Kevin Gahh-net

Not since No-mahh has the city of Boston been able to use their Bostonian accent to mess up a players name. So why dont we hand over the NBA championship trophy to the Celtics now? Or at least the Eastern Confence Championship. In the quest for Ring 17 for the Boston Celtics, they've decided to re-vamp their team, by dealing. After a draft day trade for Ray Allen, the Celtics acquired T-Wolves forward Kevin Garnett, the most rumored player to be traded the last 3 years. In exchange for Garnett, the Twovles recieved "Ryan Gomes, Gerald Green, Al Jefferson, Theo Ratliff, Sebastian Telfair, a 2009 first round draft pick (top three protected) and a return of Minnesota's conditional first round draft pick previously obtained in the Ricky Davis-Wally Szczerbiak trade." So really the Twolves get a bunch of young guys, with Al Jefferson being the only one that is of true value. Gerald Green gives them someone who can dunk, and thats about it, Gomes is decent, and Telfair they wanted to get rid of anyway. But the Celtics now have three players who have all been #1s before, but there is only one ball. Theres always been issues with the three of these guys never being leaders, im probably wrong about this, but none of them have ever led there team to anything great. Garnett was in a bad situation in Minn., all thanks to Kevin Mchale, former Celtic legend. Instead of trying to help his team the last 5 years, since Sam Cassell and the wierd but still talentedLatrell Sprewell. Mchale has not helped the Twolves at all, relying soley on Garnett to dominate a very talented western confrence. So now he is king of Boston once again for possibly saving the franchise and bringing them out of the cellar. While the Eastern Confrence isnt all that good, you still can't forget about the Pistons, Cavs, Bulls, or Heat, who have good players and good chemistry. Or a young team like the Toronto Raptors who could be a breakthrough team this year. The point of the blog is mainly that I think that Mchale has been planning for probably the last 10 years. I think he has been secretly been in cohoots with the Celtics trying to get KG there and remake the Boston franchise. If Boston does win a ring soon, Mr. Mchale will no doubt be recieving a ring in the mail. I'm also very bitter that KG did not wind up with the Bulls. Dam you Jerry Krause for not signing him years ago.

Training Camp

Training Camp started today for some NFL teams, including the Bears who were to report to Bear-bounais. Its definatly a different feeling. Usually around this time theres hope because you just think about the Superbowl and how you know when they get there, they'll just have to win. Not the case this year, they were just the 1st place losers. Its a different atmosphere this year i think. Theres some bad blood between Lance Briggs ( who wont report until sunday) and the organization. Still the question of do we have a QB who can have a passer rating above 12? And the D line losing Tank Johnson, and relying on hopefully healthy and young D line to step up for the players they've lost. Still not sure we've got great wide outs, good not great. And will Greg Olsen be able to step up his rookie year and maybe help that cause? The only thing I'm not worried about is the defensive backs with Peanut Tillman, Vasher, Daniel and Ricky Manning, and new guy Achuleta. But i'm not even going to get into relying soley on Cedric Benson at running back. Maybe they can just give it to Devin Hester every snap. I think it will be a good season, but its very tough to make it to back to back superbowls.

Baby Daddies

Turns out that Matt Leinart is a bad baby daddy. The former USC quarterback and current Cardinals QB and one of the most hated college athletes is even more hateable. The mother of Leinart's 9 month old son, USC Womans Bball center Brynn Cameron, says that she is with the baby "99.9%" of the time and that she doesnt know why Leinart says he's involved. I can't wait for Tom Brady's illegitamate child.

Thanks to the Chicago Tribune

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chi-25rowboldnamesjul25,0,6464060.story

Who I Blame

This is something that I hope to become a running segment on the Sportacublog. Where I decide who is at fault for whatever I feel is not going my way. The first post will have to do with the current state of wrestling. I could always blame the person that I hate the most in wrestling and that is the money grubbing, crippled old man Hulk Hogan. However, he was never entertaining to me so it is not him. The person I feel has caused wrestling to be boring is The Rock. The Rock is the most electrifying man in sports entertainment. He was able to spit one liners and catchphrases with ease. He was awesome as a heel (bad guy) and a babyface (good guy). He had good wrestling skills that were able to produce some great matches. The problem is that he was too good. He got us used to a wrestler that is great on the mike and in the ring. Nowadays wrestlers are decent in the ring or decent on the mike. John Cena is a good character as the white, invincible rapper but his in ring skills are basically 5 moves. CM Punk is a great in ring performer but he isnt given a lot of time on the mike and is stuck in ECW. The Rock stayed healthy his entire career and rarely missed time due to injury unlike some wrestlers who have injury problems and some suspicion of steroids. The Rock was arguably one of the best superstars ever and it is a shame that he only was a wrestler for 7 years.

Commish

I thought i'd start off with something really recent. I just realized that it must really suck to be a commish right now in sports. You have David Stern who is dealing with a gambling ref who seems to be involved in point shaving, Roger Goodell who has Mike Vick and Pac Man Jones to worry about, and than crusty old Bud Selig who has that whole steroids thing everyone keeps talking about. Last but not least, the NHL commish who no one can name.

New Blog

For those of those who are first hearing of the Sport-tacular, your not the only ones. Romo and I have been working at Marquette Univeristy Radio for the last year, and we've decided to start a blog to accompany our show. Our shows usually include witty and sometimes angry banter about sports, call ins, music, and Doodles. This blog is going to be filled with sports topics, and anything else that is on our minds.

Brendan