Monthly Archives: March 2011

Hurricane’s Buchanan Spits at Police, Then Yells: “I’m a U.M. Player, and I’ll Get Out of it!”

The oldRamon Buchanan - Miami Hurricanes linebacker “Do you know who I am” card is out of style now. They don’t even bother to ask anymore. Miami Linebacker Ramon Buchanan has kicked it up a notch.

According to Miami police, about 1:30 a.m. Friday, Buchanan did something stupid in a restaurant bathroom to cause a scene and was told to leave. He did not, and police were called. When they arrived, they went to place him under arrest. He resisted, tensing his arms and evading, then he did the one thing that police love, he hocked a big lugi at them. After the flying spittle hit an officer on the palm of his hand, they “placed” him on the ground. By “placed”, I am sure they mean “laid the friggin’ smack down on his ass.”

Buchanan did not disappoint with his reaction. From his face down in the dirt position, he looked up and yelled, “I am a U.M football player, and I don’t care what you do!”  He didn’t bother asking them if they knew who he was, he just told them. He continued by saying, “I’ll get out of it!”

Well, I don’t know how hard it is to get out of felony charges, but good luck to ya, Ramon, and thanks for setting the bar just a little higher.

More details at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/22/ramon-buchanan-arrested-suspended-miami_n_839206.html

Video: Novak Djokovic Plays Tennis on Airplane Wing

Novak Djokovic plays tennis on wings of flying planeNo, really. Novak Djokovic, the #2 men’s tennis player in the world risked his life to swing a new Head tennis racket while standing on the wing of a old airplane.  Of course, he got paid pretty well to do it (our sources say 12 trillion dollars)

Not exactly sure what this says about the racket, but we know that Djokovic is nuts.  Still, an entertaining video that we thought you might like to see. (And they cleverly found a way to include a hot babe in a short knit dress in it as well, so props to Head for that as well.)

Soccer Referees Under Attack at Home and Abroad – Painful Sports Video

Video of soccer referee punched in headAthletes these days have no respect for authority. Now we have not one but two different instances of soccer referees being attacked by players. Below is a video from another country and, while I can’t quite make out what the announcer is saying, I believe it is something along the lines of “We have a bit of a disagreement down on the field and the players are unhappy with the referee’s last call.” And then they proceed to beat the crap out of him.

In an unrelated, but equally disturbing story, a soccer player in the San Francisco Bay Area decided he didn’t like a referee’s call so he kung fo kicked him in the face, knocking the poor guy out. No video of that, but you have seen something like it in the movies a million times so just picture it on a soccer field with a little guy in soccer shorts kicking a man in black with a whistle. There, no need for video. Cops were able to locate and arrest “Bruce Lee” because he left his ID at the soccer field as part of the registration to use the field.

Here are the details of this story from the San Jose Mercury News:

A referee at a soccer match at San Francisco’s Crocker Amazon Playground on Sunday was kicked in the face by a player who was angry about a foul called against him, police said.  The attack was reported at about 9:45 a.m. at the park, located at the corner of Geneva Avenue and Moscow Street.   Investigators learned that the referee had called a foul against a player, who was so upset at the call that he “performed a martial arts kick” to the referee’s face, police said.

The ref was knocked out for a few seconds, and the player fled before he could get back up. However, the player failed to pick up his ID card that he had left at the registration desk, and the card has now been booked into evidence, police said.