Since Pope Benedict XVI has decided to come up with seven new sins out of freakin thin air, I think its only fair that someone should come up with a set of Seven Deadly Sins specifically geared towards the world of sport. Here goes nothin’ and may God have mercy on my soul:

1) Thou shall not get caught using performance enhancing drugs.
– See, its ok to use them, its ok to give them to your teammates, its ok to shoot them in other’s rear ends, its even ok that you sell them and supplement your already hefty income that was unjustly given to you because you aren’t naturally that good…just do not get caught doing any of it. Its the ultimate don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t get caught. Don’t get caught, and you’re a hero like Albert Pujols, not sayin’ just sayin. Get caught and you’re vilified…unless you’re Shawne Merriman.

2) Thou shall not get caught cheating
- Ok, so everyone cheats in sport. To paraphrase the famous quote is if you aren’t cheating you aren’t trying to win. If you get caught cheating however, you are found breaking the sin and of course the torches start getting lit and you begin a slow march towards execution.

3) Thou shall not create a rap/rock/blues/jazz/etc. album
- You are an athlete. You are not a musician. No one cares that you think you have talent besides playing a game. You don’t. Stop trying or you shall be mocked and ridiculed for all of eternity.

4) Thou shall use prophylactics when engaging in sexual behavior.
- For this, its ok to be a womanizer, it’s your birthright as the ultimate alpha-male, just do it right and don’t spread your seed. For every Shawn Kemp, Travis Henry (not his actual kids in the picture…least he doesn’t think they are) or Elijah Dukes that is spat on there’s a Wilt Chamberlain who does it right and is praised for it. Don’t be a dork, cover your pork.

5) Thou shall not get caught harming animals for fun.
- No one knows this rule better than Michael Vick, Tripp Isenhour, Pedro Martinez or Qyntel Woods. Pedro gets a bit of a pass because he did it in a country where its legal, but pretty much any athlete who does anything cruel to an animal meets a pretty unfortunate sports demise. The Lord looks down on those who harm the lesser species. We’ll see what happens with Pedro this season.

6) Thou shall not get caught gambling.
- Tim Donaghy, Pete Rose, Wayne Gretzky’s wife, Michael Jordan’s mysterious retirement for baseball all have some ties to gambling and all have never be the same. The easy solution is to wait til you’re out of sport like Charles Barkley here to publicly gamble away all your money. People find that kind of gambling far more light hearted, but if you do it while you’re active in sport you shall have a pall cast upon you…and you might get forced to run a team in Charlotte named after a guy called Bob for all of eternity.

7) Thou shall not beat on your lady, get caught, arrested, and have a mugshot taken like this
- Sports, by their nature, are very aggressive. It takes an aggressive person to participate at the highest of levels of sport. The problem some have is leaving that aggression on the field or court of play. Those who choose not to will forever be branded WIFE-BEATER and those scarlet 2 words will follow you until your death…Jason Kidd.

Darren McFadden will be a Cincinnati Bengal this fall. How you ask? It’s quite simple you see.

You’re already aware that he loves fighting and somehow gets Escalades without getting nailed like an amateur such as Reggie Bush. Now you can add baby mama drama to the mix.

Teams at the NFL combine found out that not only is he the subject of a paternity suit but he already has two kids on the way. Shawn Kemp and Travis Henry agree that the Force is strong with this one.

However Henry also warned McFadden that he has a long way to go before he can touch Henry on and off the field. “Shit, dawg. I got nine kids with nine different mamas. He ain’t even comin’ close to that. I’ll get worried when he gets to seven or eight.”

No way the Bengals don’t trade up to grab him.

The Deuce is quite fond of the Halloween season, it is such a great time for women of the world to dress up in the sluttiest clothes possible and actually get praise instead of scorn for baring tons of cleavage and leg. Women you wouldn’t even think of as bimbos get all hoochied up and it is a wonderful thing. Sadly, this article has nothing to do with them. This is for us sports watching guys.

We, unlike the fine ladies of the world, don’t have the option of wearing some borderline red lingerie outfit with devil horns and saying “I’m the devil” or some pseudo sports related “sexy referee” outfit…we must get more creative. So, we’ve culled together a few sports related costumes that you might want to see if you can use for your Halloween.

We love to help.

1) Travis Henry:
Simple costume to do, all you need is a Travis Henry Broncos jersey, 9 plastic baby dolls, and 1 gigantic rolled up joint in your mouth. The 9 baby dolls should be in a stroller, on your shoulder, head, cradled in your arm, attached to your tit, on your legs…all over because, where the hell you gonna keep 9 kids??

2) Roy Williams

3) Derek Jeter
For the guy who doesn’t want to get laid that night, wear a Jeter jersey and add a huge ass cold sore on your face with some make up. Prepare for no female to talk to your Herpes ridden ass.

4) George Steinbrenner
Get yourself a white turtleneck, sport coat, and a white wig…walk around saying “Great to see ya, Tommy,” to everyone in the room.

5) Bill Belichick
Wear a hoodie and a headset, look real sour all the time and have a friend videotape everything that is going on across the bar/party for you.

6) Greg Oden
Get a tree costume…wear Oden’s jersey. DONE!

7) Bill Simmons
If all the above is too hard to do, just be Bill Simmons. To do this follow these steps: a) be white, very white; b) dress incredibly average in every way; c) be the most pompous and smug guy in the room; d) talk relentlessly about the Karate Kid, 90210, Boston sports teams and your friends no one cares about; e) try to give your book away, watch no one take it.

Any more suggestions?

Man, what a day for druggies huh? Shall we do a quick round-up?

1) Travis Henry reportedly has tested positive for marijuana. Seriously, is this a surprise? Sure he’s the leading rusher in the league right now, but he has been traveling the Ricky Williams path to smokin’ your way out of the league for awhile. It was only a matter of time that Mike Shanahan found a way to kick him aside for Selvin Young anyway (with his gaudy 9.2 ypc average)…now he has a reason.

2) Marion Jones admits to using steroids in letter to friends and family. She says she used the drug while she prepared for the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney and is now going to plead guilty New York to two counts of lying to federal agents about using the “cream” and the “clear”. This is about the definition of anticlimax really, we all figured she did it, the evidence was kinda stacked against her. At least its out now and her medals will probably be stripped. Sucks to be a cheating drug user, huh?

3) Tim Couch suspended for drug use and he isn’t even in the league! Ok…this came out Wednesday, but we didn’t post about it. Look what drugs can do to you kids! DON’T BE TIM COUCH! DON’T DO DRUGS! Wait…drugs can give you millions of dollars and a smoking hot wife. DO DRUGS! DO THEM!!!!

4) Cubs lost again and are now down 2-0! Everyone in Chi-town was drinkin the magic kool-aide, thinking maybe, just maybe THIS COULD BE THE YEAR! I mean the Bosox did it, the Chisox did it, surely they could do it. Nope, that is wearing off. Your team sucks and always has. Instead of moping around, how about you do some drugs like the above people? I mean, it made them happy for awhile at least.

5) Just to make this list an even five (which doesn’t exist but 5 is a good list ending point)…Lorena Ochoa is trying to become the first golfer in LPGA Tour history to surpass the $3 million mark in earnings in a single season. Ochoa is #1 on the LPGA money list with $2,966,454 and she is currently playing at the $1.1 million Longs Drugs Challenge. Drugs see? Get the connection? LONGS DRUGS!