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The ridiculous screaming from the mouths of players like Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka must be removed from the game of tennis. While many…
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"Warner? Really? David Warner?" is fast becoming my catchphrase and I was forced to pull it out again when he was announced as the…
Can we please stop applauding Brett and Glenn Stewart for their varying feats of mediocrity? Firstly, Brett Stewart is one of the best, if…
Let the record show I was happy with the Dally M award winners - for the most part. One issue I did have came…
[caption id="attachment_30541" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="NRL Rugby League, Melbourne Storm v Warriors at Etihad Stadium. Digital image by Brett Crockford, © nrlphotos"][/caption] Anticipation for the…
My point was that Prokhorov is the exception. That’s why it’s dangerous.
Also, if you can quote somewhere from the article where I say the NBA is the only sport where people are paid too much for what they do I will kiss your feet.
Has the NBA become the EPL?
I can’t tell if this is serious or legit. If it’s legit, other than all the other garbage (which is literally 100% of it) is the fact that “Bill Russell was tall too”. Bill Russell was 6’9″ and Wilt was 7’1″. That’s like saying ‘Sure Andrew Bynum’s big but so is Glen Davis’.
LeBron James will surpass Jordan
Every time I start thinking LeBron could be better than MJ, I think harder, and I just don’t see it happening. Obviously there are a ridiculous number of different arguments made for either side but here’s why LBJ won’t ever be MJ.
Firstly, Jordan never played with anyone who really attracted big-time defensive attention. Yes, Pippen was great, but he wasn’t always making players think about coming off their man the way Bosh and Wade do for LBJ. If LeBron had won even one championship in his seven years in Cleveland, making an argument for him would be easier, but he didn’t.
Another point is each player’s opposition. When you look at who Michael had to beat to get to even get to the finals his feats are even more impressive. Bird’s Celtics, the Cavs of Mark Price, the Bad Boy Pistons. And then, after he’s run the gauntlet of the Eastern Conference, Jordan had to beat Sir Charles’ Suns, Drexler’s Blazers, Magic’s Lakers and the Malone-Stockton-led Jazz juggernaut. While LeBron has had to play some excellent teams, his list of playoff opponents just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
In the clutch. LeBron cops more than he deserves for his lack of ability in the dying seconds of games — except during the 2011 finals when the criticism was completely warranted — but he still doesn’t measure up to Jordan at the death of big games.
Drive. I don’t like overly competitive people. I find them annoying and usually pretty arrogant, but in a sport as heavily individual-centric as basketball, it’s necessary. Jordan obviously had that in spades. LeBron, while he’s clearly committed to his craft and wants to win, he doesn’t seem to have that overwhelming desire to, not just win, but to really beat his opponents. LeBron has his chip now and I’m really happy about that. Now he’ll have some of that pressure lifted off him and he can hopefully get more. But before he got that ring, he made two trips to the NBA Finals. I’ve already talked about his weak performance in the 2011 series but before it was his appearance in the 2007 finals against San Antonio that was even less Jordan-esque. LeBron didn’t have a bad series individually, but there is no way, Michael Jordan would ever have allowed a team of his to get swept in the NBA Finals. And that may be the biggest difference between the two of them. The intangible ability to impose his will on a series, not just a game.
Not only that though. Jordan did it, offensively at least, predominantly on his own. And also in the most clutch moments imaginable.
LeBron James will surpass Jordan
Also, Lebron and Kobe are – while not ‘sharpshooters’ per se – both strong outside shooters. Plus, I’m liking the look of harden for a spot. Their PGs have to be Rondo and CP3, anyone else *cough* Westbrook *cough* just won’t create enough
Why USA's Dream Team won't win Olympic gold
We should destroy Kyrie Irving’s self esteem, convince him he’ll never be any chance of getting picked for the US team and convince him to play for us.
Why USA's Dream Team won't win Olympic gold
I was wondering if that would come back to bite me on the ass.
Fair cop.
Sort of.
Who gave the inmates the keys to the asylum?
Matt I know for a fact that Warner had not played a first class match before Chappell suggested he be in the Ashes squad. Park cricketer was a bit of poetic licence but really not that far wrong.
Who gave the inmates the keys to the asylum?
“After all, if Superman isn’t fighting a villain, then he’s just Clark Kent in a stupid suit.”
That would be a brilliant metaphor, if it worked at all. For the most part, you’re not talking about having villains on the other side of the fence, you’re talking about having them on the same side as our heroes. We don’t need “villains” or *shudder* “characters” in the game. It pains me every time I have to applaud the play of someone like Greg Inglis; for all intents and purposes, a wife-beater. Plus, I got no more enjoyment out of watching endlessly lazy larrikin Doug Bollinger bowl a good ball than I did watching the hard-working new age sensitive guy Mitchell Johnson bowl a good ball.
Australian sport needs to get its villains back
cliff lyons was “maybe the most underrated of his time”
how can you say that? he was one of the most overrated
Memo to Quade Cooper: stay in rugby union
Look, we’re both just repeating ourselves. I’m not going to convince you, you’re not going to convince me, I say we call it a day.
There's no axe to find for the Stewart brothers
The fact of the matter is, what can be conclusively proved is not always the whole truth. Obviously, Brett was drunk and disorderly at the function otherwise nothing would have happened.
However, let’s say, for the sake of argument, he did nothing. He was a model citizen who responsibly monitored his alcohol consumption at the event. He then took a taxi home and jumped straight into bed. He was then charged with sexual assault and the NRL, seeing this as a bad sign for their game, suspended him for four weeks. Then they would have done wrong by him.
HOWEVER, even if that second scenario was the case (which I don’t believe for a second that it was) he still has no right to bitch and moan for two years about a piddly four week suspension.
There's no axe to find for the Stewart brothers
Charles, you are ridiculous. Why is it the responsibility of a major national corporation to stop a 25-year-old fully-grown man from drinking too much. These guys should be smart enough to be responsible for themselves and then, if they aren’t, they should be humble enough to accept the consequences.
There's no axe to find for the Stewart brothers
Charles, I hope you realise the irony in your comment.
You keep telling people not to make judgements about people, but there you go thinking you can read his mind. Besides that, as you said, what he “feels” he was punished for and what he actually was punished for are two different things which just reinforces my statement that he is misguided and wrong.
There's no axe to find for the Stewart brothers
I’m not pulling down their character, I’m simply reporting what I feel about them (it just happens to be right haha). There is a reason this website is called ‘Your Sports OPINION’.
Also, I’m over people (and it’s not just you, Charles) saying “such-and-such is a great bloke and obviously would never intentionally do anything malicious.” Commentators and whatnot say it over and over when serial offenders – ahem, Mr Matai – are up on charges at the judiciary. If we were to believe the commentators in every case then there would be no bad blokes in rugby league; which is obviously not true. I think it’s time commentators just accepted that some people are idiots or overly-aggressive or easily-baited or whatever and say that. I’m not saying all players a inherently bad people but I’m sick of people saying they’re all the best people to have ever graced the earth despite their constant indiscretions.
There's no axe to find for the Stewart brothers
Mals, that doesn’t make sense. Whether his knees hit the ground first is meaningless – or at least, should be meaningless.
In the rest of McCallum’s ridiculous, gibberish, contradictory and all-round laughable quote, he said one of the reasons Matai wasn’t charged was because he didn’t drop to his knees.
This judiciary system has become a joke. It’s humanly impossible to get a precedent to support your case because, for every case there is at least one identical case that got a different outcome.
Greg McCallum defends Matai decision
This isn’t really an article about bias. It’s just about the wrong calls being made.
Orford getting Dally M wasn’t bias it just happened because Billy Slater’s suspension at the end of the season stripped him of points. But yeah, Uate’s was pure bias.
Dally M fallout not all positive
Then maybe it’s time to introduce some sort of ‘Most Consistent Player’ award to recognise the Glenn Stewart’s and Peter Wallace’s of the game.
Dally M fallout not all positive
See, I just don’t feel the refs, if they’re doing their jobs properly, can be watching all of the little things players do. They can’t cast their eyes to the backplay and see how early Billy Slater predicts things and how good his positional play is and things like that. The refs have a hard enough time of it aready, let’s not give them anything else to worry about.
Dally M fallout not all positive
Spiro, why should the selectors be applauded for finally picking these two?
Firstly, if you put on a blindfold and throw enough darts at a board, you’ll eventually get a bullseye. The selectors have essentially given every cricket player in Australia with fingers and a pulse a go.
And secondly, we have no proof these two are our saviours. Remember a guy called Jason Krejza? If memory serves, he too dominated in his first test (much more than Lyon has) and then, a few months later *POOF* he’s gone.
Let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves. These two look serviceable but we’ve seen it before, gotten overexcited and expected them to be Warney straight away. Let’s see if and how they continue to perform and how the selectors react. Then we can more accurately judge the selectors.
Selectors deserve plaudits for Lyon and Copeland
Yeah Dean. You’re absolutely right. If the unsubstantiated rumour that you’re citing turns out to be true then some points of the article are irrelevant.
Unforunately (in the mother of all cases of irony) if the rumour isn’t true then your comment is in fact the one that is null and void.
Manly and Des Hasler don't get it
Your comment is really confusing. What do you mean we should be charged extra?
Also, there’s a colossal difference between a small involuntary grunt like Djokovic lets out versus the intentional and illegal shrieking employed so prominently by Azarenka and Sharapova. It’s wholeheartedly unnatural.
Removing the shriek from women's tennis