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Jeremy Lin channels his inner Jimmer

Ross Grant — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:16:53 +0000

If there’s one chink in Jeremy Lin’s armor it would be his assist to turn-over ratio. Just kidding folks, why should ESPN get all the controversy, we need the publicity too! My dream is that someday, someone may actually read this blog. Anyhow, back to basketball, what a heck of a game yesterday afternoon. Two weeks ago you’d never even fathom saying that about a Knicks game! With 28 points Sunday afternoon, against a Mavs team not known for it’s defense, Lin got the public stage to channel his inner Jimmer — and boy did Jeremy respond! If there is a clutch gene, he’s got it, rattling in a couple key 3-pointers down the stretch run. All that was missing was Marv Albert bellowing, “Lin, with the dagger!”.

Douchebag of the year – John Elway!

Ross Grant — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 03:40:41 +0000

Popular among Tebow haters on ESPN and other so-called sports networks such as FOX, CBS and NBC – is talk of John Elway being one of the “greatest quarterbacks of all time”. For those of you young enough not to recall the Bronco’s heyday, don’t let them pull the wool over your eyes. Yes, there was a golden boy, and his name was John Elway. But Golden Boy never won a Super Bowl and was choke city for the most part. Elway was destined to become your typical highly touted #1 draft day disappointment. Until that great day, the day the Broncos drafted Terrell Davis from virtual obscurity in the sixth round of the 1995 draft. In case you don’t know the rest, Elway finally won a Superbowl, and now believes he’s a great GM.

Tebow – All he does is win!

Ross Grant — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:23:17 +0000

Addazio Must Go!

Ross Grant — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:51:14 +0000

Just when you thought Ron Zook was the biggest cretin to ever walk the Gator’s sideline, in two short seasons Steve “Carl” Addazio has taken the Gator’s high-powered offensive and reduced it to the laughing stock of the SEC. Never have I seen such gross incompetence since Houston Nutt managed four SEC losses, and a drubbing in the Cotton Bowl at the hands of Missouri. All this with both Felix Jones and Darren McFadden in the same backfield. Nor is the current Gator’s squad lacking in talent as well. Carl just can’t seem to find a way to get speedsters Demps and Dubose the ball. Their top-flight receiver, Carl Moore, only touches the ball on third downs. The key to Addazio’s inane offensive play-calling is this, “The running quarterbacks run, the passing quarterbacks pass”. So opposing defenses can just “pin their ears back” and rush Brantley, or simply fill the box and stuff Burton. What happened to the Gator’s high-powered West Coast style offense? Well it vanished around the same time former offensive coordinator Dan Mullen accepted the head-coaching job at Mississippi State. Coincidence, I think not. This is not saying Addazio doesn’t have a place in football. His best option would be to follow former Gator lackey Ron Zook’s path to a mid-level Big 10 team. Addazio is definitely Big 10 material. But as far as bigtime SEC football, he’s simply out of his league. For the sake of Gator Nation and College Football, Addazio must go!

America’s Game

Ross Grant — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:56:08 +0000

“I make my living off the evening news. Just give me something-something I can use. People love it when you lose, they love dirty laundry!”, once sung by an American artist before he sold out to Walmart. Interesting that the Major League Baseball steroids non-issue, a decade too late, is coming to a head during an election year. Imagine that. Hey Republican stiffs, we love home runs, we don’t want snakes and sparklers! We want whistling bungholes, spleen splitters, whisker biscuits, honkey lighters, Hüsker Düs and don’ts! Cherry bombs, nipsy dazers, with or without the scooter stick … and at least one Whistling Kitty-Chaser!! Hey, we all loved the home-runs in the 90s. Especially the owners that whisked the cash out of our working class pockets like a slick carney hustler. Now they want to sucker us in twice by making us believe that, ten years later, they give a shit about the integrity of America’s game. Well they don’t, they just want to get re-elected.

David Wells on the pussification of baseball

Ross Grant — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:50:20 +0000

Padres pitcher David Wells was suspended seven games for his outburst in last Saturday’s match-up against the Braves. He was matter-a-factly ejected for arguing balls and strikes. Apparently Wells did not see eye to eye with umpire Ed Hickox. He subsequently fired a ball at the backstop and had to be restrained by teammates and coaches. When questioned about the suspension handed down Wells stated, “Pretty soon we’re all going to put skirts on … we’re all going to play softball”. He went on to say, “They’re going to make us throw underhand … if you throw overhand, you’ll get a 20-game suspension.” Some of the most colorful baseball quotes this year! Although sexist in nature, I can see Boomer’s point. When political correctness gets out of hand in sports, we need a ”man show” man like Wells to balance things out. And besides, it really is getting to the point where “you can’t do anything”. The NHL lets their players slug it out with each other, right there on the ice. Heck, in baseball a manager can’t even have a little sand-kicking fun with an umpire. But really, every dark cloud has a silver lining. Sure it’s seven days, but actually that’s only one start. And fortunately, it’ll give Boomer 4 days to detox from his forthcoming 3-day bender.

2007 MLB homerun derby

Ross Grant — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:39:32 +0000

None of today’s homerun derby contestants could knock one into McCovey Cove? Maybe at next year’s derby the league should make corked bats and ephedra mandatory! The MLB homerun derby has naturally evolved into a non-event and has gone the way of the NBA’s slam dunk competition. It started out cool, but has now become a mind-numbingly boring waste of time. It should be replaced with some other type of non-sport. How about a hot-dog eating, poker playing, ucf style fighting, beer-swilling extravaganza? The Non-Sports Decathlon starts off as a friendly game of poker, but can break out into a street fight at any moment. And all the while the contestants are chugging beer to gain extra points. Then down the most ball-park style hot-dogs without blowing choad and you gain even more bonus points (and cred with your homeys). The winner of the non-sport decathlon will not only win the coveted Pewter Medal (precision crafted by the Franklin Mint), but will also have their choice of a complementary gastric bypass, a free month at the Betty Ford Clinic or free trailer park rent paid for life. Get rid of pitchers hiding behind nets and bring on the pitchers of beer. Let the non-sports games begin!

Barry Bonds is an Allstar – the People have spoken

Ross Grant — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 02:38:16 +0000

Baseball is America’s game. Our country is about the voice of the people. What could be more fitting on this Independence Day 2007? As in the past as now, back in the days of an even more unpopular war, we didn’t listen to ”the man”. And again this time we didn’t listen to the media, Congress or the MLB brass. Mr. Selig (commissioner of MLB), regarding the former, you’ll have to find another scapegoat in your league’s quest for absolution (from the so-called steroids era). No longer will you have to waste league’s money on your own self-indulgent pursuits. America has spoken. Maybe you underestimated the intelligence of sports fans across the country. It turns out Barry Bonds is not the bad guy after all!

Baseball has moved on. The fans have moved on. McGuire has long since retired, Sosa is off the juice and batting fine. The McGuire/Sosa homerun battle is over. Face it, roids can’t turn Coke into Pepsi or perform any other miracles for that matter. Barry Bonds is still standing strong and swinging a mean bat to boot.

NBA Draft Grades 1-10

Ross Grant — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:15:08 +0000

Two stick figures in the top 10? Yi got to be kidding me! Did I just get jettisoned back in time 10 or 15 years? What are the Bucks and Kings thinking? Hey folks, the cowbell era is long gone. Milwaukee and Sacramento – F. No I changed my mind, F minus! But there’s a reason why these same teams consistently waste high round picks on bad choices. Bad teams pick high in the draft. And why is that? Because they’re bad teams (light bulb turns on). Bad records, bad management, bad trades, bad draft picks, bad organizations … the list goes on. The circular logic really makes sense here. Mamma says, “stupid is as stupid does”.

But on this night, Celtic’s Danny Ainge and his band of cretins really took the cake. I guess their thinking was that the twin towers theory never worked, so how about the “twin ball hogs” theory. Duh Danny, that’s why the Sonics unloaded Ray Allen. Not enough balls for him and Durant. And you think Pierce and Allen, the two-headed ball hog, will be a raging success in Beantown? Hopefully next year, Ainge will move into a career he can handle. Washing dishes at Larry Bird’s restaurant!

Who picked Georgetown’s Green before NCAA championship MVP Corey Brewer. Grade C (it would be a D if it weren’t a Hoya). No C minus. No, grade D, I was originally correct. But they got the best of Beantown and Durant fell into their laps, A+.

So without further ado, here are the grades 1-10:

1) Portland – Greg Oden – A
2) Seattle – Kevin Durant – A+ (the plus is for hustling the Celtics)
3) Atlanta – Al Horford and AC Law – A+
4) Memphis – Mike Conely Jr – A minus
5) Boston – F minus
6) Milwaukee – Jianlian Yi – F minus (no soup for you!)
7) Minnesota – Corey Brewer A+ (Can be changed to an A+ if they unload KG)
*Update: just upgraded to an A+ for taking my 2007 NBA steal of the draft, Cliff Chris Richard at #41.
8) Charlotte – Brandon Wright B
9) Chicago – Joakim Noah A (Perfect fit for Skiles and the Bulls)
10) Sacramento – Spencer Hawes F minus (Hey kids, just stay in school)

The grinch that stole the NBA Draft

Ross Grant — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:49:27 +0000

Wasn’t it bad enough that dictator, I mean commissioner, David Stern stole the NBA championship from the Phoenix Suns? Now the the Portland Trailblazers and mega-media giant ESPN have to ruin NBA draft day for us too? Do you not believe in “opening your presents on Christmas morning rather than Christmas eve”? Of course, we all kind of all knew that Portland was going to take Oden. But what a buzz kill. It’s a done deal. Oden’s going first. Why tune in tonight? The network that brought you the draft also stole it’s magic. Well I guess there’s always preseason football. And it can’t begin soon enough! Unless of course someone at ESPN the magazine already knows the outcome of the games.