On the 100-0 high school basketball game

Dear Micah Grimes,

You know normally I'm supportive of my fellow namesakes, but you really screwed the pooch on this one. If this report is even remotely accurate, you seriously screwed up and got the proper punishment.

Having been a coach on both sides of debacles like this (though not this bad obviously*), you deserve your firing You were running up the score. If you can't keep your team from doing something like this, you lack the discipline and judgment necessary to coach. If you lack the coaching ability to figure out ways to prevent your team from scoring quickly, you're not innovative enough to coach. You had kids shooting treys in the fourth quarter!

This was a ten round boxing match that should've been a second round KO, but the ref was powerless to stop it. The manager, you, instead of instructing your fighter to stand over his opponent for eight more rounds, told your fighter to go out there and wallop them while they were down.

Learn your lesson. Have a good life. If you truly see the err of your ways (and not that you were fired), I wish you success in finding another coaching gig, but know that you will always be the guy that ran the score up 100-0 on a school for kids with learning disabilities.

Thanks,
Micah

*Getting beat 14-0 in soccer is pretty dang close though.

The other thing I never thought I'd see

The Buzzsaw That is the Arizona Cardinals is going to the Super Bowl.

Now that's a miracle.

Oh Diego...

From this:


To this:


20 years can be hell on a guy.

Don't call it a comeback

Er... actually do:

Chief Illiniwek "retired"

Illini Pundit* broke the story that Chief Illiniwek will be "retired". The UofI confirmed the story (link goes to .pdf sorry) in a press release stating flatly:

URBANA—The University of Illinois today announced that Chief Illiniwek will
no longer perform at athletic events on the Urbana-Champaign campus after this season’s
last men’s home basketball game in Assembly Hall on February 21.

As a consequence, the University will immediately become eligible to host post-
season National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championship events.

*What is it with the "pundit" thing. Instaputz is a terrible, though prolific, blogger who happened to get there first.

A Deadspin Google Bomb

Tim Hardaway power bottom

Supposedly, these don't work anymore. We shall see. We shall see.

Not feeling the Barbaro love

Sorry. Never felt it. Never will. It's was a horse goddamnit. A horse that had a better health care plan than 98% of all Americans. A horse goddamnit -- and as all top thoroughbreds are -- a genetic freak of a horse. So take your mutant money machine to the glue factory and pick up your last check. Just shut up about the goddamned horse.

New to the Blogroll

Gilbert "The Hibachi" Arenas is the only interesting thing* about the NBA anymore, and he writes his own blog on NBA.com. The NBA has become the sort of dull, soulless, faceless league the NFL is in danger of becoming. The NFL has one advantage over the NBA though. It's core product, the game, is not stagnant and boring to watch. So while I have no love whatsoever for David Stern's dull league, I do like the "bits of flare" that pop-up when a talent and character like Gilbert Arenas shows up. Someone get him and Clinton Portis to do a talkshow together.

*Mark Cuban's ownership of a team excepted.

via Deadspin

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