Left Coast Sports Babe

Roger Clemens’ agent indicated Wednesday that this year the Rocket may finally be ready to retire.

 Even Cher is saying, “Enough already.”

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International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge
says that medals originally  won by  Marion Jones at the Sydney Games will only go to “clean athletes.”  Apparently the IOC’s search for such athletes will be aided by OJ Simpson, after he finds the real killers.

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And the NHL Ottawa Senators have started the season 13 and 1.  This  may be the first time in this century that the words “Senators” and “great month” have been used in the same sentence.

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Bill Clinton indicates that Hillary didn’t give a
clear answer to the illegal immigrants drivers license
question in the last Democratic debate, because to do
so would have left her open to being “swift-boated” in
the campaign.

I like the one about “tainted supplements” better.

Indianapolis denies that they pumped in artificial
recorded crowd noise during the  Patriots – Colts
game.

And they say it was just a coincidence that a few
misguided fans could be heard cheering for Reggie
Miller.

Since I am not being paid none of these jokes are crossing a picket line…..not that being paid a lot of money wouldn’t be tempting….

So Navy cancelled classes for a day because they
beat Notre Dame for the first time in over 43 years. .

Florida State thought of doing the same because
they knocked off number 2 Boston College, and then
Bobby Bowden remembered his players don’t go to class
anyway.

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Navy hasn’t beaten Notre Dame since 1963.  To
give you an idea how long ago that was – Astroturf
hadn’t been invented, the first Super Bowl hadn’t
happened, and Vinny Testaverde was just a rookie.

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And Hillary Clinton says that licenses for illegal
immigrants make sense but she doesn’t support them.

Funny, thats exactly how Bill feels about his
marriage vows. 

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Who says there is no bipartisan agreement in
Washington ?  Both Fred Thompson and Dennis Kucinich
say that if elected, to make their wives more
comfortable the theme for their  inaugural ball will
be a father-daughter dance.

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Stephen Colbert has lost his bid to be on the ballot
in South Carolina because state Democrats say you
have to be a viable candidate to be included in the
primary.  So wonder when South Carolina will formally give
Biden, Dodd, Kucinich and Gravel the same bad news.

So Seattle’s new owners have announced their intention
to move the NBA team to Oklahoma City.  Wonder if they
will rename the team the Oklahoma Super Sooners?

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And great karma item of the day… In East Lansing a
popular item this fall  has been Michigan State green shirts that read,  “At least we didn’t lose to Appalachian State.”

Yeah but in an exhibition game tonight the Spartans
managed to lose 85-82 to Division II Grand Valley
State.

I can see the t-shirts now in Ann Arbor.

The hardest sentence to write is the first sentence,
so this blog introduction will come in a few weeks. 

In the meantime, here’s some thoughts for the week.

Vinny Testaverde aggravated his Achilles’ tendon and
so may not be playing this weekend.

So can we suppose this was an old Trojan war injury?

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Alex Rodriguez took a lot of grief for his timing in
opting out of his Yankees contract. But give the guy a
break.. it might be the only time in his career that he
does something headline grabbing in October.

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A recent poll showed that one in five people were
superstitious about their favorite teams.
Actually, the number was considerably higher but many
fans felt that such an admission would really jinx
those teams.

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Well of course the Rockies were swept.  All four
World  Series games ended after 12am eastern time.
And we know Cinderella’s spell ends at midnight.

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Losing streaks?  The Red Sox have won twice in
four years, Boston College is ranked #2 in the BCS
polls,  the Patriots are undefeated — even the
Bruins and  Celtics are improving.  Yikes!  Does this
mean the next president of the US will be Mitt Romney?

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Qualcomm stadium workeed out really well as a
relief  shelter.  Of course, the stadium had had
lot of practice with disasters as the longtime home of
the San Diego Chargers.

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Rudy Giuliani said last week that waterboarding
was not torture.  He also announced that if he gets
the nomination his running mate will be Jack Bauer.

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With all the criticism with his performance
after Katrina, President Bush has made a real effort
with the Southern California wildfires.  This week he
praised all the rescue workers and their efforts in
shoring up the levees.

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Hillary Clinton celebrated her 60th birthday
last Friday. When asked about it, she reportedly said
“I feel like a 30 year old.”    And Bill said, “Me,
too.”