And the Winner is.........Denver Nuggets..errrrr....Lakers/Staples

No i'm not talking about who I think will win the Lakers-Nuggets series. This is way more exciting than that, ok not really. About a week ago if you went onto the Pepsi Center website to see scheduled events for Monday May 25th, you would have seen Game 4 of Western Conference NBA Finals, and WWE Monday night Raw. Interesting, are the Lakers playing the Nuggets in a steel cage match? Is Kobe going to hit Carmelo Anthony with a fade-away steel chair? How does an arena hold 2 events on the same night, both have TV contracts? Sounds to me that Vince McMahon was right when he said that the owner of the Nuggets isn't a very good owner. To have the arena he owns as well, to schedule an event when his team could possibly be playing, he must of thought his team wasn't good enough. So apparently since the Nuggets are good enough as they have shown in this years 2009 NBA playoffs, they will be playing game 4 at the Pepsi Center in Denver, and the WWE will be at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. So really the true winner is the Lakers/Staples Center, they are going to make bank off of an event that Denver screwed up by double booking. Staples Center just went from making $0 to a whole lot of dollars come Monday night. I just hope the WWE fans in Denver are not expected to drive to Los Angeles to watch fake wrestling. Because the only thing that is sadder than that is me actually writing about the WWE.

Bac's all-time favorite sports movie

This is going to be a tough one as their are many great sport movies, but i am going to rank my top 10 sports movies of all time according to me. No you will not see Waterboy or Jerry Maguire in my top 10, I know that you would have liked to read "SHOW ME THE MONEY", but not happening in my top 10.

10. BLUE CHIPS - College basketball coach is under pressure as his team is terrible, he can't get new recruits that are good, and his program has a history of winning. So coach Bell has a annoying booster pay 3 star players with money and gifts to get them to committ to coach Bell's program. Which is way illegal in college sports unless you are USC right? Penny Hardaway and Shaq play as 2 of the stars in this one.

9. Sandlot - Classic, every kid in America should have to watch this to have Citizenship in the US. The reason why I say that, is everytime I watch this movie, it makes me want to be a kid again and to play baseball with my friends. Even memories of little league come to mind, no pressure, just go play and have fun. You will see kids get together and play basketball, football, but you hardly see a group of kids playing baseball that isn't organized, sad. Movie brings those memories along with myths of the BEAST, every small town has myths or stories.

8. Field of Dreams - NO, this movie is not about Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City, but it is about an Iowa farmer who hears a voice to build a baseball field in his corn field. "If you build it, they will come". Shoeless Joe Jackson and 7 other players from the White Sox World Series team of 1919 that were banned from throwing the series. What do you expect from White Sox Players?

7. Friday Night Lights - Based off of a book, and the 1988 football season of Permian H.S. of Odessa, TX. Ever been to Odessa, TX? Me neither, but I hear that their is nothing there, and that they are crazy about HS football and that is all they care about. If the coach loses a game, they want him gone, somebody needs to tell these people that its only High school football. By the way, this school's stadium holds 20,000 people and they will fill it, think they are serious about high school football?

6. The Program - "Oh Mr. Heisman", one of my favorite quotes of the movie. This movie has it all of a big time college program that has a Heisman trophy candidate that gets thrown into rehab, a crazy defensive lineman on steriods, and a linebacker that talks the talk and walks the walk. Great movie, and by the way, this big time program gets rocked by IOWA.

5. We Are MARSHALL - In 1970 the Marshall football team is involved in a plane crash, most of the school officials don't want to have a team after this, but they push forward to have a team for 1971, but back then freshman couldn't play back then. Marshall gets it approved by the NCAA, now they just have to try and win a game. Great story, great movie.

4. Hoosiers - Based in a small town in Indiana in 1954. This small town team goes onto state and plays a much larger school for the state title. Back in those days in Indiana, they didn't have classes for schools to compete with similiar schools. This would be like a 1A school playing a 4A school.

3. Miracle - "Do you believe in Miracles", famous quote by Al Michaels in the 1980 Winter Olympics when the USA beat USSR(Russia). What people don't understand is this Russian team destroyed a NHL all-star team 6-0 a year prior, and team USA was built with college players. Herb Brooks only picked players he thought he could win with, and would buy into his philsophy. Great movie. Another fun fact, USA had to beat Finland to win the Gold. Most people think USA beat USSR for Gold.

2. RUDY - I have seen this movie so many times, and when i watch it, I am singing the Notre Dame fight song as if I am an Alum of Notre Dame. The funny thing is this movie messes with me because I don't care for Notre Dame one bit, but i watch the movie and I get sucked into the drama and the tradition of Notre Dame. Rudy didn't have much talent, was way undersized, but he dreamed big, and made it happen. Even though I have seen this movie so many times, I still can't get myself pumped up to walk on at IOWA.

1. Drum roll please, and I know this is going to be odd for most people, but for me, its Major League. Yes, Rick Wild thing Vaughn, Jake Taylor, Pedro Cerrano, Willie Mays Hays, and Roger Dorn. I have watched this move so many times the tape that I recorded it on probably can't turn anymore. Nothing is better than a terrible team turning things around and becoming a champion. Its like the Clippers becoming good, or the Expos/Nationals becoming a power. Classic movie, and is a great comedy with the characters on this team.

The Girl that is hard to get..........DES MOINES

You may be asking what are you talking about Bac. The girl that is hard to get, des moines. What does that mean. This is what that means. Every guy knows at some time there was a girl that they liked, and no matter what you did for her, you could never get her. That is Des Moines when it comes to new things. This city would rather be 1950 that 2009, and that is no joke. We get a minor league hockey team here, a league that is one level away from the National Hockey league. That is impressive, we have the Iowa Cubs, they are one level away from the MLB. Difference, Iowa Cubs have been here for a long time. You know what to expect, its tradition to go to a few games a year. WHAT, we have a hockey team, that plays at Wells Fargo Arena. No interest, never done that, never seen it, want nothing to do with it. Sound familiar? Like the girl that wasn't that into you. This city would rather go home and sit on the couch, than to do anything spontoneous, or fun. This city does everything backwards. We support an Arena Football League 2 team, not AFL, AFL 2. We kill the AFL2 in attendance compared to the other cities. We had AFL once, Warner was the man, we played in 2 title games, then they left us at the alter for NYC, something to do with a major market and we couldn't hack it. Somehow Green Bay works for the NFL, but we weren't good enough. We got AFL2, it was a bust. Folded up the tent, good bye barn. Now we get the AFL2 team back, the city goes bananas like Kurt Warner is the QB. Why, because they say if we do well, we will get an AFL team back. Did anyone tell you that AFL cancelled the 09 season because of money issues with the league. So lets support something that can't go anywhere, and not support a Hockey team that has NHL ties. Plus Polk County has this ridiculous contract with the Iowa Chops. The Chops profit is based off of 78% of ticket sales, they get no money from parking or concessions as that goes to polk county. I-Cubs do well because 1/3 of there profit comes from ticket sales. The Chops are in limbo, the Ducks pulled out, we have no NHL team affiliation, it may get worse, we may get some other minor league team, we might as well be the 09 version of the movie SLAPSHOT. This city doesn't try anything new, we strive to be second rate all the time, and the sad thing is, the people here are ok with that. We are on the verge of losing another team, another thing to do in the winter, and nobody cares. Its sad. This city will not imbrace anything new. Des Moines has reactive attachment disorder. Don't get close to me, because I am going to push you further away from me. There is hope my friends, I got my girl, lets hope the chops can get theres.

Sam Keller takes on EA Sports and the NCAA

Sam Keller, former standout Arizona State/Nebraska QB is suing the NCAA and EA Sports. Why you ask, because he feels that EA sports has been ripping student athletes off for years and the NCAA has looked the other way. He states that EA sports in there NCAA college football game had a virtual QB that had his number, his height, his weight, and his hometown listed as that players hometown. Gee Sam, that is because it is you. EA sports NCAA football has been doing that for a long time. They don't use your name though, but he is upset because their are websites that you can download onto Xbox 360 or PS3 that people like me and you enter the players names and then it downloads them into the game. He states that the NCAA acts like this doesn't happen. Here is the deal Sammy boy. You were a good QB at Arizona State, not sure what happened there when you lost your starting job in spring ball and you flipped out and thought you were the best in the country. So then you make headlines by going to Nebraska, and lets face it, Callahan took you because he was going to lose his job soon at Nebraska if he didn't get this west coast offense thing going, we all know what happened. You sucked it up at Nebraska, got routed by USC on your home field, and your coach was kicked to the curb at the end of the season. I'm sure that you still think you are all that and a bag of chips despite not being in a NFL uniform. So my guess is football didn't work out for you, so plan B. Sue the NCAA and EA sports for making you in a game. Good Luck with that. If you win, I am creating myself in the game, and then I am suing them too. Seriously, don't ruin the game because it ruined you. How much fun would it be if everybody was make believe on the college games? Don't you think its cool that you are in a video game? The Iowa Hawkeye players have commented on how they think its cool that they can play with their guy in the game. Let it go Sam, go back to flippin' burgers at In-n-out.

Welcome

This blog will be about sports pretty much 100% of the time. I will be talking about football, some baseball, football, some basketball, football, and Hockey. There will be a lot of college football talk as that season approaches as it's one the greatest sports when it comes to atmosphere and tradition. I have a love for hockey, never played it, wish I had the chance growing up, but love the Stanley cup playoffs, so intense at times and the sport is on its way back with Crosby and Ovechkin. Speaking of, tonight was game 7 in our nation's capital, and apparently the Capitals forgot they were playing tonight. How do you go to Pittsburgh down 3-2 in the best of 7, deal with the crazy Penguin fans in their all white shirts, beat them in overtime in game 6 setting up the greatest thing in a hockey, a game 7. Then you come out, and look like its a preseason game while the Penguins tee off on your rookie goalie. The "Sea of Red" (Capital fans) were so pumped up, ready to go, send there team to the Eastern Conference Finals, and a whole lot of nothing happened for them. The Cap fans left tonight feeling the same way the Penguin fans felt after Game 6, because in hockey if your team has a chance to seal the deal in a game 6 at home and doesn't, you are usually in trouble going on the road as the opponent has the momentum. So congrats to the Penguins as they will play the winner of Boston-Carolina Game 7 tomorrow night in Bean town.

I would also like to give a shout out to the Windy city for the Blackhawks making it the Western Conference Finals for the first time since 1995, the City of Chicago got their hockey team back after many painful seasons. They should be very good in the future as one of there studs Patrick Kane is only 20 years old, that is crazy. Maybe the Blackhawks can give a pep talk to the CUBS!!

I will be talking alot about the Cubs this summer and will only be talking about the Cardinals and Brewers when the Cubs are whipping them. The only comment I have for Cardinal fans right now is this. Pujols, has he done this all clean, seriously. I am a cub fan so you already think I am just a hater. But if you can look yourself in the mirror and say, Pujols is clean, he did it the right way, he never cheated, then your name may be Roger Clemens or Barry Bonds. You probably prefer imaginary stories or make believe over non-fiction. That is all I have for now, Don't worry, the sun will rise tomorrow.