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| He's going for distance, he's going for speed. |
Monday, December 20, 2010
Top 5 Eagle-gasms
Yesterday, DeSean Jackson made babies with his game winning punt return against the Giants. It was the highest quality of Eagles porn, and instantly one of the best plays in the team's history, if not the best. In a nod to my other site, Top 5 List, here's my Top 5 Eagles Plays. Not moments, but plays. (Andy Reid's list would be nothing but screen passes.)
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Hockey 0/0
I love hockey. Well, more accurately I love the Flyers and everything else in the sport is a distant second. Which is the way it is for most fans. And like most fans, I'm pretty much sick and tired of the NHL's golden boys Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin being rammed down our throats on NBC and to a lesser extent Versus, and by the NHL's own PR machine. Don't get me wrong, they're Hall of Fame players, with Ovechkin being the single most exciting player in the league. Crosby, well, being a Flyers fan I simply can't stand him, but I can't deny his talents. So you'll excuse me if I don't care for HBO's "Hockey 24/7" series about the run up to the Winter Classic between the Penguins and the Capitals. I'm sure it's a good show, because HBO does everything great. I'm sure there's some interesting stuff, because they're granted unique and exclusive access.
But so what. It's the Caps and the Pens, and frankly I've had enough of both. If it were any other teams, even if just one of the teams was different I'd be much more inclined to watch. And really, it should be any two teams but the Pens and Caps. Those teams are TV draws anyway, and the Winter Classic is it's own draw. So put some good but under the mainstream radar teams or teams that struggle to draw out there instead. Give me the Sabres or Canucks hosting the event and the Predators or Thrashers as the visiting team. Penguins vs Capitals is going to get ratings on a Tuesday. Those teams aren't.
But so what. It's the Caps and the Pens, and frankly I've had enough of both. If it were any other teams, even if just one of the teams was different I'd be much more inclined to watch. And really, it should be any two teams but the Pens and Caps. Those teams are TV draws anyway, and the Winter Classic is it's own draw. So put some good but under the mainstream radar teams or teams that struggle to draw out there instead. Give me the Sabres or Canucks hosting the event and the Predators or Thrashers as the visiting team. Penguins vs Capitals is going to get ratings on a Tuesday. Those teams aren't.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Cam Do
Later today Auburn's boy wonder Cam Newton will deservedly win the Heisman Trophy. A few years from now, he may have it stripped. If he does, it will be undeservedly.
Newton, or more specifically, his dad, is under investigation for attempting to solicit money in exchange for his son's commitment to play. So far as you no doubt know by now, the only allegation is that Cecil Newton approached former Miss St. player Kenny Rodgers and said it would take $180,000 to get Cam to sign for the Bulldogs. And that that price was a 10% discount over what was shopped to other schools. No other school has been named, and there has been no connection to Auburn. Yet. And maybe there won't be. But everyone and their mother has every reason to believe (Cam's mother though, one way or another she knows) that in the near future the truth will come out and Cam Newton will be found to have been ineligible. Meaning that Auburn's 2010 dream season will be thrown out, and that he'll be asked to return the Heisman like Reggie Bush did. Bush's violations highlights how much the NCAA turns a blind eye to star college players at major programs running amok and breaking the rules. Reggie Bush was essentially paid to play, wow, quite the revelation there. It's only been going on for decades. Player payments were a huge reason for the disbanding of the Southwest Conference in the 80s, most notably highlighted by SMU's "death penalty." Earlier this year Sports Illustrated ran a great piece on agents paying players. So color me shocked that a high profile recruit, or at least his dad, shopped his wares. We half expect it. We expect the high profile players to drive cars they shouldn't own and buy things they shouldn't be able to buy. Except for the gifts that the bowls they participate in give them. But no, that's not paying players.
Anyways, Newton won't deserve to lose the Heisman. The NCAA and SEC have confirmed that Cecil Newton tried to get money, which on its own should have made Newton ineligible. But instead they decided that Cam Newton is eligible for the time being, changing the enforcement of their rules. So if the NCAA isn't going to care that Newton wins the Heisman today, then it shouldn't care that he should have to give it back years later.
So accept that trophy with pride Cam. You deserved it for what you did on the field, and the powers that be don't deserve to have the right to tell you to give it back down the road. Also, make sure to thank your dad in your acceptance speech.
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| Most people don't realize that is not John Heisman but Ed Smith. |
Newton, or more specifically, his dad, is under investigation for attempting to solicit money in exchange for his son's commitment to play. So far as you no doubt know by now, the only allegation is that Cecil Newton approached former Miss St. player Kenny Rodgers and said it would take $180,000 to get Cam to sign for the Bulldogs. And that that price was a 10% discount over what was shopped to other schools. No other school has been named, and there has been no connection to Auburn. Yet. And maybe there won't be. But everyone and their mother has every reason to believe (Cam's mother though, one way or another she knows) that in the near future the truth will come out and Cam Newton will be found to have been ineligible. Meaning that Auburn's 2010 dream season will be thrown out, and that he'll be asked to return the Heisman like Reggie Bush did. Bush's violations highlights how much the NCAA turns a blind eye to star college players at major programs running amok and breaking the rules. Reggie Bush was essentially paid to play, wow, quite the revelation there. It's only been going on for decades. Player payments were a huge reason for the disbanding of the Southwest Conference in the 80s, most notably highlighted by SMU's "death penalty." Earlier this year Sports Illustrated ran a great piece on agents paying players. So color me shocked that a high profile recruit, or at least his dad, shopped his wares. We half expect it. We expect the high profile players to drive cars they shouldn't own and buy things they shouldn't be able to buy. Except for the gifts that the bowls they participate in give them. But no, that's not paying players.
Anyways, Newton won't deserve to lose the Heisman. The NCAA and SEC have confirmed that Cecil Newton tried to get money, which on its own should have made Newton ineligible. But instead they decided that Cam Newton is eligible for the time being, changing the enforcement of their rules. So if the NCAA isn't going to care that Newton wins the Heisman today, then it shouldn't care that he should have to give it back years later.
So accept that trophy with pride Cam. You deserved it for what you did on the field, and the powers that be don't deserve to have the right to tell you to give it back down the road. Also, make sure to thank your dad in your acceptance speech.
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