Right, so up to this point I haven’t been a very big Mike McCarthy fan. I thought the Packers were eeking out games they had no business winning and I put their one home loss squarely at McCarthy’s feet.

Turns out, this team has gotten progressively better and better. They kicked the ever lovin’ out of Oakland today and have won a series of impressive game. Even the loss in Dallas was done with heads held high. I’m not a complete convert, but I do have to say that McCarthy deserves a lot of the credit for the team’s change in fortunes.

Right, so the finals of The Ultimate Fighter were last night and it turned out to be pretty anticlimactic. Most of the fights between the show’s various losers were pretty good, especially between War Machine and Squeaky Voice. The final? Not so much.

Though I was pretty sure of this going in, the season really made me dislike Matt Hughes even more. I like how he’s managed to shoulder none of the blame for the six fights his guys lost yet likes to take credit for getting two guys in the final. What a jerk. You could see the mediocre guys from Serra’s team jump up a notch so you know he’s a great coach.

A couple things on MMA. One thing I don’t like is how slips and illegal hits usually end up helping the perpetrator quite a bit. Last season, a fighter got clobbered with an illegal elbow in the back of the head. After the restart, he got whipped. In the semifinal between Tommy Speer and George, Tommy poked George in the eye; to me it looked like a convenient accident. And Tommy’s big shot KO’d George because he never saw it coming—probably because it hit him on the left side, the same eye that had been poked. I don’t quite know how this gets fixed.

Also, I’m noticing that I like The Ultimate Fighter show less and less, primarily because these guys are still learning. I stopped watching the WEC and some other MMA fights because the fighters weren’t as well rounded. I prefer to see the real deal, like the Guerrera vs. Huerta fight where both guys are really good. TUF obviously produces a lot of good talent but a lot of the fights aren’t so great and the last two championship fights have more or less sucked.

Right, a good day in English football. Spurs won 2-1 over Man City, and the Ars* finally lost. And to Boro? Why is it that Gareth Southgate manged to beat Chelski last year and the Ars* this year, yet still contrives to lose against Wigan?

What I find remarkable about this season is how it seemed like Man Ure and Chelski’s stuttering starts was such a major deal, as was the Ars*’s undefeated streak. Now they’ve played the same number of games and a whopping three points separates the three teams with over half the season yet to play.

And even though Liverpool is another four points back of Chelski with a game in hand I’ve already written them off. Rafa’s team selection often mystifies me and the Reds looked downright bad against Reading. I still have a man-crush on Nando Torres though. It’s those boyish good looks and Spanish charm.

Current Mood: Grody |