Sports Bytes - March 30, 2010

President Obama is scheduled to throw out the first pitch on Opening Day for the Washington Nationals. If he tears his rotator cuff in the process, will his new healthcare legislation cover the surgery? . . .

Add NFLer Joey Porter to the list of athletes who believe they are entitled to ignore DUI laws . . .
Excellent column in Monday's Boston Globe by Dan Shaugnessy about a 1970s high school football player who was paralyzed by a bullet to his neck in a race-related shooting. Following the paralysis Darryl Williams became a hero to all who knew him. Unfortunately, he passed away over the weekend from respiratory failure at the age of 46. It is a great read . . .

NFL.com has an interesting poll, "Top All-Time Picks", where in head-to-head matchups fans select which players proved to be better draft choices . . .

Is there something in the water in Pittsburgh? Another Steeler has been accused of assaulting a woman in a nightclub. Anshonoe Mills claims that Steelers WR Santonio Holmes "grabbed her face and threw a glass at her when he objected to her sitting on a couch in the Rain Night Club's VIP section March 7. Mills says the glass hit her and cut her near the eye" . . .

The May 2010 issue of The Ring magazine lists 20 boxing insiders' predictions for the May 1 Mayweather-Mosley showdown. I expected Mayweather to win the vote, but not by the score of 17-3 . . .

Ambidextrous Yankees minor league pitcher Pat Venditte may pitch today against the Braves. "Venditte wears a six-finger glove with two thumb holes" . . .

It's bad enough we've had to listen to Tiger Woods' assorted rendezvous. Now we have to hear about Roger Clemens' alleged unsuccessful bedroom romps? . . .

SI.com's Tom Verducci selected his top-10 baseball teams of all-time. The top three were Yankees (1927, 1939, and 1998), as were five of the 10 teams chosen overall . . . I was surprised that Verducci chose the Reds 1975 team over the 1976 team. Although the '75 team won more games (108-102), the '76 team swept both the Phillies and Yankees in the postseason. As an 8-year-old boy I remember watching my Yankees get destroyed in four games. They were completely overmatched . . .
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