Woooooo!!! Pig Suey!!!!

If you're an Arkansas Razorback fan, those are probably your three favorite words. I bring them up because after listening to Arkansas baseball all weekend, the Hog call is stuck in my head. The call of the Hogs is played during most of the commercial breaks during the game, so I got to hear it many times. Unfortunately for the Hogs and their fans, they won't hear it again until football season because their baseball team was eliminated today in a Regional final by their hated arch-rival Texas.

Not much to talk about, but enough to warrant a post:

• It will be the Pistons, much to my disliking, and the Spurs battling it out for the NBA Championship after Detroit defeated Miami in Game 7. I don't think you can consider the NBA Championship the World Championship because there is better basketball being played around the world. A true World Championship would pit the NBA Champs in a Final 4 like tourney against the best from Europe, South America, and Australia. Unfortunately, the NBA Champs wouldn't win. I'd give North Carolina a better chance than the NBA Champs because they still play basketball in college, far different from whatever the NBA is (definitely not basketball).
• I forgot to mention this last week, but Danica Patrick was on the cover of Sports Illustrated. In the article about her, it says her fiancee is 39?!?!?!?! Remember, she's only 23. Something tells me this won't last since the attention surrounding her has only just begun. If she wins some races, including the Indy 500, she'll be bigger than Annika Sorenstam, Michelle Wie, Anna Kournikova, and Maria Sharapova combined.
• I just found this out today, but have you read about what Colin Montgomerie did during the Indonesian Open in March??? Monty is trying to get back into the Top 50 of the World rankings so he can qualify for the bigger golf tourneys again. During the 2nd round of the Indonesian Open, he hit an approach shot that buried in the rough next to a greenside bunker. The lie was so bad, you couldn't see the ball and Monty could barely stand up straight, having to stand in the bunker. Then, as he's about to hit, play is suspended due to a thunderstorm. When they come back on the course the next day, Monty suddenly is able to stand up straight (not in the sand), the ball is visible in the rough, and Monty can actually take a normal swing. The video makes it clear that overnight, Monty paid a visit to the course and improved his lie. Monty has always complained about the unfair and rude treatment he's gotten from American fans. Well, after this, he deserves it and then some. I don't feel sorry for him anymore. If I'm ever at a golf tourney he's playing in, I'm going to make sure he hears it from me. I don't think you'll be seeing anymore of those "Be Nice to Monty" buttons.
• Norwegian Thor Hushovd won the first Stage of the Dauphine Libere in a mass sprint finish. George Hincapie is still the leader and Lance Armstrong is still 5th, both safely finishing. In cycling, if you're a top world rider, all you want to do is survive the days where the race ends in a sprint. And by surviving, I mean not crashing and becoming injured. That's why if you watch the Tour de France, all you hear the first week is, "You can't win the Tour in the first week, but you can certainly lose it."
  

25 days until the Tour, 15 days until my birthday.