Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Wandering in the sports desert

A couple of nuggets to past the time until the Phillies head to spring training on Feb. 17, exactly 22 days from today. Or until the Stanley Cup playoffs begin, which doesn’t happen until April.

The Sixers played last night. Try not to yawn. The locals had a chance to win three straight games for the first time this season. Didn’t happen. Instead, they lost badly to the Indianapolis Pacers, a team they handled on the road last week.

Look at it this way. Each loss gets the Sixers a little closer to a lottery pick in the NBA Draft. Yes, that’s how far the Sixers have fallen.

And it’s only going to get worse.

Of course, you could always be cheered by the NFL’s Pro Bowl, which will take place this Sunday.

The geniuses at the NFL figured that we needed something to get us through the wilderness of the “off week” between the AFC and NFC title games and the Super Bowl. So they decided to uproot the Pro Bowl from Hawaii and plunk it down in Miami, where the Super Bowl will be played, this Sunday.

Of course, none of the players on the Saints and Colts, the two teams actually still playing in the NFL, will play in the Pro Bowl. So lots of new names are being added to the rosters.

Those would include Eagles QB Donovan McNabb and safety Quentin Mikell.
That brings to nine the number of Eagles in the game.

McNabb may find himself fending off questions about a possible trade.

And Mikell? Someone explain to me how a season that almost everyone believes he struggled in earns him a trip to the Pro Bowl.

Actually, he should fit right in. No one tackles anybody in this game anyhow.

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