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Sports - Page 5

  • It's OK to leave the bench in the NBA -- If You're a Star

    This week, it's been really tough to find a sports type yakker who thinks that the one game suspension of the Phoenix Suns' Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw was justified.

    Why? Because suspending to key players for violating a rule that mandates a suspension for leaving the bench during an altercation apparently should be ignored when the next game could be directly impacted by the suspensions.

    So, since the suspended Suns actually play and contribute to the team on a nightly basis, they shouldn't have been suspended, even though they violated the rule.

    How come nobody is blasting Raja Bell for trying to mix it up with the Spurs' Robert Horry, which created the 'altercation' that activated the no-leaving-the-bench rule? If Bell doesn't mix it up with Horry, then Stoudemire and Diaw don't get suspended for leaving the bench, right?

    And how many of these sports yakkers would have been defending two players who never play for getting suspended in the same situation? If it has been Sean Marks and Pat Burke, who would have said that they shouldn't be suspended for violating the rule? Anyone? Anyone at all?

  • Guess who was the BALCO leak? Not the government!

    Well, those S.F. Chronicle reporters aren't going to have to do any jail time, because their source has revealed himself.

    Remember all those journalists who were crying, saying the government should never have threatened the reporters with jail unless they revealed their source? One of their major arguments was that it was probably a federal prosecutor who leaked the secret grand jury information, so it wasn't fair for the same prosecutors to now be attacking the poor, innocent reporters.

    Now that it's been revealed that the leak was a defense attorney, maybe those journalists owe the federal prosecutors an apology.

  • Heisman prognosticators aren't that smart

    Congrats to Troy Smith for winning the Heisman trophy. He deserved it, and his win was a foregone conclusion.

    But most college football analysts dismissed the second-place finisher, Arkansas' Darren McFadden. Not a single ESPN talking head even gave him a chance to finish second. Every single one of them said Brady Quinn would finish second and really didn't give McFadden a 'second' thought.

    <>Here's to hoping he stays healthy next season, because he will be the first Razorback to win the Heisman trophy.