MidValleySports.Com

Joe T., always working hard…

By Joe Torosian

Kick it!

Critical Basketball Alert: The WNBA has given the players’ union a March 10th deadline…or else…
And every molecule in America is quivering…

Are the rumors true? Is the parking at Camelback Ranch really free? How did the Dodgers manage to let that revenue slip through their bank accounts?

Gunner Rivers…what a great name for a quarterback.

I used to really love Big Monday back in the day…So I gave it a shot last night. North Carolina did everything it could, but Louisville still wouldn’t take that game at Chapel Hill.

Houston at Kansas was interesting. Great athletes, but I still didn’t think I was seeing great basketball. It’s still weird to see Kelvin Sampson regarded as an elite college coach. He was always just a guy.

If you don’t think generational wealth is a curse…take a look at Magic Johnson’s son.

The USA Women’s Hockey team may have won the gold, but they whiffed on skipping the White House invite. Whether or not they like Trump or hate Trump, whether or not he disrespected them when talking to the Men’s Hockey team or not…go to the White House and keep women’s hockey in the news.
As it is…Americans are already seriously sus about women’s athletics—thank you, USA Women’s Soccer & WNBA—so what a great opportunity it would have been to go to the White House.

They could have presented themselves as merely Americans and perhaps put Trump on the spot, ala Pete Rozelle handing Al Davis the Lombardi Trophy. 

Instead, they choose the Rapinoe Route and become irrelevant. 

The old line is, “When you got wine, you don’t need bread.”…The country’s Men’s Hockey team won gold, that’s the wine…it will always be the wine…and the women will be forgotten, no matter how much ESPN will try to salvage them.

Did all the players feel this way? I’m curious, because if I were a player and I had a chance to go to the White House, I’d go whether my teammates went with me or not.

The marketing opportunities alone make it worth it. Breaking news: Americans love Americans who love America.

During the Kaepernick/national anthem crisis of 2016 & 2017, Steelers offensive lineman Alejandro Villanueva left the locker room and stood for the anthem while his teammates stayed inside.

Mike Tomlin was furious because Villanueva broke the code of team unity and the decision to stay inside. Villanueva served as an Army Ranger in Afghanistan, and everyone came down on him. 

An Army Ranger, who faced combat, being dressed down by a head coach and teammates over going out and standing for the national anthem? I would have broken someone’s face for forcing me to make that decision and then attempting to make me feel guilty about it.

Homey don’t play that.

Unfortunately, Villanueva went the Drew Brees Route and apologized. 

Funny, people never talk about that kind of bullying.

The Dude abides…
1,235
Psalm 71:14
jtbank1964@yahoo.com
Follow Joe on X: @joet13b