The Ukranian Heavyweight and older Klitschko brother will be defending his WBC heavyweight title against Juan Carlos Gomez Saturday, shown for free on ESPN Classic
When I stumbled onto The Ring blog yesterday and saw that an actual modern heavyweight title fight was going to be shown for free on ESPN, I was flabbergasted. Given it is not a money maker of a fight, pitting Vitali Klitschko to mandatory defend his WBC heavyweight title against Juan Carlos Gomez, I still can’t believe it is being shown for free.
Will the Terps fail...probably...but I'm hoping like hell that they don't
So I filled out some brackets (final year for a different one…I’m following the one bracket to rule them all method from here on out) and I watched the opening day. I guess it is safe to say I’m zoned in on the only thing I can watch involving college basketball. It makes more sense than college football and the tension is high because every game matters. It’s sort of like being dropped into the middle of a heated NBA playoff game every time a new game in the tourney starts.
David Wright, Derek Jeter and J.J. Putz helped their team defeat Puerto Rico in a 9th inning comeback to advance to the semi finals of the World Baseball Classic
As I was watching the game last night in the top of the 9th, I actually felt a sensation of worry in the pit of my stomach. Had the seed planted by the MLB finally sprouted? Did I care about the World Baseball Classic?
I will be honest and say I didn’t watch any of the 2006 WBC, especially after the United States lost. I felt it was nothing but a glorified spring training created by Bud Selig to make the MLB seem less full of itself and crown a “true” world champion outside of the World Series. It didn’t have the buzz of the world cup and it didn’t seem to get the media attention.
Who would have thought that the Golf Channel would have a gem like this on the airwaves. If you didn’t know, Charles Barkley had a terrible golf swing. Completely horrid. If you haven’t seen it…here is a taste.
Since everyone is talking about it, I guess I should start with Jay Cutler and the Denver Broncos. My towel throwing with the Broncos started a bit before this after the Broncos signed Brian Dawkins. You might of thought it was back when they fired Mike Shanahan I was happy they went out and got a proven defensive leader and was riding high on the Mile High Horse. Then Brandon Marshall runs into more legal trouble and that world crumbles. The downward slide begins there and hasn’t stopped since. This Jay Cutler – Trade ordeal is just a little grease for speed. Keep reading →
So the Wizards suck a major egg this season and it doesn’t stem from the firing of Eddie Jordan. If you’ve noticed, they are playing the same way they did before they fired him. When you go for change and get rid of things, you usually actually change some things. You don’t just remove something and keep it running the same without it.
Possibly the worst fight ever and it's not the 46-year old Holyfield's fault
So in my hiatus I didn’t get to talk about the worst fight that boxing had ever seen, Holyfield vs. Vaulev in Switzerland. Now I didn’t watch the fight or watch many clips, but everything I read is pointing to Holyfield being screwed by the judges at the end of the fight.
This Sunday marks the final weekend of football before the Super Bowl and that two week lull we all dread. That is why we must take pride in the fact that both games on Sunday should be good contests.
So Billy Wagner is out until 2010. This is good and bad news for the Mets. Good because now the door is open for the team to pick up K-Rod next season. Bad because they are without a reliable (A stretch at this point I known) closing pitcher.
I don’t trust their bullpen to get the job done. So the Mets had better hope that their starters can go the distance like Santana did on Monday night. If not, I sense the Phillies will be back in the playoffs with a chance to blow it against a team like the Brewers or Dodgers.
Here is Billy Wagner in true form, telling it like it is and like we all already know.
