Shuh-Sheff-Skee

So I'm the type of guy who is a SPORTS fan, through and through.  Of course, like all of you, I have my allegiances.  For example, I'm a die-hard Yankees fan; but I'm a baseball fan first.  I'm not gonna run around screaming "Red Sox suck!" at the top of my lungs.  Because they don't.  They're a fantastic organization.  Would I EVER root for them?  Hell to the no.  But I'm not an idiot.  I'm a baseball fan who happens to love the Yankees.
College basketball is no different.  I bleed Tar Heel blue, but in general I'm a basketball fan first.  It is my love for Chapel Hill, however, that makes this statement so hard for me to say:
Mike Krzyzewski is the BEST active college basketball coach.  Hands down.

(Hold on while I compose myself... and prepare myself for the inevitable barrage of texts I'm going to receive from all of the Duke and/or Carolina fan friends I have.)

Right now many of you are wondering, how could you go there, Sick?  First, let's take a look at some stats.
In 30+ seasons at Duke, he has: 3 National Championships; 11 Final Four appearances (second all-time behind legendary Coach John Wooden); 12 ACC regular season & 12 ACC tournament championships; a more than 25 win-per-season average; 75 NCAA tournament victories (the most all time); over 800 total victories (one of just 6 men to reach this mark, and he's 4th on that list); 26 NCAA tourney appearances in 27 years including an active 15-straight streak; and my favorite stat (THOUGH TRUST ME IT FUCKING PAINS ME)... his Duke team won more games (291) in the decade beginning in the year 2000 than any other team in any other decade in NCAA Basketball history INCLUDING Wooden's Bruins.  Those numbers are fucking staggering.
 

But stats don't tell the whole story.  When it comes to recruiting, Coach K is behind the 8ball.  Duke's academic standards make it much harder for him.  John Calipari can get the kids who cheat on their SATs and probably can't even spell B-A-S-K-E-T-B-A-L-L.  That shit won't fly at Duke.  I don't mean to stereotype, but for the most part good athletes are NOT good students.  Think of the jocks at your high school... were any of them on the honor roll?  Duke requires both of it's student-athletes.  Coach K can't go out and get the #1 athlete who barely graduated high school.  Sure, he still gets All-Americans. But he can't pick & choose as much as other coaches.  I look at it like this: other coaches pick system guys, Coach K has to get guys and put them into his system.  Either way, he's got a smaller (and generally less-talented) pool to choose from... and Duke is STILL a perennial powerhouse in what is (at the very least) a top 3 or 4 conference every single year.

Still not sold?  Just give it the eyeball test.  If you hadn't watched a single game of college basketball this year, and I showed you a team photo of all 65 tournament teams before the tourney began, would you think they'd be a serious National Champion contender?  Would you even pick them to win a game of anything other than chess?  Me either.

Not convinced yet?  Think back a few years.  USA basketball was an embarrassment in international play.  When a brain-trust of basketball aficionados decided we had to be #1 again, they convinced all the greats to play... Lebron, Kobe, D-Wade, etc.  And who'd they pick to coach?  Coach motherfucking K.
 
On yesterday's episode of Pardon the Interruption, Wilbon said that if he had to play 1 basketball game with his LIFE on the line, he'd want Coach K to coach him.  It pains me to admit it, but I agree.

So, Coach K, I salute you... just this once.
You're the best.
....Even though you look like a fucking rat.

Don't you dare...

You know what- I am sick and tired. Sick and tired of hearing "Marty Brodeur is washed up" "Marty ain't what he used to be" "Brodeur can't hack it" etc etc. Yes, Brodeur is in his 17th season with my beloved New Jersey Devils and he is 37 years old, but he is still ripping it. I just came from the heartbreaking 1-0 loss the Devils suffered tonight to the Bruins, but the positive is that Brodie faced upwards of 30 shots and looked better than ever. Some of his saves were just a mindfuck, so I don't want to hear he is "old," he is still more limber than a retired-gymnast-turned-professional-whore.

Would you fuck me? I'd fuck me. I'd fuck me hard.

Let's look back at his marathon of a career, dude has played 70+ games per season in almost every season he has played -'95 was the shorten season and last year was hindered by an injury, that leaves only 2 years as the fulltime Devils goalie where he played under 70 games. My man is a machine. Nevermind the fact this year is his 8th 40+ win season over that time, an NHL record. But I won't bore you with a list of his NHL records - fuck it Brodie deserves a few mentioned: Most wins ever (closing in on 600), Most shutouts ever, Most saves ever, Most playoff shutouts ever [tied] etc etc.

Oh yeah and Brodie has won the Vezina Trophy (awarded to the best goalie in the NHL for those who don't know) 4 of the last 5 years. How can he be slipping if he continually wins the BEST GOALIE IN THE WHOLE FUCKING LEAGUE AWARD? Ohhhhh and he has been awarded the William M. Jennings Trophy (for the goalie whose team lets up the least amount of goals that season) twice in the last 5 years. Slipping? Get fucked.

I cannot imagine anyone who knows what a hockey puck is can honestly dispute that Martin Brodeur is the best goalie ever. Anyone who tries is making a feeble attempt and probably doesn't know their dick from my elbow. Take a look at the stats, go out to a game and watch him in the flesh, Brodeur is still one of, if not thee, best goalie(s) in the NHL. As someone who watches most of the Devils games, and goes to a lot of them too, I don't see a difference and until I do you can all eat Brodie's shit.

"Yeah son! Do somethin'!"

Bobby Knight loves the cock.

Quick rant:

As if I didn't hate Bobby Knight enough already.  Recently this senile old bastard said one of the most douchebaggiest things I've ever heard in my entire 26 years.  He claimed that if he were starting a basketball team from scratch, he would choose Geno Auriemma as his coach.  Yes, the same Geno who coaches WOMENS FUCKING BASKETBALL.  This maricón has never had the stones to switch to a REAL sport (men's basketball, of course), and Coach Knight thinks he's good enough for this type of honor?  Sorry, Bob, but you have officially lost all credibility with me.  I wouldn't choose Geno to coach an elementary school boys basketball squad.  If you held a gun to my head, he's not even my first choice from the pool of womens basketball coaches (that would obviously be Pat Summit... that's a scary dude right there... probably a bigger cock than Geno too).  There is zero chance any man would listen to a word Geno has to say.  Try commanding respect from a team full of people who you can't make cry, Geno.

New Logo

finally this place is starting to look like a decent blog.

big ups to the Schacksonville Shaguar on the logo.  looks great.

Pretty (tough) in Pink

On tuesday, March 2, college freshman phenom Britteny Griner punched the shit out of some other chick on the court. Why am I spending time talking about womens college bball with baseball season starting and March Madness around the corner? I dunno. But here is a list of 5 chicks I wouldn't want to start shit with. Not because I couldn't kick their asses, but because its so much tougher to bake me a pie with two broken legs.

5. Britteny Griner. she inspired the article and shes a girl that can dunk. also she wears a mens size 17 shoe. The roundhouse she dropped on that girl the other day was a sucked punch but it has some pop. Did I mention she can dunk? Probably need to give her a hormone test before I go toe to toe. How do you make a hormone? refuse to pay her.

4. Rebecca Lobo. Maybe not as tough as Griner but a hell of a long reach. Plus she has a really long face. it kinda scares me. plus, Lobo means wolf and they are tough. Imagine a pack of Rebecca Lobos'? If you did you probably just peed a little.

3. Girls that play first base in softball. Especially at a high level. These girls are the hard hitters that a built like linebackers or pickle barrels. If you can imagine your average Samoan wrestler a foot shorter with slightly larger boobs and a swing like George Brett. Plus they are probably lesbians.

2. Hayley Wichenheiser. Wait who? She plays hockey with the guys and in this video kicked some ass of the younger brother of a pro hockey player. http://www.totalprosports.com/2009/11/23/rub-out-causes-female-hockey-star-hayley-wickenheiser-to-fight-back/

Plus in the article it says she "rubbed him out." A woman that can fight like that and will give you an HJ right after is a catch. Only problem with hockey girls is they have nasty pussies because they wait for 3 periods to change their pads.

1. Laila Ali. She floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee but has a clittoris. A clit that has its own fist. She could definately kick my ass. If I had a problem with her I would just wait 30 years and hope she develops Parkinsons. Even though I will be almost 60 i think I can beat up a 65 year old girl with the shakes.