I just added forums for all the Olympic Athletes.  Here's Michael Phelps.

http://www.talk-sports.net/olympics/

On August 1-2-3, my family parked the RV in the middle of the Pocono Raceway.  Read more on the RVDad blog.

http://www.vacationrace.com/blog/?guid=20080810234823

Here's some pics from Shea Stadium when we attended the game on Sunday, July 27th.  We had some really horrible seats, but the kids liked it none-the-less. The kids were allowed to run the bases after the game and they got free icecream, baseball cards and a lunch box. Hopefully, the new stadium won't have any bad seasts like we had. It was a great game. Great catch. Homeruns. Great pitching. boxscore.

This last weekend, we camped in the middle of the Pocono Raceway and watched the Pennsylvania 500. The experience was awesome and we'll be doing this again every year. The infield camping area was a party. We watched the races from our motorhome's roof and from the infield fence-line. My kids cheered on Mark Martin, Dale Jr. and Jimmie Johnson. All three racers did well. Martin could've gambled on fuel to win the race, but took the safe route. Both Dale and Jimmy placed in the top 5. The kids will remember that weekend for the rest of their lives. I'm thinking Daytona and Indianapolis are in my future.

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Being the creator and owner of the Talk-Sports website, I find myself of late dealing mostly with athletes, their agents and their friends. It's become very obvious to me that your people define you, especially the perception of you. Most people who email me are very friendly and understand that I'm running a sports website and trying my hardest to weigh the concerns of the athlete against the will of the fans. It's a very difficult task that requires me to decide which of the thousands of comments posted today cross the line and should be deleted. Figuring out which comments is the most difficult task, but fortunately we have 127 moderators right now that help me and hundreds of others than send me emails pointing me to the worst of the posts.

Then there are the 5% that ruin it for everybody else. First they ask that I delete a comment or two, which I do, because it's easier for me to do it, then to deal with the questions of why I can't. After they realize I'm acting on their requests (I've given them an inch), they ask for the world (want a mile). Not only do they want me to delete the comments on their athletes blog that are abusive, but now they want me to delete the comments from legit fans who simply say "He's the best." When I refuse? They threaten to sue me. BTW, total days in court yet equals zero.

Enter Denise White. Publicist for many athletes like Antonio Gates and Shaun Phillips. She has to be the worst agent (no publicist) that I've ever encountered. After one encounter over Antonio Gates blog that went very well, she now has gone over the edge with Shaun Phillips. It was unacceptable that I delete the abusive post on Shaun's blog. I had to remove all of Mr. Phillips blogs or they would sue me. In fact, she didn't really threaten to sue, she threatened to empty my wallet in lawyer fees. So, even though I was willing to delete any post she ask, I was gonna get my ass sued, if I didn't remove the non-abusive posts from fans that wanted to tell Shaun how much they loved him.

When I investigated Shaun's blog, I found that Denise was the author of most all the recent comments, of which, most all were lies. At this point, I had to wonder about Denise's motives. Some have suggested she's trying to create publicity for her client, thru my website. Others have suggested she's trying to validate her price to Shaun.

I'm not gonna validate Denise by pointing to her website, but I will mention that she claims to provide services beyond that of an agent. One of her advertised services is providing Internet websites, like Shaun Phillip's site. Check it out!

http://spf95.com/

The website is a complete joke. Shaun should fire her for this alone. The website presents 9 major pages and more than half of those pages are completely empty. He needed a publicist to create a dead website?

Anyhow, in the last week, I've received about 6-10 threatening phone calls and more than a dozen threatening emails from her. Finally, a couple of Shaun's friends emailed me with his personal email address so that I could make certain he was aware of the ongoings. I emailed Shaun and hopefully he'll get back to me or at least muzzle her.

Back to my point. Your people define you. If you have a publicist going around threatening people, then you likely aren't gonna have a great public image, because people like me simply aren't gonna read your emails or take your phone calls or take you seriously. Make certain you surround yourself with good people or you'll be in the same boat as Shaun.

On Sunday, we attended the Mets-Cardinals game at Shea Stadium. It was an amazing game, highlights by an amazing catch by Carlos Beltran. Four homeruns. Almost a fifth, taken away dead straight center field by Carlos. Johan Santana pitched a great game as well. After, the kids were allowed to run the bases. The kids also got free lunch boxes, ice cream and baseball cards.

http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?mid=200807273207178

Talk-sports.net 3-month rank has now broken 50,000. The success continues.

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/talk-sports.net

The 1-week Alexa rank for Talk-Sports dropped to 38,816 today.

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/talk-sports.net

ParlezSport, the french version of Talk-Sports, broke 1000 daily impressions today. In its first month.

http://www.parlezsport.com/

I just added all the Italian Serie A player forums.

We just added USHL hockey to Talk-Sports.net.

I added pages for all the CFL players today.

This is a paid review.

OnlineCasinoReports.com is by far the most elaborate and well run online gambling portal that I've encountered.

They have an extension section on online casino free money. These are easy money opportunities. Simply sign up at the website and you get free money, no deposits required. At the moment there's only $45 in free money opportunities over 3 different sites. Create three accounts and have fun gambling away $45. And just maybe you'll hit a jackpot. Either way, you can't lose anything but time.

They also have a section on online casino free sign up bonus. These are similar to free money, but you only get the bonus if you make a deposit. There's thousands of dollars in bonus opportunities across dozens of websites. It's not free money, but if you like to gamble, then these bonuses mean you start with a bigger stack. The best opportunity is a $800 bonus on a $800 deposit. Next is $500 for $500. There's a handful in the $300 range as well.

Next, there's section called casino games overview. This section is full of tutorials on all the top casino games; poker, slots, baccarat, roulette, blackjack, video poker and craps.

All cool, but the best part of this site is the news section, which includes latest news, commentary, opinions, special reports, industry coverage, entertainment. Unlike other portals, the news section isn't a collection of Associated Press articles, 3 paragraph blog entries and snippets that are updated weekly. Rather, these are full length articles, many of which include video and new articles are available every day. They also have a video news channel on YouTube called OCR Live! The channel is updated weekly and worth adding to your YouTube subscriptions.

Check out their directory of online casino, poker rooms, sports betting, bingo and backgammon. Each site has a webpage with promotions, reviews, screenshots and much more. They have real-time counters for progressive jackpots, payout rates, indicators for which languages are supported, contact email and phone numbers. And if you get bored, yeah right, they also have a section of free downloadable games; blackjack, slots, pacman and similar. Got questions? Ask the other members on the discussion forum. 

Last, if this is the site for you, then consider joining their online community. You can setup a profile and they even have member blogs. You'll agree that this is the most complete online casino portal ever. Check it out!

For those that don't know, the Buffalo Bills are not co-operating in a hit-in-run investigation where one of there players was involved in a hit and run. On the other hand, Toronto has supported the Bills recent intro into our city. Please email the Bills and Rogers and tell them that you don't appreciate their business being involved in this situation.

My daughter and I submitted our predictions to a local pub. Here they are...

Less than 2 hours till kick-of.

I just created forums for all the players in the French Football League.

I stopped by dnScoop today. It's a service that estimates the value of a website based on Google PageRank, indexed pages, links, etc. I was pleasantly surprised to find Talk-Sports now estimated at $688K. Nice! Any takers?

We're working on a French version of Talk-Sports.

http://www.parlezsport.com/

We updated the teams for the EUFA 2008 championship.

Another great Versus-NHL Playoffs commercial.