Stunning revelation coming out of Miami, where the Blue Jays are taking on the Marlins and Fidel Castro’s mate Ozzie Guille (sorry, too soon?) As regular followers of Bluetoro know, your Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Brett Lawrie is a fan of the Miami Heat.

With Lebron James and company having the chance to clinch the NBA title on their home-court in game five, sources tell me Lawrie faked his injury during Wednesday’s loss against Milwaukee so he would be free to watch the following night’s action in Miami.

Obviously, after featuring in Friday’s line-up against the Marlins, I can only surmise that everyone’s fourth-favourite Canadian* (after Pamela Anderson, William Shatner and Michael J Fox) suddenly realised the Blue Jays weren’t actually playing on Thursday night, thus leading to a miraculous recovery.

Unfortunately, much like Roger Goodell and the NFL’s ongoing bounty scandal, I can’t actually produce any hard evidence to substantiate this claim.  Okay, I have to go now as apparently Bud Selig is holding on line three for me.

* I assume everyone is in agreement that Martin Short is bottom of the list.

Photo: Keith Allison – Flickr

• By paul.taylor
• June 23, 2012
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It is today that Nike and the NFL will unveil the new uniforms for the 2012 football season.

In deed, Nike won the bid versus Reebok, which means that all of you who bought NFL jerseys recently, will look outdated already! If you wanted to buy a new Tim Tebow jersey with the Jets, might as well wait and get a Nike…probably for twice the price.

Regarding Tim Tebow, Nike is suing Reebok because Reebok manufactured official New York Jets apparel with the Tebow name after March 1st, which represented the end of their licence with the NFL. Nike is asking to redeem all the profits from those sales, and expect an immediate retractation of all such merchandises.

It is believe that Nike’s new uniform will be much bolder, but it is hard to believe it as the NFL is a very old fashioned league. We will see this afternoon.

• By Manny Frag
• April 3, 2012
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Peyton Manning finally made his decision, and he will now join the Denver Broncos. He didn’t sign his contract yet, but the Broncos announced that Tim Tebow was now on the trade market. Looks like he will have to bring his Tebow-ing elsewhere.

I guess Broncos’ president John Elway had a huge role to play in that big acquisition for the AFC team. From day one, he announced his colours and it was obvious that he had no confidence in Tim Tebow on a long term basis.

In other news, Alex Smith, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback has announced that he is looking for a new agent. Apparently, he did not like the fact that his agent, who is also the agent of Peyton Manning, had discussion with the 49ers regarding Manning joining San Francisco. It was also announced that Smith had discussions over the weekend with the Miami Dolphins.

• By Manny Frag
• March 19, 2012
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A few days ago, we learnt that Gregg Williams, the ex New Orleans Saints defensive coordinator, had a “bounty bonus” system that awarded up to 50 000$ to his defensive players, for injuring an opponent.

I was shocked to see some of the comments that the NFL players from across the league on Twitter, following that public discovery. Shawne Merriman, a Buffalo Bills linebacker, tweeted something very surprising.

@shawnemerriman: Why is this a big deal now? A bounty left me with a torn PCL…on my knee !

What? This is a big deal ! Football players should always try to hit as hard as they can to try and hurt the opponent, but never to try to injure them. Injuries will happen, but players shouldn’t set a personal to injure other players. Going after the knee or head of someone is absolutely wrong and I agree 100% with Roger Gooddell to try and ban these actions.

Football is a high speed contact sport, but shouldn’t become a gladiator sports where you get rewarded for injuring a rival.

• By Manny Frag
• March 6, 2012
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