Scattershooting – Aiming High, Hitting Low
Saturday, May 14, 2011
We witnessed the calcification of the Boston Celtics during overtime of Game Four Monday night, and again in the final 4:29 Wednesday against the Miami Heat. Two words: young legs. And the Celtics don’t have any.
If you really want the Celtics to remain a factor next year, in what is likely going to be a shortened NBA season…sure, you need some athletes, and a rebounder would help. But keeping Doc Rivers around is the biggest “get” of all…
Is the NHL season over? Did we miss something? Man, just when it was getting good…
How about some good news? The Patriots Alumni Club and the New England Patriots Charitable Foundation are bringing “Football For You” back for a sixth year. Starting with a youth camp for boys and girls age 11 to 14 in Worcester this weekend, they’ll also hit Providence on June 18…
Speaking of the Patriots, you have until Sunday night, May 15 to cast your ballot for this year’s Patriots Hall of Fame honoree. Bill Parcells, Drew Bledsoe and Houston Antwine are the selections, you can vote at
If you’re wondering about the current Patriots, like many other teams around the NFL, several players are working out together, conducting rigorous workouts near their homes in southeastern Massachusetts to be ready for when they get “the call.” That’s great to hear, but is it too much to ask for the same kind of effort at the bargaining table with owners, so we can HAVE a season for them to play this year?
Cold Hard Football Facts recently conducted a survey covering 10 years’ worth of drafts. Any guesses as to which of the 32 NFL teams graded out best overall during this time? Save your complaints over Bill Belichick’s picks this year for another day…
I’m not certain I really appreciated the late Seve Ballesteros. Sounds kinda crazy, especially when I’m a golf nut, but maybe that’s because his shot making abilities in his prime transcended my abilities to comprehend. He was Tiger “before Tiger,” and he did it with a flair that Tiger doesn’t have…
Tom Brady is Forbes Magazine’s second-most influential athlete? Did they do that so they can impress Giselle?
I might pay attention to Brady, but only if he cuts his hair. Time to grow up, Tom…
Not for nuthin’…but did we all overrate the American League East Division this year? I don’t see anyone running away with a title, which certainly means the Wild Card is not a given in the East, either…
Tough talk coming from NCAA president Mark Emmert, who said this week he wants schools and programs who break rules to get hit – hard – so they think twice about cheating. Just how hard is hard going to be?
I watched ESPN’s “30 for 30” film series again the other night, the one that dealt with SMU football getting the NCAA’s death penalty in 1987. I covered that story, and even now, the repercussions are still being felt. So much so, that even though Ohio State’s program is starting to smell a little like SMU’s did back then…there’s just no way the NCAA will ever do that to a team again. Ever.
Got bulletin board material? Check. Dallas Mavericks (and former Northeastern Husky) guard J.J. Barea says he’d rather face Memphis than Oklahoma City in the NBA Western Finals…maybe we need more of that in the NBA. It might keep me interested…
I’m besieged by emails advertising airline specials this summer. Some specials! Until the price of oil (and gas) drops, we’ll all continue to pay through the nose, in spite of these so-called “specials”…
Okay. Rhode Island is trying to institute a beverage tax to help balance the budget on the backs of overtaxed citizens, rising pension costs will probably be shouldered by the same citizens, and Providence could declare bankruptcy. What have we missed? Hell freezing over?
Let’s boil it down to this. Here’s why the Red Sox won’t win 100 games, and why too many foolish people thought they could – because it’s always tough to live up to the hype. And because John Lackey is nowhere near the pitcher the Sox thought he would be. Can’t throw his curve ball for strikes, his fastball is flat, his velocity is average…that’s a recipe for mediocrity, if not disaster…
Congratulations to my fellow inductees into the Rhode Island Radio Hall of Fame this week – Bob Fish, Geoff Charles, David Jones, Larry Kruger, Florence Markoff, Ed Pearson, Bud Toevs and Chuck Wilson. Wonderful people, true pros and great families. Radio isn’t dead around here, after 89 years. It’s only going to get better. For more information, hit up http://www.rirhof.org...
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