The NBA is back; but really who cares

No Basketball Ability League
By John Chagaris, College AP
November 2, 2005

I know what you're thinking, here we go another long rant, but there is something that most people do not understand, more people were talking about the return of Hockey than the season debut of basketball. The difference; every team played opening night of hockey compaired to only eight teams. Dallas v. Phoenix was a great double overtime thriller that left fans on the edge of their seats, Milwaukee and Phily was a game that was a pretty good game, except for the overtime part when Milwaukee just rolled. New Orleans v. Sacramento was a throwaway game; really having the Kings on opening night when you only have a few games on, what were the schedule makers thinking? And finally San Antonio v. Denver; a high scoring game, but I want a good game not a high scoring fest.

Dallas v. Phoenix was a game that you had to watch to believe; I turned off the game when Dallas was down 83-66 with just over seven minutes to play; never would I have expected a frantic IM from a reader telling me that Dallas just caught up and has forced the game into overtime. I start to watch overtime but then Phoenix goes up by 5 with less than half a minute to go so I shut off the game; by now you know how this story is going...an incredible game that everybody should be talking about yet where's the buzz?

The NFL has been called the No Fun League; well it isn't and I can't wait for Blitz the league to come out; speaking of Blitz the league they're one of our sponcers for Bobcat Blitz, shameless plug.

Now for a quick ZAG to Yahoo, the NBA, whoever told Yahoo to call the Hornets the New Orleans/Okla City Hornets needs to be fired. After all the crap that has happened to the city of New Orleans, the hurricane, now probably going to lose their football team and now you go ahead and rename the team the New Orleans/Okla City Hornets; somebody needs to lose their job over that.

And one last Zag towards MLB; why would they allow a player who tested positive for steroids to play in the playoffs, that just doesn't make sense to anybody covering the sports, a fan of the sport, or just a sports fan in general, to allow an athlete who tested positive for 'roids to continue to play baseball is insane and not to even publically announce that this is going on is another black mark on the MLB Players Association and I now back 300% Congress for going ahead to try to pass the Steroids bill again, if MLB can't clean up it's act and allow something like this to happen it's time for our government to take action.

Material from the Associated Press was used in this report.