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Big Shot Bob, Roy Hobbs's Limp-Wristed Boy and More
I had a fancy blog entry all queued up earlier today, but then my computer crashed so this is the appended version of my previous verbosity as seen through the lens of a man who just got back from three nights in the Big Easy for his bachelor party (Motto: "Keepin' it Creole.")
There's a poll on AOL Sports today asking users "Should Robert Horry make it into the Hall of Fame?" 70% respond yes. The other 30% are not idiots. Don't get me wrong, the Bob was amazing in Game 5 and that left-handed, I-jump-like-I-got-bunions, hanging, floating, fingers-extending, improbable dunk was a classic, but Horry is a role player. Role players don't go to Springfield. Here's what else people are saying:
"This was Jordanesque. Reggie Miller in the '94 playoffs. Rip-your-guts-out stuff. And did he really hurt his shoulder drawing the foul on his basket late in overtime (and gacking that free throw), or was he just setting Detroit up, knowing they'd take the bait and double-team Manu Ginobili in the corner on the final possession?"
"We're always too quick to demolish athletes who make dumb plays or screw up at the worst possible times, from Byner's fumble to C-Webb's timeout to poor Bill Buckner … but at the same time, I feel like 'Sheed's brainfart will somehow get swept under the rug in the afterglow of such an electric game. Let the record show that Wallace's decision to leave a scorching-hot Horry to double-team Ginobili was the single dumbest play in the history of the NBA Finals. For sweeping significance and staggering inexplicability, it cannot be topped. I'm telling you."
The Phat Phree posts the top 10 worst sports movie performances, including:
"9. Roy Hobbs’s son at the end of The Natural I know, I know... he was only in the movie for like 3 seconds at the very end, and he wasn’t even technically playing the role of an athlete, but his abomination of a performance bears mentioning on this list. There is Roy Hobbs, the triumphant hero, rounding the bases as sparks from the lighting bank shower his home run trot (honestly, would the entire lighting system have exploded due to his home run? No, it wouldn’t... and yes, that scene still gives me chills) and then it cuts to Hobbs tossing the ball in a grassy field with his son... and in one limp-wristed heave, Hobbs Jr. almost ruins the movie. You are the son of the greatest baseball player that ever lived; throw that ball like you’ve got a pair!"
Sportz Assassin posts the 10 games to watch this college football season, including:
TEXAS at OHIO STATE [Sept 10]. Give Mack Brown credit. He’s trying to get his program into elite status. Last year, the Horns ended their season in the Rose Bowl beating Michigan. Now, they take on The Ohio State University in Columbus. This game could deal a serious blow to either team’s national title hopes....AND help them as well. A non conference game like this rarely comes along.
RealGM rocks the best draft steals of all time, top steals in this draft and their mock draft 4.0.
AOL's John Feinstein rips into Tiger in his Open recap:
"That said, there is no excuse for what he did during Friday's second round, when he missed a putt on the ninth green and proceeded to drag his putter across the grass, digging up the surface so noticeably that even the NBC commentators, who, like most in golf normally do everything but wear cheerleader outfits when Tiger's on the course, felt the need to chide him.
Woods made a half-hearted attempt to repair the damage, but it was still so noticeable when he left the green that USGA executive director David Fay got on his walkie-talkie and ordered the rules official walking with Woods' group to get someone to go back and repair the green before the next group arrived and someone threw a fit over its condition.
Fay then sent Tom Meeks, his senior executive on site, to have a "talk" with Woods when he finished his round. There was nothing the USGA could do to penalize Woods - he violated no rule - unless it wanted to disqualify him for his behavior, which it had the right to do. That would have been extreme. But the half-hearted statement Meeks put out wasn't even a wrist slap and Woods deserved a stern talking to from someone. There's simply no excuse for damaging the golf course. Wood said later, without apologizing, that he was, "frustrated." There were 156 frustrated golfers playing that day. Only one damaged a green."
Bonus: Tom Cruise kills Oprah.
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