The Hamilton Spectator

This guy should know better than to lose in fantasy football

- DWIGHT PERRY Tribune News Service

You don’t want to finish last in this guy’s fantasy league. Angelo Boemio, a 290-pound restaurant owner, had to strip down to a pink Speedo and parade along a road in Toms River, N.J., for 10 minutes with a huge sign that read “I suck at fantasy football.” And the video has gone viral on the Internet. “We did this last year, too, but the guy who finished last was in shape,” fellow league participan­t Mike Durazzo told the Asbury Park Press. “When a skinny guy goes out there with a Speedo, it doesn’t attract as much attention.”

SPORTS-MEDICINE QUIZ

Presidenti­al candidate Donald Trump adroitly released his medical informatio­n via: a) Dr. Oz b) Suspended Padres GM A.J. Preller

TWEET FOR TAT

Twitter exchange between the Cleveland Cavaliers’ J.R. Smith and cornerback Darrelle Revis, after Revis got torched in the Jets’ first two games: Smith: “Damn #Revisislan­d turning into a tourist resort ... #JustSaying.” Revis: “@TheRealJRS­mith still heading to Canton though. What about you???”

BIG D, AS IN DOLLARS

The Dallas Cowboys are the most valuable franchise in sports, according to Forbes, with an estimated value of $4.2 billion. Or a net of $3.5 billion, once you subtract out Tony Romo’s medical bills.

TALKO TIME

Mike Bianchi of the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel, on Louisville scoring 70, 62 and 63 points in its first three football games: “The last time Louisville coach Bobby Petrino had such a well-oiled machine, he had a young blond sitting on the back of it.”

Headline at TheKicker.com: “Rex Ryan fires football for not scoring enough touchdowns.”

Comic Torben Rolfsen, on Slovenia’s Alexsander Ceferino getting elected president of European soccer: “The title will be made official as soon as all the cheques clear.”

CHUCK AND DUCK

Charles Barkley’s golf swing was voted the world’s ugliest in a Golf Channel poll. No truth to the rumour that it also came in second and third.

 ?? TONY BOCK, TORONTO STAR ?? Charles Barkley working hard on “theworld’s ugliest golf swing.”
TONY BOCK, TORONTO STAR Charles Barkley working hard on “theworld’s ugliest golf swing.”
 ?? BILL WIPPERT, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ?? Next on Rex Ryan’s list? Thefootbal­l.
BILL WIPPERT, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Next on Rex Ryan’s list? Thefootbal­l.

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