Links and NBA Finals Rumblings

A happy Wednesday to you. June and July will pretty much suck for content on this site, and I'll just apologize beforehand for that. But, until they decide Razorback football practice should start in June or July, there just won't be too much to speak about on the Razorback front. Instead, I bring you some lame Razorback links and my non-Razorback take on Games two and three of the NBA finals.

Junior Logan Forsythe was taken 46th in this year's MLB draft by the San Diego Padres...

The track team is set to begin competing in the 2008 NCAA track championships beginning today at Drake Field. Coach John McDonnell is set to hang up his coaching shoes following this final meet.
McDonnell's unbelievable stats:
42 NCAA titles,
5 NCAA triple crowns
84 conference titles
21 conference triple crowns
185 athletes earning 652 All-America awards.

Arkansas Sports 360's Chris Bahn had a little chat with Coach Bobby Petrino...


Celtics - Lakers Game 2 Recap:

Slow start, things get better, feeling good, feeling real good! texting my Laker buddy some serious smack about how bad his team is getting its ass handed to them... laughing everytime Leon Powe gets a dunk... making fun of Pau Gasol... starting to feel a little queasy... heart rate speeds up, heart stops... defibulator gets heart beating again when Pierce makes two free throws... Celts win. I'm happy.

Celtics - Lakers Game 3 Recap:

Just about what I expected, but the only thing that shocked me was that the Lakers only shot 12 more free throws than the Celts. I figured it would be more like 20 after Phil Jackson's whiny post game press conference from game 2. Pierce sucked. KG was pretty much a non-factor on the offensive end until the second half. Ray played great and the Celts had a legitimate chance to win this one. Hope it doesn't come back to haunt them.




(Bill, your son sucks, and he's wearing the wrong colors anyway)

Humanity Advanced Getting Ungodly Amount of Money

(That looks like a 60 million dollar smile to me)








The best running back to ever walk the planet inked his first professional contract late Thursday night with da Raidaz for a cool 60 mil over 6 years. Twenty-six of that 60 is guaranteed money. The Raiders got a real bargin if you ask me considering Matt "NFL Bust" Ryan is getting 72 mil over 6 years and 34 guaranteed. If I were McFaddy, I'd be thinking long and hard about ditching my agent for getting short changed on the deal.

McFadden is supposedly splitting time with Justin Fargas in the Raiders' backfield. I predict the first time McFadden busts one for about 80 yards and stiff arms a safety into the thirteenth row of McAfee Coliseum that Justin Fargas will become just another jersey milling around on the sidelines cracking jokes and eating hotdogs when the cameras aren't looking.
(As a side note, if it's McAfee Coliseum, do fans get some sort of guarantee that they won't catch a virus while inside the stadium? I think that's only fair if they're going to spend the kind of jack they have to for tickets these days.)


As a completely non-Razorback side-note (though Laker Derek Fisher is a former UALR stud), good job to the C's last night taking down the Minneapolis Lakers. I hate the Lakers. Here's hoping I get to see the replay of the clothesline below 800 more times before the Celts wrap up this series, and maybe the Celts could put in Tony Allen for a few minutes to give Kobe one of these during the series.

Two And Bar-B-Q

The Diamond Hogs' (34-24) season came crashing to an end this past weekend as they lost to Pepperdine 4-3 in the first game and then lost to the host team Stanford 5-1 in an elimination game on Saturday. I hate the west coast (unless I'm vacationing on a beach somewhere).


Former Razorback Joe Johnson is one of a select group of Americans apparently not too worried about gas prices. Check out his new rig.

You're Going Down, Pepperdine

Tomorrow (Friday) at 3pm, the Pepperdine Waves (39-16) will be going down at the hands of the SEC's 9th place team - the Arkansas Razorbacks. The two teams haven't played since their meeting in the first round of the College World Series in 1979 (which the Hogs won 5-4).

Apparently Pepperdine's best hitter (Eric Thames?) has an injured leg (likely excuse) and may not play at all in the Stanford regional.

My 100% or your money back Guaranteed Prediction:
Arkansas Razorbacks 9
Pepperdine Gay Waves 5

Our Female Tennis Player is Better Than Your Female Tennis Player

How about this for some minor sports coverage...

Lady Razorback tennis phenom Aurelija Miseviciute, ranked #1 in the last collegiate tennis rankings, fell in the NCAA singles semi-finals Sunday after an impressive run that included 52 singles wins this season - the most in Razorback tennis history.

Don't even try to pretend that your female tennis player is better than ours, because she's not. Ours lost in the semis only because she was drugged or doped or something that prevented her from playing her best. Perhaps, as some sort of self-motivation, she decided to watch the movie "Wimbledon" the night before her semi-final match and the movie made her puke because it was so disgustingly bad. Whatever the reason, she didn't deserve her fate.

Miseviciute dropped a 7-6, 6-4 match to 25th ranked Zuzana Zemenova of Baylor - an upset of epic proportions if you ask me. 25th? Fault! I say. This was a once in a lifetime win by Zemenova that would never happen again as far as I'm concerned. Curse you, Zemenova! And curse the rest of your Baylor tennis team as well! (for those of you interested, Zemenova lost in the championship to some chick from Georgia Tech who wasn't nearly as good as Miseviciute either).

Miseviciute was rightfully named unanimously to the All Southeastern Conference First-Team to go along with SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year. So, in case that didn't make any sense to you, that means she's also a brain. So our female tennis player is not only better than yours, but she is also smarter than yours.

Aurelija helped lead the University of Arkansas to its first ever SEC Western Division title and Elite Eight appearance in the NCAA Team Championships.

For this tennis season, I say game - set - match.

But for next season, I say beware of the Lituanian Love and don't be surprised if she goes undefeated.



There will be no kissing of the singles title this season, but just wait until next year!

Oh Me of Little Faith

Well, a good Memorial Day to ya, and a good Memorial Day indeed to the Razorback baseball team who ended up in the NCAA tournament today and will face Pepperdine in a first round game later this week. The Hogs ended up in the Cal St. Fullerton regional where Cal St. is the #5 seed overall. I initially had a bad feeling that the Hogs would be left out, but the strength of the SEC is too hard to ignore and so the 9th place SEC team will be heading out west to Stanford University, the host site to the Razorbacks, Pepperdine, UC Davis, and of course Stanford.

Here's the bracket.

Sit and Wait

I'd like to be able to tell you all right here that the Razorback baseball team is going to the NCAA Tourney. I'd like to tell you that a ninth place finish in the brutal SEC is still good enough for the Diamond Hogs to take a trip somewhere and keep on playing.

But... I just have this bad feeling that the Hogs are on a sinking ship with no life boats. That their chances of making it in are more in line with Hillary's chances of being the Democratic presidential nominee than Obama's (do you smell what Barack is cookin'?).

We won't know for certain until Monday when the field is announced, but at this point I don't think 34 wins and a losing SEC record is going to get them in.

Here's hoping I'm wrong... for the first time ever.