Dean Smith
1931 ~ 2015
One of the sport’s greatest has left the court…
Dean Smith
1931 ~ 2015
Dean Smith
1931 ~ 2015
Is greed killing NASCAR?
Not long ago, stock car racing was the most-watched, most profitable professional sport in America and one of the biggest in the world (surpassed internationally only by soccer… or “football” or “futbol” or whatever). Which isn’t bad at all for a spectator sport which has humble beginnings in the manufacture and transport of illegal moonshine throughout the southeastern United States. And that is where NASCAR‘s most faithful and stalwart fans have always been found, along with its most celebrated and capable drivers.
Lately however, NASCAR seems to have forgot “who brung them to the dance”: those same longtime fans, most of whom have decades of loyalty notched on their belts. Speedway Motorsports’ owner and CEO Bruton Smith had this to say last week when it was announced that NASCAR was moving one of Charlotte’s races to Las Vegas: “When the game is over, it’ll be money, money, money… Money ...
All I’m going to say about Jason “Look At Me I’m Gay” Collins
Jason Collins is no Jackie Robinson.
In 1947 there was an institutionalized discrimination against non-white athletes playing in major league sports. Jackie Robinson broke through that barrier not because he happened to have been a black man but because he was very, very good at playing baseball.
In 2013 there is no institutionalized discrimination against gay athletes, lesbian athletes, bisexual athletes or transgender athletes.
So what does Jason Collins think he is proving by telling everyone “I’m gay”?
Does that make him a better basketball player? I thought the whole point of sports as a multi-billion dollar commercial venture was to hire the best players possible, manage the team to the best of your ability and turn a profit by winning lots of games, selling lots of tickets and letting fans buy lots of over-priced beer.
So where does “I’m gay” figure into the scheme?
I’ve worked many jobs over ...
Bastards
‘Nuff said.
Thoughts and prayers going out to the victims of yesterday’s bombing at the Boston Marathon.
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Awright, raise your hands…
…how many of y’all didn’t have your NCAA Basketball Tournament brackets thoroughly broken after this weekend?
I’m not much up to speed on sports of late. But watching the agony from brackets getting busted in full gory on my Facebook front page has been pure comedy gold!
Even though I don’t have a dog in this hunt (I would have rooted for my alma mater Elon if it had gotten into the Big Dance for the first time) I have to say: from the getgo this has been a weird weird tourney. Probably the most topsy-turvy one in recent memory....
Air Jordan: Forever young
The people who I tend to admire the most are those who stay true to themselves, but also know how to change and grow as they get older. People who don’t let time wear them down but instead become the better for it.
This is one such person…
The Knight Shift says “Happy Birthday” and wishes all the best to Michael Jordan – perhaps the greatest player that the game of basketball has ever known – on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday today!...
I don’t even keep up with football…
…and even I can’t believe what happened during last night’s Seattle/Green Bay game.
I was wondering late last night why my Facebook and Twitter pages were going crazy. Now I know.
Can’t say it any better than how one friend put it: “The NFL has become the WWE.”
If you’re still trying to figure out this mess, Mash here for ESPN’s report....
It’s Super Bowl weekend!
Oops… I forgot. Am I even allowed to write “Super Bowl”? Might get hit by the NFL for copyright infringement by not calling it the “big game” instead.
Well anyway, no matter who who’re rooting for tomorrow or even if you’re not a sports fan at all, here’s something we can all enjoy: Andy Griffith’s classic comedy monologue “What It Was, Was Football”, accompanied by George Woodbridge’s illustrations from MAD Magazine!
85-year old grandma reels in 849 pounds of marlin!
Very cool story from Down Under today…
An 85-year-old Australian woman said she “didn’t feel 85” when she reeled in a 849-pound marlin off the north coast of Queensland.
Connie Laurie, a grandmother who said she has been fishing all her life, said she was on a fishing charter trip during the weekend off the coast of Cooktown when she caught, and then released, the hefty marlin, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported Monday.
“I certainly didn’t feel 85 when I was bringing it in, I was too busy concentrating on keeping it on and getting it into the boat,” she said.
You go Grandma!! Gotta love reading about stuff like this 🙂...
“Smokin’ Joe” Frazier has passed away
Former heavyweight boxing champion Joe Frazier, better known to his many fans as “Smokin’ Joe” Frazier, has passed away at the age of 67. His death comes just days after publicly disclosing that he was fighting liver cancer.
Frazier will always be remembered as one of the greatest – some say the greatest – boxers in the sport. His 1971 bout with Mohammed Ali that saw Frazier keeping his belt would still be considered one of the most legendary matches of all time. But even that was eclipsed by the “Thrilla in Manilla” a few years later: the third and final fight between the two and the end of Frazier’s attempt to win back the heavyweight title.
But y’know, it doesn’t matter that he didn’t, not really. Joe Frazier was one of the greatest in the ring and he was a true gentleman out of it. A guy ...