March madness
Today begins the basketball brackets. A year ago I would have never known what this meant, in fact I am still a little hazy on the details, but essentially A TON OF PEOPLE ARE PLACING A TON OF BETS ON BASKETBALL GAMES BEING PLAYED IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS BY 64 TEAMS WHO WILL BE BROUGHT DOWN TO 16. Sorry for the yelling, but I am attempting utilizing caps to bring about more thorough understanding of what's happening here. So it begins this morning and goes all day, and Dan has left me a whole sheet (actually 3) of which teams to root for (cuz I could care less). I tell you, this whole crash course in sports has actually been quite interesting, though a bit overwhelming at times.
Interesting things about sports:
1. Sports Illustrated had Barry Bonds and his alleged steroid use on the cover of their last issue. I read the EXTREMELY LONG article, and found it FASCINATING. Steroids are quite the little trouble-causer in baseball. Bottom line: Steroid use, until last year, was not illegal for baseball. Meaning: if a player used steroids to break long-time held records created by non-using players, they were able to keep them due to it NOT BEING ILLEGAL IN THE GAME. So now, people are all upset because Barry Bonds, who starts another season in a matter of weeks, could possibly break Hank Aaron's homerun record (I really hope I am getting all of this right, please take it with a grain of salt, whatever that means). To have a record set by a player like Hank Aaron, who played so long ago, and played clean, be broken by a cheat is just devastating to the honor and integrity of the game of baseball.
2. All of this steroid stuff came out because Jose Canseco (sorry about the spelling) wrote a book naming names of great players who were using, like Mark McGuire and Barry Bonds. At first it looked as though Canseco had perhaps falsified info to sell books, and so it is probably a redemption for him to have people admitting that yes, its very true. (Bonds maintains that he never knowingly put steroids in his body, sure.)
3. Once, a football player (any of you who watch Grey's Anatomy will know this) once cut off his finger in the middle of a game in order to continue playing.
4. Another football player decided that weed was more his bag, and decided to exit his contract to play after only a year, however he managed money horribly and ended up owing the team over 8 million dollars, so had to go back and is currently playing purely to pay back the money he owes them.
5. Many sports dudes have girlfriends on the side. I know this does not really shock anyone, but it surprised me that often the girlfriends are the ones who will travel with them when they are on the road, and EVERYONE knows about it. Wierd.
Okay, that's enough for my sports tirade this morning. Sorry for this to all of you who really could care less, but this and crafting are all that I every think, hear or read about. :)
**UPDATE** Check out Jeff Yamaguchi's website here if you have a minute.
Interesting things about sports:
1. Sports Illustrated had Barry Bonds and his alleged steroid use on the cover of their last issue. I read the EXTREMELY LONG article, and found it FASCINATING. Steroids are quite the little trouble-causer in baseball. Bottom line: Steroid use, until last year, was not illegal for baseball. Meaning: if a player used steroids to break long-time held records created by non-using players, they were able to keep them due to it NOT BEING ILLEGAL IN THE GAME. So now, people are all upset because Barry Bonds, who starts another season in a matter of weeks, could possibly break Hank Aaron's homerun record (I really hope I am getting all of this right, please take it with a grain of salt, whatever that means). To have a record set by a player like Hank Aaron, who played so long ago, and played clean, be broken by a cheat is just devastating to the honor and integrity of the game of baseball.
2. All of this steroid stuff came out because Jose Canseco (sorry about the spelling) wrote a book naming names of great players who were using, like Mark McGuire and Barry Bonds. At first it looked as though Canseco had perhaps falsified info to sell books, and so it is probably a redemption for him to have people admitting that yes, its very true. (Bonds maintains that he never knowingly put steroids in his body, sure.)
3. Once, a football player (any of you who watch Grey's Anatomy will know this) once cut off his finger in the middle of a game in order to continue playing.
4. Another football player decided that weed was more his bag, and decided to exit his contract to play after only a year, however he managed money horribly and ended up owing the team over 8 million dollars, so had to go back and is currently playing purely to pay back the money he owes them.
5. Many sports dudes have girlfriends on the side. I know this does not really shock anyone, but it surprised me that often the girlfriends are the ones who will travel with them when they are on the road, and EVERYONE knows about it. Wierd.
Okay, that's enough for my sports tirade this morning. Sorry for this to all of you who really could care less, but this and crafting are all that I every think, hear or read about. :)
**UPDATE** Check out Jeff Yamaguchi's website here if you have a minute.
posted by Anonymous at
3/16/2006
1 Comments:
oh no, you do like this boy.
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
<< Home