What’s the buzz from the world of sports? Here are some items that will have people talking:
1
The Celtics’ Paul Pierce was shown the door and the ABC announcers came to his rescue.
“You can’t toss him out,” Mark Jackson said on air during Sunday’s Boston-Miami NBA playoff game.
“I don’t think that he could have said anything that would warrant being thrown out of this game,” Jeff Van Gundy said. “What does it matter? No one hears it. He’s talking to Dwyane Wade. You’re ruining the end of this game over something that doesn’t need to be addressed like this.”
Nice words of support from former NBA types. Hardly impartial.
Since when is any player immune from the rule book? Oh, right: It’s the NBA we’re talking about.
2
In case you missed it, the Seattle Seahawks need a quarterback.
Matt Hasselbeck is a free agent, thus not on the roster. Charlie Whitehurst is No. 1 by default. And of the team’s nine recent draft picks, none were QBs.
Jerry Brewer of The Seattle Times wrote that the Seahawks would rather tackle the QB issue once the NFL labor issues are resolved.
“We had a plan going in, and we still have that plan,” general manager John Schneider said when asked if he’s concerned because the Seahawks didn’t draft a quarterback. “We just can’t execute that plan right now.”
Wrote Brewer: “And so ended another episode of a running series that we’ll name after an old improvisational comedy show — ‘Who’s Your Quarterback, Anyway?’ ”
