Well we survived the week. We also survived the much-anticipated Sno-mageddon 2011. Pfft. Thanks a lot Matt Zaffino. You too, Mark Nelson. Don't forget you, Andy Carson. Jerks. Thanks for getting my hopes up. The so called winter storm warning didn't even get me one lousy day off work. Here, I thought I'd be snowed in both Thursday and Friday, but noooooo.Next time I sure ain't going to get my hopes up. I hate snow anyway. I just wanted to days off of work. I'm convinced snow sucks unless you're, like, eight years old or younger. Yeah, playing in the snow when you're eight years old is great. But when you're an adult and have to actually do adult things (go to work, go to the store, drive anywhere), it completely sucks.
Anyway, here's what has been thrown around in the world of sports this past week.
1. The NBA trade deadline was pretty awesome, wasn't it?
For the first time in at least a few years, the NBA trade deadline was pretty interesting. Lots of deals went down, especially on that last day. If you didn't get a chance to keep track of all of them, here is a pretty good list from Yahoo! Sports of all the details.
Besides the Blazers pulling a fast one on the Bobcats, there were a couple other deals that caught my eye. For one, Baron Davis must be pretty pissed off today. Getting traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers will piss anyone off, no matter what team you come from. Like everyone's been saying, we're not going to see much of Davis in a Cavs uniform, I don't think.
And how about the Nets trading for Deron Williams. That was pretty ballsy, right? I think it's a good move for both sides. But how pissed off do you think Jerry Sloan is right about now? He gets ran out of town by D-Will, and then management ships Williams outta there. Could Utah maybe have hinted about this to Sloan a couple weeks earlier? Utah is not going to be very good for a couple years now, if you ask me. But if they would have kept Sloan as head coach, they would still have been a decent team.
2. I'm sorry Auburn fans, but Cam Newton is going to get nailed by the NCAA eventually.
I've mentioned this idea before, but The Big Lead brought up the point again this past week. In a post titled, "When will the NCAA find dirt on Cam Newton?", TBL states that "you can be sure the NCAA will take many more months to find something – anything – to nail Auburn on. According to Kevin Scarbinsky of the Birmingham News, the NCAA is still getting its sleuth on, but hasn’t found anything new.....I’m of the belief that it’s a “when” situation, not “if.”"
Our resident expert on all things SEC, Clay Travis, who writes for Fanhouse.com, also wrote this article back on November 15, 2010, predicting practically the same thing...that "Scam" Newton is going to get busted. Travis says, "It might take 10 days, it might take two years, but the ineligibility ruling is coming.....In the meantime Auburn fans can continue to bury their heads in the sand and blame everyone but the Newton family for the plague of Biblical proportions that is about to rain down on their football program."
The way the NCAA has handled the whole Cam Newton mess has been embarrassing. It's obvious that they didn't rule him ineligible during this past season because they wanted a great national title game matchup with the two undefeated teams going head to head. Because they're so cowardly, they'll have no problem ruling Newton ineligible and stripping Auburn of the national title so long after the fact, that no one is going to care. And then they'll be able to say that they enforced the rules, upheld the integrity of the game, blah, blah, blah and feel good about themselves.
Meanwhile, Auburn will suffer and no one else will care.
