5. darren mcfadden - i usually don't pay too much attention to the pro football combine and this year was no exception. i know prospects work very hard to prepare, but for whatever reason, i'm just very rarely interested in what happens. and this is from someone who loves minor league prospects and nba rookies. anyways, from what i could tell this year's biggest winner was darren mcfadden. he ran a blistering 4.33 40 and more importantly was the only player whose 40 time i cared to read about.
4. the detroit pistons - on friday, the pistons became the second nba team to reach 40 wins with a 127-100 win over milwaukee. on sunday, the pistons became the second nba team to reach 41 wins with a 116-86 win over the new look phoenix suns. if the pistons continue to score this easily and the celtics might have some company atop the eastern conference. similarly, if the pistons continue to win by thirty, this might make for a very uninteresting playoffs. hopefully, rasheed wallace plays the rest of the shooting with his left hand.
3. new and old cavs - on the heels of their mega-deal on thursday and due to an assortment of injuries, the cavs were forced to sign two d-league players to meet the minimum roster requirements in a game against the wizards. apparently, lebron james is either better than we all thought or the wizards are much, much worse because the cavs won 90-89. cleveland got a tremendous boost from damon jones who scored 27 points. i can't decide if this means i never should have opened my big yap about damon jones in the first place or if i should have opened it wider. yesterday, the cavs four new players finally were cleared to play and which meant damon jones returned to his usual role of player who bothers me from the bench and not the basketball court. it's tough to draw any conclusions from a game against one of the worst teams in the league, but i was somewhat impressed regardless. delonte west shot poorly but was a willing and able passer, joe smith showed off his ability to hit mid-range jumpers, wally szczerbiak hit a pair of threes, and ben wallace finished with a double-double, the first of his career. and late in the fourth, in one sequence ben wallace dunked putting the cavs up 16 and then forced a five-second violation. the cavs got the ball back and the grizzlies never threatened again. of course, they didn't really threaten at all in the second half.
2. tiger woods - on sunday, the final round of the accenture match play championship ended with tiger woods getting spoils. having once applied for a job at accenture, i think i know first hand how hard it is to win a golf tournament that they sponsor. or maybe i would if they ever called me back. anyways, yesterday tiger topped stewart cink with an 8-and-7 victory which was the largest, and losing, margin in the final match in the history of this event. for those of you who don't know what an 8-and-7 victory in match play means, i think it's when one golfer hits eight hole-in-ones while the other golfer quietly weeps in seven different sand traps. anyways, with this victory tiger woods moves past arnold palmer for 4th all-time in tour victories. he is now only 19 wins away from sam snead's pga tour record 82 wins, a record i fully expect tiger will break this easter sunday.
4. the detroit pistons - on friday, the pistons became the second nba team to reach 40 wins with a 127-100 win over milwaukee. on sunday, the pistons became the second nba team to reach 41 wins with a 116-86 win over the new look phoenix suns. if the pistons continue to score this easily and the celtics might have some company atop the eastern conference. similarly, if the pistons continue to win by thirty, this might make for a very uninteresting playoffs. hopefully, rasheed wallace plays the rest of the shooting with his left hand.3. new and old cavs - on the heels of their mega-deal on thursday and due to an assortment of injuries, the cavs were forced to sign two d-league players to meet the minimum roster requirements in a game against the wizards. apparently, lebron james is either better than we all thought or the wizards are much, much worse because the cavs won 90-89. cleveland got a tremendous boost from damon jones who scored 27 points. i can't decide if this means i never should have opened my big yap about damon jones in the first place or if i should have opened it wider. yesterday, the cavs four new players finally were cleared to play and which meant damon jones returned to his usual role of player who bothers me from the bench and not the basketball court. it's tough to draw any conclusions from a game against one of the worst teams in the league, but i was somewhat impressed regardless. delonte west shot poorly but was a willing and able passer, joe smith showed off his ability to hit mid-range jumpers, wally szczerbiak hit a pair of threes, and ben wallace finished with a double-double, the first of his career. and late in the fourth, in one sequence ben wallace dunked putting the cavs up 16 and then forced a five-second violation. the cavs got the ball back and the grizzlies never threatened again. of course, they didn't really threaten at all in the second half.
2. tiger woods - on sunday, the final round of the accenture match play championship ended with tiger woods getting spoils. having once applied for a job at accenture, i think i know first hand how hard it is to win a golf tournament that they sponsor. or maybe i would if they ever called me back. anyways, yesterday tiger topped stewart cink with an 8-and-7 victory which was the largest, and losing, margin in the final match in the history of this event. for those of you who don't know what an 8-and-7 victory in match play means, i think it's when one golfer hits eight hole-in-ones while the other golfer quietly weeps in seven different sand traps. anyways, with this victory tiger woods moves past arnold palmer for 4th all-time in tour victories. he is now only 19 wins away from sam snead's pga tour record 82 wins, a record i fully expect tiger will break this easter sunday.
1. denver's summer break plans - last thursday, denver stood idly by as the trade deadline passed without making a significant move. while other western conference teams indulged in the trading frenzy, the nuggets eschewed a kleiza-artest deal and instead stood pat. this was apparently a theme this weekend, because in their two games, the nuggets spent much of their time standing pat as their opponents ran them up and down the court. on friday, the nuggets surrendered 135 points to a impotent bulls offense. then on saturday, denver coughed up a 23-point lead and lost to milwuakee 115-109. in both games it was obvious that the nuggets could have used ron artest's perimeter defense. they allowed 37 points to ben gordon and then 42 points to michael redd. they also could have used ron artest's crazy becuase if there was one thing denver's two losses was missing, it was bulls and bucks fans getting punched in the face. currently, the nuggets are tied with golden state for the final playoff spot. i'm not sure what the tiebreaker rules are but unless it's whichever team came closest to trading for ron artest, the nuggets could be in trouble.
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