* Mom: Cops Thought MLB Son Was Pacman Jones. While traveling with the team to Toronto on Thursday, Baltimore Orioles outfielder Adam Jones was reportedly detained at the Toronto airport for 10 hours. Jeff Zrebiec of the BALTIMORE SUN reports Friday that before the Orioles played the Blue Jays on Friday, “Jones said he wasn’t sure if he was mistaken for Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Adam ‘Pacman’ Jones, who has faced multiple legal issues. But Jones’ mother, Andrea Bradley, made that claim on her Facebook page.” [SportsbyBrooks]
* Today’s Funny Sports Video: A Drunk Biting a Pork Chop On a Stick. I really can’t stand Michael Kay. No, I really, really hate the guy. But for some reason his reaction to this is what makes the video so great to me. Check out the video of a Yankees fan biting a pork-chop-on-a-stick, courtesy of The Sporting Blog via YouTube. [Larry Brown Sports]
* Trade unions call for TVs at work to watch the World Cup. In a story that’s going strangely unreported over here (*cough* conspiracy *cough*), the Trade Union Council has been petitioning UK firms to bring a ray of light into their workers’ days and let them watch World Cup 2010 at work. The TUC say they want to avoid a repeat of World Cup ’06, when an estimated 2.5m workers coughed and wheezed their excuses down the phone in order to get a day off. [The Spoiler]
* Mark Messier Must Be Devastated: R.I.P. Gary Coleman. Good night, sweet prince. [Sportress of Blogitude]
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Have a great weekend, everyone. And if you’re not watching Justified on FX, why the hell not?
