Congratulations to Serena Williams for the well deserved honor of female athlete of the year. After another great season Williams earned 66 of the 138 available votes to secure her second recognition as the premiere female athlete...of any species. The runner up? Zenyatta, who raced to a 14-0 career start and became the first female horse to win the Breeders' Cup Classic. WTF? A horse? I guess the horse is competing in a sport so it must be an athlete, but really guys? considering animals for national honors? I guess Bo, the Obama's dog, should be a shoe in for the next Nobel peace prize. Anywhoooo the real loser here is Kim Clijsters who came in third to the horse...OUCH!
Attention Sporting Nerds....the Washington Wizards need our help...seriously. Apparently they are getting tired of their usual Flip Saunders run timeouts:
The Los Angeles Kings are in first place in the West, and are one point off of the overall best record....oh hey! How is this even remotely possible? Well there is stud young gun Anze Kopitar (#6 in the league in points), crafty veteran Ryan Smyth, and between the pipes they got the league leader in wins Jonathan Quick (great name). I mean...that's not bad, in fact they might actually be good. All three teams are relevant in LaLa land, now they just need the Chargers to move. In any case go ahead and chalk this up as one more team for the Los Angeles homers to add to their swagger behind the imminent Lakers 9-peat and the Doyers world series title.
How weird is this trade? Forget all the jibber jabber about which prospects went where and which prospects used to be untouchable just for a second. The trade boils down to the Phillies trading away a number one ace, and then making a second deal to bring in another number one ace. Which is definitely strange. Apparently it stems the fact that the Phillies have a policy that they want their pitchers on 3-4 year deals and nothing more, and they knew that Lee wanted something in the ballpark of his best bud Sabbathia who pulled in a 800 billion dollar deal for 15,000 years. I can understand their perspective, pitchers who inevitably will get hurt, get contracts that are way too long. But the contract they are offering Halladay (20 million a year for three years!!!) is no joke, especially since he is 32. I suppose it is less risk than offering Lee the same for 7 years (31 years old), but so much less risk that its worth giving up on Drabek? (yes now you can reinsert the prospects) I mean Drabek was one of those "untouchable" dudes and likely a reason why the Phillies stalled on a deal for Halladay before the trade deadline. But considering that it didn't take them Drabek to get Lee (well done Cleveland) and that they have suddenly reversed their position on Drabek's value is it possible that the Phillies could have had Lee AND Halladay this playoff run? Maybe, and if that was the case we might not have to suffer through an entire season of the Yanks "defending their title." Ewww.
That Chad character...he's so zany. Mr. 8 5 declared via u-stream this past weekend that he will legally change his last name from Ochocinco to Hachi Go. Yup, Chad Hachi Go. So why change your name from the spanish word for eight five to the Japanese word for eight five? Apparently a Japanese film crew was doing a piece on the Bengals recently and they informed Chad that he is well loved in Japan and suggested that he change Ochocinco to the Japanese version. Said the receiver formerly known as Mr. Johnson: “Some fans of mine that are Japanese said I should change my last name to ‘Hachi Go’.” And that is all it took. No word yet on whether or not Mr. Ochocinco has considered changing his name to the actual translation of "eighty five" or if he is sticking with the individual numbers. Hopefully Mr. Ochocinco will meet up with his Bulgarian fans some time soon....I for one can't wait to see Chad осморка банкнота от пет долара and his loltastic celebrations.
Some people out there may have been dissapointed with the sporting nerd's coverage of Tiger Woods' philandering. But as I've said before, I don't really know what to make of it. I feel as if there is some insightful social commentary out there that really cuts to the core of what this all means....some venerable scholar with a gift for slicing through the myopia to reveal the underlying truth of the situation. Well that commentary does exist, and it was provided by none other than famed sociologist Dr. Brendan Haywood: 
In a year that has already been unkind to the D, a holiday three-way looks to take away Edwin Jackson and Curtis Granderson. Jackson could soon be wearing an Arizona Diamondbacks jersey, and Granderson could soon be (come on, Detroit, you knew this was only a matter of time) a New York Yankee. Putting Granderson in the Yankee lineup would remove Melky Cabrera in center field. Look out, Robinson Cano. You are now the weakest link.
Well not really...I mean there was that one time that I fell asleep and he put his balls in my mouth and took a picture...but I was asleep so that doesn't count. In any case it seems like an everyday occurrence now that some breezy pops out of nowhere claiming that Tiger got some. The whole thing is strange/gross and its not clear what to believe or think about any of it. In reality the only thing you can conclude from all this is that Tiger has been clobbering the caucasian female like whoa...and I don't have anything novel to say about that. Little fact that you might not remember though: Tiger met his wife Elin through fellow golfer Jasper Parnevik as Ms. Nordegren was Jasper's babysitter (congratulations to Parnevik's children). Well Jasper hasn't been all that pleased with the dirty dirty that Tiger has on display, going as far as to say:
Former Redwing and certified badass, Brendan Shanahan knows how to hold a grudge. In a satellite radio interview Shanny (that's what you call him if you're in the know) talked about growing up as a Maple Leafs fan and getting to meet Toronto captain Rick Vaive in 1983. 
I love interviews with RonRon because he is frankly bat shit and does not attempt to hide it in anyway. His upcoming interview in sporting news magazine is riddled with all sorts of his madness. 
I'm sure the number one holiday gift item for sporting nerd enthusiasts will be Sarah Palin's book "Going Rogue." Well just to give yall a sneak peak (you like that "yall" eh? sooo country) Palin quoted legendary UCLA coach John wooden in biography:"Our land is everything to us...I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers paid for it -- with their lives."
In case you missed MNF Drew Brees and his boys dismantled the Patriots behind Brees' 371 yards (18/23) and 5 TDs (no picks). Man it must be sweet to be Brees: not only does he boast the league best 112.6 QB rating but he is friends with Carlton! The real story though is that the Saints are extremely tight. They have won games through their prolific air attack (like Monday), when the passing game isn't working they have won games by pounding it up the guy with Bell/Thomas, and when all else fails they have won games on defense (league best 29 takeaways). At this point the Saints could legitimately go undefeated with only the Skins, Falcons, Boys, Bucs, and Panthers in the way.