The Real Sports Guru

Dear newly realized Rangers fans..

2010-10-23T14:10:00.000-07:00

Dear Rangers Fans,

Must be nice finally having a team that wins something. Trust me I know how that feels. My team usually puts out a team that has a pretty good chance of making the world series as opposed to making it once every 40 years amidst a change of identity (the rangers used to be the Washington Senators fyi you bandwagoners).

Congratulations on your first American League Pennant, you've beaten one of the greatest franchises in sports and I salute you. I mean it really is a great feat.

You guys make it to the world series once every 40 years, we average winning a world series every 4 years. So gloat, by all means.

But...

Remember this, when you guys start missing the playoffs again and your prized possession, Cliff Lee, comes to the Yankees, I will be there to remind you of your cockiness at this time. More than half of you cheer for arlingtons other team because the cowboys are suffering from a case of the rangerspre2010lymphoma.

Somebody told me that the rangers players are kids who love playing guitar hero and marrying their high school sweethearts while the yankees are douchebags who sleep with beautiful celebrities, make tons of money and have tons of accolades. Honestly guys and gals, don't spin that BS now that not for one second would you like to play for the greatest team and make lots of money and sleep with beautiful women.

I'll say it right now. I'd drop whatever I'm doing like it's hot and be on the next leer jet to NY.

Also, the yankees are one of the most charitable teams in all of sports. When the Tsunami hit asia a few years back, the collective money from all of Major League Baseball donated to the relief was 1 million dollars. The yankees by themselves matched that.

Don't talk trash yet, you haven't earned it. Realize that. Appreciate that your team is in a once in a lifetime situation and don't stoop so low and start crying Yuck Fankees.

You know what I mean

Yours Sincerely,

A True Yankee Fan.

P.S. Long Live The Empire.

Hindsight

2010-10-01T22:37:00.000-07:00

To be a senior. I thought it meant being a badass in high school.

Clearly I didn't know much then.

The last six years have probably been the most formative of my life and probably for most of the people I consider friends today.

It's hard not to look back and think "what if?"

As somebody that is constantly thinking about what's going on in the world, I find it very difficult to forget things I swore I would forget.

Things that bothered me in high school still to this day somewhat irk me.

It seems like its always the little things that matter. I also remembered that I am very cliche.

I stumbled upon my high school yearbook. First off it reminded me how much of a goof I was then. Somethings never change I guess.

But the biggest thing was...god damit have I gotten huge since then. It's disgusting.

The only positive thing is that I can now grow a full beard as opposed to my half-assed pubescent one that I was sporting in my senior portrait. Here's a hint: It wasn't pretty. But you already knew that.

This my last year of undergrad, hopefully, and I think it's time to grow up.

Goals for the rest of the year:

1) Get healthy. I don't wanna be swole, but I'd like to be able to run a 100 meters without dying.

2) Did I mention getting healthy? Oh right..well that again

3) Be serious about the future. It's happening with or without me. Time to shape up and decide what's what.

4) Finish of strong in school. People say its your experience that matters when it comes to getting a job. That's true, but I don't think having a GPA above a 3.5 hurts either. I want to make that happen.

Four things. Four things I can achieve.

There are no rainy days for me anymore.

You probably stopped reading after the title. But that's alright. This is isn't for you.

It's for me.

Thinking about getting a smartphone...makes you wonder

2010-09-28T17:09:00.000-07:00

So I hungout with a few hundred rednecks the other day

2010-08-28T16:09:00.000-07:00

The title is slightly misleading but exciting, insulting and often provacative headlines get people to read your stuff. So ya.

But I did. I went to the Mesquite rodeo for the first time Friday evening. Despite living in Texas for handfulla years I have never done the typical Texan thing and seen a rodeo show or seen the fabled think of "cowboy."

I have some family in town and when they think of Texas they cows, guns and rednecks. The rodeo gave them two out of three and guns could have possibly been in a few of the pickups I saw outside. Shotgun little buddy.

Not neccesarily like this, but close

It started out pretty well. The amazing smell of horse and cow manure, the clacking of shit kickers (cowboy boots), pretty ladys, annoying children and many more southern delicacies.

I now hate children again after a kid proceeded to kick my head after he got way to excited about a dumb rodeo clown.

After my family and I got situated the rodeo announcer (had no idea what that guy was saying) asked the croud to join him in a prayer to jesus christ. Now I don't hate this idea but the way he led up to the prayer is what annoyed me. He said, "we live in the greatest nation ya'll where we can practice any relgion blah blah blah blah now lets pray to the one true god jesus christ". What the ....

So not a great start for moi.

Anyway a few fellas did some bareback horse riding or whatever, which was pretty tight. Only maybe two of em lasted the 8 seconds to get a score or whatever. Like this other events continued to happen with cowboys mostly eating dust. It was entertaing but you know it wasn't mind blowing.

The rodeo clowns themselves are a joke (pun intended). Mesquite rodeo is graced by a fella named Leesle Harris or some shade of redneck name.

I <3 clowns. Not really I just wanted to say "<3"

He shelled out quite a few "oh my god my wife is so fat, ugly, dumb" jokes. Got a couple giggles from the crowd but it was "ight". My family could barely understand the announcer so when redneck Harris came out they were finished, and by that I mean Texans will forever be considered slow folk in their eyes.

Oh well, I love texas.

It got pretty entertaining when little kids had to hold on for dear life when they rode out on sheep.

Those kids were freaked out and maybe 2 of em lasted 5 feet.

God bless the rodeo for that little piece of entertainment cause in a way I felt like it was pay back for the annoying child from earlier.

Overall, I'd say the rodeo is an entertaining one time thing that any person who lives in Texas must attend. However it does nothing but push forward the stereotype that we are slow, republican rednecks. But I'll allow it cause it's southern culture and with everybody stressing change these days, it's good to see that some things never change, especially children.

If I offended any rednecks reading this. Well I am terribly sorry that...phew that was close. What I meant to say is that I don't give a ....

Sometimes Judge Judy really gets me.

Geez it's been a while

2010-08-20T10:19:00.000-07:00

To be cliché or not to be cliché.

Four score and something Abe Lincoln said, I decided to have a blog(a sports one at that). Well I have failed to maintain it. But that's about to change.

Due to unforeseen things such as my constant changing of majors and inability to suck it up and finish what I start (sounds familiar) I will be starting my 5th year in college this fall and it will be my last. So I will blog 2-3 times a week the rest of the school year about what it's like to be a 5th year senior and a student editor of my college newspaper.

First order of business: An update on what I've been doing all summer.

This toad is tripping

Taking summer classes. Not much is new here as long has it been know that as an Indian I am supposed to always be educating myself about something or another regardless of its relevance.
Working at The Shorthorn, essentially as the online editor, yet I wasn't, but was..but wasn't? I don't know it all worked out in the end.
I interned for Meals on Wheels of Tarrant County by producing videos that highlighted some of their clients, processes, volunteers and just general overview of the organization.

Second: Why have I not updated

Screw it

I AM LAZY. Surprise? No. Didn't think so.

Now something to look forward to. I will be the online editor of The Shorthorn this fall and it entails working long hours trying to make the website of the newspaper as great as possible. I will be working with my staff to produce interactive graphics, pages and what not to supplement content placed on the webpage.

I'll be taking 9 hours of classes. TV reporting 1, Genetics (for my minor) and Personal and Social Deviance.

So with that I will leave you with this enjoy.

GoOd day I say

A leap of faith

2010-03-01T08:48:00.000-08:00

Currently listening to : Let Go by frou frou from the Garden State soundtrack

If someone were to ask one of my friends the first thing that comes to mind when they think of me, musically inclined would not be at the top of the list.

The reason I even bring up this point is because the last couple of weeks I've had people come up to me and ask me what I like to listen to and essentially make judgment calls about my character based of off what's on my iPod.

I like to think of myself as a jack of all trades in the sense that I try to be good and involved with as many different aspects of a media form as possible. When it comes to music I can't tell you who my favorite band is because I am not devoted to anyone band or performer. I have preferences just like anybody else but I don't go in and out of my way to see a band perform.

Some people define their lives around music which is all great and I respect them for that but I am of the boat that music is not my life but an appendage to it. I'll sit down and listen to one song for hours because it'll reflect something going on in my life right now.

I've been to a couple of concerts sure. Rap, rock, electronica etc. I have everything from The beatles to Young Joc on my iPod. But one thing remains and that is my iPod isn't all that is me.

I make my ipod...not the other way.

mother nature be mad

2010-02-27T12:15:00.000-08:00

First of let me just say mama nature I'm sorry for not recylcing my trash last week.

Okay.

WHAT THE HELL. Another enormous earthquake in a third world country probably killing a bunch of more people and maybe more to come cause of tsunamis. Listen I'm glad that there aren't earthquakes in Texas but comeonnnnnnnnn whats up with all the death and destruction.

Next time i spill some brew for my hommies I might have to think twice and pour down the drain in stead cause you seem to be freakin out with the shaky ground

That one game last night

2010-02-08T08:04:00.000-08:00

As sunday rolled around I did what 100 million other people were doing and decided to pig out a little bit.

Traditionally on the biggest sunday of the year I don't usually chow down too much not because I don't want to but cause I am a lazy guy sometimes and I hold down the fort when it comes to "Lazy Sunday."

But yesterday chowed down on some classic guacamole dip, nacho cheese, popping corn, and other jibber jabber that probably helped me gain back some of the 9 lbs I've been working off the past month.

Oh and I also watched the super bowl. Commercials were half good. Best one probably was the snickers one along with your usual "men are awesome" bud light ads.

Union of the State

2010-01-27T19:31:00.000-08:00

Just watched the country's big cahuna deliver a long and somewhat amusing talk. Mista Obama talked about a lot of important things today: economy, jobs, college, money, jobs some more, economy again, lil bita iraq and wars sprinkled on there.

Not to be biased or anything but I didn't watch all of the speech, not because I didn't think it was good, but mostly because it was a speech. In my simple college-going-mind that is the equivalent of my professor talking for about an hour and half, of which I am awake for 3 minutes (give or take 3 minutes). But my favorite parts were when Obama busted out a couple of jokes. Not hilarious or anything but he took a shot and congressman Joe Wilson. Now that was pure brilliance.

Nice little jab at the dude who basically embarrassed himself by interrupting the president's speech last year. After Obama said that they were going to cut taxes for everyone or something like that he looked over towards Wilson's area and smiled and said, "I'd thought I'd get a few claps for that."

Oh Barack...funny guy.

Keep it up chap and also do all that stuff republicans expect from you but couldn't do themselves like improving the economy, making college cheaper, being good speakers, getting shoes thrown at them and being unable to believe that Rita died in the season finale of Dexter. Sorry folks...the episode was ridiculous.

Some things are just meant to be...

2009-10-04T19:11:00.000-07:00

So I am sitting watching tv right?

And sports is on the tv right?

And Arod is up and needs 2 homers and 7 rbis to extend his streak of having 30 hrs and 100 rbis in a season right?

And what does he do? Right?!?

He hits a 3 run HR and a Grand slam or a 4 run HR in one inning to knock out both milestones on the last game of the regular season right?

Incredible right?

Doesn't matter if he goes 1 for 30 in the post season right?

But you have a feeling this is a different season right?

You may hate the yankees but you see that even if they are a bunch of spoiled rich kids..they are excellent baseball players right?

So is it safe to say that the yankees are going to be a lot better this post season right?

Well in this biased bloggers book, that is totally right!

Shameful plug

2009-10-01T08:37:00.000-07:00

Well this isn't very shameful cause well it is my blog...

BUT

I am a DJ and a host on utaradio.com every thursday at 10 AM.

Listen to me folks I play some sweet music and in a couple of weeks i'll have my own show.

So check me out, its online all the time.

Something to ponder

2009-09-29T15:37:00.000-07:00

Why are fans so connected with teams or players?

I sit down almost everyday of the week wondering how my yankees are going to do today or how the longhorns are gonna do in the first half of their game this weekend.

I don't know why I am so attached to an entity that is supposed to be simply for entertainment purposes but has the ability to ruin my day, weekend, week or hell sometimes even month. But the contrary to that is the joy of your seeing your team do well and show promise and come out on top and rub it in my friends faces who talk smack.

Why?

Well here is what I think and probably many more as well but I am going to write it any way cause that's what blogging is right?

i) It is my escape from my inescapable life:
- I go to college and I hate it. Don't get me wrong I love getting an education and learning and seeing all these fabulous advancements in technology and education but I honestly just don't like inputting copious amounts of information in to my head that I probably won't use in the real world. But as my college see's fit they give us "general requirements" that are supposed to better us and be as smart as those overworked asian folks who seem to be grabbing all the jobs.
Sports allow me to come home watch a game, check the score, watch an amazing play, see a competition and experience something that many other people are experiencing.

ii) Everybody likes sports in some form or fashion and gives me the opportunity to talk about it with other people. I just like talking about the game last night or a play or even a bad play or just the state of a team with a friend or co worker.

iii) Sporting events and stadiums are just so freaking epic. The sheer size of a stadium makes me loose my speech. I have yet to go inside the cowboys stadium but that thing just looks epic. I went to every longhorns football game last year in Darrel K Royal Memorial Stadium and when the croud chants in unision "TEXAS!! FIGHT!!"" I get chills down the back of my spine.

These are some things I love about sports and I am sure there are more but I can't think of them right now but will probably soon and slap my head for it. But that's okay I have a blog and I can write whatever I want.

Till next time

Cheriooooo

Wow

2009-09-28T19:56:00.001-07:00

Wow so it is a lot harder to maintain a blog than I thought.

After attempting to make a some what knowledgeable yet "witty" web log I realized it is a serious pain to do it everyday and I tip my hat to those ardent bloggers who keep it up.

But lets update shall we.

The last time I blogged:

i)Everyone on earth(well except people still bitching about obama) were cussin out the yankees cause they had a bad start to the season. What happened next?

They went on to win the divison, the best record in the league, best record in baseball.

I think they did alright don't you? Let's see how they go through with it cause that is what's important.

ii) Cristiano Ronaldo still played for Manchester United. Well turns out he was worth a pretty penny as he was sold to the ever in-debt Real madrid. A cool 80 million pounds sounded real good to united who cashed in and brought in some more young players and guess where they are one month into the new season. You guessed it folks. FIRST.

Presidents come and go, the end of the world is off and on, it's cold one hour and hot the next in texas, but Manchester United and the New York Yankees seem to some how always find a way to to the top.

Obviously there have been copious other sports related things that have happened and there will plenty of time to talk about all that in the days to come. Just gota wait another 6 months folks.

Alrighty see ya in the spring.

No No it will probably be sooner than that....I hope.

The Reds keep marching on..

2009-04-06T17:50:00.001-07:00

It depresses me that more people do not watch football. No I don’t mean the one where one guy THROWS the ball to another guy and the ball touches a foot a handful of times in a game. I am talking about soccer but will refer to the beautiful game as football as it is known everywhere outside of the United States.

The first sport I ever played was tennis and will always appreciate the game, however my first sports love was football. Waking up early in the morning to watch a football game with my father felt nothing short of amazing.

As soon as I could differentiate teams and players I knew I would forever be a Manchester United supporter.

At the time the team was a budding sensation that was slowly but surely starting to dominate the new league formed in England: The English Premier League.

I have followed the team from King Eric to Giggsy. The red devils have always been a title contender and Sir Alex Ferguson(SAF) put up another amazing squad this year following last year’s double.

But SAF always knew how to fuse experience with youthful ingenuity.

Putting out a team lacking three of their starting defenders and his two starting strikers SAF knew it was going to be an uphill battle against a thirsty Aston Villa squad who got trampled 5-0 by Liverpool a week before. With Liverpool winning on Saturday they were not 2 points ahead of united atop the table.

United were all but up to the challenge.

Down 2-1 going into the last 15 minutes game the reds would need to produce another magical comeback. It started with Ronaldo completing his brace with a swift left-footed shot passed the keeper bringing Man U level again.

But the icing on the cake was produced by a completely unknown 17-year-old that Ferguson had placed on the bench before the game due to the lack of fit strikers.

Kiko Macheda was subbed in at the 60th minute and showed glimpses of what he was about to do at the end of the game.

In the 3rd minute of extra time Macheda received a pass, with his back to a defender, from Ryan Giggs just inside the penalty box and swiftly got away from his marker with a heavenly turn through his legs and placed a remarkable curling shot into the top right corner of the net passed the diving keeper.

Macheda had done it, United had triumphed, and effectively stomped on Liverpool’s dream of winning the Premier League for another year.

Even though there United still have five games to play, they have a game in hand over Liverpool and had gotten over their recent slump with Macheda’s resounding strike.

Watching that game made me realize why I had fallen in love with the game. Football always left me feeling anything could happen at any point. I only wish more American’s would see the sport for what it is and choose not to embrace it because they feel they have their “own sports” in baseball, “football”, basketball and hockey.

GLORY GLORY MAN UNITED!

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Macheda is swarmed by his teammates

The good, the bad, the Tiger…

2009-03-29T22:10:00.001-07:00

Tiger Woods is to golf what Billy Mays is to infomercials. He is the undisputed champ. You can just see it. “TIGER WOODS HERE AND I WANT TO INTRODUCE YOU TO MY DOMINATION OF GOLF! WATCH ME OWN MY COMPETITION WHO ALREADY KNOW THAT THEY ARE GOING TO LOOSE BEFORE THEY EVEN TEE OFF! ONLY THREE PAYMENTS OF $9.99!”

How many human beings do you know that can miss almost an entire year in their sport and still remain the No. 1 player. Who can return after 9 months and be considered the odds on favorite to win the tournament. There is no one else besides Tiger.

Woods won the Arnold Palmer Invitational Tournament today. It was his first win out of three starts since returning from knee surgery that kept him out 9 months. The win made it Woods’s sixth victory at the Palmer invitational.

Woods won it in classic Tiger fashion. He knocked down a clutch 16 ft put on the last hole and with darkness creeping over his shoulder. Half way through the balls roll towards its inevitable end in the hole Woods knew and was already celebrating in classic Tiger fashion. Fist pumps to the air and flash bulbs galore illuminating the darkening green.

Woods made the invitational the fourth tournament that he has won six different times. That is just ludicrous. Woods somewhat shaky in his previous two tournaments leading up to the win. By shaky I mean he only finished in the top 10. Jeez what a bum.

The man is a poster child for hard work getting you results.

NBC was showing his daily workout routine.

Wake up at 5
Two hour workout with weights at 6
Breakfast at 8
Hit balls at 9
Play nine holes at 10
Lunch Break at 12
Hit balls and practice putting at 1
Play another nine holes at 3.

The guy is dedicated and he just had his second kid. He is married to a former Swedish model. He is half black and half asian. He has everything going for him. Woods is the most marketable individual on the planet. He is extremely well spoken and he isn’t half bad at golf.

All hail the chief

2009-02-08T14:36:00.001-08:00

Thought this was really refreshing.

http://www.aprilwinchell.com/wp-content/cache/supercache/www.aprilwinchell.com/2009/02/05/barack-obama-is-tired-of-your-motherfucking-shit//index.html

I guess I never knew the new president till he told me to “buy my own damn fries.”

All Hail the Chief!

Technorati Tags: obama,fries,dirty mouth,hillarious

An A-Bomb for A-rod…

2009-02-07T18:42:00.001-08:00

Waking up this morning and turning on ESPN news I expected to hear about the previous nights scores and what not. But no. It couldn’t be that simple. There had to be some kind of breaking news flashing at the bottom.

“SI.com is reporting that Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in 2003.”

Immediately I turned off the television. Instead of going through my normal routine of checking espn.com, foxsports.com, and SI.com, I decided to get some coffee and think about this later. I then thought maybe I should blog about this but decided against it because I didn’t have all the facts and was simply running away form reality.

So after reading the original SI articles and the ESPN ones as well as some Yankees blogs I have come to my own conclusions on the much discussed super star.

I don’t care.

Just of the boat, this is information that should never have been released into the public. Rodriguez participated in a voluntary drug test in 2003 and was told that none of the results would be revealed and was to be sealed under court orders. So none of this is supposed to be public knowledge and whoever has released this information to SI is the real criminal and I wish there were a way of trying them for violating court orders. So all of this information should be irrelevant and nullified by the fact that it was obtained illegally. Just the way that evidence obtained without a search warrant is thrown out because permission was not given for the search to be conducted in the first place.

It doesn’t matter to me that he took steroids in the past before it was being tested or even if it was considered wrong. Whatever happened as happened. You can say what you want about steroids but it does not give you better hand eye coordination which is what most of hitting is. Rodriguez has never been on the media’s right side and is constantly being bombarded with questions about his character, marriage, hitting, fielding, kids, contract, image, friendships and of course for him not being "clutch”. When will it end. It seems reporters try anything and everything to find something wrong with him.

Say what you what but A-rod was a star and the best player in baseball way before he tested positive for steroids. Even before 2000 he had two seasons of 40+ home runs. I can guarantee by looking at him at that time you would see a scrawny little kid who just had all the god given talent in the world and was using it to max.

Now for those of you who are going to say that the Yankees now have another steroid user on their team and they are full of them. Well screw that. The Yankees did not know about any of this and are just as shocked as me or you. This all just a sad situation that should never have happened and now Alex Rodriguez is going to be the next Barry Bonds and will probably get dirty looks for the rest of his life. Great job Sports Illustrated! You just ruined another life. Kudos to you! Did someone say Pulitzer?

You don’t deserve it.

Technorati Tags: SI,espn,arod,pulitzer,foxsports,steroids

Reality is a cruel woman who throws salt on your wounds..

2009-02-03T20:40:00.001-08:00

Cruel mean woman = Nadal vs. Wounded child = Federer

Nothing was more defining of the legacy that Roger Federer will have to live with than the winners ceremony at the Australian open early last Sunday.

Staying awake until 2:30 a.m on Sunday I was hoping that Federer would finally take down Nadal because he had yet to loose to him in a hard court grand slam final. You notice how there are such little places or surfaces that he has not been beaten by his arch rival and this was the last straw. Federer came out of the gates and was nicely broken in the first game but broke back in the second. So both men were shaky but Federer had to have the edge as he didn’t play a 5 hour semifinal match.

Nadal looked crisp and won the first set as Federer was unable to again unable to hold his serve at the end of the set and I believe he was broken 3 times in the set overall. Not a very auspicious beginning. Over the course of the match they kept giving and taking cracking blows and neither showed much signs of wearing. Federer won the second set and seemed to have some momentum. Fed had about 10 break points in the third set but did not capitalize on Nadal’s mistakes and was forced into a tie break. Fed made too many errors and Nadal claimed the tie break. The story of the match so far was Roger’s inability to serve a high percentage. He went as low as like 40% first serves in the second set but managed to win that set. For the match he ended up with a 52% first serve percentage. Horrible stats for someone who knew he had to serve well in order to beat Nadal.

Throughout the match I saw the most unbelievable gets and shots I have ever seen. Both players showed why they were the cream of the crop and produced some of the most amazing points I had ever seen. Federer to me still has the best forehand and used it greatly to his advantage and won a great deal of his points thanks to that side. He firmed up his backhand as well and kept it flatter and I thought for a while that he had changed and was playing smart and could finally beat Rafa. He used all these to his advantages and won the fourth set and pushed it to a deciding 5th.

Federer came out flat and I had a really bad feeling. After Nadal went up 4-1 I couldn’t watch my idol any more and turned of the television and went of to to sleep hoping to dream of a better result.

Nope, I couldn’t even come up with a dream that had a different solution and Roger was beaten 6-2 in the deciding set. I would later watch the highlights of the trophy presentation and see Roger come to tears and couldn’t even complete his sentences. I felt disgusted and did not know who I was seeing. It wasn’t the 13 time grand slam champion but a mere child who couldn’t move the rock that was Rafa Nadal.

In the end Nadal proved that he was the best indeed and that the era of Federer complete dominance. I have to this point despised Nadal for being the one hump that Roger couldn’t go over and kept him from the title of greatest ever, but I have realized that he isn’t going away and he has a better shot of gaining that title then Roger does.

I will still cheer for Federer in future events but will never forget the images of him crying holding on to the runner up trophy, jealous of Nadal’s abilities and his own stubbornness to adapt to his toughest opponents weaknesses.

Nothing is more defining then the pictures below:

Oh how hard the great fall……

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Apparently there is a NFL game tomorrow..

2009-02-01T13:13:00.001-08:00

This might come as a surprise to some of you but there is actually a football game today. I think its called..it’ll come to me…give me a minute. Oh yeah! It’s the Super Bowl!

Now I know most of you had no idea because it’s not like ESPN, Fox Sports, NFL network were talking about this game for the past week and every hour of the day. No that would never happen. I mean it’s not like there is anything else happening in the world that’s important.

There isn’t much to say about the super bowl since every single person on this world is an analyst, self included, and has had their say about the teams and the game.

So here are my two cents.

The Cardinals are an amazing story and everyone is rooting for them. But let's be real people. The Steelers aren’t from the NFC and have super bowl experience which as much as it is overstated it is still important to a teams success in the most watched event in the world. I am just trying to come up with something to write here but I can’t because all those damn analysts on every network in the world has said it about a 1000 times already and I don’t want to sound like a broken record and repeat what they say.

So I am just going to give you guys a pick. I hate the Steelers not even going to try and lie.

Cardinals 17 Steelers 10. You read it here.

What’s with the grunting..seriously?

2009-01-28T20:32:00.001-08:00

Now I have been following tennis for a while and have loved almost every aspect of it. But one thing that I just can’t get past is certain women tennis players grunting like wild boars after each and every shot they play. Now I know the argument is that they are just trying really really hard and trying to hit the skin of the ball every time and this leads to them releasing their inner “uruk-hai” and scream at the top of the lungs that would even shatter a windshield. Now I am not just trying to single out women here because there are many men who grunt when they play their shots such as Guga Kuerten.

But seriously ladies. You guys grunt even when you play a drop shot. Come on. There is never a record of Steffi Graff grunting but she managed to win a couple of grand slams I think. But ever since Serena and Venus Williams stepped on to the tennis stage grunting has taken over women’s tennis like a fad. I feel like these players think that they have to grunt in order to be real competitors. For example Sharapova, Dementieva, Serena, Venus and now even this little girl have grunted all the way to the news stands.

I am sitting here watching the first women’s semifinal at the 2009 Australian open between Serena Williams(2) vs Elena Dementieva(4). These two women have been orchestrating an incredible amount of “melodies” between them but seem to be able to turn of their cries even during points. I don’t get this. They grunt for some of the point then just stop and are quiet even though they hit the ball and run just as hard.

I am all for effort but they just take it to the next level. We have to be real here. Most tennis players don’t let out these tribal cries but for those who do please be considerate of the audience and provide ear muffs.

Oh and one another thing. Not to pick on Serena or anything but a friend of mine photo-shopped the picture below and I had to give it to him. The uruk-hai of lord of the rings and serena do look awfully similar not because of the color of their skin or any of that. But just look at them..their both ridiculously muscular and look like they could eat a child. I am just saying..that’s all.

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What is the most difficult sport to be in?

2009-01-27T17:24:00.001-08:00

Been a long weekend and difficult to write about things other than the fact that my sister is now married, well kind of. Very happy for her and wish Vidya and Vivek a very happy married life, kind of.

But I also found out that people actually have read this blog. Which is flattering to know that even one person has read your material no matter how much they agree or disagree with what I have to say.

Now I have never been a runner, cyclist or any sort of track and field star. I had my hay day as a tennis player in high school and gladly told people I was my team captain. Now I am biased to tennis and have always felt that it is a very challenging sport that requires a lot of physical strength as well as endurance.

So this weekend someone told me that cycling, supposedly considered a sport(something I will talk about other day) should be recognized as the most demanding and difficult sport. Now I feel that cycling is a very demanding sport as you have to bike for extreme amounts of length and requires a great amount of concentration and over al physical fitness. But when I thought of a difficult sport to play that required those most amount of physical fitness would be football, soccer, and something like that. Cycling just is not on my radar, even if poster boy Lance Armstrong has won a million races and is trying make a “comeback”, and probably never will.

Now I was thrown all this scientific data like V2 max or something like that supporting cycling saying that they have the lowest resting heart rate and the most pristine examples of fitness. Cyclists travel north of 50 miles with out stopping up inclines and down fast slopes.

Now I am probably never going to appreciate cycling for what it is, but I figured that I would give it some due credit. I would rather play tennis for 4 hours in Australia rather then bike 70 miles up and down mountains in France. So here’s to cycling! Wu Hu! But it still isn’t a real sport and that is all.

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How to not remove a security tag

2009-01-18T12:09:00.000-08:00

I purchased a suit for my sisters engagement and not going to lie it was pretty nice. However the geniuses at macys forgot to remove that plastic security tag thingy and it didn't even beep when we exited the store. 2 weeks later I realize that my suit jacket still has the tag and being the lazy bum that I explored ways to remove it shoplifter style.

Step I: Open computer and google "how to remove tag thingy on clothing."

Step II: Unsuccessful search. Retry. Reword. "How to remove security tag from clothes?"

Step III: Eureka. Instructional videos on youtube posted to help bums like me.

Step IV: Take break. Check facebook. Stalk people. Now Check the video.

Step IV: Realize I do not have a bent screw driver and attempt to do procedure using a coat hanger.

Step V: Try and try to force open the dam thing. Apply voodoo curses. Sweet talk and ask the tag nicely to disengage from your expensive suit so that hopefully you won't destroy the suit by accident out of anger.

Step VI: Decide a career in shoplifting isn't in the cards for me. Think about going to macys today to have them remove thing. Have a tube light moment and remember I am lazy and procrastinate the job to tomorrow(hopefully).

Step VII: Check facebook. Update status. Eat lunch. Watch the NFC championship game on TV feeling accomplished.

Karma is a bleep

2009-01-15T19:22:00.001-08:00

People who come to a blog hoping to read an unbiased opinion are asking for a lot. So with that out of the way I feel free to show my "unbiased" opinion on a few recent occurrences in the sports world.

The Yankees have not yet signed their groundskeeper to a 100 million dollar contract yet. The reason obviously is that he is a Scott Boras client and likes to play hard ball seeing that he is going to have to tread and maintain a whole new field in the New Yankee Stadium. No but seriously on someone that maybe is worth at least a 100 million bucks to the Yankees is Andy Pettitte. Pettitte was virtually the leader and the ace of an injury depleted staff during the past season. No one will doubt that this is not the same pettitte of the pennant winning teams but he nevertheless provided a sense of stability to a much needed team. Sure his era ballooned and the wins went down but his experience and clubhouse standing were indispensable for a team that lost Mike Mussina and is in the process of firming youngsters Joba Chamberlain and Phil Hughes in to the rotation. It seems Pettitte rejected a 10 million dollar offer while he was looking for something closer to his last year salary of 16 million. Now I don't think either side is right in the negotiations and they must arbitrate and come to a compromise in the middle because pettitte does not deserve to be treated the way bernie williams was when he was on his way out.
But the reality is Yankees GM Brian Cashman is fully invested in his youth movement and believes that Phil Hughes will come to fruition and that he and Joba will live up to their potential at the expense of a valuable part of the Yankees last dynasty.
All in all it is simply out with the old ( Pettitte) and in with the new(Hughes and new Yankee stadium)

Lets consider a similar change in the NBA. For the past couple of weeks more and more "experts" are saying that Lebron James is the best player in the NBA and has surpassed Kobe Bryant in this category. Well since everyone today is considered an expert on anything and everything, this certain expert disagrees with the rest of his peers. James shows uncanny ability to penetrate and complete almost every drive he attempts at the basket with the ref usually signalling an and 1. His free throw percentage has gone up to 78 %, an improvement from his career average of 73, and his FG% is at an excellent 51%. The majority of his shots are layups therefore leading to such a high shooting percentage but most good teams will have the strategy to block of the lanes and force James to settle for jump shots. James has struggled tremendously in this area. He has a horrible three point shooter at about 29% which is an excellent way to change momentum as well as clinch a game. Just today in the Cavaliers loss to the Bulls in OT, James missed somewhere in the neighborhood of his last 12-14 shots. That is just unforgivable for the so called Chosen One. He hasn't proved to me yet that he can take over a game when his team is struggling and knock down shots when they need it. Today he missed a game winning two just inside the 3 point line as the clock expired showing once again he just isn't a pristine jump shooter like the other greats such as Jordan, Bird and Bryant. Kobe shows the amazing ability to drive his team and puts up numbers to back them and comes through when his team needs him. He revs up his team after a win and scolds them after the loss seizing the role of the leader. Even though Kobe passed up a shot to win the game last night against the spurs, it was ultimately the right call as he was being double teamed and had to give it up instead of just heaving up a long range three. To give the lakers the lead before Roger "Rocket" Mason's incredible three point play, he knocked down a huge 3 in the face of mason with time winding down. Just as a spectator I was scared to my bones, even though I won't publicly admit it, that whenever Bryant touches the ball I feel like he can go for 50 any given night if he really wanted to.

Oh and how awesome is it that the day after Martin Luther King day, the first black president will be sworn in to office. Karma sure is something alright.

You know what really grinds my gears.....

2008-12-27T12:15:00.000-08:00

Thought 1:
Whenever I see the bottom scroller on ESPN and it displays the times and teams of future games I always end up throwing up a little bit in my mouth. I am of course talking about the audacity of ESPN to predict "America's Vote". After showing the game they display a poll that apparently shows the completely opinion and knowledge of all Americans and who they think is going to win this particular game. For example in the Champ Sports Bowl: Florida State vs Wisconsin, America voted 82.3% in favor of Florida State winning this game. I have nothing against taking fan polls to see who they think is going to win the game but when you put the name of "America's Vote" it makes me feel like ESPN thinks far to highly of them and that they know all and are the end all of all things sports if they feel like they have the power to deem who "America" thinks is going to win a college football game.

Thought 2:
The freakin BCS. Ever since its induction it had caused controversy after controversy. Whether it was auburn going undefeated in a tough SEC a couple of years back or if it was the Texas Longhorns who beat Oklahoma on neutral field by 10 points but still do not end up in the National Championship game. The complicated and "intricate" way that the BCS calculating is honestly unkown to 99% of college football fans yet this computation determines their teams future. Now what about florida. They lost to an unranked Ole Miss team at the time at their own house. Now that is down right embarassing. If you are the reigning champs and you loose at home I think you are automatically out. Texas lost at an incredibally rowdy and fierce atmosphere in Lubbock on an amazing last second play, yet none of this goes into the calculations for a teams BCS ranking. Its complete crap and I couldn't be more disgusted. Hopefully the president elect does push around some of his weight as he said he will to push for a College playoff system. Just like the nike ad says, "Success isn't calculated, it is earned." Nuf said.

Thought 3:
Yankee haters and of teams who spend money to improve their team. This blind hatred of the Yankees for dishing out money to free agents to help improve their team is utter nonsense. The haters primary argument is that the Yankees are "buying championships." First and foremost each and every team is paying their players to win and put up numbers that will bring them to the World Series, so every team technically is trying to "buy a championship." Second if my team had the money to bring in star free agents but chose not to because they would rather develop young an inexperienced players I would be furious. What a joke. All this hatred is simple jealousy because people want to scream in outcry because they don't have the money flexibility the yankees do thanks to their glorious histroy and prestigous brand name. This has led to various small markey GM's to beg for a salary cap. The brewers general manage Doug Melvin whined right after the yankees signed Texiera about needing a salary cap because they couldn't compete with the money the yankees are spending. All I hear is waaaah waaaah waaaaah! Come on, seriously it is called survival of the fittest and whatever the yankees are doing is completely under the rules.

That's what really grinds my gears...right now.

Something about sports

2008-12-25T19:10:00.000-08:00

So here I am sitting on my lazy boy recliner watching TV when a light bulb appears above my head. "I should totally make a sports blog from a real fan's view point!" So here I am after 30 hard seconds of thinking up of a name for this blog and I come up with "The Real Sports Guru". "Sports Guru" to indicate that I am Indian and a sports genius and "The Real" to mock the imposters who have already taken the url for sportsguru.blogspot.com. Which by the way I am not linking so please do not visit their website as there is no such thing as free advertising.

First order of business:

Watching the premier Christmas day basketball game I was extremely entertained yet frustrated at the same time. I am of course talking about the Suns-Spurs rematch from the playoffs of like what the past seven years? Those of you who thought I was referring to the Celtics and Lakers you will soon learn that I am not big on Boston sports and am lukewarm for the Lakers. The Spurs trailed pretty much the entire game and pulled of an amazing win at the buzzer to bust the Suns bubble once again. The Spurs struggled incredibly shooting the ball, hovering constantly below 40% for the game before just finishing above. Tim Duncan was shown up multiple times by "The Diesel" with some "flashy" crossovers and easy layups. Manu shot the rock as if it weighed a ton and the Suns tandem of Stoudemire and O'neal were causing havoc in the paint for the spurs. So here we are again, Phoenix ahead for most of the game in their own building but no one seems to count out the spurs in any playoff atmosphere contest. They fought back after being being down 11 points to take the lead in the final minutes of the game before grant hill gave the home team the lead after recieving the ball back after inbounding to lay it in from a ball screen from steve nash. With 4.3 seconds left on the clock the building was on fire and the suns looked like they might have this one. But nothing but ice cold water seemed to run through the veins of the experienced spurs. Parker recieved the in bounds and drew the defense to him before passing it out to the perimeter to new spur this year, Roger Mason and BANG!! The shot is good as the clock expires and silence consumes the building while the spurs bench rush on to the court to maul mason. Once again the spurs proved their worth and stunned the suns when it counted the most.
Say what you will about the "boring" spurs but they always seem to show up come playoff time as can be seen by their 4 championships in the past decade.

On a side note I did not watch most of the Lakers game but am glad that the Celtics winning streak came to an end. I could not handle the ESPN analysts just hand the trophy over to the celtics already.

Second order of business:

Mark Texiera as a proud member of the yankee empire I would like to welcome you to the winning column. Say what you will about the yankees exorbant amount of funds and the crazy free agent contracts they hand out, but they are dedicated to their fans and the yankee brand and will take whatever it takes to put the best team on the field.

Now here is my first post for this blog, hopefully it comes to something and I gather a few readers who enjoy my views of the sporting world.

With that Happy Holidays and Boo yah!!