Welcome Back

So it will be the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals. Despite the fact that Detroit has let me down once again, I am somewhat glad that these two will be squaring off. It is good for the NBA. This match up will bring back all the dads that abandon the NBA once Mike left. I think that is good for the NBA that these two illustrious franchises are prominent. It does not help the NFL when the Cowboys suck nor does it help the MLB when the Sox or Yanks aren't in contention. After reading a book on the Celtics, it was hard to imagine them at the pinnacle of the basketball world for so many years. After all I missed the Bird years so I have never seen the Celtics actually in contention but once a few years back. It will be an interesting Finals. I do not think that Kobe and Pau can take Boston's Big 3. The X-factor is Odom. If he comes to play then Boston will have their hands full. 

Prediction: Boston in 6!

Horrible Discovery

I recently discovered southparkstudios.com and I have to admit that I wish I had not. I have spent the last few days watching the show that I absolutely love. Even though it pokes fun at just about everything, you have to laugh at it, most of the time you can not help it. I love watching the episode in which the boys mistake the Lord of the Rings for Back Door Sluts 9. Also, the little league one is priceless. Check out the site, but I am warning you that it is a addicting. 

The Sh*t Hath Hit the Fan

What is going on at USC? Two incidents at the school within a year. I don't know what can come of it but it's not good. They have to investigate this. Mayo is sitting in hot water. He all but admitted his guilt on OTL the other day. He received vast amounts of money while in high school and at USC. I will hold my opinions on this until something is handed down, either in the form of sanctions or vindication for the program. Either way you look at it, it's gonna get pretty bad.

I also watched Buzz Bissinger on Costas Now. WOW! That was bad. I agree with him in the sense that people do resort to blogs rather than real columnists. Honestly, I read more columns than blogs. Hell the only blog I read on a regular basis in Catsam's blog. I write about sports and like all sports fans I have bias opinions, does not mean that I don't respect these athletes. I do believe that this "hardcore" bloggers such as DeadSpin, often steer from fact and would rather substitute opinion rather than fact. I am actually going to the College World Series with Buzz Bissinger and look forward to talking with him....

Huh, interesting...

The other day I watched a show on t.v. talking about how the Big 12 will be loaded with quarterbacks this semester. I think that they will, starting with returning Offensive P-O-Y Chase Daniel. I think that he is overrated and I personally think that I could out run the 5'10 built the same way as Roethlisberger type QB. I think Todd Reesing of Kansas is better as well as Graham Harrell. I was talking to my friend about this claim and he made an interesting point to be about Daniel. Apparently in high school at Southlake Carroll, he was involved in a steroids scandal. I do not know the particulars of the scandal but, I do remember a friend of mine who went to high school in Dallas telling me the same thing. I wonder why that has never been mentioned? Perhaps because he comes from the football utopia that is Southlake Carroll. I think so....

FYI

Last week's UEFA Champions League semi-final match between Chelsea and Liverpool for the right to play in Final was epic. Chelsea won 3-2 and 4-3 on aggregate. The game aside, I'd like to make one distinct point, the match was viewed by 1.2 BILLION worldwide. 1.2 BILLION! Keep in mind that it was only  a semi-final match. That should be a testament to soccer's significance...

Something Quick

Call it blasphemy but I absolutely do not like Ladainian Tomlinson(I'm not apologizing for misspelling his name). Even though he is the pride of Waco University and TCU but he really needs to shut his mouth. The bane of his existence is the New England Patriots, most especially Bellicheck. He constantly jumps at the opportunity to bash them. It started last year when the Chargers hosted the Pats and he was upset at Ellis Hobbs for mocking Merriman's dance. There is one way to shut them up, WIN! The rules of trash talking are simple: win and you can, lose and you can't. Besides who was the one who couldn't play in the AFC title game? Rivers had a blown knee and he put up one hell of a performance. 

Another item, Kobe wins the MVP. Well deserved but I still have to make the argument for Chris Paul. He single handily brought the Hornets from obscurity to 2-0 up on the Spurs. Only an absolute basketball junkie could name their starting line-up and you would be lying if you said that you even knew who David West was. Hats off to Kobe nonetheless but I think Chris Paul was more worthy this year.