Water off a duck's back, raisins off an Oldsmobile ... what's not bothering you know.... Sports columnists who think they have a right to comment on Serena Williams' body. Shame on you, Jason Whitlock: "She'd rather eat, half-ass her way through non-major tournaments and complain she's not getting the respect her 11-major-championships résumé demands...seriously, how else can Serena fill out her size 16 shorts without grazing at her stall between matches?"
... Whoever at FOXSports.com came up with the "Jays' Halladay all but gone in Toronto" headline based on J.P. Ricciardi saying, "if something makes sense, we at least have to listen." Flimsy basis, much? New rule: If a list of teams a reporter believes someone might be traded to exceeds one-third of the league, it's straight out of Eklund country. Quoth Craig Calcaterra: "The Blue Jays ... cannot spend a decade talking about how impossible it is to compete with Boston and New York and then turn around and give them one of the best starting pitchers in baseball during a pennant race ... if it did, it would potentially kill baseball in Toronto forever, and the fact that Rosenthal spends any time on those options at all suggests that this is more of a 'throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks' column than anything else."
... Whatever possessed an Ohio sportswriter to say, "Let the rest of the world play rugby," after Team USA beat Canada in the final of the world junior football championship on Sunday. Far be it to point out Americans should be flattered some of their backwards neighbours throughout the world have taken up the gridiron game. No matter how bad the over-the-top chauvinism gets in Canada during the world junior hockey championship, you'd never catch someone saying, "Let the rest of the world play ringette."
... The rumour Leafs first-round draft choice Nazem Kadri did not put on a hat on draft day because of his Muslim faith. Brian Burke was hilarious shooting that down: None of the Leafs' choices put on a hat when called down to the podium at the NHL draft as per a team policy (Burke noted he wanted photographers to get a better shot of the players' faces), plus there were published photos of a younger Kadri wearing a Canadiens hat. Whoever started that is out of touch.
... Bob Uecker dropping hints on-air about the possibility of a Major League 4.
... idly wondering if ave people seen the blog, Tennis Has A Steroid Problem?
BT to the dub, Erin Nicks is back up and blogging at The Universal Cynic. It will get more traffic than this site without even trying, and that's OK.
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Writers should be a little circumspect when discussing a female athlete. Still, male athletes who put on weight have their physiques discussed. Poor Phil Mickelson has had his weight as a topic of discussion any number of times. It's a legitimate issue, but the whole "grazing in the stall" thing was way out of line.
It's not cool, period, end of story. Good on each Williams sibling for all the shyte they have taken over the years. The funny part is if you read some of the London papers, they're a lot more respected in England than in their own country.
As for people who snipe about them not playing all the tournaments, doesn't Tiger Woods cherry-pick the events he plays? It seems to work out well for him.
You'd never hear a Canadian say "let 'em play ringette" because begging people to like us (and to like the things we like) is a national obsession. Part of the inferior complex we have. And there's a smattering of interest in hockey in the world, but overall, the world just doesn't want it. Perhaps it would if WE were to show passion and participate in a wider variety of sports, maybe then the rivalries built would overlap and the interest of the world would come back this way. Heaven help us, July's ticking away, and absent deregulation of the airwaves and the availability of ESPN, August is sure to bring on the "hockey-hockey-hockey" focus at all the networks, interspersed with poker......CDN TV SUX
You'd never hear a Canadian say "let 'em play ringette" because begging people to like us (and to like the things we like) is a national obsession. Part of the inferior complex we have. And there's a smattering of interest in hockey in the world, but overall, the world just doesn't want it. Perhaps it would if WE were to show passion and participate in a wider variety of sports, maybe then the rivalries built would overlap and the interest of the world would come back this way. Heaven help us, July's ticking away, and absent deregulation of the airwaves and the availability of ESPN, August is sure to bring on the "hockey-hockey-hockey" focus at all the networks, interspersed with poker......CDN TV SUX
"It will get more traffic than this site without even trying..."
I laughed.
"...and that's OK."
No, it isn't.
Nah, it's all good. I'm leaving blogging to the cool kids, E.
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