What a total fucking asshole this guy is.

Michael Vick’s future as a star in the National Football League became more tenuous Friday when two more of his co-defendants accepted plea agreements and implicated him in a dogfighting ring.

Lawyers for Vick, the Atlanta Falcons quarterback, had recommended that he also accept a plea deal. The Falcons’ owner, Arthur Blank, told The Associated Press on Friday night that Vick’s lawyers were negotiating with prosecutors. “It seems to be a pretty clear indication there will be some sort of plea entered,” Blank said.

If he does not accept a deal, Vick will be the only one of the four defendants in the case without one. On July 30, the first defendant to agree, Tony Taylor, pleaded guilty and said he would help the government’s case.

Without a plea deal, Vick would most likely face superseding charges that could expose him to even more prison time and put his N.F.L. career at risk.

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Forget prison. We should just let a dog do this to Michael Vick’s face. Fucking Jerk!

Everyone has probably heard the Michael Vick story by now.

Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury on charges related to illegal dog fighting.

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Michael Vick is a Dick, but this is funny. Here’s the new Atlanta Falcons Half Time Show.

The referee at the center of the betting and game-fixing probe rocking the NBA will cooperate - and maybe name other officials or players, law enforcement sources told The News. Has your view of the NBA been tarnished? Let us know! ..more

There is more than half the season remaining. But if the Yankees continue to sputter and wheeze, the seventh inning of Sunday’s game might have been their last stand.

In the top of the inning, Johnny Damon, Jorge Posada and Bobby Abreu came off the bench in succession. In the bottom of the inning, Roger Clemens came on in relief. Yet the Yankees were worse off when the inning ended than when it began.

The pinch-hitting parade produced nothing, Clemens allowed a run, and three more rumbled home in the eighth inning as the Yankees made two errors. The dreary result was a 7-2 loss to the San Francisco Giants that sent the Yankees back across the country in third place, one game below .500 and 11 ½ behind Boston in the American League East.

“We’ve got to find a way to pitch better and score some more runs and look like a ball team again …

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Tony Parker is known as much for his on-court exploits as he is for his romance with Hollywood A-lister Eva Longoria. Sadly, he’s known (and endlessly mocked) for being the most whipped NBA player since Doug Christie.

With the famous couple’s wedding less than a month away, there are rumblings that Eva may not necessarily be the one wearing the pants in the relationship. At least not all of the time.

After the San Antonio Spurs won their fourth championship in nine seasons, Tony Parker said, “I’m so happy - I feel very blessed and it’s a privilege to play with a great team,” said Parker, who carried his finals MVP trophy with him on one of the early barges of the river parade. He joked that he’d slept with the trophy for the last couple of nights.

“I put Eva on the couch,” he said.

Meanwhile, some of Longoria’s pals are worried about Parker. “He is just not gracious,” one of them said. “He puts himself ahead of her. He always orders at restaurants before her and is rude to waiters. We just don’t have a good feeling about him.”

And just to put the nail in the coffin, the source adds: “We just don’t have a good feeling about him.”

Nonetheless, that appears to be the first time anyone has dissed the gentle giant and the marriage plans are still going full steam ahead.

Tony and Eva are due to get married in Paris later this summer and are expecting a bunch of celebrity guests.

Mike Lowell dished out the big hits — with his body and his bat. Lowell homered to start a Red Sox comeback and also flattened two Yankees in a pair of basepath collisions on Saturday as Boston beat New York 11-6. First baseman Doug Mientkiewicz was taken from the field on a cart after banging his head on Lowell’s hip while trying to one-hop a bad throw from shortstop Derek Jeter.

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Jason Giambi was still wearing a Yankees uniform last night, he was still their designated hitter and he was still immersed in a maelstrom about what he might or might not have put into his muscular body to help him as a player.

But after Giambi met with representatives from the commissioner’s office yesterday in New York to discuss his tacit admission of steroid use in a USA Today article last week, he seemed a bit relieved. Giambi emphasized how he agreed to the meeting and how he hoped his cooperation would produce a positive outcome.

“I was willing to go in there and talk to them, and hopefully good things will come out of it,” he said. “But I don’t know. We’re waiting for a response.”

It remained unclear if the commissioner’s office would attempt to punish Giambi for his remarks, which were…
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After just two rounds, the 2007 NCAA Tournament belongs to the favorites. 2006 Cinderella team George Washington was sent home in the first round, along with Old Dominion and Albany. Only 2 teams made it to the 2nd round with a double digit seeding. Virginia Commonwealth made it past annual favorite Duke and Winthrop was able to beat the Irish on St Patty’s day (harsh!). But it was not to be, because neither team advanced to the sweet sixteen. Out of the 48 games over the weekend only 5 games were won by a lower seed. FIVE! The closest thing we have to an underdog now is #7 seed UNLV. Seems kinda buff for a Cindy

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I think the upsets are one of the reasons the NCAA Tournament is so popular. In basketball, any team (well almost any) can beat any other team once. You can have a bad day, a player is out, bad calls by the ref, bottom line is that in a lose and your out tournament, everything is on the line and anyone can get in there and take it. Even the underdogs.

Just not this year.

The selections are complete, the bracket is set, the madness is upon us. The 65 teams that have a chance of winning the 2007 NCAA tournament have all been picked and as always, the selection committee screwed up. The biggest snub was Syracuse. A team that finished 22-10 overall and 10-6 in conference play. This is a team that wasn’t even considered on the “bubble” and yet they won’t be tourney bound this week. Bottom line is that if you want to play, win your conference, that is the only way to guarantee your spot.

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The NCAA tournament is easily my favorite sporting event. The initial barrage of 32 games in 2 days is one of the most incredible sports experiences (especially if you have a lot of money down), any team can beat any other team. Favorites will fall, Cinderella will dance, it’s the Madness baby. Love it!

Hopes of a shot in the NCAA tournament fell apart for a lot of bubble teams this week. Air Force, UMass, Clemson, Stanford and Providence all watched their hopes of picking up a spot in the bracket disappear yesterday with losses, while a few other teams like Florida State and Texas Tech stepped up and made their case for the selection committee.

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All the sports writers and “bracketologists” will have a pretty good idea of what the brackets will look like, but when selection Sunday comes around we will see some curve balls. Some bubble team we swore was out will be in, some lock will be out, so unless a team has an automatic bid there will be no celebrations till Sunday.