Show Recap - Tuesday August 31, 2010

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Listen to Hour 1:
Roger Clemens Is All-In Now With The Feds, There Is No Turning Back \| Joe Torre Still Has Manny's Back, For Some Reason \| Spurs Had To Be Happy With Tiago Splitter's Effort Against USA \| A Very Short Segment
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Bobby Bowden (College Football) Interview \| Jake Rome Joins His Father On The Air \| Derek Dooley (College Football) Interview \| Crown Of Thorns Beating Out Hard Bill Over The Weekend
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Shaquille O'Neal Says He Is Not Concerned With Kobe \| Roger Federer Hits An Amazing Between-The-Legs Shot \| David Price (MLB) Interview \| Huge Text Of The Day
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Take(s):

CJ Standing By 2500

Tennessee Titans back Chris Johnson really needs the rock under his right arm, a fullback and some fools to smoke. But until that happens, he’s content to just hold court. This time he got his rap on with Yahoo columnist and JRIB’er Mike Silver and he just raised the bar that much higher. A 2500 yard season? He’s standing by it. People wanting to race him? He says everyone talks big but no one shows up.

Photos: CJ's Running Wild

And best of all, my man went Gordon Gekko. “Most people say, ‘are you hungry still? I’m not hungry anymore-I’m greedy. I graduated from hungry to greedy, and all I want is more.” In other words… greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Chris Johnson is Gordon Gekko. Well, if Gordon Gekko ran a 4.1 40, wore cleats instead of wingtips, rocked dreads instead of the 80s Pat Riley slickback and rolled in a donk instead of a limo. And CJ... More »

Rocket Not Worried About Slam

How about Roger Clemens going out to play some golf right after pleading not guilty to lying to congress. Does this look like a Cat who’s worried about going to the slam. I half expected him to come off the 18th green O.J style and say, ‘All right, let’s go find the real roiders.” Look, it’s not in his DNA, and he probably thinks he’s too far down the road to change his story now but what’s going to trial really going to get him? Other than because he’s the Rocket…, why does the guy continue to push? Three reasons; One, he didn’t do it. That’s unlikely, his former trainer says he did. His little buddy Andy Petitte says he told him he did.

Photos: Rocket Through The Years

And I’m guessing the Feds have other people who will say the same or they wouldn’t be pushing so hard. Two, he’s trying to stay out of jail. Fine. But if he didn’t want to go to... More »

You Only Compete Against Kobe

Shaq O’Neal says it doesn’t matter that Kobe Bryant just blew by him to win his fifth ring. Doesn’t matter because O’Neal says Bryant isn’t the guy he’s chasing: “It burns inside me that Bill Russell has 11. And that Kareem has six. I don’t compete against guys who are not in my position. It would have bothered me more if Tim Duncan would have won. I’m not worried about a guy who has five and I helped him get three… I only compete against big guys.” You only compete against big guys? You don’t worry about Bryant? What are you talking about? After you went by the guy, you were in a club dropping this; if you really were about running down Bill Russell and Kareem, you would have found a way to make it work with Bryant in L.A.

Photos: Shaq's Career

Photos: Kobe's 2010... More »