BEST OF SPORTS
- KEVIN EVERETT RECOVERY - The more you read about this story, the more crazy and awesome that it becomes. This Buffalo Bills player should be paralyzed right now. Instead he is starting to walk and recovering. It was thanks to God and a doctor who was willing to take risks. They lowered Everett's body temperature to combat swelling in a very risky and experimental maneuver. It is amazing to hear of a positive story with a medical professional who was willing to put his entire career on the line for this player.
- NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS RUN AT 19-0 - I don't care what you think about this team or its coach or anything. Personally, I hate the Patriots, I think Bill Bellichick is a jerk, I think Tom Brady is a scumbag, and I think most Patriot fans are arrogant turds. (Sorry Kevin - you are the exception.) BUT, these things are great for sports. Everyone follows it. The ratings for those Pats games are enormous. And the Super Bowl, if it features an undefeated Patriots against either Dallas or Green Bay could be the highest rated show ever. I know I watch them every week. And you have to admire greatness. They are a GREAT team. You get to see teams like that every 30 years or so. Enjoy it.
- COLLEGE FOOTBALL UPSETS - I love watching all the big-shot BCS schools get tripped up. It makes College Football fun. I hated watching college football for a large stretch of the 80s and 90s because the same teams always went 10-1 and hogged the big games. Of course, while the regular season was exciting, the Bowl Matchups are, eh, um, not? And the same teams ended up hogging the bowls again. Oh well.
- HONORABLE MENTION: UCF's Football run (I had to put that), UF's Gator Slam (ugh), NBA resurgence, Dwight Howard, Bret Favre's resurrection, state of Florida's FIVE bowl teams, Dungy winning Super Bowl
- BASEBALL STEROIDS: I'm so far beyond being surprised by this story. It is just disgusting and ridiculous. How can baseball legitimately hold itself up as a serious sport now? Hundreds of players have been tagged - either by the Mitchell report or clubhouse rats or drug testing. The Home Run King is a user. The 340 game winning Rocket is a user. The lineup is littered with players who were the dominant ones. And even the Report has questions - based on shaky witnesses, run by a dude on the Board of the Red Sox (where hardly any Sox players are named and 22 Yanks are!), no fair trial for the accused. Baseball managed to screw up its efforts to clean itself up after screwing up for years in refusing to clean itself up. Confused? Imagine those young fans who have to sort through all the asterisks and wonder why the greatest players of a generation aren't in the Hall of Fame.
- MICHAEL VICK & ATLANTA FALCONS: This covers so many points that the Worsts would have stretched to three pages. First, there is Bobby Petrino weaseling a new contract out of Louisville, only to screw them over and go to Atlanta. Then, Michael Vick gets busted for dog fighting and destroys his life and the team. Then you have players verbally attacking Petrino for being a jerk. Then you have players supporting Vick and getting fined for it. (Just think how big of jerk Petrino had to be for the players to verbally support a dog killer and try to throw you under the bus.) When the team was barely limping to the end of the year, Petrino jumps ship (after promising to stay and being refused permission to talk to other jobs) to go BACK to college to browbeat the Arkansas players. Then the owner of the team starts negotiating to replace the current GM Rich McKay WITHOUT TELLING McKay he wasn't coming back. Only the negotiations are with such a big name (Parcells) that it hits all the papers - before Big Tuna screws them over to court the Dolphins. What a crappy franchise.
- BILLY DONOVAN: I know UF fans are willing to forgive and forget, but the five Orlando Magic fans aren't. He weasels an extension out of UF to stay and not take whatever job was floating around. Then he leaves and takes the Magic job. Then, after announcing it and everything, CHANGES HIS MIND over the weekend and goes back to UF with a nice fat extension. I know it is going to work out for Orlando. Ron Jeremy, I mean Stan Van Gundy is a great coach and the Magic started the year great before December happened. But I think Donovan will never be an NBA coach now. Unless the Falcons get a team.
- JOE TORRE'S SENDOFF: Okay. Your coach leads you to five World Series in six years or something like that. Then the other teams catch up. You haven't WON a World Series since 2000. BUT you still win your division, go to the playoffs, win in the playoffs. So, you naturally blame the manager. Threaten to fire him. And then cut his salary and tell him to earn it back through incentives - only the incentives are the same thing he's been doing every year that wasn't good enough. WHA? Then you anger one of the most popular players your team has ever had by publicly saying he isn't good enough to manage - causing him to leave too. Brilliant, Hank.
- KOBE BRYANT: So, you are a young superstar. You have won your third straight NBA title with your fellow superstar and supercoach. What next? Force the team to trade that other star, get the coach to quit or get fired, and make the team build everything around you. Now, you get to be THE MAN. So you start getting huge stats, but your team is horrible. Every big game you have seems to hurt the team more. So you pitch a fit and don't do anything, just to show how bad your team is. You grumble. You gripe. You get the coach to come back. And then you demand a trade. Because the team didn't do enough to win - didn't bring in any huge talent. Wait, you twit. You HAD huge talent. You had the best center in 35 years. You had four future Hall of Famers starting every night and didn't win the title. YOU forced the trades. YOU canned the coach. YOU were behind EVERYTHING. And now YOU are mad at how it turned out? Grow up.
- 2007 HEISMAN: Let me begin by saying that I am NOT angry Tim Tebow won the Heisman. I know that he is incredible - absolutely mind boggling on the field. I know he is a great person. Heck he saved a bus of nuns and orphans on the way to the ceremony. Right now he is personally delivering one million toys to children. What I am saying is how did Kevin Smith get completely ignored for not only the Heisman, but also the Best Running Back awards? He didn't need to win. But I don't get how McFadden is one of the top four, when he had 400 yards less than Smith? Smith is 181 yards from an all-time rushing record (though even I think its bogus to let that stand when 3 extra games went into it). How is that not worth a top five finish at least? Ridiculous.
- HONORABLE MENTION: Pacman Jones, Red Sox winning World Series, Dolphins winning in Week 14, Peyton Manning winning Super Bowl, NBA Gambling Ref, Patriots Camera Work, Don Imus vs. Rutgers
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