What's Good

It's been a little while since my last post and there has been some exciting sporting events happening. The NBA playoffs are now in the second round and all of the top four seeds have advanced in each conference.

This past Saturday was the first running of the three major horse races over the next month and a half. Of course the first race is the famous Kentucky Derby. When it was all said and done, the major story wasn't the winner, but the runner up.

The second place finisher was a "philly" horse, which is a female, and just after the race was over, tragedy struck. Eight Bellas unfortunately collapsed to the track surface and it was unclear of what happened at first. It turned out that the poor horse had broken both of her front ankles and it was so bad that she had to be euthanized right there on the track.

Of course it reminded fans of two years ago when the Kentucky Derby winner, Barabaro, unfortunately suffered a major leg injury in the opening stretch of the Preakness Race. Though he wasn't euthanized right away, after numerous surgeries the horse just didn't seem to get healthy and his owners decided to have him put to rest.

But the winner ended up being the favorite, Big Brown, and he had a convincing win as he ran to a five length win over runner up, Eight Bellas. Many of the horse racing analysts feel Big Brown has a good shot at the triple crown, but that seems to be the story every year if a favorite wins the Kentucky Derby. I think we all want to witness a triple crown winner though since it has been about 30 years since the last winner.

On to some NBA news, the Pistons and Hornets are quickly out to a 2-0 lead in their series'. I am shocked to see how well the Hornets have played against the Spurs. I guess I haven't seen them play that much this year and under estimated them. They are a tough team to play and seem to hurt you on both ends of the court.

The shocking thing has been the Hornets have been playing better defense than the Spurs so far. When you think of the Spurs, you immediately think defense, but the Hornets held home court and won two convincing games against the Spurs.

The Celtics and Cavs get their series underway tonight in Boston. Boston was taken to seven games against the Hawks, which was surprising to me. But this series with the Cavs should be a good tough series as well. I'm thinking Celtics will win in six or seven games.

In other news, Kobe Bryant is expected to be officially announced the leagues MVP later today. It will be his first MVP award of his career.