UConn's Women Win 69th Straight....

The UConn Huskies Women's basketball team brought their record to (30-0) last night with a win over Notre Dame. (the number after the dash is for how many people care)

Kudos to the Huskies Women's basketball team on going undefeated in the always powerful Big East. But, until women start playing against the men, I still will not watch women's basketball.

If every male athlete came down with a serious case of worms, there were no male sports for a month, and ESPN aired middle school chess tournaments and ESPN2 showed the undefeated UConn Huskies Women's basketball team vs. the undefeated Tennessee Volunteers, I would rather watch a sixth grader think for 12 minutes to move his pawn one spot forward than watch basketball in slow motion. (women's basketball)

It's nothing against women or them being less athletic than men, inferior, or any other male chauvinism. It's because women's basketball is not interesting. It's slower, they shoot at a lower percentage, and they can't dunk (minus a handful of players).

I don't give my girlfriend (a lot of) crap for not wanting to watch baseball, football, or men's basketball with me. I don't call her sexist or feminist for it. She just doesn't find it interesting. But, I don't see her turning on the T.V. to watch the Connecticut women play basketball.

I may be a lone wolf here. You all may actually care. But, I don't want ESPN wasting even a headline on their main page for a women's basketball game, unless someone bitch-slapped someone.

Damn Canada

Just when the United States of America was in all its glory, bringing itself out of recession, electing its first black President, and sending its most recognizable athlete to sex-addicts anonymous, Canada just HAD to go and ruin it by beating us in our favorite sport.

On the 28th of February in the year of 2010, Canada officially made this personal, beating the United States hockey team 3-2 in overtime. No one comes into OUR country and beats us in OUR sport on OUR ice. It's officially on, Canada.

You think that, just because the world let you run with the big boys, you can just go on and win the gold? The US athletes have kids and families back at home. How are they supposed to feed their kids with a silver medal? I guess you just expect them to go back to work at their measly 7 figure jobs. It's ok. We'll get you back. See you in 4 years, Canada.

Sportsaholics Fantasy Baseball League

Sportsaholics.net is running a fantasy baseball league (or 4). The scoring system will be like football where you get certain amounts of points for hits, doubles, wins, etc. If you want to join, shoot me your email at smalik06@vt.edu or comment on this post with your email and I'll send you an invitation.

If anything doesn't make sense or you have beef with the scoring or positions, let me know and I'll consider a change.

Players' Union Says "No" to Needles

NFL executives have proposed a plan to the NFL Players Association for HGH testing and the Players' Association isn't O.K. with the athletes being blood tested. HGH is merely a rule violating substance that would enhance players' ability to perform their job. I can't see why the league would be so against it. And, blood testing? OMG! Needles are inhumane! How dare the employers of million dollar athletes want to make sure that their employees are playing by the rules!

I am a server at a "fine dining" establishment. My job is to serve our guests and make them happy. Now, I could better perform this major task of my job by giving the guests free food. I could slip the 15 year-olds some shots of Jager and maybe dribble some Viagra in Grandpa Ricky's coffee; get them all riled up. They'd be a happy bunch and they'd certainly come back again. (especially Grandma Jean) Hell, I'd be happier during work if I downed a few Rum-and Cokes before clocking in.

And, if my manager asks if I'd been drinking, I'll tell him that the Servers' Union would prefer him to email me any questions he has about my substance abuse. Face-to-face questioning is not desired.

Unions were created to protect employees from their employers' unethical practices, protect mothers from losing their jobs while they're squeezing out future generations of unneeded younglings, and to ensure that 9 year olds aren't getting paid 25 cents an hour to perform manual labor. (even though the lack of manual labor in preteens is what's wrong with today's generation)

Unions shouldn't be created to protect multi-million dollar athletes from following the rules set forth by their employer who's paying them millions of dollars.

Put the NFL on the Bench

Take a deep sigh, everyone, because football is over for the time being. All we have left to hold onto are the annual story lines of "Favre-Watch," "Who will be stupid enough to sign T.O. this year," and "Which quarterback will get a ridiculously overpriced contract in the 2010 NFL Draft."

But, don't fret my friends. Because, if we're lucky;

• The Redskins might sign an overrated free agent to a historically high contract

• Kurt Warner will finally retire and we'll get to officially watch Matt Leinart fail on center stage

• Favre will fake an injury to excuse his final interception of the season and future return to the Vikings after training camp

• We'll get to watch everlasting coverage of college grads running routes and blocking dummies and Mel Kiper's 20th mock draft of the week. Why don't we let football go? Just for a couple months. It won't hurt that bad.

Yes, you may cry yourself to sleep every night, but it's better than watching 24 hours of ESPN analysts analyzing each other's analyzations of the back-up left guard from West-Central Louisiana Tech University.

The Washington Capitals lost their first game in 14 contests. Syracuse has been dominating the basketball world since being shunned from the NCAA Tournament 2 out of the last 3 years. North Carolina Basketball is in turmoil. The Olympic National basketball team roster has been announced. These are all more intriguing things to think about than Mel Kiper's projected 5th round selection by the Cincinnati Bengals in the NFL Draft.

Come on, coach, take NFL out of the game and put him on the bench for a while.

Learn the Difference

An end-around and a reverse are two football plays that involve handing the ball to the receiver. National commentators who are payed to talk about the game aren't smart enough to tell the difference. Here's the difference....

An end-around is a play where the quarterback fakes the hand-off to the running back and the split-end (or "end") comes "around" and gets the hand-off.

A reverse is a play where the quarterback hands the ball off wide to the running back and he hands it off to the wide receiver. If the wide receiver then hands it off to another player, it's called a double-reverse.

So, next time you're watching a game with a bunch of people and the commentators get this wrong (which they do at least once a game), you can sound intelligent by correcting them. But, if you're watching it with your girlfriend, she probably won't appreciate the tidbit of knowledge as much as you'd wish.

Larry Johnson to be a Bengal

A long-overdue signing of Larry Johnson will take place today. The Cincinnati Bengals are rumored to pick up the running back, who the Chiefs dropped a week ago, as insurance to a banged up Cedric Benson. Problem is, Johnson hasn't had a good year since 2006. If football was like dating, dude would be considered "out of the game."

My guess is he woo'ed the Bengals with some sweet pick up lines like, "I'd like to be the starting running back on YOUR first place team." Or, "I'd like to run the ball between YOUR two tackles!" (I could come up with these all day) Then, Johnson slipped 'em a few drinks and told 'em how beautiful they are in their black and orange, they giggled, and WHAM, he's got a date. Pick me up at 4:15 on Sunday, Larry.