There are some things about sports that don’t blow me away. Some things that are sick and represent the worst aspects of humanity. One of those things is the NFL draft scouting combine.
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American highs and lows from Torino
By Sean Quinn
Americans are feeling about as empty as the medals themselves now that the Winter Olympics are over. They came and went about as fast as a Ben Affleck movie. For two weeks, we watched odd sports performed by athletes and just regular folk. Our eastern European geography lesson is over, as is our craving for curling.
Unfortunately the events are over, but Avril Lavigne is still singing, or at least attempting to. Whether we related to a Home Depot employee or an athletic icon, we did so on delayed time.
We have to slip back into our boring, non-Olympic society, and we’ll have to settle for March Madness. Here are some of the best and worst from Italy.
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Man on a Rant: February Rumblings
Welcome to this week in ranting. It’s been a while, but here’s how this works:
Step 1.
Sports happen.
Step 2.
I watch them.
Step 3.
I react. Angrily.
Enjoy the fireworks.
-Curling is amazing, and hypnotically addictive. No really, I mean it. It’s curltastically curltastic, and anyone who thinks otherwise is a communist. There, I said it.
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RJ’s Junk Drawer
With the sporting world in a virtual holding pattern over the next few weeks while we wait for March Madness and the baseball season (i dunno – April Ardor?) to give us some real sports stuff to talk about (what’s this O-limp-ix thing they’ve been yapping about these past two weeks anyway?) here’s a fresh list of sports notes to whet your appetite until the real fun begins – bashing Alex Rodriguez. Oh, wait, they started that already.
Oh well, here goes. Have fun and don’t read it all at once, thus frying your brain and losing points on the Wonderlic test.
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Detroit- San Antonio- who else…?
With 25 games or so left in this NBA season the playoff picture is still a little bit distorted. There are some teams who could collapse (Cleveland in particular) and miss the playoffs, and there is still some hope for teams like Houston and New York…okay that was low, sorry Knicks fans. However, things we all know are that San Antonio and Detroit are most likely going to get back to the Finals. The last two NBA champions mirror each other so much and play the game so well respectively, that it would take a disastrous injury or death to keep them from their collision course. (Let’s hope neither of them happens) If you are like me though it is sometimes nice to see somebody else get a chance to lift the Larry O’Brien trophy. The only thing is…are there really some teams in the league that stand a legitimate chance of dethroning Detroit or San Antonio?
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I Must Break You
Everyone loves to say that records are made to be broken. So when someone like Cal Ripken comes along and breaks what is believed to be an absolutley, positively, your-so-dumb-if-you-think-anyone-will-ever-touch-it unbreakable record, it should be celebrated and appreciated forever. Or at least until someone breaks that record.
So, without sounding like a broken one, let’s talk records.
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Pardon My Short Attention Span
What do sports writers and lazy journalism majors do when they have a deadline and no real story to turn in? Well, first they go to the bar. Then they fall back on the old standby: The “notes” column, or as some of our more clever ilk might call it, “Random Thoughts From a Random Mind.” Just string seven or eight different topics into one column. The suckers, er, I mean readers eat it up every time.
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NBA Second Half
So this is the time of the year that I reflect on what has been in the first half of the NBA season. Like most sports enthusiasts I would say that the NBA is working out just like most everyone thought. Detroit and San Antonio look like they are up for Round Two in the Finals, Kobe takes an ungodly amount of shots a game, and Isaiah Thomas is the worst GM ever. But there are some things happening in the league that intrigue me. Take for instance the Phoenix Suns. They don’t have one of the five best players in the league (Amare) and they have only 2/5 of the starting lineup they had last year and they still lead the Pacific and are a two seed in the West. LeBron James is a man-child, but we all knew that. However, it actually looks like the Cavs are not going to have a melt down and we get to see the King do his thing in the playoffs.
Where have all the East German “women” gone? That’s a question that’s been dogging me as I’ve been trying to watch these “Oplimpiadi Invernali” (Italian for winter olympics) during the first half a fortnight. I mean I’ve really, really been trying to watch. It seems however, that all the sports news media types are more caught up in talking about how they’re NOT watching.
Let’s not be so quick to ignore the fortunate opportunity Davis received in 2000, and how he wasted it away in the latter half of his six-year tenure at Indiana.