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05/07/2007: "AF Sports Rant"
It's not football season, but I still have some passing thoughts. Get it - "passing" thoughts ... I just kill myself ... 
- So, did you see the dance ... er, fight ... Saturday night? And to think that there are some people who think boxing is dying. I'm not sure what was more absurd - making people pay $65 for the PPV telecast, or hearing Floyd Mayweather's father declare Oscar de la Hoya the winner! With a little luck, both will retire. With no real stars on the horizon, one can't help but think the sport of boxing will soon follow them into oblivion. And with the rise of the bloodier "sports" like Ultimate Fighting that appeal to the neanderthals amongst us, few will miss it.
- Tiger Woods won a golf tourney yesterday ... again. OK, this was a little different, since it was one of the few he's never won before. In addition, the Wachovia Championship boasts one of the deepest fields of the year, with 27 of the world's top 30 players competing. Once again, the field wilted as Tiger made his move - it doesn't seem to matter who they are, they all fold when they see him in the rear-view mirror. So how hard was it to compete in this event? The Masters Champion, Zach Johnson, placed dead last ...
- Speaking of golf, we've seen the last of Michelle Wie on the men's tour for a while, and all I can say is "finally!" No one else in her posse seemed willing to face reality, so it was left up to her teacher David Ledbetter to step in and say "enough is enough." He's convinced she can win a half-dozen or more events a year if she were to concentrate on the LPGA, and I agree - assuming her psyche' isn't permanently fried from past failures ...
- This weekend saw the first AVP event in SoCal with a tourney in Huntington Beach. Mike Lambert and Stein Metzger were the surprise winners on the mens side, while - no shock here - Misty May and Kerry Walsh took out Elaine Youngs and Nicole Branaugh. It looks like that's going to be the big rivalry all season, which means it's going to be a Rachel-free summer - and I'm bummed ...
- The Yankees won the bidding war for Roger Clemens, and he made an appearance at Yankee Stadium yesterday to announce the signing to a stunned crowd during the seventh inning stretch. Figuring he'll make a maximum of 20 starts, he can't possibly win more than thirteen games. Is this enough to justify the $4.5 million a month they'll be paying him? Can a 44-yr old pitcher stay healthy - particularly on a club where everyone from the owner to the ball boy seems to end up on the DL? You can't say it isn't interesting ...
- Barry "Big Head" Bonds hit another home run over the weekend. Get ready for it, because sometime in the next month or so he's gonna break the record. I'll talk more about that as it gets closer, but what I found interesting is a survey released over the weekend that indicated a significant difference between blacks and whites over whether they wanted Bonds to break Henry Aaron's career home run record. The talking heads all spun it as a race issue, particularly those heads who were darker in color, but I can't help but wonder - how can it be a race issue when it's about one black man passing another black man?
