Marijuana ad snuffed out at Indy race
The only burnouts that Indy racegoers will see this weekend will be on the track.
A pro-marijuana ad set up across from Indianapolis Motor Speedway has been taken down.
Hoping to appeal to the Jeff Spicolis of the sport - and possibly weekend tailgating fans - a group called the Marijuana Policy Project rented a giant video board just outside IMS to play a pro-marijuana commercial. Spicoli was Sean Penn’s surfer character in the movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
The story created quite a buzz Friday, but as soon as the board operator was told of the marijuana message he made a call and said the ad would be pulled.
“We in no way support marijuana at family events,” a representative of the media company that sold the ad space told the Indianapolis Star. “We didn’t expect this ad to be interpreted the way it did.
“We don’t want anything to dowith it anymore.” For the birds
Angels reliever Dane De La Rosa is a sensitive soul.
During the third inning of Thursday’s Angels-Athletics game, the right-hander discovered an injured bird in the visiting bullpen at O.co Coliseum in Oakland.
Fearing for its health and safety, he picked up the bird and proceeded to carry it to the clubhouse where, presumably, he aided in its recovery.
According to his Twitter account, De La Rosa named his new avian friend Randy and he turned out to be just fine.
Fellow Angels pitcher C.J.
Wilson gave his own medical update, saying De Le Rosa medically cleared the bird for release back into the wild.
One bad day
Everyone calls in sick to work every once in a while, but when you’re a major-league baseball player you sometimes have to show up to work anyway.
That was the case Friday, when Washington Nationals relief pitcher Drew Storen was called in during the ninth inning of a day-game blowout to conserve the team’s bullpen for the nightcap.
Storen’s father, Mark Patrick, took to Twitter to tell the world that his son shouldn’t have beencalled into the game because he was “sicker than a dog” with a 102-degree temperature.
According to the Washington Post, Storen pitched with the flu. The reliever was struggling so badly that he received an IV during the game’s early innings.
Storen, who entered the game with the Nationals trailing 8-0, gave up three hits, including a three-run home run, in two-thirds of an inning and was optioned to Class AAA Syracuse on Friday night.
Pants on fire
It’s easy to understand why Matt Kemp would suggest Ryan Braun should be stripped of his 2011 MVP award, but neither MLB nor the Baseball Writers Association of America has shown a desire to revisit awards won by players who subsequently were linked to steroid use.
“I don’t like to get lied to,” said Kemp, who finished second to Braun in the 2011 vote. “I don’t think anybody likes to get lied to.
I think a lot of other people feel the same way. I’m not the only one in that boat. I’m just another one of those guys on the list who are disappointed in what has come about in the last couple of days.”Quote of the day “I can’t make any predictions what he’ll do this season. But I can tell you if want to stop him,
you might want to put
22 men on the field.” Texas A&M defensive back Toney Hurd on Aggies quarterback Johnny Manziel, the reigning Heisman Trophy winner
Sports, Pages 26 on 07/28/2013