Sports Notes

It looks like Kobe tore his Achilles tendon last night. The Lakers may still make the playoffs, but Kobe's season is over.

A-Rod continues to make headlines even though he won't be playing for some time because of his hip surgery. I reported a while back about a sports clinic in Miami that MAY have been giving players forbidden drug treatments. One of the players mentioned was A-Rod. Now it appears all of Alex's records (that MAY have been there) have disappeared.

Investigators think A-Rod MAY have paid a clinic employee to give him his records. Right now, with NO records, the feds have no evidence against Alex. Their ONLY hope of now convicting A-Rod of anything is to get witnesses to say that A-Rod DID do something like this.

Of course, there's always the possibility that A-Rod never did anything and everything else is just unprovable speculation. I'm starting to think that ALL medical records should always be private and that NO ONE, not even the government and their investigators should have access to them. MY medical records should be MY business and nobody else's.

Let's not forget that that this whole scandal started because some employee of the clinic leaked some of the records ILLEGALLY in the first place. Evidence should never come from illegal sources.

For all I KNOW, some investigators MAY have paid an employee to illegally release those original records to a newspaper in the first place. Honestly, which would be the GREATER crime?

Exactly.

Tianlong Guan is only fourteen years old and he just made the cut to play in his first MASTERS. He was penalized a stroke for "slow play" yesterday but still played well enough to beat out many established tour pros. I KNOW it 's not possible for him to win this, but I'll be rooting for him to do so anyway. Golf has a new phenom and I'm hoping he gets better than anybody, ever. Finally, SOMETHING in sports to get excited about.

The Wild have eight games left in the season, and even though they are currently in seventh place in their division, they are only three points better than THREE other teams who are tied for ninth. In other words, if they have a couple or three bad games in a row, they could EASILY find themselves in 11th place in about a week. The top eight teams make the playoffs, and at best, they are just clinging to their spot right now. Like every other Minnesota sports team, they have to WIN, now!

The NBA season is winding down as well. Currently there are EIGHT teams in the league with a worse record than the Wolves. With just a couple or three games left for all the teams, the Wolves have assured themselves of not being the worse team in the league this season. Be thankful for the little things.