Duke Keith
My biography as haiku:
calling sports not played
poking fun without a point
dang i like donuts
Last weekend after the final match of the season for English soccer giants Chelsea, the team held a post-game ceremony at midfield at Stamford Bridge. A toddler who was supposed to be in the ceremony broke away from the crowd with a ball, dribbled down the field, and kicked it in the goal. And the crowd went nuts for him. Then he turned around and raised his fists in the air, and everyone lost it.
TNT's "Inside the NBA" had a rough start Tuesday night when Shaquille O'Neal's cell phone went off. He then tossed it to a producer who dropped it and it clattered to the floor. In the middle of all of this, Shaq accidentally unhooked his microphone so someone had to run in to fix it. All of which was a perfect setup for Charles Barkley.
Manny Ramirez may be banned from affiliated baseball in the United States, but he's still making a little bank and putting on a show, dreadlocks and all, in the Chinese Professional Baseball League in Taiwan. Speaking of performance-enhancing drugs, what are the Taiwanese play-by-play guys on?
It's official: the BCS is gone after this season, replaced with a four-team playoff called...the "College Football Playoff". Really? It's also official that Jerry Jones is getting the championship game at Cowboys Stadium. But, other than money, why was Jerry so desperate to get this game in Dallas...?