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2009 NT S&T Sports Turkey of theYear Award
Previous Winners
2008 - Roger Clemens
2007 - Isiah Thomas
2006 - Kim Etheredge (T.O.'s publicist)
2005 - Terrell Owens
2004 - Barry Bonds
2003 - Barry Bonds
2009 Nominees:
Tom Cable/Raiders - Cable first had allegations the he punched one of hisassistants, breaking his jaw. Next, ESPN (of course) found two former girlfriends who claimed they were abused by him. Despite last week's win still sitsagain in last place. Bonus points here for Cable and the Raiders having to bench their #1 quarterback draft choice and not having a clue if he can even be anaverage NFL QB. Their #1 pick this year currently sits at a grand total of seven catches. Negative marks also for Al Davis still being alive.
ESPN - Our only seven-time nominee. (Deep breath). self-created rumors and hype machine currently are at an all-time high, "experts"continue to get breaking news stories wrong and never admit it when caught, shut down entire operation to milk the Favre comeback rumors yet again, got caughthiding news stories about certain athletes they like and don't want to anger, told us Tyler Hansbrough and Tim Tebow are really good, spent so much time(and days) on the LeGarrette Blount postgame melee that one would have never known a game was also played that night, Had Lou Holtz predict on-air Notre Damewas headed to BCS championship game, Hired Matt Millen about 3 seconds after he was canned from Detroit, interns are getting freaky with on-air talent, StuartScott continues to be employed, Chris "I've yet to get one news story correct" Mortenson continues to be their NFL expert, Skip Bayless continuesto be shown on air, and lastly now has George Smith sleeping in a tent outside Charlie Weis' house until the day he gets fired. ESPN will then act"shocked" when the firing comes and report it like it is breaking news out of nowhere and credit to ESPN.
Steve Philips -
Enough said. http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2009/10/26/news/photos_stories/cropped/steve_phillips--300x300.jpg
Rick Pitino - Any married, no-nonsense,chaplain-carrying major college coach who gets caught having sex with a random on top of a restaurant table is on this list no matter how successful on thecourt he may be.
Stephon Marbury - The man atevaseline.
Charlie Weis - It's becoming almosttoo easy to continue to list the man. We do not need to list his career numbers any longer. Gets bonus points however for fleecing Notre Dame'sadministration and boosters on his way out.
Washington ******** - Taken from lastyear's Turkey nominee comments: "Whichever team Detroit does beat next willautomatically be granted a Turkey of the Year nomination next year." Congratulations 'Skins…you allowed the Lions tobreak their 19-game losing streak. Bonus points for also losing to the Kansas City Chiefs at home Week 6.
Larry Johnson - No shock here if you havefollowed the career of LJ. But just in 2009 pleaded guilty to two counts of disturbing the peace regarding two different incidents last year with women atclubs, went to Twitter to bash his head coach, used gay slurs to the media, was banned from the team, had fans create a petition to not allow him to break theChiefs franchise rushing record (he was 75 yards away), and lastly was outright waved by the team in November. Helped his candidacy for having his final tweetto a fan actually say: "Make me regret it. LMAO. U don't stop my checks. LMAO. So 'tweet' away."
Mike Beasley - Another twitter Hall ofFamer who took to posting pictures of himself, his new tats, and apparently his weed. Typed messages describing how he is tired of it all and not sure aboutliving. Checked himself into rehab in August which no one likes to ever see but probably was the best move for him.
Alex Rodriguez - America might have shortattention spans. But NT does not. This award is for "Turkey of the Year"…. and we have not forgotten A-Roid's spring. Where it was confirmed hewas on the 2003 MLB positive drug list for taking testosterone and Primobolan, the same season he won AL MVP. Alex knew he was caught and thus proceeded tohire P.R. firms to help his cause, then blamed it on a cousin (an often-used excuse in pro sports as we know), had a hand-holding interview on it withESPN-prop Peter Gammons, had a comical news conference in spring training where "rules" were given to reporters before the conference started, and(what a coincidence) claimed the last time he ever used steroids was that one year (2003) that this test caught him. Helped to possibly avoid the nomination bywinning a ring and playing well this season however was pushed back to the front after rumors leaked of him having a painting of himself as a Centaur above hisbed.
Miguel Cabrera - Anyone who at the end ofthe season and the night before one of the bigger games (and series) of the year goes out on the town with the opposing team and gets plastered, then getscaught scrapping with their wife at 5 AM, then gets thrown in jail, then blows a 0.26 and has to be bailed out by their GM in the morning, then goes 0-4 andleaves six runners stranded on your way to blowing the division lead and season has to be on this list no matter how good a season he had.
Michael David Barrett - Do not knowwhether to applaud or condemn the man. But he was the one busted for peep-holing Erin Andrews.
Andre Agassi - Came out of nowhere tovoluntarily write a book and possibly ruin his golden boy image with America and the media. Admitted in the book and 900 interviews to doing crystal meth witha guy named Slim, lying to the ATP about it when caught, wearing a wig for part of his career, and being so distraught at one point about the wig falling offthat he claims it led to his defeat in 1990 French Open final that he just wanted to get over with. Has since received backlash about the drug use and cover upfrom former and current players and will undoubtedly be looked at differently for the rest of his life whether fair or not.
Milton Bradley - One of our favoritesexperienced a 2009 that including being sent home by his manager after a dugout outburst, had a moment where he posed for the taunting fans and heaved the ballinto the stands after thinking he caught the third out when it was only the second, and was then later suspended from the team for the rest of the season aftercomments he made in the paper about why the Cubs organization has never won. Cubs now realize he could never play another inning there for them and arecurrently burning up the phone lines trying to get him (and his contract) out of there. Stop if you have heard this before.
Eric Mangini - One of the few coaches topossibly lose his team before he even coached his first regular season game. Canned by the Jets. Hired by the Browns. Started his tenure in Cleveland off bymaking rookies drive 10 hours each way on a bus to his football camp. Then painted over a mural of Cleveland Browns all-time greats. Then fined a player $1,700for taking a bottle of water from a hotel minibar. Then had local writers stating he had already lost his team after Week 3. Then had his hand-picked GM beforced out before his first season was even close to being finished. Then had players whisper his continued lengthy practices were the reason players were dogtired. Still cannot figure who his quarterback is (who could?). Now sits at 1-9 after losing to the Detroit Lions.
Twitter - Single handedly blew up theentire sports landscape. Some say good, some say bad. The nomination here is for the Turkey angle of it, where already attention-starved athletes took to thesite to spread their message, show their pics, argue with fans, promote themselves, and have the "normal" media cover their twitter accounts like itwas gospel. Especially if the athlete gets suspended for it. We are now currently at a point where every day we get to see the blasting headline "AthleteA is going to the mall today according to his twitter page."
Others?
Please cast your vote now.
2009 NT S&T Sports Turkey of theYear Award
Previous Winners
2008 - Roger Clemens
2007 - Isiah Thomas
2006 - Kim Etheredge (T.O.'s publicist)
2005 - Terrell Owens
2004 - Barry Bonds
2003 - Barry Bonds
2009 Nominees:
Tom Cable/Raiders - Cable first had allegations the he punched one of hisassistants, breaking his jaw. Next, ESPN (of course) found two former girlfriends who claimed they were abused by him. Despite last week's win still sitsagain in last place. Bonus points here for Cable and the Raiders having to bench their #1 quarterback draft choice and not having a clue if he can even be anaverage NFL QB. Their #1 pick this year currently sits at a grand total of seven catches. Negative marks also for Al Davis still being alive.
ESPN - Our only seven-time nominee. (Deep breath). self-created rumors and hype machine currently are at an all-time high, "experts"continue to get breaking news stories wrong and never admit it when caught, shut down entire operation to milk the Favre comeback rumors yet again, got caughthiding news stories about certain athletes they like and don't want to anger, told us Tyler Hansbrough and Tim Tebow are really good, spent so much time(and days) on the LeGarrette Blount postgame melee that one would have never known a game was also played that night, Had Lou Holtz predict on-air Notre Damewas headed to BCS championship game, Hired Matt Millen about 3 seconds after he was canned from Detroit, interns are getting freaky with on-air talent, StuartScott continues to be employed, Chris "I've yet to get one news story correct" Mortenson continues to be their NFL expert, Skip Bayless continuesto be shown on air, and lastly now has George Smith sleeping in a tent outside Charlie Weis' house until the day he gets fired. ESPN will then act"shocked" when the firing comes and report it like it is breaking news out of nowhere and credit to ESPN.
Steve Philips -
Enough said. http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2009/10/26/news/photos_stories/cropped/steve_phillips--300x300.jpg
Rick Pitino - Any married, no-nonsense,chaplain-carrying major college coach who gets caught having sex with a random on top of a restaurant table is on this list no matter how successful on thecourt he may be.
Stephon Marbury - The man atevaseline.
Charlie Weis - It's becoming almosttoo easy to continue to list the man. We do not need to list his career numbers any longer. Gets bonus points however for fleecing Notre Dame'sadministration and boosters on his way out.
Washington ******** - Taken from lastyear's Turkey nominee comments: "Whichever team Detroit does beat next willautomatically be granted a Turkey of the Year nomination next year." Congratulations 'Skins…you allowed the Lions tobreak their 19-game losing streak. Bonus points for also losing to the Kansas City Chiefs at home Week 6.
Larry Johnson - No shock here if you havefollowed the career of LJ. But just in 2009 pleaded guilty to two counts of disturbing the peace regarding two different incidents last year with women atclubs, went to Twitter to bash his head coach, used gay slurs to the media, was banned from the team, had fans create a petition to not allow him to break theChiefs franchise rushing record (he was 75 yards away), and lastly was outright waved by the team in November. Helped his candidacy for having his final tweetto a fan actually say: "Make me regret it. LMAO. U don't stop my checks. LMAO. So 'tweet' away."
Mike Beasley - Another twitter Hall ofFamer who took to posting pictures of himself, his new tats, and apparently his weed. Typed messages describing how he is tired of it all and not sure aboutliving. Checked himself into rehab in August which no one likes to ever see but probably was the best move for him.
Alex Rodriguez - America might have shortattention spans. But NT does not. This award is for "Turkey of the Year"…. and we have not forgotten A-Roid's spring. Where it was confirmed hewas on the 2003 MLB positive drug list for taking testosterone and Primobolan, the same season he won AL MVP. Alex knew he was caught and thus proceeded tohire P.R. firms to help his cause, then blamed it on a cousin (an often-used excuse in pro sports as we know), had a hand-holding interview on it withESPN-prop Peter Gammons, had a comical news conference in spring training where "rules" were given to reporters before the conference started, and(what a coincidence) claimed the last time he ever used steroids was that one year (2003) that this test caught him. Helped to possibly avoid the nomination bywinning a ring and playing well this season however was pushed back to the front after rumors leaked of him having a painting of himself as a Centaur above hisbed.
Miguel Cabrera - Anyone who at the end ofthe season and the night before one of the bigger games (and series) of the year goes out on the town with the opposing team and gets plastered, then getscaught scrapping with their wife at 5 AM, then gets thrown in jail, then blows a 0.26 and has to be bailed out by their GM in the morning, then goes 0-4 andleaves six runners stranded on your way to blowing the division lead and season has to be on this list no matter how good a season he had.
Michael David Barrett - Do not knowwhether to applaud or condemn the man. But he was the one busted for peep-holing Erin Andrews.
Andre Agassi - Came out of nowhere tovoluntarily write a book and possibly ruin his golden boy image with America and the media. Admitted in the book and 900 interviews to doing crystal meth witha guy named Slim, lying to the ATP about it when caught, wearing a wig for part of his career, and being so distraught at one point about the wig falling offthat he claims it led to his defeat in 1990 French Open final that he just wanted to get over with. Has since received backlash about the drug use and cover upfrom former and current players and will undoubtedly be looked at differently for the rest of his life whether fair or not.
Milton Bradley - One of our favoritesexperienced a 2009 that including being sent home by his manager after a dugout outburst, had a moment where he posed for the taunting fans and heaved the ballinto the stands after thinking he caught the third out when it was only the second, and was then later suspended from the team for the rest of the season aftercomments he made in the paper about why the Cubs organization has never won. Cubs now realize he could never play another inning there for them and arecurrently burning up the phone lines trying to get him (and his contract) out of there. Stop if you have heard this before.
Eric Mangini - One of the few coaches topossibly lose his team before he even coached his first regular season game. Canned by the Jets. Hired by the Browns. Started his tenure in Cleveland off bymaking rookies drive 10 hours each way on a bus to his football camp. Then painted over a mural of Cleveland Browns all-time greats. Then fined a player $1,700for taking a bottle of water from a hotel minibar. Then had local writers stating he had already lost his team after Week 3. Then had his hand-picked GM beforced out before his first season was even close to being finished. Then had players whisper his continued lengthy practices were the reason players were dogtired. Still cannot figure who his quarterback is (who could?). Now sits at 1-9 after losing to the Detroit Lions.
Twitter - Single handedly blew up theentire sports landscape. Some say good, some say bad. The nomination here is for the Turkey angle of it, where already attention-starved athletes took to thesite to spread their message, show their pics, argue with fans, promote themselves, and have the "normal" media cover their twitter accounts like itwas gospel. Especially if the athlete gets suspended for it. We are now currently at a point where every day we get to see the blasting headline "AthleteA is going to the mall today according to his twitter page."
Others?
Please cast your vote now.
