Saturday - May 05, 2007

Working Horse

This race was one for the record books ... but not for the reasons you might think. Street Sense came all the way from the back of the pack in 19th place to slip and slide his way to the finish line a good length and a half ahead of the 2nd place horse. Amazing. Simply amazing.

Which is why I couldn’t help but laugh as jockey Calvin Borel peed all over himself, crowed to his buddies and waved to the crowd as if he had actually done something other than ride one of the finest working horses I’ve ever seen.

Street Sense, all covered in mud from running in the back of that pack for most of the race and displaying no emotion or tiredness at all, allowed the silly little human on his back to crow exultantly and wave to the crowd as he plodded back to the winner’s circle with absolutely no concern whatsoever for the crowd around him.

He didn’t have the flash or bravura of Barbaro or the intimidation factor of Secretariat but he had what he needed and that’s all that counts. Watching that working-man’s horse plod his methodical way back to pick up a wreath of roses and head for the barn was a great thing to watch as the Queen Of England and all the NBC talking heads patted the jockey on the back and applauded the owners.

Through it all I had the sense that if that horse could talk he would have been saying, “What’s all the fuss about? I did what I did and that’s it. Now let’s all belly up to the bar. Drinks (and oats) are on me!”

Some winners have real character. This horse is one of them.

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   Tuesday - April 03, 2007

The Final One

March Madness is now officially over and the 2007 National Championship score is: Florida 2, Ohio State 0. The Gators swept the Buckeyes to grab TWO national championships, in football and basketball - quite an achievement, especially when you take into consideration that this is the second straight NCAA basketball championship for the same Florida team.

I congratulate the Gators on their win and to all those Damn Yankees who have told me for years that SEC stood for “Soft and Easy Conference” all I got to say is .... EAT MY SHORTS!

Florida 84, Ohio State 75
ATLANTA (AP) - Apr 2, 11:59 pm EDT

The Florida Gators took a chomp out of NCAA history with the repeat they simply had to have. Now they want more. They want to be called one of the best teams of all time. The Gators made their case Monday night with an 84-75 victory over Ohio State to capture the second straight national championship that was their only reasonable goal this season.

They became the first team to go back-to-back since 1992 and the first ever to repeat with the same starting five. “I think this team should go down as one of the best teams in college basketball history,” coach Billy Donovan said. “Not as the most talented, and not on style points—but because they encompassed what the word ‘team’ means.”

While the debate about the best teams of all time can truly begin, there is no denying that Florida’s overall athletic program is the best in the nation. This win completes a 2007 championship-game sweep of the Buckeyes in the two biggest college sports—men’s hoops and football. Florida, a 41-14 winner in the football title game in January, remains the only program in history to hold both championships at the same time.

- More ...

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   Monday - February 05, 2007

Gladiator

Today is “Blue Monday”, which I seem to recall reading recently is the one day of the year when the most employees call in sick. Who are you slackers fooling? You were up until midnight last night drinking beer, tossing down chips and watching the big foolsball extravaganza. Shame on you!

Now if you were smart, like the Ol’ Skipper here, you would have scheduled a personal day or a vacation day with your boss for today and you could have slept in with a clean conscience. Yes, I snored away until about an hour or two ago and have managed to get over the effects of watching our modern gladiatorial combat in the coliseum before Caesar and all of Rome.

Like many of you have already noted here, this year’s game was pretty good compared to recent years. The Bears of Carthage jumped out early and surprised everyone with memories of Cannae. Unfortunately, Hannibal was a no-show, probably owing to heavy snowfall in the Alps during this period of global cooling. The Colts of Gaul rallied and with Manning manning the catapult dropped long bombs all over the Carthaginians.

It was a sight to behold, especially the street vendors who kept interrupting the combat, hawking their wares of dubious usefulness. They did have a lot of colorful tricks and slight of hand to amuse the crowd while the gladiators regrouped for another go at it. The only really mysterious sight was the wandering troubadour at the break in the middle of the day’s combat. Whazzup with that stupid bandana? Ave, Caesar!

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SUPER!

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   Sunday - February 04, 2007

The Stupor Bowl

Well, the Big Day is here. It all begins at 12:00pm ET on CBS with “Road To The Super Bowl”, followed at 1:00 by “Phil Simms All Iron Team” and “Super Bowl Today” at 2:00 (which will involve four hours of dissecting everything and delving into every bit of Super Bowl minutiae possible). Finally, at 6:00pm (if you aren’t comatose by then) the pre-game show begins and sometime in the next half hour they will actually kickoff and start playing the bloody damn game.

Around 8:30 the two teams will break apart and go for a gatorade break while The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Who Is Now Known As Prince Again takes the stage and, God willing, will manage to avoid a wardrobe malfunction. At the same time 300 million toilets across the country will flush, causing a massive tidal wave to hit both oceans and awaken Godzilla for the final showdown with Mothra.

Sometime around 10:00pm, most of America will be in a coma from ten hours of football hype and 60 minutes of actual game. Because the entire country will be in a stupor and unable to comprehend what is going on in the outside world, we will awaken on Monday morning to find that Luxembourg has invaded and taken over the country.

As for the game ... the Colts are 7-point favorites but I predict the margin of victory will be much worse for Bears fans. Final score: 34-10, Colts over Bears. I will be unconscious by the time the game ends. Wake me when the commanding General of the Luxembourg Army (all 38 of them) accepts our surrender ...

_{John Cole - The Scranton (PA) Times}

The Big Game

-- by Will Durst

The two-minute warning has sounded and you can almost smell relief approaching like a cheese pretzel from drunken Raider fans two sections away. They always string it out, but this year our “get it over with already” meter is pinning deep in the red as the NFL season mercifully comes to an end on Sunday.

The Indianapolis Colts will take the field as seven-point favorites against the Chicago Bears, in what is being called the I-65 Showdown, named for the 160 miles of freeway that separates the two cities and not the average IQ of anybody who still gives a rat’s ass after two long weeks of empty hype. Do we really need to analyze the coaches’ horoscopes down to the moon signs? Throw in six-and-a-half hours of pre game coverage yet to come, and we’re talking PR OD.

Super Bowl XLI, fancy roman numeral language for 41, is being held in Miami, the same city planning to host a “Hooray, Fidel Castro has Assumed Room Temperature Party,” as soon as the khaki-clad Cuban shuffles off his mortal coil, which could be any day now. I, like CBS, pray the bearded one will have the good grace to hang on until Monday, sparing South Floridians from having to decide which supreme sporting event to celebrate. Personally, I’m rooting for Fidel to dodge the reaper’s summons and to continue to afflict US presidents with his mere presence for another II or III decades.

The Colts are fronted by Peyton Manning, VII-time Pro Bowler, who finally shot the “can’t make it to the big game” monkey off his back with the same rifle arm he used to knock down the New England Patriots way back II weeks ago when people still cared. The Bears are led by the lieutenant of lackluster, quarterback Rex Grossman, an ineffectual leader who has lucked out being associated with a finely tuned defensive machine. An athlete the White House can relate to.

But whatever you do, don’t you dare go calling it the Super Bowl. Only the NFL and carefully chosen advertisers (anybody silly enough to pony up $II.VI million for XXX seconds of airtime) get to call it that. You and I and other mere mortals trying to sell TVs or corn chips or attract customers to a bar to watch the game have to use euphemisms like “the Big Game” or “the You-Know-What-Bowl” or “the deal with those guys at that place with the thing” or risk having our butts sued off by lawyers with really expensive tassels on their loafers and MMM kilowatt smiles that scare sharks.

So, yeah, I’ll watch, mostly for the commercials, and will probably fix up a bowl of guacamole and some quesadillas, because to me, Mexican food shouts “Super Bowl.” And since neither the Packers nor the IXers are involved, I’ll root for the Colts, as their fair city has never won… anything… ever, except the record for auto accidents over Memorial Day weekend. Also because even though they’re the favorites, they’re still the underdogs, if you know what I mean.

But the best part about Sunday is right after Jim Nance and Prince put away their makeup and some VIIth of a ton, no-neck, piece of premium beef walks off the field raising a finger to the sky talking about Disneyland, only X days remain before pitchers and catchers report. And baseball season starts. And all will be right with the world.

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_{Comic, writer, actor, former radio talk show host and XXI-foot step van driver, Will Durst, already has reservations for spring training. Catch Durst in stand-up mode as part of the University of California, East Bay benefit on Saturday, February IIIrd in Hayward, California. Copyright ©2007 Will Durst, distributed by the Cagle Cartoons Inc. syndicate. Will Durst is a political comedian who has performed around the world. He is a familiar pundit on television and radio. See http://www.willdurst.com for additional information on Will’s performance schedule and listen to his twice-weekly commentaries @audible.com/willdurst. E-mail Will at durst@caglecartoons.com.}

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   Monday - January 22, 2007

Super!

The last time the Bears were in the Super Bowl was 21 years ago in 1986. Ronald Reagan was President of the US, the Chernobyl nuclear plant was about to melt down and the space shuttle Challenger was about to blow up. “Iron Mike” Ditka was coaching the Bears and they won Super Bowl XX by a score of 46-10 over the New England Patriots. The Patriots would later come back to play in four Super Bowls, winning three of them. The Bears haven’t been back to the big dance since.

The last time the Colts were in the Super Bowl was in 1969. They were the Baltimore Colts, Lyndon Johnson was about to be replaced by Richard Nixon as President of the US, Neil Armstrong was about to walk on the moon and the hippies were heading to Woodstock. Johnny Unitas was quarterback and the Colts got whupped 16-7 in Super Bowl III by the New York Jets and a rookie QB from the University Of Alabama named Joe Namath. In later years, Namath went on to make panty hose commercials and the Colts had to sneak out of town in the dead of night and run off to Indianapolis to hide their shame.

Now you know ...

  

BOOKIES ODDS
_{(TIME/CNN) January 22, 2007}

Chuck Esposito, assistant vice president of Harrah’s Entertainment Inc.’s Caesars Palace sports book, made the Colts 6.5-point favorites, giving a nod to the Bears’ defense, which had four takeaways from the Saints.

The over/under line for the Super Bowl, in Miami on Feb. 4, was set at 49 or 49.5 points, meaning book makers expect a high-scoring game and the public to root for lots of points.

“I see it as a wide open game,” said John Avello, director of race and sports operations at Wynn Las Vegas. “This is one of those games where you’ve got to score, you’ve got to put points up to win the big one.”

Las Vegas book makers were preparing literally hundreds of proposition bets, on everything from interceptions by the quarterbacks to how many tackles Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher will make in the biggest sports betting event of the year.

_{P.S. This will be the first time in history that the Super Bowl will be coached by two black coaches ... as if anyone cares about that sort of thing nowadays. When I look at Tony Dungee of the Colts, all I see are freckles and a chance to finally win the Big One after coming so close so many times. When I look at Lovie Smith of the Bears, I see one of the finest coaches in the league who is paid less than every other coach in the NFL.}

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   Tuesday - January 09, 2007

Chomp!

Florida 41, Ohio State 14 (Final)

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) - Florida—yes Florida—owned the field it wasn’t supposed to be on, embarrassing Heisman Trophy winner Troy Smith and No. 1 Ohio State 41-14 on Monday night to run away with the national championship.

Chris Leak and Tim Tebow showed off coach Urban Meyer’s twin quarterback system to perfection as the No. 2 Gators became the first Division I school to hold football and basketball titles at the same time.

Now, only one question remains: What about Boise State?

Playing on the very same field where the undefeated Broncos stunned Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl on New Year’s Day, Florida (13-1) routed the previously unbeaten Buckeyes (13-1).

Former Gators star Emmitt Smith did the chomp on the sidelines, punctuating the amazingly easy victory. That left Florida, Wisconsin and Louisville each with one loss, and surely will renew calls for a playoff system.

Ted Ginn Jr. returned the opening kickoff 93 yards for a touchdown, then it quickly fell apart for the Buckeyes. He hobbled off minutes later with an injury and by the time he returned for the second half on crutches, Florida led 34-14.

Leak, maligned for never winning the big one, completed 25 of 36 passes for 213 yards and a touchdown. The Rambo-like Tebow threw for one TD and powered into the end zone for another.

Smith, meanwhile, joined a long list of Heisman Trophy quarterbacks—Jason White, Eric Crouch and Gino Torretta, among them—to fall apart in bowl games. He was just 4-for-14 with one interception and never showed off his elusive running.

Instead, defensive ends Derrick Harvey and Jarvis Moss made it a miserable night for Smith. Linebacker Earl Everett got into the act, too, running down Smith despite missing his helmet.

Florida won its second national title, adding to the one Heisman winner Danny Wuerffel brought home in 1996 under coach Steve Spurrier with a 52-20 romp over Florida State in the Sugar Bowl.

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   Tuesday - November 28, 2006

Falcons Finger Wave

_{Mike Lester - Rome News-Tribune (GA)}

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   Saturday - November 18, 2006

Obituary

What’s the worst thing that could happen to the #1 ranked team in the country, Ohio State, right before the big game with Michigan, who is ranked #2? You guessed it. Legendary former Michigan coach Bo Schembechler died shortly after giving a pep talk to the Michigan players. I’m afraid Michigan will be a team with a mission today and Ohio State is in for a long afternoon.

It saddens me to hear of Schembechler’s death. He was one of the last of the great generation of college football coaches that included Bear Bryant, Woody Hayes, Vince Dooley, John McKay, Johnny Majors, Bobby Bowden and Joe Paterno - only two of which are still coaching. Michigan fans will miss him. R.I.P.

Bo Schembechler (1929-2006)

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP)—Bo Schembechler always put the team first, even during the final days of his life. At a Monday news conference to kick off Michigan-Ohio State week, the former Wolverines coach was asked if he would speak with the team before The Game. “I don’t anticipate that,” Schembechler said. “They can handle that themselves.”

Schembechler died at age 77 Friday when his failing heart stopped working, but not before he gave one last speech to the second-ranked Wolverines before they played No. 1 Ohio State. “Ironically, he and I were going to see each other yesterday, but he wanted to address the team,” Dr. Kim Eagle, Schembechler’s physician, said at Providence Hospital in the Detroit suburb of Southfield, where the famed coach was pronounced dead at 11:42 a.m.

The man with half-century-old roots to The Game died on the eve of perhaps the biggest matchup in the storied rivalry’s history, and his doctor said it might have been because of all the excitement. Schembechler, who became one of college football’s great coaches in two decades at Michigan, collapsed at the studios of WXYZ-TV in Southfield, where he taped a weekly show each fall.

Schembechler played for Woody Hayes at Miami of Ohio, began his coaching career as a graduate assistant for Hayes at Ohio State, and then, in his first season at Michigan in 1969, knocked off Hayes’ unbeaten Buckeyes, snapping their 22-game winning streak. “I’ll never forget when Woody said at the dinner we had for him after he retired,” Schembechler recalled Monday in front of a sea of reporters, photographers and videographers. “He looked down at me and said, ‘God damn you, you will never win a bigger game than that.’ And he was right. I don’t think I ever did.”

Schembechler was a seven-time Big Ten coach of the year, compiling a 194-48-5 record at Michigan from 1969-89. His record in 26 years of coaching was 234-65-8. He never had a losing season. “I’m not sure he has gotten his due as far as being one of the truly great football coaches of all time,” Penn State coach Joe Paterno said. “I’m going to miss him.” Schembechler was 11-9-1 against the Buckeyes. From 1969-78 he opposed Hayes in what’s known as “The 10-Year War,” and Michigan was 5-4-1 during that stretch.

Schembechler was inducted into the Miami University Hall of Fame in 1972, the State of Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in 1989, the University of Michigan Hall of Honor in 1992, the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame in 1993 and the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame in 1993.

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   Friday - October 27, 2006

The Thrill Of Victory!

St. Louis 4, Detroit 2

ST. LOUIS (AP)—Favored by few, the St. Louis Cardinals used an unlikely cast of characters to win their first World Series in nearly a quarter century.

Jeff Weaver dominated, David Eckstein drove in two runs on balls that didn’t leave the infield and the Cards took advantage of another wild throw by a Tigers pitcher to beat Detroit 4-2 on Friday night and won the Series in five games. “I think we shocked the world,” Cardinals center fielder Jim Edmonds said. “It’s an unbelievable experience.”

Manager Tony La Russa’s Cardinals had just 83 regular-season wins, the fewest by a World Series winner, and nearly missed the playoffs after a late-season slump. But the Cardinals beat San Diego and the New York Mets in the playoffs, then won their first title since 1982 by taming a heavily favored Tigers team that entered the Series with six days’ rest.

After closer Adam Wainwright struck out Brandon Inge for the final out, the ballpark erupted. Wainwright raised his arms in triumph, catcher Yadier Molina ran to the mound and the pair bounced off toward second base, where they were joined by teammates running out from the dugout and the bullpen.

“I don’t think anybody in uniform didn’t do something in the postseason. Everyone did,” said La Russa, whose uniform number—10—now matches the team’s World Series titles. “The defense was great. The pitching was great. Timely hitting. The best bench I’ve had in a long time. They just refused for us to lose.”

Minutes later fireworks filled the sky above the ballpark. Eckstein, the 5-foot-7 shortstop who had four hits in Game 4, was the Series MVP. “No one believed in us, but we believed in ourselves,” Eckstein said.

On a cold Midwest night more suitable to football than baseball, the Tigers made two more errors, raising their Series total to eight—three by Inge, the third baseman, and a record five by their pitchers. Eight of the 22 runs allowed by the Tigers were unearned, the most by a team since the 1956 New York Yankees against Brooklyn.

While the Tigers tossed the ball to the tarp, the Cardinals were mostly crisp, with the notable exception of right fielder Chris Duncan, who dropped a fly ball just before Sean Casey’s two-run homer in the fourth put Detroit ahead 2-1.

St. Louis came right back to take a 3-2 lead in the bottom half as pitcher Justin Verlander threw away a ball for the second time in two starts, and Scott Rolen added a big run with a two-out RBI single in the seventh off reliever Fernando Rodney, extending his postseason hitting streak to 10 games.

It was the Cardinals’ first title since 1982 and the first for the NL since the 2003 Florida Marlins. La Russa, who led the Oakland Athletics to a sweep in the earthquake-interrupted 1989 Bay Bridge Series, joined Sparky Anderson (Cincinnati and Detroit) as the only managers to win Series titles in each league.

It marked the first time since the 1912 Red Sox at Boston’s Fenway Park that a team won the Series at home in a first-year ballpark. And the Cardinals (83-78) almost didn’t even make it to the postseason. They had a seven-game NL Central lead with 12 to go but lost eight of nine before recovering to finish 1 1/2 games ahead of Houston, the defending NL champion.

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Almost There

In case you’ve been paying too much attention to politics and other assorted, sordid bullshit, there is still a world out there where people are having fun and “rootin’ for the home team.”

Sure enough, Wednesday night’s game was rained out (the weather has really sucked here in St. Louis the past week). Game Four of the World Series was finally played last night and guess who won?

The Cards took it 5-4 and now hold a 3-1 lead in the World Series. They can take the big prize tonight if they can whup the Tigers one more time - otherwise the Series moves back to Detroit on Saturday.

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   Tuesday - October 24, 2006

Take Me Out To The Ballgame

_{Larry Wright - The Detroit News}

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   Friday - October 20, 2006

The World Serious

By the way, in case you missed it, the baseball team here in St. Louis won a ballgame last night. Everyone in town is all excited for some reason. Meanwhile in New York, baseball fans are strangely quiet for this time of year. I shall have to investigate and get back to you ....

Seriously, the World Serious starts with Game One on FOX at 7:30pm ET this Saturday. The St. Louis Cardinals travel to Motor City to take on the Detroit Tigers. For those baseball enthusiasts out there here is your trivia for today:

• The St. Louis Cardinals have been to the World Serious 16 times. Their record is 9 wins and 7 losses. Only one team has won the World Serious more times - those evil Yanquis.


• The Detroit Tigers have been to the World Serious 10 times. Their record is 5 wins and 5 losses.


• The Tigers and Cardinals met in the World Serious twice before - in 1934 and 1968. The Tigers won both times in seven games.


• The last time the Cardinals were in the World Serious was in 2004 when they were swept by the Boston Red Sox 4-0.


• The last time the Tigers were in the World Serious was in 1984 when they beat the San Diego Padres 4-1.


• The Cardinals first trips to the World Serious were in 1907 and 1908. In 1907 they lost to the Cubs 4-0 and in 1908 they lost again to the Cubs 4-1. The Cubs haven’t been back to the World Serious since then .... which is why The Skipper is always depressed this time of year. Damn goat!

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   Monday - October 09, 2006

The Boys Of October

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