REALLY – People are surprised that former NBA referee Tim Donaghy is writing allegations that other NBA games were fixed, REALLY? The NBA had to see this coming . . . . finally, the NBA has its own version of Jose Canseco. A guy who knows he is in trouble, a guy who is publicly despised, a guy who is desperate. While the allegations by Donaghy may be the wriggling of a guilty criminal trying to get a lighter sentence, one has to wonder if there may be some truth to it. Whatever happened to walking or palming the basketball. Why is a moving screen called in the first quarter but not the fourth? Was Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and notorious referee critic, correct when he yelled for the officials to be independent from the NBA League itself? REALLY, when is the Senator from Arizona going to form a Congressional committee to figure out if Amare Stoudamire and Boris Diaw were wrongly suspended in the 2007 playoffs? This is one story that will dog the NBA for the next year. But do not worry NBA, last year it was MLB and the Mitchell Report – sooner or later something will happen in the NFL to take the public’s mind off of Donaghy, REALLY!

SERIOUSLY – The game of baseball was the game of seasonal statistics. Everybody who follows baseball somewhat regularly knows the numbers: a .400 batting average – 61 homeruns – 2632 consecutive games played. This week Ken Griffey Jr. hit one of those magical baseball numbers of which true baseball fans SERIOUSLY should be in awe: 600 career homeruns – and Griffey was never known as a power hitter. It’s a feat shared by some of the greatest: Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, Willie Mays. It’s more amazing because Ken Griffey Jr has fought several serious injuries the past several years. Ken Griffey Jr is the definition of a five-tool player: hits for power, hits for average, great speed, big arm, and great defense. He always played the game the right way, and he is surely a first ballet Hall of Famer. Quite amazing!
Unfortunately, it’s also a feat shared by Barry Bonds and Sammy Sosa – two players directly in the middle of the performance enhancing drug scandal. Two guys I wish were not in the same sentence with Griffey because Griffey is completely different. While there have been no positive tests for Sosa or Bonds, let me tell you this – SERIOUSLY compare the changes in body shape of Bonds and Sosa to Griffey, and tell me again who didn’t take performance enhancing drugs.

C’MON – There is no Triple Crown winner this year. Big Brown decided to take a weekend off and finished last. But C’MON horse racing, with all the talk of steroids and HGH, why isn’t there a bigger stir about the trainers of Big Brown giving him steroids once a month leading up to the Kentucky Derby? It’s one thing if a human makes his or her own decision to inject themselves with steroids, but the horse does not get to make the decision into its own steroid use. Steroids create larger muscles on bones – and something tells me that a race horses leg bones weren’t meant to have roided out leg muscles. Banish steroids from horse racing, now.