No, not the University of Miami. I’m referring to the academically passable Miami in Ohio.
For those of you that don’t remember, here’s a quick recap of the Redhawks’ season ending heartbreak.
It was the 3rd period with less than a minute to go and the Redhawks had a two goal lead over Boston University. Redhawk fans could taste their first NCAA championship, so much so that I – then a Miami University student – texted my brother, telling him to turn on ESPN to see Miami win their first championship. As a Cleveland sports fan, I should’ve known that to preemptively celebrate ANY victory was as idiotic as smashing one’s face with a brick to scratch an itch. Within that minute, Boston University scored two goals, tying it up and sending the game into overtime. Boston University went on to win the championship in overtime with a goal that was deflected by a Miami defender. How poetic. Continue Reading »
Bottom of the ninth, two outs, no runners on base, and James Loney hits a soft line drive right at Cardinals left fielder Matt Holliday. That should have been the game, the Cards should have recovered from the unexpected Game 1 loss, and Adam Wainwright’s incredible performance would be rewarded with a win. But weird things happen in baseball, and last night was no exception – Holliday failed to catch the ball:
“It’s tough to swallow,” Holliday said. “Obviously, I feel terrible. But I just missed the ball. It hit my stomach. I think I can catch a ball hit right at me.”
Hopefully he’s put it out of his mind, but I’m guessing Holliday is feeling pretty crappy this morning. His blunder obviously wasn’t Bartman-esque…but it was pretty bad. So bad, in fact, that some Cards fans have lost sight of the fact that Holliday had belted a homer in the 2nd inning. From scholar “ballinyadi:”
what the hel* holiday,how could u drop a fly ball to end the game. Then u pull out ur sunflower seeds like a cocky son of a bit**. Dont sign this idiot, he COST US THE PLAYOFFS,if we woulve won yesterday we probabley wouldve won the series. thanks holiday
Yeah, ballinyadi. It’s one thing to drop the ball, but to eat sunflower seeds?!?!? Who the fuck does Matt Holliday think he is? I swear to God, if one player on the Cardinals even thinks about chewing sunflower seeds in Game 3, I’m getting on a flight to St. Louis to execute them all. Sunflower seeds?!?! The fucking nerve!!!!
[Holliday and ballinyadi comment via MLB.com]
Hollywood has already begun filming the flick “Secretariat” with an aging Diane Lane as the owner of “Big Red”, and John Malkovich as trainer Lucien Laurin.
Unlike “Seabiscuit,” the 2003 movie based on the undersized thoroughbred who buoyed the spirits of a Depression-era nation, “Secretariat” will focus on Chenery’s improbable success in the old money, bourbon-sipping world of horse breeding and the chestnut stallion’s stirring, record-shattering run for the Triple Crown. Like “Seabiscuit,” the nation’s mood — in this case, the era of Watergate and Vietnam — is key to the storytelling.
“Really, it’s Penny’s story,” producer Mark Ciardi said of Chenery, who left her life in Denver to take over ailing father Christopher Chenery’s faltering horse breeding farm 20 miles north of Richmond in Doswell.
I’ll be honest. I’m a horse racing fan. I own a panoramic photo of Secretariat winning the Belmont Stakes and I don’t have a wall long enough to hang it on. So when I tell you that this movie is going to suck, I mean it not out of spite for horse racing, but due to the fact that nobody cares about this story line.
I’d rather sit down and just watch all three of Secretariat’s Triple Crown races. For free. On Youtube. Here’s Secretariat destroying the field in the Belmont – tell me how Hollywood could possibly make this any better than the real thing.
The cultural significance surrounding a horse’s connections was already played out in Seabiscuit, and there’s not reason to try and do it again. Instead, I’d rather see something we can all relate to. The down and out degenerate gambler who is four months late on his rent, divorced, unemployed and an alcholic.
I don’t care what you say, we can all relate to that guy in some aspect.
Adding on to the pile of Florida State’s, shall we say, woeful year is the NCAA. The NCAA wants the 1st District Court of Appeals to reconsider their ruling, which kept the University from releasing documents on an academic cheating scandal at FSU.
The college athletics organization also Wednesday asked the 1st District Court of Appeal to certify the case to the Florida Supreme Court as a question of great public importance if it denies a rehearing.
Sounds like they know something we don’t know. I don’t know about you, but I’m not naive enough to believe that every college athlete has earned the academic right to be at their respective university, especially in the sport of football where winning has been placed on a far higher plateau than reading books or any of that other boring, college nonsense. If FSU were to be caught up in a cheating scandal, the shit would hit the fan and the fan in this case is Coach Bowden.
They concern a proposal to take wins away from coaches and athletes. That includes football coach Bobby Bowden, who could lose 14 victories — diminishing his chances of overtaking Penn State’s Joe Paterno as major college football’s winningest coach.
Basically if the documents get released, Bowden’s career is over. He’s presumably stayed on as the head coach of Florida State this long, despite troubling years of late, in order to take the crown from the still-coaching-a-winning-team Paterno, and all hope will essentially be lost for Seminole coach.
Me… I like my sports fair. I like my baseball players without steroids and I like my college sports without academic cheaters, so I’m all for releasing the documents. These kids have to earn the right to be on the field through the classroom. If they want to be uneducated, buffoons, then just assure them that the NFL is only a few years away.
[via ESPN]
Known for his classic cigar on the golf course, MJ won’t be smoking too much on this here golf course.
Basketball legend Michael Jordan has caused a furor at the President’s Cup golf tournament after the former Chicago Bulls player was snapped smoking a cigar at the Harding Park course in San Francisco.
The breaking of the smoking ban carries a $100 fine, however, Matt Dorsey, the spokesman for City Attorney Dennis Herrera, told the newspaper: “Just don’t expect me to ask him for it.”
Why am I bothering with this stuff? Is Michael Jordan even in the NBA anymore? I guess if you consider his management role as being a job. Can the season just start already so I can make fun of Richard Jefferson and guys that sweat a lot?
And 100 bucks? What the hell is that? You want Jordan to obey the rules? Bet him 100 million bucks and an obeying of the rules he can’t shoot an 87 on national television. Guarantee you he takes the bet.
There’s a lot to be embarrassed about in this video…
I honestly don’t know what Bills fans were expecting this year. Their organization straight out sucks, and everyone is blaming it on Dick Jauron. Don’t get me wrong, we did the coach scapegoat thing for decades here in New England, but it takes more than a new coach to get things turned around.
So for right now, Buffalo should just be content that the world loves their chicken wings, and go about their role as the Bad News Bears version of an NFL team. Burn all the jerseys you want, make all the silly fire Dick Jauron songs you want, get all the popcorn ready that you want, but things aren’t going to turn around for you guys until you’ve got a franchise quarterback that you can build a team around.
Marlins pitcher Sean West had a pretty decent rookie year, so he’s been celebrating quite a bit since the regular season ended. From Philly.com:
West was leaving G Lounge (111 S. 17th) close to 2 a.m. Sunday morning when he was involved in a bit of pushing and shoving with a few other men. The 6-foot-8 rookie then climbed into a limousine with five women, cleat chasers, who had traveled in from Florida to hang out with the Marlins.
Limo driver Big Penny, says that while driving on Locust Street near 13th, West, 23, heckled a group of men, who then surrounded the car and threatened him, while Big Penny pleaded with the angry crowd not to harm his car, a Cadillac DTS sedan. Penny says one of West’s harem then vomited in the car, traveling up 13th Street, then again on Market Street, causing him to pull over at the Robert N.C. Nix, Sr. Federal Building where Penny says the pitcher nearly passed out.
“This motherf—– was laying on the ledge with his flip-flops on,” Penny says as the girls tried to make their friend feel better.
Penny says West told him that he would pay for any cleaning, since he has a lot of money. When the limo arrived at the Hyatt Regency Penn’s Landing, where the team stayed, West got out of the car with one of the women, and said they were heading to get a towel, but also announced his intent to have sex with his companion, and never returned.
It’s pretty clear that Sean West, like the rest of us, likes to party. Getting wasted and giving the old in-out-in-out to groupies is pretty standard, though. What impresses me is that aside from Big Penny, it looks like it was just West and his gaggle of groupies – which makes it all the more awesome that he was taunting a group of dudes. He’s talking shit to a group of guys who want to beat his ass, he’s got chicks puking in his car, he can hardly stay conscious, and he ends up slaying one of the broads anyway. Forget Chris Coghlan, I think Sean West is your NL Rookie of the Year.
P.S. I wonder if this is one of the “cleat chasers….”
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Whether or not God’s Chosen Quarterback, Tim Tebow, plays this Saturday against LSU is up in the air as the Gator star has been listed as a game-time decision.
“I think that this will be a decision not made today,” Meyer said. “After yesterday’s practice, I was told to game plan with the intent that there’s a chance that Tim could play. That’s all I know. All the other stuff … we’ll make a decision as we get closer.”
Very articulate, Coach Meyer.
Meyer continued his eloquence, musing over whether or not it would be beneficial to keep Saturday night’s starter a secret.
“Is it an advantage for us not telling? I’m not worried about that right now,” he added.
Oh, he thinks it’s an advantage alright. Every coach in the history of coaching loves to mess with the opposing defensive coordinator’s head. They dream of making their rivals prepare for the wrong quarterback, or waste time preparing for both. They laugh as they fantasize about their coaching nemesis crying themselves asleep, wondering which goddamn kid is starting.
Methinks Tebow will play Saturday. The kid is a machine and I don’t think he’s going to let some pansy-ass concussion stop him.
[via ESPN]
