Among The Thugs

Just finished re-reading Bill Buford's excellent book, Among The Thugs, a look at England's soccer hooligan, and fan violence, culture of the 70-80's. Disturbing, well written, but a bit dated (although with the violence at yesterday's FA Cup semi-final between Walsall and Milwall, perhaps it is timely. Milwall has a long, long history of fan violence and once played at a stadium call The Den, located on Cold Blow Lane in London. They now play at The New Den, but it move a couple of blocks away from the awesomely named Cold Blow Lane). This book is an up close look at life on the terraces in what was a very different era in sport.

If you like sport, or violence, it is well worth the read. PengoSports says check it out!

CREEPER!!!

Lookout Las Vegas 51's bullpen! It's the Creeper!

Poor, poor unsuspecting bullpen. Your doom is at hand.

Behold, the "Creeper"! Kind of looks like Bill Belichick.

Happy Father's Day!

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!

Go get that prostate checked! NOW!

And, for a limited time only,
we promise they won't use a ball glove.

State of Origin 2 lived up to our vast expectations. NSW broke a four match losing streak to down the Maroons 18-8 to even this year's series. The decider is set for July 6th, same Bat-Time, same Bat-Channel.

Origin and Stanley Cup game 7 make for a happy Pengo

Speaking of Game 7, WOW! Tim Thomas just established the upper bar for how great a goalie can be in the finals. That performance will live in hockey history. And LuBrono? He may never recover (a lot like the reputation of the city of Vancouver. Most people thought it would be the ugly Americans tearing up Boston, nope. It was 'dem rascally Canadians).

The only Boston violence we noticed was at the Sky Sox game when a couple of Red Sox fans destroyed a chair in an on-field promotion. See the evidence below:

"Now cracks a noble heart.

Good-night, sweet prince plastic chair;
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest."

The Boston hooligans

and the object of their spleen

Why couldn't they just pound on the mascot. You know, that worthless ba#tard who keeps ruining PengoSports' shots!

Something's happening on the other side of that leg

Stay out of my G#d-dammed shots or we're shipping you off to Vancouver with that G*d-dammed Finklestein sh%t kid! Son of a...