Holidays Bring out the Best in People

The holidays bring out the beat in people...usually. This holiday season has brought some good and some bad. Why around the holidays? Holidays are fun and suppose to be jolly. But many bad things have happened over this holiday season. Is this because it’s the last one of the decade and people want to leave with a bang? Probably not. Lets start in sports. Brett Favre and his coach are in a fight. Mike Leach (Texas Tech head coach) gets fired one day before he was suppose to get his bonus because he locked a kid in a shed for multiple hours. Wide Receiver Chris Henry got killed. The only undefeated team (the Colts) lost. Hometown Chicago Bulls Coach is about to get the boot. Urban Meyer (Florida head football coach) has to step down because of health issues. Tiger Woods (the worlds greatest golfer) having more problems with his mistresses and his family. Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather fight still hasn’t been set. All these bad things that’s happening in today’s sports news. There’s also some good as well. But why all the drama around this years holiday. And lets no forget about the most serious of them all a terrorist attack gone bad and potential terrorists could be anywhere. And a suicide bomber killed eight American civilians, most of them C.I.A. officers, at a remote base in Afghanistan. And many other bad things have happened this holiday season. C’mon why can't we all just enjoy the holidays?

So Many Bowl Games...

Thirty-four bowl games come on that’s a lot of football. Even the biggest of football fans don’t watch them all. Over this break I have watched many bowl games that I wouldn’t normally watch because of all the down time I have. I don’t know if you have watched any of them yet, but for all of the bowls that have already been played the stadiums are about half way full. This is because no one wants to watch the Independence Bowl and the Roadys Humanitarian Bowl. This is because these games don’t mean anything to the fans, and to the nation. On the other hand these games are what make college football so great today. If there weren't 34 bowl games that means 68 teams play and if they cut that number of bowls then the number of teams has to go to. This wouldn’t affect the well-known schools but for schools like SMU, Bowling Green, Idaho, Troy, and Central Florida wouldn’t make it to these games. For those teams the bad bowl games are like national championships for them, winning the AdvoCare V100 Independence Bowl is just as big as Texas winning the National Championship. Those teams just have their goals set lower then going undefeated. So college football needs all of the bowl games and many people want to lessen the number of bowls, but I say we add another 5 bowl games to give 10 more teams that aren’t as good as a Florida, Texas, Ohio State a chance. Teams like Notre Dame could possibly make a bowl game. 

Are any Coaches Loyal to their Teams?

Just the other day Brian Kelly signed a contract to be the coach for Notre Dame starting next season. Kelly leading his former team Cincinnati to an undefeated season 12-0 with a Big East title. Along what that great season they earned the right to play in a BCS bowl game v. the Florida Gators. But Kelly had different things on his mind this week, not thinking about the blue and orange Florida Gators but the Gold, Blue and Green fighting Irish. By signing this contract with Notre Dame will he coach the bowl game? The answer is no. He is going to ditch his team that he has been the coach since 2006. He has brought the Bearcats out of the dark and into the national spotlight. He’s leaving to join a team that has been peril for the past 10-15 years. If you were a player for a team that has gone unbeaten for a whole season and you have the biggest game of your life coming up, and your coach decides to ditch you. How would you feel? Twenty years ago this was very uncommon, but now today everything is about the money. NO coach has any school pride and often coach at a school to get a different job. If you have any thoughts about modern day coaches let me know.

The Man Among Men: Tiger Woods

Being in a family of all golfers and myself included we have been the biggest fans of Tiger, from when we first saw him on the golf course in 1996. I don't think me or the rest of my family will ever stop being fans of his. We all have heard about what has happened to Tiger Woods in the past couple weeks. One of today's major athletes, one that has one of the cleanest images in sports, just got caught. The day after Thanksgiving was not only Black Friday for the shoppers but also for golf fans around the world. Tiger Woods, the very first billion dollar athlete, was caught.  Caught cheeting at that. He was caught cheating with not only one women but with as many as three. But how can one of the biggest names in sports get caught doing something like this? Not only were golf fans upset, but anyone who respected the game of golf and Tiger Woods were shaking their heads at the newly polyamarous Woods. Early in the morning on black friday Tiger Woods got in a car crash, not with a car but with a tree. You may ask yourself how something like this could happen. Well there are many different stories circulating, but the truth is that Tiger and his wife were experiencing a domestic dispute and she tried to attack him. After Tiger ran out of the house and got into his car his wife chases him outside with a golf club (probably Nike).  He in a moment of panic, crashed his car into a tree in his driveway. The next day cops came to Tigers door, and Tiger and his wife refused to talk to the cops, and anyone for that matter, concerning the crash.
Should you have the right to deny talking to a cop after something that serious has happened?
If your Tiger Woods maybe. But what I'm tired of is this being all over the news since it happened. The more and more its on the news the more and  more embarrassing it is, not only to Tiger and his family but to the game of golf. By now everyone is familiar with all the facts so why keep telling us again and again.I think its time to leave Tiger and his family alone and let them figure things out like all other regular american families would have the right to do. If this happened to anyone else people would move on, but in this case when you hear the name Tiger your not gonna think of "the" Tiger, instead you will think of "the cheetah"