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Hundreds of drunken Philadelphia Eagles and Phillies fans lustily booed the implosion of Veterans Stadium on Sunday as they gathered in area neighborhoods to watch the 33-year old venue come down.
“The Vet sucks! The Vet sucks! The Vet sucks!” chanted the crowd moments before the implosion began. Most held signs with lines such as “F--k the Vet!” and “The Vet Ain’t Even Got No Teams Anymore!” And after the detonations started and the stadium was reduced to rubble in just more than 60 seconds, the crowd began booing the implosion team for its inability to fell the structure in less than a minute. “Boooooooooooooo,” yelled one obviously intoxicated spectator. “I could have knocked that stadium down by myself in less than a minute. You suck!”
Police arrested more than two dozen of the crowd after fans tried to rush the implosion team and beat them with metal pipes. Others ran to the Vet’s two nearby replacements, the Eagles Lincoln Financial Field and the Phillies new Citizens Bank Park, and attempted to set fire to them before being dispersed. Yet despite the incidences, Philadelphia police were relatively pleased with the crowd’s self-control. “All in all, we were pretty happy with the behavior of the fans,” said Winston Smith, a Philadelphia police lieutenant. “We expected some deaths, maybe a bomb or two. We thought it would be a lot worse.”

With the buzz of her appearance last month in ‘Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit edition waning, not to mention the publicity from her rumored romances with Derek Jeter and actors Mickey Rourke and Mark Wahlberg, tennis vixen Anna Kournikova now wants to know if anyone would like to see her boobs.
My publicist had thought the SI spread would still have people talking, but with it starting to come off the shelves, and things dying out with the Jeter, Wahlberg and Rourke rumors, we’re probably going to show my breasts sooner than later,” said Kournikova.
Kournikova’s representatives are in talks with ‘Playboy,’ ‘Hustler’ and several subscription-only websites for the right to publish shots of the former tennis player’s breasts. “’Playboy’ would be the classiest way to go, but we have an interesting offer from ‘Hustler’ that would include some shots with her tennis racket and some tennis balls that we think would really get some people talking,” said Marie Wittmer, Kournikova’s publicist. “We’re going to be prudent and make a wise selection, but we need to do it fast before there’s any chance she might fall out of the public eye.”
Kournikova says she is leaving the decision on the proper outlet for her breast-baring to her advisers. “They’re the professionals – that’s what I pay them for. I just want to show my boobs, it doesn’t matter where,” she said. “To be honest, I was hoping my overwhelming desire for fame wouldn’t cause me to do this for another year or so, but it looks like I’m going to have to give everybody a look now. After that, who knows what I’ll resort to.”

            The long-simmering sexual tension between CBS broadcaster Billy Packer and St. Joseph’s head coach Phil Martelli may be set to boil over this Thursday when Packer will be in attendance to call the game between Wake Forest and Martelli’s Hawks. It is the first meeting between the two since their passionate confrontation on Selection Sunday 10 days ago.
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The NCAA cancelled the remainder of its men’s and women’s basketball tournaments this morning for fear its student-athletes are missing too much class.
“The NCAA Tournament makes millions and millions of dollars for us and for our corporate partners,” said NCAA president Myles Brand. “But our student-athletes have been spending far too much time out of the classroom over the past month and that can not stand. As always, the focus of the NCAA is not on making a profit, but on giving our student-athletes a great education.”
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Reports that women's rights advocate Martha Burk will not protest this April's Masters were confirmed this morning when Burk said she can not commit the time due to "having too much housework to do right now. "
"My dedication to women 's equality in general, and breaking the exclusionary culture of the Augusta National Golf Club in particular, remains as strong as ever, " said Burk, chairwoman of the National Council of Women 's Organizations. "However, with all of the rabble-rousing I 've done in the past year, I have hardly been home and I 've gotten way behind on laundry and ironing, and my husband is getting rightfully angry that I haven 't cooked him dinner in ages. Whether I like it or not, sometimes my traditional roles as a wife and mother and in keeping my husband happy comes first. I have no problem accepting that. "
Despite the intense media coverage of Burk 's efforts leading up to last year 's Masters, only 40 people joined her at a rally outside the club 's gates, and Augusta National made no concessions to her demands. Yet Burk said she may still target the club again in the future.
"If I can get caught up on my housework in time for next year I 'll be there, you can guarantee that, " said Burk. "Maybe I 'll cook a lot of stuff in advance and freeze it so my husband can eat while I 'm away. And I can get one of my friends to clean and do his laundry and stuff while I 'm away. That should work. "

And with Cincinnati’s blowout loss to Illinois, Bob Huggins has now reached the Sweet 16 just once in the past eight years – a 13 percent success rate. However, that’s 13 percent above the graduation rate of Huggins’s program. So congrats, Bob!

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