Sure, it's fun to root, root, root for the home team, but it's almost more fun to hate your rivals. Epic Carnival, perhaps in honor of the Twelve Days of Christmas, blogs on the Twelve Most Hated Franchises in all of Sports. Well, in all of American professional sports, anyway. There are some loathsome college programs (Duke and Notre Dame, anyone?) that were left out, and we can only assume that millions of people overseas hate Manchester United and Real Madrid. But why quibble?
The Big Lead notes that Timberwolves' GM Kevin McHale took a little shot a bloggers in a recent interview. TBL explores, postulating that sports bloggers have so much sway because, unlike mainstream media, bloggers are totally obsessed with their favorite teams. He makes a fair case.
According to an article in the IndyStar, former Hoosier Eric Gordon said there was lots of drug use on the Indiana basketball team while Kelvin Sampson was the coach. MidwestSportsFans has an unbelievably involved story about Gordon's comments. What's fascinating is the whole story just says "drug"." We are never told if that means pot, acid, alcohol, heroin, oxycontin or HGH. But Grinder will take a wild shot in the dark and guess, just guess, that they were using cocaine.
That won't be a problem in NASCAR. Next month they implement the tougher drug testing guidelines announced in September. Everyone will be tested before the season begins, and random tests will continue throughout the 2009 season.
