TheUNInterrupted:A Sports Odyssey

      Joe Burrow...     Before the season, would anyone have said this Ohio State transfer would deliver #25 LSU to two wins over top 10 schools ( in Miami and Auburn to begin the season, the victory over Auburn being especially impressive with his smart quarterback runs and big time passing in the comeback)???    Maybe if you believed Miami was more overrated than James Cameron having sex with Clayton Kershaw; Maybe if you felt that Gus Malzahn was pulling his "win without a quarterback" routine again.     But then taking massively dismissed LSU over #2 Georgia, their quarterback Jake Fromm and ex-Alabama renegade coach Kirby Smart...who nearly beat Alabama in the national championship game...the SEC champions???      I had hoped LSU could score enough points and keep Georgia off of the field, I had even believed in Joe's decision making as a passer, yet Burrow continued to throw the ball within the butterfinger bar hands of the Georgia secondary, time after ti

                  Another morbid fall sunset dies over the hills and an oncoming rush of chill arrives, consuming the body to the inside of its festering core, letting us know that the dirge of November is upon us.         And always following quickly after, the dregs of Nick Saban and his army of contract mercenaries and assassins, ready to do his bidding with this year's first week of November meeting between the Tigers and Tide being this Saturday: Death Valley....at night.       The setting is all too familiar and climactic, almost too perfect for this year's festivities of brutal, often savage SEC on SEC violence: it sets LSU on an even playing field (one would assume if there IS one) with Alabama and Tago, their prodigy quarterback.        Tago has put up Madden08 numbers on SEC defenses all season long, battling a string of (supposedly) small injuries to throw for 3-5 touchdowns in the first half of most games, sitting and resting while Jalen Hurts gets garbage tim

           Only on rare occasions are we treated to such a multitude of sports buffets on weekends such as this last one....this sports metamorphosis can often occur during summers with a World Cup, in which an NBA Finals, a Stanley cup, baseball season getting into the grind and the biggest sporting event on earth colliding.         But what we had this last weekend, especially if you're a Red Sox fan, a Barcelona fan, or happen to be in the LA area and are not a fan of the Dodgers, then this was as good as it gets. WORLD SERIES WEEKEND: THREE DAYS DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE IN L.A     All in one weekend, from Friday, to Saturday, to Sunday, we had 3 straight World Series games at Dodgers Stadium in L.A, playing out in the epicenter of sports, with the Lakers and LeBron in town, the Clippers and their big-money owner and Billy Crystal holding a weapon to the heads of LA residents, the LA Rams and their undefeated record and showtime squad of stars and young energetic coach, th

           Inter Milan are welcomed by Barcelona back to Camp Nou for the first time since the second leg of the dramatic 2010 Champions league semifinals, in which Jose Mourinho's team held on to a 3-1 first leg victory. They fought off an incredibly harsh red card that bordered on insanity after Sergio Busquets, a Barca legend, fell to ground feinting to the ref that Thiago Motta had hit him in the face.      Motta was sent off in what is now one of the most infamous sending offs in Champions league history, with Busquets a target for criticism and controversy over his play-acting.       He has since stopped that and is a better player for it. Inter has since moved on from the nucleus of that Champions league winning team and are now out of the basement they were in the last five years, with attacking talent in spades with La Masia academy player and the type of striker that can cause Barca problems in  Mauro Icardi World cup final hero for Croatia: Ivan Perisic, e

     The fall leaves are changing and tumbling to the ground with the cold freeze chill of oncoming Trump scandals, whispers of past and future rigged elections and of course, Clayton Kershaw choking in the playoffs for and because of the Dodgers.       As I write this, Kershaw is giving away hits like joints at the McConaughey residence and it's everything I expected when Dave Roberts commanded him to start in Fenway, away from the palm trees and the sage ceremonies to kill his demonic possessions....      This was obviously coming.      Yes, The Dodgers are on the board through a solo shot by Matt Kemp here in the 1st inning (in his first World Series at bat) but if they pull Game 1 off in Boston, it'll have little or nothing to do with Kershaw.      It'll be Dave Roberts using more pitching changes than mid 80s Magic Johnson sex partners and navigating this game pitch by fucking pitch...      The Dodgers have duplicated everything their hated enemies, the beloved

    It was clear to anyone watching the Houston Rockets vs LA Lakers, King James's home debut In front of a raucous Staples Center crowd, that the referees made sure this game would be marred by a brawl.        We saw the worst game of NBA officiating since Tim Donaghey and his Mafioso connections destroyed the Western conference semifinals between Phoenix and San Antonio...you know...the game where Horry goes crazy and Nash is thrown into the scores table....       So it's been 12 or so years since the magnitude of the ineptitude of the multitudes of NBA officiating was this badditude.        I could write an X rated novel, that only fishskin addicts and chaos junkies would read, all about the ridiculousness of basketball at this current continuum: the absolute allowance of offensive plays to stand, no matter how obviously the offensive player runs into the defender, no matter how blatant the kick outs on three pointers by face-eaters like Steph Curry, regardless of how