Here's the video from the race

I've been searching for this video for the past five minutes and I finally found it. Here's the video of Chad Johnson destroying Restore the Roar in the race, he also has a great interview talking about the possibility of doing more crazy stuff to help his favorite charity, "Feed the Children", he says he would love to spar with Floyd Mayweather Jr for a few rounds, going one-on-one with either Kobe Bryant or LeBron James and even race the top racer in Nascar for a few laps. Man, I love this guy.

Update: No, I haven't found another video, but I did find some pictures from today's event.






UPDATE #2: Ok, so here's the best video I can find....

What did I tell you....Chad Johnson beat a horse in a race

I believe it was just ten days when I posted that Chad Johnson of my Cincinnati Bengal's, was set to race a thoroughbred horse, you may also remember I said that he was going to kick that horse's ass and there would be no photo finish.

"We're about to see a man kick a horse's ass everyone, photo finish my ass, Chad is gonna make this horse cry."

Well the race was held today, at River Downs and the competition was set in hopes that the crowd would get to see a photo finish, so Chad was going to run 110 yards while the horse was set to run 220 yards. And to add more drama, I guess, the jockey, P.J. Cookey, was the same jockey on the horse that beat Chris Collinsworth in a photo finish back in 1993. Well unlike Collinsworth, my man Chad kicked the shit out of the horse, it wasn't even close as Chad won the race by twelve "horse" lengths.

Draped in black-and-orange silks emblazoned with No. 85 and “Ocho Cinco,” Chad Johnson eighty-sixed a four-year-old thoroughbred in Saturday’s showdown at River Downs.

Before a raucous Belmont day crowd of about 8,000 that Johnson fired up along the rail of the interior turf track as he warmed up, the Bengals Pro Bowl wide receiver beat Restore The Roar by 12 horse lengths and then called for a rematch this summer that would be more fair for the beast.

The horse, ridden by P.J. Cooksey, once the winningest female jockey of all time, ran about 220 yards, or a furlong, while Johnson had a 110-yard head start and ran one--16th of a mile.

It was Restore The Roar’s fourth race in a career known mainly for distance, and his first run on grass. Still, the result surprised many veteran horse observers.

“That is a very fast man,” said Cooksey, who beat Bengals receiver Cris Collinsworth in a photo finish in 1993. “Kudos to Chad. If we had the same start I’m not sure we still could have beat him.”

Johnson, of course, said he had it all the way. With all proceeds going to his favorite charity, “Feed The Children,” Johnson had a message for the NFL.

“Ray (Lewis), Ed (Reed), DeAngelo (Hall), you all saw that,” said Johnson after a quick appearance on ESPN. “We’re going to Arizona (site of the Super Bowl).”

So there you have it, straight from the horse's mouth, ok, I apologize for that it was pretty lame. I've heard rumors that Chad is going to be racing 100 midgets, but that's just rumors, I can't confirm or deny that one.

Chad Johnson is going to embarrass a horse

According to Ben Maller, Cincinnati Bengal's wide receiver, Chad Johnson, will race a horse on June 9th at River Downs.

To benefit the charity "Feed the Children," Johnson will try to match strides with a 4-year-old colt named Restore the Roar over RD's turf course.

The event, billed as "Man vs. Beast," will be the feature race and will be simulcast to more than 400 outlets across the country and in South America.

The horse will break from the inside from a starting gate at the eighth pole, and Johnson will break from the outside rail going 11/16 of a mile to the wire. The distances are calculated to create a photo finish.

We're about to see a man kick a horse's ass everyone, photo finish my ass, Chad is gonna make this horse cry. Me and Davey once entered a three-legged race against a couple of drug induced pandas...and we inevitably lost by 14 lenghts, we like to think we put in a good effort.

Saturday night fever

I didn't get to watch a lot of sports last night, just about 5 hours of boxing, so I missed the Braves game, I missed the Rockets/Jazz game seven, the Bulls/Pistons game one blowout and the Kentucky Derby, well I chose to miss that. Here's a quick wrap-up of the day that was Cinco De Mayo.

Braves fall to the Dodgers, 6-3.

It had a great match-up of groundball pitchers who were both plain filthy, but Derek Lowe was just a little bit better than Tim Hudson. Lowe pitched 7.0 innings, giving up just three hits and one earned run and after the game Braves rightfielder, Jeff Francoeur said "That's the nastiest stuff I've seen since I've been up". Hudson went eight strong innings and gave up seven hits and three earned runs and received his first loss on the season. In the eighth inning Wilson Betemit, who was benched, hit a pinch-hit homerun, it was the first homerun Hudson had allowed in 47.0 innings.

WP: Derek Lowe(3-3)
LP: Tim Hudson(3-1)
SV: Takashi Saito(9)

HR: LAD- Wilson Betemit(1)

Street Sense comes back from 19th all the way to win the Derby.

Street Sense was in second to last a mile into the Kentucky Derby before kicking it into another gear and blowing past all other horses and finally overtaking Hard Spun, who was in first. Along with his Jockey, Calvin Borel, Street Sense won by more than two lengths to capture the $2,210,000 first prize.

The Rockets and Jazz series started with tears and it ended with tears.

The Utah Jazz defeated the Houston Rockets, 103-99 to win the deciding game seven Saturday night. Utah's Carlos Boozer had an amazing game, in which he scored 35 points, 14 rebounds and 5 assists, Boozer became only the third player to ever score that many points and that many rebounds in a deciding game on the road, but unlike Patrick Ewing in 1997 and Dolph Schayes in 1959, Boozer's team came out victorious. Andrei Kirilenko was crying before the series started about not getting enough playing time I guess and after game seven a very emotional Tracy McGrady blamed this loss on him and him alone. This is the seventh time that T-Mac failed to get out of the 1st round and the second straight year his team lost the series after starting 2-0.

Larry Merchant is the slowest man in the world!

HBO's special analyst, Larry Merchant has to be the most boring/slowest talking man in the whole fucking world. I fell asleep seven times before he got to the fucking point he was trying to make and even then it had nothing to do with what was going on and then you add in the equally as slow talker, Floyd Mayweater Sr and you have the most unbearable interview possible.

After both teams sweep in the first round, Pistons show Bulls who is number one.

The Detroit Pistons and Chicago Bulls both swept their respected teams in the first round of the playoffs and with the Bulls beating the defending Champions handedly I assumed they would hang tough with the Pistons. Well I was wrong, the Pistons defeated the Bulls, 95-69 in a completely one-sided blowout. Detroit played great defense, very similar to that of their championship season a few years ago and with Richard Hamilton and Chauncey Billups playing as well as the did and then you add Jason Maxiell, who was stellar off the bench, the Pistons are going to be very hard to beat.