Wild and crazy sports! Yeehaw.

Carlos Pena has more home-runs than singles in the 2009 baseball season!

In 1986 Danny Heap was the first player with the initial's DH to DH in the World Series.

There have been 3 Napoleon's in NFL History ANNNNND they have all played for the Oakland Raiders and Al Davis. Coincidence?!

The last two are doooozies. But first, Coco Crisp, Dick Trickle, World B. Free, and Majestic Mapp, and Scientific Mapp set the bar high with their "unique names." But, the next two culprits I mean athletes Usain Bolted that bar and set us back at least 132 years as a society and humankind.

A defensive back for the Ga Tech yellow Jackets is named I-Perfection Harris. Let that soak in for a second. First off, this guy has a hyphen in his FIRST name followed quickly by an adjective. Under no circumstance will his life be normal with this name. In fact, I am willing to argue that he is more likely to fail because of this name. Let's just say he is on a job interview and has I-Perfection Harris on his resume. How will that go over? It won't fly. Or, let's say he is in a bar, lounge, or club, and meets a girl. How many times will he have to say his name over the loud music and chatter before the girl finally understand him, and when she does understand him what happens next? Nothing. She will think that he is an absolute lune. What are his parents' name?! There names are Karen Harris and Michael Vassell. What went wrong? We may never know sporty nation. Geez Louise!

Lastly, we have Chief Kickingstallionsims a former Alabama State center. Sporty nation, this is one of the moments that one has in his or her life where he/she is speechless, puzzled, bewildered, and/or stunned. I am sitting in my apt with my mouth opened and my hand on my head. I just don't get it nor do I want to get it.

Sporty nation this is my funky Minority Report.

Usain...

After a clean start and the most incredible acceleration ever seen, Usain Bolt had redefined the boundaries of human potential with a sensational world record. How fast is 9.58? Carl Lewis, in his best world record, would have been a distant three meters behind. Maurice Greene, more than two. Tyson Gay ran the fastest non-Bolt time by any man and was never in contention. Gay’s 9.71 would have won every major athletics championship 100 in history (except Beijing) by a wide margin. Bolt’s unimaginable .11 improvement of the world record is by far the largest since the introduction of automatic timing. The place times for second, third, fifth and seventh were the fastest ever in what was certainly the greatest sprint race -- perhaps any race -- ever run. And Bolt appeared to ease up slightly before the finish. In the tribune, Prince Albert slapped his forehead in amazement...for good reason.

It was the biggest change in the record since electronic time was introduced in 1968. It came very close to the 9.55-second time that an American professor said Bolt would have run in Beijing had he run all out in the Olympic 100 finals.

At age 15 he ran the fastest 200m dash in history for his age, did the same thing at age 16 ,and finally at age 17, in high school, he ran the fastest time ever for his age and which was a sub 20 second effort. Guy has had natural talent since like 9th grade.

Bolt is like 6 foot 5 inches and 200 pounds. The top speed in the race for Usain Bolt was 30 mph. With a running start, Bolt would have run a football 40 in 3.1 seconds.

Sportynation, this my friends is an athlete not some meddling golfer. This is my Minority Report.

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/22825103/vp/32439402#32439402

It's Vadertime no it's Mike Vicktime!

First off I am a SanFran fan. Shaun Hill will be the starting QB and Frank Gore will dominate the league this year. So that's that. I have not been an Eagles fan since the whole T.O. McNabb incident, but I will NOT root against them this year. I want them to excell and I want Mike Vick to be an integral part of there success. I'm not sayn' I'm just sayn' sporty nation.

Today, Chris Rock was on Dan Patrick's show and he had some incredibly insightful things to say see below...

Rock had interesting comments on Michael Vick. He said if he could interview him, he would ask him what dog-fighting meant to him growing up. Rock says these things are always relative. Rock said the Kennedy's were drug dealers. They sold alcohol during prohibition. But it doesn't seem that bad from a different perspective years later.

Rock said that maybe Vick grew up in a situation where dog-fighting wasn't so bad.

"Dog-fighting's very prevalent in the South," Rock said. Rock also pointed out that we hunt, and many people consider that wrong.

"Why is a dog so much better than a deer?" Rock asked. "I see no difference between a dog and a deer."

Rock said look at marijuana ... it's illegal now, but who knows. "In our lifetime, pot will be legal," Rock said.

"I don't think marijuana is any different than selling beer," Rock said. "We know there's more deaths related to alcohol than marijuana."

Rock said the NFL doesn't care about animal rights. That's not what this is about. "The ball is made of pigskin," Rock said. "They don't care about animals."

Rock says this is all about convenience. "We want to cite the law when it works to our advantage," Rock said.





Again, it's not about defending Vick, but rather truly thinking about happened. He made a huge egregiously heinous mistake, he lost hundreds of millions and two years of his life. However, it is reasonable to say that he received a punishment disproportionate to the crime. Two years of his life for his calculated mistake. Hundreds of millions of dollars for his calculated mistake.

What would have happened if he shot a lion or an elk or a bald eagle or caught a Manatee? What would happen if he ate a dog (it does happen)? What would have happened if he were white? Are these circumstances significantly different? And, how do you decide what is worse?

Culture, society, and the media are responsible for the outrage and his ridiculous sentence and penalties. Remember we live in a society of second chances, and Vick definitely deserves a second chance. Far worse members of society have received second chances.

I hope that things work out for the better. I hope that Vick is wiser and can make meaningful contributions to society. And, I hope that he is left alone an able to live his life like we all would want to be able to do. There undoubtedly are SIGNIFICANT racial undertones within the Vick case, and I'll be the first to point them out, but that is for a later date. I hope that these undertones can be minimized and we as a society can move in the right direction. I know I'm hoping a lot, but let's keep hope alive.

Sportynation, this is my Minority Report.

Justice!

Kill a person you get 23 days.

Kill some dogs you get 23 months.

Shoot yourself in the leg you get a minimum of 3.5 years.

It is an escalating scale my friends. Geez!

Indeed, there are extenuating circumstances and many things at play, but still, superficially, something just ain't right here.

The real question is...what will the suspensions be like from the Commish Roger Goodell?

Sportynation, this is my mini-Minority Report.

Further proof golf is NOT a sport.

Catriona Matthew won the Women's British Open by three strokes Sunday, capturing her first major title just 10 weeks after giving birth to her second child.

Noteworthy uplifting story Matthew is. She had a baby and won a major tournament. You can't do this in "sports" so soon after having a baby. What other "sport" is this possible? Track and Field? Basketball? Soccer? Tennis? The question is not whether you can play the sport after having a baby only 10 weeks ago (had a baby in May!), but rather or not you can play, compete, and ultimately WIN at the highest level. She WON. SHE WON!

Sporty nation, golf is not a sport. It is a highly skilled activity that is exceedingly difficult, but does not rely on athleticism. It is an activity where diet and exercise are not THAT important.

This is my Minority Report, and I have provided further proof.

Money buys Pennants

"You can't just buy championships" people argue in baseball...the Yanks have no chemistry and are the best team that money can buy, or the Mets are collection of overpaid players, or the Sox are contributing unfairly to outrageous MLB salaries, or the Cubs just pay a lot of money to not win are simple minded and asinine. Money buy opportunity and wins. The Florida Marlins are an anomaly, an outlier, and a product of luck.

Currently, 9 of the top 10 payrolls in baseball are in first place or playoff contention with the Mets being out of it due to a plethora of injuries to its best players . While 4 of the bottom 5 payrolls are in last place by an average of 20 games.

The MLB chemistry issue is overblown. Baseball is an individual sport masquerading as a team sport. It's reasonable to argue that winning uplifts morale and is positively correlated with chemistry. So, spend money, get good players, and you increase your chances of winning. Don't spend money and pray that you get lucky with a young player. Money is the most reasonable, tangible factor involved in constructing a winning team.



Any and every team can spend more or less than they currently spend. Indeed, all teams can't spend the same amount of money, but they all definitely can spend significantly more or less than they currently do. It's just many owners would rather not spend money on payroll and would rather pocket the money.

Sportynation, this is my Minority Report.