End of Week Recap: May 21-May 29

Just to make sure all of my readers out there arent confused- yes, the week recap is coming out on a Tuesday. I fell behind in my blogging due to going home over the weekend and due to Memorial day being a day of rest for all sports writers like myself. I would like to publicly apologize to everyone who may have been going through withdrawals and/or throwing things at their computer when they found out my blog was being delayed. Moreover, my knowledge will be coming from the 10 day period from May 21-May 29 instead of the basic 7 day routine. Enough bullshit, time to drop the hard and soft people from the week...

Hardass of the Week: Steve Javey (NBA official)

After everything that happened with the Joey Crawford saga, you would think that these NBA officials would learn that they are not the main attraction at an NBA event. Apparently Steve Javey was too slicking his hair back with his 10 lbs of hair gel instead of watching the Crawford incident. Last night in Game 4 of the Spurs/Jazz playoff series, Steve Javey decided he was going to steal the show and gave out a total of 4 technicals fouls in the 4th Quarter.

Technical 1:
Tim Duncan gets fouled underneath the basket and Jerry Sloan yells, "wrong" and puts his hands in the air. BAM TECHINCAL from Javey

Technical 2:
Derek Fisher is running to the bench after a timeout is called and gives a little shove to Manu Ginobili. Ginobili goes flying like a 5 yr old who just fell off of his training wheels. BAM TECHNICAL from Javey

Technical 3:
Sloan goes up to Javey and disputes his previous technical foul of Fisher, Sloan gets scared after he sees his reflection in Javey's slicked up hair, BAM TECHNICAL & BAM EJECTION from Javey

Technical 4:
Fisher goes to foul Ginobli at the end of the game and fouls the guy a little harder than a normal foul. Javey realizes the crowd is no longer focused on him, so he goes up to Fisher and... you guessed it, BAM TECHNICAL & BAM EJECTION from Javey

The crowd then eruptes into a "Javey sucks" chant for a solid 5 minutes, the camera focuses on Javey who is standing their with his gay little whistle in his mouth and cracks a smile.

Honorable Mention for Hardass of Week: Kid in the park
Local boy named Jeff "creamsicle" Creamer recently had a biking accident on the bike path near Nelsonville. He fell off the back of his bike at a speed of 20mph and tore the shit out of his leg. With blood flowing and dripping everywhere, a random kid rides up next to Creamer and says, "hey buddy, how ya doin?" The kid then just rides away laughing and is never seen from again.


Softass of the Week: Indianapolis 500 coordinators/Indy race league
Please take a few seconds and imagine the following scenarios with me:
-This years Superbowl ends in the 3rd quarter due to rain and a champion is crowned
- Roger Federer wins the first set at Wimbledon and is declared Champion after rain falls
- Phil Mickelson wins the Masters by 1 shot over Tiger Woods after the final 3 holes are cancelled due to rain
- the Indy 500 is won by Dario Francetti after rain shortens the race by 34 laps

Sadly, the last fact up there is true. The "important" people who run the Indy 500 race decided to frown upon finishing the race later, or finishing the race the next day...but instead decided to just quit and give the race to the leader (Francetti) at the time of the rain. This is probably the stupidest thing I have ever heard of, and one of the dumbest things Indy car racing could have ever done. In Indy car racing, the Indy 500 is their version of the Superbowl, World Series, and Wimbledon. Can anyone imagine those events getting shortened due to rain? The fact that there was a winner declared after just 166 of the scheduled 200 laps is an injustice to every other driver, not too mention the hundreds of thousands of fans in attendance that day. This is the ONLY race that people watch during the Indy racing year, and instead of witnessing an Indy 500, we all saw an Indy 415 or something. As much as I loved seeing a soaking wet Ashley Judd jumping up and down in victory lane celebrating with her husband, it is still a pile of monkey feces that the race had to end this way.

Time to recognize:

I have been waiting to incorporate this section into a blog for an entire year. It is time for the public to recognize and appreciate Utah Jazz point guard, Deron Williams. I have been saying all year that this man was the most underrated player in the NBA, and his constant flying under the radar proved me right. Not one single analyst even mentioned Deron Williams name when they talked about who are among the elite young players in the NBA. Elite young players? How about elite players, PERIOD!
Not only has Deron been disrespected in the NBA, but it goes all the way back to when he was at Illinois. He was a member of Illinois "Big 3" when they started off the season 29-0 and went all the way to the national championship that year. However, during this season it was all about how guards Dee Brown and Luther Head were dominating each game, with again Deron flying under the radar.
Finally, with his team traveling to the Western Conference Finals this year...Deron is finally getting recognized by journalists and analyst all over the place. Id just like to say that its about fucking time people, and that the scouts are fucking dumb for not realizing this kids potential in the beginning. The only thing hes down is average 30.1 points per game in the Western Conf. Finals in his first year as a starting point guard, now maybe if that douche bag Carlos Boozer would help him out a little, this could be yet another team that Deron leads to a Championship run.

Au Revoir, Andy:

This is becoming about as basic of knowledge as you can get in the sports world. Andy Roddick loses in his 1st round match at the French Open. Roddick was the 3 seed entering this tournament and lost to un-seeded Igor Andreev in 4 sets. Andy Roddick has always struggled ridiculously on the red clay of Roland Garros, but this is just getting terrible. Roddick even admitted in his press conference after the match that he was thinking about just giving up on clay matches all together. I think that this would be a huge mistake on his part, but each match that I see him play on clay makes me lean the other way. I am just stunned that someone who can play so well on grass and hard court could have so much trouble adjusting his game to the slower clay surface. He needs to find a way to avoid being exploited when the clay slows down his serve and weakens his game. He said that he thought he was playing better on clay and adjusting every year, he better be telling the truth, cause Andy Roddick has no business losing to god damn qualifiers in major tournaments.

Fun Fact:

Michael Cooper is the only man on this planet to win a Championship while coaching an NBA team, a WNBA team, and an NBDL team. Truly a dominant accomplishment that not many people know about.

BASIC KNOWLEDGE.............