ERIC MENCHER / Staff Photographer
While working out for the Sixers, Dionte Christmas got a close look at the club's now-discarded logo. Returning to the glory-days logo is a sign the fan-challenged team is grasping at straws.
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Sixers' logo change is a sign of desperation
Of course, all the boorish fans at Bethpage weren't New Yorkers.
On Saturday, one loudmouth kept booming out that old Veterans Stadium mantra, "Everybody hits. Wahoo!"
NASCAR note of the week. There's something about the resume of Jerry Gappens, GM of the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, that suggests he needs a little career counseling.
Gappens drove a hearse, became a sportswriter, and now runs a NASCAR event.
What's next, blacksmith?
America's got problems. Yes, as the title of the soon-to-debut summer TV show that NBC hyped endlessly during its Open telecasts proclaims, America's Got Talent.
We may not have enough engineers, medical researchers or literate high school graduates, but, dammit, we've got talent.
Talent, in TV terms, means thousands of knuckleheads lining up to display their stupid human tricks before mindless millions who find them entertaining.
Five more things I don't get.
1. Why Miami still has a baseball team.
2. Why Brian Westbrook couldn't have had his operation the day after the season ended.
3. Why the Flyers can't resist a head case or troublemaker.
4. Why players like Tyreke Evans go through the charade of attending college for one year.
5. Why every sport doesn't have a Johnny Miller to do color.
A throwback. Anyone else notice the guy sitting behind home plate and reading a newspaper during Tuesday's Phillies-Rays game?
This was interesting on a number of levels:
1. I haven't seen anyone read a newspaper on TV since Larry Mendte left the air.
2. We now know cell phone wavers aren't the only nincompoops in camera range.
3. I know the score was 10-1, but there have to be better things to do while occupying a seat that probably cost you close to $100.
4. Can I borrow the funny page?
