Sunday, January 18, 2004
So I guess it's time for a rundown of tonight's sports...
footy
The USA were held to a 1-1 draw against Denmark in Los Angeles. The standard of the refereeing was appalling with some monobrowed Mexican referee having the game decided by two penalties which seemed to be for no reason at all. Landon Donovan did himself no favours at all by trying to go round the goalie before finishing...every single frigging time. At least three times Jen and I yelled at the TV for him to hit it first time over, under or around the goalkeeper, surely scoring the goal(s) which would have secured a win for the USA.
But he did't and it was 1-1. Now onto the other stuff...
hoops
Damn, the Hawks are shit. I don't even want to talk about it.
pucks
The Thrashers finally got out of the nine-game winless rut they've been in, thumping Carolina 5-2. Maybe they've still got what it takes to put together a run to the post season, especially with the Heater due to return in a couple of weeks.
gridiron
There are only two results today - but they're the NFC/AFC Conference Championships, and they decide who's going to be in the Superbowl.
In Foxboro, The New England Patriots beat the Indianapoplis Colts 24-14, with cornerback Ty Law picking off three Peyton Manning passes.
In the other game, a veritable dullfest, The Pathers of Carolina beat the Philadelphia Eagles 14-3, Ricky Manning showing that if Ty Law can make three interceptions, so can he.
The Superbowl is on February 1st and my money is on Jake Delhomme leading the Panthers to victory. Delhomme is a rags-to-riches story.
Drafted by the Saints he was almost immediately fared out to the European NFL since the Saints had Kurt Warner playing QB. After a couple of difficult seasons trying to force his way into Frankfurt and Amsterdam, he came back to the US and signed with Carolina. In the season opener this year, Delhomme was the backup QB and, with almost half of the third quarter played and Carolina down 17-0 in Jacksonville, Delhomme was called form the bench.
Carolina won 24-23 and Jake hasn't been second choice since.
The Partiots are favored by bookmakers to win by seven points in Houston on 2/1. I'd be looking at Carolina winning by more than fourteen - but either way it looks like it's going to be a matter of which defense gets settled in first.
Nascar starts next week. I won't be covering it.
footy
The USA were held to a 1-1 draw against Denmark in Los Angeles. The standard of the refereeing was appalling with some monobrowed Mexican referee having the game decided by two penalties which seemed to be for no reason at all. Landon Donovan did himself no favours at all by trying to go round the goalie before finishing...every single frigging time. At least three times Jen and I yelled at the TV for him to hit it first time over, under or around the goalkeeper, surely scoring the goal(s) which would have secured a win for the USA.
But he did't and it was 1-1. Now onto the other stuff...
hoops
Damn, the Hawks are shit. I don't even want to talk about it.
pucks
The Thrashers finally got out of the nine-game winless rut they've been in, thumping Carolina 5-2. Maybe they've still got what it takes to put together a run to the post season, especially with the Heater due to return in a couple of weeks.
gridiron
There are only two results today - but they're the NFC/AFC Conference Championships, and they decide who's going to be in the Superbowl.
In Foxboro, The New England Patriots beat the Indianapoplis Colts 24-14, with cornerback Ty Law picking off three Peyton Manning passes.
In the other game, a veritable dullfest, The Pathers of Carolina beat the Philadelphia Eagles 14-3, Ricky Manning showing that if Ty Law can make three interceptions, so can he.
The Superbowl is on February 1st and my money is on Jake Delhomme leading the Panthers to victory. Delhomme is a rags-to-riches story.
Drafted by the Saints he was almost immediately fared out to the European NFL since the Saints had Kurt Warner playing QB. After a couple of difficult seasons trying to force his way into Frankfurt and Amsterdam, he came back to the US and signed with Carolina. In the season opener this year, Delhomme was the backup QB and, with almost half of the third quarter played and Carolina down 17-0 in Jacksonville, Delhomme was called form the bench.
Carolina won 24-23 and Jake hasn't been second choice since.
The Partiots are favored by bookmakers to win by seven points in Houston on 2/1. I'd be looking at Carolina winning by more than fourteen - but either way it looks like it's going to be a matter of which defense gets settled in first.
Nascar starts next week. I won't be covering it.
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