Week Sauce: Where It Takes One To Know One
Here’s a recap of the weirdest or most overlooked sports stories on the Interweb this week. Plus, as you’ve come to expect, LaMotta wraps his fist in a dish towel and opens up MMA’s stitches.
Who Should Introduce MJ Into the Hall (Or Will Angels Just Sing Him In?)
Michael Jordan will be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame this September. As part of the enshrinement, MJ will be introduced by a current hall of famer.
But who to choose?
Nothin’ Wrong With A Little Face Time in the Shower
On Sunday, Laker coach Phil Jackson was interviewed on KLAC radio in Los Angeles about the ongoing development with his team, including the somewhat surprising acquisition of forward Ron Artest. For most members of the media, the arrival of Ron-Ron in LaLa Land was an unforeseeable development. For Phil Jackson, it was something that was foreseeable 13 months ago.An Eye For An Eye: Rugby’s Rampant Rise of Retina-Poking
Here in the States, athletes tend to get handcuffed to the “thug” label if they’re a little wild with their elbows, pitch a little too close on the inside corner, tackle a guy a split second later than necessary or get into the habit of pulling a fella’s jersey over his head.Rugbyers (rugby-ists? rugabillies?), on the other hand, really don’t start classifying their players as thugs until one of ‘em tries to scoop out an opponent’s eyes with his fingers when no one is looking. The Conspiracy of Wimbledon’s Favoritism Toward Beauty
Halfway through this year’s Wimbledon tournament, stories popped up after a spokesman from the All England Club said that the people who schedule the matches to the courts tend to give the prime spots to the more attractive female athletes. Not surprisingly, the media and the blogosphere (unless bloggers are counted as members of the media, which my lack of a press pass suggests they are not) cried foul and sexism and sexism fouls and foul sexism.
The weirdest thing about the sudden hubbub over hot tennis players is that really, the Wimbledon play committee is far less guilty of it than even they’ve suggested.
