Weekly Treat — Remembering Fall 2008

What can I say? Writing about sports every weekday during the Fall 2008 semester has been a treat.

It’s not hard to ramble and give my mostly unsolicited opinion five days a week when there is so much going on in sports that makes you laugh, cry, smile, frown, yell and rendered speechless. Rarely does a period of a few months disappoint in sports, and Fall 2008 was no different. From football to basketball to, yes, even hockey, every day brings a new debatable topic. Some are of great importance (and most are not), but what makes writing about and reading and watching sports is that you never know what’s going to happen next.

As a result, it’s been a treat to write about sports every day this semester because:

— I genuinely believed in my Izzo-Dantonio presidential ticket.

— You can’t make up Plaxico Burress shooting himself in the leg. (As a friend pointed out yesterday, how much better would it have been if Plax shot himself in the foot?)

— Michigan did lose to Toledo. In football. Not basketball.

— The Lions really will go 0-16.

— The Tampa Bay Rays gave hope to all fans of perennially awful teams (see: Lions fans).

— Kwame somehow outlasted Millen in their respective offices.

— The MSU football team won nine games and lost none by less than a touchdown.

— There are no Spanish numbers on the back of a Cincinnati Bengals jersey.

— Pacman Jones was in and out of trouble more than Amy Winehouse.

— The Yankees didn’t make the playoffs.

— There is now reason to hate the BCS even more.

— Joe Dumars is either smart or dumb, but definitely fearless.

— Everyone now appreciates what Tiger Woods does for golf. (Did they actually play tournaments without him this year?)

— A baseball season ended without Barry Bonds in a uniform.

— I have a reason to hate myself every day after cheering for Michigan football this year (only once, of course).

— A recession can’t keep fans away from the stands.

— You know tomorrow will be a new day in sports.