Back from Hiatus

I'd like to take this time to apologize to our four and a half regular readers of the blog for not keeping up with it and well, to be honest, being lazy with it. I promise to be more consistent with Tha Sports Corna, starting now.

I'd also like to announce the launching of a Sports Corna Twitter Account. Here at Tha Sports Corna, we adapt to all forms of communications and websites on the interwebs. We also have a new email account thasportscorna@gmail.com Feel free to tweet and/or email us with any comments and questions. Who knows, enough questions and what not and we'll have to jock Bill Simmons' idea and have our own Mailbag.

With that out of the way...ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages. I just have one question. Are you ready? Internet, I said, ARE YOU REEEEAAAADDDDY?!?!?!?!?!

Let's start the re-launching of Tha Sports Corna with last night's Monday Night Football. Colts vs. Dolphins. Land Shark Stadium.

Let's be honest here, both teams' defenses were not impressive at all. Not only did Miami show-off the now legendary Wildcat offense, but the Colts had no idea how to even think about stopping it, let alone a standard run formation. At the same time, the Miami defense were just mere obstacles the Colts had to hop over to get touchdowns. First play of the game: Colts score on a 80 yard pass to Dallas Clark. The Colts didn't need to have the ball for an extended time, because they just needed a few plays tops to score.

The Dolphins' offense was close to perfect last night. Then Miami reminded us who they had behind center: Chad Pennington.

Pennington isn't a horrible quarterback. He's one of the most accurate passers in the league. Problem is that his accuracy doesn't extend beyond 30 yards. Not to pile on Chad but he doesn't exactly possess leadership qualities. And in the off-chance that he does; he doesn't exactly make them public, now does he?

The Dolphins didn't choke or anything. They played a great game for all 60 minutes. Sure they could have squeezed more time out of the clock in their last scoring drive, and sure they had some minor time management issues in the last drive of the game, but that's because Indy had Miami right were they wanted them. No one could have seriously though Chad Pennington could have engineered a game winning drive. It's just not in him. As great as the Dolphins' run scheme was, it's close to impossible to win a football game if you're dependent on the running game if you're down to one possession. You need some sort of reliable passing game in a two minute drill.

I don't blame Ted Ginn Jr. for the loss (although it was his ball to catch, I mean he did have BOTH hands on the ball).

The thing with Miami's offensive scheme is that it doesn't match up. You have a speed receiver in Ginn. He can spread out a defense with his God-given agility. The thing is, you can't do that when your quarterback doesn't have the arm strength to throw a ball beyond 10 yards. Greg Carmarillo isn't gonna cut it either. TE Anthony Fasano is a nice option. He did have a decent breakout year in 2008. But there are still some question marks about him.

That being said. The Colts aren't completely washed-up. Miami is a draft away from contending in the AFC. And oh yeah, Plax is in jail.

THIS BLOG AIN'T DEAD, BITCHES.

Ok, less talk football, K? K.

Where the fuck did the Broncos D come from? Amirite? Odom has 7 sacks so far this year and a strong pass rush only makes the legendary secondary's job that much easier.

Where the fuck did the 49ers come from? Ok, we knew Gore was a stud, but who thought that they'd be able to win games?

As of now, the best players in each position (as far as I'm concerned) are


QB - Drew Brees
RB - Chris Johnson (AP fumbles, CJ amazes)
WR - Andre Johnson (arguable, I know. But Andre doesn't have the QB that Colston or Fitzgerald have)
TE - Tony Gonzalez
CB - Charles Woodson
LB - Ray Lewis
DL - Antwan Odom

Team Defense - Jets
Team Offense - Saints

John Wall

Who the hell is Ricky Rubio?

SCREW YOU JUAN ITS FOOTBALL TIMEEEEE

My key players to watch this season are Miles Austin and Chris Henry. Two recievers that are highly slept on in a league that skeets itself over any running back that looks promising. I mean, I know Palmer's quite biased but he started calling Henry "Little Randy Moss".. That is a very bold statement, but if he even delivers half of Palmer's promise he'll show to be a great reciever.

My idea of the biggest flop this season? Stafford, hands down. He wasn't even that great of a college QB, the lions just needed a new face to make the fans happy. Not that I disagree with the move... but in the long run, it WONT work out. They need an O line first. Just ask Carr.

A team I see on the uprise: The Chiefs will definitely be much better than they were last year, and considering that they were a good team that just lost a lot of games last season.. I'd be filled with promise if I was a fan.

Superbowl contender - The Bears. If you need me to explain that, plz leave now.

Too Much Football?

So I'm trying to see what else is happening in the sports world other than Mark Buehrle's perfect game. Which by the way, I congratulate Buehrle on. He's an underrated pitcher who's been having a great season before the perfect game today. Big props also are needed for Dewayne Wise. Buehrle owes Wise everything after saving the perfect game with the play of the year.

Anyways, I'm surfing ESPN to get my hourly fix and I see that t he NFL Draft is expanding to 3 days.Before clicking on the story, I'm thinking to myself that they're actually going to increase the amount of rounds. The draft is excruciatingly long as it is. The teams on top of the draft board know who they're going to draft. The fans know who's going to be drafted. No reason why the first round needs to be 10 minutes long. If teams want to set up a trade, they have plenty of time before the draft to talk things out. I think 7 minutes are enough to hammer out details. A 7 minute time limit per pick in the first round works out. I had half a mind to personally call up Commissioner Goodell and complain the hell out of him. I was ready to start a Facebook group, write multiple posts on Serious Intertainment and Tha Sports Corna, make trending topics on Twitter, the whole nine yards. Keep in mind, all this is going through my mind before actually clicking on the link.

Then I actually click on the link and see the story.

Excerpt from ESPN.com "Commissioner Roger Goodell notified teams Thursday that the draft will be spread over three days in 2010, running Thursday, April 22, through Saturday, April 24.

In addition, the first round will start in prime time at 7:30 p.m. ET." The same story continues to say that the second and third rounds will be held on Friday, while the fourth through seventh rounds are for Saturday.

This isn't that bad of an idea actually. I can barely watch the entire first round, let alone the rest of the draft. Spreading the draft out like this is like having an extended bathroom break in between the different sections of the draft. This country as a whole doesn't have the best attention span. If you really expect for NFL fans to watch 2 full days on the NFL draft continuously, you have another thing coming. It's easier on the brain to watch three 3-hour chunks of the Draft than serving us two 6-8 hour servings. Ever since coming into the league, the Commish has been bring switching things up in the NFL. And it's been working. Keep up the good work.

Finally, Juan P. has come back to...Tha Sports Corna

18 days. 18 long days without a Sports Corna post. Let me explain myself first. I was in Massachusetts for 12 of those days. Sure I had internet connection up there but I had a lot of catching up to do. As much as I wanted to blog, there was little time. Second of all, I've been putting most of my resources to www.randallallday.com. A cute little project created by Doucet, Kyle, and yours truly. Peep it. And third, I still feel like I'm catching up on all the news that has happened in these past 12 days. Right when I'm caught up, or at least feel caught up, more shit keeps happening. Most eventful June EVER.

Anyways, here's just a few thoughts on recent sporting events.

The Seattle Supersonics, The OK City Thunder, whatever you want to call yourselves, they're a dumbass team. YOU PASSED UP RICKY RUBIO!?!?!?!?! As my Sports Corna counterpart, Doucet, pointed out, Rubio is the best. Russell Westbrook, Kevin Durant, Ricky Rubio. Could you imagine that team. Well apparently neither could the Thunder.

Speaking of Rubio. The T-Wolves are also idiotic. First you don't resign McHale back as coach. Obviously the man knew what he was doing and he was beloved by the main core of the team, if you can call it a core. But then you draft another point guard in addition to Rubio. Now Rubio is gonna bitch back to Spain and you wasted/missed out on a great talent.

The Red Sox are 7-3 in their last 10 games. I like that. Despite inconsistencies from Dice-K, or more like consistently bad outtings, the Red Sox are still in first place. Once Smoltz starts to get his rust off, they're going to be that much better. Their roster is that deep that a player of Dick-K's status can be missed without major repercussions.

That's it for now.

The future of the NBA.

first player born in the 90's to get drafted into the NBA. Rubio aka the pat white of basketball ALL DAY.

Life With Ryan Leaf

Oh how the mighty have fallen. I use the term "mighty" extremely lightly. Ryan Leaf was mighty alright. Mighty good at throwing interceptions and mighty great at being the top bust in NFL Draft history. It takes a good amount of suck in one's system to do the things he does. Just when you think the dude couldn't top his level of infamy, he goes ahead and does it. I'm nominating Ryan Leaf into induction of the "Tyson Zone". Bill Simmons, if you're reading this, put him in the "Tyson Zone". You know you want to.

If you haven't heard yet, a warrant was issued for Leaf in Texas. He's being charged with "one count of burglary to a habitation, seven counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and one count of delivery of a simulated controlled substance".

Pretty harsh charges if you ask me.

All I'm saying is that this is a sad story. It doesn't get much worse than Leaf's situation. For the rest of his life he will be known as the guy who epically failed in the NFL. And for an equally epic blow up in the locker room. Has this guy had plenty of chances to turn his life around. Absolutely. Does he deserve another chance? Probably not. But he does need to get in his mind that life is too short to screw up just because life has dealt us a bad hand. You may lose this hand but it doesn't mean you can't come back and win the next. (Oh God, I'm using an extended metaphor about life. I promised myself I wouldn't do this in the blog.) Truth is that Leaf does get some sympathy from me. I wouldn't exactly compare myself to this guy but I have made a few mistakes in the past few weeks. Things that I regret but can't turn back now. From the aspect of making mistakes, I guess me and Mr. Leaf have a few things in common. I just refuse to get charged with burglary or even do anything that would risk me being charged with anything. Period. I want to see Leaf turn his life around.

I can't say I've been to jail or experienced anything close to Ryan Leaf's life but in the short life I've lived so far I've had times in my life where the outlook seems bleak and dark. You just gotta use that to fuel your passion and overcome the demons. For every dark moment in life, you'll have an equal or greater shinning experience or experiences.

Seeing as Vick just got released from the Falcons, I could say the same exact thing about him. Actually I will. You can re-read the above and just replace Leaf with Vick.

I wish the best of luck to Michael Vick and Ryan Leaf in the future. Just cause these guys play(ed) pro football in the NFL doesn't mean they can't screw up a few times. They're human.

I totally agree with Vick being reinstated into the NFL but that's a topic for another post.

One more thing, in order to appeal to the non-sport audience.



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And...You've probably already seen this but it never stops being funny.

That's it for today. I'm done.

Meet me in Hollywood, It's going down.

So it begins tonight. The 2009 NBA Finals.

The NBA Finals, the only sport without a semi-cool name for its championship. The NFL has the Super Bowl, baseball has the World Series, Hell, hockey, the zombie sport that won't completely die when you think it should have, has the damn Stanley Cup! Are you serious! And the best the NBA could come up with is the NBA Finals? +2 to the NBA for half-assing and unoriginality. I bet they came up with the name the same way Family Guy comes up with episode ideas. I'm petitioning David Stern to come up with a new name, like the the Basketball Extravaganza Championship sponsored by EA Sports. Okay, that name sucks but you get the point. Get sponsor names in the championship, like The Rose Bowl Game presented by Citi.

What the NBA Finals does have going in its favor: the trophy. The Larry O'Brien Trophy to be exact. That right there is dope. The dude who designed the trophy is a genius. The way I see it, I'd rather have the Larry O'Brien Trophy on top of my fireplace, while I'd rather have a NFL Super Bowl ring. The NFL knows how to pimp out a ring.

And now to the actual series. The unemployment line got longer last week when then Magic won the East. The creators behind the Vitamin Water and Nike LeBron/Kobe commercials should join the thousands of Americans filling out applications at Burger King. So it's going to be Orlando/L.A. Who would have thought that. Well, not David Stern. Regardless it's going to be a good series and these teams play their cards right, it might be a great series. A memorable one.

Orlando is basically facing LeBron West, a team with a superstar and a supporting cast (and I use the word supporting lightly) that isn't exactly Pippen and Rodman. So this series shouldn't be too different from what the Magic just went through. Only differences: 1)Kobe knows what he's doing on the big stage and 2)The Magic have have to do it in front of Jack Jack Nicholson. I know, Hollywood adds extra pressure. With that said...

I'm taking Orlando for their first NBA championship. They have a better outside game than the Lakers. If Orlando starts a 3 point shootout with them, I don't know how long the Lakers would be able to last. Right now, it's a toss up on how long the series will go. Van Gundy will find a way to lose a game, and Kobe's always that x-factor. My gut feeling is Magic in 6. I won't be surprised if it goes to a Game 7. Magic win regardless.

First post as an official writer lol.

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Had to get that out the way.

Sports talk.

Baseball - Sucks, it isn't a sport. LA Dodgers all day cause I like their history and Detroit Tigers cause they have a dope black pitcher and I have like 2 or their hats cause its a D.

Football - Saints all day, the defense it being picked up. NFC - Saints, AFC - Texans. Chad Ochocinco isn't gonna do shit next year unless palmer can PALM the ball off the bench, ya dig? I say Chris Johnson will be leading rusher and Andre Johnson leading reciever. Brees leading passer, duh.

Soccer - Barcelona all day.

Tennis - Nadal all day. He's got swag, and is endorsed by Nike out the ass, like a black athlete.

Basketball - Shaq comes out to support the Lakers, lol. He's fucked either way. I feel kinda bad for him. Magic take it in 6, though. Screw Barack's pediction.