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Curt Schilling, former Major League pitcher for the Phillies, Diamondbacks and Red Sox among others, retired from baseball this week via a post on his blog. Nobody is sure why he used his blog to retire, but that is not the most baffling part about this.
Schilling won 216 games in his career while compiling an MLB-record (min. 15 starts) 2.23 postseason ERA. He played in the Major Leagues for nearly 20 years and won three World Series. Most importantly, perhaps, he and his accomplishments were never implicated in a steroid scandal. In fact, he spoke out against illegal performance enhancers more than any other active player. So when ESPN announced the news of Schilling’s retirement, they displayed his name along with a picture of… Jose Canseco.
How is this for irony? One of the most blatant admitted cheaters in professional sports history gets face time for the retirement of one of baseball’s few advocates for cleaning up the game.
Schilling once said of Canseco, “Everything he ever did should be wiped clean. I think his MVP should go back and should go to the runner-up.”
Canseco responded, “He’s a complete hypocrite. Nobody takes him seriously.”
These two men with entirely different ideas about the game, especially about cheating within the game, are somehow linked again as Schilling retires. This was either a serious production gaffe on the part of ESPN or somebody in the control room playing mind games with him. In either case, somebody may find his or her self collecting unemployment checks soon.
If fans out there are lashing out over this, one could only imagine what Schilling thinks. Hopefully he receives word of this and he responds soon – that is, if he did not already fire a fastball through his television.
-Brenton Burkett
If you’re wondering which would hurt more, getting stabbed in the head with scissors or taking a knife to the neck, just ask Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Geno Hayes.
21-year-old Hayes’ girlfriend became belligerent after a late night argument in earlier this month, and instead of using her words, decided striking Hayes in the head with a pair of scissors would best convey her message. As the linebacker gained control of the scissors, his 19 year-old girlfriend then snatched a knife and added emphasis with a blow to the neck.
She was charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, but released on $25,000 bail. Hayes was treated at the hospital and confessed that he and his significant other were having an argument.
Though it remains undisclosed what prompted the argument, I think it’s clear what Hayes, a former player at Florida State University, did.
He cheated.
-Bobby Winsler
Bobby can be reached at minaret.sports@gmail.com
With seven seconds left in a basketball game between New Mexico State and Utah State a timeout was taken, which gave the mascots some time to get to know each other.
New Mexico State’s mascot is ‘Pistol Pete,’ a handgun-holding outlaw, while Utah State’s mascot is a blue bull, although both teams are called the Aggies.
Utah State’s bull made his way over to Pistol Pete and proceeded to rip his big, fake moustache off. Clearly offended, Pistol Pete jumped on the bull’s back and tried to take him to the floor. When that proved unsuccessful, Pete attempted to choke the bull.
With both of his valiant attempts failed, Pistol Pete withdrew and made the lonely walk back to his side of the court, defeated and moustache-less.
Apparently this feud was not a result of pure team spirit gone too far, it was the result of a man in the stands saying that he would give the Utah State mascot 100 dollars to rip Pistol Pete’s moustache off.
The man in the stands admitted to doing this, but did not think that it would escalate into something bigger.
Mascot fights are not anything new, but they are always interesting. When else could you see a duck take on a cougar, or a jaguar duke it out with an eagle?
Some people even find the fights more entertaining than the game that is being played, and although this may be true, the petty disputes between men and women dressed as animals and characters should never take away from the men and women who are playing the sport.
-Olivia Glynn
Olivia can be reached at oglynn@ut.edu
Alex Rodriguez will undergo surgery on a torn labrum in his right hip. With the surgery he will be out for approximately 10 weeks. I couldn’t be happier. I wish he was out the whole season.
-Kyle Bennett
Kyle can be reached at minaret.overtime@gmail.com
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