First of all I’d like to apologize for not posting in awhile, I’ve been busy with college. I know, excuses, excuses. I promise to start posting more often (unless I’m told to stop). Tonight’s Primetime is going to be huge though. At 7:30, radio legend Norm Hitzges joins us from Dallas to talk sports and stuff. If you have a question for Norm, tweet me (@CincoDeMino) or Casey (@KCWieds) and we might ask it on-air. If you’re in the Ottawa, Kansas area between Main Street and Cedar you can listen to us on 88.9FM, if not watch us live on Ustream HERE tonight from 7-9. Have a happy Pi Day.
Last week’s Primetime was great, tonight’s will be even better. At 7:30 we’re excited to have ShutdownInning.com’s co-founder and editor Patrick Despain on with us. His website is greatness. If you’re a fan of the Rangers or just baseball in general, you should check it out; it’s very educational and entertaining to the sports fan. 8:10 tonight is our interactive segment where Casey and I answer your hypotheticals on-air. They can be sports related or silly, just be unique and we’ll have fun with them. Tweet your hypotheticals to us @CincoDeMino and @KCWieds. We expect a great show tonight so make sure to watch/listen to us tonight on Ustream from 7-9.
Fun Fact: I host a sports talk show every Wednesday night from 7-9 on my school’s radio station. I’m proud to say that Casey Wieder and I are the hosts of Ottawa University’s longest running radio show in the school’s history. It’s a little show we like to call, Primetime. Tonight’s show marks our fifth year anniversary and we are still madly in love, with the show that is. Something new we’re trying this semester is streaming webcam on Ustream. So tonight from 7-9; check us out Here.
Last week I grossed some people out when I posted the Most Graphic Sports Injuries. I think I’ll continue the gross factor this week and go into a subject that you don’t hear about every day with sports vomiting. To pay homage to Junior Miller’s 27 year no-vomit streak coming to an end and mine going strong at 18+ years, I proudly present to you my Top 10 Most Glorious Sports Vomits. This list unlike my last one, isn’t necessarily counting down the most graphic, but the best manly performance given by the puker.
10. Jahvid Best – Best had a pretty good little career for Cal collecting 2,668 rushing yards and 29 touchdowns in 3 years and going on the be the 30th overall pick in the 2010 NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions. This moment against Maryland where Best gets absolutely destroyed and is laying on Maryland’s Bermuda grass vomiting and looking near death, isn’t his finest.
9. Cade McNown – During this incident in 1998, the refs had to stop play before the snap and McNown left the game for a play to rehydrate. The next play was a run up the middle. I guarantee you the running back never had more motivation to gain more than one yard so he wouldn’t fall in the future first round bust’s stomach content.
8. Alvin Gentry – Gentry’s Suns were defeated by the Lakers in six games in the 2010 NBA Playoffs. In a losing effort in Game Five at the Staples Center, Coach Gentry lost his pre-game dinner in a trash can on the Suns bench. In the video it looks like Gentry says “duck” or something like that at 0:03 mark in the video.
7. Fat Philly Fan – This has to be the worst fan ever. He got the beat down he deserved.
6. Donovan McNabb – I’ve always been anti-McNabb and this moment against the Tampa Bay Bucs is one of my favorite moments of his career. He also puked in the Super Bowl.
5. Riley Cooper – The current Eagle spare had an outstanding game for the Gators against Charleston Southern (who?) in 2009 tallying five catches for 105 yards. After catching three passes in a row in the first half, Cooper jogged over to the sideline and puked then tried to act like nothing happened. He didn’t fool anyone though as it was caught on national television.
4. Matt Ryan – Matty Ice rallied his 2007 Boston College Eagles to defeat Virginia Tech throwing two touchdowns in the final 2:11 of the game. With eight seconds remaining, Ryan let out a nice victory vomit on the Eagles sideline.
3. Sean Williams – Williams was in beast mode during some garbage minutes of the Dallas Mavericks loss to Denver on December 26, 2011 scoring 12 points and picking up five fouls in only 11 minutes of play. The Crab Man took himself out of the game late in the fourth and as the great Mark Followill described during the Mavs broadcast, “A lot of the fuel that was in the tank came back up.” Despite playing some aggressive minutes and leaving it all on the court that night, it wasn’t enough to keep Williams on the team; he was demoted to the Texas Legends on January 6th.
2. Pete Sampras – After playing four hours of exhausting tennis in the 1996 US Open, Sampras was drained. At 1-1 in the fifth set tiebreak, Sampras walked to the back of the court and barfed which resulted in a time delay warning by the ref. After the rally-puke, Sampras went on to defeat Alex Corretja in this quarterfinal and ultimately winning the US Open.
1. Riley Dodge – With Southlake Carol tied with Austin Westlake with 7:43 remaining in the fourth quarter of the 2006 Texas 5A Division 1 State Championship game, Riley Dodge lined up in the shotgun formation, removed his mouth-guard, hurled, then threw a 30 yard touchdown pass, then hurled again, and finally ended up winning the State Championship. A puke for the ages.
Last semester I put together a top ten list for my weekly radio show that turned out to be a pretty big hit with my listener(s).
What I did was painstakingly search YouTube for what I thought to be the most gruesome sports injuries of all time, and then I shared these videos on-air with my co-host, Casey Wieder. Even though the listeners couldn’t see the graphic videos, it made for radio gold to hear the commentary and Casey’s reactions. If you weren’t one of our very few listeners that night in Ottawa, Kansas, you missed a great segment. I’ll give my readers a chance to revisit this top 10 list but let me warn you, all of these videos are extremely graphic.
10. Patrick Edwards – The University of Houston receiver suffered a compound fracture in his leg after running full speed through the end zone and colliding with a cart.
9. Sid Vicious – The former WCW champion attempted a high-risk-maneuver from the second turnbuckle on January 14, 2001 against Steiner. Vicious landed awkwardly on one leg causing him to fracture both his tibia and fibia. Thankfully we can’t see inside his boot, and nobody watched the WCW in 2001.
8. Eric Foster – The most recent of my top ten happened on Monday Night Football on October 3, 2011 between the Colts and Bucs. Late in the first half, Foster’s teammate Tyler Brayton rolled over Foster’s ankle causing it to graphically twist in the wrong direction. This dislocated Foster’s ankle forcing him to miss the rest of the season. There wasn’t much worth playing for anyway.
7. Willis McGahee – We all saw this one live during the 2003 National Championship Game between Miami and Ohio State. In the fourth quarter, McGahee caught a screen-pass and was hit immediately bending McGahee’s knee backwards tearing his ACL, PCL and MCL.
6. Shaun Livingston – On February 26, 2007, the former 4th overall pick missed a layup and awkwardly landed, dislocating his kneecap and caused his left leg to snap laterally. Livingston tore up just about every part of his knee, the ACL, PCL, lateral meniscus, spraining his MCL and dislocating his patella and tibia-femoral joint. Doctors allowed Livingston to return to basketball on June 16, 2008. Since then he has played for Miami, Oklahoma City, Washington and Charlotte but has not lived up to the potential he had before the injury.
5. Djibril Cisse – In a match against Blackburn Rovers on October 30, 2004, the former Liverpool striker challenged Blackburn’s Jay McEveley for a loose ball, Cisse’s shoe got caught in the grass and his leg snapped. The result was a broken tibia and fibula.
4. Tyrone Prothro – In a 31-3 win over the Florida Gators on October 1, 2005, the Alabama receiver suffered a complete fracture of his tibia and fibia in his lower left leg. After three surgeries and intense rehabilitation, coach Nick Saban said there was no way Prothro could ever play again. This is our first career-ender on my list.
3. Joe Theismann – On November 18, 1985, Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor sacked Theismann after a failed attempt at a flea flicker. Taylor broke just about every bone in Joe Theismann’s leg and forced him to retire from football and go into broadcasting. If Sandra Bullock would’ve been at the game, this would have never happened.
2. Clint Malarchuk – This is by far the most life threatening injury on my list. On March 22, 1989, Malarchuk caught a skate to the throat by Blue’s defenseman Uwe Krupp. Malarchuk was within moments of dying but his life was saved by trainer Jim Pizzutelli. Pizzutelli reached in Malarchuk’s neck and pinched off the bleeding. Malarchuk returned to the ice in the playoffs that season against Boston but was bounced in the first round. Malarchuk’s performance declined over the next few years and was out of the NHL in 1992.
1. Napoleon McCallum – My top 3 injuries were all in discussion to be my number one, however this one in my opinion takes the cake. On September 5, 1994 the Raiders fullback Napoleon McCallum’s cleat got stuck in the ground while being tackled by 49ers linebacker Ken Norton Jr. McCallum’s career came to an end that night after suffering a complete hyperextension of the left knee, ruptured artery in his left knee, tore his ACL, MCL and PCL, tore the calf and hamstring from the bone, and suffered nerve damage to the knee. Dan Dierdorf says it best in this video, “Don’t look at this if you don’t want to see it.”
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