What is an impressive streak in your mind? Joe Dimaggio's streak of 56 hits is unbelievable. Rocky Marciano won 49 straight fights without a loss. How about Don Mattingly, Ken Griffey Jr., hitting a home run in 8 straight games. The U.C.L.A. streak and the UCONN women's streak are very impressive but some might say that they had an advantage over every team they played against. The men's game in the 70's was way watered down. Most of the great players went to a handful of schools and the talent pool only started to expand in the 80's and 90's. Some will argue that the same schools in the women's game get the great players so you are only competing with 15 schools a year for a championship and if you are doing it regionally, you are only competing against 4 schools. It seems that every year Tennessee and Connecticut get the blue chip recruit and the other schools get the left overs. Duke, North Carolina, Stanford, Rutgers, Oklahoma, Baylor, Maryland, Notre Dame, are the cream of the crop. Nebraska had a great season only to be knocked out of the tournament early in both the conference and the NCAA tourneys. The women's game is good for have an anomaly team come from out of no where. I can name Texas Tech, Villanova from a few years ago, Louisiana Tech and Vanderbilt were good when I was younger, and USC had the greatest player of all times in Cheryl Miller and Lisa Leslie play there. So anytime you win more than 20 games in a row it is impressive, anyone one who says differently has never played sports. The amount of pressure that these youngsters have been under over the past two seasons to win is crazy. Herm Edwards said it best,"you Play to Win the Game!" Don't you forget it!!! I salute the Connecticut Huskies women's team because they have truly earned my respect. Coach Geno is 7-0 in championship games. That is an amazing streak. They have 77 out of 78 games by double digits. That is outrageous. Next year they have tough games to start the season and it will be awesome to see if Maya Moore can lead them to another perfect season. I hope she can..
Another topic of discussion is Tiger Woods. I have spoken on his situation and it is time for the world to move on. If he wins the tournament this weekend, it would be the greatest and worse thing in the world. It would be bad because the entire golfing community should retire if he wins because he cannot be that much better than all of these players. The confidence of every player will be crushed and he will ascend higher up in the pantheon of earthly mortals. It becomes a good thing if he wins because in my opinion he needs a hug. He needs someone to hug him and say we love you and move forward with your life and whatever happens happens. Anything is possible...
The start of the baseball season always is exciting and exhilarating until your team loses or someone gets hurt. There so many teams missing key players and already some players are snapping at the media. Don't you love the analysts and their predictions. If Pujols stays on this pace he will hit 330 home runs. Roy Halliday may win 30 games this year. Tim Lincecum may strike out 300. Matt Cain too!!!
Finally, football players need to leave women alone. If you go to a club, ask your security to ask the bouncer to get you some ladies and screen the ladies and whoever does not give you the time of day, let them walk away. When I was a bouncer, I had several athletes ask me to let women in V.I.P room or area and usually the athlete would buy thousands of dollars of alcohol and find one girl he liked and everyone played nice and went about their business. Now recently, this making it rain crap has created havoc in clubs and needs to stop. Some one has already been paralyzed already and if you want to throw money up in the air at least do it in a hotel room where you can control what happens. Also stop touching women. If they want to be touched they will let you know. Women. Don't cheapen yourself to be with a star player. If you don't want to be hit or touched, walk away from trouble. Don't take the free alcohol unless you are ready to entertain what is coming next. Every year it is the same story. When will both sexes learn?
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