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American Idol, meet Barry Bonds
by Anna Johns, posted Mar 1st 2006 8:03AM
Maybe Barry Bonds had the song, "Opposites
Attract" in his head when he decided to dress up like Paula Abdul for a recent publicity stunt. If anything, Barry
Bonds is the Simon Cowell of baseball.Why was Barry Bonds all dressed up like Paula Abdul, you ask? He was judging a mock singing contest for a charity event in Arizona. Nobody expected Bonds to dress in drag, so he got quite a response from fans and his teammates.
Said Bonds, "I'll never tell my wife to hurry up anymore, because it took me forever to get ready. I couldn't get the hair right."
I think he looks more like Star Jones.
NBC milking the Olympics through the fall
by Anna Johns, posted Feb 10th 2006 8:59AM
By next fall, the Olympics will be long gone. But, NBC
wants to remind you of the games by putting one athlete on The Apprentice. Which one? You get to choose. Online voting begins today, coincidentally, so do the Olympics, and ends on February
26, coinciding with closing ceremonies. The winning Olympian will join the other candidates in Los Angeles when shooting begins on
season six of The Apprentice. I'm guessing that whichever team gets the Olympian will exploit him or her to
the max until Trump fires the athlete. The press
release that announces the cross-promotion doesn't mention any of the athletes' business experience. No matter.
The Apprentice stopped being about business in season two, didn't it?The list of candidates is after the jump:
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