SportsHollywood.com Newsletter Early Edition For the week of Monday, February 12, 2000 "He's the only one here to play defense." --Allen Iverson on Dikembe Mutombo at the All-Star Game. STARTING LINE A third crack as been found in the rail system that will support movable parts of Miller Park's retractable roof, but stadium officials describe the problem as minor. The Milwaukee Brewers are scheduled to begin play there this spring... ... Anymore cracks on Miller's roof and you'll get a genuine draft...bada boom! - Mel Jones! --------------------------------------------------------- WAY FUNNY -- Young couples, caught having sex, at work, by security cameras! As seen on 20/20, Entertainment Tonight, Sally Jessy and more: Click here now: http://www.vidbidness-partners.com/t.asp?id=1067 --------------------------------------------------------- HOLLYWOOD SPORTS OUR FIRST TELEVISION SHOW! That's right - SportsHollywood is proud to announce that this summer - Ed Marinaro will lead an elite unit of Las Vegas Detectives as the world's biggest ass-kicker in the new USA Network television series ROPE SQUAD. But don't worry...Ed's not leaving us, because the folks from SportsHollywood will actually be producing the TV show with Ed! Just think - exclusive behind-the-scenes scoop, breaking news from the set and, of course, Ed's regular (and much-requested) SportsHollywood column about - what else? - sports...and Hollywood. And how cool is this? When SportsHollywood needed the inside track on finding out how the real Vegas cops operate...one of our long-time SportsHollywood subscribers stepped up to the plate to get Ed the opportunity to spend a few days with the real-life Vegas crime busters themselves. You gotta love that SportsHollywood family. You rock, DH! So sign up for the newsletter and get all the gory details of Ed's adventures with the Vegas cops this week. Let's just say that there's a little tale about a drug bust, some go-go boots and a piercing.... http://www.comedyontap.com/daily SPORTSHOLLYWOOD EXCLUSIVE: Kathryn Hancock is possibly the most beautiful woman ever interviewed by SportsHollywood, and definitely the first who could have knocked us on our behinds in a game of backyard football. Kathryn, who will be debuting in the soap opera PASSIONS in March, grew up in South Carolina as the only girl on her street who'd play football with the boys. With Kathryn to tackle you can understand why football is so popular in that area. See her at: http://www.sportshollywood.com/askkathryn.html BASKETBALL Calling the financial situation unfair to owner Michael Heisley, NBA commissioner David Stern gave the Vaqncouver Grizzlies permission to explore a move to another city. St. Louis, New Orleans and Nashville, Tenn., have been mentioned as possible destinations for the team... ... Those cities all want professional basketball teams... but they might take the Grizzlies, instead... BASEBALL Robert Person of the Philadelphia Phillies was hogtied by police, who said the enraged pitcher tried to kick out the windows of a police car after his arrest in city's nightclub district... ... He shouldn't have tried the high kick - he should have tried escaping out of the stretch... TENNIS Sunday's episode of "The Simpsons" featured tennis stars Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Venus Williams and Serena Williams... ... My favorite character on the show was the bald one with the yellow complexion - not Homer, I mean Agassi... ANNA KOURNIKOVA'S BACK! http://www.comedyontap.com/dailyhump/annak1.htm XFL The XFL wasn't as big a turn-on in Week 2, as the football league drew only half as many viewers as it did for the debut broadcast on NBC... ... Pretty soon it'll be the ex-XFL... The XFL's Memphis Maniax aren't changing their name despite criticism that it is a slap at the mentally ill. The president of the National Mental Health Association says, "The name Maniax is demeaning to Americans who are affected by mental illness each year." The Maniax are one of eight teams in the XFL, the new football league owed by the World Wrestling Federation and NBC... ... They really should change the name to avoid offending the majority of their viewers... THIS WEEK IN SPORTS HISTORY In 1999, the San Diego Padres announced that country music star Garth Brooks would attend spring training as a non-roster player... ... Talk about a screwed up organization - they had Garth Brooks playing outfield while Roseanne sang the National Anthem... In 2000, Tom Landry, the stoic, expressionless Dallas Cowboys coach who wore a business suit and fedora and led America's Team to five Super Bowls, died... ... How could they tell...? PENALTY BOX In Florida, O.J. Simpson surrendered to authorities to face charges that he during a road-rage argument in December. Simpson is charged with burglary of a car and misdemeanor battery of motorist Jeffrey Pattinson... ... You'd think OJ would have learned by now not to cut in front of anybody... For the entire Offensive Line: http://www.sportshollywood.com/shnews.html Akili Smith, the Cincinnati Bengals' second-year quarterback, was arrested in San Diego Sunday for investigation of drunken driving. Smith was pulled over for driving the wrong way down a one-way street. He told officers he was looking for friends... ... You know, where everybody knows your name... YOU'RE OUT: "I'll be back." -Heavyweight boxer Peter McNeeley, five days after being pummeled in his fight with Mike Tyson. The Dumbest Sports Quotes of All Time: http://www.sportshollywood.com/dumbquotes.html EDITORS NOTE: I've met our new SportsHollywood babe, and let me say this. OOOFTA! 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