Top 5 Sports Stories

Happy Tuesday everyone, here's my Top 5 for October 27, 2009 from www.LenBermanSports.com.

1. Quick Hits

The Yankees and Phillies will work out today at Yankee Stadium. The World Series gets underway tomorrow night in the Bronx.

The mess continues in Washington (Calm down Fox News viewers, this is a sports story.) The last place Redskins lose to Philadelphia on Monday Night Football, 27-17.

The 64th NBA season tips off tonight with 4 games on the schedule. A sign of the times. Nearly half the teams won't compete with a full roster of 15. Even NBA teams have to count their nickels.

The young production assistant involved in the Steve Phillips affair has also been fired by ESPN.

There goes the neighborhood. President Obama played golf with a woman in his foursome on Sunday for the first time as President.

2. President's Ball

I got a tweet from a Democratic Yankee fan. He crowed that the Yankees won their last 8 World Championships during the Kennedy, Carter and Clinton administrations. (All Democrats.) Under Republicans Ford, Reagan and the Bushes, the Yanks won squat. So we did some digging. Here are the poll numbers. Of the Yankees 26 World Championships, 19 came with Democrats in the White House. 7 with Republicans (Coolidge, Hoover and Eisenhower.) So I guess this guy thinks with Obama in the White House another Yankee championship is in the bag. Discuss among yourselves.

3. IFL

I guess some day the NFL will give way to the IFL (International Football League.) Commissioner Roger Goodell says the league wants to play multiple games in England and he's even talking about a franchise in London. The key to all this is expanding the season from 16 to 18 games. The reasoning is, teams don't want to lose home games to play across the pond, so give them an extra home game and they won't complain as much. Sounds like faulty reasoning. Extending the season also increases injury concerns. Maybe the league should concentrate less on Europe, and more on Los Angeles. They need to be truly a National Football League first.

4. Sir Charles

Now we're talking. Charles Barkley wants to be a general manager of an NBA team. He says some GMs have done a bad job in the draft. He adds that some executives worry only about keeping their jobs and some organizations aren't concerned with winning. (Yes he singled out the Knicks.) Wow, really? Does that only apply to basketball? In fact why screw around with GM. Just make Charles "Commissioner of All of Sport" and let the fun begin.

5. Food for Thought

Why was Jets Quarterback Mark Sanchez so sorry? So what if the cameras caught him eating a hot dog on the bench during the game? If he was caught eating one of those God-awful looking black tacos they keep advertising on TV, then he'd have some explaining to do. The only question I have for Sanchez is, "you want fries with that?"

Happy Birthday: Kiner's Korner. Hall of Famer Ralph Kiner. 87.

Bonus Birthday: The Donald's second. Marla Maples. 46.

Today in Sports (Elsewhere in matrimonial news): The 10 month marriage of Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe ends in divorce. 1954. Bonus Event: No Spitting! The New York subway system officially opens. 1904.

 

 

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Comments

[EminemsRevenge]

#5...i'm a messenger: bagel w/cream cheese for breakfast and TWO hotdogs [$.99 each *sans* onions, which are 50 cents MORE on 34th Street] for dinner...M­ISSED the soup kitchen because the MTA can't get a train to Jamaica Center on time.....

I'm NOW a Matt Cassel/KC fan, Pats and then Giants' fan, although Sanchez is looking WAY BETTER than the highest/lamest paid QB in the NFL...and i go to sleep HUNGRY

so WHERE's the story?