Archive for April, 2009

I’m beginning to think that Sean Avery enjoys annoying people.

There are many good reasons why college football programs’ spring games should not be televised, webcast or otherwise covered.  First of all, they are irrelevant.  Second of all, there are college bowling tournaments and poker games out there being utterly neglected.  Third of all…uh, well, things like this can happen (NSFW): The faceless conglomerate that owns the station that webcast the above has issued an apology.  They should follow said apology by promising never to webcast the Southern Miss spring game ever again.  And then ESPN and all other media outlets that insist on wasting airtime with those “games” should [...]

The Detroit Lions needed a new beginning after becoming the first team in NFL history to lose all 16 regular season games.  Unfortunately, I’m not sure simply changing your logo and uniforms constitutes a new beginning…but whatever; when you’re the Lions, you’ll take what you can get.  If you want to know all about the Lions’ changes, you can read up at their official site.  Or you can just go on doing whatever you were doing – it was probably more interesting anyway.

That Chad Johnson would rather have his skin slowly peeled off than remain another year in Cincinnati is no great secret, however, one would’ve hoped that Chad would at least attempt to keep those bad feelings bottled up inside and present a brave, dignified face to the world regardless.  Okay, you’re right:  no one in their right mind thinks Chad Johnson cares a lick about dignity and looking strong in the face of his travails.  He’s a crybaby, and if he thinks bawling and weeping will help him get what he wants, he’s perfectly willing to do his carrying-on in [...]

Hedo Turkoglu did about all he could, forcing Andre Iguodala into a tough fall-away shot.  Iguodala just plain made the shot.  That’s why a man is the man and another man is not the man.  Not to say Hedo can’t be the man too but, that time, Iguodala was.  And now the Magic are down 1-0.

Chris Webber has figured out the key to making a name for yourself as an announcer:  yell and rant and get all up in other people’s faces.  Kenny Smith doesn’t seem too worried – yet.  Note that Charles Barkley merely sits back and lets the other two men go at it.  Charles is thinking, “One of these guys is going to get angry and say a swear word on the air and get fired.  Then it will be a three-man team, which means more air-time for you know who.” Ah the chess game.

Yankee fans bemoaning the poor early season effort of alleged #1 starter Chien-Ming Wang probably consoled themselves by saying it couldn’t possibly get any worse.  Unfortunately they were wrong:  it could get worse, and on Saturday afternoon it did.  Wang, a 19-game winner in back-to-back seasons before his injury-plagued 2008 campaign, was rocked by Cleveland for 8 runs in 1 1/3 innings, leaving the game with a 34.50 ERA on the season.  Not that the other Yankee pitchers did much better against the Indians, who ended up scoring 22 runs, 14 coming in the 2nd – the most runs ever [...]

It cuts off rather abruptly.  I apologize.  I wish I had eyes on my underwear like that dude.