Women's basketball - PLEASE put names on jerseys!

There were two women's college basketball games on TV today...

I watched the Tennessee Lady Vols vs the Rutgers Scarlet Knights.

I won't say a word about the abysmal first half the Lady Vols had - scoring a team-history low 13 points in that first half, or the abysmal second half Rutgers had. Except to say that anyone knew to women's basketball who just wanted to see what it was all about would not have become a fan after watching this game, I don't think.

Excuse for the Lady Vols is that actually they are the "Baby Vols" - 4 freshmen starting. They looked like it was their first game (and they were without their top defensive player) and they had more turnovers than points in that half...

But, anyway, the point is, neither the Lady Vols or the Scarlet Knights had their names on the back of their jerseys. So unless you are fans of the team, you wouldn't know who any of these players are! This was the first time I'd seen these girls play (normally I listen on the radio) and the only one I recognized was Angie Bjorkland. When they showed their faces at the line, I was able to put names to faces, but when they're running around, hard to tell. My memory for their numbers isn't that great - would've been a lot easier with names!

Same for Rutgers of course, only more important since I'd never seen them before!

It is really short-sighted of these coaches not to put names on jerseys! I suppose it's supposed to be "team-building" but all it does is make it harder for potential fans to care about the team they're watching. Everyone's anonymous!

It doesn't matter with a team like the New York Yankees, but for women's college basketball, where most teams hardly get anyone to turn out to games, being fan friendly is all important.

The new Gatorade commercial - crap!

How do you know a Gatorade commercial? Athletes running around, then refreshing themselves with the drink in the green bottle, eh?

Take a look at this - and tell me, if you hadn't been told it was a Gatorade commerical - would you even know it?



http://neswsports.com/2009/01/02/whats-g-g-commercial-gatorade-commercial/

They're talking about something called "G". No mention at all of the fact that it's a Gatorade commercial, no sight of a Gatorade bottle, plus there's the bad taste of a very frail Mohammed Ali...then the weirdos in the faceless hockey masks at the end.

If I drank Gatordate, I'd stop drinking it after seeing this commercial.

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And after a little research, I find that the whole blogosphere is talking and praising this ridiculous commercial!

"How clever of Gatorade," they say, "to not specify what they're advertising, so that peope will go to the web and search under "Lil Wayne" and "G" to see what it is."

Something that would never have worked without the internet so people could actually do that.

But I have to admit I'm surprised. I thought it was a repulsive and stupid commercial - just various athletes standing around while the camera pans past them, then the three guys in masks at the end doing the sinuous arm thang. Just looked stupid.

Why is John Daly so popular?

After the report that John Daly had been suspended from the PGA tour for 6 months (he can still golf in non-PGA events), a few people chimed in on the subject at CBSSportsline.com.

Most of them see Daly as a waste of space and a disgrace to golf, but quite a few are actually defending the guy, seeing him as a "regular guy" and a "colorful guy" - and the fact that he puts himself into a position where other people have power over him doesn't seem to matter.

By that I mean - if you get so drunk that you have to be arrested, and get to go places and do things dressed in an orange jump suit, you're hardly your own man, and there's nothing admirable about it.

Representative of young people, perhaps, they don't mind getting wasted and trashed every day, accomplishing nothing with their lives, and thinking that they're "free" because they dont' have to answer to anybody, not realzing that the only reason why they're not starving in the streets is because misguided governments give them welfare and free needles so they can continue their parasitic lives...

(Yes, I feel strongy about this. I have health issues myself, which have prevented me from accomplishing the great things I'd once dreamed of. To see perfectly healthy people, who could do anything they want, wasting their good fortune on drink and drugs when I'd do anything to have that health, just really, really pisses me off.)

John Daly - waste of space

He revealed today he'd been suspended from the PGA tour for 6 months. (Heck, the PGA is as bad as the NFL. Fire this guy and don't let him step on a golf course again!)

"Is it fair that I got suspended?" he said. "It's not fair in reality, but it's probably fair in perception."

How can it not be fair in reality, you drunken moron?

http://www.sportsline.com/golf/story/11211544

Here's the thing. Drugs aren't a disease. Alcohol isn't a disease. It's something that stupid people do to themselves, despite all the evidence of how hurtful it is to them, to their families, etc. etc., and rather than treating these people with kid gloves, just deep-six them in the ocean. Less waste of space, air and food on land, and fish get the food they need.

Bowl Games are Ridiculous

When I was a kid...or even into my teens, there were three or four bowl games. December 31 and January 1 - that's when you got the bowls. The Sugar, the Cotton, the Orange Bowl, the Rose Bowl, and you saw two elite college teams face off. Teams that were undefeated or at most had lost 1 or 2 games.

Nowadays - probably for a decade or so, bowl games have been totally cheapened. There are probably 20 of them now, and mnay of them feature teams that have .500 records! How can a team with a .500 record deserve to go to a Bowl, which is supposed to showcase football excellence???

All these new, upstart "bowls" should be renamed to "Games for Teams that don't deserve to play anymore this season, but have a fanbase that will pay to see one last game."

Women's Sports Talk Show begins on December 16

Talk on men's sports dominates radio talk shows and TV shows. This is only to be expected. Men's sports has been and still is where the major money is.

But in an effort to bring Womens Sports into the spotlight, the Women's Sports Talk Show has been created, on digital radio and its first show will be on December 16.

http://www.womenssportstalkshow.com/

Support women's sports, support the Women's Sports Talk Show. Listen to it, contribute questions, etc.

Both men and women, obviously, are encouraged to participate.

Garcia of Gamecocks taken out by referee

Stephen Garcia of the Carolina Gamecocks: It looks to me like the ref -- Wilbur Hackett Jr. --- shadowed him and deliberately took him down. He had several seconds to step left, or just stop moving, period, instead he moves into the guy and puts his shoulder on him.

View and make your own decision.