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General Sports

May 7 2009 episode of Poor Man’s PTI

We’re in the thick of NBA playoffs, NHL Playoffs, and a bizarre story about Dirk Nowitzki’s gf/fiancee?/baby mamma? Cristal Taylor You can download this week’s podcast directly (running time 90 mins) or subscribe to the feed.

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This week’s topics include:

  • What is Dirk Nowitzki doing with a woman with 10 aliases and 8u warrants?
  • NBA Playoffs: Boston-Orlando and Houston-LA
  • Stat Boy explains why Mine That Bird could save racing
  • That’s just Manny Being Barry
  • Alex Ovechkin’s death thread
  • Sidney Crosby’s whine
  • A-Rod fatigue
  • Arsenal fan kills himself after loss to Manchester United
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General Sports

Manny (Brett- and Chichester) being Manny (Brett- and Chichester)

By Ryan P. McGowan

They say celebrities always die in threes, such as my personal favorite celeb death trio: Jacques Cousteau, Jimmy Stewart, and Gianni Versace in June/July 1997.   And since Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes died within one day of each other, if you’re an overweight, middle-aged black comedian, I’d make sure you are within an arms’ reach of a defibrillator over the next few days.

Apparently, celebrities get overexposed in the media in threes as well.  Like George Costanza in velvet, I have ensconced myself in wall-to-wall coverage of Manny Ramirez, Brett Favre, and “Clark Rockefeller” over the past couple of weeks.

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Boston Red Sox

Slugger? Yes. Attention Seeker? Probably Not.

By Rob LaBrie

As if Manny Ramirez wasn’t unpredictable enough, now he’s so unpredictable, we can’t even predict his unpredictability.  What?