David Tyree redux! Steelers rookie Antonio Brown, who caught just 16 passes during the regular season, helped send his team to the AFC championship game today by channeling Tyree’s legendary Super Bowl play.
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In a move perhaps reflecting the UFC’s unstated policy on performance, newly signed Antonio McKee has been cut from the company’s roster after a single split-decision defeat inside the Octagon. The loss was the first for McKee, who was said to have originally inked a four-year deal with the organization, since February 2003. News of [...]
Five Ounces of Pain
Tuesday night the surging San Antonio Spurs will host the struggling Los Angeles Lakers. San Antonio comes in with a league-best record of 26-4, while the Lakers are just 21-9 after starting the season 8-0. The Spurs quickly bounced back after falling at Orlando 123-101 last Thursday with a 94-80 win over the Washington Wizards [...]
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Ten years ago this wouldn’t have been a shocker, but at a record of 20-3, the San Antonio Spurs are, by far, the most surprising team in the NBA.
Essentially the same team for the past ten years, the Spurs are still going at it harder than ever.
Tim Duncan is scoring less, but still efficient enough for a 34 year old. Manu Ginobili is finally healthy and contributing in his very unorthodox way. He is 33 years old. Tony Parker is at his peak at age 28, becoming the team leader, and not even bothered by his divorce from Eva Longoria. Also, there’s Richard Jefferson who wasn’t himself in his first year with San Antonio last year, but 23 games into the 2010-2011 season, he is showing good form.
Finally, the Spurs organization is probably the best in all of sports. The last 13 years the Spurs have won at least 64% of their games, that amounts to at least 54 wins out of 82 per year. Not even the Los Angeles Lakers have done that, and the Miami Heat will never come close to that, trust me.
Will San Antonio reign supreme this season, or will age be a factor?
The Spurs: An old dog, new tricks.
*You can reach the author of this post at kc@gacksports.com (I’m Back!)
PRESS RELEASE / NEW YORK (Nov. 29, 2010) – Streaking Strikeforce star Mike “Mak” Kyle (18-7) will replace the injured Valentijn Overeem and take on former heavyweight world champion Antonio “Big Foot” Silva (14-2), in one of the featured televised fights on “Strikeforce – Henderson vs. Babalu” this Saturday, December 4, at Scottrade Center in [...]
Five Ounces of Pain
According to UFC head-honcho Dana White, iconic Mixed Martial Artist Tito Ortiz will look to break his three-fight skid in March 2011 but will face formidable foe Antonio Rogerio Nogueira, meaning a win is far from guaranteed for Ortiz. While no specific event was mentioned, it has recently been reported the promotion is targeting a [...]
Five Ounces of Pain
Antonio Cromartie is a Youtube sensation. You know the one I’m talking about. The one where in the second episode of HBO’s “Hard Knocks” Cromartie appears to be struggling to name all of his eight children.
We’ve all had a chuckle over it, because it’s funny to point and laugh at dumb millionaires who don’t know any better. But the truth is, it’s not really that funny at all…a feeling that New York Post’s Phil Mushnick shares with me.
“Yet this short, taped chat with Cromartie dripped with his conceit and boastfulness, including this one: ‘In high school, I was a stud.’ Good grief.”
Mushnick is right on the money. Look, if Cromartie’s situation were portrayed on a TV sitcom, it would be comedy gold. How many shows out there feature a main character who is a womanizer? At least once, all of those shows had a plot that centered around said character possibly being a father to children from multiple mothers. We laugh, we point at, we make fun of, because it’s not real.
I think that’s the way we feel about professional athletes sometimes, that they are not real people, merely characters for our amusement. The reality here is that Cromartie’s eight kids were not placed in his life by some writer, but because he was irresponsible. Those eight kids are real, and that he had trouble naming all of them is downright sad (whether that segment was doctored or not).
What about those five women who have to be single mothers now, or more importantly, those eight kids who belong to a family that only the Addams could rival.
Instead of making a joke, Cromartie’s story should be a cautionary tale about stupidity and ignorance.
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