Just over 10 years ago — and I can't believe I missed the anniversary of this disaster — the most memorable moment in New Jersey Nets history occurred. And no one even remembers the game.
January 21, 1993 was the day Carl Lewis, perhaps the 20th century's most underrated athlete, treated a packed house in East Rutherford, N.J., to his rendition of the national anthem. It sounded like a cross between a woman giving birth and a mass slaughter of chickens.
I have posted an audio clip of Carl Lewis' Star-Spangled Banner, at a manageable 310KB. If Lewis' mid-song interjections of "Uh-oh!" and "I'll make up for it now" don't cheer up your Monday, start loading the gun.
You may remember Derrick Coleman, a man once accused of pissing in the middle of a restaurant, hiding under his warmup jacket in embarrassment. You may remember it being hard to hear Lewis over the thousands of people laughing at him. You may remember ESPN's Charlie Steiner concluding the clip by reminding the audience that the song was written by Francis Scott Off-Key.
This "song," my friends, is the finest butcher job since Sam schtupped Alice in The Brady Bunch.
Other Sports Links:
ESPN SportsCentury: Carl Lewis No. 12 — The sports empire has Lewis pretty high up on its bogus list of the century's best. Michael Jordan over Babe Ruth? C'mon. I'm telling you, there is no way Jordan's legacy lasts as long as Ruth's, whose numbers are still mind-boggling, when compared to his era, this era, any era.
SI.com's Preseason NCAA Football Top 25 — N.C. State and Pittsburgh ahead of Florida State? No Florida or Nebraska anywhere? Wow.
Schmidt Tosses 3-Hit Shutout After Mother's Death — Giants starter Jason Schmidt throws the best game of his nine-year career in a return to the mound after his mother dies of brain cancer. Reminds me of when Paul O'Neill won a World Series the night his father died.
CBS Sportsline's Swimsuit Models — Sports and bikinis, they go together like ... not at all. But CBS Sportsline can't beat ESPN.com at, say, interesting content. So it resorts to this.
Always entertaining Paul. I see you worked "swimsuit model" into your post. That's good for a gazillion hits ;-)
Posted by meg at May 5, 2003 11:19 AM