Sean Salisbury Should be Fired, Phillies & Sixers Thoughts, teh Cowboys are Going Nowhere, & State of the Union Review

Sorry my frequency has dwindled a bit here lately. Like the NFL, I needed some down time between the Conference Championships and the Super Bowl next week. But I could wait no longer, as there is too much stuff to cover.

How does Sean Salisbury have a job at ESPN still and how is this incident not getting more publicity? This is outrageous. When describing the Colts comeback against the Patriots, he said the Colts “jewed them…nickeled and dimed their way down the field.” The fact that he was not fired is a hypocritical joke. If he had made a comment offensive to African Americans, see you later. This double standard is atrocious, and I am appalled. I hope Sean Salisbury rots in hell and I hope the gutless punk executives at ESPN who decided not to fire a personality who is more bigoted than talented join him there.

The Sixers as a franchise cannot do anything right. Now they have gotten rid of Iverson and Webber in an effort to begin a long overdue rebuilding, and, with Greg Oden in their sights, they start playing competitive basketball. They have now won two in a row, and even won on the road at Cleveland last night, beating as K-Mart would call him, LeBlon James and the Cavs. Memphis wins a huge road game at Utah and the Sixers trump them by winning two in a row. At this rate, they will keep winning, get Josh McRoberts, and I will have to listen to people whining for the next ten years about how all Duke players suck in the pros.

On the other end of the Philadelphia sports scene, the Phillies seem to be starting to get it together as a franchise. I guess a proven GM may indeed be the answer! Not only do they have lots of great young talent, but the Philberts actually moved toward locking it up (no you lock it up!) by inking Chase Utley, who may be the single most important piece (that’s right, I said it) to a seven year, $85 million deal. That covers Utley’s last three arbitration eligible years and first four years of free agency. My only concern is that they do not go overboard and sign everybody too early. Baseball, during the first half of someone’s career, is highly slanted in favor of the team versus the player, and there is no reason to lock up Ryan Howard and Cole Hamels yet when they can be free agents for several more seasons. Locking them up now would eliminate this notoriously cheap franchise’s flexibility in meeting their need to get them over the hump and finally into the playoffs. For the first time in a long time, though, I like what I am seeing from this club.

Roger Federer is the most dominant athlete on the planet right now, including one Eldrick Woods. It is too bad that nobody even remotely cares about tennis any more, pushing Federer’s superstardom to the bargain racks in the back of the sports world. This guy, at 3:30 this morning, just demolished Andy Roddick, who has reinvented himself under the tutelage of Jimmy Connors to supposedly pose a threat to the Swiss star. He only lost 6 points in the entire second set. Just remarkable.

Jerry Jones is at it again. He is plucking somebody nobody else has on their radar screen in Jason Garrett to be their offensive coordinator, and, who knows, maybe their head coach. When will Jerry Jones hire a consultant to give him the valuable advance that he is a nincompoop and that he should steer clear of all football based decisions. You wonder how the Eagles have won five division titles in six years, and then you remember they are playing in the same division as two owners who actually think they are playing fantasy football.

Speaking of the Cowpokes, how about that worthless cancer T.Blows bashing Parcells before his ass was even out the door. I mean this guy, when all is said and done, will go down as the most egocentric worthless athlete of our generation. What a jackass. And then of course after the fact complaining that he was taken out of context and that is not what he meant yada yada yada. I guess the other 5,000 times he has acted like a dick were all taken out of context too.

If any of you are unfamiliar with the story of Genarlow Wilson, I encourage you to read the cover story about him on espn.com today This young man did nothing more than any of us would have done, and is being punished by individuals in the South who evidently are still fighting the war. The civil war.

While sports are important, our country faces tremendous challenges. This week President Bush gave his annual State of the Union address to the country. It is easy to find right wingers who think he did a great job, or left wingers that think the President is insane. But as for me, I went searching for th truth. I looked for someone who could provide some analysis that would be fair and unbiased. I found that person, and for their analysis of the President’s speech, click here. It is less than two minutes long, and I feel captures the essence of what was important in the speech Tuesday night.