This Week in Sports

So I'm sitting here watching LeBron and the Knicks, er, I mean Cavs play the Knicks in what would be a blowout except that the Knicks started to play well and Cleveland didn't care enough to stop them. Final score is 100-91, but the game was not that close. LeBron coming to New York has turned into a LeBron exhibition. If you haven't heard, Mr. James, the King, his over-ratedness (kidding, he's actually that good), is a free agent after this season, as are like 15 other big names in the NBA. However, since the Knicks have been horrible since, 2000, I think, the popular opinion seems to be that they will take the cap money they are saving by playing really horrible players and spend it on players like LeBron and Dwayne Wade. They already went out and got Shaquille O'Neal, and well, I'm not seeing how that acquisition makes a huge difference. Shaq is not the dominant player he once was. He was dominant in L.A. for 3 years, dominant in Miami for a season, not so dominant in Phoenix for a season, and now he's in Cleveland. Yes, he's still 7-1 and over 300 pounds, but he's 37 and slow, and takes up room. So does Zydrunas Ilgauskas, and he can actually shoot.

But I digress, whenever LeBron shows up in New York, there is a perpetual media circus, and half of Madison Square Garden is rooting for him. Kinda sad, especially since moving him to New York will not make the Knicks better- it will make him a really good player on a worse team.

Neeeext. So something happened in baseball this week, not sure what it was. Hold on, be right back. (dramatic pause).... so the Yankees and their trillion dollar payroll won the World Series. Their high-rolling, free-spending ways finally paid off. A-Rod finally went became clutch, and Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn are happy that their daughter is dating up. Seeing her in the stands everywhere reminded me of when Ben Affleck was dating Jennifor Lopez and he would take her to games and she would always be on the Fox camera. It was nice of her to fake cheering for the Red Sox, given that she's from the Bronx. My point being, celebrity girlfriends of athletes or other celebrities are annoying, be they J-Lo, Kate Hudson, or Jessica Simpson. You know what's also annoying, when the Yankees win- anything. Editor's Note: If the Yankees had lost, we would have seen Brian Cashman's obituary the next day in the Times - I'm saying he was on a short leash.

The Patriots play the Dolphins tomorrow. The Pats are 5-2, having demolished their last 2 opponents by the score of 124,345 - 6. Okay, not that bad, but given they were playing the two worst teams in the league, they totally destroyed them both. Miami is hanging in there at a steady 3-5, with new quarterback Chad Henne replacing poor bastard Chad Pennington. This is the guy who was tossed out of the moving car known as the Jets to make way for Brett Favre, and wasn't that a productive season?

Anyway, as is the tradition, loudmouth Joey Porter again voiced his displeasure with the Patriots, and specifically one Tom Brady. He was pissed during Spygate and now he's pissed that Tom Brady is protected by the NFL. Here's the thing about star players, they get calls, they just do. Michael Jordan did, Kobe Bryant did, LBJ does, if I watched hockey I would say that Wayne Gretzy did, but I don't - but I'm sure he did. There is a play against, I forget who, where a linebacker sort of tumbles towards Tom's leg, and he jumps out of the way, points to the ref, and the flag is thrown. Some argued that was proof that the refs are on Tom's side, and I say to that... good, I want them to be on his side :-) I also say to Joey Porter- nothing, he's a big nasty dude and I'm sure he could wallop me.

And finally, Tom Cable, the big nasty dude who happens to coach the not so nasty Raiders - his ex-wife and former girlfriend went to the press saying he had harmed them. This is after the D.A. said it wouldn't press charges against him for taking actions against his coaches that led to a broken jaw. So not only does he beat up his coaches, he beats up his women, too? I don't know which is worse - kidding, I do. Coaches are really important. :-)