Our talented sports writer Ailene Voisin in this morning's Sacramento Bee said it succincly, but not as colorffully as I'm about to do: Mark Davis is an ungrateful shithead. Oaklanders should bycott all the games next football season. Do not put one dollar in the asshole's pocket. And, Oakland should sue to keep the Raider name. The Vegas team should be renamed the Los Vegas Dice? Or how about the Los Vegas Strippers? Or how about Los Vegas Hookers? One needs to remember that Los Vegas was built on water they stole from California.
Alas, Mark Orr has left his post as Athletic Director of Saint Mary's College. He will be greatly missed, having done a fabulous job in his nine years at my alma mater. He becomes the AD at Sacramento State University. The school could not have found a better man for the job. You Sacramentans can count on great days ahead for Hornets' sports. First predication: in one year, Mark will announce he has put together the financing of a new multi-purpose arena to house basketball and other sports and events.
UConn Women's basketball team routed the Oregon Duckies. My wife, a Duck grad, is in mourning. It was inevitable. The Lady Huskies are, as usual, awesome. What Gene Auriama is accomplishing with his team, with each win, is making sports history. It needs to be pointed out, and not on the inner pages of the sports' section, that this record win streak is in the same class as the great Bill Russell Celtics, and Wilt Chamberlain's 100 point game.
I agree with this morning's observation by Sac Bee's Matt Arrows that Kap, prior to his protest, was an injured player. Is he being blackballed? In this awful political climate with so many of the NFL's owner's conservatives, it's possible, but unlikely. Kap has a lot of football proving to do before teams are going open their pocket books. Let me say, on Kap's behalf, he opens up his pocketbook to support causes he believes in. In this regard, the man walks his talk. At some point in his career, the next team or the team after that, baring injuries, Kap will become an elite QB. Go Kap!
Love the Jeanie and Janie LA Lakers' show. A tough minded female boss, why not? Is Magic the right person? Not a good coach, but maybe a good consultant.
The Sacramento Kings have won two close game against two playoff teams with a team of youngsters and arguably vet non-starteers (on other teams). The youngsters are Buddy Hield, Willy Cauley Stein, Skal Labisiere, and George Papagiannis. One the bench, recovering from injuries, is Malachi Richardson. I do not mean to demean the other guys. They are playing tough and as a team and having fun and listening to their coach. They compete. Bravo.
On to the LIFE section of my Blog: Donald Trump, pay attention. I'm a Russian immigrant. Our family came to the United States after the Second World War. I became an American citizen, gratefully, at the age of sixteen. I love my adopted country. My parents loved their country, Russia, until the Bolsheviks (Communists) took over after the revolution of 1917. Most of my parents' family, my cousins and Granndpa and other kin, were executed by the Communists. Vladimir Putin is a Communist and an ex KGB agent. If you think he suddenly became a believer in democracy, I'd like to sell you the Golden Gate Bridge. If you and your minions are working with this Communist sonavabitch, in any shape or form, you are TRAITORS to the United States of America and should be imprisoned.
Before ski season ends, here's a small poem I've always gotten a chuckle over.
Winter Trees by Conrad Diekmann
I think that I shall never ski
Again against so stout a tree.
A tree whose rugged bark is pressed
In bas-relief upon my chest.
A tree that with bacchantic air
Wears ski poles in its tangle hair.
I've learned my lesson: Fools like me
Should never try to shave a tree.
1 comment:
it's such a damn shame, in almost EVERY conceivable way, that the Bolsheviks imposed Communism on Russia. Marx himself said emphatically that Russia was the last place in Europe he could envision his egalitarian concepts being implemented...and yet, still, Lenin decided to force the proverbial square peg into the round hole.
Nowadays, Trump & his ilk are fueling a modern-day rise of the political left; i'd certainly be interested in Mr. Meschery's opinion on whether further-to-the-left-than-Democrats-currently-are politics are called for in this particular moment. See, you know better than me the horrors of Communism. i think the people just want a genuine alternative to the oligarchy that seems to have become entrenched throughout the so-called free world.
when you factor in the planet's ecosystems (and therefore, people's lives) being mortgaged, simply so that a few hundred billionaires can line their pockets even more...whew, i'm amazed that there's not significantly more hostility towards the rich.
when i read about a 66 year old man shooting at Republican members of Congress, i thought for a moment of Narodnya Volya - impotent, blindly striking out, if only to hurt SOMEONE. Common decency seems to be in short supply, sadly.
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