Deep thoughts, cheap shots & bon mots
We shoulda listened: The day before the Clippers trounced the Warriors, Doc Rivers said, “I think we’re very close to going on an amazing run. I can feel it and I can see it.”
Johnny Manziel now says he came into the NFL with a “college mind-set” and vows that next year he will take his job “a lot more seriously.” Easy, Johnny Football! Just because the Browns gave you $8 million and trusted you to lead the team and give the city new hope, don’t get all carried away with football and neglect your posse and your clubbing responsibilities.
File under “stuff to look forward to in 2015, or 2016, or ...”: The announcement of findings by Bud Selig’s blue ribbon committee studying the A’s proposed move to San Jose, and the results of Robert
Mueller’s investigation into when the NFL saw the Ray Rice elevator video.
A 103-year-old Florida man became the oldest golfer to shoot a hole-in-one. Good for him, but what about the guys in his foursome, who had to explain to their friends how they got their asses kicked by a 103-year-old who hit a driver off the tee on a 113-yard hole.
That oldest person hole-in--
one record was invalidated when golf officials discovered that the 103-year-old Florida man is O.J. Simpson, who just looks as if he’s 103.
Remember when innovations in basketball were things like the jump shot, the dunk, the crossover and the triangle offense? Innovations now? The four-games-in-five-nights scheduling, the first name on the back of the jersey, the holiday-themed sneakers.
Seriously, Christmas sneakers? Kobe Bryant’s Christmas Nikes feature an inscription on the inside of each tongue: “Mamba’s Greetings.” Sadly, the Black Mamba has been downgraded to garter snake.
The 49ers were much more fun when they were beating up one another on social media. When is Jim Harbaugh going to speak out in defense of the constitutional right to freedom of tweet?