P90X/NFL Lockout/Buckeye Trouble

I hate to use a string of tragedies to start blogging again, but as football season approaches, I finally hase some opinions that I am going to share with the world whether the world reads them or not.  Each of my topics below warrants its own post (or 5 posts in a couple of cases) but here are the highlights.

P90X
First, P90X started out great, I averaged 4 days a week and had only 1 glitch, my appetite surged, so although my shoulders, arms and chest look good, I haven't dumped much weight, so I am taking a few weeks off to stabilize the food intake, and then will start up with the evening workouts again.  I did start doing a morning run/jog/hike, and I really like it, so that will continue, so wish me luck.



NFL Lockout
As many of you don't know about and probably won't care about until games get cancelled, the NFL has locked out its players and mini-camps are getting missed and we might even see a few games get cancelled, if not the whole season depending on what a couple of judges say, and whether the NFL can negotiate a deal with a Union that technically doesn't exist but somehow is still negotiating on behalf of the players. 

I have spent way too much time on ESPN message boards reading incoherent rants that don't know the difference between REVENUE and INCOME.  More on this later.




Ohio State Scandals

In really tragic news, Jim Tressel was shown the door at Ohio State (he didn't quit for family reasons or because he was going to be a distraction, I don't care what the press conference said, he was canned).  While Tressel ball is calculated and boring, it is successful.  He controlled his own fate.

A new coach will bring a new scheme and that will make things really tense around Columbus for a while.  That said, Ohio State will recruit an awesome coach, it always has, and this time will be no different.

Let's just hope the next one isn't a big Bernie Madoff investor (Tressel had odd dealings with Micky Monus).

Lebron James
I think LeBron is a tool.  I hope the Dallas Mavericks put them down in 7 games.  I want it to go down to the wire, and I want the Mavs to take them in Miami.  I want the Heat to suffer humiliation on their home court.  That said, I think LeBron left Cleveland in EXACTLY the RIGHT way.  He went out guns (and ego) blazing.  He made himself the bad boy of the NBA, and that is exactly what the NBA needs. 

We love the drama, we love to have someone to root for and root against.  I love that LeBron finally admitted that he isn't enough of a mature leader to build a championship team in Cleveland, I love that if he wins his championship, it had to be purchased and manufactured for him.  I also love that he probably won't even see it that way.

I hate to make Jordan comparisons, because they all fail miserably to make whatever point was trying to be made, that said LeBron has all the talent of a Jordan, but lacks all of the leadership.