Spring Scrabble

Arizona and Florida are now buzzing more than throwing down STAPHYLOCOCCUS in the casual Saturday Scrabble matches.

With the annual spring arrival of America’s pastime everyone is excited.

Steven Strasburg is being already touted as the next Nolan Ryan. Okay, he does have a triple digit heater and a curve that’ll make your knees buckle, but he hasn’t faced anybody yet. Give up a moon shot blast to Albert Pujols or any major league slugger and you’re sure to have mental problems. Just ask Brad Lidge, you won’t be the same.

And who could forget about the defending champs, the Yanks. You thought they had pressure last year, wait til this spring. It’s a contract year for Jeter, and Girardi, not to mention that they brought in Curtis Granderson and just another slew of superstars. That’s more pressure than the wallet of the Nutty Professor in a highchair.

Baseball is back and the world is right. (Staphylococcus= bunch of grapes) [28 points]

Tomlinson Done For

Emmitt Smith has been known to work up a sweat. Those hot Dallas summers and of course the pressure packed performances he participated in on Dancing With the Stars.

With the release of LaDanian Tomlinson, who is only 26 touchdowns away for the Emmitt’s record, this mark was sure to be done for.

But now that another running back in Brian Westbrook was also released Emmitt can wipe that brow and know that his record is safe for another day.

Who in their right mind would pick up running back that is on a steady decline from the 2006 season and a pain in the locker room? Especially when there is another back that is getting over the hill, but still produces and is a great leader and teammate.

LaDanian will play in the NFL, but just like that playoff win this record is just out of reach.

NO NUGGS LOVE

The Black Eyed Peas had it right when they said ‘Where is the Love?’

Obviously they weren’t talking about the Denver Nuggets and the lack of attention they are getting for being a great Team. But they should have been.

Coming out of the All-Star break getting tragic news that the beloved Coach Karl has throat cancer there could have been a letdown. But the little Nuggets went into Cleveland, who only lost twice on their home court last year, to play the highly touted (by the media) Lebron and the Cavs. The Nuggs simply won on a buzzer beater by Carmelo.

And today when the headline should have read ‘Melo Sends NBA a Message’ it was about how the Cavs lost. Um…. We beat the “BEST” team in the NBA on the road, and we still get no love. All they could talk about was how Lebron went for a triple double; they couldn’t find time to slip in that he lost so those number don’t matter.

The medium market Nuggets get no love, but they give no love as well.

NBA All Star Game

Okay, who voted for Zach Randolph?

This is an ALL STAR GAME, the best players in the league and in the world for that matter should be showcased in this glamorous pickup game.

If the Pittsburgh Pirates don’t have a player good enough to compete with the best players in the league then why should he be allowed to play. The same holds true for the NBA and the Memphis Grizzlies. Anybody can get HIS on a scrub team.

Now back to what’s important, the actual game. Between the tenacity on the defensive end of the floor or foul that put the opponent at the line (3 times) or the recliner chair George Carl almost fell asleep in on the sideline; it was a good game. Yeah right.

Who won? Who cares.

Super Sunday

Get the beer and nachos ready, cause it’s time for a little pigskin.
The feel-good story versus the real good story.
This year’s Super Bowl has more subplots than McDonald's mystery meat.
• New Orleans has gone through so much since 2004 and would mean so much to the city and its people if they could win the big one.
• Peyton Manning is the son of Archie Manning who practically clichéd the term, ‘Ain’ts’. Now he’s facing them in the biggest game the New Orleans has ever seen.
• Peyton also has his legacy on the line; it can either be etched into the record books or it can be blow away never to be seen again.
• Dwight Freeney has a bad ankle and an earful of reporters.
• For the first time in a long time the best team in both conference, the #1 seeds from both conference, has made the Super Bowl.
• And… who can forget about the commercials including Tebow’s only appearance ever in a big NFL game.
But this all will take a backseat to the actual game once the coin is flipped and the 60 minutes gets underway.
(Colts 42-35)

Laker's Greats

Is Kobe really the greatest player ever? No? Greatest Laker ever even? No?

Jerry West and Kobe Bryant’s career mirror themselves oh-so creepily.

· Both have, up to this point, played in 14 seasons.

· West had 19,032 field goals attempted to Kobe’s 19,271.

· Kobe is shooting 83.9% from the line; West shot 81.4%.

· West has 5,366 boards; Kobe has 5,280.

· And Jerry West has 25,192 total points, which is just slightly behind Kobe Bryant with 25,208 points.

But this story is not over.

· With 32 games remaining this season Kobe has already played in 997 games. West has played in 65 fewer games, at 932 games.

· The three pointer was implemented in 1979, unfortunately for Jerry West his career ended 5 years earlier. If West had a 3-point line and shot the same percentage of threes and made the same percentage as Kobe(legitimate since careers mirror themselves so well) then he would have scored 1,250 more points. Thus putting his total at 26,342. Kobe would get there but it would take him til next season to do so.

· Kobe has played with some great players in his career but he has 1606 assists behind Jerry West, who have 4,632 and 6,238 respectively.

Kobe is a great player, but is he really as great as Jerry West? Stats don’t lie… No!

SO SLOW; Dwight

What an extremely slow day in sports! Mr. Slowsky even called to complain.

The biggest news of the day wasn’t even really news. Dwight Freeney of the Colts MIGHT play in this Sunday’s Super Bowl versus the Saints. Can we even call this news? It’s more like vague rhetorical question.

It doesn’t matter though. It’s not like Mister Limpet is coming off the other side of the defensive line. Robert Mathis is; who has 9.5 sacks to his credit. The top three duos of sackers come from the Steelers, Colts and Vikings. Three of the most stout, deep defensive teams in the league. They have enough defense to cover him absence up, if he fails to play.

Plus Dwight is a gamer. He’ll find a way to be out on the field even with the stress on his ankle. It’s the Super Bowl for gosh sakes, you only get so many shots at winning the big one. Ask Dan Marino, he’ll tell you likewise.

I guess it’s not a bad thing that it’s a slow day in sports; at least nobody brought a gun into a locker room or something idiotic like that.