This Week In Sports

Barry Bonds ties Hank Aaron's home run record, and short of his massive steroid enlarged head suddenly exploding, he'll probably break it soon. That will further the debate how Bonds is perceived by history - as great, but misunderstood ballplayer or the truth, a complete ass who set the record thanks to performance enhancing drugs. Taking the false side was Todd Boyd and I found his column quite amazing. He's arguing that Aaron is "hatin'" on Bonds by not showing up for the record breaking hit. Apparently, Aaron doesn't approve of the hip-hop generation. Come again? Oddly enough, Bonds is not usually the athlete I think of when I think hip-hop. Actually, I don't think of too many baseball players when I think hip-hop. Granted, I'm sure Aaron is completely devastated that the people who made Flavor Flav into a cultural icon don't look up to him or that a Gucci loving "hip-hop professor" at a film school wants to take away his Ghetto Pass.

Let's face facts. I didn't need one of Bonds' former teammates to say it's hard to dispute that Bonds cheated. It's obvious. I hear the silly argument that steroids won't help you hit a fastball. That's true. I'll give Bonds that he was always a good hitter, but there's a difference between hitting well and crushing homeruns. It would be easy enough to look at his connection to BALCO or the fact that he's become much larger. But let's look at his stats. Bonds has hit at least 45 home runs in six season. Five of which came at the age of 35 or older, and while playing in a park that is considered unfriendly to left handed hitters. Common sense tells you that is highly unlikely. Ironically, the pitcher who gave up the record tying home run was once suspended as a minor leaguer for using performance enhancing drugs. I guess he regrets going off the junk.

I'm trying to figure out something in golf. Tiger Woods won the latest golf tournament and the big story was that he was facing Rory Sabbatini who infamously said at the Wachovia Championship that "Woods looked beatable as ever". Supposedly, Woods winning really showed Sabbatini how wrong he was. Of course, the Wachovia was in May and was the last time Woods had won until Sunday. Yeah, Woods sure showed Sabbatini that he was still capable of winning a tournament every three months.

Apparently, scumbag nee Titans' cornerback Pacman Jones has signed with TNA Wrestling while serving his year long suspension from the NFL. Sure, when you're trying to clean up your image, getting involved in a pseudo-sport awash with drugs and steroids is the way to go. Of course, maybe Jones figures his transgressions don't look so bad when compared to Chris Benoit. I thought up a good gimmick for him, but Doink the Clown was already taken.

Michael Vick got another celebrity endorsement recently. Fellow overrated quarterback Donovan McNabb followed the Vick party line that he's being taken advantage of by his friends. Sure, just because (as I pointed out before) it's highly unlikely an operation of this scale could have been paid for by any of the people involved not named Vick, but I've never said McNabb was too bright. Come to think of it, I don't know anyone who has. I did find a video of an animal fight. Word is that Vick had 20 large on the black dog.

Steve Spurrier is pissed at the University of South Carolina's admissions office for not letting in a couple of recruits. I've got to side with Spurrier on this one. How do the Gamecocks expect to compete with in the SEC if they don't let the dumbasses in? What's next? Boosters not giving money to players under the table?

Proving once again that Youth Sports are constantly run by morons, I give you American Legion baseball from Washington. Two teams were forced to forfeit their games because they had screen printed American Legion logos instead of patches. To begin with, there seems to be some confusion about what happened. Best I can tell is the league commissioner first said it was OK for them to play. Then he made them forfeit the game because the other team protested. Except the other team protested at the commissioner's insistence. Which means the commissioner is either senile or a dick. Considering the two teams were allowed to play even though they knew about the patches, I'm guessing dick. To be honest, what really gets me is that they made the teams forfeit games over a uniform violation. Not a fine. Not a warning. A forfeit. Real mature.

Speaking of youth sports, cheerleaders from two Texas high schools got into a "scuffle" at a Texas State U. cheerleader camp. Actually, from the sound of it, one group went looking for a throw down with a group on another floor. Throw in some lingerie and pillows and we got pay-per-view. Oh wait, they were high schoolers. Forget what I said before.

One heck of a wreck at the latest IRL race in Michigan. Mr. Ashley Judd (the Scot with the Italian name) got airborne, flipped upside down and wrecked to the point I assumed he was dead. He wasn't. And yet, after the race, the story is getting back to Mrs. MeMeMe herself, Danica Patrick. While running in third place, her back tire went flat causing a late pit stop which led to a 7th place finish. Yet, she insists (along with her media enablers) that it was her race to win. Interesting theory, because she was in third place with 14 laps left, not first. In front of her were her teammates Marco Andretti and Tony Kanaan so she wasn't going get help from behind. She had taken the lead earlier in the race when Andretti pitted, but she was behind him again which is a good indication that getting by him wasn't all that likely. Considering Kanaan is a much better driver than Patrick, I have my doubts that she would have been able to pass him even if she got by Andretti. At least in her pathetic whining, she agreed with me when she said, "But we didn't win the race and it's frustrating. It's not often you get eight out of 10 good guys out of the race and leave the rest." Pretty much what I said a long time ago. She could eventually win, but only if all the top drivers wrecked. She almost got that, but unfortunately for her, one of the top drivers was still ahead of her.

Actually, this race became what is now the norm for Patrick. She doesn't win, claims she should have and then blames (take your pick): God, fate, her crew, Dan Wheldon. Ironically, she's blaming Dan Wheldon for the big wreck in this last race, but taking out a good chunk of the drivers helped her out. She should thank him. If I didn't know any better, I would think she's a bitch. Oh wait, I do think she's a bitch. However, as I mentioned before, sportswriters are so politically correct that they give her a pass on everything. Of course, this PC behavior does lead to some amusing stories. I was reading this NASCAR column by Lee Spencer. I couldn't put my finger on what was wrong at first. Other than the fact that she was bragging about open wheel racing's diversity over NASCAR's because black driver Lewis Hamilton won on the Formula One circuit, and apparently, she is unaware that Wendell Scott was a black stock car driver at the highest level over 40 years ago or that three women drove in NASCAR's first sanctioned race at Daytona in 1949. Definitely give her the NASCAR beat. No, what got me about the article was the fact that she didn't seem to want to mention the ethnicity of Hamilton which means if you don't follow open wheel racing, you had to check elsewhere to find out he was black. Why? I believe it is because African-American is the only PC term sportswriters can use for black, but the problem is Hamilton is from England so African-American doesn't really work. In fact, African-American as the "correct" term for black is so prevalent, ESPN had to print a correction because one of their morning updates said Hamilton was the first African-American to win a F1 race. They had to correct the fact that he isn't an American.