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This user currently is not registered with Windows Live QnA account. Click here to learn more and get started. April 12 No Country For Old MenI rented the movie two weekends ago: that movie is No Country For Old Men, based (literally) on the novel by Cormac McCarthy (one of the nation’s bad ass literary authors there is.) I instantly fell in love with the movie right from the get-go, from the astonishing picture that grazed my eyes of the Temple, Texas deserts to the awe-striking elements where the movie didn’t even have a soundtrack. It was great. Javier Bardem, who played the character Anton Chigurh, is already one of my favorite actors out there. After watching his marvelous performance in No Country For Old Men, I looked up his IMDB page and checked out a few movies he’s played in and some of the ones he’s set to play in. His performance in NC4OM deserved the Academy Award he received for Best Supporting Actor, easily. He played the perfect serial killer, with the brilliant mind by having his weapon of choice being a captive bolt pistol, in which contained compressed air that shot out a large dart with such velocity that would jettison his enemies as the movie continued. Josh Brolin’s performance for the character he portrayed, Llewelyn Moss, was phenomenal as well. I bought the book off of Amazon just a week ago and read through a good 91 pages, and after further understanding McCarthy’s use of Moss, I realized that Brolin played a spot-on character of the man. I was in complete shock to say the least. I picked up the movie to just have something to watch; the movie ended with my understanding of it being my favorite of all time. Now owning the book, I’m all but obliged to continue reading. Books That Will Never Be WrittenHow to win a Game with a $138 Million Payroll: The Story of the Detroit Tigers The team will turn it around and win, I’m sure. They have too much talent all around to stand away and let themselves be jettisoned by lesser teams. The question is: when will they turn it around? They’re 0-6. Jeez. (Edit: Now 1-8. I wrote this post on Monday on my blog from the 50.) How to win a World Series with a $200 Million Payroll How I’ve Never Driven Drunk by Leonard Little How to Keep Your Cool by Bob Knight How to Follow the Rules by Kelvin Sampson Staying Clean: My 20 Years in Baseball by Barry Bonds We Hate the Yankees and Red Sox by ESPN Being a Woman by Hillary Clinton 19-0: The Perfect Season by the Proud Members of the New England Patriots How to Treat a Woman by O.J. Simpson How to Become Charismatic by Bill Belichick Drinking Water, Eating Vegetables and Absolving Alcohol by John Daly How to Commit to One Woman for the rest of your Life by Wilt Chamberlain (Foreword by Michael Jordan) How to lead an NFL team to a Super Bowl by Dan Marino My Life as an NBA Champion by Reggie Miller Becoming a Role Model: Leading a Invigorating Role for Kids by Charles Barkley Balancing Your Professional and Private Life by Tony Romo (Foreword by Matt Leinart) Mr. Halloween: How I became an October Legend by Alex Rodriguez How to Stay Healthy by Kerry Wood Quarterbacks I Love by Terrell Owens The Dummy Guide: How to Build a Franchise by Matt Millen (foreword by Isaiah Thomas) The Cavs and the Bulls, It Never Gets OldI wrote this last night, on my blog From the 50 Yard Line:
Have you ever noticed that every time the Cleveland Cavaliers and Chicago Bulls play, it’s always nationally televised. I know I’m wrong — so don’t tell me — but the past few Sundays it seems they’ve been on TV constantly. Tonight they were on ESPN2 with their showcase in Chicago. An important game nonetheless, especially for the Cavs to gain some yard on the Wizards. The Cavs had a two game lead on them for the fourth seed, but ultimately lost the game. Three games to go for Cleveland. Not sure how many for Washington, but if you ask me I’d have to say that the Wiz kids have the upper hand here, due to the fact that Cleveland is horrid on the road, and now the Wizards have Arenas back and are fresh and hot off their exhilarating win over Boston. The Cavs may be the better team compared to the Wizards, but the Wiz may have the better seed, depending, of course, if they can win a few more and the Cavs lose a few more. Obviously a short post tonight, but I’m trying to live up to my goal to post every day if I can, but definitely post every other day (as a must). I understand that to retain readers you must keep posting and have your blog be active. This blog’s pretty damn active right now. My Brett Favre post received over 500+ views in one day, mostly from the good folks (or bad?) at ESPN.com. They decided to leave me some happy [sarcasm alert] comments on my bash-filled post on Favre and call me names profusely. Sweet. So here’s a couple of thoughts (on LeBron James and Joakim Noah): I like a point that Hubie Brown made tonight about the pressure that LeBron James is under. With the lights shining bright on him, he never ceases to perform. Night in, night out he comes out and plays with fierce and competitiveness, a lot of which you don’t see in the NBA barring a few players. Ticket holders get Cavs tickets for one reason: to see LeBron in action. And LeBron never fails to deliver the action they were hoping for. In example, tonight the kid scored 28 points in the first half (24 in the first quarter). Pretty darn impressive for the kid who’s in his fifth season. I’ve never liked Joakim Noah and I probably never will, but I noticed something tonight, a positive: the guy has incredible passion for the game. I should have noticed this when he was a Gator. Looking back on his gleeful points after games, I couldn’t stop but marvel at the fact that he acted like a six-year-old on Christmas after every game. But tonight, when the Bulls welcomed the Cavs to Chicago, I just couldn’t help but notice the passion that’s instilled in his game. Maybe he’s ghetto and thug (pretending to be because he can), but he’s a thug/ghetto dude with passion, and in some senses I can respect that. Free Throw Woes and Jayhawk Perseverance(Written on Wednesday) The Memphis Tigers hit one free throw, they’re national champions. Derrick Rose and Chris Douglas-Roberts combined to miss three out of four free throws in the closing minutes of Monday night’s National Championship game to seal the deal for Kansas, while they could have sealed the deal for their team, the Memphis Tigers, if one of them had hit a least one more free throw. If the stat from the first sentence was, “Rose and Douglas-Roberts combined to miss three out of five,” everyone would be talking about Memphis’s late game collapse and their death-knocking-on-the-door hang-on. College basketball fans are talking about Memphis’s colossal collapse. Just more-so in the most negative way possible. Nine point lead with only two minutes to go, and you blow it? You allow Kansas, who you have practically stopped up for most of the night to run all over you and score points in their Jayhawker fashion, the way they did against the Tar Heels on Saturday night? Yes, you did, Memphis. The fact that John Calipari neglected to take a time out to calm down Douglas-Roberts and Rose stunned me. I’m sure it stunned everyone. That when Mario Chalmers nailed a three with a couple of seconds left on the game clock, we all knew it was over. It was kind of like when the San Antonio Spurs and Dallas Mavericks played in the NBA’s Game 7 of the Western Conference Semi-Finals in 2006. Nearing the end of regulation, Manu Ginobili hit a 3 from the right wing that would have won the Spurs the game. However, on the other side, Dirk Nowitzki went for a jumping leaner — Ginobili fouled him, Dirk hit the shot, and went to the line to connect the 3-point-play. Jason Terry lit up the Spurs in overtime, as San Antonio was too emotionally drained to even play the rest of the game. Sound familiar to Memphis Monday night, folks? I’m sure it does. I’m not condemning the Kansas’ effort, though. Their ballsy effort with little time remaining in regulation showed the world, especially the little ones watching at home, that you can accomplish anything in the world, that anything is possible. Just going by another classic example of sports’ life lessons that many people can grasp by them. They never quit, and for once in my life, I’m thanking Bill Self for having his boys ready to play, not allowing them to give up, and teaching them the facets of the game of basketball. They deserved the national championship Monday night. They won it. Through hard work and perseverance. Both sides played an excellent game, but Kansas came up as the better ball team at the end. Talkin' TitlesI wrote this last Sunday: Tomorrow night the Memphis Tigers and Kansas Jayhawks will dance in the Big Dance Finale, as in the National Championship game.
I haven’t captured the gist of what most sports fans are saying, but I’m actually excited for the title game this year, unlike the past few seasons. Actually, since the last time Kansas was in against Syracuse (resulted in a loss). I did manage to enjoy the 2004 title game between UConn and Georgia Tech, but that was only because I was excited to see Emeka Okafor, one of my favorite all time college players, dominate.
Kansas bottled in 50 points in the paint last night. A lot of shots off the glass, a lot coming from a couple of alley oops. On the other hand, Memphis kept UCLA’s offense at bay (no surprise, though, is it: UCLA’s O has been tremendously bad (oxymoron) the whole tournament, and by the end of the day had forced Kevin Love to sit on his rear end after a arena-rocking jam following a kick ass, player-cutting bounce pass to the basket.
My pick: I have Memphis winning it all. Reason being their strength. They have big guards that should be able to put the clamps down on the likes of Brandon Rush, Mario Chalmers and Sasha Kaun. I’mfairly confident that Kansas isn’t going to repeat a 50-points-in-the-paint game. If it happens, I’ll buy all of my readers and commenters on here the most expensive steak in the world for dinner one day this year. Promise. But it’s ONLY if Kansas gets 50 points in the paint; none under, no higher (saving myself on this self-made bet). |
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