Random sport ramblings…
Some of my random ramblings about sporting events (outside hockey) that took place last weekend…
As I’ve mentioned before, I absolutely love track. The 100m and 4×100m are the most beautiful and wonderful Olympic events. Unfortunately, track goes on TV like twice a year (if that) unless it’s the year of the Summer Olympics. Last Saturday, the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships took place in Sacramento, California. LSU’s Xavier Carter became the first man to win both the 100m and 400m in the NCAA Championship. He ran the 400m only 45 minutes after winning the 100m with a time of 10.09 seconds. To end to his sophomore season (he’s only a sophomore!), he also anchored the 4×400m and 4×100m which LSU won. What’s even more amazing is the fact that he had not run the 100m since high school and he beat the best college athletes. Wow.
According to meet officials, Carter is the first to achieve four NCAA victories since Owens won both short sprints, the 220-yard low hurdles and long jump for Ohio State in 1935 and ‘36.
“It’s really not going to hit me until a few weeks later,” Carter said. “Jesse Owens, he’s a legend. He’s the one who started track and field. I feel honored just being put in the same sentence as Jesse Owens.”
Jazil won the Belmont Stakes, the third race in the Triple Crown. Barbaro, the Kentucky Derby winner by 6 lengths, broke three bones in his right hind leg in the start of the Preakness (the second race). The Preakness winner, Bernardini, did not race on Saturday.
I watched at least some of the following World Cup games with my brother(s): Netherlands vs. Serbia Montenegro (Dutch win, 1-0), Argentina vs. Ivory Coast (Argentina wins, 2-1), and Trinidad & Tobago vs. Sweden (0-0 tie).
Rafael Nadal defeats Roger Federer in the French Open. Federor was looking to tie the record of four consecutive Grand Slam titles and extend his 27 consecutive Grand Slam matches in today’s championship game. Nadal beat Federer 1-6, 6-1, 6-4, 7-6(4) and won his second French Open.
I learned a couple of things while up north this past weekend.
1) I hate being around my youngest brother David during World Cup action. Both brothers play premiere soccer and let’s just say I wanted to check out another certain sporting event and was promptly yelled at for changing the channel for two seconds. The US hasn’t even played yet!
2) After listening to ESPN News on XM Radio for what seemed like 30 minutes on the ride home, I had heard plenty about baseball, the NBA finals, Terrell Owens youth football camp, and World Cup soccer action, but absolutely nothing on the NHL. I couldn’t even find out the score of the game until I got home and went online.
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