Johnny McEntee… someone please let me know why he’s third string again?

THE TRUTH BEHIND THE CONSPIRACIES:

1) Miami has been purposely losing during the regular season before unleashing the real Heat in the play-offs.  Watch tomorrow’s game and compare to Miami’s 16 point loss to Indiana earlier this season.

2) Gisele has recently slept with 50 MVP voters. Brady slept with 48.

3) The secret to the Carolina Hurricane’s young talent? EA Sports began releasing the NHL game series when most of the Hurricane’s current roster hit puberty (and Jeff Skinner hit preschool).

4) Former Detroit mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick has moved on from text messages and is now writing letters from prison…as an advisor to Eminem for Em’s 2013 bid for mayor:

http://www.youtube.com/user/chrysler?bid=5079147&adid=233347236&pid=57249858&KWNM=imported+from+detroit&KWID=150782058&channel=PS

It’s the classic throwback to when you were a kid on the baseball field, and they were picking teams and you were just praying not to get picked last. Because how embarrassing is that?

Just ask Toronto’s Phil Kessel how he felt being picked last during last nights NHL All Star Fantasy draft. I mean, hey. You must have done something right if you were voted into the All Star game. Come on, you’re an All Star! But still, no one wants to be picked last. But I guess when you are being picked to be on the team of future Hall-of-Famer Nick Lidstrom, being picked last isn’t THAT bad. And then there’s the car you get out of it too.

Overall, the NHL Fantasy All Star Draft was a great idea. A solid way to bring some excitement to a weekend that ultimately has no significance other than getting the games best in one arena at the same time. The outcome of the All Star game has no bearing on anything at all, but with the new Draft, there’s some bragging rights that go along with the weekend.

Despite some awkward moments during the broadcast of last nights draft, I thought overall it was awesome. Every player in the league has been waiting for the day when the Euro-twins not only play on different teams, but play againsteach other. So as soon as Daniel Sedin was drafted to Team Staal, I can only imagine that hockey fans everywhere started yelling, “NICK, PICK HENRIK!! PICK HENRIK!!”… and of course, Lidstrom failed to disappoint, as always.

But for those of you who missed the awkward and slightly embarrassing draft last night, you missed some good-natured humor. Once there was only 8 skaters left, their chairs were repositioned to one single row directly it front of the stage. One by one they were called up until there was only two left, with the rest of the NHL’s pride and joy looking down upon them. And then, poor Phil Kessel is left sitting alone with 60 some other NHL players staring at him, knowing that this guy is the kid who gets picked last.

And then just for good measure, Superstar Alex Ovechkin, takes out his blackberry, and snaps a picture of Kessel sitting all alone. Ouch. That’s only going to get worse when Ovi owns you on the ice on Sunday.

Nothing like picking on the kid who gets picked last. Even when he is an All Star.

Ok so what’s everyone’s opinion on this??

A female professional football referee.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/nfl-female-referee-catherine-conti-trying-to-be-first-southland-conference-012711

At first I was like, yes! Break the boundaries of sexism in male dominated sports! But then as I read the article it got me thinking. This woman never played football.

I played volleyball from age 10 though college and as any athlete would agree, nothing would infuriate me more than when an official would keep missing “touches” on key points. It would make my blood boil if the official making the mistakes was a 50 year old man and had no experience playing volleyball, but just decided to be trained as a referee to make money.

I’m a firm believer that if you didn’t play the sport on an organized team then you should not be allowed to referee it. Sure anyone can learn the rules and memorize facts, but if you haven’t played the sport then it’s so easy to miss certain aspects to the game because you’ve never experienced the situation first hand.

So my final stance on this topic is not based on the fact that she is a woman wanting to judge a predominantly male sport, but rather that she has no experience playing football and therefore cannot fully understand everything about the sport.

So I say, “Cat Conti,go play on a women’s or co-ed touch football team for a year and then come back.”

What do you think?

43 points in one game. That’s 5 more than Lebron dumped on Toronto last week.

Last night, while shopping for San Diego’s first L of the season, BYU’s Jimmer Fredette cashed in 43 points earning a spot in Kevin Durant’s Twitter saying “Jimmer Fredette is the best scorer in the world!!”

Fredette, who averages 27.4 points per game plays with a finesse that makes it look easy to score, however it’s college ball. Even I found it was easy to score in college. So what does this mean for Fredette’s future?

In a phone interview with ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt, Fredette made it clear he sees himself as a point guard in the NBA. Being a Spartan of the Neitzel era, I’m all for 6-foot something white point guards, but the NBA is the big show. He better bring his game…or fridette about it. I’ll be staying tuned…

Oh heeeelll no.

Don’t do it Walsh, just say no.

Why would we even consider trading guys like Chandler after the type of break-out performance he had last night? Good teams are made up of playerS not a single player. Year in and year out we witness teams that struggle because it’s a one man show.(Lebron, cough, Lebron) Granted, Bron Bron had Shaq for a bit and if we went through with a Melo trade we would still have Stoude in the supporting cast, but why risk losing what the Knicks have been doing so well this season and that most teams struggle to find? TEAMWORK people, CAMARADERIE, working TOGETHER, playing with HEART. College sports has forever had this edge over the the pros! It’s so hard to find but it’s so contagious when you find it. Lombardi said it best, kiddies, ‘When the going gets tough, you get tougher, and you win.’ One of my all time favorite quotes. The Knicks have been poop for the past 10ish years. Why trade some of the guys who have contributed so much to this team for one ‘all star’ player? It will ruin what the Knicks have worked so hard to achieve. Melo is an UNRESTRICTED free agent at the end of the season, everyone knows he wants to come back ‘home.’ So why in the hell are we trying so hard and risking so much when we can potentially have it all if we just wait it out until the end of the season? I mean, the Nuggs are denying our offers left and right and I’m SO happy about that because I think New York is at a loss if we are willing to let go of guys like Fields and Chandler who have both proven to be hard-working, talented, individuals so far this season.It’s a rebuilding year for the Knicks and they are doing a fantastic job of working together during this time and putting on some solid performances while they do so. Am I wrong? Come on, it’s the first time in a while that I’ve seen the people of Manhattan rockin the old school NYK Starter jackets (love em),hats, jerseys, etc. The fans are excited, the boys are back in town.

So listen up, Walsh, take a seat, relax, and enjoy the show. Patience is a virtue, New York is counting on you, don’t screw this whole teamwork thing up for one dude. Yes, Melo has a lot to offer and would significantly help out Stoude BUT we would be a serious threat as a TEAM if we could keep this stellar supporting cast. Chandler, Fields, Raymond…these boys are working hard and for the most part, they have been performing well. As a Knicks fan, these are the moments I have been waiting for since I was like 14-years-old. Keep the faith.