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A Sports Medley.......The Thanksgiving Edition

By Trevor, Section Other Sports
Posted on Fri Nov 24 2006 at 1:28 PM EST
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by Trevor Freeman

Everybody takes the Friday after Thanksgiving off from work.  To me, that is just a waste of a vacation day.  You see, no work actually gets done on the Friday after Thanksgiving, so you might as well just show up and sit like a corpse in your seat until the powers that be let you out early.  PLUS, you save the vacation day which can now be dropped at a time when there is a lot going on.  Just trust me on this.  

While killing some time at work and with a pile of thoughts floating around in my head, it is time to come with my third Sports Medley.  We shall dub this version the "The Thanksgiving Special"...

  13.  Hopefully the Cubs kept the receipt on the "30-year old" Alfonso Soriano.    

  12.  You gotta take your hat off to the great fans of the Indiana Hoosiers.  Immediately after viewing their loss to Butler, I typed the words www.firekelvinsampson.com into my web browser and there it was.  If you were the school president, why wouldn't you bring back Bobby Knight?  It is clear to everybody who follows college basketball, that the fans of this team will not be happy with anybody else at the wheel.  

  11.  Did you hear that sound?  It's the Madison Square Garden executives jumping out the window when they realized that the primetime NIT Final tonight would be a matchup between Gonzaga and Butler.  

  10.  I'll be honest.  I was pumped to watch Joey Harrington bend Detroit over.  It doesn't make up for the A's losing there in the ALCS, but it helps.

  9.  Let's see.....so the Red Sox bid $51 million to sign Daisuke Matsuzaka and they'll spend at least $40 million over 4 years to sign him.  So essentially they just gave a guy who has thrown zero major league pitches $91 million over 4 years.  I have to say that this makes infinitely more sense than signing Barry Zito to a five year $75 million deal.

  8.  Just as a note, I'm onboard with the A's signing Barry Bonds.  I have no problem with it; I think he could flourish as a DH in the American League.  There's no reason why he couldn't be this season's Frank Thomas.

  7.  Great move by ESPN2 to come with a full day of college hoops on Thanksgiving.  I know I was flipping to the Southern Illinois-Arkansas game while the franchise that Matt Millen ruined was getting drilled.

  6.  I would love to see Notre Dame beat USC this weekend and toss a huge monkey wrench into the BCS.  This year could put us one step closer to the playoff system we all want.

  5.  Larry Coker getting fired this morning was one of the five most predictable things in recent sports history.

  4.  Item #3 on my Christmas list is a hard copy of O.J. Simpson's "If I Killed Her, This Is How I Would Have Done It."

  3.  I think we all need to slow down on this Dallas Cowboys might be the best team in the NFC talk.  They lost to the Redskins 19 days ago and two of their last three wins came against Tampa Bay and Arizona.

  2.  If the Detroit Lions have to play on Thanksgiving, would anybody object to their game being the night one on the NFL network?    

  1.  I wrote this article because I wanted to have the following in writing for my archives.  Matt Bouldin, the freshman on Gonzaga with the goofy hair is going to go in the top five of some NBA Draft in the next three years.  I can see why he is getting a ton of hype.  Smart move by him to go with the goofy hair as well.  He made himself very noticeable on the court for all the pro scouts while he was eating Carolina's lunch for 40 minutes.

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact me at trevor.freeman@realityfanforum.com.