Future NBA All-Star team wins NCAA tournament despite being short one eyebrow

Last night, the University of Kentucky Wildcats won the NCAA Men’s basketball tournament. If you didn’t have them at the top of your bracket, you either didn’t watch a single game throughout the season, or you’re just jealous of Anthony Davis’ good looks. The Wildcats feature SEVEN players who should play in the NBA eventually. In a sport where only 5 players play at a time, that’s scary.

It’s been great to watch Davis’ supernatural season. His star is certainly on the rise: freshman season comparable to that of Tim Duncan or Shaq, guaranteed to be the #1 overall selection in the next draft, and a national champion.

But there’s something else unique and mesmerizing about him. He’s quiet and unassuming. His face looks like the ugliest 15 year old imaginable. His body is weirdly long, but he moves pretty gracefully considering he’s grown 8 inches in the past 2 years.

So now him and most of his teammates are headed to the NBA draft, which has the Raptors fan in me excited.

But let’s be honest, nothing that good would ever happen to the Raptors.

Annnnnnnd we’re back…

Hi all. Hope you didn’t miss me too much.

This blog has been getting pretty stagnant lately, mostly due to real-life responsibilities taking over.

But that’s over with now. I’m back, and I plan on posting more than I ever did.

So here’s a little something I whipped up combining two of my favourite things, both of which come back very soon and promise to be full of drama and excitement.

The Montreal Canadiens: Imploding Since (At Least) 2008

Courtesy of Peter Lewin.

It all started the summer of 2008.  Or at least that’s where I’m starting because otherwise I’d be writing a book instead of ablog post.

<– Click to enlarge, well worth it

The Montreal Canadiens just came off of a pretty good season in which they won the division title and their coach at the time Guy Carbonneau was nominated for coach of the year (only losing out by 2 votes to Bruce Boudreau).  However a trend started that summer that would foreshadow much worse things to come for MTL when they let Mark Streit become an unrestricted free agent, letting him go for absolutely nothing despite the fact that he put up 62 points in 07/08 and was one of the best offensive defensemen in the league that year.  He would end up signing with the New York Islanders for 5 years at a reasonable 4.1 million/year.  It was also during the summer of 2008 that MTL traded Mikhail Grabovski to the Toronto Maple Leafs for Greg Pateryn (who?) and a second round pick in 2010 (who they would end up using to trade up to get Jarred Tinordi, a huge mucker at 6”7 who has little offensive upside but is at least a full foot taller than their team captain).  This summer also saw Michael Ryder leave MTL as an unrestricted free agent.

Happy New Year! Now Figure it Out, Blue Jays

It’s been more then a month since one of the best Free-Agent classes in MLB history went on the market.  The Big Pujols got his. But the younger, fatter, less successful version of Pujols, Prince Fielder, is still sitting on the market.

Robert Griffin III… Learn the Name Now

NCAA Bowl games are funny. For the most part, they don’t mean anything. It’s an odd way to end a season. Other than good background noise for eating turkey, or recovering from a hangover, I could care less about them*. But this year I made a point of seeing one particular game, for one particular player, and it was a smart decision.

Basketball v Canada, and the Chris Paul Story everyone should know

With the holidays (mostly) completed, and 2012 drawing nearer, this blog has been taking up an ever-growing spot in the back of my brain.  With all the exciting crap going on in the sports world, I find it harder and harder not to come on here and put my thoughts down on the screen.   Instead of trying to discuss all of it in one half-assed, largely-unread post, I’ll take my time and go one-by-one.

First up: what else? The NBA.

MLB Winter Meetings, Some Quick Thoughts

So we know that Fat Albert signed the second largest deal in MLB history. He is joining the American League because he’s lazy and will probably play some DH. Him and Vernon and gonna become one of the the most feared highest paid middle of the lineup duo’s in the league. Maybe like Joey Bats and the Prince?

Lets take a look at some of the other signings over the past few days.