Ireland vs. France

Well I don't know who has seen the Ireland vs. France World Cup Qualifier highlights, but when I saw them, I witnessed the worst call ever! Henry takes a ball completely off his arm, I mean blatantly! And then throws a cross over to Gallas for the game winning goal. All we hear about is keeping the human aspect! No I'm sorry, this a new age and we have the technology to review calls, and we should get the RIGHT FREAKIN call. A small country that worships this sport, has to suffer now, because of a poor call made by the referees.

The King

Of course he could play football! When Eric Mangini said for him to come on down, he was serious. He's the complete athlete!

4th and 2

Well this has been the hot topic of discussion since Sunday, when Belichick decided to try and get the 2 yrds on 4th down at his own 28 yrd line instead of punting the ball down the field. And I see where he is coming from obviously you have Tom Brady as your QB, who is very capable of making big time plays, but this decision was made off emotion at the last second, most teams who plan on going for it, know it and run the ball on the 3rd to get the clock down. You have to have confidence in your Defence, yes the drive before Peyton marched down the field but if I remember correctly Peyton already threw an interception in this game, so tell me why couldn't they stop him. In that situation there are so many factors that can go wrong, the ball can get tipped, someone can slip or even just get played so tightly that there is no room for anything to transpire. Belichick is still one of the best ever and this one decision will not define him, but it was a bad decision and if you saw his facial expressions after the game, he knew it!!!

NCAA Soccer or UFC?

Wow, im not sure ive seen anything as amazing as what i saw on thursday night. The BYU womens soccer team played New Mexico and one girl turned into a psycho beast. I truly think this girl could beat me up. If you havent seen this you have to look it up on 'youtube'. There are several clips of her punching girls in their back and face, pulling a girl to the ground by the hair, and slide-tackling a girl and almost taking of her knee. They showed a few of these clips on ESPN and talked a little bit about it. I guess the girl came out with an apology and was suspended. It was a joke. I know some people get emotional during a game and get aggressive. Sometimes people play a little dirty with a pull of shirt here or a little shove there. But this was completely dirty and uncalled for. I cant stand it when people start to play like that. Those BYU players are lucky that one of them didnt get seriously injured and have to sit out the season. This girl is the epitome of a joke.

Check out 'cat fighting gets ugly during BYU vs New Mexico women's soccer match' on youtube

Joe Girardi

I don't know if anyone saw the report today about when Joe was traveling home early this morning. But what happened, was that he saw that a lady had ran into the wall on the highway I guess as he was traveling home from the game. She had obviously had been in an accident and needed some help, so he stopped his car and extended some help to her. And you know, that's what is all about, that says a lot about your character Joe! And at the end of the day, that's all that matters.

2009 World Series Champs

Well congrats to the yanks on the series. Great overall playoffs for Aroid, even though in the series we wasn't that great. But when he made his return after the surgery early on in the year, that was the turning point! Hideki played awesome, when he played, although speak English for heavens sake, we know you can! Jeter just a class act as always. Andy did what he had to do to get the W, I think he should retire on the note! Damon is a post season specialist and should be signed, he makes a big difference!

Bradford/Overpaid Athletes

Now, why I start by putting Bradford's name in the mix is because he has been under a lot of speculation lately with his injury and his supposed "BIG" year. People are saying that he should of took his Heisman Trophy, signed a 35 million dollar guaranteed 5 year deal, and started a professional career. But instead he decided to stay at OU for another year and try to make a run for a national championship. Was this the right decision? Well it might be easy for some now to say that he should of went into the draft, but that's not hard to say after his season has been an injury ridden disaster. But I beg to differ with the critics, as did my good friend Mr. McConnell. I think that says a lot about a guy who can put the NFL and a big contract on hold to pursue a national championship. Maybe he wasn't ready, there has been first round disasters before and everyone knows it. Or maybe he simply wanted to win College Football National Championship. Maybe we need more Sam Bradford's in all of sports!
That brings me to my next point, as John and I got talking on the subject of money and sports, I thought about the mentality of our day and really what motivates athletes. We find in sports in this day, it is more important to sign the big deal than to win the big game. Now I have many friends who have signed big deals and I know that it is a step in winning a championship, and their has to be a deal signed before you get the hardware. But that is not how we think in this day. We have athletes that I know are perfectly content when they don't make the playoffs or when they have never made the playoffs, in going home and sitting in their big homes, with their nice cars and to them that's what it's all about. And again I repeat myself it is OK for a young athlete, trying to make it pro, to want to finally sign that deal. It's different than that, it is this inner greedy drive to have the biggest deal in sports. It's ridiculous. I have no respect for players like this!
And therefore don't get me wrong, we still have what I call those pure athletes out there, who make a lot of money, but have a different drive, a drive to win. We might know them as Payton Manning, Derek Jeter, Brett Favre, Sidney Crosby, Tiger Woods, Roger Federer. And why I try and name players that are dominating their game now, is because I know you will find people out there, that say,"oh well the game has changed",or "that is only old players that were like that, all new and young players are corrupted." But as we can see they are still out there leading the way. That is those players who are talented, have a drive to win, be the best and in the end just love their game.