Monday, September 05, 2011

Monday Sports Recap

I know that the NFL season hasn't officially started, but too much happened over the weekend that I thought maybe I should get in some practice. Unfortunately for me, my Steeler watching buddy, Scott, who forks over the dough for the NFL package on his satellite TV, is busy on Sundays until the second week in October. Which means, unless I break into his house, which I would do if it weren't so complicated to work his gigantic TV and remote control, I have to find another way to watch the Steelers. I'm looking at the Internet or dragging Kelly to the local Steelers bar.

1. Lee Roy Selman - Here in Tampa the man was a legend. The first player to be drafted by the Bucs and to be named to the NFL Hall of Fame, he made Tampa Bay his home and did so much for the people and the area. He was suppose to head to South Bend to watch his USF Bulls, he was once USF's athletic director, but he suffered a stroke the day before the game. He died on Sunday. Why is it the good ones in sports always go first?

2. Rafael Nadal's press conference - I didn't see this until today on the Internet as it was Yahoo's lead story. Nadal is talking to the press and answering questions when he suddenly grimaces, grabs his leg, and begins doing some lamaze breathing to control his pain. The thing that got to me was how nobody did a damn thing for almost two minutes except keep the cameras on him until he slid under the table for some privacy. You can hear a female voice asking him if he is okay off camera. Really? Does he look okay? And then some female appears and asks that the press stop snapping pictures, but then she just nonchalantly walks right past Nadal without assisting him. Really annoyed me. This is our US Open? Pitiful.

3. The University of South Florida's win over Notre Dame - For a game that seemed to last forever what with the two different weather delays it was an interesting game to start out the season...at least for 'Da Bulls. The story was a good one, one time Fighting Irish player and assistant coach returns to his alma mater only as the coach for the opposition. The Irish made tons of mistakes and USF did a good job of taking those mistakes and running with them. Even with the two breaks in momentum Notre Dame couldn't find it's rhythm and 'da Bulls pulled away with a big win for the start of their season.

4. Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly's potty mouth - Holy Windbreaker Batman the Notre Dame coach had one of the foulest mouths on TV in awhile. He spent so much time screaming on the sidelines that veins were popping out on the side of his head. I was worried he was going to have an aneurysm or pass out from the screaming. I'm hoping the athletic director takes him aside and offers to enroll him in some yoga classes.

5. Peyton Manning - Will he or won't he? That is the big question surrounding the NFL this upcoming weekend. Manning, who had neck surgery in May, isn't healing as quickly as everyone thought and did not play in the preseason. Speculation is running wild with whether or not he will play in the opening game against the Texans and keep his active streak of 227 consecutive starts. I say put him in for the first snap and then pull him out, but I don't see Manning allowing that unless he can compete for real.

6. Kris Humphries & bride - Okay, this didn't happen this weekend, but my mother-in-law's friends are the grandparents of Kris Humphries and she is going to get the scoop and see pictures on the big wedding to Kim Khardashian when she goes to Minnesota this next week. I thought that little brush with fame was cool.

7. Andy Roddick doesn't like Johnny Mac? - Boo Hoo. Roddick supposedly doesn't like things McEnroe has said recently so he spouted out with something along the lines of sportscasters having easy jobs. Uh huh...well, Mr. American Tennis Has-Been that Never-Was I think at one time John McEnroe had quite a tough job and has a few trophies to say he conquered that job. What is it you have again? One slam win? Respect your elders, kid.

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