Archive for 2009
Take a hint from Jim Mora
Finally! The Bowl Championship Series has pitted two undefeated teams against each other in the BCS Title Game! We don’t have to worry about which one-loss team gets to face the lone undefeated. College football fans everywhere will rejoice at the prospects of the lone two unbeatens duking it out for a piece of history! [...]
Someone get this man a new pair of knees
Greg Oden finally caught a break. But it wasn’t a good one. The Portland Trail Blazers center and #1 pick in the 2007 NBA draft is expected to miss the rest of the season after breaking his left kneecap Saturday night in Portland. Oden, who missed his entire rookie year after having microfracture surgery on [...]
A mean streak bites the dust
I’ve never been a Nets fan and tonight is no different. But a part of me–maybe the former athlete part–was happy to see the New Jersey Nets finally win their first game of the season defeating the Charlotte Bobcats 97-91in the Meadowlands Friday night. After breaking the NBA record for most consecutive losses to start [...]
Adrian Peterson just can’t slow down
Too bad there wasn’t an end zone at the end of that suburban Minnesota highway. That way Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson wouldn’t have needed a police officer to stop him. On Saturday night, Peterson was issued a citation for zooming his BMW at 109 mph in a 55 mph speed limit zone. I [...]
Nothing to see here people
In an an interview with The Sporting News’s Steve Greenberg, Los Angeles Lakers forward Ron Artest dropped this little juicy nugget on readers: “I used to drink Hennessy … at halftime. I (kept it) in my locker. I’d just walk to the liquor store (near the stadium) and get it.” I wish I could say [...]
A breath of fresh, confrontational air
As a journalist, I’ve grown tired of athletes giving me the company line. “We gave a 110%.” “It was a real team effort.” “It all comes down to execution.” When I am interviewing an athlete, and these are the kind of quotes I’m being given, it’s hard to hold down the vomit. But every once [...]
Bowden’s exit ramp in sight
He’s just not done yet. Or is he? Florida State head football coach Bobby Bowden walked out of the Swamp in Gainesville Saturday evening saying he needed to do some “soul searching” about returning for another season as coach after his Seminoles had been soundly trounced by Florida 37-10. Soul searching? Really? Bowden has been [...]
Why was Tiger on a 2 a.m. prowl?
I can’t help but wonder what Tiger Woods was doing Thanksgiving night. According to Woods’ spokesperson and the Florida Highway Patrol, the world’s #1 ranked golfer backed his 2009 Cadillac out of his driveway into a fire hydrant before ramming the vehicle into his neighbor’s tree at 2:25 a.m. Friday morning. He was taken to the hospital [...]
End of an AI-ra
Fare thee well, old cornrows. Free agent guard Allen Iverson is hanging up his sneakers from the NBA for the last time, according to a report from sports commentator Stephen A. Smith’s Web site Wednesday. I have no doubt that a lot of people are happy about this. Iverson didn’t do a lot to endear [...]
“The next Joe Montana” chose basketball
Who knew the NFL’s next great quarterback chose a career as a defensive specialist/point guard in the NBA instead? On Wednesday’s The Dan Patrick Show, Super Bowl-winning coach Tony Dungy said that when former Florida State quarterback Charlie Ward graduated, Dungy (with the Minnesota Vikings at the time) thought Ward would be “the next Joe [...]
