a great week for sports

three sentinel events in sports occurred this week. for you sports fans, i don't need to tell you. for the non-sports fans, let me succinctly recap for you.

1) john stockton, jerry sloan, david robinson, and michael jordan were inducted into the basketball hall of fame. being a little brother to my brother, i must love the jazz. so i do. it was a big night for them. that being said, i used to love jordan as a kid (like everyone), until he beat the jazz again and again. nonetheless, i thought jordan was classy and way above kobe and lebron and the likes. class. that's what set him apart. that and being the most iconic sports figure ever. then came his speech at the induction ceremony. i now have no respect for him as a person. to achieve his level of success and yet be so petty as to go through his entire career from when he was a high school athlete and get his vengeance on every player, coach, administrator, or sports caster who ever wrong him was embarrassing for him, for the sport, and everyone who had to watch it. here are just a very few of the many obnoxious things he had to say.

-- "i have inspired millions"

-- "players win championships, not organizations. organizations don't play with the flu and come back in the 4th quarter"

-- "my kids have some big shoes to fill"

jordan went from the best, classiest player around to the biggest tool i've ever seen succeed.

2) serena williams' outburst at the us open has been a huge hit. literally a large hit on google. look at the screen shot below. i just typed in: "what did" and the options that were fed to me by google were as follows. the first most likely completion to my query was: "... serena say," followed by "... serena say to line judge." that's pretty funny and i guess a super common question on google. however, the next two most likely options are even more funny. "what did chris brown do to rihanna?" obviously an important question. just a little more important than: "what did jesus look like?" inquiring minds want to know.

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3) lastly, my brother nick and i were highlighted during a special segment they were doing during the 54-3 schlacking BYU gave Tulane at the superdome on saturday. They wanted to highlight the thoughts of authentic BYU football fans, so they put us in front of the camera. Luckily, emily DVR'd it for us to watch when we got home that night. you can see the evidence below. The BYU game was awesome. Zoobie central was in full effect. so much so, that the number of zoobie children outnumbered Tulane's entire student section. Overall, we almost had more fans at the game than they did. since no one was there, nick and i would move every quarter to sit as close as we wanted to the action. we ended up in the end zone section for the last quarter which turned out the be the awesomest anyway.

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