Da Shitz On Sportz

Athletes are sometimes vain, narcissistic, definitely have a high opinion of themselves, usually arrogant, and in the twilight of their careers they make stupid calls, often embarrassing themselves and others when things don’t go according to [their] plan.

The way I see it, if a hockey, football, baseball, tennis,  or soccer (really, just pick a sport) player can no longer cut the mustard because their talent and skill is diminished through injury and/or age, and it is obvious to the professional athlete, never mind sports fans like myself, than he or she should just suck it up and exit gracefully instead of not admitting that they are just not good enough anymore.

Why stick around and embarrass oneself when one no longer has the right stuff  to play at an elite level? There’s nothing like exiting a career gracefully rather than being embarrassed out of [that] career.

Tennis pro Lleyton Hewitt should be asking himself that question instead of living in the lalaland that makes him think he can still compete at an elite level.

Not even thirty years of age yet, and as far as his tennis career goes, it has all but bottomed out, whether he is ranked inside the top 100 or not. Injuries have taken their toll on Hewitt during the past couple of years, and a result of the those injuries he is no longer able to compete with his peers at the best of times, but don’t tell him that.

Not that Hewitt was as good a tennis player as he was hyped to be to begin with, but for 75 weeks beginning in November 2001, he was ranked number one at just 20 years of age, and expectations were high for him. Of course he hasn’t lived up to those expectations in my opinion.

He has been able to play some good tennis over the years, but 8 years after being number one he is ranked no higher than 59, and I’m of the opinion that he’ll be lucky if he manages to make it in the top 30 in what is left of his career. Honesty, I don’t see him breaking into the top 50 now that he has recovered from hip surgery. I definitely don’t see any more championships in his future either.

Other than the early part of his career, the guy really hasn’t amounted to too much. Sure he has been a part of or has Australia’s Davis Cup team,  who last won that championship 5 years ago,  and while he is still a member of the team, the way it is looking for Australia’s Davis Cup team these days, they are a long way from bringing home another championship.

Thinking about it, Hewitt hasn’t been able to accomplish much since Australia’s last Davis Cup championship. That’s 5 long years of nothing for Hewitt.

In the past 5 years Hewitt has managed to win 9 tournaments, none of which were Grand Slam events, the last one being in Las Vegas 2 years ago. He has managed to win a fair amount of cash during those 5 years, but since 2006 his earning capacity on hard, clay and grass courts has diminished, and I really doubt future tournament winnings are going to amount to too much.

I really don’t see why Hewitt feels he needs to stay in the game anymore, he has nothing more to prove, and realistically speaking he has nothing more to gain.

He just doesn’t have [it] in him anymore and he is to self-absorbed and high on himself to admit that.

He should seriously consider packing away his tennis gear for good and choose another career path because the longer he stays in tennis in the form that he is, the more embarrassing it is going to be for him when he is FORCED to retire by some of the younger guns coming up through the ranks. Like I said, injury and age have taken it’s toll on Hewitt.

The way DSOS sees it, right now and the way it has been for the past couple of years (Las Vegas win in 2006 being the exception) Hewitt doesn’t have what it takes to continue competing with the best of the best coming up through the ATP, and those at the top.

It’s too bad Hewitt is too vain to see that for himself.

And what about his coach Tony Roche, if he was any kind of a friend to Hewitt, he would take Hewitt aside and talk some sense into him instead of living vicariously through Hewitt. Roche himself knows that Hewitt can no longer compete at the level that saw him win one U.S Open and Wimbledon Championship, and he certainly knows that he is no longer capable of competing at a level that will allow him to maintain a top 50 ranking, never mind top 10 one.

Roche knows that after 10 years on the pro circuit Hewitt doesn’t have what it is going to take to take on and defeat the cream of the crop anymore and the only reason Roche isn’t doing anything to help Hewitt see the light is because he needs the pay check. He doesn’t care one way or the other if Hewitt is embarrassed out of the sport or exits gracefully just as long as Hewitt continues to pay him for his coaching services, which when it comes right down to his coaching, amounts to very little.

Hewitt needs to get out of the game, and he knows that, but his pride is getting in the way.

The things some violent professional athletes (especially the young, dumb and full of cum ones) will do to avoid having to obey a restraining order.

If Kate Middleton is a smart girl (and DSOS knows she isn’t) she will barricade the doors at her parent’s place in New York, and perhaps even consider hiring a couple of armed bodyguards, because the man accused of glassing her in his apartment after he flew into a jealous rage is about to show up on her doorstep under the guise that the loves her so much that he will do anything to be with her, including breaking the law.

You heard it heard folks, Australian rugby player Greg Bird, the man who loves to terrorize women in Australia after downing a few beers has flown out of Australia so that he can get drunk with a woman too stupid to know that he is a danger to her.

That’s right, the man who glassed her, assaulted another woman in a nightclub this past January, and recently hijacked a ride to a pizza place, scaring the shit out of another woman when he jumped into her car and demanded she drive him to a pizza parlour, has boarded a plane to New York City where he will undoubtedly terrorize other women, never mind Middleton when it suits him.

Like DSOS has implied many times before in this blog, Greg Bird is a danger to women around the world, and the fact that he has been investigated for assaulting women on more than one occasion backs up my claim.

Bird, who fled Australia to skirt the conditions of an Apprehended Violence Order (restraining order) placed against him couldn’t get within  200 meters of his girlfriend Kate while she was in Australia attending university, left Australia to hook up with his victim after she returned to the U.S. four weeks ago.

While the restraining order only applies to him in New South Wales, and therefore is not enforceable in the U.S., he is in violation of the restraining order and when he returns to Australia (and he will because he has a date with a judge in November), he will be arrested. And why shouldn’t he be after all he is violating a court order.

I hope for Middleton’s sake nothing happens to her while he is New York, but knowing what DSOS knows about Bird, I have my doubts he will be on his best behaviour and I fully expect him to assault somebody there if not his love interest. The guy has a propensity for violence against women, and whether he is New York, Las Vegas or Cronulla, the level of violence he is capable of towards women is not lessened by the fact that he is waiting to face justice for throwing a glass at his girlfriend, or the charge he is facing for assaulting a woman last January.

Ladies of New York beware, there is a man walking the city streets that with a flick of switch can turn your face into hamburger and he won’t think twice about doing it, especially if he is under the influence of alcohol.

Katie Milligan: A Dumb American Girl in Australia

Glass Throwing Rugby Player Facing New Charges

Football players are known for not being able to hold their liquor more often than not, but a few weeks ago DSOS wrote that 3 rugby players were being investigated for allegedly holding their licker by her ears in a nightclub washroom and forcing her to suck a little dick, and that they might have even tried to record the forcible oral sex scene .

Since I last wrote about it there have been some new developments in the case.

By the way all you NFL fans that actually might read some of the shit DSOS writes, I am not talking about Jay Cutler and the Denver Broncos, I am talking about the Brisbane Broncos of the National Rugby League in Australia.  Yes that’s right, there are some more muscle heads from the NRL who are making headlines for all the wrong reasons, and as usual it involves alcohol and a woman who is either too drunk to know better, too drunk to defend herself, and/or too drunk to just not care whether or not she becomes a rugby team’s exercise bike.

The three latest rugby players to tarnish the professional rugby player’s image are Karmichael Hunt, Sam Thaiday, and Darius Boyd, three men with a combined weight of more than 600 lbs. Their victim wouldn’t have weighed much more than 120lbs, maybe a 130lbs herself though I can’t say for sure, but a drunk woman regardless of her size would have been no match for three hulking drunk men looking for a hummer from a woman who herself probably only had one thing on her mind prior to being forced to give head in the women’s washroom. Yep, the victim would have had sex on her mind on that Saturday night; in fact most rugby groupies do on Friday and Saturday night during “footy season.”

Australian women, those that have the looks and the body anyway, love trolling the nightclubs for professional rugby players whether its for casual sex or something more permanent like a “meal ticket,” and when they have a little too much to drink they get themselves into trouble like the woman that was forced to give Hunt, Thaiday and Boyd a blow job in the women’s washroom in a Fortitude Valley nightclub a few weeks ago.

A lot has happened in the four weeks or so since this story first broke, but the men are still being investigated, there are now allegations of drugs being involved, the three muscle heads are claiming that the drunken woman consented to giving them blow jobs, and that there isn’t any videotaped footage of them being on the receiving end of a hummer by a drunken and very stupid woman. DSOS has also learned that there were up to 8 Bronco players partying in the Fortitude Valley nightclub on that night, and that it is quite possible more women might come forward with other allegations involving the eight players.

The Brisbane Broncos are currently conducting their own investigation, but to what end who knows as the three men accused of the sexual assault are believed to be leaving team after this season ends anyway.

In what could be considered a related story I suppose, Australian research has revealed that women accusing high-profile rugby players of sexual misconduct are throwing themselves at professional rugby player’s feet in nightclubs. What I want to know is though is if the people who conducted that research are sure about that, I mean think about it for a moment the “groupies” they are referring to could merely be falling down drunk at their feet and that the players seeing an opportunity to score off the rugby field, take advantage of said drunken “groupie” knowing full well that that groupie wouldn’t have any credibility with police given their drunken state of mind should the object of the rugby player’s carnal desire decide to accuse him of sexual assault.

I don’t know about the research that was conducted by Deaking University, but blaming a drunken woman for putting herself in a predicament where she could be sexually assaulted by a professional athlete who must abide by a team code of conduct and should know better when it comes to drunken groupies falling at his feet is a bit of stretch.

Dr. Kim Toffoletti, who co-authored Rogue Men and Predatory Women is suggesting that in most cases where high-profile professional rugby players are accused of sexual misconduct, it is the accuser’s fault, and her source for that information is rugby supporters who are also saying that women wanted to sleep with well-known rugby players to build their own reputations, and for bragging rights that they scored with rugby players.

Hmm…No mention in the article I read about the research that alcohol played a factor in the woman’s promiscuity and risk-taking sexcapade however. Like it or not, a drunken woman cannot not be held responsible for another person’s actions, especially when it comes to allegations of sexual assault by rugby players like Hunt, Thaiday and Boyd.

Those three men knew better then to put themselves into a position where they could be accused of sexual assault in the first place. It is pounded into their head time and time again by team officials, and there is no excuse for their stupidity for putting themselves in such a position in the first place.

By the way, I think they are guilty of the sex crime they are accused of, but at the end of the day it is one drunken woman’s word against theirs, and the three muscle heads are likely going skate on the sexual assault charges.

One other thing, don’t rugby players care whether or not they end up with “sloppy seconds” and don’t they think gangbanging a drunken woman in a washroom is little more than unsanitary, that it is a far cry from practising safe-sex?

If they are guilty of the crime they are accused of I hope their dicks fall off.

The race to be baseball’s best is well and truly on, and over the next few weeks baseball fans are going to be gorged with some really good baseball, but at the end of the day, and probably in Anaheim’s case if they go down to the defending World Series champs, the mistakes that some players are going to make are going to cost them games if not this first round of the playoffs.

Today I had the pleasure of watching the once cursed Red Sox take it to the Anaheim Angels, and unlike the regular season where the Angels won eight of nine against the Red Sox, they went down 4-1 because they couldn’t rally enough offense against the hot pitching of Jon Lester who went seven innings while only giving up one run. Boston had things going their way from the sixth inning on while Anaheim lost their 11 straight to the Red Sox in post season play, that despite the opinion of baseball experts that the Angels were the best team in baseball.

They certainly didn’t look like the best team today, and if they continue to play like they did today they’ll be gone as faster than Vladimir Guerrero can run from first to third with one out. Boy did Guerrero make a glaring mistake today and as far as DSOS is concerned if it wasn’t for him attempting to gain third base (he was the tying run by the way) from first base on a hit that barely made it past first base, the game result could have weighed in the Angel’s favour.

Guerrero who isn’t blessed with much speed as a base runner (he carries a lot of weight), thought he could round second and make it to third before the 2007 Gold Glove winner could throw the ball to third, and he ignored the second base coach who told him to hold up. What a selfish, and utterly stupid thing to do. He was tagged out a good twelve feet from third base, and more importantly he was the second out. It was that moment that took the wind out of Anaheim’s sails as far as DSOS is concerned, and Anaheim fans began heading for the exits.

Guerrero would not make another appearance at the plate. Such is the life of a Designated Hitter.

Guerrero should be taken out of the line-up until he loses some weight, and/or learns to follow instructions from the base coaches as far as DSOS is concerned, but the Angels need his bat and that isn’t going to happen.

They can take keep him out of right field though, which is what the Angels did in game one, but he is a power hitter and the last thing the Angels want is for them not to be able to call on his power hitting late in the game with the go ahead run in scoring position. He’ll be in the line-up on Friday, and maybe then he can redeem himself.

Man he was slow rounding second. Whatever gave him the idea that he could outrun the throwing arm of first baseman Youkilis anyway?

Even the fastest of base runners would have known better than to try and outrun a Youkilis throw to third base.

Game 2 should be a better game for the Angels behind All Star pitcher Erbin Santana, but at the end of the day all the good pitching in the world isn’t going to matter if players aren’t going to do as they are told, or if the Angels can’t drive in base runners.

Can Anaheim fans say “sweep” for the second year in a row?

By the way, GO PHILLIES!

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DSOS has learned that Kate Middleton’s boyfriend, the clown that sent her to hospital after throwing a hissy fit and glass at her, is facing new charges of public mischief and false accusation. Things just keep getting worse for Greg Bird don’t they?

The 24-year-old volatile and heavy drinking professional rugby player will appear in an Australian court on October 9 after he threw a glass at his American girlfriend (Middleton) in what many are describing as a drunken jealous rage after his girlfriend did not return to his apartment with him after a night of drinking at a pub with friends the Friday evening before. According to Middleton she stayed with friends rather than going home with her boyfriend.

They must have had one helluva an argument if she didn’t go home with him-eh? Excessive alcohol can do that to a binge drinking couple.

The glass throwing incident occurred at 730am the next morning when Milligan finally showed up at Bird’s apartment. The ensuing argument resulted in Bird throwing a glass in which shards entered Milligan’s eye. She would later require surgery.

Initially Bird claimed that it was his roommate, golfer Brent Watson who assaulted Milligan, and he even tried to convince his girlfriend to back up that story, not to mention he called his roommate in the hope he could get him to corroborate the story Bird was telling police. Bird’s story soon fell apart however when police learned that Watson was away at the time of the assault. What a f**ked up thing to do to a friend, never mind a roommate.

Milligan continues to stand by her man, saying that he would never hurt her, but the fact that Bird has been issued a summons to attend court over another alleged assault involving a woman at a nightclub in Cronulla last January 19 suggest that Bird would in fact intentionally hurt a woman, never mind his “dumber than a bag of hammers” girlfriend.

Bird has been suspended by his professional rugby league club the “Cronulla Sharks” and he will not be re-instated until he tells club officials what happened at his unit on the morning the American law student was taken to hospital. He has repeatedly refused to comply with the team’s request. I guess he doesn’t have the balls to tell them any lies.

Milligan, who as I said is dumber than a bag of hammers for thinking her volatile boyfriend would never hurt her, failed in her bid to remove a restraining order that the police put in place to protect her. At least it can’t be said that Australian police aren’t looking out in her best interests. They obviously are compensating for Milligan’s stupidity in this matter.