News and Notes Around Sports
A lot to get to today from this weekend in sports so lets begin with the news that ended the day yesterday.
NASCAR
Matt Kenseth won again yesterday at the Auto Club 500 and became only the 5th Driver to win the first two races of the season. Last time someone did that was Jeff Gordon in 1997. That year he won the Sprint Cup (Formerly Known as the Winston Cup) Could this be a great sign for Kenseth or is he going to have a bulls eye on him now. We will have to wait and find out.
MLB
The World Baseball Classic starts on March 5th and I am pretty excited about it. It seems that bigger stars are playing in it this year. I am looking forward to it. All games will televised on ESPN and ESPN 2. And for you Spanish viewers it will be on ESPNDeportes. I know I will be watching to see how certain guys do in a different team environment. I think playing for your country is a greater feeling then playing for a team like the Red Sox, and Yankees. I say that because you just don’t have that city’s fans, you have your entire country rooting for you.
NBA
Not much going except that Kobe and Lebron tore it up on Friday Night in their respective games. Injuries are starting to pile up for teams like the Rockets who lost McGrady, the Suns who lost Stoudemire, the Magic lost Nelson and for the time being the Celtics lost Garnett. The Pistons might not even make the playoffs this year because now they have loss six in a row, and are right at the .500 mark. Not good if you are a hoping the Pistons to be in the Eastern Conference Finals again. It’s not going to happen. Right now, I think the final four will be the Nuggets, and Lakers from the West. From the East it will be the Cavs, and barring injury the Celtics. A lot can happen in the next few weeks.
PBA
I took some time to watch bowling yesterday and it was so cool. They had a tournament where they banned the reactive resin for a week and all bowlers had to use a plastic bowling ball like they used in the old days. My bowling hero Pete Weber was in the finals but came up short against his protege Jeff Carter. It was neat to see the bowlers adjust and rely on their ability and not the ball for once. I think each sport should have an event like this where the go back to the old equipment for one week. It’s a great concept that I enjoyed.
Well that’s all from me. Thanks for reading and God Bless.
