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Friday Walk-Thru: NFL Notes; Labor Disputes Still Ongoing

News about the progress (specifically, the lack thereof) toward an agreement between NFL owners and the players union has come in trickles during the offseason, with the two sides going months without so much as pulling up chairs. Now that real football is about to start -- the Dallas Cowboys report for training camp...

Obama Deserves No Pass for Insensitive Special Olympics Remark

In the midst of a coaches' teleconference about 10 years ago, Nolan Richardson proffered why the conference, the SEC, in which he coached the Arkansas basketball team, was so stout. It was located in the South, he said, ground zero for slavery, and, as a result, the many black players who were the stars of the SEC were the...

John Rocker Still Throwing Racial Taunts

Update: Rocker responds.It's been a while since we've had the pleasure of hearing about racist redneck John Rocker. He must have missed the spotlight, so he apparently decided to make a mockery of himself once again. Any concerns that, as a 34-year-old, he may have developed some maturity, should be alleviated. Thursday...

John Rocker: MLB Doctors Advised How to Use Steroids Safely

Most of the conversation about John Rocker's recent radio interviews have centered on his comments about Bud Selig, and in particular, Rocker's advice that the commish "do the world a favor and kill himself." Rocker doesn't appreciate Selig's attempts to portray himself as being unaware about baseball's steroid problem,...

John Rocker: Still Consistently Inconsistent

UPDATE: ESPN ran this story yesterday evening with the "Bud Selig is a clown that should die" quote, which they then pulled from their story later in the evening. The quote is still in the New York Daily News, though no other sources are reporting it. We will certainly keep you updated in our quest to discover whether or...

Background on john rocker

John Loy Rocker (born October 17, 1974) is a retired American Major League Baseball relief pitcher who played for the Atlanta Braves, the Cleveland Indians, the Texas Rangers, and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays as well as the Long Island Ducks of the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.

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