Welcome to TWIST! The first of, hopefully, many weekly updates regarding the wide world of sports. You read that right:
tomfoolery
Main Entry: tom·fool·ery
1. Foolish behavior.
2. Something trivial or foolish; utter nonsense; rubbish
You’ve come to a blog called Hijinks Inc, you can’t really be surprised that I worked a word like tomfoolery into the title of a recurring post. Besides, if you know me at all, you know that this fits me, and most of the stuff I come up with, quite well. Alright, now that I’ve got the introductions out of the way…
This was a pretty crazy week in the wide world of sports. One of the most dominant athletes in any sport lost for the ‘first’ time, the longest tennis match in the history of the universe was played and the favorites were knocked out of both the World Cup and the College World Series. Here’s some quick hits:
MMA
- Fabricio Werdum scores one of the biggest upsets in MMA history by submitting Fedor Emelianenko in the 1st round at Strikeforce 26. Why did I call it his ‘first’ loss? You can read why along with my thoughts on the main card here.
- Jamie Varner and Kamal Shalorus fought to a draw at WEC 49.
NBA
- John Wall was the #1 pick of the NBA draft as expected.
- Chicago traded G Kirk Hinrich and the the 17th pick in the draft to Washington. This doesn’t mean anything right now, but it frees up enough cap space for the Bulls that they can now offer maximum money to 2 big free agents, so after July 1 when those guys can start signing, then this might be a really big deal.