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Sunday, May 27, 2007: Going off-topic for a day with random ramblings
   (Warning: Today's entry is high school sports content-free as I take a break from our preferred subject matter in order to assess whether I'm in a groove or in a rut.)

   I've been saving up a few pet peeves from the world of sports:

   (1) Going out on a limb in advance of the Indy 500 because she may in fact finally win something that matters some day, I'm tired of stories about Danica Patrick. I respect the fact that she's pretty good in open-wheel racing -- a demanding and dangerous sport -- but she needs to find her way into victory lane at least once before I treat her with the level of respect reserved for Jeff Gordon.

   (2) Chris Berman may have been a good reporter and/or anchor at one time in his career, but that was long ago. Now, he's just annoying. His sound effects, really just noise, while narrating highlights on ESPN are a terrible distraction.

   (3) As long as I'm on the subject of ESPN, when did they decide that arena football needed to be covered three or four nights a week on SportsCenter rather than just being mentioned annually? It couldn't possibly have anything to do with the network having a substantial stake in the Arena Football League, would it?

  
   The SportsCenter team's new marketing slogan might as well be, "ESPN: Integrity in Journalism Since 2008"

   (4) If Roger Clemens is going to sign contracts for dollar figures with more zeroes than a computer nerds convention, shouldn't he at least be in shape and ready to go by Easter rather than Memorial Day?

   (5) Being forced to watch the Detroit Lions rather than a professional football team on Thanksgiving might be grounds for a lawsuit.

   (6) The refusal of cable and broadcast networks to show any NHL games this past season was a disappointment.

   Huh? What? Versus Network? What's that?

   (7) Anyone or anything that gets in my way while I'm trying to watch Pardon The Interruption, talking-head television with a limit on inane screaming matches, qualifies as a pet peeve of the highest magnitude. Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon are entertaining and insightful.

   (8) Well, it's more than a year later and the stripper who made the rape allegations against three Duke lacrosse players still hasn't been charged with filing a false police report. Why is that?

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