This week in sports was eh, somewhat boring. Kurt Warner hints at retirement and Allen Iverson got a starting spot on the Eastern All-Star Team.
As I predicted last week the Saints came out and showed everybody that the Arizona Cardinals were a flawed team. Before the game Kurt Warner had hinted at a possible retirement, and after that brutal, yet clean hit, late in the first half that knocked him out for a few plays I think he is ready to call it a career and wait for his call to the hall.
This guy has had an amazing career and achieved way more than anyone expected and he has every right to retire now at the tender age of 38. However, the guy still has it. He was one of the best QB’s in the league this year, and that’s saying a lot considering the years that Favre, Manning, and Brees had.
Kurt Warner says he wants to retire because the game isn’t as fun as it used to be for him. I’m not sure I understand what’s not fun about having 3 great receivers who can make you look like Dan Marino on any given play. Who knows maybe his body is breaking down but honestly I don’t see it. The guy has gotten better with each candle added to the cake. If Kurt wants to retire I think he should, that way he can go out on his own terms and not be forced out, but let’s be honest the NFL is a lot better with him in it, he is a great leader and a great person. Thanks for all the great moments Kurt.
This week it was announced that the Answer, Allen Iverson, would be a starting guard for Eastern All Star Team. 5 years ago this would have been no big news, just another day, but now this is a horrible story. Allen Iverson, the guy who bailed on the Memphis Grizzlies 3 games into the season then ended up back with his old team the 76er’s is going to start at the All-Star Game. He has played in 17 games for the 76er’s and has mediocre averages of 14 points, 3 rebounds, and 4 assists. Now is that really worthy of beating out guys like Rajon Rondo who is the most consistent player for the Celtics this year? I don’t think so, heck it’s not even worthy of starting over guys like Derrick Rose and Joe Johnson. Ray Allen had it right when he said that the fans should not have total control over the all star selections, I mean come on, how many more times are guys going to get votes because they are popular instead of having a great year. T-Mac almost got a starting spot out west even though he hasn’t played all year and the Rockets Stephon Marbury’d his ass and told him to stay away.
The All-Star game has become a joke because people are in it that don’t deserve it. A.I. hasn’t don e anything in years but yet the fans still love him, maybe he should hit the gym and practice…. PRACTICE?! Yes I’m talking about practice. Then he may deserve that spot, but I doubt it.
This Sunday the NFL conference championships games will take place. The Colts vs. Jets game is an interesting one, yes that is not a typo I said the Jets. The Colts need to win this game and the Superbowl in order for people to forget the fact that they tanked the last 2 games and threw away their chance at a perfect season. It’s funny that the team they quit against was these very same Jets. If the Jets manage to win, which they won’t, then the Colts will look foolish because they are the reason the Jets even made the playoffs. The Jets have the formula to win a Superbowl that has been popular for the last decade. First you get a great defense, then a great ground game, and finally you find a QB that won’t go all Rich Gannon on you and toss a bunch of interceptions when it matters. However, I just don’t see them beating these Colts although I would like to see the Jets go against Brett Favre considering Favre’s departure from the Jets last year. On the other side you have the Saints hosting the Vikings. Two teams with high powered offenses. This is an interesting one, I personally can’t pick between these two as to who I like more but I can say that I think the Saints will win this one. Drew Brees is too good and the city of New Orleans needs this too much. It will be a great game, Brett Favre will deliver as usual and I think Adrian Peterson is finally ready to embarrass some sorry safety trying to make an open field tackle again. AP hasn’t been much of a threat for some time but I think he is set for a monster return to prominence this Sunday. Jared Allen will dominate as usual but the great effort by the Vikings just won’t be enough and it will be the Colts vs. the Saints in the Superbowl. Interesting how two teams everyone thought weren’t going to be great this year came out and dominated.
Well that’s it for this week, hopefully next week Gilbert Arenas does something else stupid so I have a little more to talk about.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
Kiffin's exit to predictable "shockers"
This week in sports was definitely an interesting one, from the surprising move by Lane Kiffin to some very surprising NFL upsets, yup this week had it all.
Last week Pete Carroll decided to leave USC and head to Seattle in a mind boggling move. What was even worse was Lane Kiffin’s decision to ditch the University of Tennessee and run back to Los Angeles to become the new head coach of the same USC Trojans he was once a coordinator for.
After all of the drama filled season that Lane Kiffin put Tennessee through he jumps ship and leaves Tennessee with no head coach and many of the recruits who came to play for Kiffin stunned; many of those recruits have since jumped ship as well. I’m not sure what’s more shocking the fact the Kiffin left USC or that USC hired Lane Kiffin a guy who went 7-6 at Tennessee after promising such high achievements and causing so many problems with his mouth.
One thing that not too many people are focused on is that Kiffin could have two teams under suspension at the same time. USC is under investigation from the Reggie Bush debacle a few years ago and Tennessee is also in danger due to violations made by Kiffin himself.
Not surprisingly, most of the Tennessee fans didn’t take too kindly to the news which caused a riot similar to those in L.A. after the Lakers won the NBA title a couple years back. Here is a picture of what some great Tennessee students did.
You gotta love it! I seriously doubt Kiffin’s ability as a coach, but now he is in an easier conference and he is in a place where his team plays second fiddle to the Los Angeles Lakers so not as much pressure I guess. This just makes me happy because USC had such good luck for so long that it’s good to finally see them struggle… GO DAWGS.
Last week I made some predictions for the wild card round in the NFL playoffs, sadly they were all wrong, but I’m sure I’m not the only one. Two of the games, Jets/Bengals and Ravens/Patriots, were big surprises with the underdogs dominating both games. The other two were up in the air with pretty good matchups.
The Ravens to me were the biggest surprise, coming out and laying New England flat on their ass becoming the first team to beat the Patriots at home in the playoffs in over 30 years, amazing.
This week is a great week for football. Here are my predictions. The Colts will come out a bit rusty after over a month of not taking a game seriously but will rebound in the second half for a win over the confident Ravens. The Chargers will absolutely dominate the jets who I don’t think even deserved to make the playoffs to begin with. The Cowboys finally got a playoff win! Took only 13 years to get it. They will go into Minnesota and Favre and co. will bring them back down to earth by embarrassing them on national television.
People are predicting the Cardinals and Saints to combine for almost 100 points which is ridiculous. It will be high scoring but not that much. I have the Saints winning the shootout and finally getting rid of those overachieving Cardinals.
Mark McGwire admitted to steroids this week, big shocker. I used to like Big Mac but after seeing his interview I think the guy has taking so many steroids that his nuts aren’t the only things that have shrunk. He started out good and I really felt for the guy I did. Then he said he only took the steroids to help heal from injuries and to stay healthy, well hello that’s still cheating you get the unfair advantage of playing more games that guys like Ruth and Maris didn’t have.
Then when asked if he thought he could have hit 70 home runs even without the steroids he said that he had no doubt in his mind he could have. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? The sad thing is that I think Big Mac truly believes himself, he truly thinks he only took steroids to stay healthy and that he really could have hit 70 without the juice.
He went on to say that he was born to hit homeruns and that they were still talking about the homeruns he hit back in high school. What pathetic high school did he go to that they are still talking about homeruns hit by a cheater 2 decades ago? Get over yourself Mark, you are out of your mind if you think this confession will help your chances in Cooperstown, you are branded for life buddy, I hereby change your nickname for Big Mac to Big Asterisk because that’s all you will ever be.
Blake Griffin pulled a Greg Oden this week and he will be out for his entire rookie season. Hope he doesn’t continue on the same path as Oden and get hurt next year too or the Clippers curse shall continue. Honestly how unlucky can one franchise be? Not only do they have the worst luck, they have to share an arena and a city with one of the greatest franchises of all time. Sorry Clip fans you should have gone with the Purple and Gold when picking out your colors.
This was a good week in sports and a great week for me because I got to catch my girlfriend Michelle Beadle on SportsNation all week. Well, see you next time.
Last week Pete Carroll decided to leave USC and head to Seattle in a mind boggling move. What was even worse was Lane Kiffin’s decision to ditch the University of Tennessee and run back to Los Angeles to become the new head coach of the same USC Trojans he was once a coordinator for.
After all of the drama filled season that Lane Kiffin put Tennessee through he jumps ship and leaves Tennessee with no head coach and many of the recruits who came to play for Kiffin stunned; many of those recruits have since jumped ship as well. I’m not sure what’s more shocking the fact the Kiffin left USC or that USC hired Lane Kiffin a guy who went 7-6 at Tennessee after promising such high achievements and causing so many problems with his mouth.
One thing that not too many people are focused on is that Kiffin could have two teams under suspension at the same time. USC is under investigation from the Reggie Bush debacle a few years ago and Tennessee is also in danger due to violations made by Kiffin himself.
Not surprisingly, most of the Tennessee fans didn’t take too kindly to the news which caused a riot similar to those in L.A. after the Lakers won the NBA title a couple years back. Here is a picture of what some great Tennessee students did.
You gotta love it! I seriously doubt Kiffin’s ability as a coach, but now he is in an easier conference and he is in a place where his team plays second fiddle to the Los Angeles Lakers so not as much pressure I guess. This just makes me happy because USC had such good luck for so long that it’s good to finally see them struggle… GO DAWGS.
Last week I made some predictions for the wild card round in the NFL playoffs, sadly they were all wrong, but I’m sure I’m not the only one. Two of the games, Jets/Bengals and Ravens/Patriots, were big surprises with the underdogs dominating both games. The other two were up in the air with pretty good matchups.
The Ravens to me were the biggest surprise, coming out and laying New England flat on their ass becoming the first team to beat the Patriots at home in the playoffs in over 30 years, amazing.
This week is a great week for football. Here are my predictions. The Colts will come out a bit rusty after over a month of not taking a game seriously but will rebound in the second half for a win over the confident Ravens. The Chargers will absolutely dominate the jets who I don’t think even deserved to make the playoffs to begin with. The Cowboys finally got a playoff win! Took only 13 years to get it. They will go into Minnesota and Favre and co. will bring them back down to earth by embarrassing them on national television.
People are predicting the Cardinals and Saints to combine for almost 100 points which is ridiculous. It will be high scoring but not that much. I have the Saints winning the shootout and finally getting rid of those overachieving Cardinals.
Mark McGwire admitted to steroids this week, big shocker. I used to like Big Mac but after seeing his interview I think the guy has taking so many steroids that his nuts aren’t the only things that have shrunk. He started out good and I really felt for the guy I did. Then he said he only took the steroids to help heal from injuries and to stay healthy, well hello that’s still cheating you get the unfair advantage of playing more games that guys like Ruth and Maris didn’t have.
Then when asked if he thought he could have hit 70 home runs even without the steroids he said that he had no doubt in his mind he could have. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? The sad thing is that I think Big Mac truly believes himself, he truly thinks he only took steroids to stay healthy and that he really could have hit 70 without the juice.
He went on to say that he was born to hit homeruns and that they were still talking about the homeruns he hit back in high school. What pathetic high school did he go to that they are still talking about homeruns hit by a cheater 2 decades ago? Get over yourself Mark, you are out of your mind if you think this confession will help your chances in Cooperstown, you are branded for life buddy, I hereby change your nickname for Big Mac to Big Asterisk because that’s all you will ever be.
Blake Griffin pulled a Greg Oden this week and he will be out for his entire rookie season. Hope he doesn’t continue on the same path as Oden and get hurt next year too or the Clippers curse shall continue. Honestly how unlucky can one franchise be? Not only do they have the worst luck, they have to share an arena and a city with one of the greatest franchises of all time. Sorry Clip fans you should have gone with the Purple and Gold when picking out your colors.
This was a good week in sports and a great week for me because I got to catch my girlfriend Michelle Beadle on SportsNation all week. Well, see you next time.
Friday, January 8, 2010
BCS to slumps
This week in sports has definitely been an interesting one. From two powerhouse teams who were preseason favorites to make it to the finals slumping (Lakers and Celtics) to Colt McCoy and his sportsman like yet lame interview after the BCS Title game, yes it definitely has been an interesting week.
The Lakers started off the week with an impressive 35 point win over the always tough mavericks and followed it up with a 9 point win over the Rockets. Since then the Lakers have lost their last 2 games, an 11 point laugher to the clippers… THE CLIPPERS (which I loved by the way), and a 9 point loss to the Blazers. Sure they have had some injuries but come one, the clippers?! That is a sin in LA. The Celtics have had a rough week as well. They went 1-1 on the week but could have easily been 0-2 if not for a Rondo tip in alley oop at the buzzer to force OT against the Miami Heat. They lost to the Atlanta hawks on Friday night with KG out of the lineup and many other players playing through injuries. They look to rebound on Sunday at Toronto.
This week Alabama and Texas squared off for the right to call their team the best in the country. (Other than Boise State but I digress.) The outcome was Bama winning but in a surprising fashion. Not that many people not wearing a burnt orange shirt thought the horns had a chance and with Colt McCoy being injured in the first quarter even many longhorn faithful caw their season going down faster than a white girl in Kobe’s hotel room… Oh wait, Tiger is the new one right? Sorry for the mix up, faster than anything with a vagina in Tiger’s hotel room. Texas backup QB Garret Gilbert however, fought hard and led the longhorns to a great game and really gave a peak into the bright future of this soon to be star. My main problem was not with the Bill Belicheck/ Kendrick Perkins evil glare that coach Saban had after being drenched in a Gatorade bath, my problem is with Colt McCoy. Yes the kid is a class act and a great football player however, I am tired of people answering a question by talking about god. When the reporter asked him how it felt to watch his last college game, the BCS title game from the sideline, he responded by going off about God and how God deserves the glory and he won’t question anything God does. First off, do you really think he is grateful that his childhood dream of winning a national championship was ruined, no. Second, do you really think God cares about football, no. Yes God does control certain aspects of our lives and helps us through tough times but do you really think God is paying attention some damn college football game? Maybe it’s just me but I don’t respect nor agree with athletes bringing God into sports.
This week the Seattle Seahawks fired Coach Jim Mora after just 1 year and a disappointing 5-11 record. Rumor is, as is every year, that they are going to try and lure Pete Carroll away from sunny Southern California to be in the rainy, melancholy, and embarrassing city that the Seahawks play what I think is football in. Every year Pete Carroll turns down NFL job after NFL job, however after a disappointing year for USC it might be time. On the other hand, NFL teams need to start looking at history and realize that the majority of college coaches aren’t right for pro sports. Look at Bobby Petrino leaving the Falcons midway through his first year to run back to the college game or Nick Saban who as previously spoken won his second BCS title even though just a few years ago he was defending himself claiming he was not leaving the Dolphins to go back to the college sidelines. College coaches and pro coaches are two very different types and they usually can’t succeed in both. As much as I would like to see Pete Carroll leave USC due to my extreme hatred for everything they are and represent, I don’t think it is the right choice, but I’m hoping that next season I am seeing coach Carroll wearing a poncho crying as his Seahawks are losing 45-10 to the Rams.
I would like to sum up this week with some predictions for the upcoming wild card games for the NFL playoffs. Cincinnati will have a blowout victory over the Jets after purposely losing to them the week before to ensure they face the, again and not the Steelers; New England over Baltimore in a close game for the hooded one and his minions; it is very hard for any team to beat another team three times in one season which is why I am picking the big play Eagles over the big choke Cowboys (just because you won a couple of games in December doesn’t make up for the fact that you have won the same amount of playoff games in the last 13 years as the Lions); and finally I am taking the Green Bay Packers over the Arizona Cardinals, the Cardinals have a great passing attack but I think the Packers will, mainly Aaron Rodgers’ will to beat old gray beard Brett Favre himself in the playoffs is to strong.
Well, that’s it for this week in sports, hope next week is just as good. Goodnight everybody.
The Lakers started off the week with an impressive 35 point win over the always tough mavericks and followed it up with a 9 point win over the Rockets. Since then the Lakers have lost their last 2 games, an 11 point laugher to the clippers… THE CLIPPERS (which I loved by the way), and a 9 point loss to the Blazers. Sure they have had some injuries but come one, the clippers?! That is a sin in LA. The Celtics have had a rough week as well. They went 1-1 on the week but could have easily been 0-2 if not for a Rondo tip in alley oop at the buzzer to force OT against the Miami Heat. They lost to the Atlanta hawks on Friday night with KG out of the lineup and many other players playing through injuries. They look to rebound on Sunday at Toronto.
This week Alabama and Texas squared off for the right to call their team the best in the country. (Other than Boise State but I digress.) The outcome was Bama winning but in a surprising fashion. Not that many people not wearing a burnt orange shirt thought the horns had a chance and with Colt McCoy being injured in the first quarter even many longhorn faithful caw their season going down faster than a white girl in Kobe’s hotel room… Oh wait, Tiger is the new one right? Sorry for the mix up, faster than anything with a vagina in Tiger’s hotel room. Texas backup QB Garret Gilbert however, fought hard and led the longhorns to a great game and really gave a peak into the bright future of this soon to be star. My main problem was not with the Bill Belicheck/ Kendrick Perkins evil glare that coach Saban had after being drenched in a Gatorade bath, my problem is with Colt McCoy. Yes the kid is a class act and a great football player however, I am tired of people answering a question by talking about god. When the reporter asked him how it felt to watch his last college game, the BCS title game from the sideline, he responded by going off about God and how God deserves the glory and he won’t question anything God does. First off, do you really think he is grateful that his childhood dream of winning a national championship was ruined, no. Second, do you really think God cares about football, no. Yes God does control certain aspects of our lives and helps us through tough times but do you really think God is paying attention some damn college football game? Maybe it’s just me but I don’t respect nor agree with athletes bringing God into sports.
This week the Seattle Seahawks fired Coach Jim Mora after just 1 year and a disappointing 5-11 record. Rumor is, as is every year, that they are going to try and lure Pete Carroll away from sunny Southern California to be in the rainy, melancholy, and embarrassing city that the Seahawks play what I think is football in. Every year Pete Carroll turns down NFL job after NFL job, however after a disappointing year for USC it might be time. On the other hand, NFL teams need to start looking at history and realize that the majority of college coaches aren’t right for pro sports. Look at Bobby Petrino leaving the Falcons midway through his first year to run back to the college game or Nick Saban who as previously spoken won his second BCS title even though just a few years ago he was defending himself claiming he was not leaving the Dolphins to go back to the college sidelines. College coaches and pro coaches are two very different types and they usually can’t succeed in both. As much as I would like to see Pete Carroll leave USC due to my extreme hatred for everything they are and represent, I don’t think it is the right choice, but I’m hoping that next season I am seeing coach Carroll wearing a poncho crying as his Seahawks are losing 45-10 to the Rams.
I would like to sum up this week with some predictions for the upcoming wild card games for the NFL playoffs. Cincinnati will have a blowout victory over the Jets after purposely losing to them the week before to ensure they face the, again and not the Steelers; New England over Baltimore in a close game for the hooded one and his minions; it is very hard for any team to beat another team three times in one season which is why I am picking the big play Eagles over the big choke Cowboys (just because you won a couple of games in December doesn’t make up for the fact that you have won the same amount of playoff games in the last 13 years as the Lions); and finally I am taking the Green Bay Packers over the Arizona Cardinals, the Cardinals have a great passing attack but I think the Packers will, mainly Aaron Rodgers’ will to beat old gray beard Brett Favre himself in the playoffs is to strong.
Well, that’s it for this week in sports, hope next week is just as good. Goodnight everybody.
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