Sports Addict For Life

The International Olympic Committee stripped Swedish wrestler Ara Abrahamian of his Bronze Medal today. Earlier this week he discarded it on the mat prior to walking out on the ceremony. I was greatly relieved to find that the IOC punished him further: He was also officially disqualified from the Games.
He refused the Medal because he felt the judges gypped him in a semifinal match against the eventual Gold-winner. This is why some sports need to find some other way to decide a winner. Competitors' fates should not be in the hands of spectators. They should be enabled to determine a victor on the mat, field, pitch, etc.

Anyway, I hope Abrahamian didn't want that Medal. Because the IOC has made a big statement and taken it away from him. Based on his actions at the awards ceremony, I definitely get the feeling he was planning on keeping that Bronze. And just to make sure he was properly disciplined, they DQ'd him. What does this do again?
Isn't the event already over and the Medals awarded (And in this instance, revoked)? I don't see how this serves as an actual punishment. Really, I don't even see what the issue is to start with. He didn't want the Medal. Big whoop. Give it to the fourth place finisher and call it a day. Abrahamian was cited for a form of 'demonstrating'. So he dropped his award and called the system crooked. He dared to question the integrity of the overseers and got reprimanded. Does the US gymnastics team still have its Silver Medals even after all of our accusations of Chinese cheating? (Not saying they aren't true, just using an example.)
Do you get my point?
Continue reading "I Wonder If He Got The Point"

It is being reported that the New England Patriots have signed safety John Lynch.
Being a Broncos fan, I am well aware of Lynch's reputation as a head-hunter. And it is also widely thought that Rodney Harrison is the dirtiest player in the League (Even NFL coaches think this!). So that leaves the Pats with a pretty intimidating pair of safeties.
Granted Lynch isn't as good as he was in his days with the Bucs, and Harrison might be losing a little magic as well (How do you let a guy make a catch with his helmet like that, Rodney?!) but would you want to have to be the guy going across the middle with those two patrolling?
I know for a fact that I wouldn't!

The main problem with pairing them would be the deep ball. Lynch was never really a cover safety. As I said, his job description was pretty much to jack people up. Oh, that and maybe tipping the ball away from time to time... Or perhaps even getting an interception! And with both of them being in their late-30s, they could have some real trouble keeping up with people.
Also, while there are no guarantees that these two actually will end up starting opposite each other, I think it is likely. Lynch parted ways with Denver because he wanted more playing time. I don't know why he would sign on with a team if he didn't think he would be on the field. And since I doubt that Bill Belichick will remove Harrison from the lineup unless he is injured (And he has missed a few practices recently), I think there is a strong possibility of John Lynch and Rodney Harrison suiting up as the starting safeties for the Patriots this year.
That's got to be giving some Wide Receivers nightmares, don't you think?

For the last few of you who don't know this yet, ex-Packers franchise quarterback Brett Favre was traded to the Jets several days ago. However, I didn't post a blog entry about the deal.
The reason? Seeing as I have previously expressed my disgust with the media for constantly covering only a few topics instead of moving on to new things, it would be hypocritical if I was continually hanging on every single update in the Brett Favre saga and posting about them.

And besides, you don't need me to tell you what is going on in #4's new home. After all, with headlines like "Jets QB Favre Cheered During Penalty Lap", how can you not know the latest?
Why anyone needs to be informed that Favre was cheered for fumbling a snap, I don't know. But sports outlets have this bad habit of shoving the same thing down our throats over and over again and thus take away much of the interest. I am trying to avoid doing that with this blog.

Instead, I prefer to post a mere once or twice on any specific topic and update it only if there is a major change in things. Constantly posting the same entry with a few different details here and there is not a blog, it is a sports news website. And as I stated earlier, doing so would be hypocritical. Thus, no article when Green Bay finally dumped him.
Especially since the entry I did post supported the idea of letting Favre leave. If I had been a proponent of keeping him, then perhaps I would have felt the need to post and state that they were making a grave mistake. But since I didn't, there was absolutely no reason to take all the time to write up an article letting everyone know what every other sports site on the web had already told them.