sports crap

Three things in the sports world that I've been complaining about lately.


First, the "Make-Believe" BCS Championship, as I think Tony Bruno was calling it last night on Fox Sports Radio:

Alabama wins it. Ho-hum, who cares. Five teams finished the regular season undefeated: Cincinnati, TCU, Boise State, Texas, and Alabama. By virtue of a combination of public opinion and "computer opinion," only Texas and Alabama were allowed to compete for the "Make-Believe" BCS Championship. The BCS, aka (by me) The Bullsh*t Championship Series.


Second, Gilbert Arenas:

What's up with bringing guns into the locker room? Aside from police officers, who else works someplace where it's okay to bring a gun to work? And... Arenas said he brought the guns to work to get them out of the house, away from the kids. Snap! Maybe it's a bad idea to have them at work, too! Ya think?


Third, Pacquiao and Mayweather:

Now, some folks say there's two sides to this, and maybe they're right. It seems crazy that Pacquiao would walk away from something like $40 million dollars over "principle." Maybe he should have just taken the dang drug test.

Still, I'm with Pacquiao on this one. For one thing, it isn't Pacquiao who has a reputation of ducking tough fighters. That reputation belongs to Mayweather. As Bob Arum said of Mayweather, "He will never fight anyone that will remotely give him a tough fight."

The drug testing demands that the Mayweather camp came up with were unprecedented. Why, all of a sudden, did Mayweather come up with those demands? He never forced any previous opponent to submit to the same type of drug test.

It all makes Mayweather look bad, and makes it look like perhaps he's the coward that others say he is. But I won't go so far as to call him a coward because it certainly takes a lot of guts to ever step into a boxing ring.

But Mayweather should have dropped those stupid demands and just got in the ring with Pacquiao. Using the testing as an excuse was just a cop-out. I agree with Pacquiao for not giving in.