Carlos Boozer’s son is a frontrunner – just like his dad

This past weekend, ABC’s cameras caught Carlos Boozer’s son on camera blatantly cheering for the Miami Heat while sitting among fans wearing his dad’s Chicago Bulls jersey in the stands.  It was so obvious, the broadcast even went back during a stoppage and replayed the footage, giving Jeff Van Gundy an opportunity to call the kid out for his misplaced allegiances.

The heat ended up winning the game 97-93, no doubt thanks in part to the rowdy home crowd, and perhaps a few Miami defectors who got caught up in the moment.

 



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Conference Realignment: Don’t Look To The ACC

Over the past 12 months, the segment of the population (and it’s a large segment) that cares about college football has been inundated with rumors, reports, and forecasts regarding something which, if the populace were to be polled, they care very little about.  I’m talking about conference realignment.  You’ll see this referred to elsewhere as “conference expansion”.  If you possess even the slightest bit of deductive capacity, you’ll realize that conference expansion doesn’t mean conference expansion; it means conference realignment.  After all, a conference can’t expand without taking a team from another conference, which in turn causes the conference losing a team to react in kind.  So this isn’t expansion.  It’s realignment.  After all of the machinations we’ve seen over the last 12 months, conference realignment talk has settled somewhat.  Unfortunately, there are some people that refuse to play the wait and see game, and feel the need to put their ridiculous thoughts on display for all to see.

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Best Sign of 2012…So Far

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This was seen during the Australian Open Final between Djokovic and Nadal. Yep, sometimes I am 12-years-old.

The Morning After – January 30, 2012 edition

Welcome to The Victory Formation.

Whilst most of you were asleep when the 2012 Australian Open Final took place, the most fascinating of a final happened. 5 hours and 53 minutes of serves, strokes, grunts, shouts between Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal. The top two players in the world in a showdown that enthralled all who watched.

I was actually on the road when the conclusion happened, but was kept updated on Twitter, because everyone else on my timeline was talking about it. Still, it was almost 6 hours of competitive tennis. That is incredible. Can’t doubt their endurance and skill.

 

Here forth are the links after the jump:

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Weekends Off – Kinda

20120128-151137.jpgWe are gonna take it easy on the weekends the next few weeks, until March Madness arrives. We will have a post for the Super Bowl next Sunday, and anything else that may be pressing. So, see ya Monday.

The Things You Do For Love…

Most of us have seen this kind of scenario before…

You are in a bar. You meet a girl. Girl seems to be interested in something. In order to impress girl, you say something that is related to something girl is interested in. Girl gets interested, you and the girl hit it up. Bang! You both became a couple. Problem is, you have no idea about that thing. So you pretty much lied just for the hookup.

Craiglist, via the Huffington Post, illustrates that idea quite well. So, this guy needs to learn about football, especially the quirks and nuances of the quarterback position. And he has a couple of weeks to get it down pat. He is in the Brooklyn area, so if you someone who can lend him a hand, do help him. At the same time, though, do teach him about life lessons.

Sometimes, life imitates art. And vice versa.

Texas Gives Mack Brown an Extension

Despite falling from the elite the past few years, even while maintaining stellar recruiting, the University of Texas gave Head Coach Mack Brown an extension yesterday. The Longhorns’ struggles the last two seasons, a 13-12 record including a 6-11 record in the Big 12, are well documented. These recent struggles led some, many in fact, to believe that Mack Brown’s days in Austin were numbered. Well, those people (myself included) were wrong.

Yesterday the Board of Regents agreed to give Brown a four-year extension on his current contract, ensuring he will be leading the Longhorns through 2020. Brown’s current salary is $5.2MM a year, not too shabby. The extension won’t give Brown a direct raise, but it will continue to give him annual raises of $100,000 per the stipulations of his current deal.

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Captain Jack: “Corporate Thuggin”

Yesterday, for a just a few brief hours, Stephen Jackson made this image his Twitter avatar. Congrats on being on the cover of GQ. If one of us were to be on the cover, we’d probably show it off as well. But that’s not the best part. Look at the quotation under his name on the cover, “Corporate Thuggin.” I’m from Flint, which gives me some level of street cred, albeit very little. But I have absolutely no clue what “Corporate Thuggin” even means. Perhaps you, the commentariat, can figure it out.

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Stormy in Orlando

Things are not well in Orlando Beach. In fact, they may just start to get worse unless the deal that they don’t want to do is completed in the near future.

The Orlando Magic’s record stands at 12-6, but this past week they have suffered two of their worse losses in year. First, they only managed to score 56 points earlier in the week to the Boston Celtics. They played the C’s for the second time in 4 night last night, and looked to have completely rebounded. They had a commanding 27 point lead, and blew it all in the 2nd half, and actually losing by 8. They scored 8 4th quarter points. It is hard to say that this team is not cohesive at the moment, and that the talent is the only thing that has led to them to their decent looking record. It is time to move Dwight Howard, because he isn’t staying, and holding onto him prior to free agency isn’t leading to a title. Though, he might be the piece that the Celtics need to keep things going for Doc Rivers and the gang in Beantown.

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Happy Hour – 2012 Royal Rumble

My favorite wrestling pay-per-view of the year is this Sunday, the 25th Royal Rumble. WrestleMania is the crown jewel of WWE but the quality of that show depends on the card that is put together. With the Royal Rumble, unless you have Vince Russo booking it, you almost always are assured of an entertaining hour plus match. This year, only three matches have been announced to complement the Royal Rumble match, so I would expect something else get’s added to the show at the last minute. WWE has made a big deal out of any superstar being eligible, so surprises are expected. It is not known what Chris Jericho meant by “the world will change as we know it” come Sunday, so for that reason alone I am excited to tune in. Popular opinion seems to be that Randy Orton will win the Royal Rumble because it is in his hometown of St. Louis. I really hope WWE doesn’t go this route. Orton is accomplished enough and doesn’t need a Royal Rumble win to validate his career. After the jump, my predictions for Sunday’s event.

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