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| DEAN'S LIST |
The Shootist
08-29-2006 |
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| A career 3.9-point-per-game scorer, former NBA forward Lonny Baxter never had a shoot-first mentality. |
Former NBA forward Lonny Baxter was recently sentenced to two months in jail after pleading guilty to charges of carrying a gun a few blocks from the White House. Still no word on why Baxter was in possession of a firearm, though Beltway insiders believe he was simply trying to work on his shot. …
Free-agent point guard Gary Payton has long been dubbed “The Glove,” and for good reason. The future Hall of Famer has been named to the All-NBA Defensive First Team nine times and nabbed Defensive Player of the Year honors in 1996. Still, none of that explains why a bare-handed basketballer earned the nickname before any of the thousands of glove-wearing baseball players before him. …
Redskins linebacker Lamar Marshall should cut to the chase and rename himself “Lamarshall.” Likewise, former Red Sox southpaw John Johnson should just be – what else? – “Johnson”? …
Since being called up from Triple-A Round Rock last month, Rockies catcher Robby Hammock has been familiarizing himself with unfamiliar territory – the bench. Of course, Hammock isn’t the first athlete named after a comfortable seating device to have made the not-so-comfy transition to the Life of Pine. Once the No. 1 overall pick in the NFL draft, Tim Couch hasn’t taken a regular-season snap since 2003. And after earning Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year honors as a center at Penn State, Calvin Booth has averaged a paltry 13.6 minutes per game and started only 82 of 283 contests over his seven-year NBA career. …
Boston-area medical experts can run all the tests they want, but I know the real source of Red Sox slugger David Ortiz’s recurring heart palpitations. It has to be all those D’Angelo sandwiches he’s been eating. I went there the other day, and the sandwich they call the “Red Hot Papi” has ham, bacon, turkey, roast beef, two cheeses, mayo, mustard and hot sauce on it. I’m no doctor, but if he cuts out one of the cheeses and the hot sauce, believe me, he’ll be fine. …
Upon completing his rehabilitation stint with Class A St. Lucie (Fla.), Cliff Floyd is expected to fly out to Colorado or Houston … because if hitting a baseball three-quarters of the way across the country isn’t proof enough that the Mets outfielder is ready to return to big-league action, what is? …
Outfielder Adam Dunn hits fourth in Reds lineup and – coincidentally – bears a striking resemblance to comedian Will Ferrell. Call him Cincinnati’s “Anchorman.” I’m Dean Christopher.
Dean Christopher Chiungos is a fantasy baseball writer/editor for MLB.com and an Eagle-Tribune columnist. Visit his MLBlog at http://deanslist.mlblogs.com. E-mail him at dean.christopher@deans-list.net. |
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