After far too many hours of watching pep bands, cheerleaders, and screaming college kids yelling: “We’re number one!” at the camera, here’s who impressed, depressed and neutralized us on Week 2 of the college football season.
Not too long ago, oh…maybe 30 or so years back. The good ‘ol days for me. A time when we could actually watch games on regular TV. When there were scheduled double headers. When you had to watch the game to find out the score (no annoying little boxes in the corner). Before there were pitching changes every other hitter. When they wouldn’t toss every ball that hit the dirt to the side (even in the World Series).
Unfortunately,our beloved baseball has become an full evening event, with the almost-entire night game schedule, dragged out for 3 hours or longer. How I long for the days when we played punch ball or wiffle ball in the street as we put a ball game on the portable transistor radio.
According to New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon last season, an important factor for him is for his ballclub to play “meaningful games in September”. Unfortunately, these words did not ring true for him then. But as we speak, the Metropolitans are actually still hanging around in the National League Wild Card race.
Even though it is still early in the month& the Mets have currently dropped four straight, they are playing important games in September.
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Sinking Decision
Who would have thought that in the wake of a category five hurricane that devastated the Gulf Coast, most notably New Orleans and Gulfport, Mississippi, the NCAA, the organization that took away amateur status from skier/football player Jeremy Bloom and gave it to former major-league third baseman Josh Booty, has done the most of any sports organization to help?
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Note to French: shove your p
The fashionable thing now in sports is to announce your retirement, wait a few weeks and then decide to make a comeback. As a slave to fashion, Lance Armstrong has been contemplating a comeback.
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The End of a Drought
Attention Philadelphia:
Your title crave is about to be soothed. The championship drought is about to be ended. The 23-year losing streak is about to be ended by one team. Could it be the Phillies who last won the World Series in 1980 (the only one in their 122 year history)? Or could it be the Eagles who’s last championship came in 1960, before there was a Super bowl? Or could it be the 76ers, the last team to win a championship? Or maybe even the Flyers who have not won a Stanley Cup in 30 years?
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Grossman’s Last Chance?
Is Rex Grossman’s injury as bad for the Bears as the media has portrayed?
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No laughing matter for the Yanks
At the beginning of the 2005 season if someone heard that the Cleveland Indians would be better than the Yankees, that person would be laughing their head off. But no one on the Yankees is laughing now, seeing as that has come true. But it’s not really something that the players can fix. Guys like Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter have had amazing seasons but that’s not enough to put the Yankees in the playoffs.
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Why Fantasy Football Benefits the NFL
Recently I have been hearing more and more about how Fantasy Football is detrimental to the NFL. This wave of sentiment seems to have started with a few sports columnists, who, as “football purists”, clearly see all new-fangled ideas as “destructive to the spirit of the game”. They believe that fantasy football can encourage people to root for teams other than their home team, thereby (by means unknown), destroying the game. Next they will be asking us to abolish the forward pass, saying it “undermines the integrity of the game.” In all seriousness, though, most people who play fantasy football love it. It is a great way to feel in control of your own team, and promotes a sense of competition. For many people, it brings them closer to the NFL, rather than pushing them away.
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Michael Finley sweepstakes
Being the sly reporter that I am, I taped a micro-microphone in the room where Michael Finley and his suitors would be doing their buizznesss. And, boy, do you have to see this!
Some REAL NBA humor!