Left Coast Sports Babe

Many stores are having Martin Luther King sales this weekend.  Wonder what Dr. King would think of the fact that for many Americans the “dream” has become “30 percent off all clearance merchandise.

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Traditionally  January has been the time of year for “White Sales.”   It just doesn’t, however, now seem appropriate for stores to be advertising cheap white sheets.

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Refrain heard all over New Orleans today – “How the h*ll did we lose to these guys?”

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But, okay, even as a Stanford fan,  guess it’s time to root for the Jets next week against the Steelers. Got to suck it up and choose the USC quarterback over the rapist.

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Any guesses as to who Rex Ryan will decide it’s personal with next week?

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Ravens, Falcons, Seahawks. Hard to imagine a worse couple days for birds unless the cat lobby gets bell collars outlawed.

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One thing for sure about today’s Jets-Patriots game at Gillette Stadium, possible AFC MVP Tom Brady was definitely not “the best a man can get.”

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And the Jets played like they might be almost as good as they think they are

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The last time Tom Brady had such bad results with completing passes, a little pink cross on a plastic stick was involved.

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And while the Seahawks made it respectable towards the end of the game,  Pete Carroll had to be thinking for much of the game that he got better performances out of his paid players at USC.

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The Los Angeles Clippers beat the Los Angeles Lakers 99-92.   Frustrated Lakers fans blamed the loss on the Clippers’ home court advantage.

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SI.com actually referred to the Clippers-Lakers as a rivalry game.  A sign of how things are changing?  That matchup has been as historically as much of a rivalry game as a mouse has with a cat.

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The  “Social Network” won an Golden Globe for “best picture.”  Ironic because Facebook has probably done more than any other American recent phenomenon to keep Americans occupied in their spare time without going to (or renting) movies.