Jason Collins, NBA player says he is gay…will it matter?

Veteran NBA player Jason Collins has come out. he has been in the league for 12 years and he is 34 years old so he is on the backside of his career. This is historic but will it matter? Share your thoughts.

(Jason Collins on left, pictured with his brother.)

http://news.msn.com/pop-culture/nba-player-jason-collins-comes-out-as-gay?ocid=fbmsn

Fox News Eric Bolling says the firing of Mike Rice shows we are becoming “wussies”…crazy talk or does he have a point?

Fox News Eric Bolling objects to the firing of Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice. I don’t agree with his assertions regarding political correctness in this scenerio, but I do have some misgivings regarding how the Rice situation was handled. I believe Rice should have been fired when the incident first came to light, but the university decided an appropriate punishement would be a 3 game suspension, $50K fine and anger management, but when the public found out about what they already knew they fired him. Rice thought he had fulfilled the punishment, but the game changed. It will be interesting to see if Rice sues the school, but let’s talk about political correctness. This is in no way political correctness this is plain and simple verbal abuse. I do think that we are now in a society that wants everyone to feel that they are a winner. We have ball games among younger children where there is no winner because we do not want anyone to feel bad. That’s not healthy because in the real world there will be winners and losers. There will be times when someone actually raises their voice in anger toward one of our children and we have to teach our children how to deal with correction. Correction and abuse are two totally different things. So no Mr. Bolling you are incorrect Rice had to go, but it should have been last year not yesterday.

Will Mike Rice be fired because of the media firestorm or the player abuse?

The media just saw the explosive tapes of the Rutgers basketball practices, but this is in fact old news. The president of the school and the athletic director viewed these same tapes last year. Mike Rice was punished for them last year. He was suspended for three games, sent to anger management and fined $50,000. This was the punishment that the University staff deemed appropriate. So what changed? Well, the rest of the world saw the tapes. We saw the coach physically abuse the students and we also heard the coach verbally abuse the students. Some have even said they felt the verbally abuse was worst than the physical abuse. The question is what will the school do now? Do you fire him because the world now knows what he did, but isn’t that wrong since this is the same behavior that the staff has known about since last year. Is this fair to Rice? Does Rice keep his job and you fire the staff that let him off with the original punishment? Share your thoughts.

http://rutgers.scout.com/2/1280104.html

UPDATE: Mike Rice Fired

http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-basketball/story/2013-04-03/rutgers-coach-mike-rice-fired-verbal-abuse-homophobic-slurs

Should Rutgers coach Mike Rice be fired?

Mike Rice throws balls and curses at players during practice. he was suspended for three games last year, but that was before the world saw this tape. Is this guy fit to coach this team? Share your thoughts.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2013/04/02/espn-airs-rutgers-coach-mike-rice-abusing-players/2047211/

http://msn.foxsports.com/collegebasketball/story/whitlock-mike-rice-rutgers-case-shows-again-ncaa-power-corrupts-040213

Magic Johnson’s son EJ is gay and his parents are proud

Read linked story for all the details:

http://www.tmz.com/2013/04/02/magic-johnson-son-goes-public-with-boyfriend-dad-proud/

Is America sick of Baltimore Ravens Ray Lewis preaching?

Ray Lewis has a testimony and he shares it freely with everyone. He does not pretend to be a perfect man, but he like all of us is flawed. Over the past few days I have heard sportscasters on ESPN say they are sick of him. So what are they sick of? Lewis motivates his team and the citizens of Baltimore. It is interesting that after the New England Patriots lost Sunday night Wes Welker’s wife chose direct the world to to Lewis’ Wikapedia page and read about the future hall of famer. there the reader would read about his children, girlfriends and legal issues. All of this is true, but does that explain her husband’s butter fingers? Welker has been dropping passes since last year. She has since apologized, but I for one and not tired of Lewis sharing his testimony and like it or not he will be doing just that until Superbowl Sunday.

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/blog/eye-on-football/21594941/wes-welkers-wife-apologizes-for-ray-lewis-facebook-comments

Lance Armstrong is a bully and a liar, and those are the good things we can say about him

I must admit last night I watched a hilarious episode of The Office. I decided I did not want to watch Day One of the Lance Armstrong apology tour. I saw the clips this morning and he simply affirmed what people have said about him for years. He is a doper and a liar, and he bullied anyone who dared to leak the truth. Over the years he has sued so many people that he can not even remember their names. So why is he doing this? Des he want to compete again? Does he simply want to set the record straight? Last night he looked like a sad man who simply ran out of options, and he finally opted to confess, but what about the lives ruined along the way to his redemption seat are they merely colleral damage? Armstrong lied for so long that it became his truth and even now we don’t know if he is actually coming clean. He has carefully chosen not to share everything from his personal narrative and we are left to wonder if this shell of a man will ever expose all of his truths.

Is Notre Dame Manti Te’o a liar or is he just incredibly gullible?

Manti Te’o came in second for the coveted Heisman trophy. He was an awesome linebacker at Notre Dame, and his personal story touched the nation. He played through the pain of losing his grandmother and his girlfriend on the same day. The problem is the girlfriend that he grieved over never existed. The website Deadspin broke the story yesterday and the University has started backpedaling. They contend that Te’o was the unwitting victim of an elaborate hoax, but what if he wasn’t? Why would he make this story up? We love a story. A sad story. A love story or the combination of both: sad story and love story. We love to hear of Americans overcoming adversity. We believed Lance Armstrong’s story. He overcame cancer to win 7 Tour de France races. We believed he never took performance enhancing drugs. In spite of others coming forth claiming he did and some even saying they took them with him. We still believed his denials. Tonight he will appear on the Oprah Winfrey show and confirm what others have said for years he did take drugs and he has been lying to us for years. Armstrong is sharing his truth with us after he can no longer be tried on perjury charges. Armstrong is looking for redemption, but has he been punished? Armstrong is worth an estimated $100 million dollars. Marion Jones lied, but she was stripped of her Olympic medals and she went to jail. “Jones won three gold and two bronze medals in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, becoming perhaps the most famous and marketable female athlete in the world. After frequently denying ever having used performance-enhancing drugs, Jones admitted she had lied to federal investigators in November 2003. Jones was sentenced to six months of prison time and 400 hours of community service in each of the two years following her release.”* All of these athletes have lied to us, but in spite of evidence that should have been questioned we chose to believe them. Why? We love a winner. In the case of Te’o his story only added to his aura of invincibility. He was a winner that played on in spite of the tragedy going on his own life. Armstrong and Williams showed us incredible greatness in their respective fields and we were in awe of their talents. They were winning medals and we were waving our flags. We did not want to know how the watch was made. We just wanted results and they gave us some great sports moments. No one applauds average. We yearn for excellences and we tend to worship winners so as we look at these disgraced athletes perhaps we need to flip the mirror, and take just a little of the blame.

http://deadspin.com/5976517/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-heartbreaking-and-inspirational-story-of-the-college-football-season-is-a-hoax

*http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/trackandfield/news/story?id=3282477

Peyton Manning is a class act

Ray Lewis is a beloved figure here in the Baltimore area. On Saturday there was a collective cheer when the Ravens beat the Broncos, but this picture is more about Peyton Manning than Lewis. Manning was terribly disappointed, but he showed that he is a class act. This photo was taken after all the press conferences. Manning waited and greeted Lewis and that says alot about Manning.

In Defense of Brent Musburger

ESPN issued an apology to Katherine Webb for Brent Musburger’s on air complimenting of Miss Alabama Katherine Webb. Musburger described Webb as gorgeous and beautiful. Musburger’s on air complimenting led to Webb’s Twitter followers going from nil to over 200 thousand. Webb has said she was not bothered by him. So why did ESPN feel the need to issue an apology? If she was not offeneded who are they apologizing to? All women? Musburger did not say she is “so Hot”. He said beautiful. When did that become an insult? Share your thoughts.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/01/09/katherine-webb-brent-musburger-apology/