Friday, November 16, 2007

Today's Best - 11.15.07

5. roger cossack - just when roger cossack was loading his snowboarding equipement into his suv to enjoy a nice relaxing winter, barry bonds went and got himself indicted. now, instead of getting sick air and shredding maximum snow he's forced to don his sick suit and shred this story for the next six months. while we at garbage points are not going to jump to any conclusions about bonds' guilt or innocence, the evidence clearly shows that roger is 100% guilty: of being gnarly.

4. dennis dixon - college football's bermuda triangle-like mystery surrounding it's number two ranking continued this year, as the oregon ducks lost in tucson to arizona 34-24. early in the game, quarterback dennis dixon injured his knee and the ducks weren't able to recover as brady leaf, ryan leaf's brother, took over. i guess the leaf doesn't fall far from the tree? save your boos for the rest of the list. anyways, oregon lost and now dixon's status for the rest of the season is in doubt. this likely means he is no longer the leading candidate for the heisman, but fortunately this also means he will not become the next victim of the heisman curse. somewhere yahoo! sports is furious.

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scott boras - a-rod has agreed to an outline of a 10-year, $275 million contract with the yankees, according to reports. they are also working on the details of a clause that would allow alex to share in the marginal revenue created by his home run chase. interestingly, this was achieved without the aid of his agent scott boras who was not a part of the contract negotiations. this means scott boras is going to get about $20-30 million for not helping alex rodriguez. i've never helped alex rodriguez and all i have to show for it is this briefcase and this haircut.

2. sixth men - the spurs and mavericks were one of two nba games last night and dallas made a bold statement winning 105-92. in a post game press conference, it was revealed that the specific statement was "hey spurs, we won!" the game also pitted two of the leading sixth men candidates, horse manure ginobili and jason manure terry. ginobili finished with 25 points and added nine rebounds and seven assists while jason terry score 18 points on 7-9 shooting including 4 of 5 from three. it's apparent that both are very good players who obviously are talented enough to start, but their coaches have decided to chase awards instead of wins. and for this game at least, it looks like jason terry won the battle improving him to fifth and half man.

1. jake peavy - in a season where he joined randy johnson, doc gooden, and steve carlton as the only nl pitchers to lead the league in wins, era, and strikeouts, yesterday jake peavy was announced as the unanimous winner of the nl cy young. however, the unanimous victory should be taken with a grain of salt. because if in addition to the baseball writers' association of america, major league baseball allowed the arizona diamondbacks to vote, it's likely that last year's nl cy young, brandon webb, would have stolen a few first place votes. but that isn't the case and jake peavy becomes the 12th nl pitcher to be a unanimous selection. though i wonder if he would trade it in for a playoff berth the padres frittered away down the stretch. i'm not sure if there are pawn shops out there that offer playoff berths so i guess it's a moot point.

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