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SALT LAKE CITY — There have been some bad celebrations gone wrong in sports. Bill Gramatica of the Arizona Cardinals come to mind, but this one is going to climb the ranks.
Basketball isn't known as a full-contact sport and the WNBA has a slower pace, but this celebration injury is still awesome. It is like the scene out of Rocky after Nneka Ogwumike got fouled.
It all starts with the Los Angeles Sparks on a fast break against the Tulsa Shock. The Sparks were up by one, with :44 left in overtime. The Sparks pass the ball around, and Ogwumike ended up with a lay up. Ogwumike got fouled on the play and a little later the blood started to flow. The blood wasn't from the foul, but from the celebration afterward.
The Sparks were a free throw away from going up by four and Candace Parker wanted to celebrate with Ogwumike. Parker jumped on Oguwumike and a mini pile ensued that ended with their heads meeting and blood being shed.
Parker saw the blood flowing and started laughing, but Ogwumike had to take the free throws after being cleaned up. She missed them and the Shock sent the game into double-overtime. The Sparks did end up winning the game, but it was closer than it should have been.
Million-dollar hole-in-one:
Jeff Barton entered a golf tournament for East Mountain High School at the Paa-Ko Ridge Golf Club in Sandia Park, N.M. While he entered the Corley's Albuquerque Lincoln Volvo Hole-in-One Shootout, probably to have some fun and raise funds for the school, there was a good chance he never expected to raise some funds for himself.
Barton walked up to the ninth hole of the course, where organizers set up a par-3 hole that is roughly 160 yards out with a million-dollar hole-in-one stipulation, and sank the shot. There were 132 golfers and the odds were 12,500-to-1, according to the school's website. That means it pretty much won't happen, but you're telling me there's a chance.
Fortunately some unnamed person was filming the event. The video got the shot and the ball rolling into the hole. The ball falling in the hole was also videotaped to make sure everyone knew. The small group of observers got the chance to celebrate the shot.
Someone hit a hole in one for a million bucks at the #EMHS tournament. Unreal. #Witnesspic.twitter.com/IwuKCG05Qb
— Mackenzie Bishop (@abrazomack) August 23, 2013
Marlon Byrd traded on Marlon Byrd night:
Marlon Byrd is 36 and having the best year of his career. He is a free agent at the end of the year, and the New York Mets wanted to get something from his great season. The Mets got a young prospect for Byrd and catcher John Buck in a trade with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
The Mets sent the two well-liked players to a team fighting for at least the division if not the Wild Card in the National League. This all seems well and good, but the Mets traded Byrd on Tuesday, which was Marlon Byrd t-shirt night.
Yes, the Mets traded Byrd on the night they were celebrating him. Sometimes things just work out the wrong way and the front office isn't worried about fan promotions.
Regardless, Tuesday night there will be some fans watching the Mets wearing a Byrd shirt with Byrd in Pittsburgh.
