Monday, 31-Mar-2003
Spurious
thoughts and idle musings from the sports week just past ...
Okay, so
you're the all-time leading rusher in NFL history and you've racked up more
sixes than any other running back too.
You've got four rushing titles, three champeenship rings plus league and
Supe MVP awards. You also have your
very own MasterCard commercial and Poke fans all over the planet wear your
jersey. But your boss had seen enough,
shook your hand and cut you loose. So
you sign with the Arizona Cardinals.
You sign to play for the completely and utterly insane Bidwills. You sign with the team whose most famous
player doesn't even exist although he did win the Oscar for Best Supporting
Actor so they got that going for them which is nice. Been nice knowin' ya, Emm.
Didja
ever notice that Be Like always refers to his sport as "the game of
basketball". He never says
"hoops" or "ball" or even just plain old
"basketball". It's always
"the game of basketball" as in ... "I'm leaving the game of
basketball." ... "I missed the game of basketball." ... "My
teammates can't even play the game of basketball." and so on. Makes you wonder when he started doing that
cause no self-respecting 10-year-old would ever use that term. "Bye, Mom, I'm going down to the
playground to play the game of basketball." "Okay, Mikey, you be careful. The meal of dinner is at six.
Have the time of fun now, you hear ???"
Best
chuckle of the week by far ... At the McDonald's High School All-American game
last week in Cleveland, LeBron James' choice of college was listed as
"Undecided". Good one. And that's cause the only thing undecided
about LeBron James' plans for next year are what color suit to wear to the NBA
Draft.
Well, so
much for the expected Wildcat vs Wildcat Final Four posedown as both Kaintuck
and Zona coughed up hairballs. Zona you
could kinda see coming once Kansas exorcised its Duke devils on Thursday
night. But the Jellies going down hard
to Marquette caught everyone outta the blue.
Just a hunch but I'm guessing Dwayne Wade ... 29 points, 11 boards, 11
assists, four blocks and one entire bluegrass Commonwealth in a foul mood ...
knows he now has a rather high-paying job waiting for him. Enjoy the jambalaya.
Meanwhile,
Tejas and The Cuse are packing their bags for a weekend in Nawlins and their
shot at the ring too. Not to take
anything away from either squad but it must be nice to play an NCAA Regional
bracket in front of a giddy packed house just a few hours away from your own
campus. Okay, maybe Carmelo Anthony
plays out of his mind no matter where he is and maybe TJ Ford lights it up
regardless of area code but you gotta wonder what might've happened if they had
played in each other's region. Enjoy
the étoufée.
Over in
the ladies tournament, the usual suspects are still alive and kicking up their
heels ... Tennessee is still playing in Knoxville. Looziana State is officially frisky but still not distracting
Tiger fans from spring football practice while the Dookettes are just as pumped
and most definitely still distracting Blue Debbil fans from spring football
practice. And of course UConn is still
chewing up and spitting out everyone in sight.
Next time Bud Light is looking for some competitive imbalance to fix,
this sport will still be a good choice.
Do you
wanna interview Jim Harrick now, Dickie V ???
Nah, I didn't think so.
To almost
no one's surprise, the Baby Blue Faithful are in an uproar over Matt Doherty's
shaky future as hoops coach. That's
right, two seasons sans Dance invites and Tar Heel Nation is out in the streets
waving pitchforks and torchlights. His
players hate him. No, they don't. Their parents hate him too. No, they don't. Roy Williams will take over this time. No, he won't. Dean Smith
will come out of retirement. No, he
won't. Doherty's had a fair
chance. No, he hasn't. We're doomed. No, we're not. Lather,
rinse, repeat.
Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar says he interviewed for the Columbia University coaching job last
week and would love the job if offered.
Has anyone told him about the Ivy League's no scholarship rules ??? And I sure hope he understands that 6-2
white guys named Preston will have a slightly more difficult time lofting sky
hooks into the heavens and through the twine.
I hope he gets the job though and wears his old goggles on the sidelines
so he can scare the bejeezus outta the Ivy League refs.
When
English soccer fan David Stephenson named his 5-month-old Japanese Shiba Inu
puppy "JJ" after his favorite player, Newcastle United star Jermaine
Jenas, little did he know that JJ would wind up costing him quite a few extra
pounds over his puppy chow budget.
That's because JJ ate several tickets David left lying on a nightstand
including the big one for next month's important match against Manchester
United. Rumor has it David could only
yellow card his hungry pooch seeing as how JJ didn't use his hands.
Major
league baseball season is here.
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah.
Zip-a-dee-aye. Please make
Thunder Stix go away.
More on
this Tar Hole mess ... The Doherty Affair is a textbook case of everything the
Anybody But Carolina tribe deplores about that program. For years, all you ever heard was ... We're
the flagship of the ACC, the class of the league, and we're just dripping with
tradition. Our players are stars on the
court and perfect gentlemen off it.
We're a family here. We're
Dean's Family. Well, where is the great
Paterfamilias now that one of his loyal sons is twisting in the wind ??? Because all Snuffy has to do is remind his
grumpy subjects that he himself got five ... Count 'em, five ... thoroughly
mediocre years to prove he could coach.
Losing makes cowards out of us all.
Even flagships.
See ya
nexted week ...
Robert E Hunt Jr
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