I wondered after George Steinbrenner passed if things would change in the Yankees organization. Yes, his children had been "running" things for some time, but his input was still felt there and given a lot of weight. With him gone, I wondered just how much the rest of the family would keep things going along the status quo. Just how much would certain players be worth to the new organization. I think we are about to find out.
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Gordon Gee, the Ohio State University president, had some comments in the last couple of days that criticized the teams like Boise State and TCU. Gordon Gee is not a football genius, but he has had a lot of experiences with colleges. He may understand the climate of college football and he makes decent points, but he is not the correct man to voice these opinions. Everyone is thinking it, but no one who means much to the sports world has said it aloud. Should we applaud Gee's comments or should we attack him? Below is an excerpt from his rant, you decide.
"Well, I don't know enough about the X's and O's of college football," Gee proclaimed while probably standing on a soapbox in front of a large mirror. "I do know, having been both a Southeastern Conference president and a Big Ten president, that it's like murderer's row every week for these schools. We do not play the Little Sisters of the Poor. We play very fine schools on any given day.
"So I think until a university runs through that gauntlet that there's some reason to believe that they not be the best teams to [be] in the big ballgame." (Graham Watson, Fanhouse)
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The Iron Bowl. It divides a state. It divides families. It's the biggest holiday in Alabama since Thanksgiving. Scratch that, it's bigger than Thanksgiving. Black Friday can't compete with it. The shops will be only slightly more crowded than usual. Wal-Mart may be crowded early with fans decimating the drinks and chips aisles for the party. Almost every eye in the state will be on that game. The fans whose teams wins will be ecstatic. The fans whose team loses will be devastated.The rest of the season hardly matters at this point. It's all about one game. Three hours. Those three hours control how the fans will feel for the next year. It all comes down to this.
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The Heat are in disarray, the Celtics are big by committee, the Magic are trying to rework some magic in D.Howards offensive game, the Lakers are dealing with Bynum and his injuries, the Rockets have Yao's issues and Portland has rolled snake-eyes again with their top pick of Greg Oden. The injury of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar launched the career and status of Magic Johnson but why doesn't Kareem get more respect in the conversations as the greatest?
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Erick Dampier to the Heat? Is this why Joel Anthony hasn't taken off his warmups in two games? The Heat are a mess and adding Dampier is a bad game of Truth or Dare. The truth is Erick Dampier can't make it through a n entire season with out injuries. Truth Erick Dampier has been in the NBA 13 years and his stat line well its at least better than Kwame Brown's but 6'11" and career averages of 7.8 ppg and 7.4 rpg with 1.5bpg so how does this help the Heat?
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Earlier today I put up a quit post on the Dampier situation dubbed "Truth or Dare". The move went through they signed Erick Dampier and this is the beginning of the end Pat Riley has just crossed that very thin line between that of a genius and that of a insanity. For the past months everyone has been trying to figure out how Riley managed to get Bron, Wade, and Bosh all in Miami, the moves were genius. An injury to Haslem, a 77 point game total and a Dampier signed contract situation has insanity set in?
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The NBA season isn't even a month old and yet the Miami Heat have yet to get it going. The Heat have said publicly that they are on their own schedule but Clark Griswold must have coordinated this schedule next stop Wally World everyone in the "family truckster" for this quick trip back in time to what was supposed to be and what is the reality of the NBA season. So with less than 15 games played what are the fans supposed to think the Heat look like an an Alaskan winter and the right now they are looking like they are being coached by a clueless Palin at the helm of this Alaskan winter wonderland outside in shorts ready to hoop it up on that road to no where that thing was about $20Mil so money has been wasted on less then that of the Heat and their payroll.
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With Black Friday looming right around the corner I figured now would be as good as time as any to set-up a Christmas wish list for a few NBA Teams that are under-performing.
Clippers - Despite adding Blake Griffin 14 games into the season the Clippers have yet to mesh. They are scoring 10 points less then their opponents. The 3 point shooting is terrible, free throws a step above terrible they may as well let Shaq take their shots. RECOMMENDATION - 1) Keep Tony Parker away from your wife 2) XBOX with NBA 2K11 3) Hair clipper and 4) a Jordan Jammer Nerf hoop.
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Not many people want him to win. Not many at all. Jimmie Johnson could care less. He's chasing his 5th consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup title. He's trying to become only the third person to win more than four titles, joining the greats Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt. And at 35, he still has several years to go in the sport. A lot of people don't like that. We all know the other drivers don't. "No offense to him, but somebody else needs to win," says Kevin Harvick, one of the three drivers who still has a chance of winning the chase.
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This NFL season has been one unbelievable thing after another. Teams winning that shouldn’t. Teams not winning that should. Parity “apparently” across the divisions. Drama on some teams to rival reality TV. It’s just not been a season of what one would expect. But this weekend comes the rivalry game that is THE game each year, or it was. In years past, it was the game people could count on to bring the rivalry back to the NFL. This year, don’t count on it.
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