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What's wrong with sports?
I include all major professional sports, not just the semi-professional Pittsburgh Pirates, who for the better part of two decades have taken what they do to a new low, so low in fact the team has just acquired the contract of Dr. Jack Kevorkian and put him in charge of post-season preparations. His contract should expire (pardon the awful pun) sometime around Independence Day or the opening of the Steelers pre-season training camp.
In big leaguer baseball for one, it seems everybody knows it's a mess except the team owners, front office personnel and the players themselves.
Much of what is wrong with baseball is that little or nothing has been done to remove the ugly stain of performance-enhancing drugs and to bring to a final resolution the extent of the role in it of its presumed most serious offender, Barry Bonds.
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The NFL has big troubles, too, but most are off-field issues such as the Ben Roethlisberger night club exploits that hardly brought credit to the league just as Pac Man Jones did when his career was coming apart over gun issues and strip club sorties. The league finally got it right, but it took too long to put in the fix.
Pro football has almost over-exposed itself with traditional Sunday games on Mondays and Thursdays and weeks of nonstop hype before, during and after the college player draft. Next, I swear, the NFL Network will find a way to televise Division I college recruiting.
The PGA has Tiger troubles; the LPGA is having difficulties identifying recognizable stars. The NBA playoffs drone on in a select few cities, and only Lebron James and Kobe Bryant stand out. Boxing is in need of an iron-fisted commissioner, and the NHL has to decide if it will join the Mixed Martial Arts movement or just play hockey.
Sometimes you get the feeling that people sit in front of their TVs and watch whatever is shown because that's what they are used to doing. Or they've misplaced the remote control and are too fat and lazy to get up and change the channel the old-fashioned way.
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Anniversary waltzes
May 1 - Joyce and Byron Schrader of Washington, their 40th
May 3 - Evelyn and Eric Volas of Canonsburg, their 40th
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Birthday candles
May 1 - Mary Ann Patterson
May 2 - Ray Miller, Marcus Solobay, Dana Toland
May 3 - Jack Holland
May 4 - Kendie Haught
May 5 - Sherri Abbondanza, Barb Berry, Shirley Broglia, Anita Stopprich, Ike Taylor
May 6 - Steven Wall
May 7 - John Benko, Joyce Holland, Vicki Robson
Byron's e-mail address is byretired@live.com.
wrong with sports? : 5/1/2010
What is wrong with sports is simple--it's idol worship and everything that that implies. All the ills stem from that very fact. If we keep God first in our lives and obey the commandment, 'thou shall have no other gods before me'...then, sports would be sports--period.
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