Random Sportage
Posted by: Bradley McDonald
NBA
Dwyane Wade brought the Heat back from a 13 point deficit late in the fourth quarter to give Miami a victory and offer some hope to Heat fans in the best of seven championship series. Dallas is still up 2-1 in the series, but with Dwyane Wade on your team, anything is possible. This kid can do it all. I think he, along with Lebron James, will go down in the Magic/Bird/MJ vein of superstars. There aren't many players that have the complete game that they have at their young age.
Soccer
Is it just me or does it seem like every time the World Cup comes around the US media hypes up our national team and gives everyone the idea that THIS is the year that the US will finally be recognized as a soccer powerhouse? I saw several predictions of a US victory over the Czech Republic (coming from Americans, of course) and then the US team goes out and gets dominated in a 3-0 game. The Czech Republic IS the number two team in the world but that game served as a reality check: we're still not ready to compete with the best in the world.
French Open
In a matchup everyone wanted to see, Rafael Nadal defeated Roger Federer in four sets and ended Federer's Grand Slam winning streak. Both of these guys are amazing to watch. Nadal, who simply cannot be beat on clay courts, has so much energy and attacks at the right time. Federer is very technically sound and rarely makes a mistake, which is why he's still ranked at the top. Whether Nadal can overtake Federer depends on Nadal's ability to translate his success on clay to the hard courts.
US Open
And on to golf. The US Open begins tomorrow and all the attention is on Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, and rightly so. But who the world should've been watching this past weekend was Bradley McDonald and David Bunch, as they took up their clubs to compete in a Sheaves for Christ tournament. It was a hot day and the course wasn't in great condition since we haven't had rain since the days of Noah, but your friendly bloggers had a nice showing at the tourney and ended up finishing in second (to last) place.
