Here's the best sports headline, found on ESPN.com, that I have seen in a while: "Pens turn to Satan for Game 5, bench Sykora." The most amazing sports feat I have stumbled upon in sometime comes from Trinity, Florida, where high school senior Patrick Schuster has thrown four consecutive no hitters. In Bayonne, New Jersey, Mackenzie Brown threw a perfect game in her town's little league. There's about sixty such perfect games a year in little league. What distinguishes Brown's feat is that she, as the pronoun might have clued you in, is a girl. I got a chuckle out of the Raiders selecting Maryland receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey with the number seven pick. It's very much a Raiders pick, in that he tested that fastest forty in the combines and, in the spirit of former first rounders Todd Marinovich and Sebastian Janikowski, nobody foresaw this guy as an early pick. Both ESPN analysts graded the selection an "F." The best part about the Red Sox sweep of the Yankees was Jacoby Ellsbury's steal of home in last night's game. I suspected, and confirmed, that I witnessed--in between breaks selling hot dogs--the last time a Red Sox player (Billy Hatcher) made a straight steal of home without the benefit of a squeeze or a double steal. I assured a fellow boxing fan that there was no way Carl Froch would defeat Jermain Taylor in their 168-pound title fight. It sure looked that way, and then in the last round--with 14 seconds left to be exact--Froch stopped Taylor with a TKO.
Could it be.....SATAN!!!
This was a tough weekend for televised sports as the weather was so damn awesome! Staying in to catch all or even some of it was a challenge.
But, the Sox/Yankees games were great! Playoff ball in April. Nice.
In between, two great Celtics games on opposite ends of the spectrum. Stanley Cup action, the NFL draft (including said head scratching Raiders picks - shockagh) and, for those inclined to the sickness, some great college lacrosse.
Also caught something lamely named "Toughman". But I liked it. Two big jamokes punching the living $hite our of eachother. Not much skill but certainly fighting.
The draft. Pretty good.
http://blogs.wsj.com/dailyfix/2009/04/25/2009-nfl-draft-first-round-diary-4-pm-et/
The Mavs may actually win a playoff series. Yay.
The Cowboys drafted a bunch of spares. Sigh.
At least you got rid of Owens. That's a step in the right direction.
Going to be great watching him implode the Bills twice a year.
I think Dallas put themselves in a horrible position by having no day-1 picks in the draft. Cutting Owens is probably addition by subtraction. But they will certainly field a less talented team in the Fall. Though it's worth noting that several teams that didn't have spectacular talent have recently won Super Bowls, those teams weren't coached by Wade Phillips.
It could easily be argued that, with all other things considered, a team’s defense goes as their defensive backfield goes. The Patriot’s defense has in the last few years or more been a good example of that as it’s been a patchwork crew at best responsible for guarding against a league trend to abandon the run and zero in on the passing attack using big fast able handed receivers.
So they are either continuing the madness by jettisoning Hobbs as they did with Samuels or they are supremely confident that the veteran guys they got already and the new guys they got in the draft are going to remedy their D backfield problems.
