#5 - Barry Zito and the Giants can't let things go.
So, apparently the Giants can't seem to let things go. After winning a game against the Giants in the 12th inning with a home run, Prince Fielder and his Milwaukee teammates scripted a little bowling sketch (maybe it was a cannonball, who cares?) that was so awful it could've ended up on SNL. The Giants felt slighted because, since signing Barry Bonds in 1993, they haven't been allowed to have fun on the baseball field. As a result, Zito drilled Fielder in the back with a first-pitch fastball in the first inning of their SPRING TRAINING GAME!!!! You'd figure a team with a weed-smoking Cy Young winner would know how to chill and let things slide.
#4 - Brittney Griner throws down... in more ways than one.
Apparently Baylor University's women's basketball program is becoming more and more indistinguishable from the men's basketball program. Brittney Griner has been making some waves for the #14 Lady Bears. She is one of the first females to dunk consistently on the basketball floor, throwing down some YouTube-worthy jams. Unfortunately, she did something the other night that was also YouTube-worthy. She threw a punch at a Texas Tech player, whose name I don't care enough to look up. Griner has been suspended for two games for the punch, which I don't believe was Hawaiian.
#3 - Jake Delhomme released by the Panthers
Who saw this one coming? Just over a year after signing a "lucrative" contract extension, the Carolina Panthers have released their QB Jake "the Snake" Delhomme. I was just thinking that maybe we should change his nickname to "the Quake" because the coaches trembled with fear every time he went to throw a pass. In all fairness though, I don't think this release was the right thing for Carolina. After all, it was Delhomme's horrible passing that turned them into a running team featuring Jonathan Stewart and DeAngelo Williams.
#2 - Canada beats Team USA on overtime goal by Sidney Crosby
The Olympic closed out on Sunday (finally!!!!!) with the men's hockey final between Canada and the US. As you can guess from the headline above, Canada won it on an overtime by Sidney Crosby. Upon returning to the home ice for the restart of the hockey season, Crosby was playfully booed by the hometown Pittsburgh fans, who apparently like it when Crosby brings them a Stanley Cup, but don't like it when he denies the US a gold medal.... bandwagon fans. They, however, may be excited to hear that the Pirates are considering making Crosby a midseason acquisition to extend their streak of losing seasons to 18. Because, let's face it, the Pirates aren't going to get anybody in the seats at the end of the season without such shenanigans. Seriously, I went to a Sunday afternoon game last September that couldn't have had more than 10,000 "fans" there.
#1 - Spring Training games have begun!!!!!
Baseball has returned!!! The Cards did manage to drop their opening Spring Training game to the Mets, but in their defense... nobody cares, it's Spring Training. The two clubs are meeting again today, and this time Pujols and Holiday will be in the lineup for at least two innings. It's showtime!
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