First full week of blogging comes to an end!

Good luck to all the west teams in today’s PIAA baseball and softball finals. Here’s hoping the west is well represented in squads that bring home the gold.

Congrads to Pine-Richland’s Neil Walker, he signed his contract yesterday and is on his way to Bradenton. He took batting practice at PNC yesterday and is getting just under $2 million as a signing bonus. Not bad for a young buck just graduating high school.

Buccos won last night, taking two of three from Anaheim. Amazingly, the Pirate pitching staff held Vladimir Guerruero RBI-less in the three-game series. And a good performance from Kris Benson, how ‘bout that! There are many double standards when it comes to athletes and race and looking at Benson you see one of them. When a player shows no emotion and they’re black they are considered lazy and indifferent. Tracy McGrady comes to mind. HOWEVA, when Benson shows the same characteristics he’s considered “stoic” and “cool”. Just my thoughts.

The genius legend of Pitt football coach Walt Harris continues. In a story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette this morning, it is brought to my attention that the Pitt kickers only go to Heinz Field once or twice a week to kick. The rest of the time what are they doing? Holding the chains and sideline markers during drills at the South Side Complex! Are you kidding me?! I would want my kicker at that stadium every minute he could be there. Heinz Field is a terrible kicker’s field, especially the opened end. Why not have your kicker getting as many reps as he can on the game field.

Watch Akron’s football program this year. Former Pitt offensive coordinator J.D. Brookhart is taking over the reins there. We all know that the terminology “offensive coordinator” at Fuhrer Harris’ staff means nothing. Brookhart will get to make decisions and game plan. Maybe Pitt will have the Zips on the schedule and another MAC team can beat a Walt Harris “coached” team. We all remember Toledo last year right? Now that I think of it, that was just a situation of the players not playing the way they are coached to play! That line is my favorite Walt Harris line, hopefully his reign of terror will be over soon.

If you’re looking to donate some money to charity check out www.billygaines.org. It’s a charitable organization set up in memory of late Pitt WR Billy Gaines.

I see where Arkansas and Texas on ESPN tonight. I love the College World Series and the PING of the aluminum bat. The players play with so much passion and emotion; things that are definitely absent in MLB. I can still remember former Pirate Warren Morris hitting the walk off home run to give LSU the crown. Although his pro career never quite panned out, he’ll always have that great memory of single handedly winning his school a national championship.

I just heard on ESPN Radio where Emmitt Smith is the Cardinals starting running back as of right now. Gee, and I thought Denny Green wanted to win and turn around the program at Arizona!

I was watching Deborah Norville and Scarborough Country last night on MSNBC. Apparently, as expected, there is public outcry against Michael Moore’s upcoming film “Fahrenheit 9/11”. Conservative movements are calling for theaters to not show it and basically just making a big deal out this. The movie opens next Friday and is getting all sorts of free publicity. It’s not as if Moore needs the help, the film did win at Cannes. It’s like they say, “any publicity is good publicity”!!!

Have a great weekend, see you Monday!