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Jim Kelly & Thurman Thomas Together Again
Jim Kelly and Thurman Thomas are two of the many former NFL and college legends who are set to take part in the second ‘Connect to Home Bowl’.
Media label this bowl ‘frustrating’ because this flag football game, which is played alongside American Troops, is held in a secret location in the Persian Gulf.
Kelly is said to be excited to play in this game because of his family history with the armed forces, “When I see a military guy in the airport or wherever, I go up and thank them,” Kelly said. “I understand that we would not have the country we have today if it wasn’t for people going over and defending us.”
This sounds like an awesome bowl game, I wonder if it will be aired lived or perhaps taped and played at a later date. I would love to see Kelly & Thurman together again!
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In his criticism of LeBron James and Dwyane Wade playing together with Miami Heat, Tracy McGrady rebukes Joe Dumars’ positional philosophy
In case you haven’t heard, Tracy McGrady doesn’t think LeBron James and Dwyane Wade complement each other. Via Keith Langlois of Pistons.com:
“It’s what I expected,” McGrady said. “You’ve got two guys who really don’t mix. They’re the same type of player. If you look at Boston’s big three, they’re traditional guys. You’ve got a true shooting guard, you have a true small forward and you have a true power forward. You have a shooting guard (Ray Allen) that doesn’t need the ball. In their case, both of their guys need the ball. They’re not great outside shooters, so they just can’t stand out there and wait for one to pass the ball and knock down open shots.
“That’s not their game. They have to have the ball to make plays and catch a rhythm that way. I’m the same way. I’m not the type of player who can stand on the perimeter and wait for somebody to pass me the ball and knock down jumpers. That’s just how it is. They just don’t complement each other.”
McGrady certainly isn’t the first person to criticize the Heat stars this season, and it’s certainly a reasonable opinion. I still think LeBron and Wade are versatile enough to play well together. Just because they haven’t so far doesn’t mean they can’t.
But what I found most interesting is McGrady’s comments pretty much contradict what Joe Dumars told Langlois before last season:
If you look around the league and look at rosters, the more you can have versatile guys on your roster, the better off you are. Less and less now, you find guys pigeon-holed into one position.
It’s nice to have guys who can play multiple positions, but I’m mostly with McGrady on this. You need players who a good at certain and things and other players who are good at others. Everyone doing everything is difficult to pull off, evident by this year’s Pistons.
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Irons’ death brings surfing community even closer together
Surf culture has always been a fairly close-knit community, and competitive surfing even more so.
In surfing there are no billion-dollar franchises, huge television contracts, or teams of agents and lawyers. There’s barely any press at even the biggest surf events, no monster stadiums, or multi-year contracts. No trades. No playoffs. No paparazzi or rumor mills.
And the truth is, surfers prefer it that way. Not many kids will ever get the chance to shoot hoops with LeBron. And not many will ever kick a ball with Ronaldo. But any surfer can journey down to Florida’s Sebastian Inlet for a chance to share a wave with Kelly Slater.
And any kid can head to the Pinetrees on Hawaii’s North Shore for a chance ride with Andy Irons. Or at least could. The three-times world surfing champion was found dead on Tuesday in a Dallas hotel room.
For the last 15 years Slater and Irons had dominated competitive surfing. Kelly was first, bursting on to the scene in early ‘92 with his perfect drops and unreal speed. In short order he proved there’d never been anything on the seas quite like him.
Slater rode harder and faster than anyone, and brought with him a technical mastery the sport didn’t even realize it was missing. He was untouchable. For a long time the ASP World Tour was pretty much the Kelly Slater show.
Then along came Andy. He grew up idolizing Kelly, but whereas most would crumble when they paddled out with the master, Andy seemed to relish it. Some even said he seemed calmer competing against Kelly than he did just riding among friends.
Andy was Slater’s only real competition for years, besting him to the top of the WSP ranking in 2002, 2003 and 2004. No one could layback like Andy. Or hack like him. He could dazzle on the highest wave or the shortest one.
His rivalry with Kelly, though short in the grand scheme of things, was the subject of incessant chatter up and down every coastline for years. Some stores would even post how many Kelly versus Irons highlight reels they’d sold that month, as though it was some sort of contest, like the Stones versus the Beatles or long boards versus short.
Kelly was one of hundreds to paddle out in the Kauai waters for Andy’s memorial. The two had become close over recent years, dining regularly with their wives, and rumor has it, discussing just about anything so long as surfing never came up.
They made each other better, Kelly and Andy. Not just at the dinner table, but out in the water too. They made the sport better – the two of them, studying one another, mimicking each other, revising and competing; always competing.
Surfing has always been just a small sport that happens to be played across the biggest, wettest arena in the world. The stars are still known by their first names, and the community is just small enough that everyone knows everyone by six degrees. Tales get passed down across beaches everywhere. Stories of the rights at J-Bay, sudden 30-footers off Trestles, or a fabled perfect path at Teahupoo.
Andy was in a lot of those stories. News of his death, at just 32, has shaken the community to the core. The healing will be slow, with the circumstances surrounding his death making the process even harder. Andy always said surfing kept his demons away, that he always came out of the water a better man than when he went in.
Not only did he come out better, but the sport came out better too.
PHOTO: Andy Irons of Hawaii rides a wave during the third round of competition in the Billabong Pro surfing tournament on the legendary reef break in Teahupoo, Tahiti, May 14, 2008. REUTERS/Joseba Etxaburu.
Federer And Nadal Can’t Keep It Together For Promo Shoot
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal are legendary competitors on the tennis court. Each is among the finest players in the sport’s history, and once they played a match so extraordinary, a book was written about it. Off the court, though, all the intensity just melts away – if one recently leaked video of the two is any indication.
Federer and Nadal recently filmed a spot for an exhibition match they’ll play in Switzerland around Christmas, benefiting Federer’s foundation. It’s a lighthearted ad, and let’s just say the two players’ attitudes reflect this.
Video of many, many failed takes (be warned: video stops working halfway through, but it’s more than enough to get the idea, and the audio works all the way):
UPDATE: The video has been taken down. It was fun while it lasted.
As someone who generally enjoys blooper reels more than the movies/TV shows with which they’re associated, this clip was pretty much heaven-sent. I cannot get enough of people cracking up, and when the people cracking up are two tennis greats, all the better.
Maybe we’d think this is another premeditated viral ad, but it apparently keeps getting pulled from Youtube, so we’re thinking that means all the laughter is real. Basically, that means this is the perfect video. Watch it, and either laugh or have no soul.
H/T Busted Racquet