I know most of you won’t care about this story, but I do because it’s hilariously refreshing so you’re going to have to suffer through it if you know what’s good for you.

A Beagle wins at Westminster Kennel Club this year. That’s right. Yesterday a little beagle named Uno, (as in “I’m number one suckas!”) beat out all the other dogs at the Westminster Kennel Club at Madison Square Gardens. This is the first time in Kennel Club history that a beagle has one best in show. Interestingly he also won another title yesterday, noisiest in show. Those are kind of opposite categories so I don’t know how he won both but Uno did it!

According to Fox Sports, yep I put it in the Sports category too, to win best in show Uno beat out “two perfect poodles, a top Sealyham terrier, a sleek Weimaraner, a lively Australian shepherd and a sprightly Akita.”

I LOVE IT! A beagle beating out poodles and fancy-ass dogs for BEST IN SHOW? Priceless. My favorite quote though came from Aaron Wilkerson, Uno’s owner, “He’s a people’s dog, a merry little hound.” Yeah . . . a merry little hound. Gotta love snooty dog owners!

Anyone who reads The Daily Brew knows I’m not that bright when it comes to sports. Super Bowl XLII was so great though, I had to do it justice by welcoming my husband to be a guest blogger. Here’s what he had to say about Super Bowl XLII!

Super Bowl XLII was certainly a historic game, just not the way everyone envisioned it was going to be. The New York Giants pulled off likely one of the greatest upsets in Super Bowl history by stunning the New England Patriots, and the rest of the country, with a 17-14 victory. They stopped one of the most potent offenses ever to take the field.

This year New England set the NFL record for most points in a season by a team, QB Tom Brady set the NFL record for the most Touchdowns thrown (50). Even the Wideout corps. got into it with Randy Moss setting an NFL record for most Touchdowns caught by a receiver. While Wes Welker broke a New England team record with 113 catches on the year. Somehow though, the Giants mustered up an intensity the Patriots could not match.

A defensive game plan was executed to near perfection, save for two plays that come to mind. Rookie wideout Steve Smith for the Giants mishandled a ball thrown sharply and it ended up in the hands of a patriots defensive back. The Giants however managed to keep New England from scoring on the turnover. The other play being corner back Corey Webster falling down on single coverage of Randy Moss in the red zone which resulted in the Patriots second touchdown that put them in line to win with under 3 minutes to play. Eli Manning finally fulfilled his potential as a clutch quarterback with an 83 yard drive that included a QB scramble and a catch by David Tyree that will be shown on highlight reels for years to come.

Eli Manning took MVP honors but arguably Justin Tuck (2 sacks and a forced fumble) or David Tyree (1 TD & one monster catch) could also have received heavy mention.

A lot of people wanted to see history be made with a perfect season, but the Patriots looked far from perfect in this game. This only reiterates how special a perfect season really is and how difficult it is to execute. The Giants were prepared and ran a game plan pretty much to . . . perfection.

Go Giants!

The Dallas Cowboys and The New York Giants were set to play against each other in a playoff game for the Super Bowl. As many of you might know Jessica Simpson is dating Cowboys Quarterback Tony Romo and it seems the mere fact that they are dating, coupled with her showing up to games has really killed everyones game, especially Romo’s.

Every time she comes to a game Jessica Simpson is a distraction and because she’s been distracting Romo that makes his teammates angry at him which starts to distract them. On the Cowboys bye week Romo and Simpson took a little get away to Mexico which made the Cowboys even more mad! They blame her for many of their losses (can someone say scapegoat?).

So Jessica Simpson decided she’d do everyone a favor and opt not to go to yesterday’s game. I guess The New York Post caught wind of this and decided they’d be a big jerk. The New York Post found a Jessica Simpson lookalike, 21-year-old Lynsey Nordstrom and paid her to go to the Cowboy’s Staduim during the game, hang around, sit in a seat and basically just distract and anger the Dallas Cowboys to a point where they’d loose.

It worked. The New York Giants beat the Dallas Cowboys 21 to 17 and got one step closer to the Super Bowl. So even though Jessica Simpson wasn’t actually there, the fact that her lookalike was means that everyone is still blaming her for the loss.

My husband loves the Giants, so he’s happy about the win but for hells sake! The New York Post is a jerk!

UPDATE: The above pic used to be Lynsey Nordstrom but it looks like all those pictures got pulled . . . so there’s regular Jessica Simpson to look at.

In a steroids report that came out yesterday we pretty much found out that everyone does the roids, well at least in Major League Baseball.

Yes, the sad truth has come out. Think of your favorite MLB team. Now think of your all time favorite MLB player. Yep, thats the one that’s done steroids. Sick right?

In The Mitchell Report, done by a guy named Mitchell who is a director of the Boston Red Sox, it came out that seven MVP’s and 31 All-Stars, one in every single playing position and one on every team have all been accused of using performance enhancing drugs. We all know most of them do it, but it sure sucks to find out who they are line by line.

One of the more prominent guys being accused in the report is Roger Clemens, the seven-time Cy Young Award winner, eighth on the all-time list with 354 victories, an MVP and All-Star. Other big names include Gary Sheffield, Jason Giambi and Troy Glaus. Also 16 of them were on the Yankee’s. Damn Yankee’s.

So there you go. Everyone is a big cheater who just got caught. I wonder what they’re going to do about it? Read more about it here!

No! It couldn’t be! That must be what your thinking, that Barry Bonds does not do steroids. Just kidding! I know you know that I know that you know he takes them. Just look at these pictures I posted.

On Friday Barry Bonds was indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice by the feds. Apparently he lied about knowing that he was taking steroids. His trainer guy is all in jail and saying Bonds didn’t know about it and then Bonds took the stand and was like “My trainer just gave me this cream. I had no idea all these years that it had steroids in it!” Even though he was getting gianter and hitting more home runs every time he put on the cream. And where did he put the cream? HA!

Perjury is really hard to prove but it looks like they are going after him with everything they have. If he does get a guilty verdict there’s no shot for a place in the Hall of Fame, not to mention his career will pretty much be over. He’s 43 years old, a lying steroid using chump who is being convicted. So far, as a free agent, no team will touch him.

Come on Barry Bonds, get off the sauce!

I told you I’d write when it got interesting, and well I guess it has because while Colorado was napping in the outfield, the Boston Red Sox Swept the 2007 World Series. . .of baseball that is! That means they won 4 out of 4 games in a row.

So for something like 86 years the Boston Red Sox was plagued by the Curse of the Bambino and now they’re kicking Bambino’s butt. You’ve heard of the curse right? You haven’t!?

History lesson from Wikipedia: Prior to the curse, the Boston Red Sox was one of the most successful professional baseball franchises, winning the first ever World Series in 1903, and amassing five World Series titles by 1918. The curse was said to have begun after the Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees at the end of 1919. The flip side of the curse was New York’s success—after the sale, the once-lackluster Yankees became one of the most successful franchises in North American professional sports. Talk of the curse as an ongoing phenomenon ended in 2004, at the 100th World Series, when the Red Sox came back from an 0-3 best-of-seven deficit to beat the Yankees.

Now the BoSox have gone and done it again! Now, I don’t like the Red Sox that much, my team is the Anaheim. . .I mean the Los Angeles Angels, but, you have to admit it’s pretty funny they won so easily and just 3 years after they broke the curse. They are on a roll and that’s good for them.

Note: Third baseman Mike Lowell was named MVP of the 2007 World Series. Whoever that is, congratulations Sir. I put his pic above so we could all get to know him a little better.

The Colorado Rockies forgot to show up at Game 1 of the 2007 World Series. Boston Red Sox blew them away and had time for long cat naps during the game.

The starting pitcher for the Rockies was Jeff Francis, who threw like a girl. . .because he is a girl. . .because Francis is a girls name. We would like a pitcher; not a belly itcher.

I’ll write more if it ever gets interesting.

NOTE: My deepest apologies to my female readers. You guys throw MUCH better than Jeff Francis.

Barry “The Steroid” Bonds hit his 756th home run last night at his own San Francisco field making him the dude that’s hit the most Major League home runs in the history of baseball.

Last week he reached Hank Aaron’s previous all time home run record of 755 and this week, tada! I guess the ball just went really far making it a home run and yay or something like it.

Can you guess, though, who didn’t show up for what was sure to be the home run breaking game? The baseball commissioner and Mr. Hank Aaron. So hats off to them for that one, I wouldn’t have gone to this sham of a game either.

Bonds was reported as saying, “This record is not tainted at all. At all. Period.” Riiight. What else was he going to say? “This record is totally tainted because I took performance enhancing drugs to improve my work outs and get me some extra home runs! But I did it na na na na na na.” Of course he’s going to defend it, even though we all know it’s baloney.

I’m not saying he’s not a good player, but lets not pretend he hasn’t had some help via substance.

Anyway, congratulations Barry Bonds for beating out a short, fat, drunk (The Babe), and a normal sized human being with a normal sized head and a normal sized neck and normal sized veins (Hammerin’ Hank). You must be super proud.

NOTE: Some readers were apparently upset with my description of Babe Ruth. I want to clarify that those attributes are true about the legend and were simply used to show how absolutely amazing it is that a guy in that kind of shape was an amazing baseball player and held the record for most home runs. This also shows how un-amazing it is that Mr. Bonds beat him at it…in my humble and worthless opinion. Truly, I love the Bambino.

Whoop, whoop! Last night the San Antonio Spurs took down the Cleveland Cavaliers 83 to 82 in Game 4 of the NBA finals. Get out your dust pans because that was a sweep. Although if you are a really die hard basketball fan you really shouldn’t even know what a dust pan is. *Shrug*

Are you wondering why I, LJ, even care about this game? You must be thinking “LJ, your team wasn’t even in the finals, you don’t have a vested interest, so why, why?” Well kids, it’s because I don’t like LeBron James and maybe Cleveland going down with zero, zip, nada games won is something his giant ego needed. Hooray!

So it went down like this: Tony Parker, MVP, scored 24 points, Manu Ginobili scored 27 and Spurs Tim Duncan had grabbed himself 15 rebounds. Thats what I call a fantastic 3. It seemed like a close game every step of the way, especially in the 4th quarter. Endless 3 pointers, and free throws changed the dynamic of the game each minute. Manu Ginobili sealed the Spurs win though when he made made four free throws in the final seven seconds of the game.

This is the San Antonio Spurs 4th Championship. They also took the title in 1999, 2003, 2005 and now 2007.

“This one’s sweeter,” Duncan said. “The road that we took to get here was as tough as we ever had it. Guys persevered, we had great performances from one to 12.”

The Anaheim Ducks took the series against the Ottawa Senators last night 6 to 2 in Game 5 and earned themselves the coveted Stanley Cup! And what a game it was.

Five out of six shots for the Ducks were all by different players, Travis Moen was the only one with 2, not too shabby to say the least. However one of the goals credited to Moen was actually kicked in by Senators own goalie Ray Emery! Corey Perry scored the game winning goal, “I kept looking up at the clock and I was on the ice, and when it hit zero, I threw my gloves as high as I could. It’s just a dream come true.”

Team Captain Scott Niedermayer was the first to hold the trophy and had the pleasure of passing it on to his brother Rob, something many hockey brothers only dream of doing. Scott also won the playoff MVP this year receiving the Conn Smythe Trophy and it was well deserved.

It was a mighty fine night. Spirits were high, fans were going crazy. There were tears, hollers and lots of hugs. It seemed everyone, Ducks team and fans a like, were in total awe of this monumental win 14 years in the making.

What did I tell ya? GO DUCKS! QUACK QUACK QUACK!

Edited: Yesterday I reported the Ducks won 6 to 3. I was SO wrong. The Ducks were even better than that winning 6 to 2.