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(as if there's not already enough people doing this)Sunday, January 15, 2006
Weekend
College Basketball
There are only 3 undefeated teams in college basketball, and they all remained so this weekend. Pitt just be Louisville, and yesterday Florida beat some worthless team from the SEC (it doesn't really matter - everyone's horrible except Florida - and they haven't really played anyone yet, so it's hard to tell how good they really are.)
Duke, the other undefeated team, beat Clemson on the road Saturday. Clemson managed to put on possibly the worst free throw shooting exhibition I've ever seen. They managed to make only 6 of 22 free throws in a 10-point loss. That's 27% from the line. At one point in the game, they were 3 of 14, I believe, when Mike Patrick said to Len Elmore, "I think you could drop-kick three in." It seemed to even rub off on J.J. Redick, who missed 4 free throws himself (12 of 16), and he usually goes a month or more without missing four. Four misses in one game is unheard of, and I believe a first for him at Duke.
How about this - on the same day (Saturday), Kansas, North Carolina and Kentucky all lost at home. This has to be an extremely rare occurence - first of all that all three of these teams lose on the same day, but also all three at home, that's even more amazing. Granted that all three teams are not quite what they usually are this year, but still it's somewhat shocking. Kansas lost to Kansas State for like the first time in 12 years, I think. North Carolina, also a young team, lost to a dangerous Miami team. And Kentucky continues their slide, losing their third in a row, this time to Alabama, who's missing their best player for the rest of the year. They were not great when they had him, and so a loss by Kentucky at home to an even lesser Alabama team says even more about the shape Kentucky is in at this point in time. And it doesn't look like it's going to get much better - that was their 2nd in a row at home, so they still have to go on the road, too.
NFL
As usual, I could care less about the NFL until the playoffs start (and really don't care significantly more even then, but watch nonetheless.) It seemed everybody was talking up the Patriots again, who had gotten hot again at the end of the regular season. However, they promptly lost to Denver with 5 turnovers Saturday night. The team most people seemed to be picking, though, was Indianapolis and Peyton "can't win the big one" Manning. Well, the nickname still holds true as the Steelers knocked off the Colts this afternoon. I actually feel bad for Tony Dungy and hated to see him lose, although I didn't mind the rest of the Colts losing at all. He seems like a good guy and has had a rough month or so, and you'd like to see him have successs.
Manning, however, I don't feel bad for, especially after his post game comments. He made a statement that he was "trying to be a good teammate, but let's just say we had some protection problems." In other words, it was the fault of my offensive line that we lost. Very classy. I guess that's why they never could beat New England when it mattered. And perhaps the offensive lines at Tennessee from 94 to 97 were equally bad, since he never could win the big one against Florida. Why didn't he go ahead and blame it on the kicker, too? And the defense? And the coaches? If only the rest of the team was perfect like Manning. You'd think after so much experience losing big games, he might have learned to be a more gracious loser. Instead, I guess he'll just have to settle for being a loser.
Jared
So I'm watching the NFL Today postgame after the Steelers-Colts game, and Greg Gumbel introduces Jared the Subway guy in the studio there. He has Subway sandwiches for all the NFL Today guys. I think the show was sponsored by Subway or something.
Here's the thing - enough already with Jared. Okay, so he was real big, ate a bunch of Subway sandwiches and lost a bunch of weight, and now he's thin. But didn't that happen like 10 years ago? Do I have to hear about it for the rest of my life? Is he ever going to go away?
There are only 3 undefeated teams in college basketball, and they all remained so this weekend. Pitt just be Louisville, and yesterday Florida beat some worthless team from the SEC (it doesn't really matter - everyone's horrible except Florida - and they haven't really played anyone yet, so it's hard to tell how good they really are.)
Duke, the other undefeated team, beat Clemson on the road Saturday. Clemson managed to put on possibly the worst free throw shooting exhibition I've ever seen. They managed to make only 6 of 22 free throws in a 10-point loss. That's 27% from the line. At one point in the game, they were 3 of 14, I believe, when Mike Patrick said to Len Elmore, "I think you could drop-kick three in." It seemed to even rub off on J.J. Redick, who missed 4 free throws himself (12 of 16), and he usually goes a month or more without missing four. Four misses in one game is unheard of, and I believe a first for him at Duke.
How about this - on the same day (Saturday), Kansas, North Carolina and Kentucky all lost at home. This has to be an extremely rare occurence - first of all that all three of these teams lose on the same day, but also all three at home, that's even more amazing. Granted that all three teams are not quite what they usually are this year, but still it's somewhat shocking. Kansas lost to Kansas State for like the first time in 12 years, I think. North Carolina, also a young team, lost to a dangerous Miami team. And Kentucky continues their slide, losing their third in a row, this time to Alabama, who's missing their best player for the rest of the year. They were not great when they had him, and so a loss by Kentucky at home to an even lesser Alabama team says even more about the shape Kentucky is in at this point in time. And it doesn't look like it's going to get much better - that was their 2nd in a row at home, so they still have to go on the road, too.
NFL
As usual, I could care less about the NFL until the playoffs start (and really don't care significantly more even then, but watch nonetheless.) It seemed everybody was talking up the Patriots again, who had gotten hot again at the end of the regular season. However, they promptly lost to Denver with 5 turnovers Saturday night. The team most people seemed to be picking, though, was Indianapolis and Peyton "can't win the big one" Manning. Well, the nickname still holds true as the Steelers knocked off the Colts this afternoon. I actually feel bad for Tony Dungy and hated to see him lose, although I didn't mind the rest of the Colts losing at all. He seems like a good guy and has had a rough month or so, and you'd like to see him have successs.
Manning, however, I don't feel bad for, especially after his post game comments. He made a statement that he was "trying to be a good teammate, but let's just say we had some protection problems." In other words, it was the fault of my offensive line that we lost. Very classy. I guess that's why they never could beat New England when it mattered. And perhaps the offensive lines at Tennessee from 94 to 97 were equally bad, since he never could win the big one against Florida. Why didn't he go ahead and blame it on the kicker, too? And the defense? And the coaches? If only the rest of the team was perfect like Manning. You'd think after so much experience losing big games, he might have learned to be a more gracious loser. Instead, I guess he'll just have to settle for being a loser.
Jared
So I'm watching the NFL Today postgame after the Steelers-Colts game, and Greg Gumbel introduces Jared the Subway guy in the studio there. He has Subway sandwiches for all the NFL Today guys. I think the show was sponsored by Subway or something.
Here's the thing - enough already with Jared. Okay, so he was real big, ate a bunch of Subway sandwiches and lost a bunch of weight, and now he's thin. But didn't that happen like 10 years ago? Do I have to hear about it for the rest of my life? Is he ever going to go away?
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I saw the PC with manning and just rolled my eyes. I'm a huge Bronco fan - since I was 6 years old, So Elway is next to Jesus Christ for me.
Say what you will about Elway and losing those super bowls - he never pulled that junk. Although Elway was 5-1 in AFC championship games....
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Say what you will about Elway and losing those super bowls - he never pulled that junk. Although Elway was 5-1 in AFC championship games....
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