- First, I gotta mention my experience in Rochester this past weekend. I was fortunate enough to witness my first roller derby "bout" between the Roc City Roller Girls and the Tri City Rollers. I was skeptical at first, thinking this would just be some kind of lame exhibition featuring women on roller skates. But let me be the first to tell you that it's alot more than just women on skates.
There is strategy and scoring (which I'm not going to attempt to explain) and a ton of wipeouts and hard hitting. It's also somewhat of a freak show, with crazy nicknames (such as Resident Eva and Lippy Wrongstockings) and uniforms to enhance the show. The cool thing is that players, fans, and coaches all accept this borderline freak show status, acknowledging that this uniqueness is what sets roller derby apart from other sports. So if you ever feel like watching a bunch of women bang into each other and slam onto a concrete rink, check out the Roc City Roller Derby.
- Alright, so I said way back when that the Giants would turn heads in the second half of the Major League Baseball season. And wouldn't you know it, here they are one game behind the Rockies for the NL Wild Card lead (they were tied yesterday, but San Fran ran into a buzzsaw named Cole Hamels last night).
I was watching Baseball Tonight the other night and Dave Winfield picked the Rockies to win the Wild Card because their top three starting pitchers are ridiculously good. When I heard that, I said out loud "wow Dave, are you on drugs?" Think about this for a minute - the Giants have what many consider to be the top two starting pitchers in the game (Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain - check them out in the upper right corner) and Barry Zito has been lights out since the All-Star game. In his last nine starts, Zito has only given up 12 total runs, and gone at least 6 IP in seven of those nine starts (and 5.2 IP in one of the other two). ALSO the Giants just swept the Rockies in a three game series by sending Lincecum, Zito, and Cain to the hill on successive days in San Fran. I'll acknowledge that I'm a little biased in favor of the Giants, but you can't argue with the series sweep. So listen Mr. Winfield, don't feed me a bunch of crap when I'm just trying to catch up on baseball scores and standings, OK?
- The college football season starts tomorrow, and I'm looking forward to the top-20 matchup between Boise State and Oregon (however, I'm not looking forward to being blinded by the "smurf-turf" of Bronco Stadium). I'm also looking forward to "Da-U" (Miami) facing off against Florida State on Monday night - nothing like a traditional inter-state rivalry to kick off the season.
- I'm planning a quality NFL preview for later this week/early next week. Got any predictions? Sleeper teams? Stat lines for Tom Brady/Michael Vick/Adrian Peterson/Brett Favre/Mark Sanchez? Lemme know what you think.
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