Ladies and gentleman, Russia will be hosting your 2018 World Cup, and Qatar in 2022. Qatar is neither here nor there (seriously, where is Qatar? (RHETORICAL)), but Russia? Really, Russia? My brain is exploding with Potemkin jokes, snide remarks about human rights, and generalized indignation. Was it not bad enough to award the tournament (riskily) [...]
Posts Tagged ‘stupid’
Whatever, at least Beckham is still gorgeous.
Posted in Dottie, tagged soccer, stupid on December 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Cheerleaders are already gross.
Posted in Dottie, tagged college, gross, stupid on November 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
You may have seen that a couple of dancers at Tennessee-Chattanooga were benched for complaining that their shorts were too short. Good for them (actually), and, wow, nice going, Chattanooga athletics (not). We have cheerleaders and dancers. Fine. I think they’re dumb and pointless and incipiently misogynist, but we have them, and we’ve had them [...]
Sports fandom is not a zero-sum game.
Posted in Dottie, tagged baseball, football, stupid on November 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There were prime-time NFL games during not one but two World Series games. Incidentally, these were both good baseball games. Neither football game was that interesting. Sunday Night Football got better ratings than Game 4; Monday Night Football lagged slightly behind Game 5. This state of affairs as a whole is unsatisfactory. First off: yes, [...]
No, Ben Roethlisberger IS worse than Michael Vick.
Posted in Dottie, tagged football, gross, not awesome, stupid on October 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, you cry more when Old Yeller bites it than when pretty much any person dies in any movie. This is okay, because, and this is important, it is not real life. Animal abuse is reprehensible. Mr. Vick was a bad person and is a convicted criminal. However. Hurting a human being is always–always–worse than [...]
This just in: Sport is full of man-children.
Posted in Dottie, tagged stupid on September 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The recent brief hiatus was caused by rain in Queens; the delay at the Open ate the beginning of my week and then threw everything off. So, sorry. It will not come as a surprise to you that I am not a proper sportswriter. That is, after all, why I have this blog. I go [...]
Manners cost nothing.
Posted in Dottie, tagged stupid, tennis on September 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
You’ve seen this happen. You’re watching tennis, and someone gets unbelievably lucky hitting the net-cord, or a shot that was mostly desperation and very little hope lands in. At this point, unless the player concerned is a complete and utter jackass, he will make some gesture of apology. I think this is the right thing [...]
Ben Roethlisberger can go jump in a lake.
Posted in Dottie, tagged football, not awesome, schadenfreude, stupid on September 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Apparently he wants a shorter ban. I recommend not being a scuzbucket, sir. Usually works. You don’t do something scuzzy and probably illegal, you don’t get suspended. Not assaulting someone for a couple of months on the trot is not grounds for leniency. It’s not often I agree with Terry Bradshaw, but he’s right in [...]
The press should get their heads in the game.
Posted in Dottie, tagged stupid, tennis on September 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Let me tell you a story. There are two American tennis players, and they know each other, and one of them has progressed through to the third round of the US Open, and the other has not. Let’s say that the one who has is giving a press conference. Should you ask him about his [...]
Please stop asking kids about Tiger Woods.
Posted in Dottie, tagged golf, gross, stupid on April 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Lines I do not want to see ever in an article on golf: “[Tiger]‘s still my favorite golfer,” the 6-year-old said. “I don’t care what he did.” So, thanks for that, David Newton. Your 6-year-old has no capacity to evaluate this situation. I hope. You should not ask him to evaluate this situation. Because that [...]
I have an announcement to make.
Posted in Kit, tagged basketball, stupid on April 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Listen up, people. It has come to my attention that NBA mascots are all messed up. Please note the following: The New Orleans Hornets will henceforth be known as the New Orleans Jazz. The Utah Jazz will be known as the Utah Raptors, or Utahraptors, if you like. The Toronto Raptors will move out of [...]
