LOS ANGELES, Calif. – The sports world has lost a true legend; UCLA basketball coach John Wooden has passed away at the age of 99.

Wooden made his mark on the game behind the bench for the UCLA Bruins for 27 years and finished with a 620-147 record including 47 NCAA tournament wins. His overall career coaching record is 885-203, an astounding .813 winning percentage.

During that 27 year tenure as coach of the Bruins, Wooden had an unprecedented run of 7 consecutive titles from 1967through 1973 and a record 88-game winning streak in the early 1970s. During that stretch, Wooden guided his teams to four 30-0 seasons.

Wooden learned about challenge early in life when he was born on a farm that had no electricity or indoor plumbing. Although baseball was his favorite sport, Wooden was glued to the basketball rim that was nailed to a hayloft where he would shoot with his brother Maurice.

Those years of practice and dedication led to Wooden learning how to lead and win. In high school he was a member of a team that won the Indiana state championship in 1927 and later won a national college championship as an All-American at Purdue his senior season.

Building a strong reputation as a coach, Wooden attracted star players that included Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul Jabbar), Bill Walton and Jamaal Wilkes that led to the dominated runs.

Wooden is the only person to be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach.

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Choosing this week’s Bitch-Slap-of-the-Week is easy when there’s a guy like MLB umpire Jim Joyce around.

Unless you have been locked away in solitary confinement or just awakening from an alcohol-induced coma, you are sure to have heard of the horse’s ass ump who botched the call taking a perfect game away from Detroit pitcher, Armando Galarraga, screwing my homies in the Motor City.

Here’s the recap:

With two outs in the 9th inning at Comerica Park in Detroit, young starter Galarraga is one pitch away from hurling the first perfect game in Detroit Tigers franchise history.

The fans are on their feet under the lights, sports fans from around the country are glued to their TV sets watching live feeds anticipating being a part of a historical baseball moment.

Next pitch, it’s a ground ball, Galarranga covers the bag, the throw is on target and in time, the fans and Tigers are ready to erupt in celebration . . .

. . . UNTIL . . . some blind, overpaid fat bastard converts the climactic moment into a total BUZZ KILL, calling the runner safe.

Replays later showed the runner was clearly out by almost a half of step.

SLAP! There’s one right in the chops from the Detroit Tigers organization Mr. Joyce.

SLAAAPP! Have another backhander from the rest of the baseball fans around the country who were glued to their seats wanting to be a part of baseball history.

THUMP! For the first time ever, a swift kick square in the nuts is thrown in because a Bitch-Slap in this case is not near enough.

Our editor at Sports Climax covered this in a more civilized manner comparing Joyce’s gaffe to Bill Buckner’s screw-up during the 1986 World Series as far as notoriety goes but we get pissed off in this column and don’t wanna lay low like that.

In addition to getting Bitch-Slapped and kicked in his junk here on Sports Climax, an anti-Joyce Facebook page was created shortly after the game and a website called FireJimJoyce.com was launched.

I know there’s rumor that the guy who covers up steroid abuse really good, what’s his name . . . Bud Selig, the MLB Commissioner, is considering taking a break from his drug cover-up operation to consider reversing the shiat call made by Joyce.

The game would then go into the history books as a perfect game but all of us fans who were glued to our sets will never be given back that moment that was taken away by Joyce.

After reviewing the play and realizing how bad he f***ed up an obvious call, Joyce said:

“It was the biggest call of my career, and I kicked the [swear word inserted here] out of it. I just cost that kid a perfect game.”

Yes you did, Mr. Joyce. And you cost MLB the opportunity to boast about two stud-performance perfect games in a week and three in this young season and fo9r that you get our Bitch-Slap-of-the-Week.

NFL Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor is back in the news and unfortunately for him it includes cheesing for another mugshot, shown here, and getting hit with a sex related felony charge.Just as the world was settling down from the Tiger Woods sex scandals, the 51-year-old Taylor, a defensive standout for the New York Giants, was arrested for the alleged statutory rape of a 16-year-old girl.

Police in Rockland County, New York said Taylor paid $300 to engage in sex with the runaway minor at a Holiday Inn.

Taylor who recently showed a few decent moves as a contestant on “Dancing with the Stars” may have a hard time dancing around this one. If convicted, these charges bring a potential jail term of up to five years.

Taylor denied the charges and his lawyer, Arthur L. Aidala confirmed that to The New York Times on Thursday:

“He’s denying the whole thing. We’re going to fight these charges as hard as he fought when he was a linebacker for the New York Giants.”

If this incident takes one of the grittiest players in the history of the NFL down, it will give a new meaning to the line, “I stayed at a Holiday Inn Once.”

See more athletes who had run-ins with the law at our Jocks Behind Bars section on Sports Climax.

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LOUISVILL, KY. – The 136th Kentucky Derby officially has a winner on the books. After several hours of on-and-off rainstorms muddied the track at Churchill Downs, the 20 horses took their spots and battled the severe conditions with Super Saver coming in ahead of the group with a time of 2:04.45.

After the rain battered the track early Saturday, the normal early morning workouts were postponed early Saturday with trainers opting to trot their horses inside the barns.

At race time, Looking At Lucky was listed as the favorite at 7-1, the longest odds ever for a Kentucky Derby favorite.

Due to the sloppy track conditions the analysts couldn’t agree on predicting the winner.

A late bet of $100,000 was placed on Super Saver at 8-1. After the $100,000 bet was placed, the odds for Super Saver actually moved to match Looking At Lucky at 7-1.

The odds on the Thoroughbreds changed like a shaky stock market over the past few days due to the horrible track conditions.

Placing was Ice Box and also coming in the money at third was Paddy O’Prado.

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ABOUT THE KENTUCKY DERBY:

Taking place at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky every year on the first Saturday in May, the Kentucky Derby is referred to as “The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports.”

This year’s 2010 Kentucky Derby race is scheduled to be televised live on NBC at 6:24pm ET.

Normally a crowd of more than 150,000 people will jam the stands for this race to see the cream of the crop compete in this first leg of the Triple Crown.

Unless you have personally witnessed this event live, you may not understand the adrenaline that fills the air when the gates open and the 3-year-old thoroughbreds start kicking up the dirt around the 1 ¼ mile track.

THE THOROUGHBREDS & ODDS:

Here is the 20 horse field who will be competing in the 136th Run for the Roses. The odds at the time of this article are posted below. To see the updated odds go to Kentucky Derby.info.

American Lion 25-1
Awesome Act 8 – 1
Backtalk 35 – 1
Conveyance 10 – 1
Deans Kitten 35 – 1
Devil May Care 8 – 1
Discreetly Mine 25 – 1
Dublin 10 – 1
Homeboykris 30 – 1
Ice Box 8 – 1
Jackson Bend 12 – 1
Line of David 25 – 1
Lookin at Lucky 3 – 1
Make Music for Me 35 – 1
Mission Impazible 15 – 1
Nobles Promise 10 – 1
Paddy O’Prado 15 – 1
Sidneys Candy 4 – 1
Stately Victor 25 – 1
Super Saver 12 – 1

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Oregon Ducks running back LeGarrette Blount may be the sleeper of this year’s draft, literally.

While still waiting for his name to be called during the final rounds of the NFL 2010 Draft, Blount was caught by ESPN cameras taking a nap.

Last season, Blount instantly became a member of the Hall of Shame when he sucker-punched an opposing Boise State Broncos player after being taunted after his team’s loss.

Before cold-cocking that player, Blount was projected by many draft analysts to go in the 3rd round.

Unfortunately, Blount never heard his name before the gavel hit and the draft was over.

But this story doesn’t end here.

Shortly after the draft, along comes San Francisco 49ers coach Mike Singletary galloping in on a horse in shining armor, signing the undrafted player. This could prove to be a great move by the 49ers. Blount is a strong runner with talent and strong competitive nature with the ability to run over a few NFL linebackers if given the chance.

Though crucified by the public and many sports sites, including us after that incident, Blount deserves a chance to find a permanent spot on an NFL roster and is our hands-down pick for ‘sleeper’ of the draft.

Editor’s Note: Shortly after this article was written, LaGarrette jumped ship from the 49ers and instead signed with the Titans.

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Week 1
Thu. Sep. 09
Vikings at Saints, 8:30 PM

Sun. Sep. 12
Dolphins at Bills, 1:00 PM
Colts at Texans, 1:00 PM
Lions at Bears, 1:00 PM
Falcons at Steelers, 1:00 PM
Browns at Buccaneers, 1:00 PM
Bengals at Patriots, 1:00 PM
Broncos at Jaguars, 1:00 PM
Raiders at Titans, 1:00 PM
Panthers at Giants, 1:00 PM
49ers at Seahawks, 4:15 PM
Cardinals at Rams, 4:15 PM
Packers at Eagles, 4:15 PM
Cowboys at Redskins, 8:20 PM

Mon. Sep. 13
Ravens at Jets, 7:00 PM
Chargers at Chiefs, 10:15 PM

Week 2
Sun. Sep. 19
Ravens at Bengals, 1:00 PM
Buccaneers at Panthers, 1:00 PM
Bills at Packers, 1:00 PM
Dolphins at Vikings, 1:00 PM
Bears at Cowboys, 1:00 PM
Eagles at Lions, 1:00 PM
Cardinals at Falcons, 1:00 PM
Chiefs at Browns, 1:00 PM
Steelers at Titans, 1:00 PM
Seahawks at Broncos, 4:05 PM
Rams at Raiders, 4:05 PM
Patriots at Jets, 4:15 PM
Texans at Redskins, 4:15 PM
Jaguars at Chargers, 4:15 PM
Giants at Colts, 8:20 PM

Mon. Sep. 20
Saints at 49ers, 8:30 PM

Week 3
Sun. Sep. 26
Bills at Patriots, 1:00 PM
Falcons at Saints, 1:00 PM
Lions at Vikings, 1:00 PM
Browns at Ravens, 1:00 PM
Cowboys at Texans, 1:00 PM
49ers at Chiefs, 1:00 PM
Titans at Giants, 1:00 PM
Steelers at Buccaneers, 1:00 PM
Bengals at Panthers, 1:00 PM
Eagles at Jaguars, 4:05 PM
Redskins at Rams, 4:05 PM
Raiders at Cardinals, 4:15 PM
Chargers at Seahawks, 4:15 PM
Colts at Broncos, 4:15 PM
Jets at Dolphins, 8:20 PM

Mon. Sep. 27
Packers at Bears, 8:30 PM

Week 4
Sun. Oct. 03
Jets at Bills, 1:00 PM
Seahawks at Rams, 1:00 PM
Panthers at Saints, 1:00 PM
Lions at Packers, 1:00 PM
Bengals at Browns, 1:00 PM
Ravens at Steelers, 1:00 PM
Broncos at Titans, 1:00 PM
49ers at Falcons, 1:00 PM
Colts at Jaguars, 4:05 PM
Texans at Raiders, 4:05 PM
Redskins at Eagles, 4:15 PM
Cardinals at Chargers, 4:15 PM
Bears at Giants, 8:20 PM

Mon. Oct. 04
Patriots at Dolphins, 8:30 PM
Byes: DAL, KC, MIN, TB

Week 5
Sun. Oct. 10
Buccaneers at Bengals, 1:00 PM
Falcons at Browns, 1:00 PM
Giants at Texans, 1:00 PM
Chiefs at Colts, 1:00 PM
Packers at Redskins, 1:00 PM
Jaguars at Bills, 1:00 PM
Broncos at Ravens, 1:00 PM
Bears at Panthers, 1:00 PM
Rams at Lions, 1:00 PM
Saints at Cardinals, 4:05 PM
Chargers at Raiders, 4:15 PM
Titans at Cowboys, 4:15 PM
Eagles at 49ers, 8:20 PM

Mon. Oct. 11
Vikings at Jets, 8:30 PM
Byes: MIA, NE, PIT, SEA

Week 6
Sun. Oct. 17
Browns at Steelers, 1:00 PM
Saints at Buccaneers, 1:00 PM
Dolphins at Packers, 1:00 PM
Chargers at Rams, 1:00 PM
Ravens at Patriots, 1:00 PM
Chiefs at Texans, 1:00 PM
Lions at Giants, 1:00 PM
Falcons at Eagles, 1:00 PM
Seahawks at Bears, 1:00 PM
Raiders at 49ers, 4:05 PM
Jets at Broncos, 4:05 PM
Cowboys at Vikings, 4:15 PM
Colts at Redskins, 8:20 PM

Mon. Oct. 18
Titans at Jaguars, 8:30 PM
Byes: ARI, BUF, CAR, CIN

Week 7
Sun. Oct. 24
Eagles at Titans, 1:00 PM
Bengals at Falcons, 1:00 PM
Browns at Saints, 1:00 PM
Steelers at Dolphins, 1:00 PM
Rams at Buccaneers, 1:00 PM
49ers at Panthers, 1:00 PM
Redskins at Bears, 1:00 PM
Jaguars at Chiefs, 1:00 PM
Bills at Ravens, 1:00 PM
Cardinals at Seahawks, 4:05 PM
Raiders at Broncos, 4:15 PM
Patriots at Chargers, 4:15 PM
Vikings at Packers, 8:20 PM

Mon. Oct. 25
Giants at Cowboys, 8:30 PM
Byes: DET, HOU, IND, NYJ

Week 8
Sun. Oct. 31
Packers at Jets, 1:00 PM
Broncos at 49ers, 1:00 PM
Jaguars at Cowboys, 1:00 PM
Dolphins at Bengals, 1:00 PM
Panthers at Rams, 1:00 PM
Redskins at Lions, 1:00 PM
Bills at Chiefs, 1:00 PM
Titans at Chargers, 4:05 PM
Vikings at Patriots, 4:15 PM
Seahawks at Raiders, 4:15 PM
Buccaneers at Cardinals, 4:15 PM
Steelers at Saints, 8:20 PM

Mon. Nov. 01
Texans at Colts, 8:30 PM
Byes: ATL, BAL, CHI, CLE, NYG, PHI

Week 9
Sun. Nov. 07
Buccaneers at Falcons, 1:00 PM
Saints at Panthers, 1:00 PM
Bears at Bills, 1:00 PM
Jets at Lions, 1:00 PM
Dolphins at Ravens, 1:00 PM
Patriots at Browns, 1:00 PM
Chargers at Texans, 1:00 PM
Cardinals at Vikings, 1:00 PM
Giants at Seahawks, 4:05 PM
Chiefs at Raiders, 4:15 PM
Colts at Eagles, 4:15 PM
Cowboys at Packers, 8:20 PM

Mon. Nov. 08
Steelers at Bengals, 8:30 PM
Byes: DEN, JAC, SF, STL, TEN, WAS

Week 10
Thu. Nov. 11
Ravens at Falcons, 8:20 PM

Sun. Nov. 14
Texans at Jaguars, 1:00 PM
Vikings at Bears, 1:00 PM
Panthers at Buccaneers, 1:00 PM
Lions at Bills, 1:00 PM
Jets at Browns, 1:00 PM
Titans at Dolphins, 1:00 PM
Bengals at Colts, 1:00 PM
Chiefs at Broncos, 4:05 PM
Cowboys at Giants, 4:15 PM
Seahawks at Cardinals, 4:15 PM
Rams at 49ers, 4:15 PM
Patriots at Steelers, 8:20 PM

Mon. Nov. 15
Eagles at Redskins, 8:30 PM
Byes: GB, NO, OAK, SD

Week 11
Thu. Nov. 18
Bears at Dolphins, 8:20 PM

Sun. Nov. 21
Packers at Vikings, 1:00 PM
Redskins at Titans, 1:00 PM
Cardinals at Chiefs, 1:00 PM
Ravens at Panthers, 1:00 PM
Bills at Bengals, 1:00 PM
Lions at Cowboys, 1:00 PM
Texans at Jets, 1:00 PM
Raiders at Steelers, 1:00 PM
Browns at Jaguars, 1:00 PM
Seahawks at Saints, 4:05 PM
Falcons at Rams, 4:05 PM
Buccaneers at 49ers, 4:05 PM
Colts at Patriots, 4:15 PM
Giants at Eagles, 8:20 PM

Mon. Nov. 22
Broncos at Chargers, 8:30 PM

Week 12
Thu. Nov. 25
Patriots at Lions, 12:30 PM
Saints at Cowboys, 4:15 PM
Bengals at Jets, 8:20 PM

Sun. Nov. 28
Titans at Texans, 1:00 PM
Buccaneers at Ravens, 1:00 PM
Jaguars at Giants, 1:00 PM
Panthers at Browns, 1:00 PM
Steelers at Bills, 1:00 PM
Eagles at Bears, 1:00 PM
Vikings at Redskins, 1:00 PM
Packers at Falcons, 1:00 PM
Chiefs at Seahawks, 4:05 PM
Dolphins at Raiders, 4:05 PM
Rams at Broncos, 4:15 PM
Chargers at Colts, 8:20 PM

Mon. Nov. 29
49ers at Cardinals, 8:30 PM

Week 13
Thu. Dec. 02
Texans at Eagles, 8:20 PM

Sun. Dec. 05
Jaguars at Titans, 1:00 PM
Broncos at Chiefs, 1:00 PM
Redskins at Giants, 1:00 PM
Bears at Lions 1:00 PM
Falcons at Buccaneers, 1:00 PM
Saints at Bengals, 1:00 PM
Bills at Vikings, 1:00 PM
Browns at Dolphins, 1:00 PM
49ers at Packers, 1:00 PM
Raiders at Chargers, 4:05 PM
Rams at Cardinals, 4:15 PM
Cowboys at Colts, 4:15 PM
Panthers at Seahawks, 4:15 PM
Steelers at Ravens, 8:20 PM

Mon. Dec. 06
Jets at Patriots, 8:30 PM

Week 14
Thu. Dec. 09
Colts at Titans, 8:20 PM

Sun. Dec. 12
Bengals at Steelers, 1:00 PM
Falcons at Panthers, 1:00 PM
Packers at Lions, 1:00 PM
Patriots at Bears, 1:00 PM
Browns at Bills, 1:00 PM
Giants at Vikings, 1:00 PM
Raiders at Jaguars, 1:00 PM
Buccaneers at Redskins, 1:00 PM
Seahawks at 49ers, 4:05 PM
Rams at Saints, 4:05 PM
Dolphins at Jets, 4:15 PM
Chiefs at Chargers, 4:15 PM
Broncos at Cardinals, 4:15 PM
Eagles at Cowboys, 8:20 PM

Mon. Dec. 13
Ravens at Texans, 8:30 PM

Week 15
Thu. Dec. 16
49ers at Chargers, 8:20 PM

Sun. Dec. 19
Bills at Dolphins, 1:00 PM
Eagles at Giants, 1:00 PM
Redskins at Cowboys, 1:00 PM
Browns at Bengals, 1:00 PM
Jaguars at Colts, 1:00 PM
Texans at Titans, 1:00 PM
Saints at Ravens, 1:00 PM
Chiefs at Rams, 1:00 PM
Cardinals at Panthers, 1:00 PM
Lions at Buccaneers, 1:00 PM
Falcons at Seahawks, 4:05 PM
Broncos at Raiders, 4:15 PM
Jets at Steelers, 4:15 PM
Packers at Patriots, 8:20 PM

Mon. Dec. 20
Bears at Vikings, 8:30 PM

Week 16
Thu. Dec. 23
Panthers at Steelers, 8:20 PM

Sat. Dec. 25
Cowboys at Cardinals, 7:30 PM

Sun. Dec. 26
Patriots at Bills, 1:00 PM
49ers at Rams, 1:00 PM
Ravens at Browns, 1:00 PM
Lions at Dolphins, 1:00 PM
Jets at Bears, 1:00 PM
Redskins at Jaguars, 1:00 PM
Titans at Chiefs, 1:00 PM
Seahawks at Buccaneers, 1:00 PM
Vikings at Eagles, 1:00 PM
Texans at Broncos, 4:05 PM
Colts at Raiders, 4:05 PM
Giants at Packers, 4:15 PM
Chargers at Bengals, 8:20 PM

Mon. Dec. 27
Saints at Falcons, 8:30 PM

Week 17
Sun. Jan. 02
Dolphins at Patriots, 1:00 PM
Buccaneers at Saints, 1:00 PM
Panthers at Falcons, 1:00 PM
Cowboys at Eagles, 1:00 PM
Raiders at Chiefs, 1:00 PM
Titans at Colts, 1:00 PM
Jaguars at Texans, 1:00 PM
Bengals at Ravens, 1:00 PM
Bears at Packers, 1:00 PM
Vikings at Lions, 1:00 PM
Giants at Redskins, 1:00 PM
Steelers at Browns, 1:00 PM
Bills at Jets, 1:00 PM
Chargers at Broncos, 4:15 PM
Rams at Seahawks, 4:15 PM
Cardinals at 49ers, 4:15 PM

High-profile NFL agent Gary Wichard who represents Notre Dame quarterback Jimmy Clausen and running back C.J.Spiller is facing pretty strong accusations that go along with a lawsuit filed by ex-NFL player Brian Bosworth.

Boz said he is out more than $2 million and is blaming Wichard.

Bosworth also said the agent had assured him that his investments were protected but it turns out, the financial advisor may have had a history of bad financial deals with another NFL player.

According to sources, the suit alleges that Wichard had direct knowledge that the business manager in question “had engaged in fraudulent activity.”

Bosworth’s lawsuit is asking for punitive damages, general damages and economic damages.

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PHILADELPHIA, PA. – Some people just aren’t showing a lot of common sense when it comes to behavior at a pro sporting event and Matthew Clemmens of Cherry Hill, New Jersey may be one of them.

Police are still sorting out the details surrounding Clemmens being cuffed and removed from Citizens Bank Park during a game after he was accused of intentionally barfing on a man and his daughter.

Off duty police officer Michael Vangelo and his two daughters settled into their seats for a game against the Washington Nationals and according to Vangelo, a group of obnoxious dudes began throwing a bunch of F-bombs and other vulgarities around.

After Vangelo’s daughter asked the men to stop, the problem evolved. “I had beer thrown on me and water and then one individual started spitting at the back of my daughter’s chair and he actually spit on my 11-year-old daughter,” Vangelo said.

According to police, after Vangelo had stadium ushers remove the group, Clemmens decided to get involved, got behind Vangelo’s daughter, shoved his finger down his throat and projectile-puked on the innocent girl.

“He leaned forward, he projectile vomited all over me and my daughter,” Vangelo said. “It was the most vile and disgusting thing I’ve ever seen and I’ve been a cop for 20 years.”

After the assault, surrounding fans gang-piled on Clemmens to help subdue him then he was arrested.

By the looks of Clemmens’ photo that was released by Philly Police, the group did a decent job of detaining the obnoxious fan.

More Police News: Roethlisberger ‘Came back with his penis out of his pants’ (Actual Police Report here)

Lighter Stuff: Hottest Female Athletes – Click Here for Full Gallery

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Ben Roethlisberger’s accuser told authorities she told the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback ‘No, it wasn’t okay’ and that ‘Ben came back with his penis out of his pants’.

It’s all right here in her statement she made to the Milledgeville police in Georgia. For 21 additional documents related to this investigation, go to The Smoking Gun website.

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