USA Today’s Christine Brennan: Thoughtless and Heartless Commentary On the World of Sports

I’m a frequent reader of USA Today. Not a daily reader, mind you, but a frequent one.

One of the sports columnists for USA Today gets my goat quite often, though. She is opinionated to a fault, judgmental as hell, and comes across to me as the traditional “harpy.”

Her name is Christine Brennan, and reading her columns is almost as painful as hearing someone scrape their fingernails across a chalkboard.

I force myself to do so occasionally, however, just as I used to force myself to listen to Rush Limbaugh on occasion; just to find out what they’re saying at the moment.

I know that what Christine Brennan writes will likely disturb me, but I want to get a pulse of what she’s thinking at the moment, because I believe it reflects the mood and thinking of a great many people. Although that seems to lend her voice credence, I would only say that fools abound in this world, so it’s nothing special.

One thing she’s been “harping” on recently is the issue of steroids in baseball, and how it’s basically placed a cloud over the entire sport over the past few decades.

Sports’ Greatest of All-Time: The Great GOAT Debate

As mere mortals we are often humbled and humiliated by our own inertia—our inability to rise up off the couch and take matters into our own hands.

This may explain why the sports arena appeals so broadly and so intensely to the masses—we wretched souls interred in stained t-shirts with drive-through convictions.

Those we watch and revere move forward, act bravely and overcome stiff resistance. We admire the sheer will that propels them to the finish line—a place that often eludes us. 

A very few of these athletes whose lives we covet inspire us, take away our collective breath and bend us toward worship, as they enter the rarified air of those who would be considered the Greatest of All-Time.

Do Professional Athletes Get Paid Too Much Money?

Wouldn’t it be great to make nearly $111 million a year simply to play a game?

Many professional athletes, such as Tiger Woods, apparently think so; or else they wouldn’t be cashing their paychecks. However, do these athletes really deserve all that money?

In my view, absolutely not.

If you ask me, professional athletes are making far more than they deserve, and in a society where salaries and wages are traditionally based on the value of one’s work, that seems wrong.

Shocking Result: Tyson Gay Upsets “Fastest Man in the World” Usain Bolt

Stockholm was the place to be yesterday if you’re a fan of footraces. Two of the fastest men on the planet battled each other on the tracks in Sweden to see who was faster at the DN Galan 100 Meter Finals.

In a surprising finish to many, defending World Record holder, and Olympic champion Usain Bolt of Jamaica was upset by the United States Tyson Gay, who beat the “Fastest Man in the World” by an astonishing .13 seconds to win the 100 Meter heat posting a 9.84 time to Bolt’s disappointing 9.97.