Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: BCS Championship, Brent Musburger, Broadcasters, Florida Gators, Oklahoma Sooners, Sports, Sports Broadcasters, Tim Tebow
After having to endure Brenneman and Charles Davis, I must say that Brent Musburger belongs in his own group of echelons. Perhaps his own perch. Thursday night’s BCS Championship might have been the worst big game broadcast ever.
When you add the 1,749 shots of the band and shots of everything but football players and what they are doing, it could be the worst broadcast I have ever watched and/or heard.
It’s hard to say what I hated most about the awful broadcasting team: The incessant sucking off of “Superman” Tim Tebow, the constant stream of mistakes (thinking it was fourth-and-goal when it was third-and-goal) or the general idiocy (Davis pointing out that the ball had already crossed the plane before Murphy fumbled on Florida’s first TD, when the only real question was whether he was down before the ball crossed the plane, not whether he fumbled).
“Your life will be better if you could only spend five minutes around him like we did this last week.”
One of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard.
Piss-poor in every aspect.
Just another addition of sports broadcasters who freakin’ suck.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Basketball, Blake Griffin, College Basketball, College Sports, NCAA, NCAA Basketball, Oklahoma Sooners, Sports
Blake Griffin is probably the best player in college basketball right now (Carolina and UConn fans, sit down — I know that you think Tyler Hansbrough and Hasheem Thabeet are more due, but don’t bother trying to convince me). The guy can get to the inside whenever he wants; he just muscles through other players to get there. His edgy offensive play allows him to be elusive and forces defenses to improvise a plan — that usually doesn’t work — to stop him.
Just wanted to say, I’m damn glad that college basketball is back and booming.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Basketball, Chris Bosh, Cleveland, Cleveland Cavaliers, ESPN, Houston Rockets, Jalen Rose, Jim Brown, LeBron James, Matt Winer, National Basketball Association, NBA, New Jersey Nets, New York Knicks, Pro Basketball, Sports, Toronto, Toronto Raptors, Tracy McGrady, Vince Carter, Washington Wizards
Upon the conclusion of the Rockets/Wizards game on ESPN, Matt Winer & Jalen Rose were discussing the free agent class of 2010 and Winer asked Rose’s thoughts on player movement.
Jalen said he has “extremely reliable sources” that say Chris Bosh and LeBron James will both be New York Knicks in the summer of 2010. He later followed that up by saying Bosh is definitely leaving, as he talked about the heartbreak the Raptors endured losing Tracy McGrady and subsequently Vince Carter, and with Cleveland and their sports history (no championships in Larry Bird knows how long, Jim Brown’s infamous fumble, etc.) and he said there is no chance Bosh and LeBron stay come 2010.
Great news for Raptors fans to top off a ‘great’ game against the New Jersey Nets
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Alabama Crimson Tide, College Football, Florida Gators, Football, NCAA, NCAA Football, Oklahoma Sooners, Sports, Texas Longhorns, Texas Tech Red Raiders
The Oklahoma Sooners trumped the Texas Tech Red Raiders 65-21 last night. In a marquee matchup that would test the Red Raiders’ football dexterity, Mike Leach’s gameplan was noted to thrive. Graham Harrell and the Red Raiders beat the Sooners in last year’s matchup in Jones AT&T Stadium. However, this year, in Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, where Bob Stoops was 51-2 (now 52-2) at during his tenure coaching the Sooners, Texas Tech stood no chance.
Should have been expected, though, right?
Actually, no. The Texas Longhorns — behind the play of quarterback Colt McCoy — knocked off the Sooners, but then the Red Raiders knocked off the Longhorns. Who is the best team of these three? Looking at it in retrospect, it looks like the ‘Horns and the Sooners are the teams to beat, but how is that so when the Red Raiders beat the ‘Horns, the same ‘Horns who beat the Sooners?
It’s a convoluted league, it seems. It’s tough to judge these teams. But that’s why there is gambling and predictions set up so people can throw their money around just to lose it because a team didn’t play as well as expected, a team that was subdued by an inferior opponent because the superior opponent — whom the consensus bet on — didn’t gameplan as well as they usually did.
We’ll see how great the Alabama Crimson Tide are when they play the Florida Gators in the SEC championship game. For all we know, the Gators could shellack the Crimson Tide and we’d have Florida in the national title game against Oklahoma. Then again, Oklahoma could choke everything away in the Big 12 championship game.
What a load of crap.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Basketball, Cleveland Cavaliers, Gilbert Arenas, LeBron James, Mixes, National Basketball Association, NBA, Sports, Videos, Washington Wizards
Not my kind of music, but it’s a flashy song. I remember watching this last February (‘07). The music accommodates the general emotion of the video, considering it features Gilbert Arenas’s woes from the first playoff series against LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers, missing the free throws, then coming back the next season and playing his heart out. Just a damn good mix.
Filed under: General | Tags: Sports, NFL, Football, National Football League, St. Louis Rams, Kurt Warner, Marshall Faulk, Isaac Bruce, Torry Holt, Roland Williams, Ricky Proehl, '99 St. Louis Rams, '99 Rams, Throwbacks, Los Angeles Rams
I loved these jerseys when I was a kid, especially watching Kurt Warner, Marshall Faulk, Isaac Bruce, Torry Holt, Roland Williams, Ricky Proehl and Co. light up the league with a 13-3 record en route to Super Bowl XXXIV where they defeated the Tennessee Titans 23-16, following a time-expiring tackle on Kevin Dyson by Mike Jones on the one-yard-line.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Basketball, College Basketball, College Sports, Drexel, Intense Games, NCAA Basketball, NCAA Sports, Pennsylvania, Sports
I love college basketball. Always have. The sheer amount of emotion that’s put into play during games is intense. You have to love it. If you don’t, that’s your opinion, but I’m almost certain that your heart is black and your mind is in a tizzy.
Thanks to school being called off today due to snow, it’s been a day full of college basketball (what else is there to do? Can’t drive anywhere due to the peril of the weather, and there’s nothing else to do besides read, which is what I usually do when I watch sports anyhow).
At 10 AM, Pennsylvania and Drexel played, with Drexel squeaking out a 66-64 win. I’m not too familiar with either team’s players (though I won’t be forgetting Drexel’s tumble with Duke a few years ago, which was highly entertaining to watch), but a Drexel player missed a free throw with about 21 seconds left that gave Drexel a chance.
Freshman Zack Rosen drove the length of the court, took a few steps into the key with a left dribble, flipped the ball to his right and threw a pass to a cornering player that drilled a three, drawing the score 65-63.
Drexel came back down, hit one free throw, and missed the other. 66-63.
Zack Rosen jacked up a horrible shot with two seconds remaining, and was sent to the line. The freshman missed the first shot, drilled the second, intentionally missed the third, and a Pennsylvania player nearly (well, he missed by about a foot, but that’s besides the point) scored with a floater in the key.
That’s only a preview of what’s to come as the season unwraps now to ensue.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Albert Pujols, Baseball, Major League Baseball, MLB, Most Valuable Player, MVP, NL MVP, Philadelphia Phillies, Ryan Howard, Sports, St. Louis Cardinals
Teams win games — not players.
The reason why I wrote the above is because a poster on ESPN.com concluded that because the Phillies won more games than the Cardinals, Howard should be the NL MVP (that argument is weaker than Chris Webber’s knees).
However, let’s play that card.
The Cards were projected to lose 95 to 100 games this season. Thanks to Pujols’ presence, they didn’t lose nearly as many and were a .500 club.
Howard has struck out 692 times since 2004. Pretty grotesque numbers. He’s usually hitting a homerun or striking out, while Pujols is banging the ball over the ballpark.
In 2006 the St. Louis Cardinals won the World Series. Ryan Howard, a member of a Philadelphia Phillies team who didn’t make the playoffs that season, won the MVP.
Now in 2008, the Phillies won the World Series, the Cardinals missed the playoffs, and this is a little paradoxical, isn’t it?
At least there’s a good reason to be a Cardinals fan in 2008.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Basketball, Boston Celtics, Doc Rivers, Eddie House, Kevin Garnett, National Basketball Association, NBA, Paul Pierce, Rajon Rondo, Ray Allen, Sports, Turnovers
It’s no secret that the 2008 Boston Celtics are having success. . . in terms of their 9-2 record.
The fact of the matter is that Doc Rivers is the head coach, and he doesn’t possess the most pixels on the television screen. In other words, he’s not the brightest coach in the carousel, even if he was essential in leading the Celtics to its first NBA championship in twenty-two years last season.
Turnovers, baby.
The Celtics are almost dead last in turnovers this year, and it’s driving me nuts. Last year they were more careful with the ball, and made smart moves. Now they’re expecting the defense to make mistakes and allow those mistakes to predicate on the Celtics’ success. It’s worked, a little.
Thanks to the multitude of scoring from eclectic of scorers ranging from Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, Kevin Garnett, Eddie House, and the occasional Leon Powe hammering it in on the block, the Celtics have stayed on top.
But this can’t happen in the playoffs. Doc shouldn’t allow it, but we know how that goes. It’s like a conventional thing to do — give a coach a horde of money and a couple of years to a new contract extension if his team wins a champion, besides how they won the championship (a collective group of players playing as a cohesive unit, undauntedly determined to win a championship), but Rivers is the head coach of the Celtics nonetheless, thanks to Danny Ainge. (Thanks, Danny!)
Let me reiterate: the Celtics are 29th in the league in turnovers. That’s almost dead last.
While I was watching the Nuggets/Celtics game Friday evening, I noticed a load of mistakes that hurt them in the beginning AND in the end. The Celtics busted open the game with an 8-0 lead. What happened shortly thereafter was an onslaught of turnovers that kept popping out like the 1950s baby-boom era. Bouncing off players’ legs, Ray Allen letting a ball or two slip from his hands and out of bounds; erratic passes rolling off finger tips. It was crazier than a crackhead.
When Eddie House was chucking up shots at the end of the game, and Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett were almost single handedly keeping the Celtics in the game, House’s incompetent defense proved to be the big weakness, which, in my opinion, is a turnover itself when it seems like your team is playing four guys against five (I’m not acknowledging Eddie brickHouse at this point).
They may be 9-2, but they sure as hell aren’t playing as their record indicates. Where is this supposed reigning championship power? On offense I see it in spouts, but when Rajon Rondo isn’t even in the game during crunch time, and Eddie House is in there for his offensive abilities, despite the fact that Rondo can play much better defense than House, there is trouble.
If you turn the ball over, the other team will score.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Annoyances, Atlanta Falcons, Cincinnati Bengals, Comedy, ESPN, Football, Humor, Kenny Mayne, Miami Dolphins, National Football League, NFL, Oakland Raiders, Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, San Diego Chargers, Satire, Sports, St. Louis Rams, Tie Games
Pittsburgh beats San Diego 11-10.
Philadelphia and Cincinnati tie at 13, being the first game in the NFL to result in a tie since Atlanta and Pittsburgh tied at 34 in the 2002 season.
Miami wins 17-15 over Oakland.
The only problem I have with the Miami/Oakland game is that it bothered me, seeing as it wielded a hinging result of what would be Miami’s fate by the end of the season (wildcard or playoffless), not to mention they are the only team I have to cheer for now that my Rams are down and out (with a disastrous 2-8 record lingering over them).
Pittsburgh beating San Diego pissed me off, because I hate the Steelers, and because of the crooked score on the scoreboard. One of my friends is a Steelers fan, and I’m going to have to listen to his superfluous jargon for a period tomorrow about how ‘awesome’ (or the way he spells awesome, ‘owsm’) the game was, even though it was more boring than trying to watch a game of soccer (or, for you international folks, ‘footie’).
Oh, and if Dallas wins tonight, I have to listen to a stuttering idiot blabber about it for the rest of the week. Woohoo.
The Eagles/Bengals game irked me because you don’t play to tie the game, you play to WIN the game. (Thanks, Herm Edwards of the 1-9 Kansas City Chiefs!) Maybe the moniker should be changed to that you play to tie the game, though. Shayne Graham of the Bengals attempted a field goal with seven seconds left in overtime, but it sailed wide right, and moments later the game ended as a result of a tie. Y’know what? Here’s something for all of you that bash baseball: at least in baseball, ties don’t result (please don’t bring up that ’specific’ All-Star game in which Bud Selig screwed baseball fans).
The Rams were obliterated by the 49ers today. Nothing new.
Kenny Mayne has a new internet show on ESPN.com, called Mayne Street. A few episodes have been placed onto the web and its mediocrity has been bestowed upon our eyes that have been doused in KMP (Kenny Mayne Poison) for every time we see him on TV enough as it is. I don’t have a problem with the guy, and sometimes – sometimes — he’s funny. But it seems that sometimes he tries too hard, and the blatant comedy is tiresome. Though, if you’re bored, it’s pretty damn amusing.
Weigh in.
