Just like Nas , so I stepped away yesterday and figured that I would give ya’ll a day to let that new KRS1 simmer.

But I’m back and about to turn this little OSH sh!t into a sports blog real quick so if your only stoppin here for the hip hop freshness you may want to wait for Rah today. Onto the sports.

As many of you know, unless your Brandon Fraser from whatever nonMummy movie that was where he grew up in a atom bomb bunker, the Olympics are on, and so far they have been great. Not just for US
dominance, Michael Phelps with 8 swimming Gold, The May/Walsh Beach Volleyball Gold, and the 2008 USA Men’s Basketball team [ they are definately not the Dream Team and don't make them live up to the ReDeem Team, but for education. Thats right, education. Once every 4 years Americans are treated to a world class sports education in event we either never knew existed or basically cared less about because obviously we don't dominate. That being said I would like to give some love to one of the best sports noone in America knows; Handball.

So last night I was watching the Normal NBC Coverage of the Olympics, at one of the local beer and pizza joint around my apartment when the turrential downpour in China caused the weirdest thing, and entire bar of people fixated on the 20KM Womens Race Walk [basically an hour and a half, half-marathon of walking so it looks like something is stuck up your ass]. After about 6 minutes of the awkward motion that is race walking [ insert video] , the guy behind me who had been commenting on the earlier Softball game looked at me and says, ” Damn this is the boring sport in these things, I mean its worse than Handball.” Yup thats when the conversation stopped, obviously this guy has been too busy watching race walking to actually watch what some people see as the breakout sport of this Olympic games, maybe someone just forgot to tell him that there are Mandarin and Korean NBCs broadcasting sports like handball opposite the Men’s gymnastics so if the guy would channel surf he would have seen why Handball is the new fad game like “Dodgeball.”

Handball is tailored to Americans, a mixture of basketball, football, and soccer why don’t we run buckshot in this sport? The rules as I can gather from the 4 games that I’ve now seen [ granted only one of then had English announcing] are simple 2 teams pass a ball down court and shoot on goal. Each team has 1 goalie who usually doesn’t stop much, and the players can basically go anywhere except the large semi-circular crease at the opponents end. The only way to progress the ball forward is by running [ players get 3 steps] dribbling [just like basketball] which resets your step count [so for every dribble you get a new 3], and most importantly this sport is like street ball where the common belief seems to be No Blood, No Foul! Add humans hurling their bodies over the crease line making sure not to be offsides[?] and into the crease and you have one of the fastest, most intense, injury ridden sports in the world. Damn why aren’t we playing this?

The video isn’t great quality but tell me you don’t wanna try this

And if that doesn’t convince you maybe she will

Anita Gorbicz Hungarian Hottie

Anita Gorbicz is the Hungarian Handball version of Jessica Alba this chick is hot, and the top sports star in her country, and oh yeah did I mention the Worlds top handball player.

Football Time…

Well not really, getting ready but my preseason question is… Damn Randy moss is a NASCAR fan? and not only that, but he’s willing to give 6 Million a year to a Truck Team. Hearing him speak on ESPN, Randy is quoted as saying “Man jus bein from the country man.. NASCAR is very big in WV … and growin up I’ve been really hit with alot of NASCAR whether it be on television or whatever.” My question is will his #81 Craftsman Series Truck win a championship before Randy? speak on it

Peace

NWK