Sports Today
Posted by: David Bunch
It seems that the sports world is buzzing about this weekend's upcoming NFL draft. All of the papers and websites that I have seen are busy trying to predict which player will be chosen by which team. For analysis, I'm going to defer to Brad and he can comment on the results when he gets back.
Also in the news today is the imminent NBA playoffs. It will be interesting to see how it turns out. For now, all I know for sure is that the New Orleans Hornets ended the season with a loss last night. No surprise there; they won only 18 times all year long.
The most interesting item of note in today's sporting news is the story regarding baseball's decision not penalize Yankee's player Gary Sheffield for his part in an altercation with a fan. At first glance I thought that this was another instance of a player humiliating himself and his sport by getting into the stands in an effort to go mano y mano with a fan. But this time it does seem that the fan was truly at fault. I have not seen the video, but from what the article on Yahoo Sports had to say, the fan hit Sheffield on the head while he was trying to make a play. He untangled himself and finished the play, and then from what I understand he went back towards the fan but security intervened before things got too revved up. Sounds like the league correctly decided that Sheffield had committed no foul
I'm glad that this did not turn into another Indiana Pacer/Detroit Piston melee in which professional basketball suffered irreparable damage that the league will be hard pressed to ever reverse.
That's it for tonight. See ya tomorrow.
Godspeed,
dB
It seems that the sports world is buzzing about this weekend's upcoming NFL draft. All of the papers and websites that I have seen are busy trying to predict which player will be chosen by which team. For analysis, I'm going to defer to Brad and he can comment on the results when he gets back.
Also in the news today is the imminent NBA playoffs. It will be interesting to see how it turns out. For now, all I know for sure is that the New Orleans Hornets ended the season with a loss last night. No surprise there; they won only 18 times all year long.
The most interesting item of note in today's sporting news is the story regarding baseball's decision not penalize Yankee's player Gary Sheffield for his part in an altercation with a fan. At first glance I thought that this was another instance of a player humiliating himself and his sport by getting into the stands in an effort to go mano y mano with a fan. But this time it does seem that the fan was truly at fault. I have not seen the video, but from what the article on Yahoo Sports had to say, the fan hit Sheffield on the head while he was trying to make a play. He untangled himself and finished the play, and then from what I understand he went back towards the fan but security intervened before things got too revved up. Sounds like the league correctly decided that Sheffield had committed no foul
I'm glad that this did not turn into another Indiana Pacer/Detroit Piston melee in which professional basketball suffered irreparable damage that the league will be hard pressed to ever reverse.
That's it for tonight. See ya tomorrow.
Godspeed,
dB
