Necessary Roughness

two kingdoms, hundreds of thousands of miles

Archive for the 'sports' Category

Props to Kansas
Monday, April 7th, 2008

What an amazing finish to the NCAA Basketball Championship. The Jayhawks led it at the half, let things get a little hairy towards the end, then tie it back again with 2 seconds left with a CLUTCH 3-point shot from Mario Chalmers. In the overtime they took the lead and never looked back.
I’m originally [...]

Stars On Ice
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Due to the mix-up my mother-in-law suffered last November, we got free tickets to Smuckers Stars On Ice. We left the kids with a sitter, which was good, because we didn’t get home until 10:30.
I enjoyed watching most of the acts, and I was very impressed with the abilities of the skaters. Sasha Cohen [...]

Thank You, Mr. Favre
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

ABCNews reports that Brett Favre has decided to retire from the Green Bay Packers. I loved watching this guy, the play-making of an Elway without the baggage of “Gee, did he have to do that to the Chiefs again?”
Thank you, No. 4, for an incredible career, padding my fantasy football team’s stats on occasion [...]

Week 7 Refereeing
Saturday, February 16th, 2008

The eight-week basketball season is wrapping up, and I got to referee 2-1/6 games and watch another 1-5/6 games.
There was nothing crazy this time, but all of the 7-8th grade boys’ teams were so bad at maintaining man-on-man defense that the coaches agreed to assess a point for repeated illegal defense calls in [...]

Senator Arlen Specter (Republicrat-PA) has decided that Roger Goodell’s reason for the NFL’s destruction of its own property after its own investigation into the Patriots isn’t good enough. He is calling for a meeting with the NFL commissioner after the Pro Bowl, according to ESPN.
Specter told ESPN’s Sal Paolantonio on Sunday, “The commissioner’s explanation as [...]

Another Manning Gets the Ring
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

…but the Giants’ D wins the game, 17-14.
Great Super Bowl, unlike some. Congratulations to both teams.
What a mess with one second left.

I Take It Back, A Little Bit
Saturday, January 19th, 2008

The third week of the basketball season, I refereed three consecutive games, including the late girls’ basketball game. That turned out to be a good game. The score was pretty good for 7th and 8th grade girls, 32-30. It was probably the best game I officiated this season, with great athletic aggression but without the [...]

The AP reports that Oscar Pistorious, a double-amputee sprinter, cannot participate in the Beijing Olympics because his prosthetics give him an advantage over other runners.
It’s a cool world where this can actually happen. “We can rebuild him. We have the technology…”
Should he run in Beijing? No, of course not, any more than if [...]

  • Meta