For most athletes, getting your own bobblehead means you have made it. For minor league hockey player Greg Amadio his toughness on the ice and support among fans earned him that honor. On Saturday, the AHL’s Grand Rapids Griffins will be giving away Amadio bobbleheads. Only problem is Amadio won’t be there… he was traded two months ago.
Unfortunately for Amadio and the Griffins, making a replica miniature statue takes longer than one would think, and the marketing department already ordered the bobbleheads before Amadio was traded to the Springfield Falcons.
“We were looking at the whole schedule printed out and the special event nights and it said, ‘March 31, Greg Amadio Bobblefist Night’ and I started to laugh,” Amadio told MLive.com “I went into the office and asked if they were serious and they said, yeah, and they’re already being made. I was really surprised.”
Amadio’s bobblehead will be unlike any other, not just because he no longer plays on the team but because it will have moving fists instead of a bouncing head. While with the Griffins, Amadio had 574 penalty minutes in 207 games in Grand Rapids.
What better tour guide for Tim Tebow than the woman who sings “Like a Virgin.” With the NY Jets, officially announcing the acquisition of Tim Tebow, Madonna has offered to show the quarterback around his new city. The hospitality first came up when Ryan Seacrest Tweeted Madonna: ”Since @TimTebow is moving to ny now, will you show him around?” Madonna replied: “Id love to show @TimTebow around town…we have so much in common. He’s “like a virgin” and so am I.”
Madonna is a veteran jersey chaser. The Material Mom dated Alex Rodriguez in 2008 and was rumored to be the cause of his divorce from his wife. But Madonna will have to get in line, Tebow has been linked to both Taylor Swift and Glee’s Dianna Agron.
The idea of the Material Girl showing Tebow around won’t sit well with team officials. The Jets have already encouraged Tebow to live in Hoboken, New Jersey near the team’s practice facility and not “to be influenced and distracted in the city.” Apparently, the Jets have never watched the Jersey Shore.
The Los Angeles Dodgers needed a little Magic after what they endured in the past two years, which includes filing for bankruptcy and a bitter divorce between their owners. But yesterday, team owner Frank McCourt announced new owners for the team who have agreed to buy the Dodgers spear-headed by none other than Magic Johnson.
The deal was finalized just hours before the team was supposed to be auctioned off to three potential buyers including another sports connection; St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke. The Dodgers filed for bankruptcy in June of 2011, after team owners Frank and Jamie McCourt failed to settle team ownership in their divorce proceedings.
$2 Billion is the largest ever price tag for a US sports team.
Apparently father does not know best, at least not for tennis player Bernard Tomic. The Australian tennis star asked an official for his father to be removed from his match at the Sony Ericsson Open.
Tomic slumped to 0-30 in the fifth game of the second set to David Ferrer. Tomic became distracted by his father and former instructor, asking the umpire to remove him from the match. Tomic said: “He’s annoying me. I know he’s my father, but he’s annoying me. I want him to leave, but how is that possible?”
The umpire issued Tomic’s father a code violation warning for illegal coaching
Despite being over heard asking his father to be kicked out of the match, Tomic denies any rift. Instead, saying he asked the umpire for his racquets to be restrung.
But Tomic and his father’s relationship isn’t all LOVE. In 2009, Tomic was suspended from ITF tournaments for 30-days after disobeying his father and coach’s order to walk off the court during a match because of what he deemed as poor officiating.
