{"id":381,"date":"2004-08-25T10:30:11","date_gmt":"2004-08-25T14:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2004\/08\/wide_world_of_sports\/"},"modified":"2004-08-25T10:30:11","modified_gmt":"2004-08-25T14:30:11","slug":"wide_world_of_sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/25\/wide_world_of_sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Wide World of Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><UL><br \/>\n<LI>Those nails can&#8217;t be aerodynamic<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/images\/DeversNails.jpg?w=750\" alt=\"Gail Devers' nails\" border=\"1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/div>\n<p><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>It&#8217;s ain&#8217;t easy, but Michael Phelps has got to do it.  For some reason this picture reminded me of this ESPN article: <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espn\/page2\/story?page=merron\/040811\">&#8216;Sex, Olympics go hand in hand.&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/images\/phelps_pinmpin.jpg?w=750\" alt=\"Michael Phelps Pimpin'\" border=\"1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/div>\n<p><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Funny how nobody wants to talk about this, but everybody&#8217;s thinking it&#8230;  A white guy wins a sprint?!?!  It&#8217;s like we&#8217;re in bizarro world in sports of late.    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.and1.com\/mixtape\/players\/players.asp?name=Prof\">The Professor<\/a> wins the And 1 contract &#8212; Tiger rules (ruled?) golf &#8212; Brent Barry wins the NBA Dunk Contest.  What&#8217;s next?.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/images\/Wariner400m.jpg?w=750\" alt=\"Wariner wins the 400m'\" border=\"1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/div>\n<p><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Speaking of And 1 Streetball&#8230;  Has anybody been watching this season?  That kid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.and1.com\/mixtape\/players\/players.asp?name=Copter\">Helicopter<\/a> is the truth.  Those dunks he&#8217;s been doing this year have been <i>sick<\/i>.  Especially the ones which he does by doing an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsdictionary.com\/wordview.aspx?Word=Alley Oop&amp;Sport=Basketball\">alley oop<\/a> to himself by <b>bouncing<\/b> the ball over defenders.  And he&#8217;s only 6&#8242; 1&#8243;<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>The U.S. Men&#8217;s Olympic Basketball team:  I&#8217;ve been wanting to post about them since they lost that exhibition game to Italy, but I couldn&#8217;t bring myself to do it.  I&#8217;ve been holding out hope that they&#8217;d pull together and figure out how to dominate in international ball.  I&#8217;m still hoping it will happen, but realistically, I can&#8217;t see it.  The selection committee was smoking crack when they put this squad together.  They really should have had a couple of good shooters on the roster.  It damn near makes me sick to watch these guys &#8216;build houses&#8217; on the rim.  I think this next game against Spain is gonna be real ugly.  I hope I&#8217;m wrong.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>And finally, women&#8217;s beach volleyball.  I watched the medal round games yesterday and was struck by the outfits the athletes were wearing.  After a couple of choice camera shots I had to ask my why these women were wearing bikini bottoms instead of shorts.  It must be just for ratings.  As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maoxian.com\/\">MaoXian<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debwire.com\/blog\/index.php?p=899\" title=\"No, It&rsquo;s Not Girls Gone Wild\">Deb<\/a> have picked up on, men just seem to love this sport, especially the thrill of victory moments:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/images\/vball_pics.png?w=750\" alt=\"Gail Devers' nails\" border=\"1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/div>\n<p><\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those nails can&#8217;t be aerodynamic It&#8217;s ain&#8217;t easy, but Michael Phelps has got to do it. For some reason this picture reminded me of this ESPN article: &#8216;Sex, Olympics go hand in hand.&#8217; Funny how nobody wants to talk about this, but everybody&#8217;s thinking it&#8230; A white guy wins a sprint?!?! It&#8217;s like we&#8217;re in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/25\/wide_world_of_sports\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wide World of Sports<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":169,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/26\/sportsblog_is_up_running\/","url_meta":{"origin":381,"position":0},"title":"SportsBlog is Up &#038; Running","date":"August 26, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Sports fans may want to check out the new group blog called SportsBlog. They are still looking for contributors and moderators for the forums. 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