Sportsmenship

This post is written more about the sports casters then the players themselves.
Now that the post was prefaced with that warning in mind, I will continue with my massive amounts of thoughts in dealing with sports and sports casters and a little thing called sportsmenship that should pretain to all involved, but unfortunately, upon occation does not.
While watching the NBA Finals recently, I noticed there was a trend that became consistant among the sports casters. Miami had won the previous three games in a seven game series, and during the halftime report, kept mentioning the fact that the Heat were going to win. This is one of those things that infuriate me to no end, simply due to the fact that at halftime, the team in the lead could very easily wind up losing the game (a phenominon that had happened at least twice before in the series - only with the Mavericks being the team in the lead). Both teams involved are in their first year appearence for the Finals. My question is very simple, how can a sports caster know (at halftime no less) which team is going to win? Would it not make sense to say the underdog at the time would be the one to win instead of the favorite? Would it not make even more sense to remain completely objective and not play sides? Especially since the past two games became very close (within a point on one occasion) during the fourth quarter. At the time this post was written, the game was a two point difference. Point being, it isn't over till its over - sports casters need to stop ending it before the game is done.
In short, the sports casters need to do their job - report plays that happen as they happen, and maybe explain strategies that need to be explained. Nothing More. Let the game happen, and just let the boys play. The refs (while not always on top of the game or the plays) are already in place, there doesn't need to be anymore sideline refts.
I will end this seemingly ongoing rant here. In the future, there may be more humorous looks on things, or more thoughtful, maybe even some with more frustration then what is found here.

First Thought's First

This blog is in direct response to a springboard thought. A friend of mine started up a blog site to write down her thoughts via keyboard...this one is so I have a ventalation for my thoughts as conversations with small children do the brain only so good. There will be various topics and entries here, but then again, that is the main point. I don't expect people to respond to any of these, then again if they do, then I guess I will know if my entries make sense to anyone. Feel free to comment and let me know how I can make the site better, or more intelligable.