Apologies if Sports Nuts News is spending inordinate amounts of time praying for the unemployment of Isiah Thomas. I've been trying to put the season behind me but then, this quote Wednesday from new Knicks president Donnie Walsh:
"Yeah, I would say that we're going to go through the season because there's only four games left, and I'm going to use this period to try to take a look at the whole situation so I'm in a position to make whatever decision is going to be made — if there are any."
IF there are any?
The only decision for Knicks fans is whether to fire Isiah Thomas at the final buzzer of the season-ending game in Indiana on Wednesday or whether to wait until the press conference Thursday morning. Of course Walsh, being a knowledgeable executive and a decent person, will probably give Isiah time to contemplate the season and to explain where things went wrong. And Isiah, being a conceited and self-absorbed ostrich will likely have a number of excuses, like Starbury's inexcusable behavior, that pesky little multi-million-dollar sexual harassment suit, or how hard it is to coach in New York. Walsh can save himself some time and just read this New York magazine article, appropriately titled, "Absolutely, Positively the Worst Team in the History of Professional Sports."
To make matters worse, with a three-game winning streak in recent days the Knicks have evaded the possibility of losing a franchise-record 60 games, which is Coach Thomas's crowning achievement this season, but, with each win, they take themselves further from the top draft position in the lottery. So if we win, we lose, and if we lose.... wait. I did that bit on March 23.
Mixed Nuts:
• If Tiger wins at Augusta this weekend I suggest he just toss his hat in the ring to become the first professional golfer to win the Democratic nomination for president. What else is left? Really.
• Prediction: That New Jersey Devils machine is done, stuck in the mud, somewhere in the swamps of Jersey. Rangers in five.
• Gotta love the first couple of weeks of baseball season. At this writing, the Florida Marlins, the Baltimore Orioles, and the Kansas City Royals are all in first place. There's three teams wishing the season could end on April 30.
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Friday, April 11, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Surviving the Drought
Apologies for the long absence, sports fans. Sports Nuts News spent some time on the 30-day disabled list with a debilitating illness.
Sitting on the couch for a month during the Great Drought—that seemingly eternal period between the Super Bowl and Opening Day of MLB—isn't something I'd recommend for people in pain. You find yourself awake at 3 a.m. on a Wednesday and staring at the Venezuelan Women's X-treme Goat Milking Competition on The Deuce. (Looks like Lupe "The Tweaker" Valdez walks away with it this year.) Either that or yet another PGA invitational that should be renamed "Let's Just Give Tiger the Friggin' Trophy and Go Home Already." (Sorry, golf fans. I'm not big on golf; the athletic equivalent of checking the mail, in my opinion. But more on that in a future post.)
There's always NASCAR, but driving in a circle for six hours is only interesting to me when one of the cars has fewer than four tires touching the pavement. I tried to watch the Auto Club 500 from the California Speedway in Fontana on Feb. 24. The race started late because of rain and was delayed almost constantly due to the bad weather. There were so many flags, it looked like the U.N. had exploded. By lap 82 they'd already had seven cautions and they finally stopped the thing at 2 a.m. and postponed it to the next day. It was finally won by Carl Edwards, who, I think, wrote "Blue Suede Shoes."
Well I'm back on my feet and getting ready for March Madness and Championship Week. On the local front, it was good to see Albany's Siena Saints clinch a berth; winning the Metro this week by riding Rider 74-53. Looking forward to Orange vs. Nova this afternoon. But the most fun I've had is watching UNC-Asheville's 7-foot-7, 360-pound center, Kenny George, the country's tallest player. George has an inch and 50 pounds on Yao, half a foot and 35 pounds on Shaq, and, although he's the same height as Manute Bol was when he entered the NBA, George is nearly 130 pounds heavier than the Sudanese Skyscraper. Watching his opponents shooting futilely over his massive bulk was like watching preschoolers trying to fling rocks over a redwood tree. The Bulldogs didn't make the party this year but it may be worth catching the NIT just to see George slam without leaving the ground, and stand in the paint swatting away layups like so many gnats.
The latest Sports Nuts design...
Sitting on the couch for a month during the Great Drought—that seemingly eternal period between the Super Bowl and Opening Day of MLB—isn't something I'd recommend for people in pain. You find yourself awake at 3 a.m. on a Wednesday and staring at the Venezuelan Women's X-treme Goat Milking Competition on The Deuce. (Looks like Lupe "The Tweaker" Valdez walks away with it this year.) Either that or yet another PGA invitational that should be renamed "Let's Just Give Tiger the Friggin' Trophy and Go Home Already." (Sorry, golf fans. I'm not big on golf; the athletic equivalent of checking the mail, in my opinion. But more on that in a future post.)
There's always NASCAR, but driving in a circle for six hours is only interesting to me when one of the cars has fewer than four tires touching the pavement. I tried to watch the Auto Club 500 from the California Speedway in Fontana on Feb. 24. The race started late because of rain and was delayed almost constantly due to the bad weather. There were so many flags, it looked like the U.N. had exploded. By lap 82 they'd already had seven cautions and they finally stopped the thing at 2 a.m. and postponed it to the next day. It was finally won by Carl Edwards, who, I think, wrote "Blue Suede Shoes."
Well I'm back on my feet and getting ready for March Madness and Championship Week. On the local front, it was good to see Albany's Siena Saints clinch a berth; winning the Metro this week by riding Rider 74-53. Looking forward to Orange vs. Nova this afternoon. But the most fun I've had is watching UNC-Asheville's 7-foot-7, 360-pound center, Kenny George, the country's tallest player. George has an inch and 50 pounds on Yao, half a foot and 35 pounds on Shaq, and, although he's the same height as Manute Bol was when he entered the NBA, George is nearly 130 pounds heavier than the Sudanese Skyscraper. Watching his opponents shooting futilely over his massive bulk was like watching preschoolers trying to fling rocks over a redwood tree. The Bulldogs didn't make the party this year but it may be worth catching the NIT just to see George slam without leaving the ground, and stand in the paint swatting away layups like so many gnats.
The latest Sports Nuts design...
Friday, January 18, 2008
Sad Commentaries
Okay, how many more people are going to get into trouble because of a bad joke?
On January 4, Golf Channel commentator Kelly Tilghman made an unintentionally—but still offensive—racist comment about Tiger Woods's fellow golfers "lynching" him in order to overcome his talents in the Mercedes-Benz Challenge. It was a stupid remark that angered a lot of people, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, who called for Tilghman's job. The Golf Channel instead issued an apology and suspended Tilghman for two weeks.
Case closed, right? Not so fast.
In "covering" the flap, Golfweek magazine decided it would be a good idea to put a picture of a noose on the cover of its Jan. 19 issue. Yes, a noose.
Wow.
Tilghman can be forgiven for making an ill-advised, off-the-cuff ad lib during a live commentary. But the editor of Golfweek had to sit down and actually THINK that putting a noose—a symbol of execution, oppression, and terror—on the cover of a sports magazine would be a good idea. For that sad decision the publication's editor and vice president Dave Seanor was fired following overwhelming and almost immediate outrage from subscribers.
Can't wait to see what comes next; perhaps a Sports Illustrated cover of some hooded Klansmen setting fire to a hole flag on the 15th green at Augusta?
For a slightly less controversial golf tribute, check out today's Sports Nuts design.
On January 4, Golf Channel commentator Kelly Tilghman made an unintentionally—but still offensive—racist comment about Tiger Woods's fellow golfers "lynching" him in order to overcome his talents in the Mercedes-Benz Challenge. It was a stupid remark that angered a lot of people, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, who called for Tilghman's job. The Golf Channel instead issued an apology and suspended Tilghman for two weeks.
Case closed, right? Not so fast.
In "covering" the flap, Golfweek magazine decided it would be a good idea to put a picture of a noose on the cover of its Jan. 19 issue. Yes, a noose.
Wow.
Tilghman can be forgiven for making an ill-advised, off-the-cuff ad lib during a live commentary. But the editor of Golfweek had to sit down and actually THINK that putting a noose—a symbol of execution, oppression, and terror—on the cover of a sports magazine would be a good idea. For that sad decision the publication's editor and vice president Dave Seanor was fired following overwhelming and almost immediate outrage from subscribers.
Can't wait to see what comes next; perhaps a Sports Illustrated cover of some hooded Klansmen setting fire to a hole flag on the 15th green at Augusta?
For a slightly less controversial golf tribute, check out today's Sports Nuts design.
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