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Knights Fans, Please Hold Your Applause Until the End of the Game |
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By Gregory Broome on
11/30/2007 1:06 PM
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The Orlando Sentinel had an interesting story Friday that answers this timeless question: if UCF fans all stand in the upper deck of the new campus football stadium listenging to "Kernkraft 400" and jumping up and down, will they fall to their untimely deaths?
I think everybody's asked that question at some point in their life. But in advance of UCF's Conference USA championship game against Tulsa at noon on Saturday, the people who are as ...
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Are the Rays a real team yet? |
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By Gregory Broome on
11/30/2007 1:02 AM
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They just might be.
Above is an artist's rendering of a new stadium proposed for the St. Pete waterfront. Coupled with other recent Rays news, what fans the team has may be led to believe they'll soon have a legitimate team for which to root.
Let's look at the evidence:
THE TRADE
Delmon Young kind of hurts to give up on considering his potential, until you remember that he's a petulant jerk who has already promised to leave the Rays as soon as possibl ...
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What's Dwight Howard's ceiling? |
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By Gregory Broome on
11/29/2007 8:54 PM
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Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard said in this Yahoo! column that he's reached just "ten percent" of his potential.
While that's a fun possibility to think about, I'm going to go ahead and say that it's not exactly true. Howard is currently averaging 23.5 points and 14.5 rebounds a game. That's beastly. And he's only 21. But a comparison to the best of the current bigs, a level Howard is certainly headed to, reveals that his numbers aren't that absurd. Of course, points and rebounds are the simplest and most basic measures of a big man's value, but they're also the most effective.
Shaquille O'Neal& ...
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Memo to Bulls: Joakim Noah will learn your offense at his leisure |
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By Gregory Broome on
11/7/2007 3:26 PM
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 Photo via nba.com
Joakim Noah was a big-deal lottery pick just a few months ago, but if you watch and/or follow the NBA, you haven't seen him this year. That all changed on Tuesday night. From the Chicago Sun-Times:
Ready or not, rookie Joakim Noah made his regular-season debut Tuesday night in the Bulls' 97-91 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers.
''I thought he was active,'' coach Scott Skiles said of Noah (0-for-4, two points, four rebounds, three blocks and one steal in 19 minutes).
Active - now that's some strong praise. Noah ...
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Jessica Dickson checks in from Europe - with pictures! |
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By Gregory Broome on
11/4/2007 7:37 PM
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Ocala native Jessica Dickson, the career scoring leader among men and women at both Vanguard High School and the University of South Florida and a 2nd-round WNBA draft pick, is in Sibenik, Croatia, continuing her professional basketball career. This is the third of her entries for The Sports Blog at ocala.com. Here is her first entry from September,
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"Scrappy syndrome" |
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By Gregory Broome on
10/27/2007 7:24 PM
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Temper your Taurean Green expectations, Portland, Ore., columnist Dwight Jaynes recently cautioned fans of the NBA's Trail Blazers. Green, he says, suffers from "Scrappy Syndrome." Or rather, his coach does.
From the Portland Tribune:
"Coaches who were once point guards – and Nate McMillan spent a few minutes playing the position in Seattle – worry me a little, too. They always seem particularly hard on their point guards and find fault so easily. It’s become an NBA truism that it&rsqu ...
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