What’s the buzz from the world of sports? Here are some items that will have people talking:
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After conquering basketball, Dirk Nowitzki now wants to dominate Major League Baseball.
He tried out for the Texas Rangers on Friday.
What’s that, you say? He was only throwing out the first pitch?
Hogwash, we say. It might have been just a show, but we think baseball needs a 7-foot flame thrower on the mound.
Who better than the new American hero who destroyed the evil empire-to-be, the Miami Heat.
What’s that you say? He’s not an American hero?
Hogwash, we say. Anybody who leads a team that humbled the Heat can be an honorary American hero to us.
Dirk, if you do try baseball, Talking Points will be rooting for you.
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Wasn’t that cute?
About 40 NBA players showed up for labor talks, wearing identical “STAND” T-shirts. Something to do with standing together.
It might also mean they can’t stand the owners so they are not even going to try to negotiate.
The players union refused to make a new offer, just a day or so after the owners gave their latest proposal.
Guess the NBA, owners and players, haven’t learned a thing from their colleagues in the NFL.
Fans, many of them who are living paycheck to paycheck if they are fortunate enough to have a job in this economy, just want them to figure out how to split up their billions of dollars.
We don’t want specialty T-shirts and mottos of solidarity as if the players work in mine shafts. And we’re sick of owners crying poverty — the same owners who give outrageous contracts to role players.
Just play.
