Things in sports you are just plain tired of

Come on Petrie. Do better

 

OK, I stand corrected. But I have another peeve. Why not just take the five-yard delay of game penalty rather than waste a valuable time out, especially early in a half? Learn to get your plays in quicker.

 

Add "championships aided and abetted in a major way by your favorite druggist/trainer" to that list.

 

I am not sure I know the difference. So if the Lakers win a title this season they didn't earn it cause they ponied up to get Ron Artest? They still had to bust their ass for more than 95 games, if you count the playoffs. Winning is winning.

 

Sports are apparently a front-office game. Players don't count.

 

Do you really want to drag this argument onto another thread or are you just going to let me be sick of the things I am sick of?

 

LeBron reminded me of another one - athletes who change their uniform numbers to make a statement (I want to sell more jerseys).

 

Probably 85 percent of college football and basketball non-conference games because they are bullshit, rent-a-win crapola like Kentucky-Moorehead state.....

 

No. Teams aren't going to give up all that easy gang cash. Wake up.

 

(This rang a bell at the last two football games I covered.) Singers/bands who provide us with their own rendition of the national anthem.

 

NASCAR races in which the officials decide to extend the race a couple of extra laps so it will finish on green instead of yellow. If a race is supposed to be 200 laps, then keep it at 200 laps, not 202.

It would be like MLB deciding that they don't like a 10-2 blowout, so they're going to play a couple of extra innings in hopes that the losing team can make a comeback.