Category: General Sports

Danny Ainge, the Director of Basketball Operations for the Boston Celtics, is doing a tango. And it’s not looking pretty. After trading Antoine Walker to the Miami Heat on August 2nd, part of a 5-team mega deal involving 13 players, Ainge sent a message to his program: we’re getting younger. Except, the same message was delivered last year and the year before, and so far the only real big name to have moved is Walker–twice.

Strike one, fastball outside corner. Strike two, swinging strike on pitch in his eyes. Strike three, curveball in the dirt…Who’s batting? Cory Patterson of course. Is it a matter of talent or is the problem 100% mental? Everyone keeps talking about how gifted of a player Cory is and how he’s going to be an All Star for a decade when he “grows up”. So what the point in having talent if your mental difficulties just block it and how long do you wait for a player to develop? Is it possibly for a whole team to mentally kill themselves time after time even though they have enough talent to win? By all means, just ask the Cubs.

Apparently winning an NBA Championship in your first year as head coach just doesn’t warrant the same job security that it use to. At least not in Detroit. As Larry Brown was asked to move on by Joe Dumars and the rest of the Pistons front office, it is not to far-fetched to wonder why exactly would Detroit want to rid itself of one of the greatest basketball coaches ever.

Welcome to round 1 of In their time vs In their prime, where we mash together the cream of the current year vs the cream of the past. Who will win? Don’t know, but there’s gonna be some long ball, baby…

I dedicate this article to everyone that has hid their remote from their wife to watch the football game, knows all of the sports cable channels in memory, and has ever dreamed of being a superstar.

If baseball be the food of love…play on…

Here are the power rankings after five of the top six teams in the league lost at least their last two games heading into the All-Star break. Comments and criticisms are appreciated.

We sung for Live Aid, celebrated like high school kids on a Friday night when we won the Olympic bid, and now we’re praying after the London blast that will forever remain for us at 7/7….

So Sports and Politics shouldn’t mix. Well really, they do. And we have a quick word for Politicians too.

If anything irritates sports nabobs, it’s athletes who abuse the press and somehow still come out on top. That’s the story today about Texas Rangers LHP Kenny Rogers getting the All-Star nod.