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What happens to Michael Vick now after dogfighting scandal hit his rich NFL quarterback ass?

By: Syndicate

I don’t know. Maybe he’ll join the AFL or the next football league WWE chairman Vince McMahon can come up with.

Yep, Michael Vick and his career playing in NFL football is in serious jeopardy. The guy can already be out for the rest of the coming 2007-08 NFL football season and what’s even scarier is that could only be year one of Vick’s exodus away from the game.

What’s left for the Atlanta Falcons QB when this entire Michael Vick dogfighting scandal is over? As of press time, he still is the Falcons’ guy at quarterback. But let’s say the Falcons boot him out for good, is there a better tomorrow, if you will, for the poor guy?

Michael Vick still has three more years left in his contract. If he fails to play in any of those years, THAT’s including the coming 2007-08 NFL football season this September, the Falcons can make a legal case out of it, that Vick failed to fulfill what was written on his contract.

If that happens, then Michael Vick will become a free agent and should be available for the rest of the NFL football teams looking for a good QB to get them over the hump. But will any team take the risk of signing Vick?

You see, Michael Vick has become a publicity nightmare. You just know that wherever Vick goes, the ‘’People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals'’ (PETA) will be there, harassing the guy and whoever is unfortunate enough to be around him.

Besides, Michael Vick is more of a running back pretending to be a…

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Maybe the last time Quentin Tarantino visited Philippines

By: J.J. Jack

To say that Quentin Tarantino was in the WRONG place at the WRONG time could very well be an understatement.

Yep, Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino, (who I really admire now because of his unparalleled lust for violence…) for some reason, decided to visit the Philippines last Wednesday and meet the country’s president, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

Apparently, the Philippines’ president was due to award Tarantino with some kind of award for the movies the incomparable Hollywood genius came up with like Pulp Fiction and of course, Kill Bill, movies president Arroyo probably hasn’t even seen or heard about in her life.

quentin_tarantino.jpgQuentin Tarantino, probably looking forward to get this thing with the Philippine president over with and get back on a plane back to the U.S. soon, was on his way to the Malacanang Palace (that’s where the Philippines keep its presidents…) when he saw the flood waters of the country engulfing the streets.

Probably STILL determined to get to the Palace, (and probably because he hasn’t seen this kind of shit a human being has to go through just to get to his…

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After Seattle lost Ray Allen and Rashard Lewis, it looks like they will lose the rest of the Sonics too

By: Syndicate

I don’t know what the heck is going on in Seattle.

Is it because of the rain there? Is it because of the somewhat excessive use of the term, ‘’sleepless'’ whenever somebody mentions the city’s name? I don’t know, you tell me. But apparently, EVERYBODY is leaving.

After Rashard Lewis and Ray Allen left Seattle to play for the Orlando Magic and the Boston Celtics respectively, it turns out that the rest of the Sonics could be following them out of Seattle too with new owners contemplating on making a move to Oklahoma city.

The last time this story ray_allen.jpgbolted out some time last July, the team’s former owners, THAT being Howard Schultz’s group, can’t seem to come up with a deal with the team’s new Oklahoma-based owners. Well, it’s mid-August now and STILL they don’t have a deal whatsoever.

If this continues, the new owners say that they might just move the Sonics from Seattle to Boomer Sooner country, Oklahoma. Of course, that’s not a good thing if you’re a long-time Seattle Sonics fan.

‘’We didn’t buy the team to keep it in Seattle; we hoped to come here,'’ Aubrey McClendon, chief executive of…

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Iraqi football player kidnapped in Iraq

By: Seth Edward O'Neal

seth-edward-oneal.jpgThis will make you remember NOT to play for an Iraqi football team.

After the Iraq national football team won the 2007 AFC Asian Cup and have something to cheer about for a change, Iraqi football was slammed down back to reality after an Iraqi football player was kidnapped in Baghdad.

Yep, Baha Abdul Karim Darweesh, goalkeeper of the Kirkuk football club, was kidnapped while he was traveling from northern Iraq to visit some of his relatives. It seems not even their own athletes are safe from the terrorism in the country. Just one of those times that will make you realize that it’s about time to migrate to another country.

Kirkuk goalkeeper Baha Abdul Karim Darweesh was kidnapped at gunpoint by some Iraqis last week on the outskirts of Khalis. For all ya’ll who don’t know where the heck Khalis is, it’s a Shiite enclave in the volatile Diyala province about 50 miles north of Baghdad.

The Omar Khatab of the Kurdish soccer federation said that the 24-year-old Darweesh lived in the northern city of Kirkuk.

Lately, for some reason, athletes and sports officials have become targets of threats, kidnappings and assassination attempts in Iraq. Some claim that it is as part of retaliatory violence between…

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Barry Bonds gets praise from George W. Bush

By: J.J. Jack

Yep, the president of the U.S. of A, George W. Bush, praised the new MLB all-time home run leader, Barry Bonds.

THAT is despite the fact that after Barry Bonds hit the 756th home run of his career, the tabloids began screwing with his ass faster than Donald Trump would on a two-dollar Las Vegas whore.

If you ask me, I don’t know which is worse, getting blasted by almost every single tabloid in America or getting praise from it’s fucked-up president. These days, Barry Bonds could care less anymore, as long as he gets them syringes just oozing with steroids.

george_bush2.jpgOh yeah, you read it, the president of the United States of America and former owner of the Texas Rangers, George W. Bush, praised Barry Bonds for hitting No.756 to pass Hank Aaron for the MLB all-time home run mark.

George W. Bush got in touch with the San Francisco Giants superstar and told him, ‘’you’ve always been a great hitter and you broke a great record.'’

Of course, coming from a guy who would love nothing more but to kill all the Iraqis in this planet after claiming that he wants Iraq to stand on its feet again, I don’t know if he’s really…

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McLaren is INNOCENT Much to the Dismay of Ferrari

By: J.J. Jack

Yep, for all ya’ll Ferrari fans hoping that McLaren will get disqualified this season, too bad, McLaren was ruled innocent.

In what could be the biggest sham of all, McLaren-Mercedes, the same team who were using sensitive Ferrari material to get ahead of their rivals in the 2007 F1 season, was ruled innocent by the World Motor Sport Council after their FIA hearing last Thursday.

As expected, Ferrari and team boss Jean Todt was not pleased. Hell, Ferrari was so pissed off that the Maranello team felt that the World Motor Sport Council just legitimizes dishonest behavior.

ron_dennis.jpgFerrari boss Jean Todt can’t understand why McLaren-Mercedes wasn’t penalized for stealing sensitive Ferrari designs during the 2007 F1 season. Yeah sure, McLaren was guilty of having in possession of confidential Ferrari documents but because of, according to the WMSC, ‘’insufficient evidence'’ no sanction was imposed.

Jeez… I can’t blame Ferrari for releasing a statement like this.

‘’Ferrari find it incomprehensible that violating the fundamental principle of sporting honesty does not have, as a logical and…'’

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No More Virtual Gambling In the Second Life Virtual World

By: mullen

Second Life, that virtual community of, like, 8 million virtual residents who trade virtually and even have sex virtually. Now they’re being deprived of one popular virtual activity, virtual online gambling.

For un-virtually uninterested dude like me, it’s virtual insanity!

Because normal people don’t get off in the virtual world. That’s for people with no life to look forward to. My advice to these guys, go out with real people, get drunk with real people, and for God’s sake have sex with real people!

And what’s Second Life eric cartmanthe next best thing after getting banned from gambling virtually? Go to a real online casino site and play for real. If you don’t want to, well you can always spend those Linden dollars buying stocks at the World Stock Exchange.

Linden Labs, the company responsible for Second Life, has announced as its new ruling the banning of participating in online gambling activities. This comes two months after they made another rule saying it would no longer tolerate “broadly offensive” sexual content in the once free-wheeling world. Punishment for violators is expulsion from ‘The World’. story

Well if they’re gonna act like some cranky-white-right-wing…

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Judgment Day for McLaren in FIA Hearing on Thursday

By: J.J. Jack

Is McLaren guilty or not?

I guess we’ll find out the answer to that one in the coming days as the FIA hearing regarding the infamous ‘’Stepneygate Scandal'’ that McLaren found itself into begins Thursday.

For all ya’ll living under a rock lately, former Ferrari head of performance development Nigel Stepney, was accused by his own team of leaking valuable Ferrari design information to some of its rivals.

It was later known that the documents were in McLaren’s possession after McLaren team designer Mike Coughlan fernando_alonso7.jpgwas caught trying to photocopy the sensitive Ferrari documents either he stole or received from Stepney.

McLaren boss Ron Dennis will be giving his own version of the incident during the FIA hearing. If found guilty, team McLaren can kiss the valuable points they scored this 2007 F1 season good bye or worse, get banned from F1 racing for good.

FIA president Max Mosley said, ‘’The credibility of F1 and sporting fairness is at sake,'’ speaking about how important this FIA hearing is not only to team McLaren-Mercedes but to the entire sport as well.

McLaren is STILL claiming that Mike Coughlan was working alone and therefore should not put the entire McLaren team…

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Atlanta Falcons to Michael Vick: ‘’Stay the fuck away!'’

By: J.J. Jack

Yep, the Atlanta Falcons, the same team Michael Vick led to all those… um… pathetic NFL seasons, doesn’t want anything to do with him.

Well, the Atlanta Falcons doesn’t have much of a choice anyway after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell ordered Michael Vick to stay away from the Falcons training camp until the league reviews all those dogfighting allegations charged against the troubled Falcons quarterback.

In a letter from NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell addressed to Michael Vick, Goodell wrote, ‘’While it is for the criminal justice system to determine your guilt or innocence, it is my responsibility as commissioner of the National Football League to determine whether your conduct, even if not criminal, nonetheless violated league policies, including the Personal Conduct Policy.'’

michael_vick2.jpgAnd yes, it does sound like a press release justifying Vick’s hopefully temporary banishment from the Atlanta Falcons camp.

Also according to the commish, Michael Vick would still get preseason pay, whether he plays or not. And yep, he’s also asking the Atlanta Falcons organization to withhold any disciplinary action of their own until the NFL is done with the dogfighting investigation.

Michael Vick is not the only one getting fucked up by these…

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NBA Referee Tim Donaghy bets on David Stern to resign

By: Seth Edward O'Neal

seth-edward-oneal.jpgThese days, NBA Commish David Stern can only wish he had MLB’s steroid issues or NFL’s Michael Vick instead.

Yep, with news about NBA referee Tim Donaghy being investigated by the FBI for betting on the games he officiates now out of the open, NBA Commissioner David Stern is probably fucked, thinking how in the hell can he save the damn league now.

With all the problems the NBA has gotten itself into the past few years, (e.g. Pistons-Pacers brawl, the JAILBIRD Blazers, Ron Artest and Tim Hardaway’s anti-gay slur, not to mention John Amaechi being gay…) this entire ‘’NBA Ref bets on games'’ thing is by far the one that could destroy the damn league for good.

tim_donaghy.jpgThink about it, every single time say, Rasheed Wallace, argues a call, ‘Sheed can ask, ‘’What’s the matter with you ref? How much did you wager on this game anyway?!?'’ It’s going to be crazy once the brand new 2007-08 NBA basketball season gets here folks and that’s all thanks to NBA referee Tim Donaghy.

Tim Donaghy, one of NBA Commissioner David Stern’s referees, officiated NBA games for 13 seasons before resigning two weeks ago. (Probably because…)

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