LaDainian Tomlinson Deserves It...

Congratulations are in order for Chargers running back LaDainian Tomlinson. Some could question his playoff track record, but other than that, is there any reason to discount his accomplishments?

Same goes for appreciating the person. Seems to be a consistently humble athlete unphased by all the nonsense that comes with being a humble athlete.

Not sure if he likes bratwursts, but we’re offering up our First Bratwurst to LT - with the hopes that regardless what his appetite says, Darren Sproles doesn’t get the meal.

See what we did there? We made a joke about how Darren Sproles took LT’s carries last year while he was nursing his injuries on the sideline and how it would suck if he took LT’s sausage. Fun times.

Mar. 11

1979 - Elton Brand is born into the world.  After reaching the Final Four with Duke in 1999, Brand entered the NBA Draft as as sophomore with fellow teammates William Avery, Trajan Langdon and Corey Maggette—which is often credited as the beginning of the whole “leave college early” trend.

1981 - Johnny Mize and Rube Foster elected to baseball Hall of Fame. Rube may have organized the Negro National League, the first lasting professional league for African-American ballplayers, but he’s second fiddle to Rube Baker as our favorite “ballplayers named Rube”. Blame Hollywood.

1987 - Wayne Gretzky scores 1,500th NHL point.  There’s only 15 players in NHL history to score at least 1500, but the feat was just about half way to The Great One’s career total of 2,857. (+2 blogging point for not making obvious joke about if/when Gretzky’s wife bet on March 11th, 1987 as the milestone date.)###MORE###

Some “American Idol” contestant named Jorge Nunez / A young, less tan Pete Sampras

You may or may not have heard by this point that the Netherlands stunned the Dominican Republic for a second time in the World Baseball Classic on Tuesday night, eliminating DR from the tournament with the 2-1 win. 

The Dutch plated two runs in the bottom of the 11th in response to the Dominican’s run in the top half of the inning after 10 consecutive scoreless frames.

And while the entire country celebrates (actually we’re not even sure they know about it in the Netherlands since the roster just seems like a bunch of Americans with long names parading around in orange jerseys) the players are basking in their well-deserved three seconds of fame. 

All of them except the third basemen that is.  Imagine playing the hot corner for the team that pulled the greatest upset in the short history of the WBC, checking Yahoo to see the box score the next day and seeing this...

On second thought, considering whoever the hell played third went 0-for-5 with three strikeouts, maybe it’s better he didn’t get named.

If Yahoo would have just put a “Van” in front of Unknown, nobody would have noticed anything wrong.

JSF debuts it’s newest writer and shatters the glass ceiling at its STL headquarters in the process.

The Media Circus welcomes back Steve Phillips into our lives and takes note of ESPN’s newest tool to convince viewers they know more than you do.