June 22nd, 2008 — Auto Racing, obits
NHRA driver Scott Kalitta died on Saturday in crash during a funny car race. Scott was son of funny car superstar Connie Kalitta.
Another reminder that life is short. You can send condolences here.
I modified this post so that those hitting the front page will not see the graphics. If you decide to view the vids and pics, you are warned; they are grapic. I put them at the bottom.
June 17th, 2008 — Golf
Rocco Mediate, Tiger Woods at Trophy Presentation of U.S. Open at Torrey Pines — LA Times
Seems I am not the only one who is tired of “Tiger Worship”. Some people commenting on this article from BBC’s Ian Carter, seem to be just as annoyed as I am about it.
June 16th, 2008 — Golf
June 16th, 2008 — Golf
UPDATE: Sudden death live blogging here
After 14 holes, the U.S. Open playoff is back to even. Tiger had a three stroke lead and has lost it. Rocco Mediate has birdied the last 2 of 3 holes, and Tiger Parred two and bogied the 14th.
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June 16th, 2008 — Golf
Tiger birdied the 72 hole to force a playoff with Rocco Mediate, after blowing a 2 shot lead to start the day.
If Rocco wins, he will be the oldest Major, and oldest first time Major winner in history. He will also break Tiger’s streak of having never lost a tourney when leading after 54 holes.
Tags: usga, tiger woods, rocco mediate, u.s. open, torre pines
June 14th, 2008 — Golf
Bob Costas must be a complete idiot. Today on the coverage of the U.S. Open at Torre Pines he decided to make a joke about Tiger Woods’ “swing coach”, Hank Haney that was offensive. Another in a long line of stupid comments made by announcers. Horrible coverage.
June 14th, 2008 — obits
I grew up listening to Charlie Jones call Football games. It is sad that he has passed. He had a good run. He died in La Jolla, at home of a “Heart Attack”. Our best wishes go out to the Jones family.
“He said, ‘I never felt like I ever went to work,’” Ann Jones said Friday. “He loved it. He said, ‘I’ve got the best seat in the house.’ “
Charlie Jones make the current crop of “sports casters” look like amateurs. It’s sad that today’s broadcasters are more concerned with making their liberal bosses happy; instead of putting on a good broadcast.
Tags: charlie jones, football, golf, nbc, nfl, dick ebersol
June 7th, 2008 — Horse Racing
Big Brown failed to win the Belmont and thus the Triple Crown. He also made history as the only Belmont favorite to finish dead last.
“I had no horse” said Jockey Kent Desormeaux. “I cannot fathom what kind of freaks the Triple Crown champions were.”
Da Tara went wire to wire and won the race just as Big Brown had won the previous races by multiple lengths. It was a magnificent display.
Early on Big Brown was fighting Desormeaux. It appeared that the horse was ready to make a move to the front before it was time. In the turns Big Brown was sometimes as much as 5 and 6 wide.
Coming into the final turn it was clear that Big Brown was another beaten favorite in the Triple Crown chase. Desormeaux decided to pull up Big Brown and not risk injury.
You have to wonder about a Da Tara, Curlin, and Big Brown match up at the Breeders Cup or possibly the Travers. This would be a huge race.
The second guessing will begin for Trainer of Big Brown, Rick Dutrow. Did the patch applied yesterday hold? Was the horse really ready or was it IEAH’s greed that put him in the race? How will this affect Three Chimneys where Big Brown is to stand stud , now that the horse has faltered? Will Breeding begin now or after he has proven himself?
Many, no doubt are glad to see Big Brown lose. In what some called arrogant and un-gentlemanly behavior of both Dutrow and IEAH, owner of Big Brown; both had angered much of the racing community.
I would guess that Edgar Prado is most happy that they lost. Dutrow and Michael Iavarone — head of IEAH — had accused Prado of deliberately going after horses to throw big races.
Many of the Kentucky Derby, and Preakness horse connections are most likely wishing they had run the Belmont, now.
I myself would have like to have seen a Triple Crown. If IEAH had any sense it could have buoyed the sport and put it back on the map. Oh well, there is always next year. Where is that Fasig-Tipton 2 year old sale brochure?
Tags: big brown, da tara, belmont, triple crown, rick dutrow
May 25th, 2008 — Auto Racing
The Indy 500 is over, and there are some conclusions we can make. In general these apply to most sporting events, but racing seems to be suffering the most.
1. Eye Candy belongs on the sideline in skimpy bikinis or lingerie. They do not belong anywhere with a microphone pretending to be reporters. Anyone else tired of bimbos with microphones? I am.
2. The booth announcers are idiots.
“Danica with the fire that burns within her. The fire that burns deep inside of her.”
That idiotic comment was made after the ‘eye candy’ “interviewed” overexposed Danica Patrick.
Danica was ambushed while walking to somewhere, and made the comment that it was a good thing she was held back from ‘talking’ to a driver who she had a grievance with.
Ooooo I am so scared that Danica Patrick is gonna get all up in my grill. Pathetic.
3. Networks are clueless about “entertainment” or sports. The constant push to put women in positions of being announcers and interviewers because of their liberal “conscience” (read guilt), is ruining sporting events (among other things). This is an extension of the “doing good” mentality, which is them trying to fix us; since they believe we are broken.
I am so sick of no-nothing, airhead, bimbos, who are looking to move on anyway to a “film career” working as “reporters.” They don’t even take the time to get the basics of the sport they are covering memorized. Asshats.
4. Brent Musburger is a jackass, no-talent, overpaid clown. His desperate attempts to interject “drama” into the wrap up are more pathetic than his commentary during the race. Granted he is worse when covering football, however that does not make me feel any better.
Maybe we have too many broadcasts, period? Or is it that the lack of talent is more noticeable now that we have so many shows? Maybe it’s the lack of quality due to the liberal guilt promotions of un/under-qualified women into positions in front (and maybe behind) the camera that are causing thins issue.
Whatever the reason, watching sports these days is painful.
Tags: indy, indy 500, car racing, auto racing, formula 1, formula one, indy car, nascar
May 9th, 2008 — Off Beat
the golfcross ball — yes it’s oval
No I am not kidding. Some guy in New Zealand decided to that he could enjoy Rugby on the Golf Course. It’s called Golfcross. I have no clue why.
You can see a video of some “golfers” playing it here. They even have a site on the internet: Golfcross home page. This of course proves they have made it. This of course leads to a Golfcross Championship.
Tags: golf, rugby, golfcross, new zealand
