Month: June 2006

The Bobcats used the No. 3 pick in the 2006 draft on full time bucket-filler, part-time truck driver, Adam Morrison.

After coming into this World Cup as a favorite dark horse pick the USA is on it’s way back home after a 2-1 loss today to Ghana. There were high hopes for this team as they managed to make it to the quarter finals of the 2002 World Cup. However, for this trip to the World Cup the US managed to not win a game, it did tie one with Italy though, and score only ONE goal, two if you count Italy’s own goal. On the bright side, at least they’re not going to come in dead last as they did in the 1998 World Cup. I think it might be time for the US to find a new coach.

Well the NY Knicks keep on coming up with new ways to screw up. Their latest idea was to fire Larry Brown and replace him with GM extraordinaire Isiah Thomas. I can’t wait to see how this is going to turn out!

ESPN Link.

The Miami Heat finished off Dallas last night in the NBA Finals. I didn’t watch the game at all so I’m not sure what happened, but I did hear that Wade played well. Guess it’s Shaq riding Wade’s coattails these days, and not the other way around like most figured it would be.

England managed to tie Sweden yesterday in their final group match which gave them the top spot in the group. England was up 2-1, but giving up a goal in the 90th minute put an end to that. I hope they don’t have to play again because England is unable to beat Sweden. England did lose Owen for the rest of the World Cup to a torn ACL, but he wasn’t playing very well, and Rooney is back so it shouldn’t have much of an effect, I hope. If you’re at all interested in the World Cup, or you’re just bored and want to read something funny check out Michael Davies’ World Cup Blog.

I went to the Carolina Hurricanes Stanley Cup Parade at the RBC center last night (Pictures). It was actually better than I though it would be. Just like a giant Alive After 5 really. Plus, any time you get to drink beer in public, and you get free stuff, you’re never going to have a bad time. My new favorite player is Mike Commodore because of this:

Any player who is drinking during the parade is cool by me. You can also follow the Stanley Cup around here while it’s in the Hurricanes possession for the next year if you’re interested.

In NC State news, Sidney Lowe got his degree and has passed the NCAA recruiting test, so he is officially our new head basketball coach. Can you feel the excitement? Larry Davis and Dan Werner definitely can. So much in fact that they bolted to Seaton Hall and Florida respectively. Would have been nice if Cedric Simmons stuck around for another year but now that he is a probably lock for the lottery you cant blame him for leaving.

And lastly, something funny for all you Charlotte people.

I’ll admit I wasn’t terribly disappointed by the whole hockey experience.  I have now seen six games in my entire life and I will lay off of it from now on because unabashedly, I actually enjoyed watching it (and I was only drunk four of the six games, that was the real test).  I was wrong, it isn’t “soccer on ice;” they hit hard and they skate fast and they run plays very similar to basketball.  With that said, I’ll go see a game if the tickets are free. 

There’s a certain enjoyment to the innocence of watching a new sport you have zero knowledge of; it’s quite emancipating.  I wasn’t analyzing the finer aspects of the game; hell, I was just trying to keep up with the puck.  I even had my own version of “Why do they run it up the middle everytime?” 

By Game 5 I was even commenting on how well they were “skating” and last night I made the comment that the RBC crowd standing the entire game was a local college thing a full three minutes before the announcer made that exact same parallel.  I still have no clue what icing is and I’m ok with that. 

Most importantly, it’s always rewarding to find additional ways of reminding Canadians just how inferior they are to Americans, particularly Southerners.  There’s good reason they’ve all moved down here.  “We stand on guard for Thee,” my fat, white redeneck ass. 

Oh yeah, I’m glad it’s over, eh.  Now take down your car flags yankees.

Edmonton comes back to Raleigh tonight to face the Hurricanes in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals. Edmonton brings the series back to Raleigh after completely dominating the Canes in Game 6. Choking seems to be the rave of late in sports, see Phil and the Mavs, so hopefully the Canes can put an end to this. After the Canes performance in Game 6, I’m guessing the Cup goes back to Edmonton, but that’s just my opinion (I’m a State fan, we’re negative by nature).

If the Canes win, it’ll be the first professional sports championship for the state of NC, if they lose, everyone goes back to waiting for ACC Football and Basketball.

The United States has played 2 games and scored one goal. They wouldn’t have scored that one if Manu Ginobli’s twin brother hadn’t booted the ball into his own goal, and the US is supposed to be the 5th ranked team in the world?

Based on my extensive knowledge of soccer and my keen observation of the World Cup this far, I have come up with my own “Futbol Top 10”

1. Germany – They have home field advantage in the biggest soccer tournament there is, they must’ve had some kind of regular season.
2. Brazil – Because they usually win
3. Argentina – My boy Pablo was from Argentina and he was the best soccer player I’ve ever known. Then again I didn’t have many friends that played soccer, mostly because I didn’t enjoy licking balls or getting my ass kicked.
4. Czech Republic – They beat the US so they must be the best EVAR!!!1!
5. United States – U S A U S A U S A!!!!
6. UNC-CH Girls Team – Thanks Beautiful
7. The Atanta Braves – They’ve kicked the ball around with such proclivity this summer.
8. Wilkes Central High School
9. Sisters of the Poor
10. My 4 year old cousin’s YMCA team

The US Open got underway yesterday and half way though todays play the biggest story has got to be that unless something crazy happens Tiger will miss his first cut at a major since turning pro. Tiger is coming off of a nine week layoff after his fathers death and his rust has shown. Phil was able to shoot and even par round yesterday and only trailed the leader by a shot as only one player was able to better par, Colin Montgomerie.

Edmonton was able to come to Raleigh and win game 5 on Wednesday night. The game went into overtime where Edmonton was able to score a short handed goal to send the series back to Edmonton. Game 6 is set for Saturday night.

The Heat have tied up the series with the Maverics at two games a piece after two great performances from Dwyane Wade and Shaq. Wade has finally realized that nobody on the Maverics team can stop him and he’s been taking complete advantage of the fact. The series remains in Miami with this stupid 2-3-2 format for game 5 and then will move back to Dallas for the remaining two possible games.

There have been some great games in the World Cup over the past week but the most important thing is that England has advanced to the second round with their 2-0 win over Trinidad & Tobago. The win wasn’t pretty but it got them through to the elimination round. Another spot of good news was the Rooney finally was able to play again for the first time since breaking his foot. With him on the pitch England is a different and much more effective team.

The Wufpack got their season started last night with a big come from behind win. They put together a run in the second half to get back into the game after being down eight points and with the help of the Grizzlies poor free throw shooting were able to get the game tied with 19 seconds left. Scott Frank got the ball up the floor and found Chris Hasse in the post where he was able to work one on one against his man and scored the winning basket with one second left on the clock. The Grizzlies missed a shot from half court and the Wufpack started the season 1-0.

MJ has become part owner of the Bobcats. I’m not sure what to make of this, I just hope he doesn’t lose the team in a card game.

J.J. Redick, the most over-hyped college basketball player since the last great Duke player, sometime around 2001, was arrested for driving while intoxicated Monday night.  His blood alcohol level was 0.11.  The officer charges that he had glassy eyes and strong odor of alcohol on his breath.  Redick regrets it and apologized, of course.  Krewshdjdkksjski supports him, of course.  He’s of fine outstanding character, blah blah.

This stayed on the front page of ESPN.com for all of about two hours, which is suprising, since he was not wearing a helmet.  Or maybe they just needed the space to shove Bono’s precious World Cup down our throats.  Apparently, the whole world should be in total harmony until whenever this thing ends.

Personally, I care more about having Pujols healthy and back on my fantasy roster.

Actually, there’s really no point to this post.