I won't lie to you - I shed a tear after watching this.
Quick Hits
- The Lakers destroyed the Thunder tonight 111-87 in Game 5 of the playoffs. So far, home court has been pretty darn important as each team has won their games at home. The Lake show will hope to buck this trend on Friday when they go back to Oklahoma City on Friday for Game 6, but I doubt that the Thunder (especially Kevin Durant) will be so accommodating. Expect a tough one.
- In a dominating and somewhat boring match, Bayern Munich beat Olympique Lyon 3-0 (nil for you non-soccer fans) in the 2nd leg of their semifinal clash in the Champions League. Olic scored the hat trick for Bayern who utterly outclassed Lyon in the latter parts of the first half and for the whole of the second half. Overall, Bayern won 4-0 on aggregate.
For those of you not familiar with how soccer tournaments work, teams usually play two games - the total score is known as the "aggregate". In this case, Bayern won 1-0 in the first game and 3-0 in the second meaning they won 4-0 overall. This is obviously not the system in the World Cup which uses a one game elimination in their playoffs. The Champions League can best be described as the World Cup of European club soccer. Each European country has the opportunity to enter their best club (sometimes 2 or 3 or 4) into the continent-wide tournament. Not only are bragging rights for the country on the line, but also the title for "best club in Europe". Can you imagine being named the best at a sport that a continent is crazy about? Yeah, wrap your head around that for a second.
- In the second semifinal played tomorrow, Barcelona will have to overcome a 3-1 aggregate score over red-hot Inter Milan in order to have a chance to repeat as European champions. I expect a high-flying match where the first 30 minutes will see Inter desperately defending an all-out attack by Barca. Even though 3-1 is a huge lead in soccer, Barca has the players and track record to score quickly and often. Tomorrow's match should be an exciting one.
- In not so surprising news, the Oakland Raiders are reportedly about to release draft bust Jamarcus Russell. A quarterback with a strong arm, big body, and not so great work ethic, Russell will still be paid at least 3 million this year making it a total of 39 million since 2007. I wish I got paid that much to be lousy at my job.
Maybe if he spent as much time on the practice field as he did in the jewelry store he'd actually win some games. Maybe.
- The Lakers destroyed the Thunder tonight 111-87 in Game 5 of the playoffs. So far, home court has been pretty darn important as each team has won their games at home. The Lake show will hope to buck this trend on Friday when they go back to Oklahoma City on Friday for Game 6, but I doubt that the Thunder (especially Kevin Durant) will be so accommodating. Expect a tough one.
- In a dominating and somewhat boring match, Bayern Munich beat Olympique Lyon 3-0 (nil for you non-soccer fans) in the 2nd leg of their semifinal clash in the Champions League. Olic scored the hat trick for Bayern who utterly outclassed Lyon in the latter parts of the first half and for the whole of the second half. Overall, Bayern won 4-0 on aggregate.
For those of you not familiar with how soccer tournaments work, teams usually play two games - the total score is known as the "aggregate". In this case, Bayern won 1-0 in the first game and 3-0 in the second meaning they won 4-0 overall. This is obviously not the system in the World Cup which uses a one game elimination in their playoffs. The Champions League can best be described as the World Cup of European club soccer. Each European country has the opportunity to enter their best club (sometimes 2 or 3 or 4) into the continent-wide tournament. Not only are bragging rights for the country on the line, but also the title for "best club in Europe". Can you imagine being named the best at a sport that a continent is crazy about? Yeah, wrap your head around that for a second.
- In the second semifinal played tomorrow, Barcelona will have to overcome a 3-1 aggregate score over red-hot Inter Milan in order to have a chance to repeat as European champions. I expect a high-flying match where the first 30 minutes will see Inter desperately defending an all-out attack by Barca. Even though 3-1 is a huge lead in soccer, Barca has the players and track record to score quickly and often. Tomorrow's match should be an exciting one.
- In not so surprising news, the Oakland Raiders are reportedly about to release draft bust Jamarcus Russell. A quarterback with a strong arm, big body, and not so great work ethic, Russell will still be paid at least 3 million this year making it a total of 39 million since 2007. I wish I got paid that much to be lousy at my job.
Maybe if he spent as much time on the practice field as he did in the jewelry store he'd actually win some games. Maybe.The End
Today's title comes from the song of the same name by Lil Boosie. You better believe we had a damn good season in Baylor basketball (oh, the women's team made it to the Final Four also). Expect more of the same next year... I hope.
Today's title comes from the song of the same name by Lil Boosie. You better believe we had a damn good season in Baylor basketball (oh, the women's team made it to the Final Four also). Expect more of the same next year... I hope.
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