Spurious thoughts and idle musings from the world of sports …
 
This is a sad time in sports.  It always is when a true legend retires.  A genuine icon, worshipped by millions of adoring fans, an inspiration to future generations, a champion through and through, a shining example of all that’s right and good in the wide wide world of sports.  Not to mention the most hypnotic eyes since Bette Davis and a pair of legs that would stop an ambulance driver.  Sigh … You will be missed, Katarina Witt.
 
You see what I did there ???  You thought I was talking about Brett Favre, right ???  Yep, the man with the backward consonants has packed it in too.  After 17 years as King of the Cheese, ol’ Sheriff Brett has packered up his bags and headed home to Mississippuh.  A very strange decision by His Gunslingerness.  Favre hung around waiting for the suits to churn the Pack roster from old and slow over to young and frisky … At which very point he bailed saying he was tired, just tired, just really tired.  Hell, Brett, the entire NFL is tired in March.  Even the fans are tired.  Wake me up when September ends.  

If you think one and a half billion Chinese could care less, then you haven’t seen the X-rays of Houston Rockets center Yao Ming’s foot.  Chairman Yao has a stress fracture and months of rehab before the Beijing Olympics start later this summer.  It’s not like there was any pressure on Yao or anything.  Oh no, there’s nothing expected of the most famous athlete in the world’s most populous country in the event they’ve lusted after for decades.  Nope, no pressure at all.  Heal fast, Yao.  Heal really fast.

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