Tom Coughlin should be fired for benching Warner and putting in a rookie in the heart of a playoff chase.
Categories
Week 14 NFL Picks
Last week, Guru Ganu started talking trash to me about how he would overtake me in the picks. Not with a 9-7 week you won’t, bitch! I’m having one of those breakout seasons like I’m a third year wide receiver. My locks are actually locks and my record speaks for itself. Too bad I can’t be like Sports Guy and tout my barely above .500 record. I’ll just have to point to my 65% winning percentage. Ok, enough of that. I just hurt my arm patting myself on the back.
Here we go with the Week 14 Picks. If you want to see how well the experts here at SC stack up against the competition, check out this excel file.
Categories
A Real Bowl Championship
The BCS Playoff system is ridiculous. First of all, you have to have degrees in mathematics, statistics, and rocket science just to understand the ranking system. If you’re like me you’ve given up on totally understanding the system. That aside, what upsets me is the Bowl Selection process and ultimately how the champion of college football is determined. Granted, USC and OU are going to play a dynamite Orange Bowl game that lives up to all of the hype that surrounds it. But at the end of the day, will that ultimately determine who the best team in college football is? I don’t think anybody at Auburn thinks it does. Furthermore, by some miracle Texas is playing Michigan in the Rose Bowl instead of Cal, this marks the first time since 1919 that there was not a west coast team in the Rose Bowl. Understandably, Auburn and Cal are upset, and they’re right to gripe.
Categories
Clean Mud
Boxing has disappeared. And so have its champions. Everything that was good about boxing has faded away. The unique, unmatched Muhammad Ali has all but vanished. The crafty Sugar Ray Leonard has slipped away just like the marvelous Marvin Hagler and the ageless Roberto Durán. Mike Tyson, the youngest undisputed heavyweight world champion ever, suffered a fall from grace that was so quick that nothing could have saved him.
Evander Holyfield’s biggest fight will no longer be in the ring but against the New York State Athletic Commission and their medical suspension. The lonely Lennox Lewis has retired and expectedly will never surface again. All of the great fighters are gone and all that remains is a shadow of a sport left in shambles that has subsequently become influenced by self-consuming, morally bankrupt bosses, manipulated by one-eyed judges, and marked with dubious referees. Boxing is currently fighting for its survival as even its own tradition is in crisis. The need to restructure professional boxing has never been more essential than now.
It’s been everywhere. I can picture it frame by frame: the hand grabbing head, squared off, fist to the face, yellow and black streaking across the screen.
Categories
Artest Got Just What He Wanted
Artest might have escaped with a much lesser punishment if he just played by the rules.
Categories
Are The Clippers For Real?
“Coming up on Sportscenter, Clippers lose again”. That is what I am used to. Since the 1978-1979 season the Clippers have had only two, I REPEAT, two winning seasons. The Clippers have been lacking something in the last 25 years. That something is experience, talent, and most importantly ownership skills.
900 words to conclude my series.
I hope you enjoyed 2004 as much as I detested it.
Categories
Chicago Bulls Early Season Checkup
As a Chicago Bulls fan for the past 18 years I have found the past 6 six years increasingly difficult to watch. There are a lot of deficiencies preventing this team from winning. I have identified the most glaring ones and I have created a list of possible solutions for GM John Paxson.
Categories
NBA Power Rankings December 7th 2004
Here is another edition of the NBA Power Rankings. The Eastern conference is proving that
it is the NBA’s equivalent of the NFL’s NFC. Maybe even worse. Enjoy.