10. Cavaliers Center Anderson Varejao Out For Season With Foot/Ankle Injury
As if the Cavaliers haven’t had enough bad luck this year (losing 20 of their last 21 games, Lebron taking his talents to South Beach), they now lose their most watchable player who else was probably their most valuable trade asset. At least they’ll have a great chance at the #1 pick in the draft that is loaded with talent…oh wait, the 2011 draft class is probably the weakest in five years. It just sucks cheering for Cleveland.
9. Andrew Luck Stays at Stanford, Jim Harbaugh Leaves for 49ers
Pretty refreshing to see a kid stay in school to earn his degree. The cautionary tale of this maneuver is Matt Leinart, who after his junior season at USC would’ve been the 1st overall pick in the 2005 draft. Leinart stayed in school, slipped to 10th in the draft (costing him millions of dollars) and now is a 3rd string quarterback for the Houston Texans. Luck appears to be a much more pro-ready prospect at this point in his career than Leinart was, so hopefully he’ll maintain his status for next season, and maybe even end up in a better situation than he would’ve in Carolina.
8. Heat Survive in Overtime Against Trail Blazers
Lebron and company have been playing pretty solid ball ever since they decided to play fast-break basketball. If they can add some form of an interior presence at the trade deadline, they will be a serious championship threat.
7. Blake Griffin Records 23rd Straight Double-Double
Griffin plays basketball the way Sharktopus has no regard for human life. My level of excitement for his appearance in the dunk contest on a 10-point scale is 32,893,819,381
6. University of Michigan Schedules Meeting With Les Miles
What does Michigan need to turn around their floundering program? A coach who makes mind-boggling play-calls, takes audacious risks, has no idea how to manager a clock, and most importantly, eats grass during games to be “one with the field” (and oh by the way, this guy somehow wins football games. I’ll sign off on Miles to Michigan all day).
5. Carmelo Anthony Trade Talks Heat Up Again
Reportedly, the latest trade proposal that would end up with Anthony in New Jersey now involves 15 players. For those of you that don’t know about the NBA, 15 players is the number allowed on one NBA roster. This trade makes zero sense for New Jersey, but they’ll turn over their entire roster in order to satisfy their Russian billionaire owner who wants a superstar on his team. Good times.
4. Syfy Channel Airs “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan”
KHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(TANGENT ALERT: Believe it or not, while I was typing the previous word, the theme song for “Doogie Howser, M.D” came on my television. That has to be the longest, most uncomfortable opening introduction in television history. Creepy, low-tempo keyboards stretch on for about 45 seconds while they are showing all of little Doogie’s accomplishments. Then they list literally every actor who ever appeared on the damn show. All in all, this introduction lasts for roughly a minute and 45 seconds.)
3. Green Bay Wins Again at Philadelphia
This was probably the strangest game of the four wild-card match-ups. It felt like Green Bay dominated, but Philly had the ball with a minute to go and a chance to win. Dog lovers across the nation must’ve been rejoicing when Vick’s last pass was intercepted.
2. Jets Win at the Buzzer Against Indianapolis
You have to hand it to Peyton Manning for almost dragging his sorry team to a gutsy win. Hopefully for his sake, the Colts are able to reload similar to how the Patriots did after Ravens pounded them in last year’s playoffs.
Looking ahead to the AFC Divisional Round, I can’t recall ever having both games on one side of the bracket being rubber matches (I’d suggest that the round should be renamed “Rubber Games, sponsored by Trojan”, but that would be inappropriate). I don’t give the Jets a snowball’s chance in Hell of winning at Foxborough, but I could definitely see Baltimore squeaking out a win against Pittsburgh. Definitely looking forward to next week.
1. Seahawks Stun Saints, Advance to Divisional Round
I hate this Seattle team. For whatever reason, I can’t accept that a 7-9 team made the playoffs (I’m weird like that). It’s almost as pathetic as when an 83-win St. Louis Cardinals team won the World Series in 2006. With all that said, their performance against New Orleans last Saturday was fantastic. Matt Hasselback was chucking the rock like it was 2006. More importantly, Sean Payton didn’t advance (he’s a little too arrogant for my taste. Also, I’m a little bitter that he was once the Cowboys offensive coordinator, but left to coach the Saints. You could say that my opinion of him is slightly biased). Seattle will probably be lucky to put up 10 points in Chicago this week, but good for them for silencing at least a few critics.
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