More dumb idle thoughts

Kurt Busch won a Nationwide Series race at Daytona. On the one hand, he's a terrific race car driver, but on the other sometimes I think he blew a head gasket in real life a long time ago.

Serena Williams will likely win another Wimbledon championship. She seems to be the only female American player that's competitive at the world-class level these days. In the meantime, the Russians are churning out young guns like they do bottles of Stoly. On the men's side, the Americans don't seem to have anybody remotely competitive at that level.

Roger Federer and Andy Murray will meet in the men's finals. Who to root for? The Swiss native already has a boatload of titles, but he's a nice guy. Conversely, wouldn't it be great to finally see a Brit win such a coveted championship in his own country? They'd go crazy. I think Federer will win handily, by here's rooting for Murray. Do it for the queen, the princes and princesses, the dukes and duchesses, the lords, dames, earls, viscounts, and whatever other titles are still in effect across the pond. If he can pull it off, old Lizzie the Deuce would no doubt confer knighthood upon him. Perhaps she could dub him Sir Racketman, while Sir Rocketman, Elton John, provided the background music. That would be such a jolly good time.

Ray Allen, formerly of the Boston Celtics, just jumped to the Miami Heat. Allen's the most prolific 3-point shooter in the history of the NBA. If you thought they were good before, consider -- besides having freakish talents like Lebron James and Dwyane Wade that can not only shoot the lights out themselves, but drive the ball to the basket, often resulting in easy layups, dunks or fouls -- now they can kick it out to a 3 point sniper. If their team chemistry comes together with Allen -- the Heat, recently crowned NBA champs, just went from the "best" to "scary"

To my knowledge, no Detroit Lion players have been arrested in the last couple weeks. Damn. Just when things were getting interesting, they go back into their old boring mode.

Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson both failed to make the cut at the current PGA tournament. According to the stat monsters, it's the first time that's happened since Phil was 23, and Eldrick was still an amateur. To all of which I say -- who cares? They weren't good enough this week. So why do we have to watch replays of them? Shouldn't we be shown replays of the other guys that obviously played better and are still in contention? Sometimes I think ESPN stands for Eldrick's Sports Network.

Steve Nash, formerly of the Phoenix Suns, just signed on with the Los Angeles Lakers. Nash is known for a lot of things. He's been the NBA MVP, is a terrific ball handler, and can shoot with the best of them when the opportunity presents itself. But mostly he's known for distributing the ball to his teammates. Kobe Bryant is happy to have Nash on board, and that makes sense. Nash will likely get Kobe the ball even more. Some call Kobe the Black Mamba. I think of him as the Black Hole once he gets the basketball. It goes in, but never comes back out.

The Tour de France is in full swing, and the persecutors are STILL after Lance Armstrong for supposedly doping many years ago, even though he passed each and every drug test over his entire career?

Please.