September 2007 Archives

Nothing newsworthy here – just Tony being Tony – other than ESPN's reaction.

As explained by one Jeffrey Michael Gordon.

Or, "I was right ... and I WAS RIGHT!!"

I'm researching a piece on San Bernardino native Dave Stockton, currently a golfer on the Champions Tour and a Ryder Cup captain. He's more famous these days for appearing at corporate functions and instructional videos on putting.

You'd think that making the Chase for the Nextel Cup, and winning his first career race last week, would earn Clint Bowyer some measure of fame. The type of fame that means your name isn't misspelled, ever.

The song that plays as you wait to be connected to Big Bear High School football coach Dave Griffiths' cell phone is a familiar one.

There were three chairs on the dais at Barry Bonds' farewell press conference today, one for San Francisco Giants general manager Brian Sabean, one for owner Peter Magowan and one, presumably, for Bonds. Guess which seat was empty?

Note the playful tone? That means it's not really war.

I need to rectify something: The Chase for the Nextel Cup started without a whisper here, and while the New Hampshire race last Sunday was, by all accounts, a boring piece of crap, something amazing happened for the first time in modern NASCAR history. Something so simple you (and ESPN) probably didn't notice it.

There is a Web site that had no reason to exist before August, 2007, yet has become one of the best examples of modern democracy, and best uses for the Internet, ever.

Yeah, turns out they even play games on Saturday and Sunday, when my tube was transfixed on college football and the NFL, respectively. Who knew?

My years at UCLA came plop in the middle of its seven-year football losing streak to USC and, up until last year, that was no rivalry. Trust me.

AP: Belichick gets $500k fine, Patriots lose $250k, and a first-round draft pick if they make the playoffs. I am curious.

Everyone seems to be cheating these days. Even I feel like I'm cheating my boss somewhat when I surf the Internet for blog material in the middle of a lazy Thursday.

The cool thing about motor sports, when compared to other professional sports, is that most of us drive a motorized vehicle. We might not get to face a 90-mph fastball every day, put on a helmet and pads and tackle someone, or check some poor sap into a plexiglass wall, but we can regularly get behind the wheel of a car, truck or motorcycle.

Notice anything a little off about 49ers wide receiver Darrell Jackson in this photo?

I don't like parking my hybrid in dirt parking lots, but I do enjoy a damn good motorcycle race. Could some kind of compromise have been reached before I was dispatched to Glen Helen Raceway this weekend?

"This is my first blog entry."

Scary words, huh? Talk about a drop in an overflowing bucket. Here's a few that might be worse ...

"From the creators of 'Survivor' comes a groundbreaking new reality show..."
"Universal Pictures presents Adam Sandler in ..."
"Our lead story tonight: Paris Hilton..."

In short, I don't believe The World needs another sports blog. But I hear MTV was ready to call it quits after "The Real World 3", too.