BOOM DIZZLE SAVES THE DAY
Our bearded beast Baron Davis doesn’t limit his heroics to the court. In fact, I’m pretty sure there’s a blue cape hidden under his clothes. On October 13, Diddy was minding his own business at the Oakland airport, when he witnessed a hit and run accident involving a kid and a 62-year old woman. “To run over a kid and keep going. That’s one of the worst things I’ve ever seen,” Davis said.

The pair was crossing a walkway at the airport when an SUV driven by Cyndie Lynne Myers struck the woman and boy. The woman was thrown across the hood of the car but Myers kept driving to the short-term parking lot where she left her 1995 white Suburban and walked to the terminal to pick up a friend. (She was later arrested.) Diddy said he saw the tail end of the hit-and-run and stopped to help the boy while they waited for an ambulance. “I just wanted to make sure he would be alright,” Davis said. “My heart went out to the kid and the woman.” ‘ The boy, Nicholas Handlery, and the woman, Shirley Jefferson-Knox, are still recovering. And our beloved BD has promised to take the boy to a game once he recovers. (Insidebayarea.com)

IAN POULTER CRAWLS

If you think I didn’t have one eye on the Golf World Cup, think again. Flashkat Ian Poulter paired up with Justin Rose to represent England at the Mission Hills Golf Club in China, and although there was some wicked play from the two, they finished two strokes back behind the US and Scotland. But I’m not here to discuss the final spectacular round of play, where Scotland’s Colin Montgomerie and Marc Warren won the tournament in a play-off against Boo Weekley and Heath Slocum of the United States. What I am here to discuss is the Ian Poulter crawl. Yes, it seems that the beast isn’t afraid to get down and dirty when necessary.

Unlike Camilo Villegas, who seems to line up his putt using a Parivrtta Parsvakonasana inspired yoga move, Poulter lines his putt up while applying more of a Caturanga Dandasana inspired pose. ‘The body is held parallel to the ground by the strength of the legs and arms.’ Yoga, for those of you who don’t partake, is divided into eight ‘astanga’. Each one is interlinked; each has numerous facets that are revealed through the study and practice. And it seems that yoga and golf go hand-in-hand. The astanga include: Yama (nonviolence); Niyama (cleanliness of the mind, self awareness); Asanas (yoga poses); Pranayama (art of breathing); Pratyahra (drawing on your senses to block exterior distractions); Dharana (uninterrupted concentration); Dhyana (meditation) and finally Samadhi-this is transcending state beyond meditation where the psychological process stops as consciousness becomes totally absorbed in the soul. It is a state of truth and bliss….one can only hope more of our golf babes take to yoga (sans John Daly of course), because ain’t nothing better than watching bliss in action on the greens.

JOAKIM NOAH

Oh Noah, Noah, Noah, what am I gonna do with you? As the Chicago Bulls continue on the road to nowhere, it seems that our rookie beast has finally popped his cherry. Joakim Noah scored his first NBA field goal in a game against Denver. Hottie had been 0-of-8 (ouch) from the field in his previous five games. So to me, I was really happy for him. But seems that those big, succulent lips of his are singing a different tune. ”I don’t really care,” he said of his scoring. ”I don’t think I’m in position to be talking about it.”

REST IN PEACE

During the Lazio-Parma match in Rome yesterday, players warmed up in t-shirts depicting Gabrile Sandri (the Lazio fan who was killed by the cops). Fans entered the stadium twenty-minutes after the pitch to honor Sandri, but the most endearing tribute came from Lazio’s midfielder Fabio Firmani, who paid a topless tribute to Sandri after Lazio defeated Parma.

FIFA 2010
The FIFA 2010 football World Cup qualifying draws have officially began and I guess its time I start researching my ticket to South Africa. And I gotta thank FIFA for truly celebrating this beautiful game. While we here in the States are oh-so-busy taking medals away from people, FIFA has decided to give some away. In all, 122 former players who were in squads that won at tournaments (but didn’t play in the Final) between the first World Cup in 1930 and the 1974 finals in West Germany, will soon be receiving unexpected World Cup winners medals.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter said: “Richard Caborn brought it up by saying `it’s not right that only the 11 players got a medal’. ‘I believe that is right we will go through our history records and reproduce medals, and we will give those medals to all those who have been in the squad and not just those who were on the field of play. It’s justice for all those players and for those that have died, we will give the medal to their families.” Among those receiving medals is Pele, who will be awarded a gold medal for the 1962 final, which he missed due to injury. And if you’re keeping count- this makes three winners’ medals in his possession. (soccernet.espn.go)

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