Sports quotes of the year: 2014

Quote of the Year: "I played my last game at shortstop."


-Derek Jeter

And the rest...

"I'm the best corner in the game! When you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that's the result you're going to get. Don't you ever talk about me. Don't you open your mouth about the best, or I'll shut it for you real quick."


-Richard Sherman

"The word ‘embarrassing’ is an insulting word, to tell you the truth."


-Peyton Manning after being asked if he was embarrassed by the Broncos performance in the Superbowl

"Anytime you play your profession and you end up hung — not by the neck, but by the rafters — it’s a great honor."

-Ted Lindsay

"It's as though they've raped college basketball in my opinion."




-Bob Knight on one and dones
"Con man. He has a way of tricking people, and he tricked a lot of people."


-Adrian Dantley on Isiah Thomas

"This is the coward's way out, in my opinion."


-Owner of California Chrome on his competition not running in the Kentucky Derby

Quotes of the Month: April 2014

Quote of the Month: “So, if we’re all going to be outraged, let’s be outraged that we weren’t more outraged when (Sterling’s) racism was first evident. Let’s be outraged that private conversations between people in an intimate relationship are recorded and publicly played. Let’s be outraged that whoever did the betraying will probably get a book deal, a sitcom, trade recipes with Hoda and Kathie Lee, and soon appear on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ and ‘Dancing with the Stars.’ ”
-Kareen Abdul-Jabbar

Stupid Quote of the Month: "You can sleep with [black people]. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want. The little I ask you is not to promote it on that ... and not to bring them to my games."

Clipper Owner Donald Sterling to his girlfriend

Worst Presidential Quote since Carter's "Crisis of Confidence":
"That may not always be sexy. That may not always attract a lot of attention, and it doesn't make for good argument on Sunday morning shows, but it avoids errors. You hit singles; you hit doubles. Every once in a while, we may be able to hit a home run."
-Barack Obama

"Nirvana defined a moment, a movement for outsiders, from the fags and the fat girls to the shy nerds and the goth kids in Tennessee and Kentucky, for the rockers to the awkward to the too-smart kids and the bullied. We were a community."
-Michael Stipe

“Again, I can’t thank you enough. All of my best to you and yours and I look forward to working with you throughout this election.”
-Senator Chuck Schumer to the Koch Brothers (2010)

"Chill out."
-Congressman Dave Camp to Sander Levin over the IRS Scandal.

"My goodness, I didn't know solid waste management was so controversial."

-Hillary Clinton after someone tossed a shoe at her

“Some presidents take their foreign policy from the idealism of Woodrow Wilson, some from the realism of Henry Kissinger. This is foreign policy from Monty Python.”

– George Will on Obama's foreign policy

"Con man. He has a way of tricking people, and he tricked a lot of people."

-Adrian Dantley on Isiah Thomas

"They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton."

-Cliven Bundy

NBA's Greatest Games by Decade

1940s: Philadelphia Warriors: 83 Chicago Stags: 80 (April 22, 1947) BAA Championship: The first pro basketball championship series. Warriors won Game 5 by a score of 83-80 to win the series.


1950s: Fort Wayne Pistons:19 Minneapolis Lakers: 18 (November 22, 1950): This was the lowest scoring game in NBA history. The Pistons held the ball as long as possible to prevent the Lakers from blowing them out. Shot clock anyone?

1960s: Philadelphia Warriors: 169 New York Knicks: 147 (March 2, 1962): Chamberlain drops 100.

1970s: Boston Celtics: 128 Phoenix Suns: 126 (3OT) Game 5 NBA Finals (June 4, 1976): The series was tied 2-2. The Celtics took a huge lead, but lost it. The game featured three overtimes, controversial calls, and strangeness with the game clock. Boston won the game and then the title in Game 6.

1980s: Detroit Pistons: 186 Denver Nuggets: 184 (December 13, 1983): During the NBA’s glory years, the Pistons outscored the Nuggets in the highest scoring affair in history. Twelve players scored in double digits, six scored over 20, and four hit for more than 40. Nearly 30 years later, it remains the highest scoring game in NBA history.

1990s: Chicago Bulls: 90 Utah Jazz: 88 (Game 5 NBA Finals) The Flu Game (June 11, 1997): Michael Jordan had the flu and finished with 38 while playing 44 minutes. Karl Malone disappeared. Bulls win.

2000s: Los Angeles Lakers: 100 Sacramento Kings: 99 (Western Conference Finals Game 4): May 26, 2002: The Lakers trailed by 24 and came back to win on a Robert Horry three-point shot. This series is now marred by revelations that some NBA officials may have been in the tank.

2010s: Boston Celtics: 95 Cleveland Cavaliers: 85 (Eastern Conference Semifinals): May 13, 2010: LeBron Gone! With his crown came nothin’! At this point, LeBron James has no substance and no heart.

All-Time Detroit Pistons Squad

First Team

C- Bob Lanier (1970-1980)

F- Dave DeBusschere (1962-1969)

F- Grant Hill (1994-2000)

G- Dave Bing (1966-1975)

G- Isiah Thomas (1981-1994)

Second Team

C- Bill Laimbeer (1981-1994)

F- Kelly Tripucka (1981-1986)

F- Rick Mahorn (1985-1989)

G- Chauncey Billups (2002-2009)

G- Joe Dumars (1985-1999)

Third Team

C- Ben Wallace (2000-2006; 2009-Present)

F- Jerry Stackhouse (1997-2002)
F- Rasheed Wallace (2003-2009)

G- Richard Hamilton (2002-Present)

G- Vinnie Johnson (1981-1991)

Fourth Team

C- James Edwards (1987-1991)

F- Dennis Rodman (1986-1993)

F- John Salley (1986-1992)

G- Lindsey Hunter (1993-2000; 2003-2008)

G/F- George Yardley (1953-1959)

Coach- Chuck Daly (1983-1992)