Wild Wild Week in Sports

This past week, ending with Easter weekend in terms of sports was wilder than an episode of Mob Wives.  There was a plethora of sports stories that we here at AA decided to go A.D.D. on you and give you a quick take on each thing that happened in the last week.

NCAA Championship:

Congratulations to the University of Kentucky and Coach Calipari on winning the championship.  A lot of people (including me) said you would never win a title because of the way you recruited “one-and-dones”, but apparently you perfected it.  We would like to go on record saying however, that we rooted our ass off for Kansas and Thomas Robinson to get the title.  No team and coach deserved it more, but that is the way sports goes sometimes.  One thing that did get the AA staff excited though is all the NBA talent we got to preview, starting with Anthony “The Uni-brow” Davis.  Can’t wait to see this kid at the next level, can you say next Tim Duncan?

Anthony Davis and his Uni-Brow prevail over Kansas to get his school national title number 8

NBA Home Stretch:

Plenty of great games were on the plate last week including a Oklahoma City and Miami matchup that lived up to its billing.  A lot of experts are predicting these teams to represent their respective conferences in the Finals this year and why not?  Right now both teams have to be the favorites with Chicago and San Antonio not far behind.  The MVP race (not that many people care too much) seems to be tightening between Kevin Durant and Lebron James also.  We thought we might mention the hometown Suns are playing well with wins last week against Utah and Los Angeles, bringing them to within one game of the final playoff spot, so the ending of the season should be really exciting.

NHL Season Over:

We don’t talk about too much hockey here at AA, but we just couldn’t help but bring up those scrappy Coyotes.  With a win to end the season against Minnesota they clinched a division title and a #3 seed going into the playoffs.  We want to extend a major Kudos to Dave Tippet and the Yotes’ staff.   This is their third straight playoff appearance and they did this with no owner, uncertainty whether the team was moving out of Arizona, and just the fact that hockey is just not that popular in the Desert.  Maybe a Stanley Cup could change all that?  Who knows? What I do know though is that with how great of a player former Coyotes coach Wayne Gretzky was, he was a lousy coach.

Baseball is Back!:

Finally! We missed you baseball and it just feels right to be watching games again.  A lot of old faces in new places this year and we couldn’t be more excited than ever.  It will take some getting used to seeing Prince Fielder in Motown and Albert Pujols living it up in LA.  However, we couldn’t be any more ecstatic for the hometown D-backs.  A great start to the season including unveiling the new “A”, giving out the Silver Slugger awards (Upton and Hudson), Golden Glove (Parra), and Coach of the Year (Gibson) right in front of division rival Giants and the subsequently going out and sweeping them.  Couldn’t be happier! World Series Pick:  Arizona Diamondbacks over Detroit Tigers.

D-backs players and coaches accepting their 2011 awards

Masterful Masters:

Our 2012 Masters winner...Bubba Watson Everyone

The encore to the Easter weekend had to be the Masters.  It was the most anticipated Masters in over a decade and it didn’t disappoint, without Tiger in contention amazingly.  It started on Saturday with Phil’s back nine charge finishing up with his birdie on 18.  Going into Sunday there were still plenty of people in contention and the drama started early.  Louis Oosthuiezen’s double eagle on the second, the first one in the Masters since 1935, got things going early.  His playing partner, our boy, Bubba Watson just kind of hung around all day.  Then on the back nine he struck for four straight birdies and sent it into a playoff.  The AA staff was pulling for Bubba and desperately wanted him to win.  After blocking his ball into the deep woods in the playoff coming off a missed putt for the win we thought it was all over.  However, Bubba, out of the pine straw pulled a Tiger-esque scramble shot and stuck it 10 feet from the pin.  He two putted easily for the victory and we couldn’t be happier for the Bagdad, Florida native.  This guy is just an absolute class act all the way.  His dad died only a couple weeks after he lost a playoff in the 2010 PGA Championship and was heartbroken because he knew at the time it was probably the last time his dad would watch him play.  On March 26, 2012, a couple weeks before this year’s Masters he became a father himself after he and his wife adopted a one-month-old baby boy they named Caleb.  Plus, he plays with a custom made pink driver and every time he drives the ball over 300 yards Ping donates 300 dollars to Phoenix-area charities, including an upfront $10,000 donation.  The program is called “Bubba and Friends: Drive to a Million.”  This is not to mention that each outfit this weekend he wore would be sold to raise money for Fresh Start, an organization that offers cosmetic surgery for children with physical defects.  Lastly, he is part of an all PGA Tour boy band called “Golf Boys” (other members include Rickie Fowler, Ben Crane and Hunter Mahan) and most people describe him as a 33 year old kid who just goofs around a lot, plays video games, and a guy who plays the game because he loves it, not for the money.  What is not to like about him?  I mean, the man has never had a golf lesson in his life, he is completely self-taught and he just won the Masters for crying out loud! Congratulations Mr. Watson on getting this one and we look forward to the many more that will come.

Just for good measure we uploaded the Golf Boys big hit "oh oh oh". Enjoy.