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PEREIRO WINS THE TOUR DE FRANCE

What an incredible finish, man i love cycling. Oscar Pereiro is scheduled to receive the final yellow jersey in a ceremony in Madrid this evening!! Just because the actual race ended and a champion was crowned in July 2006 that does not dimish the win at all in my book. Hopefully Sportscenter leads with Oscar flying down the Champs-Élysées on that warm Paris afternoon in 06'.


In a related news item, Bud Selig is holding a press conference tomorrow afternoon to announce that Greg Vaughn will actually be named the 1998 National League Home Run King (although he finished third behind Big Mac abd Sosa). Exciting times indeed.







This all got me thinking and I decided to create a top 10 list of the biggest frauds of the year thus far:

10) OJ Simpson -- recent brush with an odd armed robbery or whatever it was simply serves as a reminder that the Juice always belongs on the list, he is the incumbent

9) Marion Jones -- the tears have resulted in some leniency from me here. Coughed up 5 medals recently after admitting she lied to federal prosecutors about taking steroids, or cream or whatever it is that athletes take these days

8) Kelvin Sampson -- basketball coach who, just last year, managed to parlay getting nabbed by the NCAA in recruiting violations at Oklahoma to a raise and one of the best jobs in the country as the head coach at IU. This week he apparently gets caught making improper phone calls to recruits -- can't say the that the Hoosiers didn't know what they were getting though

7) Steve Downie -- this months flavor of the month in giving hockey a bad name by acting like a total goon. This Flyer gets a 25 game ban for an awful behind the net hit on Ottawa's Dean McAmmond , IN AN EXHIBITION!

Just terrible..

6) Bill Belicheck -- great rack, bad guy. Not bad enough that he cheats his stones off -- but the smugness and arrogance in which he does it in really gets my goat. Plus I simply can't let my hatred for the Patriots and Bob Kraft go.

5) Tim Donahgy -- NBA ref gets involved in the mob and plays favorites during games for profit. The no traveling and defense thing is rather annoying -- but this is a bit much.

4) Floyd Landis -- not malicious and really didn't hurt anyone. However to decide to cheat in a sport that you simply can no longer do it in, what gives? I'm sure the appeal process will vincdiacte him though (by that time i may have tennis start nikolay davydenko to substitute in). Seemingly the strongest drug testing in the world in cycling and you still do it? Even Lance had the decency to pass a test here and there.

3) Pacman Jones -- this former NFL and current "TNA wrestler" has been interviewed a dozen times by police for various matters and arrested 6 times all in the last couple of years for his antics. All of the incidents reportedly happen in or in the parking lot of strip clubs, Patrick Ewing watch your back.

2) Barry Bonds -- not violent once again -- but breaking long standing records involving America's past time with a neck 6 times the size that it was when you broke in with the buccos is in poor taste. Plus Barry is a total jerk.

1) good old Ronald Mexico, Vick's exploits are just incredible..no words for what he has done.