I have a Viking bias when it comes to the NFL Hall of Fame voting. I’m glad to see Gary Zimmerman got voted in, but how does he get in and Randall McDaniel not? They were both pro bowlers, but nobody at any position has played in more pro bowls than McDaniel. Not Jerry Rice, not Joe Montana and certainly not Gary Zimmerman. The only difference between Zimmerman and McDaniel is that Zimmerman has a Super Bowl ring. Played on a Super Bowl winning team does not make Zimmerman better than McDaniel. I’m not saying Zimmerman should not have been voted in, I’m saying they both should have been. On the same topic, what about Chris Carter. Besides Rice, Cartner was probably the best receivers in the 1990s.
Every summer we are forced to watch the Yankees and Red Sox, and hear about how it is the best rivalry in sports. It may be, but here we go again with the New York vs. Boston talk. This time its for football’s ultimate price, the Super Bowl trophy. The New York Giants against the New England (Boston) Patriots. It’s not quite the Yankees/Red Sox, but its the same two cities we can’t get away from during the summer. At least the Giants and Patriots don’t play each other 19 times. Two is more than enough.
Forget about the loss to Holy Cross. Saturday’s (Dec. 29) loss to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is a bad loss for the Gopher men’s hockey team. The game was at Maricci Arena and was supposed to be a cupcake game that would get the Gophers into the championship game of their own Dodge Holiday Classic. The Gophers had won the tournament the past eight seasons. Boston College went on to claim the title with a 6-0 win over RIT Sunday. The fact about RIT is that they don’t have one scholarshipped athlete on their team. Holy Cross had some, and Minnesota’s loss to Holy Cross came in the 2006 NCAA tournamnet. That means Holy Cross was good enough to get to the final tournament of the season. It used to be that the Goper hockey team was the one team we could rely on during the winter when the Timberwolves and Wild tail off. I’m not sure that’s the case. The Gophers don’t seem to have the swager they used to. They need to get it back. Somewhere on Long Island, New York, Kyle Okposo and Garh Snow are laughing.
The release of the Mitchell Report on steroids in baseball will not clean the game up. Drug testing has been going on for a few years now, but players still find a way to beat the system and they always will. As for the players who were named, most of them are retired or on their last leg, so what can the commissioner do now? I don’t know if baseball can punish the players named in that report because I gurarentee that report omitted many more players. Those 85 players were the result of two peoples’ testimonies. Just think about the number of players who would be named if every clubhouse guy in the league was sworn to testify in front of congress.
Evel Knievel’s passing is a hit to the American public. He truly was an American idol. Long before the X Games made stunt riding popular, Knievel was the one and only daredevil people knew. His name is as recognizable as Michael Jordan’s. The thrill of what Evel did was not necessarily whether he would clear the buses or fountains but whether he would survive to try it again. In his red, white and blue, star-studed leather jump suit, he was like Elvis on a motorcyle.
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