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This week in sports blogs and news:

• San Diego Padres Rookies Dress Up Like Hooter Girls - Sports By Brooks
• Top 7: In-Game Collapses this Decade - Joe Sports Fan
• Just Your Average 80-Year Old Bodybuilder - Yahoo
• A-Rod Reached Divorce Settlement with Wife - NY Daily News
• Mets Minor Leaguer Kills Girlfriend’s Cat Out of Jealous Rage - With Leather
• Tallest College Basketball Player Ever, Out for Season - Deadspin
• Josh Howard Doesn’t Appreciate the National Anthem because He’s…- Larry Brown Sports
• Andy Reid… - The Sports Hernia

This week on the Smarter Sports Blog we covered:

•  “Look! He’s Breakdance Fighting!”
• Week 2 Fantasy Football Stats
• DeSaun Jackson Celebrates Touchdown Before Scoring
• Dog Rips Off Boy’s Ear, Mom Makes Him Play Soccer
• NBA News: Gilbert Arenas Has Knee Surgery No. 3
  

See that picture above? That’s what $111 million gets ya. Sleeping on a couch, missing yet another month of the NBA season.

Why would I say such a thing?

Well, Mr. Gilbert Arenas if you had forgot, signed a six-year, $111 million contract, this of course was AFTER he already had two knee surgeries. I kind of relate it to paying full price for a Corvette that has been wrecked twice. You can repair the car and make it look new, but it will never run the same.

I’m sure the Washington Wizards are hoping the third knee surgery Arenas underwent on Wednesday will be his final one, making him ready to play after a month into the season.

If he has more complications, then I’m sure we’ll soon be reading about how the whole Wizards front office develop heavy drinking problems as they suck up Arenas’ guaranteed contract.

Gilbert Arenas Jerseys  Washington Wizards Gear

Source: Fox Sports

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I wonder if Gilbert Arenas thinks he’s worth more than $100 million?

Rumors are swirling and there is chatter out there that when the NBA free agency period begins tomorrow at midnight, the Washington Wizards are ready to make Gilbert Arenas a rich man. A very rich man.

The Wizards are expected to make Arenas an offer that is around six years, and valued at or above $100 million. Not too shabby. The deal would obviously make Arenas one of the top paid players in the NBA. Which he definately deserves…when healthy. That is the only knock on the All-Star point guard. He’s had two knee surgeries in the past year and that definitely throws up a red flag on anybody looking into pulling in top dollar.

After opting out of the final year of his contract, Arenas was quoted saying, “I have a number in mind, a number I feel I’m worth and we’ll just have to see what they come with.”

For his sake, lets hope the Wizards at least offer him more than $12.8 million a year.

That’s how much the final year of his contract was worth.

Wow, it takes a very greedy man to walk away from guaranteed millions. Good luck Gilbert.

Source: Washington Post

This week in news and sports blogs around the Net:

• One lucky Giants fan sneaks into parade and celebrates with the New York Giants - Deadspin
• New York Mets pitcher taped at a cockfight - MSNBC
• You don’t know pain. Gilbert Arenas knows pain, but reveals too much information - The Big Lead
• New Yankees Stadium to cost a measely $1.3 billion - WNBC Sports
• This is what commercial you would have saw, had the New England Patriots won - Larry Brown Sports

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And in Smarter Sports we talked about:

• Super Bowl Commercial: Terry Tate - Office Linebacker
• Giants Upset the Patriots in Super Bowl XLII: 17-14
• 97.5 Million…
• We’re Gonna Miss Bobby Knights’ Soundbites
• The Matrix Meets Soccer
  
• Shaq Traded to Phoenix for Shawn Marion