Sports - The Lunch Break Blog

I find no pleasure in the Olympics. There is just no storyline Bob Costas can narrate from the teleprompter to peak my interest or fuel my incessant needs as a sports fanatic. The sports are painful to watch regardless of how many female skiers take off their clothes or Apollo Ohno flips his hair. I can not bear the tights. I can not bear the ice or snow. I can not bear that Canada is placing their whole self esteem on winning a gold medal.

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Monday

01Feb2010

Gunslingers and Blingers; or, Sexy Picks Only

B. Traven |

Monday, February 1, 2010 at 7:06PM | tagged

NFL,

New England Patriots,

Sports,

Tom Brady

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Football

With Brett Favre concluding yet another season with an ill-advised across-the-body gunslinger-esque (read: rookie mistake) pass attempt and amassing almost 500 career touchdowns and 70,000 passing yards, heavy debate has recently raged across the open airwaves in regards to the “Best Quarterback Ever.” Although it’s moderately irresponsible and mostly unfair to compare specific players and teams across separate eras, attempting to determine The Greatest Ever in any particular sport is, at the very least, always interesting.

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Saturday

16Jan2010

Stealing America’s Game: Why MLB is Choosing Latino Players over Americans

James Dugan |

Saturday, January 16, 2010 at 8:17AM | tagged

Major League Baeball,

Philadelphia Daily News,

Major League Baseball is developing talent that is cheaper in other countries because it is cost effective, not because they play better baseball. The talent they find in Venezuela or Guatemala must still come through the system and be shaped into major league players. MLB organizations are replacing good American jobs with foreign players because of money.

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Tuesday

12Jan2010

The Great Steroid Witchhunt....

CJ Scalzetti |

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 8:53PM | tagged

baseball,

doping,

hgh,

mlb,

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And yet another professional baseball player has gone through the Steroid Confession Apology Tour. Unlike Alex Rodriguez and Manny Ramirez whose admissions and positive drug tests took everyone by surprise earlier last year (ARod because he was what everyone proclaimed to be the embodiment of a true athlete amongst a sea of dirty players and Manny because no one thought he had the know-with-all to take a multivitamin everyday much less a complicated HGH cycle), Mark McGwire’s admission yesterday to a decade of steroid use was met with as much surprise as a rock star OD.

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Wednesday

06Jan2010

Long Suffering Fans: Cleveland, Seattle, Buffalo and….NYC????

CJ Scalzetti |

Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at 8:16PM | tagged

Giants,

Mets,

Queens,

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Getting back to my earlier statement, just because these teams share the same area code as their more successful neighbors does not mean there is a united NY whenever the other is in a championship series. Ask any Met fan who their most hated team is, you will undoubtedly get “the F’n Yankees!” as an answer. Jet fans do not have quite the hatred towards Giants fans; they more or less are indifferent towards them, much like if it was the Seattle Seahawks. Met fans are clearly second class citizens in their own city and it has given them a bit of an inferiority complex.

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