Santonio Holmes is at it again?! Since 2006, Holmes-slice has been charged with marijuana possession in Pennsylvania (eh.), disorderly conduct (hmm) and domestic violence (uh-oh) in Florida.
Now the latest: A police report released yesterday alleges that Holmes hit a woman in the face with a glass on March 7, at Club Rain in Orlando.
The debacle started in the VIP section when Holmes demanded his seat back from a woman. And from there it escalated.
As an Ohio State alum, we are sure that Holmes has been to enough parties to know that one has to call "fives" before one leaves their seat in order to get it back upon their return.
Also, does Holmes need Washington Redskins running back Larry Johnson to show him how to properly squabble with females at a club? Lord knows Johnson, and his three documented incidents with women in clubs, is well-versed in such matters. We're sure if Johnson was with Holmes that night, the Steelers wideout would've simply spit his drink in the woman's face and called it a night.
It is worth noting that this incident took place just three days after Holmes' QB, Ben Rothlisberger, got himself involved in more monkey business in a club bathroom in Georgia.
We find it difficult to believe that Holmes-slice saw what happened to his teammate and dismissed it as he went out on the town that night two days after the news broke of Big Ben's troubles.
Instead we find it more plausible that Holmes decided to take some heat off his teammate by getting into a scrape with a female (the seat was an excuse), and also show Big Ben where to properly act out in the club when you are a pro athlete: In the VIP section.
Holmes is a true friend and teammate.
With all the rumors and innuendo surrounding what will happen with Donovan McNabb, we here at the D-train Daily decided to get in on all this irresponsible journalism.
The Oakland Raiders are the "front-runner" according to ESPN. What's a "front-runner" in trade talks? Seriously, what does that mean? When a player is a free-agent it is fair to say that blank team is a front-runner to sign him, but it is hardly applicable in this situation.
Next, every SportsCenter says it has more on the McNabb situation in the tease, and then delivers nothing new... except more speculation.
Hey ESPN! You cannot spell news without "new." Therefore, if it is the same tired nothing that you have run the past two days with your top Philly fiction writer Sal Palantonio and top NFL correspondent Adam Schefter (contradicting reports by the way), it is NOT news.
Speaking of ESPN's fiction writers, Schefter is beginning to annoy us more than usual with this close to home topic. His smarmy manner is off-putting enough but then he always come at audiences with his rain-making style of reporting which makes him contemptible.
Way back when, a farmer would pay a shaman to make it rain. When it did not rain the shaman would tell the farmer that perhaps more money was needed. If it did rain the shaman would tout himself as the one to have made it happen.
So when Schefter spouts off some "report" about what WILL happen and it does not, they (ESPN and Shaman, er, Schefter) simply gloss over that inaccurate report as though it were never spoken. If one of Schefter's predictions come to fruition, then they go on about how he broke that story.
However, if you are ever online, watch Associated Press wire reports early in the morning. Then watch SportsCenter. Schefter's "reports" usually match the AP's except for an added quote by Shaman from the always dependable "NFL source."
In short: Does Shaman read the AP or does the AP read him?
To get a true report we went to the last bastion of true journalism left in this country: TMZ. And according to the best news-gathers ever, a source close to McNabb (that's a little better) said that he would not go to Oakland.
A team giving anything for McNabb to the Eagles would not do so with him under a one-year deal. If McNabb refuses to sign an extention, then all the talk of him to Oakland is moot.
But we do not expect reality to get in the way of news nowadays, especially with respect to Eternal Specualation & Pontification Network.
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