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With baseball season firmly packed into the history books, at least as far as the Astros and the rest of the NL Central are concerned (hi Cubs fans!), and basketball season around the corner, there's plenty of blog fodder out there this week. Here's what bloggers are saying about our sports teams:
- The Rockets are hemorrhaging point guards. Even though the word on the street is that Rafer Alston is on the trading block, there's still no clear starter as the Rockets begin training camp. The awesome True Hoop over at ESPN has a rundown.
- Dynamo player Ricardo Clark was suspended and fined ten grand this week after delivering a wicked kick to Carlos Ruiz of FC Dallas. At least it gets the MLS in the news, right? With Leather has an amusing take, and the video.
- Freakish 19-year old Texans rookie Amobi Okoye was named the NFL's Defensive Rookie of the Month. Rack up a couple more of these, and he'll be a shoe-in for Defensive ROY.
- We'll take any excuse to link to The Dugout. A passing reference to the Astros works in this situation.
- DGDB&D doesn't like one of the Texans cornerbacks. To put it lightly.
- Aaron Brooks may not be the Rockets' answer at point (yet), but he can shoot the lights out. ClutchFans has the coverage.
That'll do it for this week. Check back next week, and every week until the Apocalypse for the sports blog zeitgeist.
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The site with reference to Ricardo Clark implies that soccer is the only sport which has violence. This is dead WRONG. Ricardo Clark was out of line and punished severely for his misconduct. I'm a fan of Ricardo Clark but what he did in this situation was out of character for him but none the less out of line.
Here are a few examples of violence in other sports and there are many others. I've been watching American sports for 50 years and these examples are like a few grains of sand on a huge beach. Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9044837445807888591
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7775386313678049667
Soccer is the most popular sport in the World. One-quarter of the World's population watched the 2006 Men's World Cup final. Patriotic American's support U.S. Soccer and the U.S. National soccer teams. Ignorant and unpatriotic American's bash it.