Another Day Another Drug

Toradol is a popular injected painkiller among pro athletes.

You take it 30 minutes before game time and you feel great for about four hours. It's legal and many athletes use it.

HOWEVER, that may me changing. Some teams no longer let their doctors administer it because of potentially dangerous long-term use side-effects. John Palebon, the Red Sox closer from 2005-2011 freely admits that he used it about "once a month" to get through the season. Other players may take it more frequently.

Baseball may look at banning it. Football players have started a lawsuit saying that it masked some other things that should have been dealt with. Concussions, as a result, were made more severe.

The primary concern is internal bleeding. Some entire COUNTRIES have banned the drug. England only allows it to be administered in hospitals.

It's NOT steroid-based, so it's not a performance enhancer, per se. It's just that when you take it, all your pain goes away. So in effect, it becomes a performance enhancer.

Another day. Another drug. It won't be the last one discussed, and debated.

And it won't be the last drug that players take to get an advantage. Sports is all about getting advantages.

Wolves and Gophers Lose

Here's hoping the Twins are better than expected. All of this losing gets hard to talk about.

Wild Win in O.T.

This really is just soccer. The final was 2-1.

Wolves Play Good for First Three Quarters

And get outscored 30-18 in the fourth.

These Wolves are looking a lot like every other Wolve's team over the years.

Another College Basketball "Upset"

Indiana has been ranked number one in the country on two separate occasions this season. They then end up getting beat shortly after receiving that ranking. This time it was unranked Illinois doing the number on them.

How is this different than college football when the number one team gets beat week after week? Well, for one thing, it doesn't affect who gets invited to The Dance at the end of the the season. For another, the loss doesn't hurt Indiana's chances of winning the National Title.

Losses simply don't mean anything in college basketball. Everybody just plays all of these meaningless games, treading water until the the tournament starts. Even the Gophers are going to be invited this year and they've lost 5 of their last 6 Big Ten games.

HOW is that even possible? If losses really don't matter now, why do you even play the season?

The ONLY winning streak you need is at season's END. That just seems wrong.

Oh, and the Wild got beat again last night, too.

Adrian Peterson

Adrian Peterson played the last four weeks of his MVP season with an extremely painful hernia. He had it fixed Thursday.

Imagine, he had the second best yards total in NFL history and yet he wasn't playing anywhere near 100% those last four weeks.

WOW.

We knew he was having "abdominal muscle problems" when he left the Texas game early with only 85 yards. Now we know he was in the greatest pain of his life when he left the field. WORSE than his knee injury last year.

WOW.

And he still played that great game against the Packers the last game of the season a week later.

WOW.

Yep, he deserved the MVP this season.

13 Points

Kansas is the fifth ranked college basketball team in the country.

They scored THIRTEEN points in the first half against TCU last night.

College basketball is getting as hard to watch as soccer.

I have no idea how a supposedly GOOD team can score only 13 points in a half of basketball, but it's not something worth watching. That's just another sport I can take off my list.

And football is still 6 months away.

sigh