Steve PhillipsYes, pollsters, feel free to defecate on St. Louis all you want. But here's one ranking where we certainly score high marks: cities where passing sports figures can get involved in bizarro relationships with detestable wenches.Consider baseball player Ronnie Belliard. The current Los Angeles Dodger was with St. Louis for three (maybe four) months back in '06 -- enough time for him to get caught up with a psycho who later tried to extort the ballplayer on false claims that he im
Last week we noted how St. Louis is a terrible place for sports figures to launch affairs. Yesterday we saw our theory hold up when ESPN fired baseball analyst Steve Phillips. Steve PhillipsThe former GM for the New York Mets, Phillips had quickly risen through the ranks of the sports network sitting alongside Jon Miller and Joe Morgan on the network's Sunday night broadcasts. But news that he engaged in an extra-marital affair with a fellow ESPN employee, caused the sports channel to dismiss
Well, sure. I'll bet she's really funny, though. You know, I've stayed above the fray to this point in the whole Steve Phillips extramarital affair scandal. Ever since I first read about the situation, every single thought I've had for a column to write about it has seemed just way, way too mean. Not to Phillips himself, mind you, because I really don't think he deserves any sort of mercy. But the woman involved, oy. The poor girl, Brooke Hundley, is getting killed on every single blog, sport
Steve Phillips in the broadcast booth.Steve Philips, the ESPN baseball broadcaster who was let go after it was revealed he slept with an ESPN employee during their stay in St. Louis for the All-Star game, is still making the calls -- in a video game format anyway.Early previews for MLB 2K10 report that the voices of Phillips and former Philadelphia Philly John Kruk are in the game.Video game blog Kotaku smartly points out that it was probably too late to nix Phillips' voice from the game by O
