Sports: Ignorant IS as Ignorant DOES!

Ignorance abounds in spades lately. Parker and crew? They are ALL dumbazz's. Why even make the comment in the first place? There's enough race baiting in life anyway so just talk about what his job is and that's being a QB. Who cares what color he is, what his politics are and what color his fiance' is? What has ANY of that got to do with the way he plays? It was an instigating comment geared to raise ratings which has backfired on them. Sick of a more than a few of the ESPN "analyst's" and the garbage they spew! SMDH!

http://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-georgia-sports/2012/12/14/espn-analysts-remarks-on-rgiii-inappropriate/

For the Love of Money!

I woke up this morning and was watching ESPN with my hubby as usual. Watching it made me think just how $$$ driven sports has become. Lakers are straight garbage right now. They spent all this $$ acquiring offensive powerhouses and have ZERO defense! (Should have at least kept Odom lol) The A’s have paid all this $$ to get Hamilton and every other “story” was about all this money being spent to ac...quire ONE “star”. Seems sports has moved away from building TEAMS and are now pinning their hopes for a championship on ONE person instead of a team of players. Instead of winning one they want to buy one.

Maybe that’s why I love college sports so much more. If you’re in my age range (I’m 43 and have been watching and playing sports since the age of 3), you remember the old school. There were always 1 or 2 marquee names but they had a crew around them that made them great. Bulls had Jordan but he had Pippin, Rodman, Corzine, Paxson, Grant, Cartwright, Armstrong, Harper and Kukoc. Celtics had Bird but he had Parrish, McHale, Ainge, Archibald, Cowens, Maxwell, Henderson, Ford and Johnson. Lakers had Magic, Kareem, Worthy, Rambis, Green, Cooper and Scott. Hawks had Dominique, Rivers, Moses, Webb, Augmon and Blaylock. Not to mention the 76’ers, Detroit, Suns and Jazz and the teams they had. Those were TEAMS! Seems the owners and GM’s may want to take a cue from Doc Rivers and see how he’s brought the “old school” back and what happens when you do. They also may want to pay attention to the NHL and what’s happening there. As much as I love basketball and played myself, I boycotted the NBA last season due to yet another strike and the “big baby whining” of the players over $$. I love football too much to boycott it but these lockouts and strikes are becoming too common place. I’ll always like the pros but college sports never have these issues. Hopefully ONE day the pros will realize that “team building” is what got them to where they are now and will be the only way they can “get back” to that point. Sadly, I doubt that will ever happen though. The lure of the almighty $$ is just too strong to overcome common sense! SMDH!

 

 

Nerds of the World: UNITE!!

Jason Menssen and I get teased by our friends for being such "nerds" since we watch Discovery, National Geographic, Science Channel, History, etc. We both come from families of educators and teachers & we both love to learn new things. Education does not stop when you graduate from high school or college. Education and learning is a part of our lives from the day we are born to the day we leave th...is Earth. How can you not have the desire to learn more about our world and expand our knowledge and intelligence? If we instill the love of learning in our children, they will grow up to be very well rounded and intelligent people. I challenge you ALL to try and learn something new, no matter what, every day. Just see how a little bit of knowledge will improve you as a person :)