Bush gets in his shots on Beckham
Video of that Reggie Bush-David Beckham shoot for Adidas can be found in various places online, and the first impression is ...
Beckham sure looks skinny in pads.
The idea is “Futbol meets Football,” and the pair bantered while they took turns teaching each other rudimentary skills of their sports.
“Since I signed with the Galaxy, you know every time I do an interview I’m trying to get myself to say soccer because I’ve always said football,” Beckham told Bush during the filming in Madrid.
“And when you think about our sport we call football,” Bush said, “it would seem like [soccer] would be the sport you actually call football because you’re kicking it with your foot, so it makes sense. We call it football, but we actually throw it more than we kick it.”
One of the best exchanges might have been one of the simplest, when Beckham tried a pass with the oblong ball.
“Are you right-handed?” Bush asked, after Beckham threw a wobbler.
“Yeah,” Beckham said.
“Are you sure you’re right-handed?” Bush asked.
Trivia time
Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia set a world record last week in the rarely contested one-hour run, covering 12.77 miles. What was his average speed?
West Coast bias
Finally, after all the complaints about the East Coast cognoscenti never appreciating our teams because the games are on too late, someone has noticed one of the reasons the time-zone difference is good for West Coast sports fans.
Pepsi, in conjunction with the launch of Diet Pepsi Max, a no-calorie cola with ginseng and extra caffeine, reported the results of a Harris Interactive survey of 1,100 adults that asked about such things as yawning at work.
Among the findings:
Only 4% of L.A. residents surveyed blamed watching sports such as the Major League Baseball playoffs, the NCAA tournament or NFL night games for their next-day sluggishness.
The figures from some other cities: Chicago (19%), New York (15%) and Boston (13%).
Of course, employers might rather have workers yawning at their desks than watching the game.
Blog ball
TheOnion.com, a satirical website, figures the explosion of blogs by athletes means in-game posts could be next.
“Curt Schilling announced Monday that, upon his eventual return from the disabled list, he will begin live blogging from the pitcher’s mound itself in an effort to provide the most in-depth look yet into how a player thinks when he’s on the field,” the Onion reported in a faux story.
“38pitches.com will be going live during my next start, providing my up-to-the-minute thoughts on pitch count, how my split is working, and descriptions of what the people behind home plate are wearing,” the story “quoted” Schilling, as saying.
“When alerted that laptops would most likely not be permitted on the mound, Schilling mentioned the possibility of hiding a Blackberry in the rosin bag.”
Ad nauseam
Somehow we missed this earlier. From Bill Simmons’ “Page 2” draft diary at ESPN.com:
“The Kobe Saga is showing signs of turning into the new Barbaro Watch. Wake us up when they decide what to do.”
We’ll leave the beating-a-dead-horse lines to somebody else.
Google news
The fashion score from Wimbledon, according to a recent Google News search for stories including the following terms: Red knickers 189, Venus Williams shorts 138, Sharapova swan 102.
Trivia answer
That would be 12.77 mph. Duh.
For comparison, if you run 100 yards in 10 seconds, you are going 20.45 mph.
And finally
Kevin Durant, selected second overall in the NBA draft by the Seattle SuperSonics, quoted in the Seattle Times on 30-year-old Seattle General Manager Sam Presti:
“He’s a very cool guy. He does look so young. He looks like he could be in one of my college classes. But he’s very smart.”
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