Griffey supports heckler
He might not be Ken Griffey Jr.’s biggest supporter, but he certainly owns it. Dodgers fan Matt Schaefer, 25, got his just reward for a night of heckling Reds outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. – a size-XXL jock strap. “He was just on me every time I came in,” Griffey said. “Him being a little larger than normal, I just asked, ‘Shouldn’t you be wearing a support bra?”‘ No such luck finding one of those, so Griffey had a clubhouse attendant round up the biggest athletic supporter he could find, then wrote “JR” and “3” on the waistband and tossed it in a bag to the startled Schaefer. “He was like, ‘Whoa!”‘ Griffey said. “I turned around before all that stuff happened, but I could hear that section just laughing. Then I turned around and just saw him twirling it in the air like a helicopter.”
Oh, for crying out loud
French sports minister Jean-Francois Lamour has filed suit against publications accusing him of doping during his fencing career, despite an apology by one of the media outlets. “If you have to hit them in the wallet to be respected, then that’s what we will do,” Lamour said Wednesday. “I have filed suit for defamation. The procedure is underway. A lawyer is looking after this. We will go right to the end.” Lamour, who is expected to become the next president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, said the suit was filed in Denmark. Last week, Danish newspaper Extrabladet cited former anti-doping officials Jean Pierre de Mondenard and Gerhard Treutlein as saying the two-time Olympic fencing champion twice tested positive – for caffeine in 1987 and for pholcodine, a cold cure, in 1989. Two online publications – one in Denmark and one in Canada – then ran similar stories. “(They) should have done a professional job before churning out patchy information 20 years later,” Lamour said.
Upon further review …
“You know we do have the most powerful microscopes and telescopes in the world in Arizona. You could use those instruments and not find a shred of fairness or common sense in that decision.”
Mike D’Antoni, Phoenix Suns coach, on the suspensions of Boris Diaw and Amare Stoudemire
