A Crazy Ten Days Around The World Of Sports

Why does the person in this photo look like he is stoned out of his mind?  We will address this question in a moment.

A scant ten days ago we wrapped up one of the best Super Bowl games ever—but not without controversy.

Blown calls, mistakes in crucial situations, and a questionable call at the end of the game, made for comments about the officiating, key coaching decisions, and roughness by the defensive player of the year.

But wait, forget about the Super Bowl entirely. The gentleman in the picture is none other than the greatest Olympic athlete ever, who was photographed getting ready to take a hit of marijuana from a bhong.

That would be a water pipe for the uninformed, and the spelling is correct. It's a word from India, I believe. This story made us forget all about the Super Bowl.

A couple days later, while the Phelps camp is in damage control mode, again we forget all about this comical, but sad story, with the news that one of the greatest baseball players of the last decade used steroids.

Michael Phelps owes Alex Rodriguez lunch or something. We have forgotten all about Michael's stoner party and back to the pool he goes.

Alex has since apologized, and stated he only did it a little while, and is really sorry. Undoubtedly, he will form some youth foundations, attend charity functions, and have another great 10-15 years of baseball fun.

There are 103 players, however, that all may have to testify before the US Senate about enhancement substances in professional sports, and who supplied these wonderful chemicals to a variety of players.

This sounds like a great book, with a surprise ending. The steroid dealers all better head for the hills. I hope you made plenty of money, because good defense lawyers do not come cheap.

Now, Alex gets called A-Hole by a major metropolitan newspaper and will hear this from Boston to Texas, and probably California, for quite a while.

And finally in this very wacky week and a half, we are right back to the Super Bowl. Ben Rothlisberger played the whole game with two cracked ribs—a fact that was clearly disguised by himself and the team.

Good thing, too, otherwise we might have seen a couple more late hits and a real roughing the quarterback call, in an effort to get Big Ben done for the day.

What could be possibly be the next big news in sports? Never fear, we have the NBA All Star Game this weekend, and basketball players are notorious party animals.

Oh, and Jamal, the Atlanta Falcons organization is just a little peeved at you by the way.

If you are going to snort coke, smoke weed, shoot yourself up in the butt with steroids, or any other harmful practice, at least do it behind closed doors, with no one else around.

That way all us writers will have nothing to write about, except maybe good athletes trying to maintain a good image with the people that look up to them—setting examples for us and our children.

What next, Tiger kicking his ball out from behind a tree? 

That's one thing we will never have to worry about. At least there's golf.

AHHHH, hell, I forgot about John Daly. This is the first in a series of whats up in sports.

Thomas [NFL Mikee] Moreland