The Colby Echo

Issue date: 2/9/07 Section: Sports

Welcome back to campus everyone: we are in the February sports doldrums between the Super Bowl and March madness and Spring Training so this column will look at some of the stuff that's gone down since the end of last semester.

Peyton Manning, Super Bowl Champion? At least the Colts were a good team this year, while the St. Louis Cardinals might go down as the worst World Series-winning team of all time. If the Birds even make the playoffs next year, I'll be shocked.

The next great one: Lebron James vs. Sidney Crosby. Lebron's still a great player, but at times he looks like he just doesn't care out on the court right now. It's partially understandable considering some of the hacks he plays with, but great players make their teammates better and play through adversity, while James looks like he's just mailing it in at this point. The Cavaliers should be dominating the Eastern conference, instead they're having trouble beating any decent teams and are sitting in third place in their division. Meanwhile Crosby is far and away the best player in the NHL, leading the league in points even though he's younger than most of the kids at this school (Crosby's birthday: Aug. 7, 1987). While you're playing video games or watching 24 someone younger than you is dominating hockey, single-handedly carrying his team to a playoff berth. Its too bad hockey is now on Versus, a channel that sits higher than GAS (which shows reruns of classic Nickelodeon game shows like GUTS, Legends of the Hidden Temple, and Double Dare) on most viewers channel guides.

College Basketball: What the Hell is Going On? The Big East is atrocious, Butler and Texas A&M are in the top 10, Duke arguably shouldn't be in the top 25, Connecticut isn't in the Top 25. Washington State, a team which has made the NCAA tournament exactly twice in the last 65 years is ranked 14th in the country, the Pac-10 is the best conference in the country by RPI...craziness all around. The tournament this year is going to be an absolute mess, good luck with your brackets in March.

David Beckham going to the L.A. Galaxy: It's probably a good move for soccer, because he's already selling season tickets and merchandise and the way the deal is structured makes it less expensive than it seems. For the league to really take off, however, it needs to develop a home grown player who can compete with the best: someone who plays in the U.S. for a few years before hitting it big with a top European club in England, Spain or Italy. MLS is never going to be able to compete with the European giants, but it has a decent chance at becoming an outstanding developmental league that can compete with some of the lesser European national league likes like the Eredivisie, the Dutch national League, or Ligue 1, the French National League.

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