Roy Hibbert Docked $75K For Post Game Gay Slur

Nobody will ever really know what possessed Indiana Pacers center Roy Hibbert to say what he did during a post-game interview after the Pacers Game 6 win over the Miami Heat Saturday night.

But he said it.

For some reason, he responded to a question about defending Heat star LeBron James by saying "No Homo".

And though Hibbert has apologized for saying it, it's not something you can really take back. Even by reaching out to Jason Collins, wasn't going to cut it.

With that in mind, the NBA announced Sunday afternoon Hibbert would get a $75,000 fine.

Yes, NBA Commish David Stern has said he believes Hibbert is sincere in his apologies, he still had to fine him. And he's right.

Hibbert is not the first NBA player...or athlete to say things such as this and whether you like it or not, you just can't say stuff like that.

At some point, homophobic comments are going to cost athletes a game. Quite honestly, Hibbert is somewhat fortunate this one didn't cost him one. With the Heat and Pacers going to a game 7 in their hard-fought East Division finals, there's no way something like this would cost a starter for either team a game.

But eventually it will....

And before you say it, we haven't reported on this up until now. That's why we are posting the video of Saturday nights presser:

Eastern Conference Finals Are Already Chippy

((HT: NHL on NBC/CBC))

There was no disputing that the Eastern Conference Finals between the Boston Bruins and the Pittsburgh Penguins was going to be a face-to-face situation where neither side was going to flinch.

Evidence in that came in the form of the second period...

Boarding penalties on Matt Cooke (on Adam McQuaid) and then, with 30 seconds left in the period, by Brad Marchand (on James Neal) all hell broke loose. And when Evgeni Malkin decides to drop, then prevailing wisdom is that this is an extraordinary circumstance.


The HQ finds it interesting that Crosby made a point to woof with fellow captain Zdeno Chara.

But the talk went more toward:

1) Matt Cooke getting ejected for his hit on McQuaid and,
2) How some (Crosby) thought the officials let the game get out of hand and get to the point of having one of the games stars so frustrated that we was ready to drop...

Please review and discuss...
((HT: CSNNE.com))


Looks like Cooke will escape further punishment for Game 2, but odds are the HQ thinks he'll be on a short leash for the rest of the series...

For The Record, The Deer Has Some Catching Up to Do

((HT: Paulick Report))

Horse racing at Keeneland is one of those things that horse racing people do...
It's a bucket list item...

And, now, a deer can take it off his or her bucket list...
Even after finishing third...


The HQ is somewhat amazed that no one and nothing even spooked the deer from finishing...

Nice work...

Tiger Cards Worst 9-Holes As A Pro

((HT: PGATour.com))

Tiger Woods had carded a 43 three times in his career and hadn't carded a 44 until today...

The Memorial is a tournament that Woods has won five times and is the defending champ. He finished the round with a 79 and had never shot worse than a 76- that was 10 years ago.

"It was a rough day," Woods said to a PGA Tour media official. "It was tough out there from beginning to end."

And that's putting it somewhat mildly for the guy who was 70th on the leaderboard when he was done.

Here's his triple on the 18th...


Woods worst round ever was an 81 in the 2002 Open Championship...

FSU AD Breaks Up Fight At Regional

((HT: Warchant.com))

Randy Spetman is not to be messed with...

Almost 30 years in the Air Force as a defensive lineman and serving your country does not mean that you will suffer fools lightly, and you won't let a little skirmish in the stands mess up your building as Florida State's Athletic Director...

Savannah State fans got in to it with FSU Fans (specifically "the Animals") at Dick Howser at Day One of the NCAA Regionals and...


Ta dah!!!

Scott Sitz pitched the number seven national seed to a 10-0 win on opening day... which gave the Tigers a day two elimination game with Alabama (of all teams)- who lost to Troy on day one...
((HT: WCTV))


Makes an alum proud...

The Journey To Omaha: A Hoosier Walk Off

Indiana's Chad Clark

Indiana sophomore Chad Clark committed a critical error in the top of the ninth allowing a couple of
Valparaiso runs to score and it looked like an upset.

Clark had a chance to redeem himself in the bottom of the ninth during a Hoosier rally.

Clark crushed the hanging slider from Crusader closer Karch Kowalczyk over the left field wall and it was a walk off winner for Indiana 5-4.


“That’s never happened to me in my life,” Clark said. “Never even had a walk-off hit.”

The Journey To Omaha: A Walk-Off Win For The OSU Beavers

Their are no concessions during the NCAA college baseball regionals.  Oregon State found that out Friday as Texas-San Antonio gave the Beavers a serious scare at the Corvallis, Oregon regional.

The Roadrunners (35-24), a four seed in the regional, took the Beavers (46-10) to the limit on OSU's home field.

It took a walk-off double by Dylan Davis, who led the Pac-12 in RBI and doubles, off UTSA closer Matt Sims that scoring two runs to win it for Oregon State 5-4

Here's a game winner described by FOSG Tom Hart.


"I was looking first-pitch fastball, got what I was looking for and took advantage of it.'' Davis said.

"We flinched for one second, and they took advantage of it, and that's what happens when you play a good team on its home turf,'' Texas-San Antonio head coach Jason Marshall said. "We don't always play well, but we always play our hearts out, and I think you saw that today.''