Tag: Sports

Why Not Darts?

The 2012 Olympics have been a God send for me…….we have one of my favorite sports handball, soccer, which American women are playing almost flawless ball, fencing, which the US has a rising star , a 14 year girl, Lee Kiefer, who will be a super star…that is if she does not discover men….I have seen what that can do to an up and coming star………and the skeet shooter from the US…..she had a 99/100 score which ties Olympic all time record….there is also a 16 year old table tennis phenom that we will hear much about in the future…….so far we are doing pretty good but China is ahead of us in medal count…..but our forte is yet to come…..b/ball and track and field and swimming……..

That was my take on the games in the early days in case my reader had other things to do……but now I have a question……..Who decides what sports will be included in the games?

I mean come on!  I used to wonder  why badminton is included but…..circumcised swimming?  (Pun intend, not a mistake).  Should not the sports reflect the sports that are actually sports?  If you are gonna have circumcised swimming, why not fishing or golf?

Why not darts?  I mean there are more people in the world that sling darts than participate in circumcised swimming……now I see we have a circumcised diving event….and yet darts is ignored…..why?  At no point in my area in the 90’s there were about a 100 teams participating in the different leagues and we are lucky if we have 500,000 people living here….but yet badminton gets to go to the Olympics….why?

I guess darts are out because they are most associated with pubs and such and God forbid that the Olympics be associated with such riff raff……..after all the Olympics seem to be more about marketing than the sport, because we know thrilling we Americans think a dancing horse is….amusing maybe, but a sport?

2012 Thoughts Without Posts #4

There is just so much info out there and we cannot do a post on it all….so I make about a bazillion notes a day and some never make it into posts …..so I from time to time use some of those postless notes as a post…….

1–Is it really necessary to remake Spiderman already?

2–Does anyone really care about the marital problems of Tom Cruise?

3–How many times can sports announcers use, “Looks like Tiger is on his way back to the top”?

4–The new clothes washing soap that comes in little packets is poisoning children who think it is some sort of candy.  That is a tragedy…..but are Americans so damn lazy that they cannot measure the soap to do clothes?

5–Will the 2012 election ever be about what is best for the people or will it remain what is best for any given party?  2012 is the most bullshit election that I have ever seen!

6–For years unions were blamed for the price of cars (especially by the GOP) but since the recession and all the give backs the unions have done why are cars NO cheaper?

7–GOP is pissed at Roberts for his vote on the ACA….but I thought the court was the political referee and not a partisan institution…..wassup?

8–Is everyone else as sick of the political games as I?

9–When did GLUTTONY become a sport?

It’s Embarrassing!

There are so many things about my state, Mississippi, that is embarrassing….but this one takes the cake…at least for now…..

It is March madness time of the year and B’Ball enthusiast are glued to the TV pulling for their favorite time…..and there was an ugly incident at the Univ of south miss v Kansas State game……K state has a good player in Angel Rodriquez and when he was on the court the band of USM started chanting “Where’s your green card”?

This incident goes along with my post today and my exchange with a loyal reader Terrance of Sibboleth nation (go to blogroll and visit his site whenever possible)…….it illustrates just how much the New south has NOT changed….and these are students in a major university in the state….so how does it bode for the rest of the state?

Apparently these pea brains have not learned that Puerto Rico, where the player was from, is part of this country and therefore he is a citizen…pretty much explains why Mississippi is so low on the educational scale………

This was done on the same day that our newly elected governor signed into law our version of a “show me your papers”  law……….just shows the mentality of those within the state….NOT everyone thinks as they do…but these people were representing the state as well as their school and the NCAA should take action to stop this type of incident from occurring at sporting events……

USM lost that game….kama strikes again!

Can Golf Be Hazardous To Your Health?

My last day of quiet time, well mentally at least, and as usual I have found something that is really weird or in this case, just sick…..

You know I have often pondered on just why anyone would watch something as boring as Golf on the tube and then I met a guy that thinks fishing on TV is good entertainment……but back to golf…….I tried it a few years back and know why these people drink beer and ride in carts…it relieves the tedium of the game….but I guess it could be made more interesting…like a public course in my city….it is laid out around and through the city sewage treatment plant…..and it makes it more interesting when you throw in the intense smell and the flies….good fun!

But this I read this story……

A Texas man was impaled with a golf club, allegedly because one group at a Fort Worth golf course was playing too slowly.

Clay Carpenter, 48, suffered massive blood loss and faces the possibility of a leg amputation, after spending nine days in the hospital. He was among a group at the Eagle Mountain Lake course who were apparently trying to pass the golfers in front of them, the Star-Telegram reported.

Cops are investigating the evidence in the case, including an 11-minute 911 call obtained by the paper, in which one of the golfers can be heard screaming at the dispatcher to get a helicopter ambulance because Carpenter was “bleeding profusely” and “he’s about to die.”

It’s still unclear who jammed the iron club into Carpenter’s leg during the melee and who threw the first punch.

MyFox-DFW reported that the fight broke out at about 3:30 p.m. and that Carpenter’s assailant may have swung the club at his head before it broke.

During the 911 call, the other golfers said that Carpenter’s groin was “leaking [blood] like a faucet” and that they had to pinch his femoral artery to stop it from bleeding while paramedics arrived.

What more can be said?  The UFC comes to the golf course……God, I love this stuff!  I have often thought of ways to make golf more interesting but this never seem to be on the list……

On Penn State

I was not going to write on this issue because I knew it would piss me off and put me in a foul mood for the rest of the day…..but somethings need to be addressed whether they piss you off or not…..

By now everybody in this country have heard the story of the PSU coach who has been accused of raping little boys for years….I know most men know of it because it involves football and that is something that they must keep track of in the their lives……more so than the country that is dying slowly….but who is in the lead in the BCS is the important issue…….

Okay, it seems that this degenerate was observed raping a small boy in the college’s football showers….the person that observed it reported it to Paterno who in turn told the AD….the punishment was the keys were taken away from the man who committed the crime……and then it was swept under the president’s rug and everyone went ton their way playing football….enough done!

What crap!  For one thing Paterno like any other winning, high visible program, the head coach is king on the campus….when he speaks the president listens and then does…..I want to know how a school that has been a champion of decency could allow this to happen….and how did anyone involved in the cover up could sleep at night…..

At what point did a sports program become more important than the rape of a minor?

Paterno has lost his job…..and with the announcement the students rioted on behalf of Paterno.  Think about that!

The loss of their head coach was more important than a known pervert had raped a minor in the school’s showers….hope the parents are proud of their children.

I do not care how pumped up a person is about their school’s program…..it is NOT acceptable to condone child rape and the firing of the coach is a minor result…personally, none of that went far enough…everybody involved in the cover up to protect the school’s football program should be confined in a federal prison…NO!  That is too good for them….they should be put in general lock-up…….

This whole situation just shows where priorities are for the colleges in this country….the sports is everything……the 10 year old is NOTHING!  The students have shown just how pathetic they can be…….and the athletic departments will do anything for the cash….no matter how perverse the act is…….

I will no longer consider PSU as one of the best colleges in this country…there is nothing that they can say or do that will make people view them as anything but a pathetic institution!

Here’s a question….how many PSU students were arrested for rioting?  Now how many OWS protesters are arrested?

A Real Jobs Plan

Sunday…last day of mental cleansing……

Unfortunately, I could not get away from the politics of the day….everybody has a jobs plan….well everybody but congressional GOP…..but few have a chance of passing the smell test…..but I found one that just makes sense (it is sarcasm)……

In the name of job creation, Florida state Rep. Ritch Workman (R) filed a bill this week to bring back “dwarf tossing,” the “barbaric and dangerous barroom spectacle that was imported from Australia and thrived briefly in Florida before it was outlawed in 1989,” the Palm Beach Post reports.

Said Workman: “I’m on a quest to seek and destroy unnecessary burdens on the freedom and liberties of people. This is an example of Big Brother government. All that it does is prevent some dwarfs from getting jobs they would be happy to get.”

And the Left is bitching that the Repubs do not have a jobs plan…see how wrong people can be?

Gone With The Wind

As usual it is the weekend and I let my mind wander to places that it would like to visit…..today the title is Not about the blockbuster film of the 30’s….but rather something completely different, to quote Monty Python…..

I had been thinking of what our troops were doing in their war zone spare time……I mean there are not many bars to hang in, or girl watching is pretty much out of the question………..so what is left?  listen to music, or TV or one of those endless card games that seem to go on for weeks or months……what are some of the other forms of “recreation”?

Okay, let us step into the “way back machine” and go to the days when I was in the Army in Vietnam….I know…I am ancient.

There were times when we had a lot of dead time on our hands….long stretches of pure boredom….so what did we do?  Play a little football, music, radio and those endless poker games….and there was another form of recreation that is not talked about too much.  (pause here for thought)……..The body function known as flatulence….that is right….we turned the art of farting into a sport!  Once we got beyond the “poll my finger” thing and the “silent but deadly” attack……  There was the Divine Wind…..where points were given for categories like duration, audio and odor and then there was Blast-Off, this one was where a person would assume a position and have a partner hold a Zippo up and the fart would be lit……grading was two fold…..color and duration……..,and the winners of the different categories had to eat everyone’s mystery meat sandwiches for the night.

I realize that some may find this a bit disgusting but think about it….what else would you expect from bored 20 year olds?  With that out of the way….I will, bet that you are asking just where the Hell am I going with this post?  Right?

Well, to be honest when I was surfing the other day I found a report that was a bit disturbing to me…..it was on the Newser website……..

US military leaders, sensitive to winning hearts and minds in Afghanistan, have instituted several unloved regulations on troops there—no swearing, no talking about volatile subjects like politics or girls. But now leaders apparently want to win ears and noses, too, as they have introduced an unusual no-no—no farting, according to the Military Times. In particular, the rule is no audible farts for downrange marines. “But farting? That’s practically a sport,” writes Gina Cavallaro. “OK, it’s not soccer, but a good contest could open the door for cross-cultural exchanges, jokes, and other gallows humor.” Or perhaps the top brass is just overly sensitive to criticism that the US forces in Afghanistan could cut-and-run…

A ban on audible farting?  Come on!  The guys and gals in Afghanistan cannot hang out in bars or go girl watching….let us be real here…there are only so many hours that you want to pass a football or play cards….now with the farting thing gone….If you had been in a war zone then you will know that there are times of prolonged boredom and a 20 yr old will find ways to fight that boredom…….what will they do now to avoid the boredom?

Losing Has Its Consequences

Last month we had the World Cup…lots of great futbol and some great sideshows also….like the Dutch porn star that would have broken a record if her team had won…..and the model from Paraguay that was gonna run naked……and then there was the North Korean team that the coach had a mental link with Lil Kim…….but that is not the end of that story…..

North Korea, who lost all three of their group games, have been subjected to a six-hour excoriation for “betraying” the communist nation’s ideological struggle, according to reports.There are even fears for the safety of the team coach, Kim Jung-hun, who was accused of betraying the son and heir of the regime’s “dear leader,” Kim Jong-il.

Early this month the players were summoned to an auditorium at the working people’s culture palace in Pyongyang, forced onstage and subjected to a six-hour barrage of criticism for their poor performances in South Africa, according to the US-based Radio Free Asia.

The coach was reportedly accused of betraying the leader’s son, Kim Jong-un, who is expected to take over from his ailing father as leader of the world’s only communist dynasty.

You gotta love this stuff!  I was thinking that maybe England and France should chastise their players for being dicks and prima donas…….Damn!  American football be a lot more interesting if this type of stuff would go on…….Oh well…..we got 4 more years before the next shot…..

This Is Why Soccer Rules!

I have been a soccer fan, futbol to the rest of the world, for a long time and there is a perfectly good reason why.

You will never see stuff like this with Baseball or Basketball or American football.  In American football we get guys with painted faces and large wedges of cheese of their heads or we get fat guys with no shirts and bodies painted the team colors….all in all too damn boring.  We NEVER get stuff like this:

A porn star from the Netherlands named Bobbi Eden has promised oral sex for all of her Twitter followers if the Netherlands win the World Cup. Fun!

Eden’s number of followers has gone from just over 4,000 on Tuesday when she first made her courageous promise, to 66,163 as of right now.

Or stuff like this……

Remember Paraguayan model Larissa Riquelme, and her courageous promise of naked street-running should her countrymen reach the World Cup Final? Well, they didn’t quite make it that far, but she still got quite nude.

Yes, still eager to thank her team for all of their hard work and dedication following their loss to Spain, Riquelme didn’t really run anywhere naked – she just stood still and allowed a professional photographer take pictures of her naked.

Here are the (NSFW) photos, courtesy of the Daily Mail. Should you try to go to the website that is watermarked on these bad boys, you will be faced with a whole lot of load time – apparently they’ve seen a small surge in traffic since publishing said photos.

[Larissa Riquelme sports best strip of the tournament] Daily Mail

This is why soccer RULES!  I had much rather see these two than some drunk fat guy without his shirt….but then I am a bit more rational than most American sports fans….

Americans could learn a thing or two from our international brothers and sisters….Go Espana!

Now Here Is An Idea!

Bobbi Eden

A porn star from the Netherlands named Bobbi Eden has promised oral sex for all of her Twitter followers if the Netherlands win the World Cup. Fun!

Eden’s number of followers has gone from just over 4,000 on Tuesday when she first made her courageous promise, to 66,163 as of right now.

Yes Irene there is a GOD!