This has been everywhere already, but it’s still Anna K in a catfight at some thing in New York Las Vegas, so that stays fresher than other bits of news like that one guy with the fake nose dying. From yesterday’s Page Six:
Kournikova and her pals were partying at Lavo after attending the Hardbat Classic table tennis tournament when a woman at the next table “threw a drink at Anna. She felt Anna was invading her space,” our source said. Kournikova “sprung into action” and starting screaming at the woman and shoving her. “It was a big fight,” the spy said.
Whatever. Hollywood Tuna had some images of Anna K entering the event. I guess expecting someone to get their clothes ripped off was wishful thinking on my part, but that’s really the only reason anyone cares about Kournikova. This won’t qualify as sports news next time. Unless she gets her clothes ripped off. That’s always timely.
Here’s a little something from the vault to send you on your way this Thanksgiving: Stacy Keibler versus Trish Stratus for the WWE ladyweight championship some years ago, which was apparently decided in a large tub of gravy. Oh hey, but first, they should sit down to this large feast carefully laid out next to the ring. No chance of that becoming a food fight. No sirree.
I’ve never found pro wrestling remotely entertaining, but this manages to do it for me, despite the egregious waste of mashed potatoes. Still, I would have liked to hear the announcer say, “Watch out! She’s got a turkey baster!”
Raiders coach/dead man walking Lane Kiffin gave his usual Monday press conference, which as I understand it was mostly him trying to find new different ways to say, “It’s out of my control, I can’t worry about it, and there’s nothing I can do but keep doing my job” when reporters asked him about his impending firing.
Afterwards, Raiders official John Herrera blew up at San Jose Mercury News columnist Tim Kawakami. Kawakami tells the whole story at his blog, but here’s the meat of it:
You’re a liar,” Herrera shouted. “You built a whole column on a lie…” [...]
Kawakami put his hand on Herrera’s arm in a peacekeeping soothing way and said, “Calm down.” Herrera violently shook it off. “Get your hand off me,” he shouted. “Get your (bleeping) hand off me.”
To which Kawakami replied, “Do you want to take a punch at me?”
“Yeah, I’d love to.”
And then I heard Kawakami say, “I’d love to own part of this franchise,” meaning if a Raider official slugged him he could sue.
All this because Herrera denies Raiders officials circulated an ESPN story critical of Kiffin, while Kawakami alleges that Herrera himself was the one who passed it out to the media. “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” Oh, SNAP! You see what I did there? I called Herrera a woman! That’s a burn.
[Deadspin]
There's a big hubbub-ado-kerfuffle in the blog world today, as Chicago sports reporter Mike Nadel's game report of last night's Cubs-Brewers tilt came with an extra helping of catty bitchiness towards ESPN's Erin Andrews. Here's the meat of his displeasure with Miss Pageviews [paragraphs compressed]:
Moments later, the blonde reporter was chatting with Alfonso Soriano. At one point, she placed her hand suggestively on Soriano's left bicep. Was I reading too much into all this? I don't think so. I've been a paid observer for a long time … and I wasn't exactly the only one who noticed.
As two Cubs stood near their lockers, one asked the other: "Hot? Or just attractive? Does she do anything for you?" The inquisitor then made eye contact with me as if saying — to use a term my uncle might have — "Hubba-hubba!"
This went on for at least an hour. Finally, Piniella emerged from his office, ready for his dugout media session. As he turned the corner, there was Andrews in all of her bare-legged, high-heeled, low-necklined glory [pictured, left]. "Hey, hey, hey! Look at this!" Piniella said, loudly and excitedly. "Are you doing a baseball game today or a modeling assignment?"
Fair question. I have seen Andrews at many events in recent years and this was the first time I had witnessed anything quite like this, which is why it seemed so bizarre. Did she really feel playing the sexpot was necessary to practice journalism?
NEWS FLASH: Room full of men notices attractive blonde woman dressed in summer clothes. ROWR! HISS!!! Sounds to me like someboooooodyyyyyyyy's jealouuuuuuuuussss! Hey Erin, stop taking all the attention away from the balding white men in the press, will ya?
ROWR! HISSSS!!! Buckle up, everybody, IndyCar competitors Danica Patrick and Milka Duno had an altercation in Ohio this weekend, when speed princess Danica didn't like fiery Latina Milka's slowocity on the track. Tempers flared, and the passion was undeniable.
“She came to my team and our pit box in a very bad way with bad words,” Duno said. “If you come in a nice way, perfect, we can talk. If you come in a bad way, you are going to find my bad side. I don’t like drama, and I told her ‘go away, you are not welcome.’.”
Patrick said she didn’t regret her action… “Unfortunately, things involving me tend to evolve. I’m on the hot seat when I do something and when others do something (connected to me). It’s kind of the line that I walk because I’m popular.”
Duno acknowledged she was struggling in her first Indy-car event at the track, but she issued a warning to Patrick… I don’t like the show she likes in every race weekend,” Duno said. “She can push the guys because they cannot do anything to her, but she cannot push me… I know if somebody pushes me and finds my bad side they are going to get a problem.”
You know what would make this better? If we had video of Danica approaching Milka, then Milka getting bitchy and throwing a towel at Danica, then Danica swearing at Milka after she walks away. Oh wait a second, WE DO.
Eh, needs more hair-pulling and clothes-tearing and passionate, angry lesbian sex.
[Fan IQ]
Randy Couture may be one of the greatest fighters in UFC history, but on Saturday night it was his wife Kim who had the attention of the mixed martial arts world. And not in a particularly good way. Kim Couture made her pro debut against fellow rookie Kim Rose, and Rose left Couture worse for the wear in winning a unanimous decision.
As the bout opened, [Rose] came storming in with an overhand right that found its mark and crumbled Couture to the canvas. She immediately followed with a flurry of hammer blows, but Couture somehow held on and weathered the storm.
Little did anyone know at the time, Couture not only suffered a broken nose in the exchange, but the bone-crushing overhand right, according to her Xtreme Couture teammate Brice Ritani-Coe, actually split her lower jaw bone in the middle of her chin.
So… I guess props to Couture for going the full three rounds with a broken nose? I've never been punched in the nose, but I can imagine the pain. I popped a zit inside my nostril once, and I cried for like 30 minutes.
[Flatusyahu via on 205th; lame video at FanHaus]
