The Most Trivial Sports News Day on Record

Today was a fairly big day on the internets as far as sports and their coverage go…and yet absolutely nothing of any real consequence happened. Really…nothing. Oh, the Steelers signed Pro Bowl NT Casey Hampton, and Josh Hamilton and the Rangers got some good news on his bruised shoulder, and there was plenty of talk about tomorrow’s Olympic hockey semi-finals. But none of those were really big stories. Nope. Here are the three stories that were at the forefront of the sporting world, on the blogs and the big sites alike. Let’s be clear. I enjoy these stories. I think they’re fun. I just think it’s strange that they were the leading stories today. Just an odd day.

1. The NBA tells Caron Butler he can’t chew on straws anymore. Apparently this was kind of a big deal. I guess it’s kind of a big deal, because it seems pretty ridiculous for the NBA and David Stern to even care. That’s why it’s #1. We’re working in descending order here from most important to least.
2. OMFG!!!!1!!1 Ozzie Guillen has an effin Twitter account!!!!!1!!! Now, don’t get me wrong, as a person on Twitter, as a snarky blogger, and as a fan of both sports and life, I think this is a great thing. Even though sometimes he tweets in Spanish, and sometimes both English and Spanish. But the “controversy” surrounding the thing with his GM, and the segment about it on Around the Horn, PTI, and Sportscenter…and then they, inexplicably, have Crazy Old Lou Pinella chime in. Just weird.
3. Finally, the pissing match that came to a boil today between AJ Daulerio of Deadspin and Jason Whitlock of FoxSports via Twitter and the SportsHernia. Listen, I like Deadspin. I think they do a lot of good stuff. I even like Whitlock in a weird way. The dude’s crazy, and that makes him entertaining…plus he writes interesting stuff, eventhough I disagree about half the time. He’s a good writer. But their little fight about over whether or not Tony Kornheiser’s suspension was actually over comments he made about Hannah Storm or if it really was because of comments he made about Chris Berman being fat is dumb. Here’s the post on SportsHernia that has AJ’s letter to Jason, posted at the behest of Jason…who kind of auditioned the chance on Twitter (We didn’t win [didn't realize what was happening either]). Phew. That’s involved, isn’t it? And here’s the post that got things going on Deadspin.

Anyway, I understand that in a world with multiple 24-hour-a-day sports networks and an endless amount of sports talk radio shows and blogs, some trivial things come up. And don’t get me wrong, I’m a fan…it’s just odd that these are huge stories. Not as big as Blogs with Stones though!