Weekend Roundup

Lot's happened in sports this past weekend. Most of which you probably didn't notice because ESPN found out the NFL was officially going to be in full swing. When this happened, you saw lots of Michael Irvin. No one wants that.

Let's briefly talk about the NFL. It seems to me, from what little research that I've done, that no one pays too much attention to the league outside of their own team. I couldn't tell you about any of the teams that won last week except my team and the team that beat our biggest rival. I would assume the Patriots won. Interest of the NFL as a league is dying, whether or not Walt Disney Corporation wants to admit it or not. The only thing saving the league is...Fantasy Football.

Speaking of them and my least favorite football player Tom Brady; he threw a touchdown pass to Randy Moss yesterday. Long pass play, 50 yards I'd say, and the announcer doing the replay talked about how great of a throw it is. Well, when you're standing in the pocket for as long as you want, you have Randy Moss on your team and he's beaten his man by three steps, any professional quarterback should be able to hit the open receiver. Unless his name is Chad Pennington. Drew Bledsoe would have made that throw off his back foot, in a Cougar uniform.

Outside football, you can't get away from Tiger winning. As predicted by the experts of No Owens Sports, he's currently leading the FedEx Cup Points standings, and will most likely decide to win it next weekend. Thus, giving a player who didn't play in one of these playoff tournaments the victory, giving the point system a serious BCS feel. In depth coverage from the BMW Championship to follow.

You knew you couldn't get away from reading today without a shout out to Roger Federer. This straight set victory (7-6,7-6,6-4) wasn't his most impressive but he continues to scrap. Those who find ways to win even when they aren't playing their best prove to be great players and in Federer's case, the greatest of players. Also, he's won four straight US Opens. He's now won 12 of the last 18 Slams. Tiger hasn't done that. He also walks. And Federer carries his own equipment and switches rackets himself. I hope Phil had a nice time at home watching on TV.

Finally, college football. Briefly, run away from LSU. USC had the weekend off to prepare, I guess, for some grueling schedule that only the computers say exists. So did LSU, but they had a nationally televised walk through session against Virginia Tech.

Injuries are starting to plague the biggest game of next week, regardless of what ESPN says, #22 Tennessee at #5 Florida as Antonio Gaines of UT's secondary and a number of skill players (including Andre Caldwell) from Florida continue to potentially drop from the respective starting lineups. At least it evens out I suppose. Keep in mind also that Tennessee has a knack for knocking Gators out of the game. As Percy Harvin continues to have problems with his knee, watch out for this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62JbiKNc_Uc

Notice what happens to the pitch man...

Also, did you hear there's a new fastest man in the world? Yeah, he's Jamaican.