Blog Posts For: April 2009

I am very excited to watch the Los Angeles Lakers and the Cleveland Cavaliers play in the NBA Finals. I want to watch Kobe and LeBron do battle. I want to see if this is the season James is able to bring home a championship to the much maligned Cleveland sports scene or if Kobe is able to prove that he could win a title in tinsel town without the Big Diesel. The only problem is that I have to wait for two months of meaningless prologue to dispense before I get to see the seven game series.

Monday morning Chicago sports fan went that extra mile to prove that the fair city deserved the first local ESPN page, ESPN Chicago. According to the Chicago Tribune, disturbingly motivated fans placed a severed goat head outside of Wrigley Field in what can safely be hypothesized to be an attempt to end the Curse of the Billy Goat.

Not too long ago Broadway’s struggle was so noteworthy that Saturday Night Live lampooned the entire situation.

How would you like to have a team in the early ‘90s with Michael Jordan and John Stockton as your backcourt and David Robinson as your starting center? How would you like that team to be coached by Jerry Sloan? Well that, and famed Rutgers Women’s basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer, is the team headed to the Basketball Hall of Fame on September 10, 2009.

While the Big East certainly proved it was the best conference in the land with five teams making it to the Elite Eight and two teams making it to the Final Four, the conference failed to put a single team in an NCAA Tournament championship. Instead, representatives from two of the most down-trodden major conferences of the year, the Michigan State Spartans from the Big Ten and the North Carolina Tar Heels from the ACC, are taking their place. This match up is a surprise, but it is hardly a big shocker.

The outrageous numbers of the steroid era are gone, though thanks to New York Yankees whipping boy Alex Rodriguez the sport continues to be tainted with PED residue, and now I have to wonder: Who is the most dangerous bat in the league?