Friday Farewells for May 21, 2010

This edition of Friday Farewells is brought to you by our friends, family, and Fayetteville.  We love you all!

Farewell:

Drama. The NBA playoffs are know devoid any drama as both series appear to be blowouts and possibly sweeps.  Phoenix still has a chance to defend home court, but as for Orlando they have renamed Amway Arena the Orlando Garden.  Hopefully if things play out the Celtics can do in the finals what no one since the Thunder have done and that is give the Lakers a fight.  Wake me up when it's over.

Suspicion.  Any suspicion surrounding cyclist Floyd Landis's use of performance enhancers is no longer as he has admitted to using PED's for most of his cycling career.  We appreciate your honesty Floyd.  There is nothing we appreciate more than someone who is 100% honest about cheating almost 100% of the time.  What a conundrum, at this point I am neither sad nor surprised.

Doug Collins. A fantastic NBA announcer will leave TNT to head back to the bench where he is most notably known as the former coach of Michael Jordan.  Doug is a fantastic analyst we hope he is as successful on the sideline.  Mix of joy and sadness.

Joe DeRosa. Say it ain't so Joe.  NBA referee Joe DeRosa has been suspended for throwing a ball at a fan who was heckling him.  Reports vary as to whether the ball was flipped, tossed, thrown, chucked or launched at the fan, regardless what was DeRosa thinking.  Is refereeing a NBA basketball game so easy that you can start refereeing fan behavior? DeRosa has bigger problems than some heckler like why the Magic are livid at how the games have been officiated.  Joe, I am not sure if you know this or not, but there is security at NBA games provided by the arena.  You do your job and they will do their's.  Besides the extra focus might help you do a decent job and then you probably won't get heckled so bad, well until word of this spreads.  Good officials are not noticed, throwing a ball at a fan gets you noticed.  I cry only because I tune in to watch basketball and get to watch people referee instead.


Playing for yourself. Southern Miss is now playing not only for its own post-season hopes, but for Brett Favre's future.  Brett in an attempt to take the pressure off his forty-year-old self, put it where it rightfully belongs on 18-22 year old college baseball players.  Favre has told the Golden Eagles that if they make it back to the College World Series in Omaha he will suit up again for another NFL season.  At least this gives us some sort of timeline for Brett's return even if it is dependent on a college baseball team.  So we will wait to see if the world's greatest flip-flopper will play NFL football or go to his rightful position, politics.  Tears? Yes, because for the 17th straight year I have to listen to the summer long debate about whether Favre will return.     


Fayetteville, U of A, and Friends. On a personal note we have moved to Utah and had to say goodbye to the town we love, the University we graduated from, and the friends we will miss forever.  Tears all the way to Lincoln, Nebraska which probably stopped due to dehydration so whenever we are fully hydrated they will probably continue (in Utah that could be mid-June). 


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