Heads or Tails?

Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh both crossing the finish line at 11.068 seconds

Heads or Tails? This is a common method I use to decide what’s for dinner or what color nail polish to choose. My parents even used a coin toss to decide which parent would attend my college graduation. (My twin brother and I graduated college on the same day, at the same time in different states, 300 miles apart.) For my parents, it was the only logical way to solve the problem. But a coin toss is never the answer to serious problems like what shoes I should wear, who I should start in my fantasy lineup or who should represent America in the London Games.


The coin toss is also used in sporting events to decide who starts on offense or defense. Funny, I can’t find anywhere where a coin toss decided the outcome of any game, but a coin toss could be the deciding factor for the women’s USA Track and Field team. There seems to be a third-place tie between Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh in the women’s 100 meters and with no protocol for tiebreakers, both athletes get to choose between a coin toss or they can race again to see who will complete the final spot and represent the USA in London. Both athletes must agree on the toss or the race, but if they disagree, they will race to the finish line.


Can you hear the world laughing at us now? Seriously, A COIN TOSS? Geeeez, just give everyone a gold medal and a cookie and tell them thanks for coming to London.


This is terrible! All of your training comes down to luck? Please, this can’t be true- did a Russian judge make this rule? It’s simple, in sports you play until you win or you lose- there’s no situation where a tie game should ever end with a coin toss to determine the winner and loser- NEVER!


Sudden death, overtime, extra innings- whatever the sport is you keep playing until there is a clear winner. There’s the rare occasion when a regular season game could end in a tie, but never in a playoff game! And isn’t this what the Olympic trials are- like a playoff match, more like a Runoff? There are no ties in runoffs! NO TIES- RUN AGAIN!


The US officials want to have the team set by July 1st- so we’ll have to wait and see if the 100 meters is completed with luck or speed. Until then, Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh will be focusing on the 200 meters finals this week.

Game of Thrones

So many Kingdoms but there can only be one king.


In the West it’s Kobe, in the Midwest it’s Durant, in the North it’s Rose, in the East it’s Carmelo, and in the South it’s LeBron.

In this Game of Thrones LeBron James will always be looked at as the hand of the king until he wins an NBA Championship. He has the talent and there’s a blood line to the throne in Miami, but the battle has to be won in all four quarters for King James to finally sit on his iron throne with his hand crowned with ring.

People hate LBJ for The Decision- I don’t. Yea, if I was in LBJ’s entourage maybe there would have been less drama, but the decision still would have been the same. It’s not like LBJ sprayed a bottle of Cristal and yelled “South Beach Baby” while covered in confetti during the Decision. ESPN and advertisers knew this was a decision we all wanted to witness and by watching it we all supported the Decision. What I don’t understand why LBJ haters can’t move past the Decision? Let-It-Go!


LBJ made one NBA finals appearance during his seven years with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2007. He returned to the NBA finals last year during his first season with the Miami Heat, but he only averaged three points in the fourth quarter of the series- LBJ took the heat for the failure to finish and the ring to throne was gone in six games.

Now in season two with his talents in South Beach, LBJ is taking his team to back-to-back finals appearances- third times a charm, right? It’s going to take more than luck to stop Durant, Westbrook, Sefolosha, and the Beard. The Thunder may have youth, but the Heat knows how much losing hurts.

With the Heat and the Thunder battling for the heir to the throne we have the prefect storm brewing in this Game of Thrones.


The Heat lead the Thunder 2-1.