REALLY – Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) on CBS, REALLY?!?!? On a Saturday night, REALLY?!??! Since the retirement of Lennox Lewis from boxing’s heavyweight division, boxing has had a major decline in popularity. At the same time, MMA has exploded. First PPV, then cable reality shows, now CBS. This is probably the most desperate attempt by a major network at getting ratings in a down year due to the writer’s strike. MMA is entertaining, and CBS put a good show on for those people who have never seen MMA before. But MMA doesn’t belong on CBS – REALLY - it’s not like the big four of baseball, football, hockey, and basketball. What happened to the Saturday night family movie?? Those probably vanished right after the disappearance of Saturday morning cartoons.

SERIOUSLY – Inside Time’s Top 100 Most Influential People issue, there’s an interesting fact: “As many soccer players (4) have made the Time 100 as basketball (3), baseball (1), football (0) combined“.
Think about it – the superstars of the United States three major sports have as many world influential people as soccer., SERIOUSLY! Soccer is truly the world’s game, and I still cannot figure out why soccer isn’t more popular in the USA. It’s a game where the halves are 45 minutes of continual action where every player on the field has to contribute. The hits and tackles are harder since there are no pads – players are continually moving around the field. So don’t give me the “boring to watch on TV speech” because every sport has boring periods. There are no timeouts, there are no catchers throwing the ball back to the pitcher 200-300 times, and there are no huddles before every play – SERIOUSLY!

C’MON - We are in the midst of watching one of the great coaches of all time Phil Jackson work his magic. For all those people who think Phil Jackson is just lucky to have some of the greatest players of all time (Jordan, Pippen, Shaq, Kobe), C’MON!!!!!!!!!

First – there are superstars who have not won championships.
Second – Phil gets his superstars to play each and everyday. No Allen Iverson “Practice” speeches.
Third – Phil gets the most out of the entire team. Guys like Will Perdue, John Paxson, and Luke Walton were barely supposed to hang around in the NBA – yet they became important role players putting in solid minutes off the bench.
Fourth – Phil accurately assesses the game information and makes the decision to change things if needed. This is something Phoenix fans wouldn’t understand anything about after watching the arrogant and pompous Mike D’Antoni coach for the past several years.