Shots Heard went 15-1 last year on NBA playoff predictions. Shots Heard went 7-1 on 2009 NBA Playoffs First Round predictions.
Mother is a remarkable woman who has been his life for the family subjugate us. Love that never stops, making mother an idol for their children. And when MOTHER'S DAY come, then everyone will celebrate with joy. We must love our mother than we love to anyone in the world.Mother is a remarkable woman who has been his life for the family subjugate us. Love that never stops, making mother an idol for their children. And when MOTHER'S DAY come, then everyone will celebrate with joy. We must love our mother than we love to anyone in the world.
With the series between the Boston Celtics and Chicago Bulls tied at two, late in overtime of the pivotal 2009 NBA Playoffs Game 5 of the first round, Brad Miller found out what it means to get Rondo'd.
Food is a source of energy that is required by our bodies. Everyone needs energy to perform their daily activities. Therefore, we must take food that has a lot of energy, so that our bodies become healthier and stronger. And remember, do not eat too many foods that have low nutritional value and energy, because the body will weak and powerless.Food is a source of energy that is required by our bodies. Everyone needs energy to perform their daily activities. Therefore, we must take food that has a lot of energy, so that our bodies become healthier and stronger. And remember, do not eat too many foods that have low nutritional value and energy, because the body will weak and powerless.
Bedroom is a place where we spend a night with our beautiful dream. I know that you also have the bed that is neat as the picture above. Do not forget to turn off the lights if you want to sleep. Do not forget to pray for your mother and father also. Happy coloring this picture .. OK!Bedroom is a place where we spend a night with our beautiful dream. I know that you also have the bed that is neat as the picture above. Do not forget to turn off the lights if you want to sleep. Do not forget to pray for your mother and father also. Happy coloring this picture .. OK!
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A black halo and black point loomed above Scott Boras's head as he emotionally spewed his supposedly deep felt remorse about losing a baseball player and client. But this time it was different. Everybody lost out. Nick Adenhart, a promising Los Angeles Angels player had passed away, hours after pitching six shutout innings for his first major league victory.
Picture 1: Nick Adenhart, Los Angeles Angels pitcher, victim
Fiuh .. after a week, finally I can fill out an articles for this blog. April days ... what do you think about April? April Mop? the past. And furthermore, I do not like the lie that is done by the ordinary people. I do not want to lie to teach at my children and my students. Let them grow with the honesty and kindness. Do not contaminate their hearts with the lie. OK!Fiuh .. after a week, finally I can fill out an articles for this blog. April days ... what do you think about April? April Mop? the past. And furthermore, I do not like the lie that is done by the ordinary people. I do not want to lie to teach at my children and my students. Let them grow with the honesty and kindness. Do not contaminate their hearts with the lie. OK!
Eagle is an animal often used as an example in terms of strength, accuracy, speed and altitude. Eagle able to fly with an equal height of the spotter plane. Everyone has the nature of the eagle in their soul. You must be able to show your nature of eagle to all people. No fear, dejected or depressed. Wow! its great isn't it? Now eagle including birds protected by the government.Eagle is an animal often used as an example in terms of strength, accuracy, speed and altitude. Eagle able to fly with an equal height of the spotter plane. Everyone has the nature of the eagle in their soul. You must be able to show your nature of eagle to all people. No fear, dejected or depressed. Wow! its great isn't it? Now eagle including birds protected by the government.
Beware of the ailing golfer. That is what "they say," according to Phil Mickelson. Who says that? Maybe he thinks they say that after his nemesis Tiger Woods limped his way to an allegedly glorious victory at the 2008 U.S. Open.
Welcome to the first edition of the Shots Heard Bull Durham Meter, which is not to be confused with the Shots Heard B.S. Detector. Those familiar with the 'Bull Durham' movie, know that the Bull Durham concept is to have sports idioms handy for every question. In this way, a player can look noble, while only shaving off a part of their limelight, which in turn creates more limelight over the long run and conversely more bucks.
If you are a soldier, never go into war without your helmet. If you are an NBA player, never take verbal shots at Shaquille O'Neal. Shaq always dishes back a hot shot. The shot is usually so damaging that it effectively erases his counterpart's argument."I heard what Chris Bosh said, and that's strong words coming from the RuPaul of big men," O'Neal said. "I'm going to do the same thing (in their next meeting) I did before - make him quit. Make 'em quit and complain. It's what I do."Ouch! Shaq downplayed Bosh's concerns, comparing him to a tall, skinny, feminine acting male. In the world of NBA smack, Shaq has taken care of business once again.
Picture 1: RuPaul, Model
Are lions and goats can be friend? Not? In my opinion, it can, because they are just being a creation of god does not have any idea.Are lions and goats can be friend? Not? In my opinion, it can, because they are just being a creation of god does not have any idea.“I believe I have a duty, responsibility and obligation to support the state I love and the many people and organizations of Connecticut that are in need,” Calhoun said. “I look forward to continuing with the same amount of passion and commitment to assist people and causes that are important to me and my family.”
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In a recent post game news conference, political activist and so-called journalist, Ken Krayeske asked the University of Connecticut coach, Jim Calhoun if he, the highest paid state employee should give back any of his enormous salary as the economy gets worse. Despite what the zombie sports media tells you, this was an appropriate question that needed to be asked. What was not appropriate was Calhoun's tyrannical response. Calhoun's irateness sheds light on serious problems regarding the state of coaching and the sports media in college athletics.
Coaches are overpaid
Whether the economy is bad or not we should not be tolerating coaches becoming multimillionaires many times over. In many cases these coaches are making much more than than the governors and the presidents of their respective universities. Most, if not all states have college coaches that make more than their governors.
As these coaches get overpaid more and more, it eliminates opportunities for people who simply want to coach for the right reasons. People that want to coach for the love of sport or the joy of helping young people are getting snubbed, in favor of coaches that are coaching for their own selfish reasons, be it riches, prestige or power.
These coaches are so overpaid and so greedy that they have convinced themselves that they are the fish in the pond. In Calhoun's case he is convinced that he is worth every penny of the $1.6 plus million he makes. "Calhoun would like the layman to believe that the university could not bring in a coach, pay him $50,000-$80,000 in salary and get results. Calhoun would be wrong. Coaches do x's and o's and a little bit of recruiting with the help of their staffs. It is as simple as that. Any high salary compensation is simply a blessing.
But even if we were to argue that Calhoun is marginally better than just about every other potential coach (and he is not) then at what point did it become justifiable to pay coaches that type of money? Calhoun cites the $12 million that his program brings to the institution. That is fine. The institution still has scholarships, athletic costs (including other non profitable sports), educational programs, campus security, campus maintenance and many other various costs that these sports institutions were designed to help support.
Not to mention, as a consumer we are tired of overpaying these coaches. College sports should be communal events. The tickets should be much more affordable for the general public. It should be very affordable to attend any college event. When institutions start paying these ridiculous salaries to coaches, ticket prices have to dramatically increase. If we are to consider the university system to be a part of our community and not merely big institutions then this financial disconnect should not be tolerated.
It can be argued that Krzyzewski is a lovable, well respected figure on campus (a point the media is fond of promoting), but we are still going to see coaches like Calhoun that arrogantly snipe at reporters, "not a dime back, I would like to retire someday." And that greed only scratches the surface. This is a man that has to have his butt kissed by campus personnel and the students he is an alleged advocate for.
If UCONN was a leader instead of a cog in the system, they would fire Calhoun and give him no severance. This should be done on the grounds that his behavior is reprehensible and that he has made more than enough to retire. But UCONN is just another cog in a system gone out of whack. They themselves are a microcosm of why the economy is in such turmoil.
Coaches are being esteemed above everyone else
As a representative of a supposedly esteemed institution like UCONN, how does Jim Calhoun get away with screaming at a reporter and calling him stupid for merely asking a question. There are many professors that would be fired for such conduct. Calhoun will not even be reprimanded. Instead we await his next cursing tirade (he has had many other tirades in response to simple inquiries from reporters).
We have seen similar inappropriate outrages by coaches. Oklahoma State's coach, Mike Gundy was allowed to slander, berate and personally belittle a female reporter in a yell filled tirade and then face no repercussions. We saw Indiana's Bob Knight get away with repeated inappropriate behavior for decades.
Even the millions, accolades and job security and chance to compete for a Wooden like legacy at Duke is not enough for Mike Krzyzewksi. We always hear about how humble he is, but that did not stop him accepting his arena from being named after him. How are students and faculty supposed to ever truly see eye to eye with someone in that position?
Sports media is not a watchdog
The so-called journalist that asked Calhoun whether he should take a pay cut, Ken Krayeske is reportedly a socialist and has an agenda independent of the bad economy. But anyone that points that out is just creating a smokescreen. Journalism 101 states that these are the tough questions that need to be asked.
Calhoun himself said that he would be willing to talk to Krayeske outside. That is reasonable, but he only said that after calling the reporter "stupid" and to "shut up." It is within reason for Calhoun to dictate some of the parameters of the debate as he may have found it better to talk about the game in a post game press conference. But more realistically, Calhoun is a state employee and he should have to justify his salary in the light, period.
Reporters should not be scared to ask valid questions at any time. When Krayeske said, "if these guys were doing their job then I wouldn't have to (ask the question)," he was right on the money. Sadly, those reporters are so intimidated by Calhoun that they indignantly grumbled (in Calhoun's and their defense) when Krayeske said that. Nobody likes to hear they are doing a bad job, but the fact is that those reporters did not want to be bothered with a reality check that they are not doing their jobs.
These types of weasels are found all across the sports media. If reporters had developed backbones long ago then coaches like Bob Knight would not have been allowed to constantly belittle them. Many of times, reporters just sat there and let Knight scold them for minutes for mere indiscretions or valid questions.
These are the same weasels that clapped when Mike Gundy inappropriately yelled and glared at a reporter because he did not like her column. He called it three-fourths untrue but was unwilling to specify what was wrong with it. We are talking about a man that had the audacity to yell at a woman saying she "obviously never had a child" after she simply criticized a grown man's performance on the playing field.
The weasels need to stop getting lost in the show that is sports. Stop allowing the Calhouns of the world to have a stranglehold on sports programs. Stop clapping for the Stoops of the world belittle your own associates. If these weasels start doing their job, then accountability can be restored in sports.
After Gundy made his tirade, the weasels were like a crowd at The Colosseum, cheering for the death of a gladiator. But for those of us that have some pride, we only felt a queasiness in our stomachs. It is a queasiness that a man like Mike Gundy is allowed to not only be allowed by universities to coach to the tune of millions, but that he is propagated by the media that is supposed to scrutinize that type of behavior.
To parallel Mike Gundy's opening statement of that infamous press conference, that tirade should make university officials and media members feel embarrassed to be involved with college athletics; whether they have children or not!
go to school every morning make me vibrant! while waiting for school bus passes in front of the house, I usually wait with a friends. When ride the school bus, and I find all friends already in the school bus, because my house is the nearest from the school. Wow .. how happy ride school bus with friends. How about you?go to school every morning make me vibrant! while waiting for school bus passes in front of the house, I usually wait with a friends. When ride the school bus, and I find all friends already in the school bus, because my house is the nearest from the school. Wow .. how happy ride school bus with friends. How about you?
Derek Jeter is known as the consummate teammate. He was the leader of a New York Yankees team that won four world championships in five years. He lives the Manhattan penthouse life and he is a model citizen. That is the profile anyways."People always ask that question, (you know) do you feel as though somebody cheated? Well first and foremost, you cheat yourself. I think that's the message that needs to be out there," Jeter said.That's a good question Derek Jeter. Did he cheat? Because A-Rod's story is that he took steroids by mistake. We just know that is rouse and anyone as intelligent as Jeter knows that is so also. Yet later on in Jeter's press conference he had no problem calling A-Rod "honest."
"The biggest message that needs to be out there is that everybody wasn't doing it. (I mean) You hear about people saying this was the steroids era. There were a few players in this era taking steroids, but it wasn't a steroid era. I mean you have what a hundred something people fail the test and how many people are in the major leagues, 1200? You have 1100 people that haven't done it," Jeter said.Did Jeter read my entry, 'It was not the steroids era; it was the better steroids era'? OK, probably not. But how does 104 steroid users qualify as a few? Because only one in twelve people were caught cheating he wants to play it down? If you throw a party on Christmas Eve with a dozen people and play Monopoly and one person is slipping himself a gold bar ($500) every turn then do you say well the biggest issue is that the other eleven people were not cheating?
"I always hear other thing about should the other 103 names come out? Really, what's that going to do? It's just going to be another story and it's going to be another black eye for the sport," Jeter said.Jeter had an attitude that we should all just move on that the dialogue is tired. It is only tired because Jeter is mirroring his players association that stifles discipline. It was that attitude that allowed for 104 players to anonymously cheat and not be punished for it. It was an attitude mirrored by MLB dunderheads like Commissioner Bud Selig and Yankees GM Brian Cashman. They would love to turn a blind eye and move on. Why not. It worked in their Days of Yore.
"You see some of the things these players are going through and then they have to admit it; that's worse than somebody being suspended or anything like that," Jeter said.So what, A-Rod is a sympathetic figure here? His shame is punishment enough? Granted he does have the Scarlet S on his chest. But let me remind Jeter that A-Rod also wears the blacks NY on his chest. To give him a pass and even allow him to keep that NY on his chest just makes an incoherent gray symbol. There's just nothing special or meaningful about what it means to be a Yankee at this point.
"You understand people do make mistakes, nobody's perfect. We're hear to support him recover from that mistake," Jeter said.Why is this merely a mistake. Why is the c-word blantantly missing from Jeter's dialogue. Stop minimizing the severity of his crime against baseball. This is not merely a mistake. We are talking about a man that has cheated his way to the most amount of money in baseball history. We are talking about a man that would have been considered the best player in baseball history (at least statistically). We are talking about a man that was winning MVPs and countless accolades for his perceived greatness. This was not just a mistake this was criminal, literally. Jeter calling it merely a mistake is bombastic.
"Unfortunately when you are in the spotlight any mistake you make is made public and people are talking about it and they're scrutinize and stuff like that," Jeter said.There is nothing unfortunate about it. Let your light so shine before men. We want to see real players and we want our game unpolluted. We want cheaters to suffer real consequences. There is nothing unfortunate about that. Jeter is taking up a passive aggresive stance against the media and the public for having the audacity to not want to settle for less (sarcasm).
I remember with an ancient legend that says that cats have 9 lives. And they are also able to throw the enemy with his views. They can recognize the smell emotions enemy. And now they both are in love. Truly an amazing creature!
