Surfing safari for 10/8/08
Plaxico Burress can even tick off car rental offices.
Final Yankee Stadium home run ball worth 20K at auction?
Elgin Baylor bails on the Clippers. Or did they throw him overboard? How could it take so long? When it comes to a front-office executive success is not in his dictionary.
Mets reliever Ambiroix Burgos turns himself into Dominican authorities.
AIG execs celebrate $85 billion bailout with 500K retreat at California resort. Will anyone ever learn? Just an insult to the citizens of the U.S. Who else is going to get rich off this?
David Beckham suspended for one game due to drawing red card. The match is in Houston, imagine the fans who bought tix only because they wanted to see Becks play. Refund!
Ed Hochuli’s nightmare season continues.
LSU’s Ricky Jean-Francois going Gator hunting with a target named Tim Tebow.
Washington State holds an open tryout for quarterbacks on campus. That is how bad things have gotten in Pullman.
New York Times’ Richard Sandomir blindsides the carnival known as Football Night in America. No one is having fun.
Another reason to ban soccer: Zimbabwean player drowns in crocodile infested river during a ritual to cleanse him team of bad spirits. No truth to the rumor Lou Piniella and the Cubs were next to wade into the waters.
Nine-hundred and ninety-pound man dies in Mexico.
Barry Bonds enjoying his freedom … from baseball.

Matt Kyle blocks
