Fun Facts About Tonight's Preseason Games

- All Florida teams play.

- After tonight all Florida teams will have played each other in this year's preseason.

- Miami looks to remain unbeaten

- St. Louis at Cincinnati is a battle of 1-1 teams.

- Chad Ochocinco expected to kick again tonight.

- The Bengals beat New England 7-6 last week. Big upset if it were in the regular season.

-The Jaguars or Eagles will win their first preseason game in Philadelphia.

- Jacksonville signed former FAU defensive tackle Jervonte Jackson two days ago. He hopes to become the first ever FAU football player to make an NFL regular season roster.

- Some guy named Michael Vick debuts with the Eagles tonight. Well, that is if he arrives on time after his bankruptcy hearing. Just a thought...When he runs the wildcat offense shouldn't they call it the wild dog?

- Only Miami at Tampa will be broadcast nationally, but all preseason games can be seen on NFL Network at some point. Damn right I'm promoting them for free, that's awesome! Finally Comcast gave me some extra football; I just hope I can see those Thursday night regular season games, too.

At The Moment

Nearly a month...it's been nearly a month.

Here I am, a month removed from my thoughts and opinions being vented about the most mass media news that matters to me.

I didn't mean to leave, I've just been busy. How cliche?

The search for the new has brought me back to my roots and I'm going to dig up all I've missed.

Any suggestions? Let me know... I'll be here...again...

I'm still here, the same place, waiting for the next move.

In the mean time, at the moment, I'll bring you the best I got.

Speed-No’s

Step aside Aquaman, Biedermann is now the fastest non-fish in the water.

German swimmer Paul Biedermann defeated Michael Phelps in the 200 meter freestyle relay and of course Phelps’ first professional loss in over four years has controversy surrounding the pool of thoughts as to how this could possibly happen.

World records have been falling like water throughout this year's world championships all because of these polyurethane swim suits made by Arena, which Biedermann wore during his Phelps triumph. Phelps stuck with his Speedo swimsuit which has some polyurethane in it, just not 100% like his arch nemesis Biedermann’s suit.

The Arena suits are banned before the next championships begin, but aren’t for this year. It makes no sense why these suits aren’t banned now, especially with all these records artificially falling.

Polyurethane suits are to swimming as steroids and HGH are to baseball. It enhances your performance and helps you easily break world records. Get out the asterisk marks for all sports in this era.

Just like Clark Kent is Superman and his only weakness is kryptonite, Michael Phelps is Aquaman and his only weakness is polyurethane.

The only solution is to bring it back to the old time Olympic days. Just compete naked! No suits equal no advantages, just good old-fashioned competition.

But then no one would watch you say? No one watches anyway!

Ben Roethlisberger; Champion

Ben Roethlisberger has controversy surrounding him in every single one of the six seasons he has been in the NFL, and then he fights through it, and proves he has the Steel nerves of a champion.

In his rookie season starter veteran Tommy Maddox went down with an injury in week two, hoisting Big Ben into the starting role much earlier than expected. He answered the pressure emphatically, shattering the NFL QB rookie record, which was 6-0 ironically by another Steeler Mike Kruczek filling in for an injured Terry Bradshaw in 1976, by going 13-0 during the regular season finally losing to the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship game.

Then the next season Ben has the pressure of avoiding a sophomore slump. His first game he records a perfect passing rating. The rest of the way he leads his team to the sixth seed in the playoffs as they become the first ever six seed to win the Super Bowl, giving the franchise it’s fifth title ring and one for the thumb.

Next comes his motorcycle accident and appendicitis removal. He shows signs of injury throughout the season with Steelers fans questioning whether Charlie Batch, who played very well in Roethlisberger’s absence, should be the starter. They go just 8-8 but Ben doesn’t complain one bit about his injuries and doesn’t make one excuse.

After his mediocre season of 2006 Big Ben (I also like to call him the horse because he’s ridiculously huge in person) bounces back with his best statistical season to date, breaking the Steelers single season TD passing record by tossing thirty-two completions to the end zone. They didn’t win the Super Bowl, but he did quiet critics questioning if his skills had diminished.

Then last year comes around and he leads the Steelers to the number two seed in the AFC, while playing the hardest schedule in the past 30 years, and gives the organization their unprecedented sixth Super Bowl title.

Now he’s in the spot light as the Super Bowl defending QB once again, poised to compete for his name to be considered among the elite’s of today’s game and with all-timers from yesteryear.

Then he’s hit with this civil law suit by a woman, that he does know, accusing him of raping her over a year ago, which he adamantly and angrily denies.

Nothing is surprising anymore when it comes to the legend of Ben Roethlisberger, so don’t be surprised when he comes out and plays better than he ever has before.

At ease Steelers fans, when Big Ben is ticked off (get it, the Big Ben bell clock) is when this star shines his brightest. Whooooa Steeler’s nation, this horse will keep you giddy and will giddy up his team mates for another Super Bowl run.

Lebron the Let-Down

I guess that’s Lebron. It looks like his pointy bearded jaw in the fuzzy video and it looks like his humongous body frame that gave a half assed effort at blocking the dunk. But is this really the video they were talking about?

THIS video is what all the hype was about! I was expecting to see Jordan Crawford’s nuts in Lebron’s grill as he pushed his faced down and hung from the rim. Sorry, that’s just what came to mind.

He didn’t even get dunked on! He was just late helping out on defense during a pick-up game. Who cares?

I was expecting to see something like Vince Carter’s dunk over that French guy…

...or MJ’s dunk over Patrick Ewing.

What a load of TMZ camera phone recorded crap! I’m really getting tired of everything surrounding Lebron James being a huge let down. His NBA Finals appearance, his team’s best record in the league and MVP season amounting to nothing, his team getting their butts whooped and him skipping the media’s questions, his shoe looking so damn ugly, etcetera, etcetera, and the let down’s continue.

Manny’s Perfect Night

It’s not statistically possible to have a more perfect game hitting than Manny Ramirez produced last night. He hit 1.000 percent, going 1-1 with a homerun and four RBI.

Then there’s the whole story behind the best possible pinch hit performance. He didn’t take batting practice before the game; he was pulled from the game the night before and taken to the hospital for x-rays after being hit by a pitch in the hand, he hit the home run into the Manny Wood section of Dodgers Stadium on his own bobble head night, plus all the other Man-Ram saga throughout the years that made him who he is.

This is the only guy who can be caught taking steroids, be suspended 50 games, and still be loved by his home town fans with no questions asked. It’s like the Los Angeles fans are Manny’s mother… no matter what Manny does they will always love him.

They’ll especially love him when he has a perfect night hitting a go ahead grand slam to win the game during a night when the fans were let down because it was questionable if he was going to play. His perfect night is a perfect example of Manny being Manny.

Beckham’s Professionalism

After the failed UK to US David Beckham experiment, after the criticism David took from the book The Beckham Experiment, after failing to get his traitor way and completely turn his back on Major League Soccer you’d think Beckham would at least be on his best behavior in his first match back at his US team’s home stadium. Guess again, instead he returns to Los Angeles and yells at heckling fans while on the sidelines DURING the match.

Wow, how professional! What a way to make a comeback and make yourself look respectable in the American soccer fans eyes!

Beckham said he yelled that he wanted a handshake, but some of the fans said he yelled something completely different, escalating the situation. Either way Beckham was way out of line responding to the fans with words. Great athletes respond with actions and great play, not with childish rants and confrontations with drunken paying customers, who have a right to say what they like since they paid to be there by the way.

One guy Beckham yelled at tried running down from the stands to confront him but was arrested before he reached the field. There’s been no talks of Beckham being reprimanded at all for his actions.

That’s one of many reasons why soccer will never become a major sport in the US. A guy making more than twice as much as any other player in his sport, and who also plays just half a season won’t receive any repercussions for his actions. All it took was for Beckham to run and punch the guy in the face and it would have been the Indiana Pacer brawl in Detroit’s Palace, just the soccer version. I wish he did hit the guy so we could start calling him David Deck’em.

In the NFL, NBA, and MLB when a star player, or any player at that, acts like a child they are treated like one. The athletes are reprimanded for their actions and made to sit and take time out from playing. It’s interesting and exciting to wait and see what the commissioners reactions will be to the athlete’s actions. It shows the character of the sport, and MLS has no character except for the cartoon obnoxious animation that is David Beckham. Thanks MLS, you gave this rich snob no reprimands and have made me officially uninterested in soccer once again.