Chip off the old Brock
Brock Lesnar, a 295-pound World Wrestling Entertainment champion, is trying to make an NFL roster despite not playing football since high school. So serious is he about his goal, he walked away from a seven-year, $4.5-million wrestling contract to chase the dream.
Lesnar, a former NCAA heavyweight wrestling champion and self-described “blue-collar redneck,” is certainly built to do some damage. He bench-presses 475 pounds, squats 695, and looks as if he doesn’t have an ounce of fat on his 6-foot-3 frame. He’s also got the demeanor.
“If it was legal and I wouldn’t get in trouble, I’d pick a fight on every street,” he told ESPN.com. “If I wouldn’t lose any money or nothing, I would fight. I’d fight every day.”
Does the term “steroid rage” apply here?
Dribble-drive
Spotted last week at Rainer Beach High in Seattle: Will Conroy and Nate Robinson of Washington, Jamal Crawford of the Chicago Bulls and Lodrick and Rodrick Stewart of USC.
But a look outside the gym caught the attention of Dan Raley of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
“It’s hard to say which is more impressive – all of the basketball talent collected inside or the fleet of cars parked just outside the locker room door, some on the sidewalk,” Raley wrote. “Crawford is driving a new cream-colored Jaguar, the twins a red Hummer and Conroy a new white Touareg.”
Draw your own conclusions.
Clothes call
Joe Hawk of the Las Vegas Review-Journal is gearing up for the Olympics:
“Athens was the site of the first Olympic Games. But did you know the first competition took place in the nude? … That might have been fine for some track events, maybe even for some field events, but thankfully Games officials came to their senses before the following were added: fencing, team handball, weightlifting, the vault in gymnastics and any equestrian jumping.”
The last word …
“As per Kobe Bryant’s orders, the Lakers … traded Shaquille O’Neal to Miami. “Talk about an impact player. Florida instantly moved to 18th from 27th on the list of the most obese states in the union.”
Jim Armstrong, AOL sports