Since SI reported on The Westminster Dog Show, I guess it's now sports news when PETA takes a break from attacking Pedro for his cockfights and decides to spend some dough on ads to fight the injustice of dog shows. Clearly, PETA also hates when animals are treated too well.
In one advertisement, PETA compares Westminster and other dog breeders to the KKK. If anyone can make that comparison in a tasteful commercial, it's the sane folks at PETA.
Although Getting Soaw doesn’t care about steroids (our motto for 2008), I couldn’t help but be intrigued by this update on Pettitte’s part in the whole Clemens saga. Not only because he admitted lying to the amount of times he used HGH, but because of where he scored the drugs from.
Andy Pettitte, who has already admitted taking HGH to recover from surgery in 2002, has now admitted to further use in 2004 for only one day; but he wasn’t supplied the 'roids by Conseco -- he got them from his father.
This immediately reminded me of one of my favorite anti-drug ad as a kid . . . I learned it by watching you!
Andrea Kramer is "offended" that ESPN has decided to cut back the roles of MNF sideline "reporters" Suzy Kolber and Michelle Tafoya. Of course she is -- everyone is offended these days about something! Kramer is offended as a woman, naturally:
Kremer suggests she's "offended" by ESPN's move because "it sets back women." Referring to herself, Kolber, Tafoya and Fox sideline reporter Pam Oliver, she says "no one accused the four of us for being on television for our looks or figures. … This isn't five years ago, with eye candy on the sidelines. We established ourselves as reporters, professionals. Now, you've completely minimized that. These women don't have to prove themselves anymore."
Actually, you kind of have to prove your worth to the telecast, don't you? And asking a player "what was going through your head?" doesn't exactly cut it these days. At least Kramer doesn't think she has a job because she's soaw, like Jillian Barberie; she hasn't become that delusional, yet.
There's nothing quite like some witness intimidation to make this ongoing lawsuit against Reggie Bush a little more interesting. Apparently, New Era Sports co-founder Lloyd Lake was set to give a deposition where he was to admit giving $291,000 in benefits to Bush's family, when suddenly he noticed that Bush's attorneys had a man with them that was packing some heat:
"The guy sat with his arms folded the whole time, staring at Lloyd. Then he opened up his jacket and you could see that he had a gun on him. I asked (Bush's attorneys) to identify him, and they refused to even tell me his name." . . . Watkins said the man followed Lake in "an intimidating manner" almost immediately after Lake arrived for the deposition . . .Hey, if it worked in the D'Angelo Barksdale case, who's to say it won't work here?
We give her credit -- at least she's putting herself out there -- but Danica doesn't quite cut it for us. She's like four feet tall and a little manly. The Champ still would, though.
All the way back in July, when we first heard of Ines Sainz, we joked that she should replace Michelle Tafoya on the sidelines during MNF telecasts. Well, now that news has surfaced that ESPN is actually considering cutting out both Tafoya and Suzy Kolber, we figured we would then need a replacement for Kolber as well; our selection was quite easy.
Now if we could only get rid of Kornheiser. 
More goodness from the SI Swimsuit issue, with a layout of some athletes' wives. Johnny Damon, Jeff Gordon, Jeff Garcia, and Carmelo Anthony are all very lucky men. Somehow, Jeff Garcia lucked out the most. We hate that guy.
Andy Roddick and his supermodel girlfriend, Brooklyn Decker, were in SoHo yesterday, standing around or something. They look a little bit lost.
Shaq practiced yesterday for the first time with his new team, the Phoenix Suns. Nobody is sure when he'll play his first game for them because he's not exactly in the best shape. In fact, apparently he's not even used to, you know, running in practice:
On his first practice, O'Neal said: "A lot of running. This is something very different for me."This little experiment is not going to work out too well for the Suns, we're afraid.
More Sports Illustrated pictures from the Swimsuit issue! This time we have some random NFL cheerleaders. We think they could have picked some better ones, but who are we to judge? Above is Jessica from the Falcons, the best of the bunch. Go ahead, find a better looking girl from the group, we dare you.
After a short six month hiatus, Getting Soaw is proud to announce it's return to the blogging world. We're sure we were sorely missed.
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