Hello, Sports Fans
April 26, 2006
Another randomish sports posting for all you couch jockeys out there.
News Flash: It appears that Ricky Williams has a bit of trouble with regard to marijuana. Ok, he has a big problem. He's been suspended for the entire 2006 season. In case you are scoring at home, that's 4 violations of the substance abuse policy for Ricky.
"Hey, Ricky! I'll pay you a bajillion dollars to take this football and run with it every Sunday. Whatdya say?"
"I'd love to man, but this weed is sooooooo good."
Somewhere, Mike Ditka is stringing up a noose.
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I may just have found a team to get me out of my funk. Since moving to Montreal, I have followed the Canadiens (known as the Habs locally) as much as I can. Now, here is a team I can get on board with: They have won 29 Stanley Cups. 29.
29.
Not much was expected of them before the playoffs, but that is history after they shelled Carolina in games 1 and 2. Game 3 is tonight in Montreal. Go Habs!
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As much as I love the game of basketball, the basketball season ends the first tuesday in April. Once CBS cues the "One Moment in Time" montage following the NCAA championship, basketball is over. The NBA is in a sad, sad state. I tuned into a little of the Cleveland-Washington game last night, and with 2 minutes left in a tight game, the place was absolutely dead. The PA guy tried to get the crowd up, but fell flat. I never heard a PA guy have to whip up the fans at the Garden when Bird was raining threes.
The NHL is exactly the opposite to me. There is really little to watch in the regular season, but the playoffs are glue your eyelids open good. I almost came out of my skin when I saw this hit live. Ouch.
Ok, seriously. How many times did you watch that hit just now? No way you watched it less than 10 times.
Great quote by the announcer: "You can see that's not a gaze of somebody who is with us." Indeed.
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Another sign that the NBA is in trouble: The biggest story of Tuesday night was not a game recap, rather a note to let us all know that Kobe will be changing his number to 24 next year. Yawn.
This just in: Bryant jacked up 27 shots while you were reading this post.
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Dad says:
One more thing, I saw a quick line across the bottom of the screen last night that Keith Jackson was retiring. That is one voice I really hate to see go these days!
Dad
David Stone says:
Whoa Nelly!! I agree whole-heartedly about Jackson. 'course he was having a hard time seeing the field for the broadcast from what I heard. Wonder what Monday nights will be like with Kornheiser on MNF and if it will wain because of it being on cable. As usual, love your blog!
David
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Dad says:
As usual, another great post! And did you see that Toronto of the CFL is interested in Ricky! Wow, you'll get to see him run (or fly) every Sunday or
whenever they play in Canada! Hope the hockey thing works out for you as we don't get much coverage down here, except on the OLN Network..........