Monthly Archives: November 2009

Hold The Presses; We Have A Winner!

November 18, 2009 – 10:40 am

In case you missed the news – – as I did for a couple of days – – Michelle Wie won an LPGA event. After what seems like a decade of hype and ”potential”, she won the Lorena Ochoa Invitational event in Guadalajara, Mexico. That victory puts her above Anna Kournikova in terms of athletic [...]

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The NFL At Mid-Season…

November 17, 2009 – 12:23 am

The NFL season has just passed the halfway mark; players around the league are gearing up for a stretch run to make the playoffs – – or gearing up for that relaxing trip to Cancun with the wife and kids in January where it is warm and there aren’t self-propelled 250 lb missiles aimed at [...]

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Basketball Today…

November 16, 2009 – 8:54 am

Last week, the New Orleans Hornets fired coach, Byron Scott, nine games into the season. The fact that an NBA coach lost his job during a season is hardly news; Scott will certainly not be the only coach to lose a job this season. What is interesting here is that the decision to fire Byron [...]

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Friday The 13th

November 13, 2009 – 11:08 am

On Friday the 13th, it behooves everyone to look for positive stuff and to avoid things that may have potential pitfalls contained therein. Following that direction, might I observe that the PBS TV program, Sesame Street, celebrated its 40th anniversary on television on Tuesday of this week. My kids – and an entire generation of [...]

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Mythical Picks – NFL – Weekend of 11/15/09

November 13, 2009 – 1:58 am

After a couple of weeks without nearly the time to put one of these pieces together, I think I have carved out enough time this week to do the NFL version of Mythical Picks and to have it done by Friday. I am giving up on season recordkeeping here; my records are on another computer [...]

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Mythical Picks – NCAA – Weekend of 11/14/09

November 12, 2009 – 9:03 am

Lots of things have happened in college football in the past three weeks – – and I am not even going to try to summarize all of it here. However, I do want to comment on the progress of the Linfield College Wildcats. Having already assured themselves of their 54th consecutive season with a winning [...]

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Reading Minds In Memphis

November 11, 2009 – 8:35 am

If I had the super-power of mind reading capability, I think one of the places I would use it today would be in Memphis, Tennessee and the subject of my mind-probe would be Grizzlies’ coach, Lionel Hollins. When the Griz showed up for training camp, did Hollins actually believe that Allen Iverson would willingly and [...]

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The KC Chiefs Apply Some Preparation H…

November 10, 2009 – 10:33 am

The Kansas City Chiefs released Larry Johnson yesterday. He made the Pro Bowl twice in his career and rushed for more than 1700 yards in each of those Pro Bowl seasons. Those years were 2005 and 2006. He used to be a premier running back in the NFL. It is precisely because he is no [...]

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Not Exactly A Marriage Made In Heaven…

November 9, 2009 – 10:44 am

As of last week, Allen Iverson was unhappy with his role on the Memphis Grizzlies. He was coming off the bench and he did not like that even a little bit. You have to give Iverson points for consistency; he did not like the fact that he was not a starter last season in Detroit [...]

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Hideki Matsui Makes A Statement…

November 6, 2009 – 12:45 am

The scuttlebutt has been that once the season was finished, the NY Yankees would make a decision whether to re-sign Johnny Damon or Hideki Matsui to a new contract but that the Yankees would not re-sign both. I do not know when it became apparent to the seers making such pronouncements that frugality had struck [...]

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