Spoil Sports? Spoiled Sports?
2/9/2010 2:44:56 PM

Somebody said it's normal for TU to draw 5,000 to its basketball games this year.

Before getting into how embarrassing and disrespectful that is, this note: People who get in free don't get to complain about paying customers. We have been to a number of TU hoop games, and fork over ticket cash every time.

That the TU field house has been running on fumes this season is a disgrace.

Why aren't more people going?

Is the team not yet trusted because it has a habit of losing so many road games?

Is the style of play fan-unfriendly?

Too few local or area players?

A lack of big star quality?

A personality conflict with the coach?

The economy?

Iffy conference/home foes?

This season, it itsn't a case of what comes first, the chicken fans or the wins -- TU is winning, it obliterated Oklahoma State.

What's wrong with you people?

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The Big Score
2/8/2010 1:36:57 PM

Give it up, dummies; continue celebrating, teammates.

We hit the big one to win Super Bowl Whatever in a good way.

We had the Saints outright.

Incompetent hacks by the score all had Indy to emerge victorious by margins ranging from laughers to routs.

Driving around Friday, we put on the Sports Animal radio slapstick show and listened as Dean "Mr. OU" Blevins and the one who preaches and shouts each went with an Indy in a breeze, which is one reason why the local ratings are about the same as a home remedy infomercial. Basically everybody on this network of missing predictors liked Indy, even the morning Animals, which have begun broadcasting on a regular basis from the bathroom; see you in September. Coach Pat missed another one, saying early in the week he figured Indy to win easily before stealing our pick without giving due credit. He last hit one in the late nineties.

Most ESPN oafs went with Indy.

All this reinforces the season's theme: if broadcasters and writers can't pick winners, why would you take seriously anything else they say?

There is no reason.

Why are so many make-believe experts so consistently wrong?

Picking requires skill.

Incompetent picking detracts from the game. People who picked Indy in a cake walk will by nature dislike the game simply because they're so wrong.

When it was in fact one of the greatest Super Bowls ever and was the highest rated TV show in history, flying past the MASH finale.

In related news:

The officiating was fabulous, because there was little officiating.

The Who pretty much creaked

The commercials were the worst ever. Only the Google bit registered. Snickers was OK.

Former OU kicker Hartley was not given enough credit.

Phil Simms was terrible as usual, missing, among other things, the injury to the NO corner that gave overrated Indy one of its few good moments.

In summation, we advise that you don't pay a speck of attention to anybody who picked Indy on top of other losers; and even there, discount the picks of homer Saint fans. Leaving THE Picks as your primary source of, well, you full in the rest, your primary source of wisdom?

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OU, Tiger, TU, Tony Turnover, Simms
2/1/2010 4:49:19 PM

And now here's all the recent news that's fit to be tied.

Have there ever been two more overrated major sport teams than the football and basketball squads at OU?

The Sooner football team was pre-season top five and wound up listed among the "others." The OU hoop team was pre-season top five and will be all out to make the NIT, and is now listed as "distant others."

It's time for a wake up call, Mr. Stoops: the way Texas is winning all the great recruits, it's time for the staff to quit being hard-headed and dump the lousy spread formation and get back to basics, real man running.

What to do about basketball? You mean next year? Recruit closer to home.

Tony Romo did the impossible at the Pro Bowl, tossing a game-losing interception against a defense more or less seated in folding chairs.

The crowd at the end of that game looked like the GMAC Bowl.

In more basketball news, TU appears to be on the NCAA bubble. With the bubble foating over the Grand Canyon. If coach Wojo doesn't get to the fast dance, serious job heat is apt to ensue. Picker's note: We like coach Wojo.

The center got five shots last game. Come on. He should get five shots a minute.

OSU is 55-45 to make the NCAA tournament.

The game of pro golf just got somewhat disgusting and entirely boring.

In rotten economic times when unemployment is in serious double figures, when children in Haiti are scratching for crumbs, who wants to see rich widows leaping in front of golf balls headed out of bounds at Pebble Beach.

There is Phil again, looking like a Stepford male, that uncalled for smile plastered across his face. There comes Ernie Els plodding up another fairway, two under, two over, what does it matter. And who in the world are those new nobodys?

Quick, bring back Tiger and the barmaids.

This somber note: Phil Simms is not hoarse.

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Choke in the Clutch?
1/27/2010 2:46:26 PM

With a rough name like Shock, how could a person not worry about decisions to come regarding the new WNBA team here.

Club executives gave responders three choices for a nickname. That Shock narrowly won tells you something about the unworthiness of the other two.

The Detroit Shock made some sense, as a shock absorber had to do with cars. But there's no Tulsa-car link. So Shock must refer to other meanings, the shocking, or stacking, of grain; shock of hair; shock as a human condition. The good coach Nolan tried to make the best of a nicked nickname by saying he looked forward to singing, upon the team taking the court, "We will, we will, shock you."

The Tulsa Rock would have been better.

And if you had for some reason to tie the name into a used car, this would have been much better than Shock:

The Clutch.

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