Josh Howard doesn't celebrate the National Anthem because he's black

Okay, in the US there's freedom of speech. So if Josh Howard doesnt' think the National Anthem is worth celebrating, he's got the right to say so.

But let's explore.

Up until the late 1960s, a majority of blacks really had no reason to be "proud of their country." Sure, they fought bravely during World War I and World War II, only to come home to American apartheid. But those brave men and women paved the way for the equality of today. Martin Luther King was raised on their shoulders, as were the white folk who fought for equality also and whom we don't hear about, and since the 1970s, most blacks really haven't had anything to complain about. Sure, racism from individuals still exists (and that's white on black, black on white, white and black on every other color, ya da ya da), but institutional racism is outlawed.

So, blacks today are more successful than they've ever been. Too many of them are content to not get educations and live off "the man" (check out the Reverend Wright's black liberation theology), and yes, too many white folk do that as well... give people welfare and its *human* nature, they'll never want to get off.

Yeah, the housing crisis is biting hard, and there again you can blame the "man", or you can blame the politicians who forced "the man" to give loans to people who couldn't afford them, and then went hogwild selling those worthless loans to other banks...oh, there's a whole can of worms there...

But it all comes down to this. There's a black man who is the Democrat nominee for President, in the year 2008. How in the world is that possible in a "racist" country? Answer...it ain't.

So let's hope Josh Howard gives some of his humongous salary, which let us not forget he gets for playing a damn game, to his fellow blacks to help lift them up to his level of affluence. Perhaps send a dollar a month to Obama's half-brother in Nairobi, raise his standard of living by 100%.

Knowshon Moreno Hurdle vs Reggie Bush Hurdle

Reggie Bush hurdled... Knowshon Moreno did too..

Which one's best?

News reporters going too far

They've gone too far in all walks of life - interviewing people just minutes after they've found out they've lost a loved one, but since this is a sports blog I'll just talk about the sports aspect of it.

Today, CBS Sportsline had an article, headlined: Young meets with Fisher after Titans ask police to help find QB
Apparently Young, who had booed by his teams "fans" throughout the game, got injured, and later on in the day, left the house without his cellphone. So, his coach called the police to track him down. And the police found him, and all was well.

So, this is a non-story, and should not have even been reported. Especially when you consider how psychotic fans are. (Remember many years ago, while in college, Steve Kerr's father had been murdered in the Lebanon. At his next game, the opposing team's fans were actually teasing at him and jeering at him because his father had been murdered! Talk abut sick.)

We seem to be at a point now where every little thing an athlete does is considered a "news report." Sure, if an idjit goes to a strip bar, throws money on the ground and then wants it back - that's news. Proves the guy's an idiot and a cheapskate. But driving around in his car and being stopped by the police only on the off-chance that he was depressed - that's not news. That's nobody's business.