Teaching Some Lessons

There are some people involved with sports that from time to time need to be sat down and explained certain things so they don’t continue to go out there and make fools of themselves, here are a few examples:

If you haven’t heard by now, Brandon Spikes has suspended himself for the entire game tomorrow against Vanderbilt. His actions against Georgia clearly warranted at least a 1 game suspension if not 3, so I congratulate Spikes for doing this to himself because his coach and his conference felt they did not have to. Unfortunately, Spikes is suspending himself for the wrong reason. He said he’s doing it as a way to avoid being a distraction for his team. While there is some truth to that, he doesn’t seem to believe that he did anything wrong and he’s just doing this to shut the media up so the Gators can focus on beating Vanderbilt this weekend. If Spikes were to say that he was suspending himself for the entire game because he knows what he did was wrong and he was deeply regretful for what he did then I’d be more supportive of this self-induced suspension.


Some of you might not have seen this yet, but last night, BYU and New Mexico were playing in a women’s soccer game and all of sudden thanks to Elizabeth Lambert, an MMA fight took place. Lambert took an elbow to the midsection during the match and then took it upon herself to inflict as much pain on the rest of the BYU women’s team as one person could do. She rightfully has been suspended indefinitely, but my main problem here is how no referee in the entire match saw any of her actions that were worthy of a red card. All she received was a yellow, and when you watch the replay of all the things she did, she clearly deserved a handful of red cards but instead the officials in the match turned their back to all those actions.


Last night the Cleveland LeBron’s took on the Chicago Bulls in Cleveland and when it came down to the last shot for the Cavs, LeBron was called upon to win the game and he drove and was stopped by Luol Deng and Joakim Noah of the Bulls. James took major exception to the fact that no foul was called as he drove to the hoop. James should really stay silent, why is it that superstars are constantly looking for calls to go their ways, they get enough calls as it is. If you’re the best player in a league, shouldn’t you embrace the challenge that teams are going to double-team you and possibly cause you to take a difficult shot where contact is involved? As a superstar, especially with the body of Lebron James who could be an NFL tight end, you should know contact is coming and not complain about it and put the basket in the hoop.