The Blue Workhorse

After winning the Eastern Conference Atlantic Division and having the best record, not only in the Eastern Conference but in all of the NBA, during the regular season, the Boston Celtics entered the playoffs with aspirations of hoisting the golden trophy as NBA Champions this season.

However, it could be the lowly eighth-seeded below .500 Atlanta Hawks that ultimately lead to the all-powerful Celtics demise. How is that? How could a 37-45 squad bring down the dominant 66-16 team that beat them in five consecutive contests prior to Game 3 of the first round?

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to wait and prepare to walk across the stage at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on NFL Draft Day? Ever wanted to hear your name called by the NFL Commissioner? Well, Yardbarker is going to give you as close to that experience as 99% of us will ever get to being on the stage.

As the next wave of NFL players prepare to enter the league today, Yardbarker.com is presenting a new and unique angle with their draft coverage. Yardbarker is bringing you the draft through the eyes of the athletes themselves. For example, you will be able to sit beside Keith Rivers and Darren McFadden, both YardBarkers themselves, as their futures are determined.

While troublesome players have repeatedly been given second chances in the league, Pollack won’t be getting that second opportunity. So, while Adam ‘Pacman’ Jones appears to be poised to be reinstated into the NFL, Michael Vick is being allowed to keep money from the Atlanta Falcons, and several of his Cincinnati Bengals teammates have been suspended (some on multiple occasions), it appears David Pollack, who was drafted as much for his upstanding character as for his football talents, is going to be forced to retire due to a broken neck after playing only 16 career games.

While perusing ESPN’s web site earlier this week I came across what should wrap up the award for the most ludicrous piece of legislation for this legislative calendar.

Now, many of you are probably rummaging through the remnants of news blips you have heard while flipping back and forth between sporting events trying to remember anything you can about the political process. Most of you probably can only conjure up the lyrics of School House Rock’ “Bill on Capitol Hill.” Anyway, the article referred to a bill sponsored by some of our seemingly bored Congressmen in the House of Representatives.

Representatives Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii), Lynn Westmoreland (R-Georgia) and Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) have introduced a resolution that would force the Justice Department’s Anti-Trust Division to investigate the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) as an illegitimate enterprise because of restrictions on free trade.

You are probably baffled, but it is true…the Sacramento Kings are the hottest team in the NBA playoffs.
How? When they aren’t even in the playoffs? For this, I defer to the evidence provided by none other than Don Chavez.
As you can see from the link, the Royal Court dancers are back at it again. The […]

Juan Pierre was in the box hitting — the same Juan Pierre who hasn’t hit a home run since September 2006. Needless to say, I wasn’t on the edge of the rail waiting for him to hit a bomb, but I was still paying attention nonetheless. Lo and behold, Pierre hits a line drive straight toward where I was positioned. At first I thought it was going to fly over my head, and I prepped myself to make a jumping attempt, but instead, it raised my glove just a bit above eye level, and the ball traveled directly into it.

I couldn’t believe it had come right to me. I pulled down my glove, took the ball out, and immediately handed it to the second young brother, who had seen his brother get a ball and had been standing out in the outfield with his father for nearly as long as I had (despite his parents asking him a couple of times if he’d rather go play in the kids zone or go shopping in one of the souvenir shops). I never thought I would give up the first batted ball I ever caught at a major league stadium, but without thinking, I had done exactly that.

I came to the realization last night when I almost forgot to say thank you to my girlfriend’s mother for taking her family and me out to dinner at Longhorns that I’ve not been giving out enough thanks where they are due lately.
Because every once in a while you need to thank those around you […]

Driving to work a couple of days after the Tennessee Lady Volunteers won their 8th National Championship in women’s basketball, I heard something that made my blood pressure slowly begin to rise.
Before I go on, as a native Tennessean, I would like to congratulate Pat Summit and the team, as a whole, for representing themselves […]