WTF of the Week

Jun 17

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The first big upset of the World Cup occurred yesterday as global power Spain was defeated 1-0 by Switzerland. European football fans don’t take losing (or even tying) lightly; ask Robert Green. As the Brits found blame in Green, the Spaniards chose to focus their blame not on the goalkeeper, but his girlfriend. Spanish goalie Iker Casillas’ girlfriend is reporter Sara Carbonero. Carbonero was doing sideline reports throughout the match for Spanish TV behind Spain’s goal and many Spaniards believe this drew Casillas’ focus away from the game. I’m betting Carbonero will be behind the Honduras and the Chile goals in Spain’s upcoming matches. If not, the number two team in the world could make an early exit.

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WTF of the Week and Top 10!

May 21

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NBA referee Joe DeRosa was suspended without pay Thursday for throwing a ball at a fan who appeared to be heckling him during halftime of Tuesday’s playoff game in Orlando. DeRosa, 53, will miss the next game he would have been scheduled to work. The video can be found on youtube Ref Throws Ball.

The one thing refs CANNOT do is retaliate. While this may be difficult, especially in a tense atmosphere, you just can’t do it. Especially when you’re throwing a ball at the CEO of Wyndham Vacation Ownership, a season-ticket holder.

And while researching this incident, I came across a great top 10 that I had to share from leeinks.weii.com.

TOP 10 FAN – REF DISPUTES:

10. Fighting father

Punches weren’t only thrown between the opposing fighters in this 2009 match between European Union super lightweight champion Giuseppe Lauri of Italy and Juho Tolppola of Finland in Helsinki. Tolppola’s father decided to take matters into his own hands. I’m guessing he hired someone to teach his son to jab, because dad’s moves were a bit stale.

9. Hail Mary headache

On Dec. 28, 1975, in an NFC playoff game, Roger Staubach threw his famous Hail Mary touchdown pass to Drew Pearson, who appeared to push off before catching the winning score. A Vikings fan created a stir by throwing a half-full whiskey bottle onto the field and hitting field judge Armen Terzian in the head, knocking him out briefly.

8. Philadelphia’s finest

On Dec. 10, 1989, in a game dubbed “Bounty Bowl II” at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, fans threw snowballs and chunks of ice at Cowboys players and game officials. Dallas coach Jimmy Johnson had made accusations that the Eagles targeted and attempted to injure kicker Luis Zendejas in the team’s first meeting that season, and he chastised Eagles coach Buddy Ryan. That was all Philadelphia fans needed to set them off. You can’t see it on the video, but back judge Al Jury reportedly was knocked to the ground by a barrage of snowballs.

7. Referee’s revenge

While it may have seemed like a good idea at first, this soccer fan learned rather quickly why messing with referees can be a bad idea. The flying leg kick didn’t help his cause, and he probably has a little more respect for the officials after the beating he took.

6. Swing and a miss

Apparently a red card means a lot more to some fans than it does the players, as this guy storms after the referee intending to inflict some pain. He may want to hop on the treadmill before he begins galloping across the field again.

5. Scrummy thing to do

Apparently the sport of rugby isn’t vicious enough, so it needs this rotund reveler to jump in and join the scrum. Luckily, he wasn’t there long enough to cause any serious damage.

4. Side swipe

This fan of soccer club SL Benfica takes a cheap shot, hitting an unsuspecting sideline official from behind.

3. Skating free

The old Boston Garden had its share of rowdy fans. I hope this fan got some ice after this crunching check into the boards, because that most definitely will leave a mark. The Bruins players stand in amazement as both refs prove more than capable of handling this fleet-footed fool.

2. Not PC at PC

Having a brother on the team doesn’t warrant walking onto the basketball court during the game to discuss a call, as was the case during this contest, on Jan. 17, 2009, at Providence College. You have to be impressed with the gall to do that on a televised game, though.

1. Triple crowned

Game 5 of the 1976 NBA finals between the Celtics and Suns is remembered as one of the best games every played. At the end of the second overtime, referee Richie Powers got in a wrestling match with a fan who rushed the court thinking the game was over after John Havlicek put the Celtics ahead (skip to the 9-minute mark). After order was restored, the Suns hit a miracle shot to force a third overtime before the Celtics finally won. (WEII).

***To see the videos please visit WEEI Sports Radio Network

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WTF of the Week

May 6

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Lawrence Taylor was arrested early Thursday morning in the suburbs of New York City in connection with the rape of a 15-year-old girl. Athletes in this day in age are falsely accused of crimes like this quite frequently but with Taylor’s past history, this one seems a little more believable. We can only hope the Hall of Famer had nothing to do with this horrible incident but early information has Taylor as the key suspect.

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