Highs and Lows (8/7/06)
| 12
|
by user I am a cpcp
Ok, kids I know you've been itchin' all morning to get your eyes on this week's episode of:
Highs and Lows in College and Pros: This Time I Actually Mention College Stuff!
Tour de France – Low – Floyd Landis Fails His ABCs
A as in Test A. B as in Test B. C as his Cycling Career. Floyd Landis made complete fool of himself by not turning himself in as soon as there was question about his Test A. He has a small window to save face and he decided to take the lowest of all roads and make up five terrible excuses. Absolutely shameful. (By the way, I know there's still a very small chance he can prove his innocence, but I'm not counting on it.)
Chase Utley – High – Streak Great for Phillies
Utley may have fallen short of Joe DiMaggio, not surprisingly, but while the media was obsessed with the streak, the Philadelphia Phillies were able to make a quiet push for the wild card. We’ll see how they do now that the media has caught on.
NFL HOF – High – Great Class Has Great Class
Troy Aikman, Reggie White, Warren Moon, John Madden, Rayfield Wright, Harry Carson… that’s a whole lot of history and precedent-setting. What a great class of Hall of Famers. The only thing I didn’t like is that Michael Irvin didn’t go in with Aikman, but in retrospect, Irvin’s off the field character doesn’t really fit with this class anyway.
NCAA Coaches Poll – Split – Number One Spot Good and Bad for Buckeyes
Like many on this site, I'm not very fond of pre-season polls. Usually though it's because The Ohio State University isn’t give its due credit. But now that I see the Buckeyes on top, I foresee a season full of intense criticism of every single mistake now that the polls have given Ohio State a chance. It’s ridiculous to put that much pressure on a poll done before practices start, look at the University of Oklahoma.
Odd News - Low - Skater Disproving Stereotypes
Wolfgang Schwarz, who won an Olympic gold medal in figure skating was sentenced this morning to serve eight years in prison for plotting the kidnapping of the teenage daughter of a prominent Romanian businessman and hold her for nearly $4 million in ransom. Who said all male figure skaters are pansies? No word on whether Scwartz will be used as a model for writing the villain for the upcoming movie Die Hard 4.
Date
Mon 08/07/06, 8:40 am EST
