Weekend in sport television [SPOILER]

[MFAWG]

No time or interest for X Games today.

Not missing anything, really.

Is it just me, or does Hawk come across like a complete dork?

Yeah, he's a nerd.  I'm surprised the tattooed, mega-pierced, blood drinking, scions of Satan making up the rest of the sport tolerate him.  Maybe he knows where to score righteous doobage or something.

Actually, if you hang around skate message boards, Hawk AND the X Games are pretty much irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.

It may be the ultimate participant driven sport, blood drinking scions of Satan and all.

There's a line in Peralta's documentary:

'Somewhere along the line, the participants decided it would be about the process, not just the end results'

2 weeks ago over at our local park, we had a little kid that spent a full 30 minutes trying to go up a little bank and back down 'fakie', and when he finally did it about 10 of us started clapping.

That kid worked hard, and he earned it...

[Uisce Beatha]

Some of those guys in the X Games process real good like.

[MFAWG]

Some of those guys in the X Games process real good like.

Yaa, yeah they do. Local Benji Galloway was there. One day I was watching him skate the halfpipe at SkateBarn West while talking on his cellphone. Not the mini ramp, the full on 8 foot half pipe.

[hobbit]

Some thoughts...

• I guess I just miss those matches where Lampard plays well enough to start for England.  I don't see how he even starts for Chelsea.   

Amen brotha!

I said the same thing last season.  He didn't do too much this match, but usually he's shooting from all over the pitch and not getting them on goal or even challenging the keeper.  The fact that he makes one every 5-10 games, doesn't make him good - it still makes him inaccurate as hell.  He'd be better off dishing to others - instead of one every 5-10 games they may get a goal every damn match with all the ones he wastes.


On another note, Wright-Phillips finally got himself a regular starting role in my mind.  He made things happen.

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