Month: June 2007 (Page 8 of 14)

      Popularity of UFC amazes me

      June 17, 2007 /

      I realize I’m going to piss many people off by saying this and I don’t mean to dump on anyone’s thing, but I don’t get the UFC’s popularity, I just don’t. I don’t get how I can sit in a Buffalo Wild Wings on a Sunday afternoon and watch a UFC match on 80% of the TVs when many interleague MLB games, the U.S. Open and College World Series are on.

      Now don’t get me wrong – these fighters are awfully talented to learn many forms of MMA and have to execute moves in an octagon while another guy is trying to destroy you. However, no matter how many people try convincing me baseball and golf are boring or that the NBA isn’t the same game anymore, I’ll always take any of those over the UFC. Maybe it was the particular match I was watching, but it just looks like an uncoordinated after school fight to me (but on a bigger scale of course).

      Is this just a fad or will it only get more popular? I’d still take boxing over UFC, but am I in the minority on that? Please, someone tell me what the draw is, because maybe I’m missing something.

      General Sports

      So that’s why Leinart slipped to #10…

      June 16, 2007 /

      ESPN The Magazine recently handed the keys over to a number of different athletes and Matt Leinart took the opportunity (as a reporter) to investigate why he slipped to the Cardinals at #10 in last year’s draft.

      One of the guys he cornered was Tennessee head coach Jeff Fisher (who really seems like a standup guy, by the way). After some prodding, Fisher told Leinart why the Titans took Vince Young instead.

      Matt Leinart: Coach, seriously. Can you tell me what happened? Please.

      Jeff Fisher: Matt, do you mind if I go back?

      ML: Go back?

      JF: Yeah.

      ML: Okay.

      JF: You see, I had a grandfather who passed away 15 years ago. He lived to be about 90. And right before he died, he gave away a bunch of rare coins. I got a $20 gold piece that I use every year for the draft. It’s brought us a lot of luck over the past few years. Well, last year, we couldn’t make a decision. So I threw this coin in the air. You were heads, Vince was tails — and it came down tails.

      ML: So my career was decided on a coin toss?

      JF: Matt, I don’t know what else to say.

      ML: There’s nothing left to say, Coach.

      If true (and I think it is), that’s a pretty amazing story.

      NFL, NFL Draft

      Redskins’ rookie takes paintball in junk

      June 15, 2007 /

      Yeah that’s right – I’m not joking about the title of this blog. Washington Redskins rookie safety LaRon Landry recently took a paintball to the twig and berries, forcing him out of a team mini camp practice Friday.

      I’m not laughing, because I can only imagine how taking a ball of paint traveling about 205 mph to the groin would feel. However, I’ve got to chuckle thinking about how the NFL wants teams to be more specific about disclosing injuries this year:

      Redskins’ injury report for Week 7: LaRon Landry – questionable (paintball to groin).

      NFL

      Fantasy baseball: public enemy #1 to MLB union

      June 15, 2007 /

      Attorneys for MLB are trying to argue that online fantasy baseball companies should not be able to operate without paying license fees to the league. Apparently MLB is worried about players not being properly compensated for the use of their names.

      Here’s a question – How much money does the league and its players get off of all the video game rights, jersey sales and bobble heads? Now everyone wants to get paid off of fantasy sports too? Hey, newsflash MLB: fantasy sports have been around for over a decade and a half. People used to run leagues and calculate scores by using the stats out of newspapers, so don’t try to use this as a cash cow now that fantasy sports are huge. As if baseball doesn’t have enough issues with, oh I don’t know, maybe players freaking cheating! No, lets concentrate on making sure online fantasy companies have to pay royalties to use the players’ names, because God forbid players aren’t getting paid enough now.

      Deadspin.com had a great idea to get around all of this:

      “With the first pick of the draft, I take Alex Hodrigues, shortstop for the New York Spankees.”

      MLB

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