Chris Stout
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Ochocinco Fined $25,000 for Tweet
Chad Ochocinco has a Twitter problem. It’s nothing new. The guy’s been on the tweets for some time now. He loves it. Ochocinco even started his own sports network on the thing. OCNN, the Ochocinco News Network, was launched last year under the slogan “If I break it, you might as well believe it.”
But tweets have gotten Ochocinco in trouble in the past. He got some heat for smack tweeting with guys like Nick Barnett, Shawne Merriman, Mark Schlereth, Mike Golic and Mike Florio When the NFL fined Ochocinco $30,000 for sporting a decorative poncho and sombrero, the fine was so stiff because Ochocinco tweeted about the celebration ahead of time.“What I’ve planned for today will get me fined when I score but it’s so worth it,” he posted in a tweet to Adam Schefter.
Last season, Ochocinco’s Twitter obsession prompted the NFL to issue a game day social media policy. The policy prevents all players, coaches and football personnel from posting to social media sites like Twitter and Facebook 90 minutes before the start of the game up until the post-game interviews are completed.
Ochocinco wasn’t happy about the policy at the time. “Damn NFL and these rules,” Ochocinco tweeted last summer. “I am going by my own set of rules, I ain’t hurting nobody or getting in trouble, I am putting my foot down!!”
After getting hit hard in a preseason game last week, Ochocinco decided to post an in-game tweet about it:
“Man Im sick of getting hit like that, its the damn preseason shit! 1day I’m gone jump up and start throwing hay makers, #Tylenolplease.”
And the NFL fined him $25,000 for it.
Ochocinco’s response?
“Dear NFL I apologize for tweeting during the game but that was 2 months of my you just took from me, I won’t do it again”
So there you have it. Ochocinco says he won’t do it again. I say if you’re going to get fined $25,000, have it be for something bold, not an in-game preseason tweet. It just doesn’t seem worth the 25K.
The NFL has to draw the line somewhere, but the league also needs players like Ochocinco to push the envelope on fun a little bit. I just hope the next fine Ochocinco gets is for something more entertaining than tweeting a Tylenol joke.
Aug 25th
Jonathan Goldsmith Visits SportsNation
MANjr fans know that we love Jonathan Goldsmith. He’s a cool, intelligent guy and a great interview. We also like the killer Cowherd-Beadle combo that is ESPN’s SportsNation. So when these two great tastes combine to create something extra tasty, we need to mention it.
Goldsmith appeared on SportsNation today and participated in a couple of games. He also crushed Texas Rangers pitcher Rich Harden in a poll that asked which pitch man was more interesting.
Goldsmith also participated in an online chat with SportsNation fans. Here’s a link to the chat on the ESPN SportsNation website.
Aug 24th
Sports Illustrated and HTC – Behind the Tan Lines Contest
The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is an American institution. For nearly half a century, SI’s annual swimsuit edition has featured the most beautiful, ridiculously good-looking models in the world. The list is impressive: Cheryl Tiegs, Christie Brinkley, Elle Macpherson, Niki Taylor, Stephanie Seymour, Angie Everhart, Cindy Crawford, Rebecca Romijin, Heidi Klum, Marissa Miller, Anna Kournikova, Maria Sharapova, Beyoncé Knowles, I could go on, but you get the idea.
Why does any of this matter? Because SI and HTC are teaming up to give one person the chance to experience the 2011 SI Swimsuit photo shoot up close and in person. The “Behind the Tan Lines” contest will give one grand prize winner a trip for two to the undisclosed location of the November SI Swimsuit Photo Shoot, access to the 2011 Swimsuit launch parties in New York and Vegas, two HTC smartphones and $10,000 in cash. Four primary prize winners will receive an HTC smartphone and $400 in cash. Twenty-five secondary prize winners will receive a phone and an exclusive HTC/SI Swimsuit-themed prize pack. Not a bad set of prizes.
For the grand prize winner, the expectation is that you’ll be an HTC correspondent and use your HTC smartphone to the fullest by blasting videos and photos of the shoot on www.si.com/behindthetanlines. They’re looking for someone who’s great behind the camera, has a way with words and is down to social network the hell out of the whole thing.
Here are the official entry instructions:
1. Show us your creativity by uploading a video up to three minutes long OR a photo shot with your mobile phone with a brief description highlighting the unique perspective you’ll bring to this exclusive access. Feel free to send us a link to any reference materials – your Twitter account, Facebook page, blog, or online gallery.
2. Then, “tweet” us! Enter a short, witty message in the box provided (140 characters or less, of course) and tell us why we should check out your creative perspective
So if you want to spend this November with extra babes, new technology and cash, get do it. Entries must be received by 9/6/10.
Good luck!
Aug 24th
Miss Universe 2010 – Jimena Navarrente
The Miss Universe pageant was held in Sin City last night, and Jimena Navarrente from Mexico was crowned the galactic champion. The 22-year-old Navarrente, who hails from Gualalajara, knows how to work a pageant. She was crowned Nuestra Belleza Jalisco in July 2009 and she also took home Nuestra Belleza Mexico honors in September 2009. She’s the second contestant from Mexico to be recognized as the hottest chick in any solar system.
Did I mention she’s super hot?
Yep.
Told ya.
Thanks FHM.
Aug 24th
Another Awesome Ninja Baseball Catch From Japan
Remember that crazy Japanese Spiderman baseball catch from a couple weeks ago? Well I guess that sort of stuff is routine in The Land of the Rising Sun. Here’s another player getting robbed of a home run by some spiffy ninja moves in the outfield:
(Via BroBible)
Aug 23rd
Greece – Serbia Brawl Video
Greece v. Serbia on the basketball court. Pick a side, bro.
Greece Serbia brawl – Watch more Funny Videos
Aug 20th
Can You Name All of Antonio Cromartie’s Kids?
Having kids isn’t easy. Especially if your a professional athlete. There’s all that time you have to spend training and traveling. It’s really hard to keep up with the fam.
Things get even more complicated when you’re a 26 year-old former first round pick who’s trying to resurrect his career on a new team while trying to remember all the names of his 8 kids (note: 50% of his kids are or will soon be turning 3 years-old). Antonio needed two hands and some extra time to break it all down for us:
Aug 19th
Ranking the Redheads – The 15 Hottest Gingers of All Time
Oh man, ginger girls. There’s just something about ‘em. When they’re not hot, boy are they really not hot, but when they are hot, look out, man. Smokin’ redheads project a sweet ‘n spicy, cinnamon-pepper sexiness that puts them in a separate class of attractiveness. Hot gingers can pull off the classy girl routine AND the fiery sexpot act. They can play the approachable sweetheart card, but they can also give off that hubba hubba vixen vibe. Here’s a look at the 15 hottest redheads of all time:
15. Maureen O’Hara
You’re gonna have to ask your grandpa about this one, but trust me she deserves to be on the list. O’Hara was a feisty, fire-haired woman who looked hot in black ‘n white but really sizzled in Technicolor.
14. Rita Hayworth
13. Ginger – Tina Louise
12. Julianne Moore
11. Gillian Anderson
10. Nicole Kidman
Aug 18th
Martin Miller Interview
Martin Miller is a millionaire who knows what he likes. With a gregarious personality and a strong entrepreneurial spirit, Miller set out to make a name for himself. As a business-savvy schoolboy, Miller got into hamster breeding and started a magazine for local teenagers. By the age of 14, Miller put out a mail-order dating book called Success with the Fairer Sex. Miller’s next big venture was a The Lyle Antiques Guide, a mail-order guide for antique buyers that had annual sales of $100,000 within four years. That spawned The Miller’s Antiques Price Guides which led to a series of other publications. After accumulating cash in the publishing game, Miller started investing in property. He opened a series of boutique hotels including the popular Miller’s Residence in Notting Hill.
In 1999, Miller sat down with to friends and mapped out this idea to create a super-premium, extra luxurious gin. After much tinkering and an unbelievably complex distillation and chilling process, Martin Miller’s Gin was born. We asked Miller about his gin, his drinking habits and his various entrepreneurial pursuits. Here’s what he had to say.
CS: From publishing to antiques, boutique hotels and distilling, you’ve been involved in quite a few ventures. Is there a common thread that runs through your various entrepreneurial pursuits?
MM: Well, the first thing I learned to draw at art school was a palm tree, since then I have pretty much planned my businesses around spending as much time as I can laying under one!
Most of my enterprises have started from hobbies or pastimes that, were I not involved in them professionally, I still would do for the pure pleasure of it.
MM: Whether that has been collecting antiques or publishing, owning and running hotels or for that matter gin distilling, I guess the one common thread has been to always do it for the love of it. That way the passion for whatever it is you are doing will shine through. I believe a little naivety mixed with a lack of cynicism can be very useful. The worst thing you can do is jump on a bandwagon thinking you’ll make a million. As they say,”once you spot a bandwagon it’s already passed!”
CS: How often do you sip on the gin that bears your name? More >
Aug 17th
Fantasy Superdraft 2010 Giveaway
With the NFL preseason in full swing, it’s time to start thinking about your fantasy football plans. Are going play in that one league where the commish always changes the rules? Are you doing an online draft from your living room or are you going to meet up at your buddy’s house again? You need to start planning this stuff out.
But what if you want to deviate from the same boring fantasy draft experience? What if you want to party it up at the Palms Casino Resort in Vegas for some live drafting, VIP parties and a tailgate concert with Snoop Dogg?
Well, you’re in luck. MANjr is teaming up with Fantasy Superdraft 2010 to giveaway two tickets to the ultimate fantasy football draft experience. The tickets (valued at $125 each) give you access to the ultimate draft room, VIP parties (hosted by Stacy Kiebler and other celebs), a model search/bikini competition and a live concert with Snoop Dogg. So instead of spending two hours alone on your couch or stuck in your buddy’s basement, you can live it up in Vegas from August 26th to 28th and make this year’s fantasy football draft one to remember.
Here’s how things went down last year:
Here’s how to enter:
- Follow us on Twitter (@MANjrcom)
- Leave us a comment telling us which player you think will be a top fantasy football performer this season
- Winners will be chosen at random
- Contest ends on Friday, August 20th
Good luck!!
Aug 16th
