Sexy reader Michael tells me that this is video from a semipro game in Pecatonica, IL, and we’re so starved for football right now that I’m hard-pressed to turn this away. This is Herculano DaCosta, who’s actually a defensive end for the Roscoe Rush, kicking a 57-yard field goal on one of the worst-looking fields I’ve ever seen. Okay, maybe not worse than Heinz Field on Monday Night Football bad, but it’s up there. I’m sure it was another long bus ride home for the Burlington Blue Devils, but not that I care. The fact that a team named the Blue Devils lost in this clip is really icing on the cake.
Elaine Fulps, a 60-year-old woman who attended Tuesday night's Grand Prairie AirHogs game, was rewarded by winning the evening's special promotional prize: a $10,000 funeral.
"I almost croaked many times," said Fulps, who was wearing a neck brace - the most recent effect of about 20 surgeries she's undergone for various medical problems. "God still has me around for a reason. To win a funeral."
I did this once. I rented a bingo hall and promised the same prize to one lucky senior citizen. Then I was all, "Surprise! You ALL win!" They were really thrilled until I released the hounds. Oh man, what a hoot. If they hadn't been so old and bothersome to their families, someone surely would have pressed charges.
Minor league pitcher John Odom was traded from the Calgary Vipers of the Golden Baseball League to the United League's Calgary Broncos in a deal that sent ten bats to the Vipers. That's it. Not even something sweet like vampire bats. Ten baseball bats.
"They just wanted some bats, good bats - maple bats," Broncos general manager Jose Melendez said. According to the Prairie Sticks Web site, their maple bats retail for $69 each, discounted to $65.50 for purchases of six to 11 bats.
Six hundred and fifty bucks. Dude, my life insurance company thinks I'm worth more. And I've got leprosy.
The Canadian team signed Odom about a month ago, but couldn't get the 26-year-old righty into the country. It seems Odom had a "minor" but unspecified criminal record that wasn't revealed to immigration officials before they scanned his passport… Odom said the charge stemmed from a fight when he was 17. Although he thought it had been expunged from his record, it popped up during immigration.
So he did something bad in one country and thought he'd gotten it cleared up, only to have it flare up again during immigration? Sounds like my last trip to Bangkok.
Matt Elliott, a pitcher for the Mobile BayBears (the what now?), had a rough game against the Montgomery Biscuits (biscuits?). After giving up a home run in the 8th inning that tied the game, he went to use the bathroom behind the dugout — and got locked inside.
[Elliott] went to the bathroom just behind the visitor's dugout and slammed the door with such force that he broke it. After the BayBears went down in the top of the ninth, Elliott was supposed to go back to the mound but was still in [the ballpark]'s clutches…
The game was delayed for about eight minutes while attempts were made to extricate Elliott in time for him to pitch the ninth. When that failed, the BayBears called Mark Rosen to the mound as stadium personnel continued to try to pry Elliott loose.
Elliott was finally freed after 47 minutes, just as the fire department was on its way. Rosen, meanwhile, gave up a leadoff homer in the 10th that gave the Biscuits a 5-4 win. The lesson here being: hiding in the bathroom at work is an excellent way to let someone else take the fall. That, and people trapped in small spaces is always funny.
(Via SPORTSbyBROOKS)
