It is almost complete

We haven’t posted anything about Pacman Jones recently (a great rule to live by), but today is special.

Unless you live in a cave or only watch FOX News, you probably know Mr. Jones has had some legal problems.

And he’s been suspended by the NFL for the entire season.

And he then turned to professional wrestling (of the Total Non-stop Action Wrestling league variety) — from which he has since been banned by his team.

And now, to complete the sad saga, he is releasing his own rap album.

Kind of reminds us of another athlete. We don’t see this “venture” of Pacman’s panning out anymore than the wrestling.

However, clearly the most interesting thing about the new album is what it will be about:

His National Street League Records, based in Atlanta, announced Wednesday that Jones will team with producer Spoaty in a duo called Posterboyz with their first single Let it Shine being released Aug. 27. The song talks about big money, cars and jewelry.

Oh my God! Big money? Cars? Jewelry? It’s a hip-hop revolution!

Even better, Pacman may get sued by the NFL over the name of his record company:

This latest venture might cause more problems for Jones with the National Football League. Officials are looking into whether or not the record label’s name, National Street League Records, infringes on the league’s trademark, NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said.

“Taking the year off” ain’t what it used to be.

Casey Martin doesn’t know whether or not to book a tee time

Around here, we don’t really understand the disdain for Tiger Woods (posing here with his actual car for the family album).

And on top of all his dominance, Tiger is expanding into the golf course design field.

Exciting stuff.

Problem is, we can’t tell which story about his new course is true.

Just because of habit (a habit we are desperately trying to break), we first went to espn.com (ESPN is one of the only networks to which Mr. Woods grants interviews).

All the basic press conference recap was there — course is going to be in North Carolina. Tiger is really, super, extremely pumped about it. Blah blah blah.

But what kind of caught our eye was the fact that Tiger said the course would be walking only — no carts. Espn.com’s story cleared this up:

Woods and The Cliffs owner Jim Anthony said they wanted High Carolina to be a walking-only course during the news conference. Afterward, Woods clarified they’ll “strongly encourage” golfers to walk but won’t require it.

OK, fair enough. I thought the no-carts thing wasn’t very PR-ish for a first press conference. On to si.com:

The Cliffs at High Carolina will be located near Asheville, N.C., and will allow only walkers, something Woods said was key to the deal.

What? Someone be trippin’.

So, we looked around some more. Forbes agrees with ESPN, walking will only be “strongly encouraged.” Bloomberg says it’s walking only.

Strangely, all of these stories are written essentially the same, same quotes, same sentences, same analogies. Just this one line is different in each. Someone’s wrong and we want to know who it is. Could it be that ESPN got a scoop that’s actually true?

The Fynal Out: You’re outta here

Well, it’s about time Bobby.

We’ve been waiting and waiting for Bobby Cox to get ejected just one more time, and fynally, it’s happened (even if it was without much fanfare):

Fans at Turner Field on Tuesday night didn’t even know Cox was ejected for the 132nd time because the record-breaking ejection wasn’t preceded by his familiar jaunt onto the field or an arms-flailing argument with an umpire…Cox was thrown out for arguing from the dugout after Chipper Jones took a called third strike to end the fifth inning…

Congrats Bobby, that truly is a record worth recognition. We’re fairly sure there will never be an * next to this one.

Giants 4, Braves 5: Things were looking good for San Fran when Daniel OrtmeierSteve Kline hit a game-tying triple in the top of the ninth. Unfortunately, pitcher put the first two batters in the bottom of the inning on base. That eventually led to a Chipper Jones walk-off double.

Tigers 6, Indians 2 (F/10): If someone needed to come through for Detroit in the 10th, who do you think it would be? If you guess Ryan Raburn, you’re stupid. It was Magglio Ordoñez obviously (he is leading the majors in batting average). Mags’ 3-run shot in the 10th capped a 4-run extra inning for the Tigers. They lead the division (again) by a game.

Devil Rays 1, Red Sox 2: Jon Lester got a standing ovation for his first start at home, and his teammates gave the fans something else to cheer about. Consistently stymied by Scott Kazmir, the Sox managed some late magic with a Mike Lowell home run to tie the game in the 9th followed by a Coco Crisp walk-off single.

R.I.P. Phil Rizzuto

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