Sunday, April 26, 2009

Tree-Related Players. Seriously.


Because ESPN's "Who's Now" competition just didn't scrape the bottom of the barrel enough.

On the 6PM edition of SportsCenter, they usually have a list of something related to a prior story. It's never anything hard-hitting, but it'll usually be a fun fact of some sort. "Sports franchises that should just give it up," or "Most yards against the Lions." Something like that. "Every fight that ever broke out in the NBA Playoffs."

But sometimes, they come out with a list that just screams, "An intern we're not retaining put this list together," or "You should have seen the lists that chose not to run." Wednesday's list was one of those.

Players with tree-related names. With a list that bad, you'd think they were going out of business soon. But here's the list:

Reggie Bush.

Tiger Woods.

Charles Oakley.

Michael Crabtree.

Ryan Leaf.

I don't know if it's worse that they made the list or that I remembered it, but I'm sharing it with all of you, in case you missed it. I can't believe they forgot Tree Rollins. The title is right there in his name. Next list: "Unfortunately named players," starring Dick Butkus, God Shammgod, and a Black girl named Ivory Latta.

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