Good god. I realize Barack Obama plays hoops. But, Jesus Christ, do I have to hear about it ALL THE TIME? Don't worry, I won't enter into a long political diatribe, partly due to the fact I don't typically discuss politics and partly because of the strong liberal current running through this blog, but the media circle jerk over Obama is never ending. He hasn't done anything yet. Save the nut busting at least until he's in office.
As you all should be well aware, I depart for Las Vegas in just over 24 hours. This means I will be betting heavily (my 'heavily', not degenerate gambler 'heavily') on the AFC/NFC Championship games. Probably around $50/game on assorted over/unders, prop bets and money line bets. I haven't decided how I'm going with the Ravens/Steelers. But I'm excited about that game. I'm definitely betting on the Eagles. I think they're gonna win by at least 17 and I heard the line is maybe 2.5. Really? Also, I hear there's a UFC event in London this weekend. I am not a UFC fan in the sense that I know next to nothing about it. I'm pretty big into boxing but never got into the MMA craze.
I cannot put into words how much I hate the long dreadlock look. It looks fucking ridiculous and we'll see two of the worst on Sunday - Larry Fitzgerald and Troy Palomoulululululululu.
SI Players NBA Poll - I'm gonna let you guys try to answer this, and don't cheat. The question posed to NBA players was, "Which NBA player would you least like to mess with?" The top answer received 46%. Second place got 17%. Those were the only two with double digit percentages. Can you guess the two? #1 is pretty obvious.
About fucking time Jim Rice made it into the Hall of Fame. And, while I'm on the subject, my all time favorite athlete also made it in, Rickey Henderson, because Rickey Henderson is the greatest Rickey Henderson and he's more Rickey Henderson than any other Rickey Henderson. Truthfully, though, he was my idol. I was a leadoff base stealer through high school and I wore #24.
Dan Patrick interviews Utah head coach Kyle Whittingham. Kudos to Whittingham for voting the Utes #1. They have a legitimate claim. It always works well for the BCS when teams like Utah go undefeated but get smoked in whatever bowl they play. This year it didn't happen. Anything that fucks the BCS makes me happy.
The return of Golf Plus!!! I entered the fantasy golf league that Bear posted. Didn't have a great first week but I'm just warming up.
54% of America's top 100 golf teachers say Tiger will be better when he comes back, which I hear could be for the Accenture Match Play next month.
SI predicts Steelers 20-Ravens 13. Pretty high scoring in my opinion. I'll go Steelers 17 - Ravens 6. For the other game they have Eagles 24 - Cardinals 19. That's horseshit. I have Eagles 31 - Cardinals 13.
WOW, Jake Delhomme laid a monster egg. That's the stuff the end of careers are made of.
Oh no....... The only person the media loves more than Obama right now is????????????? You guessed it, Superman Tim TEBOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I do think it's pretty sweet he's coming back. Reminds me of another big white guy from another sport on a certain college basketball team that came back for his senior year.
SI's 2009 College Football top 10 is already out. Florida #1, Texas #2 and so on.
Focus - D-Wade. He's pretty fucking good. Leads the NBA in scoring. He averages almost 3 steals and 1.5 blocks per game. Impressive.
Apparently Illinois is the most surprising college basketball team team in the nation's most surprising conference. Fuck Illinois and fuck the Big Ten. I hope North Carolina goes through the Big Ten's best again to get to the NCAA Championship game like they did in 2005. Speaking of UNC, I was completely caught off guard by how much "undefeated season" talk was going on prior to them losing to BC. And now they've lost twice. I'm not the least bit concerned. They'll end up with a #1 seed.
Other thoughts -
I completely agree with Juice's assessment of the Dungy situation. It's very comparable to when someone famous dies. That person is ALWAYS the greatest person who ever lived. I know nothing about Dungy other than what I hear on SportsCenter. But who knows if maybe he whacks it to kiddie porn and kills baby seals? I'm not saying he does, but none of us actually know.
I'm not afraid to admit the new season of 24 has sucked me right back in. Tell me you don't want to bend that chick FBI agent over. Holy fuck she's hot. Being a member of the law enforcement community makes that show hard to watch sometimes. The scene where the dirty FBI agent is checking the basement for that sniper is ridiculous. A single person would NEVER NEVER NEVER be allowed to search for a fucking SNIPER by himself on a floor of a large building. So that part was extremely frustrating. But, luckily for me, I'm able to ignore most of that stuff in this show.
I really don't care too much for the Trevor Hoffman signing. Not that I think it's a bad signing. But, like I said before, I just don't think he's gonna make that much of a difference. I hope I'm wrong.
I heard a sports talk radio dude say Corey Hart faded down the stretch last year. I thought that was funny because he's wrong. Corey Hart faded before the stretch. He was completely irrelevant in the 2nd half of the season.
I listen to most Bucks games on the radio (the radio announcers are fantastic, by the way) but last night I saw them on tv for one of the only times so far this year. Tell me, does Michael Redd look a little fat? Joe Alexander looked pretty good, except the incredibly ugly last second 3 to tie. I hear the Bucks may be auditioning him for some sort of trade to the Grizzlies? I don't know what that's about.
Juice, have you picked a Vegas date yet? I hope the wife's permission is still in effect.
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what's the damn answer to the trivia question? When it says "not want to mess with" does that mean like a fair, one on one physical fight or does it mean the guy most likely to hire a hitman and have you killed?
If it is a fight, I would have to say Dwight Howard as #1 and Chris Mullin as #2 (just kidding, I have no idea who #2 is). If it is the other thing, I would have no idea because they are all a bunch of thugs and gangbangers and i hate the fucking NBA.
I would imagine one of them would have to be Ron Artest
Also, people keep hating on the Cardinals in the playoffs, but they've been fucking cruising. Before the playoffs started, who would you have chosen in a Panthers vs Eagles game. I'm guessing Panthers? I'm quite certain the Cardinals are going to keep winning because people just keep dismissing them without a second thought
The trade rumor was Sessions and Alexander for Mike Conley, pretty young PG for the Grizz
I wouldn't mind that trade. I liked Conley and was hoping the Bucks would've had the chance to draft him the other year.
Ron Artest was #2. Dwight Howard was on the list with something like 4%. Only two guards received more than 1%. Bonus points if anyone can name either guard.
I'm hating on the Cardinals big time. It has slightly to do with Fitzgerald's hair and the way it was bouncing up and down as he ran towards the pylon last game.
And it doesn't specify what "not want to mess with" means. I'm guessing who they don't wanna throw down with.
I bet on these playoff games with a friend. He gave me the choice of which 4 NFC teams I wanted last week and I took the Panthers. I thought there was no way they would lose, let alone get anally raped, especially when they scored the first TD right away.
JUST TELL ME THE DAMN ANSWER? I can't take it anymore!!!!
I bet Chris Paul is one of the guards that got votes. Even though he doesn't come off as particulary mean, the dude is shredded.
I won't give the answer until I get a few more guesses.
CP3 is not one of the guards.
Its gotta be Shaq-Fu.
Jesus Christ you haven't even left for this trip yet, give me some time to come up with a date.
24 is rad as fuck.
Is the saying, "BAM! Goes the Danny G Slam!" or something like that?
Juice is the victor. Shaqovich is #1.
The two guards are Jerry Stackhouse and Nate Robinson.
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