Johnny Weir-D
Forget Kurt Warner retiring, we’ve got bigger problems. This is Johnny Weir, the bronze medal national USA figure skating champion. This is what we’re sending to the Olympics, folks. Weir sports a USSR red logo warmup and is coached by Soviet coaches. Weir’s signature finish facially to his program at nationals included an uncomfortable salute to a West Hollywood type version of a cabaret number. Maybe this is one round of “Capture the flag’ Americans want to lose.
Chicago Bears QB Problem
In a season rife with all-star quarterbacks on the top of the pro football leagues heap, one looks askance at Da Bears. With a special teams standout like Shaw and nobody else on that team breaking the bank, why can’t Da Bears follow the formula of winning franchises like Dallas, Minnesota, New Orleans and Indianapolis? Chi-town sports freaks shoudl take some of that we-want-the-olympics money and splurge on a top QB.
Bruin Recruiting a Puzzler
A couple of phone calls different and Harvard’s new-era superbranding golden child of b-ball could have been a Bruin pulling crowds into Pauley Pavilion, and Mustafa Abdul-Hamid could have been ruling Boston paint large.
Cypress Hill Snowless for Olympics?
The 2010 Monster X games happening now were supposed to be a whet for the appetite for Vancouver Alpine events, but Canada has just one problem: no snow. While dogged snow eventers and athletes wonder what will happen next month, the mind spins with possibilities. Some of that extreme X talent could supplant the actual events getting the snow into the bowls and g-runs. Dumptrucks and helicopters full of snow might be needed to deliver the Whistler-white packed powder Canada is known for. The Cypress mountain inadequate snow cover changes the expectations of Alpine events to apprehension that half pipes may fall to third pipes with dripping structures.