As we type, another network is pushing a segment on Title Town.  Ok, them is fighting words, Vern.   This is as stupid as claiming which NCAA football conference is the best.  Several conferences need to travel TO bowl games instead of playing at home stadiums before the masses will offer total respect.  Remember the four-letter network's terrible "Who's Now" segment last year?  I'm still hosing down the living room to remove the stench.  This is more of the same refuse.

No city owns the Title Town moniker and plenty of fine citizens will offer to fight over the name.

Green Bay was ONCE known by that name; it's lame to make a claim to a name that has applied only ONCE since the late 1960's.  Let it go, Green Bay.  Be happy you still have an NFL franchise.  Los Angeles will be sniffing for an NFL team in a few years.

Please feel free to toss replies with team/franchise nicknames that really piziss you off.  Yes, I live in DFW; I grew up despising the Cowboys, since Pearson pushed off on the Hail Mary pass against my beloved Vikes!

What franchise do you hate and why?  Here are the leading contenders.

NFL-

America's Team!  That was a name created for a NFL FILMS video.  Tex Schramm and his Cowboys cronies jumped on it and the flea bag media and fans kept it going.  Hey!  Every sport needs a Dr. Evil franchise for everyone else to hate.  Philly fans should be happy it's not them the rest of the leagues hates and is jealous of, too.

In the 80's the SuperStation, TBS, a Turner commodity, attempted to bogart the name, America's Team, for the Braves.  Didn't work, did it.  How can a team from a city that can't build a freeway to loop the city be hated?  Well, unless Ray Lewis has a weapon, I'm not worried!

The New England Pats are rising on the hate charts, courtesy of the video camera and three, lame three point SuperBowl wins(?).

MLB-

The prissy Yankees and their astronomical payroll win in an uncontested match.  How can we not hate the Yankees!  It's as easy as ' A squared + B squared = C squared.'  The highest payroll in the western hemisphere can't buy titles any more.  I love it.  Red Sox fans, quit your crying.  You're the second most hated franchise in  MLB, since your 'Johnny come lately' fans have a huge sense of entitlement.  Go back to worshipping Dennis Leary, please.  Anyone know who's the daddy of A-Rod's kids? 

NHL-

Let's face it, Detroit is the bomb.  This is the Title Town of the NHL.   I respect the pizza franchise dictator's running of the Red Wings.   This only leaves teams with dirty players and that leaves Sean Avery, dirtbag-turd.  The NHL created a rule, during the playoffs because of this swine.   Wait, he just signed with the Stars.  Whoops!  I'm not impartial any more.  Fans are more jealous of the Red Wings than anything else.

NBA-

That's  beyond easy, since Kindergarten kids hate the Lakers.  There's nothing more to say.  At least the Police Blotter has not included Lakers lately.

MLS-

Psych.  The masses aren't watching.

Gentlemen, start your fisticuffs. 

We’ve survived a sports bonanza the past week, yet why do I feel worn out and annoyed by redundancy and unanticipated sleaze?  

1) The NFL Draft-Can this event go on any longer?  Thank God the league shortened the first round selection time from 15 minutes.  The number of talking heads who claim to know the draft order gives me headaches.  Who pays to hear from these guys?  Keyshawn Johnson giving advice to anyone is suspect, for the lack of a nasty word.  Here’s a hint networks, put a babe on the panel and the boys will watch.  Put them in bikinis and Parcells will watch.  Why the avalanche of pre-draft selection shows, followed by endless post-draft shows?  Can you say overkill?   Calgon take me away!  

2) Sean Avery of the NHL Rangers is such a turd that the league created a new rule because of him DURING the playoffs.  Avery was waving his stick in the goalie’s face, obstructing his view.  Avery also spent his quality time discussing the goalie’s ex-wife.  Classy guy, that Avery!  The unnamed goalie refused to shake Avery’s hand at the end of the series.  I salute him for that.  Media hacks immediately dissed the goalie for being a poor role model to kids.  Apparently the media didn’t watch the games, but phoned in the stories.  Bad media, bad media!  Get off the keyboard.  

Karma showed up and kicked Avery in the spleen following the game.  The mouthy child was hospitalized with a lacerated spleen and the blogging world wasn’t overly disappointed at his situation.  Complications to his surgery were reported today.  How do you lacerate a spleen without a switchblade!   In March, it was reported that Avery’s phone number was in a Manhattan Madam’s little black book.  I thought hockey dudes got all the chicks…they do, for $700 an hour, with the Spitzer discount!  I’m here all week, try the veal.  

3) UEFA Champions League-Bet you don’t care what that is.  I do. The cream of the European soccer crop plays an international tournament.  This year, the last teams standing are Chelsea (blue jersey) and Manchester United (red jersey).  (Color hints were for US fans.) This all English final will be played in Moscow.  What’s the over/under on arrests?  Do the fans have to bring their own handcuffs to the game?  What are hooligans like on holiday?  Wait till May 21 to find the match buried on your cable networks. This match shows that the Premier League is the bomb!

4) Roger Clemens-This pathetic drama makes me yearn for Barry Bond’s fat head.  Mindy McCready has not denied having a sexual relationship with Clemens when she was 15!  Isn’t that a criminal act?  Clemens can kiss off his Hall of Fame election now that the media has someone to zero in on that’s not named Bonds.  Since the facts eventually surface in the East River, we’ll learn just how sleazy Roger is, and if it’s anything like his attorney, Rusty, it’ll get ugly.   Mrs. Clemens did not return my calls, but her attorney did!  Ba-da-bing!  Call me Debbie!  

5) Jason Whitlock, a dude who gets paid to write sports articles, hates everyone with a keyboard that isn’t named Jason Whitlock.   Sorry Jason, the Sherman Anti-Trust Act guarantees the public the right to blog.  Go ahead, look it up.  The internet has changed the sports information game and some cry babies want to pick up their sandbox and go home.  This isn’t the 80’s Whitlock.  Everyone gets to play.  If you’re not nice, the public may notice that you don’t have game, just the same move where you juke to the far left and cry, ‘‘Skin color foul!”  Bring that one-on-one and I’ll feed you the ball for lunch.   The blogosphere deserves better.  

Personal Rant: 

6) I spent Thursday thru Sunday at the PGA Byron Nelson Classic.  This meant I missed most of the NFL draft.  Not really, the draft will be re-played till August kickoff.   The tourney used to be in May, followed by the Hogan in Fort Worth.  This gave PGA players the opportunity to park their butts in the metro area for two weeks.  The brain trust in the PGA office decided to hose over north Texas by splitting the tournaments and moving the Byron Nelson Classic to April.  Ok, that’s a personal rant and the brainiac commissioner adjusted the schedule for 2009.   In 2007, the course was in terrible shape and half the greens were dead and embalmed!  This year only one Top Ten player showed and it was the Masters champion.  The tournament skippers missed a fantastic new course, built by D.A. Weibring after the 2007 tournament.  Eldrick Woods wasn’t missed as the new course was the show.   Eldrick also avoids the Hogan because it’s a traditional course.  There’s not a known meaning for the name Eldrick.  I think it’s a convoluted Spanish name, el Drick, meaning: Born with a wicked awesome shot.

That’s all the time I have.  Enjoy the rest of the show featuring the singing group, I Love the Lakers and Can’t Name Three East Teams.

It's time to play Name that football blogger.

This person blogs about the English Premier League.

Here's a pic 'she' had in today's post: 

This is the post as of 6:15 PM.(The blogger changed the post after I wrote this, so the link is to the most recent version, which now includes the photos below and a blame the husband comment.  All the responder comments are also gone.  Her old posts were updated to include props to the model her face is attached to.)

http://community.foxsports.com/blogs/Hotblonde
milf/2008/03/04/They_think_its_all_over

Here's the picture from the post:

Yes, that is a lovely picture and it was even better when I saw it in Playboy a few years ago.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Here's the original picture of a lovely centerfold  named Charis Boyle, prior to being photoshopped.   Many American males NEVER forget a great picture.  THIS PICTURE WAS NOT IN THE ORIGINAL POST.  This was found on the WWW in a couple minutes, since I recognized the body and remembered the name.

I have no idea if the blogger posting under these English football posts is male, female or other.  I do know the blogger knows the sport and how to photoshop a picture.

The comments from the guys saying how hot 'she' is are the best part.

Be careful out there, boys.

(The Next Day...Amazingly 'her' original post was updated to include the pictures above, side by side and a reference to the hubby photoshopping it all.  Two additional group pictures, including Charis, suddenly appeared, too.  Also included now is an ode to Charis.   Out of place in an original sports blog, wouldn't you say?  All the original comments were deleted from many posts, too.  Strange. 

On 'her' previous blogs, she's added a 'thank you' comment about the model she used to bogart the lingerie shot.   Body doubles from 'her' blogs are Playboy Centerfolds, Playboy Cybermodels, Shirley of Hollywood Models, etc.   I know that because I'm a male and we remember a hot bod in lingerie.)

The United States is the Galapagos Island of sports.

Euro Guide to why soccer is not important here.

As we grew as a nation, so did our desire to play  and watch sports.   We created new sports and they evolved in unique nature.  This infuriates some, still.

The seasons dictated the creation of new sports for every season and the male culture said, "booh yah."   The weather has always impacted where the better outdoor teams are located.  The south dominates NCAA baseball.

The result of sports passion was an evolution, far away from the origins of europe and asia.

Basketball was created by a Canadian, Naismith, in America.  The world plays basketball.

Football evolved from rugby and became the national passion.  This is a tough export.

Baseball came along and is nicknamed "the national past time."  This is a passion in many countries of the Americas.  The Japanese pro leagues are fantastic.

Hockey still holds its european origins.  We hijacked plenty of Canadian teams to the southern United States, and a northern U.S. team, too.   Team rosters are filled with Canadians and Euros.   We don't care where the player is from as long as our team wins.

NCAA sports balooned with the growth of the nation and the desire for more sports action.   Many alumni/booster Clubs control university sports hiring and firing.  Even hockey has womens teams now and is an Olympic event. 

Professional Wrestling evolved constantly.  Wrestling 'franchise' owners went before Congress and declared it to be an entertainment industry, not a sport, just to keep the government out.  I'll give you two words why you should watch wrestling:  Torrie Wilson.  A bikini clad girl or hot cheerleader never hurt a sport.

Radio fueled the sports expansion, later replaced by television, which was complemented by the explosion of sports on cable television.

We go to football games and yell at the opponent's fans.

We attend baseball as a kind of social event and talk to those around us.

Basketball fills the blogs every day and the playoffs go on forever.

We have sports for all seasons and something is always on cable.

Add Fantasy(name a sport) and it's 24/7 sports.

Thanks to Fox Sports and ESPN's many channels, we never go without our sports.

I remember Sunday mornings after church.  We watched the regional wrestling matches with names that later became national.  Look at the evolution of wrestling.  It went from small time gyms into a multi-million dollar industry. 

Soccer never had  a chance.  Why? The best athletes chose the other major sports instead.  Add parental pressure to play one of the 'real man' sports as a reason soccer is trailing and doesn't have a strong footprint on the masses.

Fathers and sons bonded discussing sports, listening to baseball on the radio and watching on black and white television.  My dad explained why the Mick was so great, and he didn't understand why I liked Sal Bando.  He accepted me anyway.

Our sports are in our genes and run deep in our blood.

Count the number of sports jerseys you have.  I have NCAA Football, NCAA  Baseball, NHL,  NFL, even FIFA jerseys for Deutschland and Argentina.  Why those soccer jerseys?  Because they look cool, that's why.

Sport is international.  I was stopped in the street of Paris and asked about the Dallas Stars, because of my ballcap.  We talked NHL hockey at a cafe,   Some Germans at Oktoberfest knew who the Huskers were and asked about the Thanksgiving Friday game with Oklahoma.  Still, they also asked if Texas was filled with people like JR Ewing.

People pick and choose which sport they want to love, regardless of  their home continent.  That's not going to change.  The U.S. has created new sports and exported them to the world.  It's time for a couple new sports to be created.  February is a slow sports month compared to the rest of the year.