Ever Wonder How to Squander a Large Fortune?

Have you ever asked yourself the question: How could somebody make $100 million and have absolutely nothing to show for it in less than 10 years? Isn't the impossibility of doing this what made Brewster's Millions so darn funny?

(That and Pryor teaming up with John Candy. On a side note, how much money on crack and cocaine do you think they spent between the two of them? Over or under a million?)

Well these 15 men can tell you! (As a hint, start by buying a tiger, leasing a yacht, and marrying at least 3 women without a prenup.)

Did anybody find my $400 million?

Overstock.com! Coliseum

Oh Al Davis, you senile old man! Is $7.2 million really worth naming your stadium Overstock.com Coliseum? I would say that is a big fat resounding NO! Readers, why don't we all pool our pennies and buy ourselves some stadium naming rights? J.B. Sports on the side of a stadium would be nice. Or would we go absurd like a crazy celebrity and name the stadium Apple Tomato Parsley Vodka Field? Hmmmm... too many possibilities.

Polls!

Who has a worse beard: James Harden or Brian Wilson?

Who would you be more afraid to leave your children with for an hour: Mike Tyson or Ron Artest?

Who has the worst tattoos: Bird Man (Chris Anderson) or Dennis Rodman?

These are the hard hitting poll questions that you can expect to see on J.B. Sports. To make them work, however, and to keep me motivated to keep posting, we need YOU to vote on the polls and vote often.

Oh, and poll suggestions would be great too!

Keywords: Washington Capitals, New York Rangers, and Crazy

According to the Sporting News, Rangers Left Wing and resident whiner Sean Avery claims that Capitals Center Brooks Laich bit him during Saturday's game. On D.C. Sports Bog, Dan Steinberg posted a video of the alleged incident. It's hard to tell when Avery's glove came off. According to a quote by Laich on the Sports Bog,

“And [Avery’s] fingers were in my mouth, and I remember thinking about that, that I’m not [going to be] stupid about biting a player. He was trying to eye gouge me, he was sticking his fingers in my mouth. But that play happened to me where somebody bit me and I thought it was a low, disrespectful, gutless play, and I’m not gonna do that.”

I'm sure we all side with Avery on this one. Hockey has really gone downhill. It used to be the kind of game where you could gouge someone's eyeball and stick your fingers in their mouth without worrying about them pulling a low-class move like clenching their teeth together.

In other news of the crazy, former Capitals Left Wing Donald Brashear was picked up by the Rangers for the 2009-2010 season and has been playing for Canada's LNAH for the current season. According to wikipedia, "...the LNAH is not known for its skill level. Its teams employ many enforcers and has a rather infamous reputation for on-ice antics that mostly include fisticuffs." A close friend and lifelong hockey fan described this league to me as , "Basically MMA on skates."

It should come as no surprise then that Donald Brashear has a deal to try his hand at cage fighting. This looks to be a logical career move for Brashear. He will likely do very well at MMA since it does not require puck handling. It definitely seems to match up his talents better than being a winger in the NHL.

Cuban hit in the face

From the AP, Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, was hit in the face during Game 3 of the Mavs-Blazers series. Mark Cuban owns Synergy Sports, which provides statistical analysis to teams around the league. Though the Elias Sports Bureau may disagree, and no doubt Abbott is kicking himself for not doing this himself, it's clear that, in playoff games against the Portland Trailblazers where Mark Cuban is hit in the face, the Mavericks lose.

In other news, Andre Miller lost his gum.

Soy un perdedor dolorido, bebé

St. Louis Cardinals fans get crazy with the cheese whiz Wednesday night when the Nats met the Cards. Cardinals pitcher Ryan Franklin responds to boos in his own stadium:

"You're either a fan or you're not. You don't boo your own team. I don't care who you are or what you say. Just because you spent your money to come here and watch us play, and somebody happens to make one bad pitch and gives up a homer, you don't start booing them. I've been here for five years, and four years I've been pretty good. You should go write stories about the fans booing. They're supposed to be the best fans in baseball. Yeah right."

I mostly agree with this statement. The only part that is arguable is when he suggests the fans turned on him for giving up a homer on one bad pitch. The quote should read about when, "...somebody happens to get four blown saves out of five attempts, give away a 9th-inning lead here and there, get removed as closer, and allow the Nationals a home run when you're already down by 2, you don't start booing them." It is a more difficult argument when you look at it that way. I will give him that.


I admit, baseball is not my game and the Cardinals are definitely not my team, but I can read a stat sheet. Franklin looks like he's been doing his job for the last couple of years. While I don't think a 38-year old player can rest on his laurels and start to phone it in, I also don't agree with the fans booing their own players. As far as this blogger is concerned, you stick with your team through thick and thin. If you can't stand losing, jump on another bandwagon. There are plenty of places you can voice your frustrations about washed up players and losing games, but the stadium is not where it's done. There is poor sportsmanship on the field and off, and when fans of the home team start to boo their own players, that is a stadium full of sore losers as far as I'm concerned.